Tour de Suisse stage 7: Savognin - Wetzikon 204.1km

[The Hitch]

June 18, Stage 7: Savognin - Wetzikon 204.1km


Stage 7 map

Stage 7 profile

 

[The Hitch]

woops i cant get the map and profile in for some reason

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

 

[The Hitch]

How did you get that in. I tried to copy from http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-suisse-upt/stage-7 but only the word Stage 7 profile came up

 

[Jamsque]

Breakaway? Breakaway.

 

[Moondance]

Freire ftw

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I copied it from the official tour de suisse site (http://www.tds.ch)

 

[Mellow Velo]

Lets have a decent size map. My eyes can't cope.


Another town loop by the looks of it.
Maybe someone like Sanchez will give it a go off the 3rd cat?
Or maybe not. This is just a Tour tune up, after all.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Quinziato away with a handful of secs. 36km completed. Must be some attacking racing.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Looks like being wet one - similar stage to Wednesday. Could be a tricky day for Gesink / Rabobank to control. That final descent will be treacherous - if Gesink comes through today ok he'll win the race I think

 

[auscyclefan94]

This has been a great race so far with interesting parcour. It encourages attacking racing which is exciting. 50km complete - no break.

 

[Jamsque]

16 are away, including Friere and Flecha.

[edit]Good strong break, lots of fast finishers in it (Breschel, Van Avermat)

 

[auscyclefan94]

Matti Breschel (Saxo Bank), Aliaksandr Kuschynski, Manuel Quinziato both (Liquigas), Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana), Mark Renshaw (HTC), Marcus Burghardt, Mathias Frank (both BMC), Greg Van Avermaet (Omega), Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse), Oscar Freire, Tom Leezer (both Rabobank), Daniel Sesma (Euskaltel), Jürgen Van De Walle (Quickstep), Matthew Wilson (Garmin), Juan Antonio Flecha (Sky) and Michal Golas (Vacansoleil).

Frank can win the KOM this stage if he can get some points.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Yeah that's a bummer as Poels was cleary stronger than Frank yesterday
Oh well.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Yeah that's a bummer as Poels was cleary stronger than Frank yesterday
Oh well.

Clearly? He beat him in two sprints.

 

[Kwibus]

Clearly? He beat him in two sprints.

50 Wouter Poels (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:12:26
90 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:22:51

 

[Jamsque]

Whoever is writing the ticker has forgotten that Flecha left Rabo for Sky...

 

[Moondance]

Whoever is writing the ticker has forgotten that Flecha left Rabo for Sky...

Yes... Yesterday they said that Gesink "wasn't much of a climber" either. They ain't the quickest bunch.

 

[auscyclefan94]

50 Wouter Poels (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:12:26
90 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:22:51

I guess it is about points. Frank must of shut down as he would not finish 12 mins behind after being in the same break as Poels.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Frank even dropped on one of the climbs earlier in the break... *but luckily the pace dropped*

Anyway, useless discussion since ACF will never admit Poels being better than Frank this Tour de Suisse

 

[Moondance]

The Shack have noone in the break. I imagine they'll be expected to do the work.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Frank even dropped on one of the climbs earlier in the break... *but luckily the pace dropped*

Anyway, useless discussion since ACF will never admit Poels being better than Frank this Tour de Suisse

DT, someone in the same break on the final climb who gets caught on the same part of the climb loses 12 minutes more than the other rider. Something is not right there. There was also a descnt. Surely you can see this logic.

 

[Jamsque]

I swear you two would find something to argue about in a thread about the sky being blue.

 

[theyoungest]

Yes... Yesterday they said that Gesink "wasn't much of a climber" either. They ain't the quickest bunch.

Seriously? I remember the ticker mentioned the Vacansoleil rider going with Gesink and Schleck was "possibly Westra". Which I thought was quite funny.

 

[Moondance]

Seriously? I remember the ticker mentioned the Vacansoleil rider going with Gesink and Schleck was "possibly Westra". Which I thought was quite funny.

18:21 CEST 10km/203.3km
Gesink isn't a great climber but he should make this.

I don't know what they were thinking.