79ª Volta a Portugal em Bicicleta (4 a 15 de Agosto de 2017)

[Nirvana]

They lost Veloso but Porto is smashing the field.

 

[trevim]

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They lost Veloso but Porto is smashing the field.

Pretty much, Mestre and Carvalho are riding great

 

[classicomano]

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Only 1min for the Alarcon/Antunes group. Still 75km to the finish. I think Sporting has this under control, the run in suits riders like De Mateos and Nocentini if they don't run out of power to chase.

Ive seen a 3 man break from the same squad pull this off before. They'll be fine.

 

[DNP-Old]

I'm hopping on the Neilands bandwagon. Future Tour winner for sure.

 

[trevim]

1.15 at the top. This can get complicated for W52 if Sporting is able to catch back on in the descent, they're spending lot of energy there.

 

[trevim]

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I'm hopping on the Neilands bandwagon. Future Tour winner for sure.

He has a cool style, I'll follow him now.

Kind of reminds me when Daniel Martin was battling it out with Tiago Machado for the youth jersey like 30 years ago.

 

[Nirvana]

Marque is chasing to lose time.

 

[trevim]

2min with 30km to go; only Neilands, Alarcon and Antunes left.

 

[classicomano]

Tabriz Petrochemical used to do stuff like this in the Asian races. Pretty amazing scenes.

 

[Simurgh]

Front group with this Alarcon and Antunes 4 minutes in front of the peloton???

4'30 now..

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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Front group with this Alarcon and Antunes 4 minutes in front of the peloton???

4'30 now..

Hahahaha

 

[imjustcurious]

Woow Portuguese cycling is top top top.

Alarcon can win Tour next year

 

[classicomano]

Need to think of a better word than "ridiculous".

 

[Simurgh]

Is there something I have missed here? First time I have watched this race, even though I have read the earlier comments of this thread about the nature of the race

 

[Netserk]

So, does this mean that Antunes will be trapped in the Portuguese scene, or does any WT team dare touch him? One could have hoped that he'd get a chance to have a real pro career, but maybe this will mark him...

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Antunes pretty much destroyed the last bit of credibility he had today. Off to the clinic for him.

 

[DNP-Old]

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Antunes pretty much destroyed the last bit of credibility he had today. Off to the clinic for him.

Don't hate. Appreciate.

 

[classicomano]

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So, does this mean that Antunes will be trapped in the Portuguese scene, or does any WT team dare touch him? One could have hoped that he'd get a chance to have a real pro career, but maybe this will mark him...

I think touching him right now would give you radiation poisoning.

 

[luckyboy]

W52 might just win this thing

 

[DNP-Old]

Where were you on August 14th?

 

[Forever The Best]

_O_ Antunes. Shame he couldn't drop Balarcon though.
Also Neilands

 

[GuyIncognito]

Didn't Neilands' parents warn him not to ride his bike around aeroplanes?
It's dangerous, honey.

 

[luckyboy]

Veloso 41:49 down

 

[Roku]

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Tabriz Petrochemical used to do stuff like this in the Asian races. Pretty amazing scenes.

Well, now I understand why the team was called "Petrochemical"...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Absolute comedy gold again. Froome be pissing his pants if W52 would show up in the TDF