Route du Sud 2014

[MBotero]

another weak team from sky?

Edvald Boasson Hagen, Ian Boswell, Dario Cataldo, Nathan Earle, Josh Edmondson, Bernhard Eisel, Kanstantsin Siutsou, Chris Sutton

Looks like a decent team to me.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Ticker: http://direct.directvelo.com/live-course/2023/route-du-sud-etape-1-2-1.html

64km to go, gap 3:30 or so

Domont (AG2R La Mondiale), Jarrier (Bretagne-Séché Environnement), Paillot (La Pomme Marseille) et Molina (Caja Rural).

 

[Antoine_Blondin]

From the finish line :

Live stream from the finish line :

http://www.routedusud.fr/La_Route_du_Sud_Cycliste_-_La_Depeche_du_Midi/Livetv.html

 

[Netserk]

Movistar 1-2

Herrada solo with Valverde winning the bunch sprint few seconds behind.

 

[maltiv]

Bouhanni 3rd?

That's quite strange...

 

[maltiv]

Top 10:

1-Herrada (Movistar)
2-Valverde (Movistar)
3-Bouhanni (FDJ.fr)
4-Roche (Tinkoff-Saxo)
5-Hardy (Cofidis)
6-Rogers (Tinloff-Saxo)
7-Di Gregorio (Team La Pomme-Marseille 13)
8-Boswell (Team SKY)
9-Mc Carty (Tinkoff-Saxo)
10-Rossetto (BigMat-Auber 93)

Ridiculous performance by Bouhanni, he's certainly motivated for TDF...

 

[Netserk]

It was mostly false flat and he is quite decent uphill for a bunch sprinter. I hope he'll win stage 3.

 

[Antoine_Blondin]

 

[indianfanboy]

Bouhanni

ok Madiot he should be in the tour team

 

[wirral]

"Anything Arnaud can do, I can do better."
[Madiot] : "No you can't."
[Nacer] : "Yes I can."
[Madiot] : "No you can't."
[Nacer] : "Yes I can."
[Madiot] : "No you can't!"
[Nacer] : "Yes I can! Yes I can! Yes I can!"
[Madiot slaps Nacer and stalks off stage left.]

 

[Antoine_Blondin]

Pictures of stage 1 are available on the facebook page of the Route du Sud :

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.549275408509953.1073741843.213235132113984&type=1

NB of the organization : pictures are copyright free, just mention © (Name of the author) – Route du Sud

 

[MBotero]

**** this why Valverde gift this one to Herrada,he was in with a chance to make a historical treble

 

[trevim]

Frederico Figueiredo in the 1st group!

 

[Jspear]

Wow. Definitely a good performance by Bouhanni. I always thought he was more of a pure sprinter....Demare is probably bummed by his performance here. He is showing he can climb well and sprint very fast.

 

[Hugo87]

Frederico Figueiredo in the 1st group!

Yeah, not a surprise.

 

[Antoine_Blondin]

2014 Route du Sud : Stage 1 Highlights http://youtu.be/7kcx67XjGms

 

[Parrulo]

Frederico Figueiredo in the 1st group!

Valverde better get ready to get his *** handed to him tomorrow

in all seriousness, good performance by the kid, Nuno Bico wasn't too bad either

 

[Dazed and Confused]

2014 Route du Sud : Stage 1 Highlights http://youtu.be/7kcx67XjGms

A solid package. Thanks.

 

[Ferminal]

Wonder if Mick can drop Valverde.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Final climb isn't hard enough for that....

 

[Ferminal]

There's always Tourmalet

But nah, Azet is like 4km @ 9% or something so enough to have a chance to grind it out Sayar style.

 

[Eclipse]

2014 Route du Sud : Stage 1 Highlights http://youtu.be/7kcx67XjGms

So nice to have a race actually put out a reasonably comprehensive highlight of a stage.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Alright so Kudus was in the Bouhanni/Valverde group, hopefully he's fully recovered and in shape after his crash in Turkey.

Today should be for him

 

[maltiv]

Breakaway: Nacer Bouhanni, Mickaël Delage (FDJ.fr), Jérôme Cousin (Europcar), Alexis Vuillermoz (AG2R La Mondiale), Pierre-Luc Périchon (Bretagne-Séché), Nathan Earle (Sky), Carlos Quintero (Colombia) Flavien Dassonville (BigMat Auber 93), Egoitz Garcia (Cofidis)

Almost at the top of Tourmalet. Bouhanni going for the GC win? He's the virtual leader now at least...

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Smart move by Nacer. The modern peloton would almost certainly soft pedal Tourmalet on a stage like today.

Gives him a head start up Aspin.