Tour de Luxembourg 2012 : 30.05 - 03.06

[Gloin22]

Sky 2 - 3 it seems

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Stage 4: 1. Roelandts (LT 2. Swift (SKY) 3. Appolonio (SKY) 4. Goddaert (ALM) 5. Poels (VCD)

 

[hatcher]

Sky continue their recent run of 2nd places.

Good to see Roelandts win. Nice tactics by Lotto-Belisol to realise they'd likely stop racing at 49k to go.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Stage 4: 1. Roelandts (LT 2. Swift (SKY) 3. Appolonio (SKY) 4. Goddaert (ALM) 5. Poels (VCD)

lol, Poels always getting involved in sprints

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

lol, Poels always getting involved in sprints

doubt it was a normal sprint with a very small peloton left anyway

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Probably, Poels often is pretty far in the front though in flat sprints, for a climber. That's a good thing though, but I always smile when I see Poels getting top 15 between third rate sprinters in flat sprints, or top 10 when it's a crappy race with a poor sprinterfield.

 

[hrotha]

Look at that GC. Fränk's injury was no doubt super serious. He probably missed like 1 training ride (while he was on the plane from Milan).

 

[El Pistolero]

Look at that GC. Fränk's injury was no doubt super serious. He probably missed like 1 training ride (while he was on the plane from Milan).

I have no doubt Frank used his shoulder injury as an excuse to leave the Giro early, but the field isn't that impressive here, so it's no surprise to see him high up in GC.

 

[roundabout]

Look at that GC. Fränk's injury was no doubt super serious. He probably missed like 1 training ride (while he was on the plane from Milan).

And maybe Fuglsang should have started the Giro?

 

[hrotha]

And maybe Fuglsang should have started the Giro?

Are 10 days the same thing as a month where you live?

 

[roundabout]

A knew injury is more serious than a bruised shoulder where I live. Probably where you live too.

 

[hrotha]

Where I live it depends entirely on what kind of knee injury it is.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Stage 4: 1. Roelandts (LT 2. Swift (SKY) 3. Appolonio (SKY) 4. Goddaert (ALM) 5. Poels (VCD)

The actual result is different:

1 91 BEL19850702 ROELANDTS, Jurgen LTB LOTTO BELIS 02.39.58 00.00
2 112 BEL19880929 *DE VREESE, Laurens TSV TOPSPORT VL 02.40.23 00.25
3 3 DEN19850322 FUGLSANG, Jakob RNT RADIOSHACK- 02.40.23 00.25
4 6 BEL19830114 MONFORT, Maxime RNT RADIOSHACK- 02.40.23 00.25
5 68 NED19871001 *POELS, Wout VCD VACANSOLEIL 02.40.23 00.25
6 4 LUX19800415 SCHLECK, Frank RNT RADIOSHACK- 02.40.23 00.25
7 82 SUI19780923 ELMIGER, Martin ALM AG2R LA MON 02.40.23 00.25
8 116 BEL19900815 *LIETAER, Eliot TSV TOPSPORT VL 02.40.23 00.25
9 17 NED19901111 *DUMOULIN, Tom ARG TEAM ARGOS- 02.40.23 00.25
10 32 FRA19850323 HIVERT, Jonathan SAU SAUR - SOJA 02.40.23 00.25

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

the ticker really ****ed up then

 

[DominicDecoco]

Jakob got his injury in the knee from sitting awkwardly while home training because of his broken hand. Hardly anything that would take months to recover from. But came at a bad time right before the Giro.

The hand had recovered before the Giro and was not the problem.

Congrats to Jakob btw. He should do more of these and less of the major ones.

 

[hatcher]

The actual result is different:

1 91 BEL19850702 ROELANDTS, Jurgen LTB LOTTO BELIS 02.39.58 00.00
2 112 BEL19880929 *DE VREESE, Laurens TSV TOPSPORT VL 02.40.23 00.25
3 3 DEN19850322 FUGLSANG, Jakob RNT RADIOSHACK- 02.40.23 00.25
4 6 BEL19830114 MONFORT, Maxime RNT RADIOSHACK- 02.40.23 00.25
5 68 NED19871001 *POELS, Wout VCD VACANSOLEIL 02.40.23 00.25
6 4 LUX19800415 SCHLECK, Frank RNT RADIOSHACK- 02.40.23 00.25
7 82 SUI19780923 ELMIGER, Martin ALM AG2R LA MON 02.40.23 00.25
8 116 BEL19900815 *LIETAER, Eliot TSV TOPSPORT VL 02.40.23 00.25
9 17 NED19901111 *DUMOULIN, Tom ARG TEAM ARGOS- 02.40.23 00.25
10 32 FRA19850323 HIVERT, Jonathan SAU SAUR - SOJA 02.40.23 00.25

Swift and Appollonio certainly believe they got 2nd and 3rd!

Those last few laps were such a mess that anything is possible, but they definitely won the sprint from the group including Fuglsang etc.

 

[Gloin22]

Team Sky ‏@TeamSky
Roelandts wins stage 4 in Luxembourg but @swiftybswift and @davidappo finish finish second and third sprinting from the bunch behind him!

So nobody knows what's happening I guess

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

That's them definitely in front of their group on the line. There must be something wrong here.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Ah, mystery solved:

Suite au mauvaises conditions météologiques, le collège des commissaires, en collaboration avec
l’organisateur a décidé et communiqué via Radio-Tour de considérer le temps au premier
passage sur la ligne d’arrivée à Luxembourg pour le calcul de tous les classements au temps.

 

[hatcher]

Sky were under the impression that was just for time, not for stage rankings though. Roelandts gets the winner either way, so not a big deal.

 

[cineteq]

Suite au mauvaises conditions météologiques, le collège des commissaires, en collaboration avec
l’organisateur a décidé et communiqué via Radio-Tour de considérer le temps au premier
passage sur la ligne d’arrivée à Luxembourg pour le calcul de tous les classements au temps

Very convenient to RSNT

 

[escartin]

well, i went out and watched it and apart from knowing that roelandts was winning i had little idea as to what was going on! the 2nd group over the line contained 2 argos-shimano riders but i guess they were a lap behind. then came the "peleton" with the 2 skys. in any case, it makes no difference with the neutralisation...

 

[Cancellator]

Very convenient to RSNT

Do you really believe they would not have won the GC otherwise?

 

[greenedge]

Congrats to Jurgen ( after his crash that is a great accomplishment ).

 

[greenedge]

that doesn't matter. the most important man in their train in tdu was roelants. so it is vital he's back

I was just responding to @Ansimis' Question about who was the last lead out man. He was only there for one stage, usually in HTC terms Renshaw is more important than Eisel for the final sprint.