Tour of Britain 2011- 11th-18th September

[Tuarts]

All I say from the webcam was somebody in a mainly white jersey leading out the sprint, very easily too.

Leading out insinuates that there was someone on the wheel, which there wasn't.

Imo the MO of the HTC rider wasn't like Cavs

 

[woodie]

I know it's prob to early but whould the finish be anywhere on video yet?

 

[euanli]

it finished 5 minutes ago. noone is able to get video up that fast. there is football on tonight so nothing for anouther 8+hours

 

[woodie]

it finished 5 minutes ago. noone is able to get video up that fast. there is football on tonight so nothing for anouther 8+hours

Thought that would be the case, just being overly optomistic, what are the official results?

 

[wirral]

Leading out insinuates that there was someone on the wheel, which there wasn't.

Imo the MO of the HTC rider wasn't like Cavs

Ok, let me improve my syntax, someone in a white jersey leading by a gap of approx one second whilst behind a long line of riders sprinted.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

From what I saw, on the first image a HTC rider had a huge gap. Then on the second camera some guys were closing in but not nearly enough to close the forementioned huge gap

 

[just some guy]

Cav was in Blue yesterday did he have a points jersey on today ?

 

[wirral]

Points jersey leader was Lars Boom, so the second in the classification, Geraint Thomas should have donned it.

 

[MatchstickMan]

Cav was in Blue yesterday did he have a points jersey on today ?

Nope, Geraint had it on today, on Boom's behalf.

 

[Frosty]

Everyone was probably fighting over Cav's wheel and cav probably decided to take it relatively slowly round one corner to allow Renshaw to go for the victory - or Renshaw started the sprint and everyone was too busy following Cav to notice that Renshaw was up the road.

Is this Cav and Renshaw's last race together?

 

[euanli]

I would think so. Cav has been known to gift or try to gift wins to his teammates before. Goss in the Vuelta last year for example.

 

[Sum_of_Marc]

1. Renshaw, 2. Cavendish, 3. Förster, 4. Thomas, 5. Fenn, 6. Hayman, 7. Dempster, 8. Neirynck, 9. Schorn, 10. Nizzolo

So Thomas just misses out on a time bonus

 

[sublimit]

At least Fenn is showing well. Dont know whats with the Sky tactics- kind of baffled if they were chasing Rogers.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Cavendish just posted to twitter mocking Cycling Australia on Renshaw's behalf.

 

[El Pistolero]

Got to hand it to him, he's funny. Probably the funniest guy on twitter together with Phinney.

 

[Tank Engine]

At least Fenn is showing well. Dont know whats with the Sky tactics- kind of baffled if they were chasing Rogers.

Fenn has been impressive, along with Ghyllbert Edit and Tiernan-Locke.

I guess Sky are putting their bets on Geraint for the GC and were chasing Tankink and Gerdemann, as well as bonuses (of course Geraint had to finish 4th , Edit at least he's got the points jersey ). At least having Rogers up there put less pressure on them to chase. I thought that having Tankink up there, Rabobank would use that as an excuse not to chase. However, with only HTC having a clear reason to chase and Linus and Mike being GC threats, they soon placed their bets on Boom (which seems logical).

 

[Raceoftruth]

Both rogers and gerdeman picked up time though at an intermediate sprint. Could be very important those few seconds, more for gerdeman than rogers, but even so.

 

[djlovesyou]

Got to hand it to him, he's funny. Probably the funniest guy on twitter together with Phinney.

Phinney is only so funny because he's a 'grown man' who tweets like a pre-teen girl.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Both rogers and gerdeman picked up time though at an intermediate sprint. Could be very important those few seconds, more for gerdeman than rogers, but even so.

In a short ITT not a chance Gerdemann could threaten Boom. If it was >20km i might be worried

 

[Anonymous]

only just catching up. the webcam live coverage is hilarious.

Question is, can we now get 4 or 5 people in london to stick webcams out of their windows at strategic points along the course.

 

[Anonymous]

Cavendish just posted to twitter mocking Cycling Australia on Renshaw's behalf.

which it would seem he then deleted.

 

[Andy99]

only just catching up. the webcam live coverage is hilarious.

Question is, can we now get 4 or 5 people in london to stick webcams out of their windows at strategic points along the course.

It was hilarious watching it too as the cctv operator attempted to pan and follow the riders.

Still, fair play to the council for being pro-active.

Cavs tweet;

Bet there's some "Awwww ****" 's coming from Cycling Australia officials now. #bestleadoutmanintheworld @Mark_Renshaw. Nice one dude.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I would think so. Cav has been known to gift or try to gift wins to his teammates before. Goss in the Vuelta last year for example.

And Greipel in 2008, which is what caused the rift between them! Technical finish, Greipel went bombing through with a leadout fast enough that he left everyone standing and powered on to the line. Cav just followed him along. Cav said he gifted it to Greipel, Greipel said he'd have won anyway, both were probably right, Cav took offence at Greipel being snappy and not thanking him, Greipel took offence at the implication he wasn't fast enough, and both threw toys out of the pram.

 

[Andy99]

http://www.velouk.net

 

[Dancing On The Pedals]

I think that's the problem, make the parcours too challenging and you wont see as many riders from the domestic teams trying to animate the race.

Guess its up to the organisers to try and create a balance.

Would it really hurt the race to have one really selective stage using Dartmoor/Snowdonia/Lake District etc? Would do a proper shake up of the GC and not discourage domestic teams from riding like they have done in the stages so far.

Wtf is that trophy?