Tour de Luxembourg 2012 : 30.05 - 03.06

[will10]

1 Greipel (LTB) 2 Swift (SKY) 3 Roelandts (LTB) 4 Feillu (VCD) 5 Drucker (ACC)

 

[taiwan]

Roelandts 3rd almost a one-two. He must be well recovered, then.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Not really. No one will expect Lotto to carry the race during the sprints and mountain stages.

Griepel offers them a better hope of something to shout about than JVB.

 

[Ferminal]

Do LTB even have any climbing domestiques? Jelle and Jurgen would just do their own thing, don't really need a huge team around them.

Greipel
Roelandts
Henderson
Bak
Sieberg
Hansen
Van den Broeck
Vanendert
De Greef

 

[El Pistolero]

Griepel offers them a better hope of something to shout about than JVB.

Sky have Cavendish, so they need to carry all the weight for flat stages. No one should help him. Leaving all the work to Sky will only increase Greipel's chances for stage victory.

Greipel will get a couple of boys for leading him(I presume Henderson, Sieberg and Roelandts) out and JVDB will get support from Vanendert. They're not in the same spot as Sky because Sky have the big favorite for the Tour and the best sprinter. If they want to win they'll need to carry the entire race.

Both Greipel and JVDB can benefit from Lars Bak, so he'll be in the team as well. A top 5 in the Tour is important for Lotto because they need the World Tour points. And it will generate more buss in Belgium than Greipel winning a flat stage.

 

[roundabout]

Do LTB even have any climbing domestiques? Jelle and Jurgen would just do their own thing, don't really need a huge team around them.

Greipel
Roelandts
Henderson
Bak
Sieberg
Hansen
Van den Broeck
Vanendert
De Greef

Roelandts would probably be the last man in the train for Greipel.

Other possibles would be Reynes, Willems and Van de Walle

 

[shalgo]

So now we are on our way to yet another one-week stage race in which the same sprinter wins three, four, or five stages: California, Belgium, Bayern-Rundfahrt, and probably Luxembourg. How incredibly boring.

 

[therhodeo]

Roelandts 3rd almost a one-two. He must be well recovered, then.

When you've got a weak sprint field that can happen. For example 2. Boonen and 3. Ciolek in the last stage of Cali.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Greipel is racking them small ****ty sprintwins up like a pro

 

[El Pistolero]

The other sprinters are allowed to do the same, but besides Cavendish they all seem to suck most of the time.

 

[taiwan]

Greipel is racking them small ****ty sprintwins up like a pro

Better than losing them Anyway as you say he's a pro, it's part of his job. Unimpressed with the amount of parroting of Cav's trash-talk that goes on.

 

[Gloin22]

After El Pistolero clear displeasance of Geraint Thomas using and advertising certaint product, I guess he will dislike Greipel too looking a this left arm

 

[happychappy]

After El Pistolero clear displeasance of Geraint Thomas using and advertising certaint produvt, I guess he will dislike Greipel too looking a this left arm

Right arm*

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Right arm*

Nope. Left arm.

Think for one second.

 

[Dedelou]

Nope. Left arm.

Think for one second.

you mean Strong-arm

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

apparently FSchleck, Fuglsang and Poels are in the attack but losing time

 

[jens_attacks]

ballsy move by the shacks who try a gewiss

klodi,fuglsang and frank + poels

peloton at 28 s

12km to go

 

[dlwssonic]

Nice go rsnt!

 

[classicomano]

Wout can just chill in the last wheel and drop them all on the climb.

Klodi dropped.

 

[jens_attacks]

Still leading Kloden, Schleck, Fuglsang and Poels by 37s #skodatour

they got this.

go klodi!!

 

[cineteq]

Still leading Kloden, Schleck, Fuglsang and Poels by 37s #skodatour

they got this.

go klodi!!

klodi dropped

 

[dlwssonic]

#rsnthasballs

 

[jens_attacks]

klodi dropped

probably he was pulling them
still good preparation for le tour

 

[jsem94]

Wout FTW...

 

[hatcher]

Gap closing.

Sounds like a good stage.