2016 Tour Down Under WT January 19-24 Adelaide

[Alex Simmons/RST]

Stage 1: Tuesday 19 January 2016

PROSPECT to LYNDOCH 130.8 km

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

STAGE 2 Wednesday 20 January 2016

UNLEY to STIRLING 132.0 km

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

STAGE 3 Thursday 21 January 2016

GLENELG to CAMPBELLTOWN 139 km

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

STAGE 4 Friday 22 January 2016

NORWOOD to VICTOR HARBOR 138 km

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

STAGE 5 Saturday 23 January 2016

McLAREN VALE to WILLUNGA HILL 151.5 km

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

STAGE 6 Sunday 24 January 2016

ADELAIDE STREET CIRCUIT 90km

 

[Jancouver]

Re:

The first Sunday crit is a separate race and not a stage of the TDU.

Correct and I was referring and predicting the winner of today's stage #1.

BTW while exciting for the fans, I'm not even sure why they have that Sunday crit race since it does not count for anything and the risk of getting hurt for no reason is beyond my understanding. IMO the teams should refuse to race the meaningless crit. JMHO

 

[Jakob747]

Typical Alexis Gougeard. Right from the gun. Class Prospect!

Anyway, hoping Matteo Pelucchi shows his power in an eventual sprint finish!

 

[Jspear]

Does anyone have a live stream that works? Or is there not one yet?

 

[Jancouver]

Re:

Does anyone have a live stream that works? Or is there not one yet?

http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/cycling/live-scores/90019

 

[Jspear]

Re: Re:

Does anyone have a live stream that works? Or is there not one yet?

http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/cycling/live-scores/90019

Thanks!

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

McEwen is good in the little "tactical" spots, where he's asked to explain how some element of the sport works tactically to people who don't know what's going on. More races should do this.

 

[Jacques de Molay]

Re:

McEwen is good in the little "tactical" spots, where he's asked to explain how some element of the sport works tactically to people who don't know what's going on. More races should do this.

P&P doing this? FFS

McEwen is on this same broadcast as well? Because if not, I can't deal with those two.

 

[gooner]

Agree on McEwen. His contributions are welcome.

Before he used to join the two boys only for the final kms. Thankfully nowadays he's there for the entirety of the stage. I couldn't listen to the other two together for the whole week.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re: Re:

McEwen is good in the little "tactical" spots, where he's asked to explain how some element of the sport works tactically to people who don't know what's going on. More races should do this.

P&P doing this? FFS

McEwen is on this same broadcast as well? Because if not, I can't deal with those two.

The spot I saw involved McEwen and some burlier Australian guy, not P&P. For most of the programme he's on with P&P. He is pretty good. They obviously, are, well, themselves.

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

Re: Re:

McEwen is good in the little "tactical" spots, where he's asked to explain how some element of the sport works tactically to people who don't know what's going on. More races should do this.

P&P doing this? FFS

McEwen is on this same broadcast as well? Because if not, I can't deal with those two.

The spot I saw involved McEwan and some burlier Australian guy, not P&P. For most of the programme he's on with P&P. He is pretty good. They obviously, are, well, themselves.

The burley bloke is a Channel 9 sports commentator/reporter more known for his work on rugby league. He's not a particularly knowledgeable cycling guy and doesn't portray himself as one but he's a familiar face to the many cycling ignorant channel 9 sports watchers and it's a good thing that it's getting exposure to watchers that otherwise may not have ever bothered to flip over to SBS.

Funnily enough though his name is Phil Gilbert, and he has met his namesake IIRC.

 

[Squirbos_19]

His name's actually Tim Gilbert, not Phil.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re: Re:

McEwen is good in the little "tactical" spots, where he's asked to explain how some element of the sport works tactically to people who don't know what's going on. More races should do this.

P&P doing this? FFS

McEwen is on this same broadcast as well? Because if not, I can't deal with those two.

The spot I saw involved McEwan and some burlier Australian guy, not P&P. For most of the programme he's on with P&P. He is pretty good. They obviously, are, well, themselves.

The burley bloke is a Channel 9 sports commentator/reporter more known for his work on rugby league. He's not a particularly knowledgeable cycling guy and doesn't portray himself as one but he's a familiar face to the many cycling ignorant channel 9 sports watchers and it's a good thing that it's getting exposure to watchers that otherwise may not have ever bothered to flip over to SBS.

Funnily enough though his name is Phil Gilbert, and he has met his namesake IIRC.

He was useful - he competently, and obviously deliberately, played the "voice of the ignorant", prompting McEwen to go back to first principles. (Rule of thumb: Any explanation of cycling tactics that doesn't use the word SLIPSTREAM assumes too much for first time or very occasional viewers)

 

[42x16ss]

Re: Re:

The first Sunday crit is a separate race and not a stage of the TDU.

Correct and I was referring and predicting the winner of today's stage #1.

BTW while exciting for the fans, I'm not even sure why they have that Sunday crit race since it does not count for anything and the risk of getting hurt for no reason is beyond my understanding. IMO the teams should refuse to race the meaningless crit. JMHO

Why? They averaged 51kmh for this, with no incidents, so obviously the riders don't see it as unsafe. If they were really worried, they could have a gentleman's agreement to race it 5-6 kmh slower and most of the crowd wouldn't be any the wiser.

I think the winner also gets a decent prize purse, enough to bother racing hard for. IIRC they've only had a couple of crashes for as long as the opening crit has been running.

 

[skidmark]

Re: Re:

Sometimes I also think people forget how big Australia is at times... here are a couple of true size maps overlaying France onto south easterm Australia:

Awesome. Proving once again that the TdF is just a $hit small race.

Seriously though, does anyone even care about the TDU?

I saw the live link on the CN homepage, and came here to take a look at the race profile. But if the only thread designated to this race doesn't even include stage profiles, then maybe I'm not alone in my nonchalance and utter disinterest?

I'm interested because it's been a while since I've watched a bike race and because it's hard to get English commentary for cyclo cross and because it's hard to watch San Luis live.

agreed. Plus, I guess I never think about caring about profiles because of what Libertine said about the stages being the same every year. Like, if you've followed cycling for awhile you should know that the Stirling stage is just the right kind of unpredictable uphill sprint, Corkscrew is the Poggio of that stage and Willunga is Willunga, and the rest is sprinting. But I suppose the profiles would be useful to newcomers, for sure.

Either way, of course I'm more excited about the geography of San Luis, but in terms of a top level race to follow on TV, it's been awhile so it's definitely worth a watch for me.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Ewan easily. Big gap. Excellent sprint from Wippert to take third from waaaay back.

 

[Jspear]

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

Re:

His name's actually Tim Gilbert, not Phil.

Oops yes you're right.
Last year they made some fun and started calling him Phil.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

All that effort from Sky for Swift!

 

[Jacques de Molay]

That was a pretty insane acceleration by Ewan. Wasn't even close, really. He dusted everyone.