Friday, june 15th - Tour de Suisse, stage 7: gossau- Gossau 34km ITT

[goggalor]

Costa is developing into a really strong rider.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Gesink is going to kill Costa in the mountains

(hopefully)

 

[Trofinios]

Good ride by Costa!

Kessiakoff wins! Weeeeeehooooooo!

 

[l.Harm]

Always been a lie Gesink couldn't TT.'


And not sure about Gesink in the mountains in this field.

 

[Bala Verde]

Rui Costa lost a bit in the last section. Interesting results.

What's the GC?

 

[GazelleFormula]

Gesink best of the GC riders in the time trial

It's a pity that he somehow struggled in the climb to verbier, but he might well find his climbing legs back the next days.

 

[jens_attacks]

rui costa should win this now.
gesink and frank can though attack him brutally but that can put in danger the tour's programs.

 

[Parrulo]

Gesink best of the GC riders in the time trial

he gained 14 seconds on rui on the flat part!!!

impressive. seems to be the only rider still within a chance of beating rui

 

[LaFlorecita]

Rui Rui Rui Rui Rui!!!!

 

[FujiAnton]

Gesink is going to kill Costa in the mountains

Yes, like he did on Verbier.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Yes, like he did on Verbier.

He had problems adjusting from altitude camp. Just like Dauphine last year where he was good in the final weekend after being bad on the first stage (lost 1'31 there)

Remember?

 

[Gloin22]

Gesink is going to kill Costa in the mountains

(hopefully)

Lol. Did you see Verbier ?

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Gesink is going to kill Costa in the mountains

(hopefully)

Doubt it, rui should be a lot more motivated to take gc here.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Gesink is going to kill Costa in the mountains

(hopefully)

No way

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

1 46 Fredrik KESSIAKOFF Astana Pro Team 00:46:36.710
2 91 Fabian CANCELLARA RadioShack-Nissan 00:00:02
3 96 Maxime MONFORT RadioShack-Nissan 00:00:20
4 167 Jérémy ROY FDJ-BigMat 00:00:25
5 131 Robert GESINK Rabobank Cycling Team 00:00:27
6 43 Tanel KANGERT Astana Pro Team 00:00:34
7 95 Andreas KLÖDEN RadioShack-Nissan 00:00:38
8 122 Rui Alberto FARIA DA COSTA Movistar Team 00:00:41
9 8 Peter VELITS Omega Pharma-QuickStep 00:00:43
10 83 Brent BOOKWALTER BMC Racing Team 00:00:51
11 151 Martin ELMIGER AG2R La mondiale 00:01:00
12 13 Vladimir GUSEV Katusha Team 00:01:00
13 135 Laurens TEN DAM Rabobank Cycling Team 00:01:06
14 81 Mathias FRANK BMC Racing Team 00:01:07
15 87 Stephen CUMMINGS BMC Racing Team 00:01:12
16 48 Roman KREUZIGER Astana Pro Team 00:01:16
17 1 Levi LEIPHEIMER Omega Pharma-QuickStep 00:01:19
18 133 Steven KRUIJSWIJK Rabobank Cycling Team 00:01:21
19 121 Alejandro VALVERDE Movistar Team 00:01:22
20 51 Tom DANIELSON Garmin-Barracuda 00:01:24

General

1 122 Rui Alberto FARIA DA COSTA Movistar Team 26:10:55
2 48 Roman KREUZIGER Astana Pro Team 00:00:50
3 131 Robert GESINK Rabobank Cycling Team 00:00:55
4 121 Alejandro VALVERDE Movistar Team 00:01:04
5 98 Frank SCHLECK RadioShack-Nissan 00:01:04
6 51 Tom DANIELSON Garmin-Barracuda 00:01:12
7 1 Levi LEIPHEIMER Omega Pharma-QuickStep 00:01:15
8 13 Vladimir GUSEV Katusha Team 00:01:17
9 33 Thomas LÖVKVIST Sky Procycling 00:01:22
10 133 Steven KRUIJSWIJK Rabobank Cycling Team 00:01:27
11 92 Jakob FUGLSANG RadioShack-Nissan 00:01:34
12 114 Mikel NIEVE Euskaltel - Euskadi 00:01:36
13 43 Tanel KANGERT Astana Pro Team 00:01:40
14 165 Thibaut PINOT FDJ-BigMat 00:01:42
15 158 Nicolas ROCHE AG2R La mondiale 00:01:52
16 177 Chris SÖRENSEN Team Saxo bank 00:01:52
17 26 Moreno MOSER Liquigas-Cannondale 00:01:59
18 81 Mathias FRANK BMC Racing Team 00:02:03
19 3 Dario CATALDO Omega Pharma-QuickStep 00:02:09
20 47 Robert KISERLOVSKI Astana Pro Team 00:02:24

 

[Parrulo]

Costa is developing into a really strong rider.

i always thought he would be a future top dog for the hilly classics, but never thought he would become this good on 1 week races.

i guess losing those extra kilos he still had from his u23 days really helped him to improve his climbing

 

[jens_attacks]

gesink will recover just like on collet d'allevard,both him and frank are dangerous to rui costa.

great win for kessiakoff _o_

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Doubt it, rui should be a lot more motivated to take gc here.

Gesink is always motivated to take a GC

 

[norwegian]

Great win by Kessiakoff! Congrats!!

 

[classicomano]

Tomorrow the real test for Gesink with some real competition instead of couple of random Colombians

 

[hrotha]

He had problems adjusting from altitude camp. Just like Dauphine last year where he was good in the final weekend after being bad on the first stage (lost 1'31 there)

Remember?

Yes. I also remember his climbing has been distinctly meh the last two seasons, whether he had been doing altitude training or not.

 

[Fetisoff]

Rui Costa lost a bit in the last section. Interesting results.

What's the GC?

1 122 Rui Alberto FARIA DA COSTA Movistar Team 26:10:55
2 48 Roman KREUZIGER Astana Pro Team 00:00:50
3 131 Robert GESINK Rabobank Cycling Team 00:00:55
4 121 Alejandro VALVERDE Movistar Team 00:01:04
5 98 Frank SCHLECK RadioShack-Nissan 00:01:04
6 51 Tom DANIELSON Garmin-Barracuda 00:01:12
7 1 Levi LEIPHEIMER Omega Pharma-QuickStep 00:01:15
8 13 Vladimir GUSEV Katusha Team 00:01:17
9 33 Thomas LÖVKVIST Sky Procycling 00:01:22
10 133 Steven KRUIJSWIJK Rabobank Cycling Team 00:01:27

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=52423

in full here

 

[Lanark]

impressive. seems to be the only rider still within a chance of beating rui

Nah, lost too much time on Verbier. The only way Costa could lose is if he completely collapes (pressure, fringale etc.) or if the other riders pull some huge tactical trick (unlikely as well, his team is good, and nobody is going to waste a lot of energy shortly before the Tour). I don't think anyone can make up the current gap 'just' by riding away on a climb, Costa is too strong for that.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Yes. I also remember his climbing has been distinctly meh the last two seasons, whether he had been doing altitude training or not.

We'll see after this weekend if you think the same Also. Mt Baldy.

 

[trevim]

This should be really fun for the next stages considering the supposed worse climber is in the lead. Let's see how good Rui will be the next few days and if Gesink, Schleck, Nieve can put in the red on the climbs. Hopefully, Rui will win in the end