Tour of Beijing - 5th October to 9th October

[Wergeland]

8 kms to go.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Cossack takes stage keeps green

Too much smog!

 

[jens_attacks]

nice sprint by galimzyanov

 

[auscyclefan94]

trying to find a top 10...

 

[roundabout]

trying to find a top 10...

http://s288581967.onlinehome.fr/LIVE/resultat/resultat.php5?code_course=TBE&menu=1&type=0

 

[auscyclefan94]

thanks!!!!

 

[User Guide]

Truely aweful but need my cycling fix. 1 point tho, in fairness to Beijing isnt just smoggy there, Milan banning all motor vehicles for 10 hours today to reduce its smog.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Nice win, that should move Tony up to 6th or 7th position in the World Tour ranking.

 

[auscyclefan94]

yay, this excuse for a WT race is over. No more smog as well. Riders will now be able to breathe!

 

[Mellow Velo]

One word: Grim.
Beijing perfectly designed to produce the worst possible racing.
Since they aren't anchored to the one place, like the misnamed Tour Down Under, or Qatar, they are at least able to make significant changes, next year.

It's down to them to unstuff this turkey.

 

[Fetisoff]

Finally a WT win for Denis. I thought he'd come second again.

 

[Anonymous]

Well Sky at least made up for their awful Vuelta Team Time Trial, by winning the Tour of Beijing Team Time Trial.

Does that make them UCI Team Time Trial Champions?

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

Appropriate for The Cossack to get this win.

 

[BillytheKid]

Congrats to Ben King and the Shack for holding on to the White.

Ben King: breakaway man or hammerhead for the team. A GT stage win will be yours one day.

Congrats to Tony Martin, Anton and Galimzyanov.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Well Sky at least made up for their awful Vuelta Team Time Trial, by winning the Tour of Beijing Team Time Trial.

Does that make them UCI Team Time Trial Champions?

Mcquaid might give some points out for that if you ask nicely

 

[The Hitch]

Someone needs to give The One Jose a leadout.

Hes facing real sprinter trains on his own the whole time and among the top so often.

And yes i do know he has resigned with Riis.

 

[El Pistolero]

Someone needs to give The One Jose a leadout.

Hes facing real sprinter trains on his own the whole time and among the top so often.

And yes i do know he has resigned with Riis.

Which would you rather have: The Great One getting decent support in GTs so he can attempt the double(Tour-Vuelta) or a leadout train for The One Jose while still always losing to Cavendish?

Not even Tom Steels got a leadout train and he was a much better sprinter. In today's cycling world only Cav has a decent leadout train and sometimes Farrar. Although Garmin definitely is a lot weaker now and Farrar no longer deserves the title of second best sprinter as well.

The One Jose is a better cyclist than most of the over-hyped South Americans though

 

[Tuarts]

Someone needs to give The One Jose a leadout.

Hes facing real sprinter trains on his own the whole time and among the top so often.

And yes i do know he has resigned with Riis.

The lovely coverage here has one hour highlights, 30 hours after the stage finish (so I get to see yesterdays stage in 10 hours time). Last night I saw the penultimate stage and at around the 1km mark, there were 5, yes 5 Saxo Bank riders in a train, overtaking the Sky train after they lost Apollo. Of course it only lasted about 200-300m until everyone on the right caught up and Sky got their **** together but it was still a definite train.

 

[craig1985]

Not a bad pay day in China:

Tour of Beijing offered $400,000 in prize money, including $42,500 for the general classification winner and $17,000 for each stage winner.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/no-clenbuterol-sandwiches-for-riders-in-china

 

[El Pistolero]

Not a bad pay day in China:

Tour of Beijing offered $400,000 in prize money, including $42,500 for the general classification winner and $17,000 for each stage winner.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/no-clenbuterol-sandwiches-for-riders-in-china

Now we know why everyone went to China lol.

$17,000 seems like a lot for a rider like Galimzyanov. At least for one day of work.

 

[greenedge]

Congrats to Tony and all the sprinters. Highlight of the race Roche winning. Other than that a bore.

 

[craig1985]

Now we know why everyone went to China lol.

$17,000 seems like a lot for a rider like Galimzyanov. At least for one day of work.

The Chinese were prepared to give out more prize money.

 

[Michele]

But probably UCI found some better ways to use those money.

 

[Cult Classics]

That Millar video on the news page was funny. "Yeah great, lots of points", smirking into the camera. Clearly some of the riders who went thought this UCI race was a bit of a farce.