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

[Netserk]

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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.

Well, tbf both Sagan and Benoot had a lot of white

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

Ofc he would need that, but do you really see him attack while in the leader's jersey? This is Adam, not Simon.

 

[Red Rick]

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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.

Well, tbf both Sagan and Benoot had a lot of white

Sky getting white kits, Movistar going light blue all makes it confusing as hell to me

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

So finally Skyborgs would have the double:
1. Michał Kwiatkowski
2. Geraint Thomas.
:razz:

 

[Netserk]

BTW, where was Greg? I saw him on the climb, but I didn't see him since.

 

[yaco]

Never seen such explosiveness by A.Yates on this type of climb - Part of the reason ( despite some bad luck ) he was caught behind the crash was the team was built around Ewan - Realistically in the two stages in which he won and was second he was particularly strong, so even he was up on GC, he would still attack because he would lose around 40 seconds in the ITT - Anyway it's likely one of the Yates will be at a different team next year, as MS want to bring on Haig.

 

[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

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

Yeah, I overreacted a bit because formolo is in my cq team

 

[Screecher]

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BTW, where was Greg? I saw him on the climb, but I didn't see him since.

Dropped. He spent a lot of energy yesterday, finishing just 4 minutes behind Landa.

 

[jens_attacks]

My 4 star favourites in paris nice and tirreno: bauke mollema and wilco kelderman lolololol

 

[LaFlorecita]

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My 4 star favourites in paris nice and tirreno: bauke mollema and wilco kelderman lolololol

 

[Netserk]

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My 4 star favourites in paris nice and tirreno: bauke mollema and wilco kelderman lolololol

Please give 4 stars to sprinters for MSR. Thankyouverymuch.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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I am happy that CF is still keeping his head down
and treating the TA as training ride.
If that continues - some grudging respect from me.

R e s p e c t

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

Yes, that's your yesterday opinion. But that's not full truth. His shape is really poor so far.

 

[tomorrow]

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BTW, where was Greg? I saw him on the climb, but I didn't see him since.

Dropped. He spent a lot of energy yesterday, finishing just 4 minutes behind Landa.

Strange choice of stage to conquer. Or there really wasn't anybody else for Caruso yesterday? I wanted to see him go head to head with sagan in that sprint.

 

[Frankschleck]

What happened to kelderman?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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My 4 star favourites in paris nice and tirreno: bauke mollema and wilco kelderman lolololol

Mollema was just crappy.
Kelderman on the other hand still had a good chance before today.

Man, Poels falling out with a good chance in PN, Kelderman here.. not the weekend of Dutch riders. It's all misery so far.

 

[tobydawq]

Vanmarcke was with the Sagan group :O
Will this be the year for him to win a monument?

 

[Valv.Piti]

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Vanmarcke was with the Sagan group :O
Will this be the year for him to win a monument?

Nope. We are talking about Vanmarcke here, he won't win. But he looks superb so far this year

 

[Salvarani]

Lopez far behind again in this short type climb.

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

Interesting you are taking about.. nothing.

 

[tobydawq]

It looks like there is some potential for cross-winds tomorrow. Does anybody know the extent to which the roads are exposed in that area of Italy?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Lopez far behind again in this short type climb.

It almost seems like everybody who has kinda good in the middle east is going bad here, and people who were going bad in the middle east are going good here.

 

[Salvarani]

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Lopez far behind again in this short type climb.

It almost seems like everybody who has kinda good in the middle east is going bad here, and people who were going bad in the middle east are going good here.

Lopez was good yesterday though. He just seems to a have problem with these shorter climbs... He looses half a minute every time.

But you still might be right about that though. They that was over there has seemed to be a bit off. Alaphillipe at P-N also supports that theory.

 

[tobydawq]

He wasn't that good yesterday, was he? Yes, he did a fine attack but unlike the other attackers, he cracked completely after his effort.

 

[Escarabajo]

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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.

This,

The dynamic of the race would have changed.

 

[Escarabajo]

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Lopez far behind again in this short type climb.

It almost seems like everybody who has kinda good in the middle east is going bad here, and people who were going bad in the middle east are going good here.

Lopez was good yesterday though. He just seems to a have problem with these shorter climbs... He looses half a minute every time.

But you still might be right about that though. They that was over there has seemed to be a bit off. Alaphillipe at P-N also supports that theory.

Lopez was far from good in either type of climbs.