Tirreno - Adriatico Stage 5, Ortona -> Chieti, 230 kms (10/03/2013)

[Vino attacks everyone]

Vanmarcke crashed and is out of the race with a knee injury.

Cobbled classics in danger?

 

[Pentacycle]

Cobbled classics in danger?

You know, Blanco now have infinite 'bad luck', but it's almost been too predictable. I think he will be fine by the looks of it, just to catch a break from all crashes and illness they had.

 

[Lexman]

Vanmarcke crashed and is out of the race with a knee injury.

where you got it from? live ticker?

anyway thanks for the info, to bad though...

 

[Pentacycle]

where you got it from? live ticker?

anyway thanks for the info, to bad though...

Bici and Twitter

Breakaway:

##: Se va por delante un grupo numeroso de corredores. Son: Magnolia, Schar, Belkov, Cunego, Langeveld, Devolder, Flecha y Gatto.

 

[jens_attacks]

Today is Nabalis day

it should be

 

[jens_attacks]

nibali send agnoli in the break...saxo nothing.

 

[LaFlorecita]

nibali send agnoli in the break...saxo nothing.

Saxo's not strong enough, even Jesus is no longer in good shape I have no idea what Riis is doing to them but it's not good... maybe massive team wide sandbagging going on

Anyway Saxo have pretty much given up already. I don't know about Alberto but the team doesn't believe in it anymore.

 

[Miburo]

Astana and saxo are teammates today so agnoli is good for Contador too

At least it will blow up on laciono. Nibali and AC will ride away. We'll be excited for 2 min.

And then notice the gap is 5 sec on 4 sky guys

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

You guys are so depressing.
The Nibali/AC combo will take down Froomey boy today, no worries.

 

[Miburo]

You guys are so depressing.
The Nibali/AC combo will take down Froomey boy today, no worries.

i'm usually very positive about Contador, yesterday just broke me down

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Lol, they shouldn't give Cunego too much time. Not a problem now I guess, considering the length and difficulty of the stage, but if Cunego has any shape and will they're going to have to race pretty darned hard on those climbs if they keep on giving Cunego time.

 

[Pentacycle]

You guys are so depressing.
The Nibali/AC combo will take down Froomey boy today, no worries.

You better be trolling here. If Contador attacks on Lanciano he will only weaken himself, same for Nibali in the descents. Sky has the strongest team here, as soon as they've got a leader's jersey, or it's in the hands of a rider with a weak team (Talansky, Kwiatkowski are such riders) the race is practically over.

Chieti will see a nice finale with small differences. Froome takes jersey, Sky happy, Saxo and Vino will be disappoint.

 

[webbie146]

Anyone got any livestreams?

 

[Cyivel]

Not for another hour or so at least I don't think.

 

[airstream]

As i see, we wont see lancian in tv coverage?

 

[Kokoso]

Saxo's not strong enough, even Jesus is no longer in good shape I have no idea what Riis is doing to them but it's not good... maybe massive team wide sandbagging going on

Anyway Saxo have pretty much given up already. I don't know about Alberto but the team doesn't believe in it anymore.

I don't know what ws with Rogers and Hernandez yesterday, but Kreuziger was there quite a long time and he catched again with the first group in 2.5km to go. Alberto maybe should use his brain and wait a little behind Kreuz and let him get some rest after he catched with them. But he almost immediately attacked and blew him a himself too as we could see.
Don't forget it was Kreuz's first hard mountain stage of this year (and first since Giro 2012), he has a littele race km in legs. It was very good form him given the circumstances. Look where e.g. Alberto or Nibali were on such stage this year on Mirador del Potrero...(San Luis)

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I don't know what ws with Rogers and Hernandez yesterday, but Kreuziger was there quite a long time and he catched again with the first group in 2.5km to go. Alberto maybe should use his brain and wait a little behind Kreuz and let him get some rest after he catched with them. But he almost immediately attacked and blew him a himself too as we could see.
Don't forget it was Kreuz's first hard mountain stage of this year (and first since Giro 2012), he has a littele race km in legs. It was very good form him given the circumstances. Look where e.g. Alberto or Nibali were on such stage this year on Mirador del Potrero...(San Luis)

agree, Kreuziger passed the exam. However to be able to derail the Sky train Saxo's support riders needs to do more than just pass exams.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Vanmarcke, Kaisen, Reimer, Failli, Chichi and Steegmans all abandoned

Group of 7 with 8 minute lead

 

[roosters76]

Sagan won this very stage last year.

 

[Cyivel]

Didn't have Lanciano in last year.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Break consists of Schär (BMC) Belkov (KAT) Cunego (LAM) Agnoli (AST) Langeveld (OGE) Devolder (RLT) Flecha (VCD) and Gatto (VIN).

No SaxTink, no Omega, no Astana ...

 

[Eshnar]

Break consists of Schär (BMC) Belkov (KAT) Cunego (LAM) Agnoli (AST) Langeveld (OGE) Devolder (RLT) Flecha (VCD) and Gatto (VIN).

No SaxTink, no Omega, no Astana ...

#commentfail

 

[Cyivel]

As i see, we wont see lancian in tv coverage?

If the streams start in 45 minutes as they are supposed to, big if I guess, then going by progress of the stage on twitter it will start a little before they get there, I reckon.

 

[Descender]

Do we have good reasons to be optimistic regarding live streams?

Eurosport Germany ditching cycling again in favour of winter sports...

 

[Dazed and Confused]

if Kwiatkowski doesn't lose the jersey today, his team will be on a mission to defend it on stage 6. Some of the toughest terrain to defend a jersey in, if the stage is raced imo.