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Best non mountain stage in GT's in the last 15 years
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If TTs count I'd like to mention Albi 2007, because Vino, and 2003 Gaillac - Cap Découverte, the return of the Kaiser.
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Pescocostanzo saw Di Luca and Ricco' attacking and Purito and Contador bridging. Piepoli joined them from the front (he was in the break) and pulled them to gain quite some time on the others. Bosisio won from the breakaway.
Pescara should be recent enough right?
Bergamo was won by Garzelli over Simoni and Bettini, with the Di Luca in pretty big difficulty at some point.pastronef said:Eshnar said:Arvesen.pastronef said:
I had to check
argh, I wanted to say it, but I feared it was Sella. tell me about the other 3 stages
Pescocostanzo saw Di Luca and Ricco' attacking and Purito and Contador bridging. Piepoli joined them from the front (he was in the break) and pulled them to gain quite some time on the others. Bosisio won from the breakaway.
Pescara should be recent enough right?
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I had to look for all of them. Pescara = Hansen. nice stage, you are right
Eshnar said:Bergamo was won by Garzelli over Simoni and Bettini, with the Di Luca in pretty big difficulty at some point.pastronef said:Eshnar said:Arvesen.pastronef said:
I had to check
argh, I wanted to say it, but I feared it was Sella. tell me about the other 3 stages
Pescocostanzo saw Di Luca and Ricco' attacking and Purito and Contador bridging. Piepoli joined them from the front (he was in the break) and pulled them to gain quite some time on the others. Bosisio won from the breakaway.
Pescara should be recent enough right?
I had to look for all of them. Pescara = Hansen. nice stage, you are right
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Caceres in the 2013 Vuelta. That was quite an escape by Panzerwagen! Felt a bit sorry for him when he was caught.
But only a bit for... obvious reasons.
But only a bit for... obvious reasons.
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Good thing the following stage was epic!burning said:2010 Spa could have been an amazing stage if Cancellara didn't stop everyone.
An excerpt from my post on the best mountain stages:
Some of those old Vuelta crosswind stages were intersting. Almost allways crosswind stages are interesting. But discounting ITTs and crosswinds it's not that easy to think about something amazing in GT's in last 10-15 years. The only example i can think of right now and wasn't mentioned is Gap 2011. Contador blewing the field apart on the shallow side of Col de Manse plus great descend by Samu and Cadel resulted in a quite embarrasing loss by the Schleck tandem plus Voeckler riding into someone's garden. Special mention of course goes to Gap 2003 but this one is well documented.
Bagnères de Bigorre 2008 where Ricco did a Pantani on a poor moto guy and breakaway maraudeurs. He had so much in jet that this moto had no chance to catch him. Special mention goes to Froome who was in a short lived break at that day just before Ricco.
Those ones are technically mountain stages but they ended in an over 40km flat run-in to the finish so they felt more like transitional/medium-mountain stages. The beginning of Saint-Girons 2009 thanks to if i remeber Evans or somebody else of GC importance trying to go for a breakaway, the beginning of Pau 2010 thanks to Szmyd blewing peloton apart i think for Basso (or was the stage where he had health problems and needed to abandon?) on Peyresurde and then Van Den Broeck's attack on Aspin which resulted in Samu Sanchez losing contact and like 5 or 6 man leader's group for a while before it all came back on Tourmalet. Lourdes 2011 thanks to amazing descend skills of Mighty Thor which could be a good opponent for legendary Il Falco.
Maybe San Giorgio Del Sannio 2015 would be good here, Forlì 2015 with an amazing win by Nicola Boem and of course Milan 2015 which was won by Iljo Keisse from a breakaway. Keeping in the thread of parade stages won by breakaway the Vinokurov Paris ride needs a mention. Propably the last win in Paris by a GT rider since Hinault. That rocket sprint from Cavendish when he by himself bursted through breakaway in the last 100m was an amazing sight too.
THe 2014 version is well known and documented but slightly forgotten Arenberg 2010 was good too. Younger of Schlecks somehow managed to keep of all people Cance's pace which generated a carnage. Older Schleck did a Froome, Evans managed to keep himself in the first group showing that he's the real hard-man of GT riders while contador los around a minute with mysterious additional loss of time in the last km. After this stage i was actually more supporting Schleck than Contador in this Tour.
From ITTs i could go with Cognac 2007 with sudden almost-record times of Evans and Leipheimer and Contador's struggle, yet still amazing 5th place to keep the yellow jersey by the narrowest margin of 23sec to Cadel and 31sec to Levi since the infamous LeMond Fignon Tour.
railxmig said:
Some of those old Vuelta crosswind stages were intersting. Almost allways crosswind stages are interesting. But discounting ITTs and crosswinds it's not that easy to think about something amazing in GT's in last 10-15 years. The only example i can think of right now and wasn't mentioned is Gap 2011. Contador blewing the field apart on the shallow side of Col de Manse plus great descend by Samu and Cadel resulted in a quite embarrasing loss by the Schleck tandem plus Voeckler riding into someone's garden. Special mention of course goes to Gap 2003 but this one is well documented.
Bagnères de Bigorre 2008 where Ricco did a Pantani on a poor moto guy and breakaway maraudeurs. He had so much in jet that this moto had no chance to catch him. Special mention goes to Froome who was in a short lived break at that day just before Ricco.
Those ones are technically mountain stages but they ended in an over 40km flat run-in to the finish so they felt more like transitional/medium-mountain stages. The beginning of Saint-Girons 2009 thanks to if i remeber Evans or somebody else of GC importance trying to go for a breakaway, the beginning of Pau 2010 thanks to Szmyd blewing peloton apart i think for Basso (or was the stage where he had health problems and needed to abandon?) on Peyresurde and then Van Den Broeck's attack on Aspin which resulted in Samu Sanchez losing contact and like 5 or 6 man leader's group for a while before it all came back on Tourmalet. Lourdes 2011 thanks to amazing descend skills of Mighty Thor which could be a good opponent for legendary Il Falco.
Maybe San Giorgio Del Sannio 2015 would be good here, Forlì 2015 with an amazing win by Nicola Boem and of course Milan 2015 which was won by Iljo Keisse from a breakaway. Keeping in the thread of parade stages won by breakaway the Vinokurov Paris ride needs a mention. Propably the last win in Paris by a GT rider since Hinault. That rocket sprint from Cavendish when he by himself bursted through breakaway in the last 100m was an amazing sight too.
THe 2014 version is well known and documented but slightly forgotten Arenberg 2010 was good too. Younger of Schlecks somehow managed to keep of all people Cance's pace which generated a carnage. Older Schleck did a Froome, Evans managed to keep himself in the first group showing that he's the real hard-man of GT riders while contador los around a minute with mysterious additional loss of time in the last km. After this stage i was actually more supporting Schleck than Contador in this Tour.
From ITTs i could go with Cognac 2007 with sudden almost-record times of Evans and Leipheimer and Contador's struggle, yet still amazing 5th place to keep the yellow jersey by the narrowest margin of 23sec to Cadel and 31sec to Levi since the infamous LeMond Fignon Tour.
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