Tirreno-Adriatico, March 7-13, 2.UWT

[Gigs_98]

That attack was so Landa.
Looking good for Yates

 

[spalco]

Italian GPS is hard to believe as usual, but I think Yates has got this.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Formolino working for Sagan

 

[Gigs_98]

WTF Bora? First Strade Bianche, now you let your best placed gc rider work for Sagan in a stage he probably can't win anyway

 

[Red Rick]

They really need to quit riding next to the riders with the motors, that increases the resistance for the riders

 

[Netserk]

WTF Bora? First Strade Bianche, now you let your best placed gc rider work for Sagan in a stage he probably can't win anyway

Uh, what? Formolo had nothing to lose by working on the front there. A stage win is much more important.

 

[Arredondo]

WTF Bora? First Strade Bianche, now you let your best placed gc rider work for Sagan in a stage he probably can't win anyway

You're saying?

Sagan won stages in the past which were way tougher than today's one: Chieti, Porto San, Grindewald...

 

[tobydawq]

Pretty insane attack by Yates.

 

[Escarabajo]

Congratulations Yates!

Apart from him what worthless stage again. The bigger the names the worst it gets. What are they risking???

 

[Netserk]

WTF Bora? First Strade Bianche, now you let your best placed gc rider work for Sagan in a stage he probably can't win anyway

You're saying?

Sagan won stages in the past which were way tougher than today's one: Chieti, Porto San, Grindewald...

Fermo as well.

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

Nice

 

[Red Rick]

Super impressive win from Yates.

How the hell did he get so far behind in GC? Crash in the first stage?

 

[infeXio]

From the CN feed: "It looks however like Sky took places 2-5." :lol:

 

[Valv.Piti]

Re:

Congratulations Yates!

Apart from him what worthless stage again. The bigger the names the worst it gets. What are they risking???

Nothing with the names, its the route. Contrast it to Paris-Nice and add a bunch of *** weather and you actually have an interesting stage race....

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

TA for Michał Kwiatkowski!

 

[Red Rick]

Can we say that Yates loses the Tirreno due to that stage 2 crash?

Would've led by 37s if he hadn't if I'm correct

 

[Vesica]

Re:

From the CN feed: "It looks however like Sky took places 2-5." :lol:

normally the CN feed is quite nice, but this is one of the worst I've ever seen

 

[Netserk]

Re:

Can we say that Yates loses the Tirreno due to that stage 2 crash?

Yeah, I'd think so. Unless he loses ~38'' to Kwiatkowski in the ITT. But of course, he wouldn't have gotten away so easily today if he was in the lead, so maybe not. We'll see what the TT brings.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Re:

Can we say that Yates loses the Tirreno due to that stage 2 crash?

Would've led by 37s if he hadn't if I'm correct

Well he wasn't marked today.

 

[Arredondo]

Re:

WTF Bora? First Strade Bianche, now you let your best placed gc rider work for Sagan in a stage he probably can't win anyway

You're saying?

Sagan won stages in the past which were way tougher than today's one: Chieti, Porto San, Grindewald...

Fermo as well.

Fermo indeed.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re:

From the CN feed: "It looks however like Sky took places 2-5." :lol:

That's hilarious. Maybe they were watching a dodgy 244 pixel stream.

 

[Red Rick]

Re: Re:

Can we say that Yates loses the Tirreno due to that stage 2 crash?

Yeah, I'd think so. Unless he loses ~38'' to Kwiatkowski in the ITT. But of course, he wouldn't have gotten away so easily today if he was in the lead, so maybe not. We'll see what the TT brings.

I don't know how much harder the peloton could pull in the last 5km though. Bora certainly gave all they had, maybe Thomas could've pulled for Kwiatkowski but he'd already been fried by Yates.

 

[Red Rick]

Re: Re:

Congratulations Yates!

Apart from him what worthless stage again. The bigger the names the worst it gets. What are they risking???

Nothing with the names, its the route. Contrast it to Paris-Nice and add a bunch of **** weather and you actually have an interesting stage race....

It doesn't help that the Tirreno puts all the hardest bits of the stages right at the finish. You can make it crazy hard and still have a rolling final 10/15km and you get great stages. One of those uphill sprints is enough surely.

 

[Netserk]

Re: Re:

Can we say that Yates loses the Tirreno due to that stage 2 crash?

Yeah, I'd think so. Unless he loses ~38'' to Kwiatkowski in the ITT. But of course, he wouldn't have gotten away so easily today if he was in the lead, so maybe not. We'll see what the TT brings.

I don't know how much harder the peloton could pull in the last 5km though. Bora certainly gave all they had, maybe Thomas could've pulled for Kwiatkowski but he'd already been fried by Yates.

On the climb there would have been a much bigger reaction. Plus, do you really think Adam would have attacked if he was already in the lead? I don't think so.

 

[Red Rick]

Re: Re:

Can we say that Yates loses the Tirreno due to that stage 2 crash?

Yeah, I'd think so. Unless he loses ~38'' to Kwiatkowski in the ITT. But of course, he wouldn't have gotten away so easily today if he was in the lead, so maybe not. We'll see what the TT brings.

I don't know how much harder the peloton could pull in the last 5km though. Bora certainly gave all they had, maybe Thomas could've pulled for Kwiatkowski but he'd already been fried by Yates.

On the climb there would have been a much bigger reaction. Plus, do you really think Adam would have attacked if he was already in the lead? I don't think so.

He would've had a small lead, and needed more on Kwiatkowski