Official thread - TdF Stage 5 Cap d'Agde-Perpignan (197.0km)

[ak-zaaf]

Gesink is a mounatin man not a time trial man

he's both.

junior dutch tt champ, top-10 in olympics and worlds last year.
at his age i'd say he is a huge time-trial talent

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

There is no need for astana to keep the hammer down. screw them

 

[ak-zaaf]

There is no need for astana to keep the hammer down. screw them

that's cycling man, don't overreact.

gesink is not a big enough rider yet to have the entire peloton wait for him.

 

[RightWingNutJob]

If Contador is still riding for Johan Bruyneel next season, whatever that team is going to be called, i will be VERY surprised.

Why, this will probably be the easiest Tour Contador will ever win.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

haha yeh, but i had high hopes for gesink
Gesink in 2nd peleton. good work.
lol poor boonen 2 flat tires.

 

[ak-zaaf]

Why, this will probably be the easiest Tour Contador will ever win.

easier than having the one guy in front of you pulled out of the race?

 

[dgodave]

haha yeh, but i had high hopes for gesink
Gesink in 2nd peleton. good work.
lol poor boonen 2 flat tires.

Seems wierd that high pressure air is still the best way to make a tire work...
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[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

he's both.

junior dutch tt champ, top-10 in olympics and worlds last year.
at his age i'd say he is a huge time-trial talent

agreed he is good for his age, but isn't quite there in terms of challenging the big names yet. In a couple years he is gonna be one hell of a GC rider.

 

[Moondance]

Why, this will probably be the easiest Tour Contador will ever win.

Hmmmm, i doubt it, but i'll say he'll flit off to Caisse D'Epargne at the end of this season

 

[RightWingNutJob]

easier than having the one guy in front of you pulled out of the race?

If he is as strong as everybody is saying in the mountains, then he doesn't have to worry about LA or anybody else for that matter.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Heard that Gesink might have partial dislocation of his left shoulder. painful...

Apparently he was struggling to keep up with the 2nd group.

 

[Moondance]

After hearing to Frans Maassen (Rabobank directeur sportif) on Dutch TV, i'm pretty sure Gesink is going to pull out after the stage. Shame, refocus on riding Vuelta again and the World Champs.

 

[Bala Verde]

Gesink will probably not have the leggs on friday. Tomorrow is a tough stage as well, and with a slight injury, as well as having done 3 TT in 5 days... That's gotta hurt.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Gesink will probably not have the leggs on friday. Tomorrow is a tough stage as well, and with a slight injury, as well as having done 3 TT in 5 days... That's gotta hurt.

yeah even if he does start tomorrow, he will struggle on friday

 

[ak-zaaf]

After hearing to Frans Maassen (Rabobank directeur sportif) on Dutch TV, i'm pretty sure Gesink is going to pull out after the stage. Shame, refocus on riding Vuelta again and the World Champs.

so it will be the old rabo mantra again: thank god we have freire.

 

[linenoiz]

Astana is driving like someone got split off but I can't figure out who it is. Gesink is hurt so they can't be worried about him.

 

[dgodave]

Oooh. I love the travel-rama helicopter shots.
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[RightWingNutJob]

Astana is driving like someone got split off but I can't figure out who it is. Gesink is hurt so they can't be worried about him.

Could be that they just don't want to get caught out and staying out of trouble.

 

[Bala Verde]

so it will be the old rabo mantra again: thank god we have freire.

yeah kind of pathetic for a team with such a budget.

Anyway, I think Laurens Ten Dam gradually starts dreaming of wearing the polka dots... He might be let off the leash, since Menchov doesn't seem to have the form and Gesink's spent...

 

[dgodave]

yeah kind of pathetic for a team with such a budget....

I dunno.... they got the GIRO. Remember how totally awesome Astana was, in the Giro...
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[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

2nd peleton almost back, but gesink really struggling.

 

[Moondance]

so it will be the old rabo mantra again: thank god we have freire.

I guess, even though I haven't so much as seen Freire in a sprint so far this year.

 

[Bala Verde]

I dunno.... they got the GIRO. Remember how totally awesome Astana was, in the Giro...
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With the roster they have at the moment, and the team (and ambitions) they sent to France, the current state of affairs (read only at stage 5) they are kind of pathetic. Seems that everything Breukink touches turns into the opposite of gold.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

they are back... but is gesink. he is spent and really struggling...

 

[luckyboy]

so it will be the old rabo mantra again: thank god we have freire.

Yeah its a good thing there aren't many other sprinters to compete with h...oh wait