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DominicDecoco said:The forum activity about this WT race is overwhelming.
Ride to forget said:I find it fabulously poetic that this ill-conceived, money-grabbing farce, shoehorned into the WT calendar by McQuaid, is being comprehensively ignored by all and sundry due to the avalanche of scandal that the fat fraud swept under the carpet for so many years.
ValleyFlowers said:Andy Schleck (RNT) has abandoned at around km 42 of the stage.
Not very surprising, although I have to admit that he held on longer than I though. I had guessed that he would abandon thursday.ValleyFlowers said:Andy Schleck (RNT) has abandoned at around km 42 of the stage.
movingtarget said:The fact that the commentators have spent more time talking about the Armstrong situation than the race and they are giving it more air time than much better races is strange. Amazing amount of spectators on the side of the road ! It's deadly dull in all aspects although I hear some of the scenery is amazing when it can be glimpsed through the pollution.
Attacking with 200 meters to go to the top is perhaps a bit late...The mountain seemed very hard to be honest, I'm surprised no one wanted to try anything.ValleyFlowers said:Sanchez just jumped. He's 1'00" down on GC.
Gap to the 2 leaders is 49".
Euskaltel has 6 riders in the peloton, yet only launched one half-hearted attack up the mountain. Quite weird, considering that they have nothing to lose.wirral said:Unfortunately they are not going to stay away. That chasing peloton is huge bearing in mind the mountain they went over.