Tour de Pologne 2014 (2.WT), 03.08 - 09.08

[Flamin]

Cunego's knee after yesterday's crash. Still started and finished today's stage. No problem

 

[jens_attacks]

this is cyclingews not ogrish.com

;P

 

[murali]

Bling mathews wud hav been ****ed off today. He read the sprint wrongly

 

[ILovecycling]

Fair play to Bos, he was by far and away the fastest sprinter today. He sucked the other days tho. Weird rider

I fvcking hate him,I bet on him first two days,cuz I believed that in this shiit field he can win or podium,and then he does nothing at all.So understandably I didnt backed him for stage 3...and he won

 

[virenque216]

Welcome to Slovakia!

The Profesional Cycling finaly enters Slovakia and its mountains. And what a great place it is Strbske Pleso, a bit of history, it held nordic skiing world championships in 70s where crowds of 200 000 visited ski jumping events, IOC members were thrilled and nearly assured organisers that if they bid for 1984 Winter Olympics they would most probably get it, unfortunately Sarajevo in former Yugoslavia got it, because Prague pulled the plug last minute and withdrew from the project, appartently Czech part coldn't cope with the fact games would have to be held in Slovak part as it was Czechoslovakia at the time. Anyway.

The climb it self is quite steady and presume it will not select the group that much, hoping for entertaining stage and plenty of great helicopter views of our wonderfull Tatra Mountains.

Next year they should try Martinske Hole finish or Kralova Hola - 1946mts, climb is 12km and nearly 1200mts altitute gain, looks similar to Mount Ventoux in France.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Stage 4 in progress....

A. Rybakov, B.Vallee, J.Cousin, B.Samoilau, A.Solomennikov.

Gap kept very tight by HotSteppers, below 3 minutes but currently 1:40.

Picture from twicker: https://twitter.com/Tour_de_Pologne

Live today at 15:15 (CET) on Eurosport.

 

[manafana]

another sprint on the cards a break to be controlled.

 

[Piti4Podiums]

A rather weak breakaway and the last chance for the sprinters. Obviously a bunch sprint on our hands. Go JJ Lobato!

 

[Berlin Cyclingblog]

New Breakaway: Again Krizek and Taciak + Edmondson

 

[Dazed and Confused]

New Breakaway: Again Krizek and Taciak + Edmondson

yep, kind of interesting they didn't let the first one go.

Gap 2 minutes. Really tight control today.

 

[Akuryo]

Who brought them back in the first place? Quickstep should've been happy with that move?!

 

[Escarabajo]

Why so much flat for this short race?

It is already hard to catch the attention of the fans by not being a traditional race, why make it harder on them.

 

[wirral]

Belkin commit all their riders too early again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again year after year. What is wrong with them?

 

[Akuryo]

Belkin commit all their riders too early again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again year after year. What is wrong with them?

At least you have consistency.

 

[uconnryan]

Good try from Thor - Vangenechten wins the stage

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Belkin commit all their riders too early again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again year after year. What is wrong with them?

 

[LosBrolin]

Mezgez started sprinting way too late. Then again, Arndt leadout was quite odd?

 

[kingjr]

Mezgez started sprinting way too late. Then again, Arndt leadout was quite odd?

It was a rubbish leadout.

Just a brainless full gas effort.

 

[johnymax]

Arndt completely messed up. He blocked out Mezgec, who was in a great position, but couldn't start sprinting because of him.

 

[Gloin22]

These are dayum fine podium girls.

 

[roundabout]

boring flat stages, but what the **** is up with stage finishing times being all over the place?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

No idea. I thought I would be safe with 16:30 but I was too late

tomorrow is important with the uphill finish, better be safe and early

 

[jens_attacks]

any profile for the tomorrow's climb? is it steeper than 5%?

 

[aga-mp]

have a look here i guess:
http://tourdepologne.pl/en/t/v-etap,etap/#15

and here:
http://tourdepologne.pl/en/t/v-etap,etap/#32

 

[jens_attacks]

i've seen those thanks. looks ridiculously easy. what a crrap route this year, go back to the dolomites!