Tour de Vendee 2011 "live"; Sunday Oct 2nd

[Kwibus]

Really happy for Marco. He certainly deserved a win!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The final circuit was just 4,5km long, so the chances are the break of 14 were far enough ahead that they were closing on the péloton, meaning the péloton were pulled off the course to allow the leaders to go by; as it was a one-day race and they therefore had no reason to attempt to contest, they would likely just have been removed from the race.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Okay... does anyone know what happened? What was the time of those getting HDed, ie; what was the time-delay? Also, all those people DNFing, did they know they were gonna end up HDed anyway? Can't believe so many got injured or exhausted!

Breakaway got away stayed away by a long, long way.

 

[Christian]

Okay... does anyone know what happened? What was the time of those getting HDed, ie; what was the time-delay? Also, all those people DNFing, did they know they were gonna end up HDed anyway? Can't believe so many got injured or exhausted!

From Ben Gastauer's (AG2R) website:

"The heat made us suffer. I finished with the peloton, that is to say what was left of it. In fact, only 58 riders crossed the finish line"

http://www.gastauer.lu/news.html

There weren't many teams on the start to begin with (15) and most of them were in the breakaway. The ones that were left out probably didn't have the power to pull back the break. Especially since the bigger teams Vacansoleil, Euskaltel, AG2R and Europcar were all well-represented

 

[RedheadDane]

The final circuit was just 4,5km long, so the chances are the break of 14 were far enough ahead that they were closing on the péloton, meaning the péloton were pulled off the course to allow the leaders to go by; as it was a one-day race and they therefore had no reason to attempt to contest, they would likely just have been removed from the race.

But that doesn't explain why some were HDed and others were DNFed. If the Peloton had been lapped by the break causing the peloton the be pulled out wouldn't they just all have been DNFed?

 

[TeoSheva]

really really really happy for MARCATO!!!