Tour de Suisse, Stage 1 Saturday, June 9 7.3 km Lugano

[dlwssonic]

Andy is either injured (knee from before the crash) or just, I hate to say it , "playing possum."

Watever it is, he will be good by the tour.

 

[Trofinios]

Nice to see Tommy Lofkvist doing decent Prologue at last

Yep, we swedes aren't spoiled with good results. Hope too see Kessiakoff doing a good result also.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

Let's stay on topic please. There are enough other places to discuss the Schlecks.

Susan

 

[Unkown]

My goodness Igor Anton has the weirdest pedaling style.

 

[dlwssonic]

Watch out for fuglsang.

 

[Trofinios]

I expect a top 10 time by Fuglsang. Come on Jakob!

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

TGBM gonna top 10 todays stage.

you're on form today.

 

[dlwssonic]

Wow very bad by mollema. Nowhere where he was last year.

 

[dlwssonic]

you're on form today.

Yeah I expected more from rabo.

 

[screaming fist]

As Kohler starts, Swiss TV announcers say Cancellara will contest the national TT championships for the first time in several years next wednesday.

 

[roundabout]

Needs an extra form test I would say.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Yeah I expected more from rabo.

rookie mistake

 

[Trofinios]

Come on Kess!!!

 

[brilleaben]

Igor Antón on a time trial bike should really be censored for the sake of viewers.

 

[roundabout]

Slagter did ok. Who of the GC riders came here from the Giro?

 

[BillytheKid]

Slagter did ok. Who of the GC riders came here from the Giro?

Not many because the parcours here this year much harder than the Dauphine in terms of the uphill finishes. Not much is flat here either....lots of unrated climbs.

 

[Trofinios]

Quiet good intermediate by Kessiakoff!

 

[Panda Claws]

Great, now eurosport is saying that Rodriguez didn't put enough effort into preparing the Giro Time trial.

 

[Fetisoff]

Great, now eurosport is saying that Rodriguez didn't put enough effort into preparing the Giro Time trial.

Eurosport have been more facepalm-ish than usual today, and I thought that was hard to achieve

 

[SafeBet]

Moreno making me proud

 

[roundabout]

So, Cataldo, Kreuziger, Cunego, Nieve, Gadret. Pretty good. Probably the best of the Giro riders would be someone else though.

 

[maltiv]

Kessiakoff clearly back in form.

 

[spalco]

Nice time for Kessiakoff.

 

[hoerpi]

Really nice to see Kessiakoff compete again!

 

[Trofinios]

Yeeeeessss!!! Kessiakoff with a great time!