Tour Alsace

[daveinzambia]

Looking like the early climbs are having a bigger impact than i expected. 25 riders off the front including most of the big hitters. they have nearly 9 minutes on the peloton and it is early days yet. there a few chasers in between but at this rate the race for the overall has just been greatly reduced.

even if they get chased back later on when it flattens out shows how is climbing well

JTl and Charteau are there with team mates

Pliuschin and Kern fro Leopard. Riesebekke for the Rabos

Le Bouch for Auber 93, Zakarin for Itera, Damien Howson in there for Jayco

Atlas seem to have missed the break but have Kusztor chasing at 2 minutes

 

[theyoungest]

Wow, they're making it real easy for JTL.

Interesting that Riesebeek is there for Rabo CT, they have 3 GC guys but he isn't one of them.

 

[Pentacycle]

Wow, they're making it real easy for JTL.

Interesting that Riesebeek is there for Rabo CT, they have 3 GC guys but he isn't one of them.

Perhaps he's peaked for this race, that must also be the reason he wears the '1' race number of his team.

 

[Mogwai_]

Steve Bekaert switched from genius to debacle throughout the Aosta maybe some consistency now?

Well he was sick the first few days. At the end his results were better.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

JTL now in a group of 5, 4 minutes clear of a group of 12, with the peloton a long way back.

#winning

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

http://live.touralsace.fr/etape_2_strasbourg-bischoffsheim

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Frankly after this Tour de Force, whoever wins the Volta is going to know their win was gifted by the cowardly decision to exclude the greatest talent of his generation.

 

[Ferminal]

Ownage, I guess he goes solo with 30km to go.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Tête de Course
Ilnur ZAKARIN (26)
Dimitri LE BOULCH (31)
Jonathan TIERNAN-LOCKE (41)
Alexandr PLIUSCHIN (54)
Warren BARGUIL (91)

Can any of the others climb for ****, because they're going to finish 5 or 6 minutes in front, if not more.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Just checked Zakurin's biog.

#dislike

 

[theyoungest]

Perhaps he's peaked for this race, that must also be the reason he wears the '1' race number of his team.

Maybe, but his DS mentions Goos, Olivier, and Minnaard as the GC guys

It appears this break was formed before the climbs even started, so something went wrong there.

 

[Ferminal]

The Moldovan will be second. Zakarin third.

 

[roundabout]

Tête de Course
Ilnur ZAKARIN (26)
Dimitri LE BOULCH (31)
Jonathan TIERNAN-LOCKE (41)
Alexandr PLIUSCHIN (54)
Warren BARGUIL (91)

Can any of the others climb for ****, because they're going to finish 5 or 6 minutes in front, if not more.

Barguil is a big talent.

 

[Ferminal]

Zakarin dropped, Pliuschin to go I guess

 

[Ferminal]

JTL & Pliuschin 26" ahead with 10km remaining.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Thanks for posting about this race.

Cool poster too, if I may say.

 

[Ferminal]

http://www.justin.tv/touralsace?utm...k&utm_source=live.touralsace.fr#/w/3496007168

Video of the finish line, due to arrive any minute.

Peloton only just gone through, almost lapped.

 

[Ferminal]

JTL rubbish, only won by half a length.

1. JTL
2. Pliuschin
3/4. Le Boulch/Barguil +57"

 

[Machu Picchu]

chalk up another for JTL, don't know who I feel more sorry for, Wiggins or Froome...

 

[theyoungest]

Well, the Tour Alsace is over a little sooner than expected... another one for JTL, get him a WT contract already, this is ridiculous.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Well, the Tour Alsace is over a little sooner than expected... another one for JTL, get him a WT contract already, this is ridiculous.

Sky next year. #winning

 

[theyoungest]

Sky next year. #winning

I mean now.

The guy isn't just strong, he also knows how to join the right move, like he did today.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Hopefully Endura get some decent invites and if he can now have a 2nd wind after a long spring of injuries he can top the Conti individual rankings for the year before moving on.

 

[Machu Picchu]

Hopefully Endura get some decent invites and if he can now have a 2nd wind after a long spring of injuries he can top the Conti individual rankings for the year before moving on.

He's scheduled to ride Vuelta Ciclista a León (7th Aug) to keep the ball rolling.

 

[roundabout]

I mean now.

The guy isn't just strong, he also knows how to join the right move, like he did today.

Now? Because he beat up on some continental and DN1 guys and people born in the 90's?