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

[Bala Verde]

Team Skype phoning it home.

 

[BillytheKid]

The descent to the finish could be tricky with the wet.

 

[cocteau_ireland]

Team sky aka The borg

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Bloody Sky. They are going to catch them.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

a bit of selection now going on

 

[brilleaben]

Moser is too fast for the peloton.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Moser (next Generation) attacks!

 

[Pippo_San]

Moser is too fast for the peloton.

He was just bored to see all those Sky jerseys

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Are Sky riding for Swift? Hopefully they'll drop him and have to knock it off.

 

[Trofinios]

Moser... LOL

 

[BillytheKid]

Sky again.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Are Sky riding for Swift? Hopefully they'll drop him and have to knock it off.

They've got Puccio if Swift doesn't make it.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

They've got Puccio if Swift doesn't make it.

Well, lets just hope they drop him too.

Sky really do seem intent on wringing the entertainment out of every single race that Liquigas don't throttle this season. It's bad enough that they do this for Cavendish and Wiggins, but doing it for a no mark like Swift is really testing my patience.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Saxo sending someone up to disrupt the chase. Hopefully Ag2r will do the same.

 

[BillytheKid]

Well, lets just hope they drop him too.

Sky really do seem intent on wringing the entertainment out of every single race that Liquigas don't throttle this season. It's bad enough that they do this for Cavendish and Wiggins, but doing it for a no mark like Swift is really testing my patience.

They can still make it!

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Well, lets just hope they drop him too.

Sky really do seem intent on wringing the entertainment out of every single race that Liquigas don't throttle this season. It's bad enough that they do this for Cavendish and Wiggins, but doing it for a no mark like Swift is really testing my patience.

Do you think the stage would be more intertaining if no team was chasing?

 

[tomorrow]

ok, now it seems they're not going to chase them, last 6 km they've done only half minute on the, that's too little

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Do you think the stage would be more intertaining if no team was chasing?

No, not as a general rule. But I do like to see the break actually win once in a while.

Perhaps I'm being overly pessimistic here though. The gap isn't coming down that fast at the moment so there's still some suspense.

 

[Froome19]

Well, lets just hope they drop him too.

Sky really do seem intent on wringing the entertainment out of every single race that Liquigas don't throttle this season. It's bad enough that they do this for Cavendish and Wiggins, but doing it for a no mark like Swift is really testing my patience.

If Swift is in the same type of form he was in early last seasno then this particular no hoper very well may take the stage.

Not his fault his early season this year was affected badly by his fiddling around on the track.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

If Swift is in the same type of form he was in early last seasno then this particular no hoper very well may take the stage.

Not his fault his early season this year was affected badly by his fiddling around on the track.

Swift is a decent lower tier sprinter. Nothing special. He could win, but he's not the favourite.

 

[BillytheKid]

ok, now it seems they're not going to chase them, last 6 km they've done only half minute on the, that's too little

Yep, the gap is falling fast now.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

No, not as a general rule. But I do like to see the break actually win once in a while.

Perhaps I'm being overly pessimistic here though. The gap isn't coming down that fast at the moment so there's still some suspense.

Yeah, I get your point and I kinda agree. Though on a stage like this, I'd rather the peloton was chasing than not - that's more entertaining than if these three escapees just rode together to the finish and sprinted.

But this break was never strong enough. Neither of these three are particularly strong and three isn't enough. They can't even win even when they're given 1:30 on top of what they got themselves.

 

[Ney the Viking]

they look like they are gettign caught

 

[Pippo_San]

ROFL these french commentators are cracking me up

 

[burning]

It's over for break