Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2011

[Jamsque]

Peterson has lost it, Efemkin is going to take the leader's jersey.

 

[Jamsque]

Surely this stage is Greipel's to lose now.

 

[palmerq]

I think he's off the podium too...

It will be hard for greipel to win on his own but he can do it.

 

[Jamsque]

I think he's off the podium too...

It will be hard for greipel to win on his own but he can do it.

It was easy in the end.

 

[palmerq]

Good work from greipel he should sprint without team mates more often :S he timed it very well

 

[palmerq]

It was easy in the end.

I thought there would have been more attacks in the end, but greipel did very good I think he stayed very calm and killed them all easily

 

[Mellow Velo]

Just caught up.
Blimey, Pederson does a Loosli, Saxo try a Visconti and Griepel does a Griepel.
Stage 6 of Turkey does deja vu in spades.

 

[hrotha]

Nooooo, Peterson! My precious CQ points!

 

[Sylvester]

Who knows a little more about Egoitz Garcia of Caja Rural? He has been having a good, solid season so far, I think. 6th in a hard stage yesterday, two nice top tens in Pais Vasco, etc.

Second today, only beaten by Greipel. Nobody knows this guy?

 

[El Pistolero]

Finally Greipel wins something again

 

[greenedge]

Nice work Greipel you did it the old fashioned way. How much has he won this yr? Peterson what happened? This is a crazy race.

 

[greenedge]

Why did AG2R let AE go. Nice work by Thiabaut Pinot too, he's quite young.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Second today, only beaten by Greipel. Nobody knows this guy?

Basque. Something of an all-rounder - able to clock 32nd in the GC of País Vasco, but packs a decent sprint. Not much of a climber, but could reasonably be placed in the mould of riders like Rojas, who can place in sprints after quite tough stages. Caja Rural tend to put their sprinting cards behind Aitor Galdos and Joaquín Sobrino more. There really isn't too much to go on with Egoitz I'm afraid.

 

[Jamsque]

Nice work Greipel you did it the old fashioned way. How much has he won this yr? Peterson what happened? This is a crazy race.

This was Greipel's 3rd win of the year. Last year he had 10 by the end of the Tour of Turkey, but he's going all-out for the Tour this year so it isn't really a fair comparison.

 

[kukiniloa]

Can someone please tell me what happened to farrar?
Did Garmin all share the same stomach bug?

 

[Mellow Velo]

I see some folks in another thread are saying they don't find this racing interesting.
While, this edition hasn't been as exciting as 2008/9, how man stage races find themselves with a new race leader after every stage?

Some of the problem has stemmed from the shorter tv coverage which has meant we have missed almost all of the climbing and therefore the attacks.

Case in point. NO live coverage at all today. Ice skating.........lovely.

 

[Jamsque]

No live coverage today? Lame.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

http://www.fromsportcom.com/v-2/4/120/v-252082.html (courtesy of CyclingFans.com)

 

[TourOfSardinia]

http://www.fromsportcom.com/v-2/4/120/v-252082.html (courtesy of CyclingFans.com)

that stopped for me

http://streamingonline-freetv.blogspot.com/2011/04/trt-3-spor-turkey.html

does

 

[Libertine Seguros]

God, this is dull.

Can somebody enlighten me as to why Andalucía-Caja Granada are doing the work on the front?

 

[El Pistolero]

God, this is dull.

Can somebody enlighten me as to why Andalucía-Caja Granada are doing the work on the front?

Cause Davide Rebellin is going to punch all the sprinters in the kidney in the final 3km.

 

[palmerq]

guardini's going to the giro :S

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Guardini's going to the Giro.

I'm going to start using him as a guide to how dull a race is, since he gets dropped on climbs Van Hummel and Napolitano can manage.

Therefore, this stage was garbage.

I can't understand a word of Turkish. They seemed to think van Hummel had it but he went too soon.

1 Guardini
2 Van Hummel
3 Farrar
4 Greipel
5 Petacchi
6 LS Haedo
7 Van Dijk
8 Bouhanni
9 Modolo
10 Davis

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Guardini's going to the Giro.

I'm going to start using him as a guide to how dull a race is, since he gets dropped on climbs Van Hummel and Napolitano can manage.

Therefore, this stage was garbage.

I can't understand a word of Turkish. They seemed to think van Hummel had it but he went too soon.

1 Guardini
2 Van Hummel
3 Farrar
4 Greipel
5 Petacchi
6 LS Haedo
7 Van Dijk
8 Bouhanni
9 Modolo
10 Davis

The profile for today made it looks like it was made for your entertainment - you must be shocked and disappointed to see so many sprinters in the top 10.

And to think you might have had a day in the sunshine if only you'd known, rather than being left sad and only able to complain, which you don't enjoy in the slightest.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I got totally fooled by not looking at the scale on the profile.

Sprint stages can be interesting if they put enough obstacles to make it uncertain or to throw the trains off their game. Earlier stages in this race did a passable job of this.

But if Guardini can make it to the finish untroubled, then you haven't put anything resembling an obstacle in the course.