71st Tour de Romandie - April 25th-30th

[RedheadDane]

Ok, but the finish is the same, right?

Yeah, seems like they're just cutting out the descend in the beginning of the stage. Probably wouldn't have made that much of a difference anyway.

 

[Robert5091]

This was the original profile - now start moved to km 22

 

[fauniera]

Or rather:

 

[WheelofGear]

Or rather:

In theory, Viviani should be able to win a stage like this. Climb is over 50k from the finish. Not sure about his shape.

 

[jens_attacks]

albasini to win with three bike lengths.

 

[HelloDolly]

Diary of the race

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/nicolas-roche-once-the-cold-gets-into-me-my-legs-turn-to-stone-35658418.html

 

[wirral]

In the bizarre world of the UCI, one of the breakaway is under a ban for punching another rider 2 months ago, but the ban doesn't start till next week.

 

[Velolover2]

Viviani will win this one.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Sleet, freezing conditions, icy roads today -
maybe Yorkshire would have been
a wiser choice.

Küng in the 4 man break. at ~5 mins

 

[SafeBet]

I'm not sure they will bring them back.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Why do rider even bother to ride Tour of Romandie? There is always shitty conditions like this.

 

[deValtos]

Re:

In the bizarre world of the UCI, one of the breakaway is under a ban for punching another rider 2 months ago, but the ban doesn't start till next week.

Now that would be curious if Grivko won todays stage. :surprised:

They've got a shot.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Still it could be good practice for the mountains in the Giro.

 

[silvergrenade]

Don't think it'll be brought back. Trek really playing high stakes poker

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

Why do rider even bother to ride Tour of Romandie? There is always ****** conditions like this.

There's a reason why most of the big who ride the Giro for gc don't show up (ok, this year they also had rather bad weather in Trentino/Tirol), Zakarin is the only really big name who's riding this race and the Giro.

 

[SafeBet]

Re:

Don't think it'll be brought back. Trek really playing high stakes poker

They will have to chase at some point though. Armee only two minutes behind in GC.

 

[GraftPunk]

Re:

Viviani will win this one.

I think his chances may be getting slimmer by the minute.

 

[GraftPunk]

The peloton needs to pick up the pace mightily if they want a piece of the pie.

 

[dlwssonic]

Re:

Don't think it'll be brought back. Trek really playing high stakes poker

High stakes? Felline has not much interest in defending the jersey.

 

[WheelofGear]

Küng again I think.

Peloton too far behind.

 

[Samamba]

Would be funny if Grivko wins this

 

[Ricco']

Re: Re:

Why do rider even bother to ride Tour of Romandie? There is always ****** conditions like this.

There's a reason why most of the big who ride the Giro for gc don't show up (ok, this year they also had rather bad weather in Trentino/Tirol), Zakarin is the only really big name who's riding this race and the Giro.

Jungels (6th last year and Maglia Bianca) too.

 

[Valv.Piti]

And TJ this year. Can't imagine this is a super good preparation, especially not for a rider such as TJ who is pretty fragile....

 

[May0maniac]

Re: Re:

Why do rider even bother to ride Tour of Romandie? There is always ****** conditions like this.

There's a reason why most of the big who ride the Giro for gc don't show up (ok, this year they also had rather bad weather in Trentino/Tirol), Zakarin is the only really big name who's riding this race and the Giro.

Jungels (6th last year and Maglia Bianca) too.

Sorry, I forgot about him. TJ hasn't shown a lot in the last few years, so I don't really see him as a "big name" when it comes to the gc riders.

 

[Frankschleck]

will the break take it?