Tour de Romandie, Stage 1: Martigny - Leysin, 172.6km

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Bobdrige attacks

wtf

 

[Jamsque]

Bobridge... attacks? what?

The rest of the breakaway is confused. Their pace has clearly dropped, though.

Marc de Maar gets away from the peloton! Three Astanas chasing him down.

 

[maltiv]

Weird, Sky not contributing to the chase at all. Wiggins not having the legs, perhaps?

 

[Moondance]

IIRC he was "almost" gone several times before he took his ENECO win.

I think this will still be close with the chase.

Now he attacks, a little, but still

He's a trackie and a TTer by nature. Those guys can dig deep when they need to.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Bobridge trying to go away, odd tatics.

wtf is de maar doing?

 

[Jukebox]

Now Bobridge is stretching it out, weird.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

De Maar attacks

pointless, but fun

 

[aarnold517]

why does de maar not have a champion's jersey?

i thought he was the dutch antillean champ...

 

[Jamsque]

why does de maar not have a champion's jersey?

i thought he was the dutch antillean champ...

Not a real country = no jersey.

The peloton has hit the real slopes now but they aren't pulling this back terribly quickly.

 

[maltiv]

Should't the peloton be panicking by now? Surely, they can't let any of those guys get more than about two minutes?

 

[Moondance]

Break doesn't have a whole lot left. They're all pushing a massive gear.

If someone like Vino attacks on the final climb the lead will evaporate.

But the break still isn't coming down very quickly.

 

[roundabout]

Watching the peloton collectively let the overall sip away is kind of amusing.

 

[Christian]

I heard Ronde van Romanië and thoguth they were talking about Romania. How does one say Romania in Dutch?

This is a Kim Kirchen kind of stage and his weather too Oh well he probably woulndn't have done this race anyways

 

[Ferminal]

why does de maar not have a champion's jersey?

i thought he was the dutch antillean champ...

The country no longer exists.

Now an autonomous province of NL or something like that?

 

[Jukebox]

It's really easy to spot Astanas when they wear those bright teal rain capes.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

why does de maar not have a champion's jersey?

i thought he was the dutch antillean champ...

not recognized by the UCI because De Maar change of license only goes in effect in 2011, even though he applied in 2010. UCI requires the season to end first.
So the nr 2 of those championships took the title instead.

This year if De Maar wins he'll get the jersey tho

 

[auscyclefan94]

I personally think that the gap is a bit less than 5 minutes now.

 

[Moondance]

why does de maar not have a champion's jersey?

i thought he was the dutch antillean champ...

The Netherlands Antilles no longer exist. Might have something to do with it.

 

[Contre la montre]

I heard Ronde van Romanië and thoguth they were talking about Romania. How does one say Romania in Dutch?

This is a Kim Kirchen kind of stage and his weather too Oh well he probably woulndn't have done this race anyways

Roemenië or phonetically roomanieje or something like that. Romandie would be Romandië in Dutch

 

[aarnold517]

The Netherlands Antilles no longer exist. Might have something to do with it.

huh must've missed that one

 

[Jamsque]

The Netherlands Antilles no longer exist. Might have something to do with it.

I'm pretty sure they still exist, it would be rather embarrassing if they'd just disappeared.

 

[Ferminal]

Profile is clearly wrong... says this climb ends at 22.5km to go?

 

[Moondance]

The country no longer exists.

Now an autonomous province of NL or something like that?

Curacao is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which I think is where de Maar will have his license with now. Same goes for Aruba and Sint Maarten. Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba are 'special municipalities'.

 

[Jamsque]

Samoilau grabs the mountain points. We'll get a proper time gap now.

This descent is going to be HAIRY.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I'm pretty sure they still exist, it would be rather embarrassing if they'd just disappeared.

They don't excist.

Curaçao is now an independant nation. The other Antilles are now 'speciale gemeenschappen' of the Netherlands.