Deutschland Tour 2019 (2.HC)

[tobydawq]

Attack by Remco after his recovery ride yesterday.

 

[Laplaz]

Nibali looks sharp

 

[Rollthedice]

And the shark

 

[Laplaz]

Nibali dropped I think

 

[Cian]

Stream?

 

[EganArley]

Asgreen wins, Stuyven new leader

 

[tobydawq]

Nice one, Asgreen.

How did Nibali manage to get dropped there?

 

[F_Cance]

Looked like this was an agreement. Asgreen helping Stuyven to extend the gap and Stuyven was then leading him out the last 600 meters or so.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Anyone know why Cycling News is not covering the Deutchland Tour?

 

[AQETUYIOI]

Anyone know why Cycling News is not covering the Deutchland Tour?

https://www.cyclingnews.com/deutschland-tour/
This got some text: https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/deutschland-tour-2019/stage-2/results/

 

[hayneplane]

From watching the delayed coverage on Eurosport I feel that plenty of credit should be given to the riders throughout the startlist. It’s a stellar cast and the big names have shown themselves such as Nibali and Thomas and overall they have collectively outperformed the potential of the parcours.

 

[Rollthedice]

From watching the delayed coverage on Eurosport I feel that plenty of credit should be given to the riders throughout the startlist. It’s a stellar cast and the big names have shown themselves such as Nibali and Thomas and overall they have collectively outperformed the potential of the parcours.

Good points. Two things are missing though, the "Remco" award for the best attempt to make a good race out of a crap parcours and they forgot to name one of the hills "Willunga", maybe LRP could've shown some slight interest in the race.

 

[hayneplane]

Good points. Two things are missing though, the "Remco" award for the best attempt to make a good race out of a crap parcours and they forgot to name one of the hills "Willunga", maybe LRP could've shown some slight interest in the race.

Yes it is worth not taking for granted how rare a talent and engine Evenepoel has to make stars like Geraint Thomas turn themselves inside out to drag him back. The recovery he showed to again split the race apart and drop the race leader bodes well for future GC prospects where recuperating from repeated hard efforts is absolutely essential.

Love the Richie Porte comment. I like him but it definitely made me laugh and smile.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Ineos worked for Ben Swift again. King.

 

[movingtarget]

Not even sure what Porte is doing there. Course doesn't suit him. I guess he's there as a domestique. Looks like another year wasted. Aru managed to back up and do the Vuelta. Motivation can't be too high.

 

[yaco]

Porte always wastes his time after the TDF - Thinks the season is from JanuarytoJuly.

 

[RedheadDane]

Okay... you gotta be *** kidding me!

#DeineTour stage 3 winner
Asgreen
has attacked together with Mads Pedersen and opened a 55-second gap

What are those guys doing?

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Okay... you gotta be *** kidding me!



What are those guys doing?

144km to go - James Whelan (@EFprocycling) and @MagnusCort (@AstanaTeam) tried to get to the breakaway but are now back in the bunch. #DeineTour #DeutschlandTour

 

[Broccolidwarf]

The front 2 have waited for 5 guys coming up, the front 7 now has 1 minute 30 to the peloton pulled by Trek:

Asgreen
Pedersen
Cort
Peters
Biermans
Gradek
Shalunov

Peters is the best placed on GC , being 1,26 down, Asgreen is 1 second behind him.

Found this live ticker, for those that read german:

https://ticker.tour.ard.de/etappe04/index.html

 

[tobydawq]

Okay... you gotta be *** kidding me!



What are those guys doing?

Sometimes I have no idea what your points are.

 

[RedheadDane]

Sometimes I have no idea what your points are.

You'd think that after yesterday they'd be kinda… tired. Then again; I'm not even sure "tired" exists in Asgreen's vocabulary… It's awesome, but... they're certainly not the guys I would have expected.

 

[Bushman]

You'd think that after yesterday they'd be kinda… tired. Then again; I'm not even sure "tired" exists in Asgreen's vocabulary… It's awesome, but... they're certainly not the guys I would have expected.

You do know that these guys are professional athletes, right?

 

[RedheadDane]

You do know that these guys are professional athletes, right?

But it's not exactly unheard of that riders take it easy after being active the previous day.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Break caught, Cort kept going alone and got the points on the final climb, taking the climbers jersey away from Nibali on the last day, after which he dropped back to the peloton.

Ben Gastauer is trying alone and has 25 seconds.

65 k to go.

 

[RedheadDane]

Break caught, Cort kept going alone and got the points on the final climb, taking the climbers jersey away from Nibali on the last day, after which he dropped back to the peloton.

Ben Gastauer is trying alone and has 25 seconds.

65 k to go.

Is that certain? Nibali being second on the climb.