Tour La Provence (2.1 - February 23-25)

[Tonton]

Notables: Bakelands 14th at 14", Spilak 19th at 55", Riblon 24th at 1'12", Alaphilippe 58th at 7'02", Talansky 64th at 7'07", JCP 72nd at 8'57".

 

[Kokoso]

Re:

calm me jane
great name

Good laugh

 

[RedheadDane]

Re:

calm me jane
great name

Or Call me Jane.
Of course then the question would be whether he wants someone called Jane to call him, or wants to be called Jane. For some weird reason...

 

[Valv.Piti]

Chris Anker not doing too shabby. Let the danish hype begin!

 

[barmaher]

Seems like there is a 5 man break.

Bagot, di Gregorio, Maison, Penvin and Silin.

Last update was a couple of hours ago.

 

[barmaher]

Actually I just saw that the break has 3 minutes, with 50km to go.

 

[Scarponi]

http://www.cyclingfans.com/node/22094 Is this feed from yesterday or today? Looks too packed for 50km to go

 

[StephenC2020]

The banner above the finish line says Istres so it must be the finish line I guess

 

[DNP-Old]

That crash in the final corner was inevitable. Gaviria lets Martinelli take the win as they finish 1 and 2.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Martinelli? oh I see

 

[scrooll07]

1.Martinelli
2.Gaviria
3.Ratto
4.Bakelants
5.Van Stayen
6.Demoitie
7.Touze
8.Sellier

 

[DNP-Old]

 

[Ricco']

Ridiculous finish... Somebody should be charged for that...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Nice finish, someone should get promoted for that

 

[MagnusMagnussen]

Finish video: https://youtu.be/eBoMZHO05qk?t=57m37s

 

[Jancouver]

Finish video: https://youtu.be/eBoMZHO05qk?t=57m37s

WOW!

I have never seen anything like that.

What were they thinking to use that kind of bumpy road on the last corner of a bike race?

CRAZY!

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

Nice finish, someone should get promoted for that

The 2014 TdS also had a few questionable sprint stage finishes, but this one was almost absurd.

 

[Tonton]

Almost? You are too kind. WTF!

 

[postmanhat]

There's another angle here which shows the crash a bit better

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3u1wv4

Not defending the stupid speed bumps, but one rider just gets the corner wrong perhaps?

 

[gerundium]

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There's another angle here which shows the crash a bit better

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3u1wv4

Not defending the stupid speed bumps, but one rider just gets the corner wrong perhaps?

Looks like he struck a pedal. saw there was a gap to the Ettix boys, wants to get on the gas too soon.

With a stage finish like this such crashes are bound to happen...

 

[Tonton]

Who designed that stage? Who deserves a big left hook in his face? last year's TdSuisse was a joke, this one's even bigger...

 

[BalearicBeats]

Who designed that stage? Who deserves a big left hook in his face? last year's TdSuisse was a joke, this one's even bigger...

You should watch the Langkawi stage of today, it's beautifully designed as well.

The rider falling was Manzin, right?

 

[RedheadDane]

Seems, to me, that the question is not so much who designed that route? as it is who designed that road?
Why even have a speed-bump in a corner in the first place? Wouldn't cars already be slowing down from turning? I'm assuming there is another speed-bump and the one we can see is actually for cars going the opposite direction of the riders, and heading into the corner.

That been said; it does look to me like the first person crashed before the bump, he was already one his way down when he came into view.

 

[DNP-Old]

Gaviria wins.

 

[TMP402]

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Seems, to me, that the question is not so much who designed that route? as it is who designed that road?
Why even have a speed-bump in a corner in the first place? Wouldn't cars already be slowing down from turning? I'm assuming there is another speed-bump and the one we can see is actually for cars going the opposite direction of the riders, and heading into the corner.

That been said; it does look to me like the first person crashed before the bump, he was already one his way down when he came into view.

Well it's probably not a corner when you remove the barriers.