2015 Tour of Norway May 20-24 (2.HC)

[Bushman]

Great from Hansen again. Looks like some of the Tinkoff Saxo guys are coming alive now. Maccarthy in Turkey, Sagan in California and now Hansen also looks to be taking a big step forward.

 

[Bushman]

Also Odd Christian Eiking has had a nice start to the season and has looked really strong lately. Quite a good prospect.

 

[maltiv]

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Also Odd Christian Eiking has had a nice start to the season and has looked really strong lately. Quite a good prospect.

Indeed, too bad he started the final climb today towards the back of the peloton though, he needs to improve his positioning.

 

[Pulp]

What`s the odds of Kristoff taking this stage? 1,01?

 

[Pulp]

Beautiful... Norwegian continental rider vangstad takes the stage.

 

[maltiv]

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Beautiful... Norwegian continental rider vangstad takes the stage.

What an incredible breakthrough ride by him. Climbed exceptionally on stage 3 and went all in today, incredibly strong.

To be honest I thought he was a pure TT'er as his only result before is 7th in U23 worlds ITT last year. And he's only been a cyclist for 2 years

 

[Pulp]

Quick thoughts.
Refreshing that Kristoff didn`t win a stage that seemed like an obvious win.
Nice to see it`s growing really nicely in norwegian cycling. 2 local CT riders top 5 in GC. Imressive ride by Vangstad today.
A norwegian pro-continental team seems overdue.
Big congrats to Tinkoff rider Jesper Hansen for overall win.The first time Ive heard of him, but showed on stage 3 and 4 that he has class.
Dissapointing effort by Nordaug.

 

[DBotero]

Surprised that Kristoff didn't get his win toady.Anyway decent performance for him here.Glad that EBH is looking so good after that injury,disappointing performance from Nordhaug.Got to say again seeing Lopez performing so well,it's really unbelievable he was left out of Giro in favor of Eisel.

 

[neineinei]

The finish was moved 500 m closer to the last climb from where it was in 2014. Before the stage Kristoff said that if the finish had been where it was this year last year too, he wouldn't have won then. He caught the front group 350 m. from the finish last year. EBH's manager is Tour of Norway's boss. The stage was probably made for EBH to have a better shot at it than Kristoff.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Looks like the Norwegians got a nice recipe for a week long race.
Congrats to Hansen with the .HC GC win.