Tour de Suisse 2017 (10/06 > 18/06/2017)

[TourOfSardinia]

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Puccio "motoring" at Inter 2 - Opfershofner 22.9 km

 

[Popchu]

Betancur among the best at the first intermediate...

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Will be interesting how many positions Ion can climb up the GC today.

 

[klintE]

Kruiswijk vs Caruso could be interesting too
And Pozzo vs Costa

 

[TourOfSardinia]

BMC podium so far

 

[Robert5091]

Ben King,https://twitter.com/BenKing89/status/876451277147951106
"That feeling when you're all jacked up and caffeinated for a TT and get a flat tire in the first five minutes. gonna be hyper for hours!"

All jacked up? Make that man pee in a cup!

 

[capuldemetal]

pozzovivo can tt?????

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Re:

pozzovivo can tt?????

His style reminds me of a tortoise.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Vuelta '13 Time trial reprise at the first intermediate. Pozzo is beating Izagirre by 2 seconds :O

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Spilak
shock

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re: Re:

pozzovivo can tt?????

His style reminds me of a tortoise.

Spilak
shock

 

[Robert5091]

Pozzovivo - the new LRP!

 

[Irondan]

Does anyone know what's stuffed in Spilak's shirt on his back? Is it an icepack of some sort?

 

[sir fly]

Nice time trial.
I'm listening to domestic comment, and I can tell you I've learned some tricks of trade. Won't be useful during my rides, but my understanding of racing situation is better.

 

[Irondan]

Re:

Pozzovivo - the new LRP!

Wouldn't that be "little" LRP, or LLRP?

 

[Alexandre B.]

BMC triple?

 

[bob.a.feet]

Not gonna lie, I always assumed Mathias Frank was kinda good at TT because he's Swiss...

 

[sir fly]

Congrats to Špilak.
Pozzovivo can pull a strong defensive tt, I told you.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Congratulations to Spilak. That was a nice TdS win.
Good race overall, albeit a shame that Ion had his offday on Villars-Sur-Ollon.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Decent race, but nothing more really. The riders delivered with what they had in the mountains, but this race could need a bit more star power in terms of GC-talent. Izagirre is really the only one riding this race who will race the Tour for the GC..

 

[the asian]

Nice win for Spilak !

Good to see Pozzo ride well too.

 

[May0maniac]

Recently Pozzovivo said that he didn't work on his TT skills for the Giro, the main focus was getting his climbing back on track, but that he'll focus on it for the Vuelta.
Rohan dominated the TTs, great wins for him.
Happy for Spilak, he's one of my favourite riders and when he's just an awesome rider.

 

[Irondan]

Re:

Recently Pozzovivo said that he didn't work on his TT skills for the Giro, the main focus was getting his climbing back on track, but that he'll focus on it for the Vuelta.
Rohan dominated the TTs, great wins for him.
Happy for Spilak, he's one of my favourite riders and when he's just an awesome rider.

He certainly is one of the best stage racers out there, too bad he hasn't been able to ride GT's the way he rides week long stage races. It would be great to see more riders like him able to compete ftw in Grand Tours.

 

[BullsFan22]

Re: Re:

Recently Pozzovivo said that he didn't work on his TT skills for the Giro, the main focus was getting his climbing back on track, but that he'll focus on it for the Vuelta.
Rohan dominated the TTs, great wins for him.
Happy for Spilak, he's one of my favourite riders and when he's just an awesome rider.

He certainly is one of the best stage racers out there, too bad he hasn't been able to ride GT's the way he rides week long stage races. It would be great to see more riders like him able to compete ftw in Grand Tours.

Yeah I co-sign on that. It's a real pity he's hardly raced the GT's. I don't know if it's mental and physical or just mental, but if he can win big stage races like the TDS (twice), Romandie, win the Miguel Indurain GP, stages at the Dauphine, and plenty of other good races/stages, why shouldn't he be able to translate this to the GT's? Interestingly his best ever GT placing was 48th, in his first ever GT, at the 2008 Giro, when he was 21.

I don't know if he still has time to develop into a contender for the GT's in the future, but anyway, he rode well the whole week and deserves the win.

 

[Forever The Best]

Awesome win by Spilak! Very happy for him! After disappointing races I thought he was past his prime and even though he was pretty good on Tirreno (especially the Terminillo stage) I still think he is past his prime but he had a great day when it mattered! And what a great domestique work by Taaramae that was! The duo just rode everyone except Dombro off their wheel and then Spilak dropped Dombro by riding tempo!
Sad that Pozzo cracked in Tiefenbachferner but at least he won in La Punt.