Sunday, June 17 - Tour de Suisse, Stage 9: Näfels[LinthArena] - Sörenberg, 215.8km

[Publicus]

I thought it said he has 53" over the maillot jaune

 

[airstream]

Go, Frankie!

guys, what is the final hill? Is that hard enough so that Levi and Gesink could drop Costa there?

 

[jens_attacks]

nice try tommy,now help rui a little bit

 

[Afrank]

Go, Frankie!

guys, what is the final hill? Is that hard enough so that Levi and Gesink could drop Costa there?

its a cat 2

 

[Mellow Velo]

Leipheimer dangerously close to having to take a pull.

 

[burning]

This didnt looked to me a false flat, Danielson got cooked just here

 

[Unkown]

Its all uphill from here to the finish but most of the kilometers are 3% only.

 

[Bala Verde]

Go, Frankie!

guys, what is the final hill? Is that hard enough so that Levi and Gesink could drop Costa there?

probably not. It's only a cat 2 climb and Costa managed to stay with Gesink/Nieve on the HC climb.

 

[Publicus]

Rui is just toast. You could see it when the road started to go up again.

 

[afpm90]

Costa group caught Danielson.

 

[Arnout]

You have to love the Swiss and their timing

 

[GazelleFormula]

The Swiss are wondering what the **** those Dutchies are doing

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Go, Frankie!

guys, what is the final hill? Is that hard enough so that Levi and Gesink could drop Costa there?

No it's a very easy hill.

 

[the asian]

Danielson swept up.

 

[Dedelou]

This didnt looked to me a false flat, Danielson got cooked just here

danielson taken by the group

 

[Publicus]

René is sucking down gels--that's 2 in the last couple of minutes

 

[jens_attacks]

i don't think frank will have energy to drop rui costa on the final hills.that's not hard at all,barring 1 km at 8%

astana will catch the rui costa group

 

[Bala Verde]

Leipheimer to be the cuckoo and take 21s at the end?

 

[Arnout]

Gap is constant now. Costa will falter uphill if they can't catch Schleck before that.

 

[jens_attacks]

schleck is stopping now

 

[Broth3r]

...where'd the Astana bus come from?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

The Kreuziger/Mollema group is even returning.

They should have finished on the Glaubenberg

 

[Unkown]

I think Frank desperately wants to win the stage as well, probably the only reason he attacked to early to catch the break if he can. Pretty sure his gap is under 3 minutes to them.

 

[Swede1]

So is the reason Frank Schleck is so strong is because of him riding half of the Giro? So its kind of similar to moreno at the dauphine and jrod last year at the dauphine. I wonder if he will be able to stay in form until the Tour, because if he does then riding half the giro could become a new way to prepare for the tour.

 

[Parrulo]

frank doesn't seem to be pushing at all now