The 2016 Tour of Britain (2.HC) 04/09-11/09/2016

[DBotero]

Great one for Poels.Dennis and Dumoulin finishing 2nd and 3rd round a nice podium. Good battle.
Cummings in yellow after this stage.

 

[Samamba]

That's the third day in a row that Lotto is working for literally nothing. Who's their DS here? Probably Bart Leysen, knowing he's one of the most incapable directors out there.

Etixx fail too.

 

[Jagartrott]

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Etixx

Won 49 times this season, so I don't think they'll be devastated.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Cummings will have around 55s advantage over Dennis and Dumoulin going into tomorrow's 15k TT

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Cummings will have around 55s advantage over Dennis and Dumoulin going into tomorrow's 15k TT

Easy gc win it is now for Cummings

 

[HelloDolly]

The top TT guys are really in good shape....

 

[Pricey_sky]

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Cummings will have around 55s advantage over Dennis and Dumoulin going into tomorrow's 15k TT

Easy gc win it is now for Cummings

I'd expect so. I forgot about the bonus seconds. It's 49s to Dumoulin and 51 to Dennis.

 

[HelloDolly]

wonder what happened to Dan Martin...EQS put in so much work...Tony Martin again....bet he is even more pi**ed today


Wout Poles seems like a really nice guy and has had a great season

 

[Anderis]

Van Baarle's climbing is impressing considering his weight.

 

[HelloDolly]

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Van Baarle's climbing is impressing considering his weight.

Yeah but everyone around him about the same weight except Poels

 

[Anderis]

According to procyclingstats, he is at least 5 kgs heavier than anyone else in the top10 today (no data about Meurisse and Rowsell only),

 

[HelloDolly]

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According to procyclingstats, he is at least 5 kgs heavier than anyone else in the top10 today (no data about Meurisse and Rowsell only),

Ok ...but those stats are not alwasy correct ...Dumoulin is heavy as is Dennis ..Cummings is abig man and Roche has been handicapped by his weight for years (though slimish at the moment)

 

[Jagartrott]

Wet roads again? What is wrong with you?
Has been sunny for weeks on the 'continent'.

 

[HelloDolly]

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Wet roads again? What is wrong with you?
Has been sunny for weeks on the 'continent'.

You ? Its sunny in my part of UK

Bristol on the west coast tends to get alot of rain

But this may add to the TT rather than detract from it ..

 

[Jagartrott]

50th Etixx victory of the season.

 

[del1962]

Finally Tony Martin, perhaps he wins the worlds

Cummings 16 second back keeps GC

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

tony martin wins tt in front of dennis and dumoulin

cummings easily holds the lead.

Finally a TT win for Martin. And the flat course in Qatar should favor him and Dennis heavily over Dumoulin

 

[del1962]

Looks like TOB stage is in pieces.
























No they are showing ITT :lol:

 

[HelloDolly]

Real attacking racing ...even Dan Martin and Andre Greipel attacking ...

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

This is why I shall always love Andre Greipel

 

[HelloDolly]

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This is why I shall always love Andre Greipel

Yes ...he is one ofmy favourites

And now he is attacking again from the break !!!!!!!!

 

[Brullnux]

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Wet roads again? What is wrong with you?
Has been sunny for weeks on the 'continent'.

You ? Its sunny in my part of UK

Bristol on the west coast tends to get alot of rain

But this may add to the TT rather than detract from it ..

It's the first day of rain here in the west in a very long time.

 

[TMP402]

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OBE only needed to put one rider at the front of the peleton in the last 5kms and Ewan probably wins the stage - In saying that, two of their riders Edmondson and Hepburn ( who have been a disaster in this tour ) finished 18 minutes back, and Power was involved in the Poppel crash - Still they should have rolled the dice and put either Tzurruka or Mezgec at the front in the last 5km.

I'm guessing Doull, Wiggins and anyone else who has come straight from Olympic team pursuiting haven't exactly been lighting it up either.

 

[yaco]

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OBE only needed to put one rider at the front of the peleton in the last 5kms and Ewan probably wins the stage - In saying that, two of their riders Edmondson and Hepburn ( who have been a disaster in this tour ) finished 18 minutes back, and Power was involved in the Poppel crash - Still they should have rolled the dice and put either Tzurruka or Mezgec at the front in the last 5km.

I'm guessing Doull, Wiggins and anyone else who has come straight from Olympic team pursuiting haven't exactly been lighting it up either.

Seriously riders like Cavendish, GAviria, Kluge, Viviani have done OK combining track and road in 2016 - My post is referring specifically to the stage won by Bauer where the peleton couldn't bring back the break who had 1 m and 30s with 15kms to go. It was an observation that if OBE put one rider to the front the break would have been brought back, but at the same time, when you gave 2 riders out of 6, struggling to keep pace with the peleton, then your options are limited - fact is Hepburn and Edmondson have struggled in this tour - Power had one race day before ( long term injury ) before the TOB and has performed much better.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

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OBE only needed to put one rider at the front of the peleton in the last 5kms and Ewan probably wins the stage - In saying that, two of their riders Edmondson and Hepburn ( who have been a disaster in this tour ) finished 18 minutes back, and Power was involved in the Poppel crash - Still they should have rolled the dice and put either Tzurruka or Mezgec at the front in the last 5km.

I'm guessing Doull, Wiggins and anyone else who has come straight from Olympic team pursuiting haven't exactly been lighting it up either.

Seriously riders like Cavendish, GAviria, Kluge, Viviani have done OK combining track and road in 2016 - My post is referring specifically to the stage won by Bauer where the peleton couldn't bring back the break who had 1 m and 30s with 15kms to go. It was an observation that if OBE put one rider to the front the break would have been brought back, but at the same time, when you gave 2 riders out of 6, struggling to keep pace with the peleton, then your options are limited - fact is Hepburn and Edmondson have struggled in this tour - Power had one race day before ( long term injury ) before the TOB and has performed much better.

Those are all Omnium riders though, instead of Team Pursuiters.

Thanks to the awfulness that is the current Olympic track program, the Omnium riders are the ONLY ones who have to do any endurance track events, with the Elimination and Points races both being significantly longer than any of the other races on the Olympic program now there's no individual Points or Scratch nor the Madison, so that we can make room for some outright terrible events (I truly dislike the Team Sprint, as it lacks both the visual impressiveness and cohesion of the Team Pursuit, and the tactical acumen of the Individual Sprint, leading to a much less interesting spectacle to me). The omnium riders are therefore also doing a range of events that require fast burst and changes of pace as well as explosiveness, including within the endurance races. Track pursuit is completely different. The distance is way shorter (4k) and much of it is about maintaining a smooth and even pace - immense concentration and consistency is required, but when you get onto the roads, especially in a race like the Tour of Britain with a lot of rolling hills and uncategorized ramps along with a number of short hills needing short explosive efforts and sprints, somebody who's been training primarily for the Team Pursuit will take a bit longer to adapt back to changing up and down pace like that than an Omnium rider, I'd anticipate.