Tour de Suisse 2012: Stage 3; Martigny → Aarberg (195km)

[taiwan]

Poster is talking about the cyclingnews front page, not the forum

Ah sorry.

I hope Marcato is there in the final. The likes of Boonen and Haussler would need to have been shelled though.

 

[BillytheKid]

This race a tradition of defeating poor looking profiles. Although a long downhill
after a Cat. 4 climb looks like a bunch sprint a sizeable break could make it work and fracture the field in the chase. Hope the run-in is technical.

Probably not with better stages to come.

 

[Netserk]

The loop around Aarberg (last 40 km)

Should be very easy to control. Can't really see any of the sprinters getting dropped.

 

[Pippo_San]

Bad weather could be a factor today.

 

[BillytheKid]

Nice weather. Small break at 7:06. Anyone in between?

 

[BillytheKid]

A tain! A plus for the break.

 

[Pippo_San]

Lol can't believe this. The peloton is stuck at a train crossing, but Rui Costa & Movistar went away!

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

This could get messy. Costa and what looks like his whole team made it through the barriers, along with a few others.

 

[tomorrow]

lol, have you seen that? huge part of the peloton got stuck in front of railway crossing? can that even happen, what are the unwritten rules for this? they will definitaly loose there minute or so, big plus for the escapes

 

[iZnoGouD]

how much of a gap do they have?

 

[cocteau_ireland]

All races should incorporate several train crossings

 

[iZnoGouD]

lol, have you seen that? huge part of the peloton got stuck in front of railway crossing? can that even happen, what are the unwritten rules for this? they will definitaly loose there minute or so, big plus for the escapes

i have seen it happen some times before

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

how much of a gap do they have?

Looks like Movistar have nearly two minutes! It will be hilarious if they actually try a TTT from here.

The original break looks like it may now have a very real shot. I'm guessing that their gap on the main bunch will be as much as 8:30.

 

[Magnus]

So technically the whole Movistar team should get DQ'ed...

 

[Animal]

Commisaires caught napping there. They should have stopped the peloton as a group, and also brought the break to a halt for the duration.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

i have seen it happen some times before

It's pretty rare for race officials to let the front dozen or so from the peloton through and then stop everyone else!

 

[Ney the Viking]

Commisars telling moviestar to slow down and wait. Great news for the break.

 

[BillytheKid]

They don't seemed to be exploiting it. Much.

 

[Flamin]

movistar classy as usual

 

[Pippo_San]

i have seen it happen some times before

yeah crazy they can't avoid this **** from happening...

anyway, there was an official who tried to stop the peloton but the riders in the front passed the crossing anyway...so what? will they be DSQ?

 

[Kazistuta]

Moviestar should stop - actually they could get DQ'ed for riding across when the lights were on (which they were)...

 

[Ruudz0r]

Movistar and the others who are with them were riding through the red lights of the railway crossover (or whatever it is called in english), I think thats not allowed and they should be taken out of the race if the rules are followed, at least that what happened in paris roubaix once if i remember correctly.

 

[Bavarianrider]

What great sportsmen those spaniards are

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

They aren't showing the gap to the real peloton but to the Movistar group, unfortunately.

The Movistar group has been ordered to stop by the commissaires. They were riding and they are pretty sulky about being told to stop.

 

[BillytheKid]

They are hardly riding. They are waiting. Right on the DQ.

OK maybe they were getting the message on the radio.