Tour de Suisse 2014: Stage 1 TT Bellinzona - Bellinzona 9.4 km

[classicomano]

**** another second place to Tony Martin for Dumoulin

 

[Miburo]

Wow Wiggins's time sucked.

 

[classicomano]

Cancellara is down big.

 

[ILovecycling]

Lol that fall of oge guy

 

[Flamin]

Damn, would have liked to see Wiggo go down that descent.

 

[roundabout]

Clement wasn't really exaggerating

 

[The Blues]

Andy Schleck at +55. Not too shabby considering how much he usually loses in prologues.

 

[phanatic]

Martin chilling on his throne. Cance edges out Pozzovivo.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Martin chilling on his throne. Cance edges out Pozzovivo.

The big question: Did Pozzo beat Cancellara on the flat part?

 

[ILovecycling]

Andy Schleck at +55. Not too shabby considering how much he usually loses in prologues.

yep,decent time.Hopefuly he can do something significant in the mountains

 

[phanatic]

The big question: Did Pozzo beat Cancellara on the flat part?

That would be scary form, but he was ahead at second and third time check. Looks like Cance had the best of him on the flat and downhill. Pozzo going to crush this race.

 

[classicomano]

Nice ride from Slagter, didnt expect that.

 

[Tournesol]

The forum called this ITT spectacularly wrong,Canc,Martin and Dumoulin all written off as being out of shape/form.

 

[Arredondo]

Good time by Acevedo, 19th at + 38 sec.

Sky got some really strong climbers for the Tour to support Talansky. I hope Acevedo can shine in this Tour de Suisse.

 

[Anderis]

Nice ride from Slagter, didnt expect that.

Slagter has made an incredible progress this season as a rider. TBH, it wouldn't shock me even if he finishes Tour de France in top10 overall.

I was wrong with my prediction. It was actually Dumoulin, not Dennis, who came 2nd.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

How did Wiggins lose that much time?

 

[jaylew]

Good time by Acevedo, 19th at + 38 sec.

Sky got some really strong climbers for the Tour to support Talansky.

That would be nice

 

[l.Harm]

 

[Jelantik]

How did Wiggins lose that much time?

I bet he has lost his motivation. Not sure if he bleeds more in the mountain. If he does, his faith is sealed then. NO TDF for him. ORICA?.. I'm comiiiinnnggg!!

 

[Fzotrlool]

Pozzovivo ? A potential overall winner now?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Pozzovivo ? A potential overall winner now?

We have a 25km TT coming later, so the answer is yes.

 

[jaylew]

Schleck finished with the same time as Evans...

Edit: My bad, A second faster!

Actually not bad for the Schlecklet, but why on earth is Evans even in this race? Makes absolutely no sense...it's not as if he's working for a teammate with a shot to win.

 

[Arredondo]

That would be nice

OOps I'm seeing to much Sky at the moment

 

[Kokoso]

thats a lot,maybe not in form?

11 sec is not a lot, but it was expected he'll do better anyway. He wasn't racing 6 weeks, since Liege, that could be the problem.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

imo the climb is too hard for him,but we'll see he is in a good shape

Nope, Dumoulin again the only rider within a touch of Martin.
Also, Dumoulin is not far from the world top on short climbs. It's not exactly alpe d'huez is it...

But he must be tired of getting 2nd to Tony all the time.

Very nice performance by Mollema and Slagter. Mollema even being the best on the climb.
Mollema really did smash it on the climb, almost 3km/h faster than pozzovivo and co. Oh well.