Tour de Romandie, April 29th - May 4th

[Sciatic]

Küng in the breakaway, if there was rain he'd wreck the field.

Hope his fan club is out on the course. They are a fervent group

 

[Sciatic]

Everything?

wow, I don't remember seeing that before! I immediately knew who it had to be though.

 

[Netserk]

It's approx 2.5 km @ 5.5% followed by a flat 200m finish straight. Not easy enough for a typical sprinter.

There's 400 m from the roundabout to the finish.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

How much time can Remco put on Almeida in ITT?

Yes.

45 seconds

 

[YavorD]

Champoussin DNF.
Destroyed Vino's friday.

 

[red_flanders]

Buh. Bye.

 

[Sciatic]

King Kung!

 

[Mayomaniac]

Yes.

45 seconds

I mean, the TT is not the problem, his potential performance on a big alpine climb in spring classics shape is. Anyway, as long as anyone gives Almeida a good fight I'm good.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Küng will be hard to catch with so many slight downhills to come

 

[Tim Cahill]

They really needed to put more time into him on that climb

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I mean, the TT is not the problem, his potential performance on a big alpine climb in spring classics shape is. Anyway, as long as anyone gives Almeida a good fight I'm good.

He will need to be very good on Thyon 2000 if he hopes to beat Almeida, because he "can" take 45s in the TT (thanks to the long straight sections in this TT) it will still depend on Almeida's volatile TT form. It could just as well be 20-25s which is simply negligible in relation to how much can be lost the day before.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

King Kung smashing today!

 

[Sciatic]

Mollema drinking from the black aero water bottle makes it look like he's drinking from one of those plastic motor oil bottles

 

[red_flanders]

Nearly an unforced error for Küng...

 

[RedheadDane]

What was Juanpe just doing?

 

[Netserk]

Küng will be hard to catch with so many slight downhills to come

Yeah, with that kind of chase it looks good for him.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

so Kung with 2mins. Get a win Kung and make my day.

 

[EddyMazzoleni]

2 min with 40km to go and a lot of descent, Kung might do it

 

[Andre]

was that the last category 2 climb?

 

[noob]

I really want Kung to get this stage.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Yeah, with that kind of chase it looks good for him.

Final climb will hit him hard, though

 

[Sciatic]

Final climb will hit him hard, though

yeah, I agree. He's definitely got the big engine to keep a gap until then but fairly fresh Remco, Almeida, Brennan could close a big gap--if that is, they decide to contest the stage and not just wait for tomorrow (not for Brennan of course).

 

[noob]

Why are they doing interviews at this point in the race? It's so late

 

[danielzu]

With Kuzmin and Champoussin DNF, i wonder whether Astana has an illness or something in the team. Champoussin is a loss (he could have scored today and a bit in the gc), but Tejada or Fortunato would be much worse

 

[Netserk]

Final climb will hit him hard, though

Hit harder by the moto staying behind him. Baffling.