2016 Tour of Croatia (19-24 april)

[TourOfSardinia]

Time of first 4 rather than first 5 today

 

[MikeTichondrius]

I swear I've already seen two separate riders falling right after the line. Definitely a Nordisk rider, but an Astana a few minutes before I think. WTH really.

 

[jens_attacks]

Yes the finish line is very slippery because of that big sticker

Touch your brakes ther, you go down

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Is it drying out now?

 

[TMP402]

Gazprom are the new masters of 2.1 Europe Tour TTTs. Too bad their best-placed rider is 10.31 down. That being Ilnur Zakarin's younger brother Aydar.

 

[jens_attacks]

Trek the favourites for this lawlz

 

[TMP402]

Good time from ONE considering they only started with 5.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Never seen catching (3) minute men in a TTT before.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Hansen passes Zoidl.

 

[TMP402]

Re:

Hansen passes Zoidl.

de la Parte and Hansen tied on time?

 

[togo95]

Re: Re:

Hansen passes Zoidl.

de la Parte and Hansen tied on time?

Seems like that indeed. Will be interesting battle tomorrow regardless.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Re: Re:

Hansen passes Zoidl.

de la Parte and Hansen tied on time?

Looked like that, yes. Embarrassing TTT from Trek.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Zoidl not even top 5...

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Re:

The professionalised (2004) Tour of Britain waited until 2013 for a first British winner. The Tour of Croatia has a good chance of a first Croatian winner in only the second edition. Ouch. Tour Down Under current kings of home winners.

OK. You were right.

 

[TMP402]

Rogina is wearing the white jersey, which appears to be the young rider jersey, despite being 37. So what is the white jersey? Mountains?

 

[Cro racing]

white jersey is NOVAK Domen (ADR) not Rogina

 

[TMP402]

I can't get my head around why Robert Kišerlovski isn't riding. He could have won!

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

He is 9th in Mountain classication: top Croatian, at a guess.

Top Croatian not wearing the leaders jersey, any rate.


Edit: the true explanation rather than my guess has been posted: no-one has quoted this, but I still can't delete it. Grrrrr.

 

[TMP402]

Re:

white jersey is NOVAK Domen (ADR) not Rogina

Aha! Thanks.

 

[johnymax]

Terrible time by Trek and also IAM. Wtf happened?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Today was the first real win for Tinkoff with Basso bossing it in the Team Car!

 

[yaco]

Ended up being a comical TTT in tricy conditions - And Trek Segafreddo were the jokers in the pack.

 

[jaylew]

What happened with Trek? Did they crash?

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Nice win for Zoidl - his first one since joining the ProTour three years ago. It's always kind of sad to see formerly exciting Continental-Tour riders become mediocre ProTour riders, but this is a nice win and if he can win the whole Tour then even better.

Somewhat unfortunate for Trek that Boy Van Poppel didn't make the time cut, I assume he would have been a good rouleur to have for the 40k TTT. But even so you would imagine that if Trek get their act together they should be able to get the race lead for Zoidl.

Nice three wins for Trek... now back to being invisible in Romandie and in the Giro except those 5 mandatory 2nd/3rd places for Nizzolo.

You forget that a Trek rider will win the prologue

 

[yaco]

Re:

What happened with Trek? Did they crash?

Started with 6 riders - Zoidl got lost on a roundabout - Nizzolo got a mechanical - Zoidl couldn't keep wheels - It was a comical piece of TT.