Eneco Tour - 8th to 14th August

[Jamsque]

Fast time from Hendo, he goes 2nd.

 

[woodie]

any english streams yet?

 

[Anonymous]

any english streams yet?

yes, about ten posts up.

or here http://www.teamskyfans.com/stream5.html

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Flens ****ed up spectacularly? Damn, I just got back from playing tennis.

Sergent fastest I see

 

[Jan the Man]

wonder how geraint thomas will go around this course. Pretty good in prologues, obv not as much of a favourite as boom though.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Booms form is a question mark though (as always). But then again, in the Dauphine his form was a question too and he still won the prologue

 

[cineteq]

Looking forward to watching these guys:
3.26 Juan Antonio Flecha
3.40 Thomas De Gendt
3.49 Maarten Tjallingii
3.50 Lars Bak
3.54 Greg Van Avermaet
4.02 Stijn Devolder
4.10 Geraint Thomas
4.12 Alex Rasmussen
4.16 Taylor Phinney
4.20 Jonathan Castroviejo
4.21 Vasili Kiryienka
4.22 Vladimir Gusev
4.24 Lieuwe Westra
4.30 David Millar
4.31 Nick Nuyens
4.32 Edvald Boasson Hagen
4.33 Lars Boom
4.34 Bert Grabsch

 

[El Pistolero]

Booms form is a question mark though (as always). But then again, in the Dauphine his form was a question too and he still won the prologue

I'd put my money on him anyway.

 

[dlwssonic]

Phinney should go show what a talent he is.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I'd put my money on him anyway.

If Hagen is still close to Tour form he'll be hard to beat, even for Boom

 

[dlwssonic]

I hope GVA doesnt do such a bad prologue.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Great, another week of cycling! These days are wonderful. I really enjoy prologues. Interesting to see how Castroviejo does.

 

[kanari]

If Hagen is still close to Tour form he'll be hard to beat, even for Boom

Actually I don't think Hagen has ever won a prologue. He never loses much but never seems to win them either.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Actually I don't think Hagen has ever won a prologue. He never loses much but never seems to win them either.

At the espoirs he won countless prologues.

And he indeed didn't win prologues at the pro's, but he did win very short tt's similar to a prologue at the end of a lot of races (8 to 14km). So he could definately win a prologue

 

[dlwssonic]

that scottish guy said GVA wasnt happy because he wanted to be the number1 sprinter LOL

 

[Michielveedeebee]

There goes Greggie, he has great form atm. And god I love those BMC TT bikes

 

[dlwssonic]

GVA and phinney shall destroy everyone

 

[Michielveedeebee]

that scottish guy said GVA wasnt happy because he wanted to be the number1 sprinter LOL

Scotty doesn't know

 

[Hugo Koblet]

How did De Gendt do?

 

[dlwssonic]

I thought maarten would have done better.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

bad time by Tjalingii

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Tjallingii is never good on such a short course. Don't know where the Sporza commentators got that he is 'usually top 6/7'.
Maybe in a longer TT, at least 10km+
But not in short prologues like this. Too explosive.

Bad assesment by the normally knowledgeable commentators there

 

[dlwssonic]

I thought he did pretty well in last years eneco tour prologue. I might be wrong though.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Prologue last year


1 Svein Tuft Team Garmin-Transitions 6'19"
2 Jos van Emden Rabobank + 0'05"
3 Lars Boom Rabobank + 0'06"
4 Maarten Tjallingii Rabobank

 

[cineteq]

How did De Gendt do?

I missed his time too...