Tour de San Luis 2012, 1ª Etapa: San Luis - Villa Mercedes (189 km)

[Sofía_]

light rain, 25ºc

Ibon Zugasti ESP (Start Cycling) puncture at km 1

 

[Geordiedave]

anybody managed to get a live feed working?

 

[Sofía_]

heavy rain + cross wind now

what is the english word when rains little pieces of ice?

Tomas Metcalfe GBR (Tavira) goes down

 

[LaFlorecita]

anybody managed to get a live feed working?

No, not yet.

 

[Carols]

No..no pictures, no sound Will check back later....

 

[Carols]

heavy rain + cross wind now

what is the english word when rains little pieces of ice?

Tomas Metcalfe GBR (Tavira) goes down

Hail in english.

 

[shadowblue]

what is the english word when rains little pieces of ice?

sleet - small ice pellets

 

[Sofía_]

most of riders stoped. "sleet" coming down

no neutralized stage yet

 

[LaFlorecita]

Maybe there'll be a live feed over here later.

 

[cineteq]

For now:
Radio: http://www.fmtotalsanluis.com.ar/ (Argentinean Spanish)
Tweets: @TourSanLuis

 

[shadowblue]

most of riders stoped. "sleet" coming down

no neutralized stage yet

actually, carols is correct, since it's summer in argentina. would be hail. sleet is a winter weather condition.

 

[Parrulo]

will there be any working stream with live pictures?

 

[LaFlorecita]

will there be any working stream with live pictures?

Nobody knows...

 

[shadowblue]

will there be any working stream with live pictures?

if going by the schedule grid, no doesn't appear so.
http://www.foxsportsla.com/grillas/sur/05/FSx_05_12_CONO_SUR.pdf

 

[Sofía_]

breakaway: Emmanuel Guevara ARG (San Luis ST) Alfredo Balloni ITA (Farnese Vini) +5 m

2 km to the mountain sprint

 

[LaFlorecita]

God, I hate it when there are no live pictures.

 

[Tuarts]

Sleet I would think but if its small balls of ice that look like marbles then hail.

 

[Sofía_]

i saw fox sports LA yesterday, it's going to be 30 min highlights, no live TV

Sleet I would think but if its small balls of ice that look like marbles then hail.

yes, no a bad idea wear a Cavendish helmet

 

[will10]

Race finish in around 3.5hrs? We don't always get that long coverage of the Tour/Giro stages! Imagine live feed will start in an hour or two.

 

[Sofía_]

Emmanuel Guevara ARG (San Luis) takes the mountain sprint. 5:40 the gap

Alto de Montaña

1 Emmanuel Guevara ARG (San Luis)
2 Gonzalo Garrido CHI (Chile)
3 Claudio Claveles ARG (San Luis)
4 Javier Ramirez ESP (Andalucía)
5 Bert Grabsch GER (OPQS)
6 José Ragonessi ECU (Ecuador)

 

[jens_attacks]

gotta love sud-american radios sharapova,construction ads, che guevara.that's brain damage my friends

 

[jens_attacks]

damn serpa crashed

 

[Sofía_]

heavy rain and a fall!!

José Serpa COL (Androni) is down along with Angelo Pagani ITA (Colnago)

edit: both are ok and riding to join the peloton

 

[trevim]

Emmanuel Guevara ARG (San Luis) takes the mountain sprint. 5:40 the gap

Alto de Montaña

1 Emmanuel Guevara ARG (San Luis)
2 Gonzalo Garrido CHI (Chile)
3 Claudio Claveles ARG (San Luis)
4 Javier Ramirez ESP (Andalucía)
5 Bert Grabsch GER (OPQS)
6 José Ragonessi ECU (Ecuador)

Maybe Guardini won't be dropped after all

About Contador: either if he wins or not there will be a new thread after the race:
1. If he loses: "Is Contador past it?" Dropped by January guys like Serpa....
2. If he wins: "Has he peaked to soon?"

So after all it'll be a good race, I don't believe the man has flown to South America only to check out the landscape.

 

[Sofía_]

i don't like Contador, but is admirable how he ALWAYS want to win

edit: Guevara is about 5 min away, he's going to take the sprint in Fraga.