Critérium du Dauphiné 2012 stage 5. Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans - Rumilly (186 km)

[El Pistolero]

Yep, THEY (UK postal) chased it down for him. So if he's got no more team on a multi-col stage, and loses minute on the descent, he's ****.ED, isn't he?

Not really because he'll take at least 4 minutes on everyone in the time trial.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Yeah guys.
Can't watch it.
Is Tony in the main group?

He was among the cars.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

So, what's the situation? I've only been able to follow the action with one eye at work.

Gruppo compatto again or Evans/Nibali still in front of Sky?

No only LL Sanchez of the GC guys ahead now

 

[Bavarianrider]

Ok so that means he is in the first group. good.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Yep, THEY (UK postal) chased it down for him. So if he's got no more team on a multi-col stage, and loses minute on the descent, he's ****.ED, isn't he?

If you want to believe the gap reached 1 minute inside 5 minutes of the attack for any reason other than the attack was ignored and neither Wiggins or Sky tried to respond, other than letting Eddy roll along behind, that is your business.

 

[will10]

Anyone who likes a rider you don't like is unbearable when that rider wins - this forum never changes.

Cmon, look at some of these Wiggo fanboys. They aren't here to discuss the race. They're here to post "Wiggo is the best" and end up on ignore lists.

 

[Fetisoff]

Not really because he'll take at least 4 minutes on everyone in the time trial.

So we're all doomed then. DOOOOOOOMED I say

 

[hrotha]

All this descending talk is hilarious. As if its going to matter.

I don't know if Wiggins is going to win the tour, but if he loses it wont be because of descending.

Stuff that will matter more than descents-
ITT
Climbs
Concentration
Luck
Nutrition
Solar Flares
etc
etc

Remind me again, how did De Gendt just podium the Giro?

Descends have seldom been important lately because of the way the courses were designed. This year, it's either be imaginative or arrive in Paris minutes behind the ITT specialists.

 

[will10]

Yeah guys.
Can't watch it.
Is Tony in the main group?

Tony was one of the best 50 climbers on the Grand Colombier

 

[maltiv]

Ok so that means he is in the first group. good.

No he's a bit behind. I think something must have happened to him, or perhaps he was dropped. Looks like he'll make it back though, but Sky are drilling it on the front.

edit: never mind, he's back already.

 

[woodie]

Relatively impressed with SKY at the moment, seem to be rather solid, although this isn't a major mountain stage is it?

 

[El Pistolero]

So we're all doomed then. DOOOOOOOMED I say

Only those who hate Wiggins. My problem lies with the fans, not the rider.

 

[kanari]

Vichot FTW!!

 

[kjetilraknerud]

Good to see some aggressive racing. Riders matters more than parcours!

 

[patterson_hood]

Cmon, look at some of these Wiggo fanboys. They aren't here to discuss the race. They're here to post "Wiggo is the best" and end up on ignore lists.

To be fair, I agree. Puts me off even commenting on Wiggo so as not to be associated.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Only those who hate Wiggins. My problem lies with the fans, not the rider.

Well most fans are sane. It's the occasional june/july Wiggins-fans that pop up now that are really annoying

 

[step23]

Great stage! Evans needs stronger team, Astana should sign him )

 

[theyoungest]

LLS might as well ride away alone, he's getting virtually no help.

 

[The Hitch]

Not really because he'll take at least 4 minutes on everyone in the time trial.

yeah and time trialing is a big part of grand tours so if he is that much better than everyone else at tting, he deserves to win.

 

[Fetisoff]

Cmon, look at some of these Wiggo fanboys. They aren't here to discuss the race. They're here to post "Wiggo is the best" and end up on ignore lists.

You know, LaFlorecita, ACF and dwlssonic are kinda "cute" in their fan-boy(girl)-ism.

BavarianRider is actually kinda entertaining (to me at least)

Airstream, jobiwan and christian actually do always have some good input into the conversations apart from their manlove to Frandy Schleck.

Most of Wiggo fans so far are just annoying. Don't know why, maybe they're not really so bad, really and it's just due to the fact that there's so many of them now and they have (some) reason to gloat.

 

[webvan]

Porte, Froome and Rodgers leading Wiggo, can't see these guys dropping out today. Will be different tomorrow especially if Porte has to work very hard in Joux Plane and Rodgers if the climb is fast. Froome will stick around.

 

[El Pistolero]

yeah and time trialing is a big part of grand tours so if he is that much better than everyone else at tting, he deserves to win.

Yes, I agree. Although I wouldn't have mind if there was one more real mountain stage to balance the time trial kms.

 

[theyoungest]

Apparently the new "cool" is to do nothing at all on the climbs and only attack on the descends

You mean Nibali is the new cool?

 

[goggalor]

Unless someone takes over from Sky the break will stay away.

 

[trevim]

Remember, Nordhaug would've won Amstel.

Not could've, would've.

That's obvious considering the idiots that finished ahead of him