Tour of Beijing - 5th October to 9th October

[Kwibus]

Woke up, turned on the tele... seeing the break getting caught by a large group which is beign swallowed by a huge peloton... BORING.

With 4km to go I'm not even bothered to watch the sprint. The only 'challenging' stage of this Tour ends in a bunchsprint. Not wasting my time on this race anymore.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Now the live stream doesn't work anymore.. Guess someone wants me to do something serious instead

 

[jens_attacks]

who crashed????

bmc guy caught behind the race barriers which started to fly all over the road.horrible and a motorbike caught too

5 seconds

 

[jens_attacks]

lol what a finish.go froome!

 

[auscyclefan94]

hope whoever it is, is not to badly hurt.

 

[JRanton]

Roche should buy Froome a pint.

 

[maltiv]

Froome kept a 5 second gap for 10 km. What a monster. Too bad he gained nothing!

Great to see Roche finally winning something!

 

[auscyclefan94]

After all of Nico's attacking this year he deserves a win!

 

[hatcher]

Not a bad stage that. Obviously not a big Queen stage, but not bad.

 

[maltiv]

Woke up, turned on the tele... seeing the break getting caught by a large group which is beign swallowed by a huge peloton... BORING.

With 4km to go I'm not even bothered to watch the sprint. The only 'challenging' stage of this Tour ends in a bunchsprint. Not wasting my time on this race anymore.

Sorry but this post is a big fail!

 

[Kwibus]

Froome kept a 5 second gap for 10 km. What a monster. Too bad he gained nothing!

Great to see Roche finally winning something!

What he did not? So I turned off the tele because I thought it was over... but it wasn't

Impressive!

 

[Lupetto]

lol what a finish.go froome!

Froome was doing lead out training for next season.

 

[jens_attacks]

Not a bad stage that. Obviously not a big Queen stage, but not bad.

agreed.............

 

[Kwibus]

Sorry but this post is a big fail!

Erm yes apparently. It's just a huge dissapointment to turn on the tele to see Froome working his *** off with 5k to go, while there is a large group at 8 seconds and the bunch at 15 seconds. Couldn't expect him to keep up
I failed!

 

[maltiv]

Erm yes apparently. It's just a huge dissapointment to turn on the tele to see Froome working his *** off with 5k to go, while there is a large group at 8 seconds and the bunch at 15 seconds. Couldn't expect him to keep up
I failed!

Never underestimate Froome-vroome

 

[hatcher]

Good win for Nico, and as the Inner Ring points out, much needed WT points for Ag2r.

 

[jens_attacks]

Never underestimate Froome-vroome

such a big disapointment the decision to not send him in lombardia

 

[WillemS]

Bos came out of nowhere to 3rd place. Looks like he just can't take the right wheel and that's probably even so if there was only wheel in front of him. From the vids I've seen, his sprint was the most impressive, but he had to start 5-10s earlier just bridge the gap to the front.

There's a short video on http://nos.nl/artikel/279641-ritzege-haussler-bos-derde.html

 

[theyoungest]

Bos came out of nowhere to 3rd place. Looks like he just can't take the right wheel and that's probably even so if there was only wheel in front of him. From the vids I've seen, his sprint was the most impressive, but he had to start 5-10s earlier just bridge the gap to the front.

There's a short video on http://nos.nl/artikel/279641-ritzege-haussler-bos-derde.html

That's yesterday's news, and already discussed somewhere upthread.

 

[AussieGoddess]

what a peice of cr@p tour this is

Well done to Roche ... they need the points.
Well done to Froome for having a go.

Well done to all for riding in the smog - its appalling.

Huge FAIL to the UCI for organising this abomination!!!!!

 

[WillemS]

That's yesterday's news, and already discussed somewhere upthread.

Sorry, still a bit sleepy.

 

[craig1985]

what a peice of cr@p tour this is

Well done to Roche ... they need the points.
Well done to Froome for having a go.

Well done to all for riding in the smog - its appalling.

Huge FAIL to the UCI for organising this abomination!!!!!

In places like Chengdu (where the panda's are) it's worse than Beijing IMO.

 

[Christian]

Very happy for AG2R !!!!

 

[LukeSchmid]

Very happy for AG2R !!!!

AG2R well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[just some guy]

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Witnesses blame a low-flying TV helicopter for blowing the course signage into Yannick Eijssen @TourofBeijing. #tourofbeijing
30 minutes ago

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BMC Racing Team's Yannick Eijssen suffered facial injuries, including fracture above his teeth (via @docmajor). #tourofbeijing
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Yannick Eijssen was the BMC Racing Team rider involved in the flying barriers incident @TourofBeijing. #tourofbeijing

Not the best neo year