Tirreno Adriatico 2015 Stage 1 - Lido di Camaiore 5,4 km ITT

[Cance > TheRest]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
So close

 

[Bushman]

Quite surrealistic to see GVA just 1 second behind Cance.

 

[Netserk]

Y U NO MOTORPACE ALBERTO?!

 

[SeriousSam]

GVA doing pretty well in everything lately, other than winning ofc.

 

[infeXio]

Contador not impressive, +19

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Course too flat for AC

 

[Netserk]

Too little gear for Alberto.

 

[Miburo]

Pretty bad from Contador, but last year it also sucked, still you expect a bit better.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Bad ride by Alberto

 

[SeriousSam]

Good ride by Contador, controlling the time loss to elite Grand Tour time trialllists like Nibali

 

[Carols]

Wow the race is wide open. Nibs up on Berto and Nairo right behind Berto!

 

[scholar]

Too little gear for Alberto.

Take it to the clinic ;-)

 

[slosada]

Quintana poor. No chance to even contest the overall.

Good ride by Contador, controlling the time loss to elite Grand Tour time trialllists like Nibali

I might be missing the sarcasm, from "poor" to "good" there are only 2 secs.

And for all 4 GC contenders: They are within 11 secs

 

[LaFlorecita]

I might be missing the sarcasm, from "poor" to "good" there are only 2 secs.

And for all 4 GC contenders: They are within 11 secs

SeriousSam is just a very good troll.

 

[Jelantik]

Wow the race is wide open. Nibs up on Berto and Nairo right behind Berto!

well... lot of work for bertie then. Nibs clearly is better than contador in ITT. He must improved a lot.

 

[SafeBet]

well... lot of work for bertie then. Nibs clearly is better than contador in ITT. He must improved a lot.

Nibali has always been very good in prologues, there's nothing to worry about.

 

[TMP401]

1 Adriano Malori (Ita) Movistar Team 00:06:04
2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek Factory Racing 00:00:01
3 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 00:00:02
4 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Tinkoff-Saxo
5 Matthias Brandle (Aut) IAM Cycling
6 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team 00:00:04
7 Ramunas Navardausaks 00:00:05
8 Stephen Cummings (GBr) MTN - Qhubeka 00:00:06
9 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo
10 Johan Le Bon

 

[Jancouver]

Where was Malori when he was on my CQ team?

Spartacus so close

Great save by Sagan

wondering how much time he lost by that "almost" crash. Still managed Top10 and that's impressive.

 

[The fridge in the blue trees]

Wow the race is wide open. Nibs up on Berto and Nairo right behind Berto!

Think Contador still the clear favorite.
Nibali so far this season was rather worse than last season at this point. Doubt that he'll manage to keep up on the Terminillo.
Quintana.... no clue, but imagine he'll be roughly where he was last year.
Leaves Uran, IF he is here to ride for the win, and not just to train, he could be hard to beat. (Same story at the Giro, forget Aru, Uran is the main danger!) Problem here though is that for the last 2 years he basically has been invisible until the Giro. Just training, nothing more.

 

[Panda Claws]

Peter Sagan very good considering his near-crash.

Sven Nys (Co-commentator at Flemish TV for today) said that he thought Sagan looked a lot more muscular compared to last year.

 

[Angliru]

Too little gear for Alberto.

My bad!! My sincere apologies! Hasty posts regrets here.

 

[Angliru]

well... lot of work for bertie then. Nibs clearly is better than contador in ITT. He must improved a lot.

This is only a 5.4 km effort. I wouldn't read too much into it either way. I await the mtf.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Good win for Malori.

Today's little event is meaningless GC wise.

 

[arvc40]

Bad ride by Alberto

He is just warming up. If Froome had been in field Contador would have chosen to ride faster today.

He is waiting.

 

[LaFlorecita]

He is just warming up. If Froome had been in field Contador would have chosen to ride faster today.

He is waiting.

Let's hope that is the case