2019 Tour de Romandie 30 April - 5 May

[Robert5091]

I saw the cable just after the finish - should have been put up on the finish gantry really. Although I don't know if it was that particular cable that caused the crashes.

 

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Looks like a hard stage. It all depends on how it is raced but on paper it looks a bit too hard for Colbrelli.

Normally, this would be your typical Albasini stage but I don't know if he is past his prime. There are some good puncheurs like Bevin, Prades and perhaps even Van Baarle or Swift who can win from a very reduced group.

the last two times they used this (2007) or a very similar (2012) finish the groups were fairly big, with ~70-80 guys sprinting for the win.

But with Markus Fothen and Bradley Wiggins the winners were still very unusual ones, so yeah, really hard to say what to expect today.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

If the other teams let Viviani or Bennett hang on, they deserve to lose.

 

[happytramp]

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If the other teams let Viviani or Bennett hang on, they deserve to lose.

Absolutely.. They might have a chance tomorrow but there's no way they should still be there at the end today.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Break:

Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto-Soudal), Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), Diego Rosa (INEOS), Alexis Gougeard (AG2R), Eros Capecchi (Deceuninck-Quick Step), William Bonnet (Groupama-FDJ), Maciej Bodnar (Bora-Hansgrohe), Chad Haga (Sunweb), Manuele Mori (UAE Emirates), Lukasz Owsian (CCC), Jay Robert Thomson (Dimension Data), Simon Pellaud & Patrick Schelling (Suisse)

But Thomson has been dropped now.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Viviani had been dropped from the peloton, but he managed to come back. Thomson has been caught by the peloton.

Break has +/- 2 minutes

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

DNF: Dowsett, van Rensburg & Mäder

break has +/- 3m 30s

 

[happytramp]

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DNF: Dowsett, van Rensburg & Mäder

break has +/- 3m 30s

Thanks for updates

 

[Salvarani]

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DNF: Dowsett, van Rensburg & Mäder

break has +/- 3m 30s

Mäder having a really tough spring. He looked very promising in San Juan, but after that its been horrible with crashes and poor form.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Break down to 1m 45s last i heard

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

30 seconds
Viviani losing minutes

 

[RedheadDane]

Buchmann up front.
Thomas, Woods, and Gaudu chasing.
Woods has dropped the "one on, one off" leg-warmer style.

 

[jaylew]

awful camerawork

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Damn slovenians are going to ruin our world championships team

 

[Carols]

Terrible view of the final 1.5KM Primoz Rocks

 

[Salvarani]

Roglic has a good sprint

 

[Emotional Cobble Guy]

Lol i cannot believe how bad the live tv coverage was coming into the last 2km
"Nice broadway though"

 

[RedheadDane]

For a sec there it looked like Betancour might have gotten his first WT win since… when… his P-N win?

 

[Rollthedice]

Roglic takes it from a reduced sprint, Bananito looking mighty fine.

 

[jaylew]

Betancur should have won that. What was he thinking?

 

[Emotional Cobble Guy]

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For a sec there it looked like Betancour might have gotten his first WT win since… when… his P-N win?

I believe so yes

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

No trace of Evenepoel

 

[WKA311]

Good performance by Carl Fredrik Hagen in sixth.

 

[armchairclimber]

Nice sprint from Gaudu.

 

[ice&fire]

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Betancur should have won that. What was he thinking?

He doesn't get too often in such a situation to learn from his mistakes