Colombia 2.1 (Feb 12-17)

[tobydawq]

I have to comb through the results list to randomly stumble upon the fact that Chris Froome didn't make it to the line with the peloton today!?! What's up with that, people?

 

[CTQ]

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I have to comb through the results list to randomly stumble upon the fact that Chris Froome didn't make it to the line with the peloton today!?! What's up with that, people?

from Team Sky report:

"It was a tough little circuit here in Medellin today. I’m just feeling that I don’t quite have that race pace yet and racing against a whole peloton of Colombians who are at a really good level, I’m really feeling it!
"Egan’s at a really good level so the whole team is behind him. I’m going to do whatever I can over the next two days to help him out, especially with all the big climbs coming up. The full team is behind Egan now and hopefully he’ll be able to pull it off again."

 

[tobydawq]

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I have to comb through the results list to randomly stumble upon the fact that Chris Froome didn't make it to the line with the peloton today!?! What's up with that, people?

from Team Sky report:

"It was a tough little circuit here in Medellin today. I’m just feeling that I don’t quite have that race pace yet and racing against a whole peloton of Colombians who are at a really good level, I’m really feeling it!
"Egan’s at a really good level so the whole team is behind him. I’m going to do whatever I can over the next two days to help him out, especially with all the big climbs coming up. The full team is behind Egan now and hopefully he’ll be able to pull it off again."

Ominous. He looked to be hanging on for dear life at the end of the TTT as well.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

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wtf. G is probably in better shape than Froome, at the moment. Didn't see that one coming in a million years.

 

[Koronin]

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wtf. G is probably in better shape than Froome, at the moment. Didn't see that one coming in a million years.

I didn't see that coming either. Especially since G has said he's not in very good racing shape yet.

 

[Taxus4a]

I was a little bit surprised as well with Froome result today, but if the team is with Egan I can understand, Froome is not close to his level, but anyway the level here is high.

 

[tobydawq]

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I was a little bit surprised as well with Froome result today, but if the team is with Egan I can understand, Froome is not close to his level, but anyway the level here is high.

Not that high. Mihkel Räim out-surviving Froome was not exactly easily foreseeable.

 

[CTQ]

i don't think he is there to win this race, but with the highest Tour de France this year, for me, it's all about altitude and collectiong datas in theses conditions.

 

[hfer07]

from Jungels

It wasn't a stage that I had particularly planned or looked at because it was basically a so-called sprinter stage," Jungels said. "But these things do not exist in Colombia, I think."

the last two stages have been great from the fierce racing stand point.

 

[Robert5091]

Froome & G will not be at 100% until TdF so this is just race training.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

Ala virtual lider after the inter sprint..

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Hard day today. Froome already minutes behind, lots of sprinters out of the race.

 

[Sciatic]

Powerful front group ifMartinez, Ala, Sosa, et al. Anyone know what the gap is?

 

[sir fly]

Powerful front group ifMartinez, Ala, Sosa, et al. Anyone know what the gap is?

2:51:00 and growing!

 

[Sciatic]

Powerful front group ifMartinez, Ala, Sosa, et al. Anyone know what the gap is?

2:51:00 and growing!

Isn’t that the elapsed time in yellow?

 

[sir fly]

Powerful front group ifMartinez, Ala, Sosa, et al. Anyone know what the gap is?

2:51:00 and growing!

Isn’t that the elapsed time in yellow?

Two and a half minutes, if I've heard right.

 

[Sciatic]

Powerful front group ifMartinez, Ala, Sosa, et al. Anyone know what the gap is?

2:51:00 and growing!

Isn’t that the elapsed time in yellow?

Ok they just showed it: gap is 2:35. Now I have to figure out km to go! Ed: 52k to go

 

[tobydawq]

Powerful front group ifMartinez, Ala, Sosa, et al. Anyone know what the gap is?

2:51:00 and growing!

Isn’t that the elapsed time in yellow?

Ok they just showed it: gap is 2:35. Now I have to figure out km to go!

They just wrote 53 km very briefly.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Dont need gaps or kilometres remaning, but total time man, thats the most important thing.

 

[sir fly]

Phenomenal crowd!

 

[70kmph]

These Einsteins havent figured out how to show KM remaining

 

[Salvarani]

Stream?

 

[70kmph]

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Stream?

http://www.espn.com.co/ciclismo/nota/_/id/5260231/el-tour-colombia-21-en-vivo-por-espncom

 

[Salvarani]

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Stream?

http://www.espn.com.co/ciclismo/nota/_/id/5260231/el-tour-colombia-21-en-vivo-por-espncom

Thank you!

 

[sir fly]

The gap's narrowing.