Saturday, June 30 - Tour de France, Prologue: Liege - Liege, 6,4 km

[Cancellator]

Carlton Kirby excellent.

Unfortunately he said Harmon will be along shortly.

Better than their dreaded American counterparts.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Top 5
1. GRIVKO Andriy184AST in 07' 28''
2. KIRYIENKA Vasili167MOV in 07' 38'' at 00' 10''
3. GERRANS Simon201OGE in 07' 42'' at 00' 14''
4. TJALLINGII Ma... 158RAB in 07' 43'' at 00' 15''
5. GHYSELINCK Jan86COF in 07' 44'' at 00' 16''

Live TV on Belgian channel (Sporza) in 2 minutes

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Decent from Kittel

 

[Cancellator]

Cancellara's face is eerily shiny...

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Carlton Kirby excellent.

Unfortunately he said Harmon will be along shortly.

Is this some sort of parallel universe?

 

[Fetisoff]

Is it just me, or does Tony Martin look waaay to skinny?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

God damnit now they show Tennis

 

[wirral]

Is it just me, or does Tony Martin look waaay to skinny?

It's the lipstick he chose.

 

[Publicus]

Is it just me, or does Tony Martin look waaay to skinny?

I was going to disagree until I just saw him on the screen

 

[Fetisoff]

It's the lipstick he chose.

Oh, that's what it was. Was it the one from Andy Schleck collection?

 

[red_flanders]

Who's the commentator to the right (his left) of Bob Roll? He's new, appears to have some insight and intelligence so far.

The Hincapie hippie commercial was funny.

 

[Fetisoff]

I was going to disagree until I just saw him on the screen

I was a few meters from my computer screen when I saw it, so at first I thought it was Bottle or something, didn't realize it was Tony until I sat down closer to the screen

 

[Trunnions]

Is this the shortest TdF prologue ever?

6.4km hardly enough time to get my toe clips strappedup properly.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Is this the shortest TdF prologue ever?

6.4km hardly enough time to get my toe clips strappedup properly.

No. For instance the prologue of 2004 was also in Liege, on the same course, but 300 meters shorter (there are road works so they had to make it 300m longer this year)

 

[LaFleur]

Did the live ticker just stop giving times for anybody else too?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Did the live ticker just stop giving times for anybody else too?

For the 2nd time already, yeah

 

[Trofinios]

Did the live ticker just stop giving times for anybody else too?

Yes, superfail imo.

 

[Fetisoff]

Is this the shortest TdF prologue ever?

6.4km hardly enough time to get my toe clips strappedup properly.

1998 in Dublin was under 6 km.

2004 Liege prologue was 6.1. km

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Another good time from Sky. Knees 3rd.

 

[Cancellator]

The ticker thinks Jens is retiring? Is that confirmed?

 

[Trofinios]

Another good time from Sky. Knees 3rd.

Indication that we will see several sky riders among top 10? Wiggo, Rogers, EBH?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Kittel with a good time too

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Kittel beats Farrar, for anyone who was following along yesterday.

Tyler seemed to be saving himself to see if he can get some top 5 placings in sprints.

 

[Rocksteady]

And not too bad for Farrar either. maybe he can turn his season around.

 

[gerundium]

voigt with a decent time.