2019 Tour de Suisse

[Cance > TheRest]

Great win!

 

[JosephK]

LLS gives a free panache demonstration. Great win!

 

[johnymax]

Sagan was strong in a sprint for 2nd. Where was his team?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Stage

GC

 

[Robert5091]

Chapeau LLS - Astana having a good day.

 

[yaco]

Strange last 10 kms - Teams had multiple riders but little or no cohesion in the chase - A missed opportunity for sprinters.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Oh my...

It's Fabian on the podium!

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Asgreen is the new Robocob

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Tomorrow we might witness an "interesting" sprint. They are driving around the Murtensee, then a 90 degree turn and then a 100 meter long 11% stitch on cobbles with the finish line at the end. Prepare for Metzgete.

https://www.strava.com/segments/4500506
https://www.la-flamme-rouge.eu/maps/viewtrack/261036

 

[tobydawq]

Tomorrow we might witness an "interesting" sprint. They are driving around the Murtensee, then a 90 degree turn and then a 100 meter long 11% stitch on cobbles with the finish line at the end. Prepare for Metzgete.

https://www.strava.com/segments/4500506
https://www.la-flamme-rouge.eu/maps/viewtrack/261036

Lol, only in the Tour de Suisse.

Difficult to imagine Sagan not winning that.

 

[Red Rick]

Pretty much a sprint for the corner in one row of riders, very hard to see somebody win if they're not in the first 3 through that curve

 

[Martinstranger]

Re:

Asgreen is the new Robocob

Asgreen to take top 3 and keep the jersey after stage 3

Excellent work from this young rider.

 

[DanielSong39]

Rohan Dennis not quite as dynamite in the TT's these days, is it the bike?

 

[Bushman]

Re: Re:

Asgreen is the new Robocob

Asgreen to take top 3 and keep the jersey after stage 3

Excellent work from this young rider.

Wouldnt even surprise me that much, honestly. His development over the last 18 months has been phenomenal. He also seems to have a good sense of positioning and manuevering within the peloton so he might be able to round the last corner in a good position. Wont Sagan take the jersey if he wins the sprint though?

 

[Valv.Piti]

Re: Re:

Asgreen is the new Robocob

Asgreen to take top 3 and keep the jersey after stage 3

Excellent work from this young rider.

Wouldnt even surprise me that much, honestly. His development over the last 18 months has been phenomenal. He also seems to have a good sense of positioning and manuevering within the peloton so he might be able to round the last corner in a good position. Wont Sagan take the jersey if he wins the sprint though?

Asgreen can basically do everything on a bike. I just dont get how good he has become, its totally insane to think about this rider was riding at a continental level just last year. He is kinda a jack of all trades (dont think he will win that much), but he does everything well and has a great motor. He is the kinda dude that you would just love to be able to select for practically every race and do the job he is supposed to do, whether that being helping out, having a free role or being the captain.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Asgreen is the new Moscon

 

[Mayomaniac]

Re:

Asgreen is the new Moscon

Moscon wishes that he had that kind of sprint.

 

[Robert5091]

According to the official timetable, stage 3 has no less then 9 railroad crossings, is this a record?
https://www.tourdesuisse.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/user_upload/3Etappe_Marschtabelle_Original_E.pdf

Edit - did someone say hockey stick?

 

[Broccolidwarf]

One thing I find particularly interesting about Asgreen is, that despite him not being a sprinter at all, whenever he tries for a bunch sprint, he is able to get his run in right, and end up in perfect position, despite having no train to help him.

That is not normal, for an almost neo-pro TT specialist, who was bought to be a domestique, solely because another rider got a long term injury,

 

[Broccolidwarf]

According to the official timetable, stage 3 has no less then 9 railroad crossings, is this a record?
https://www.tourdesuisse.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/user_upload/3Etappe_Marschtabelle_Original_E.pdf

Edit - did someone say hockey stick?

Apparently there is a sharp turn onto that final 200 m ramp.

It is going to be quite the fight the last k, getting to that corner first!

 

[RedheadDane]

Re: Re:

Asgreen is the new Robocob

Asgreen to take top 3 and keep the jersey after stage 3

Excellent work from this young rider.

I wouldn't be too surprised if he was brought forward to pull the peloton, though perhaps mostly in case of an emergency, with Lampaert and Devenyns being first-pullers.
DQ wants a sprint (for Viviani), Mørkøv and Richeze are the lead-out men, Viviani obviously can't pull/be lead-out for himself, and Mas is the GC guy.

And imagine if Mas was Spanish champion, then they'd (for today at least) have a line-up with nobody wearing identical jerseys.

 

[Velolover2]

It's amazing how many of the classics riders (Van Baarle, Naesen, Asgreen and to some extent Trentin) who have surprised on the climbs.

People I expected to be pure specialists have turned out to be more like a versatile GVA type than Terpstra. In fact, there aren't many pure Northern classics specialists in the peloton.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

https://twitter.com/BriSmithy/status/1140587930794283008?s=19

 

[Escarabajo]

Is this stage for the sprinters?
More like designed for Sagan.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Re:

Is this stage for the sprinters?
More like designed for Sagan.

they've made the finish a bit longer in response to criticism - according the ES commentators

https://nlive.club/stream/1/39311.html