Tour of Qatar - Stage 3 - Dukhan to Mesaieed

[auscyclefan94]

who will win stage 3? can sky get back from their lousy performance of yesterday? will any of the teams try to split the field? I'm guessing sky will try especially after their Wigan like performance! Stage is 135km long

 

[Andrichuk]

Tom Boonen

 

[stefrees]

going to be relying on this thread through my iphone at work again so keep up the good work on info

 

[taiwan]

Got the profile of today's stage.

 

[Cerberus]

Got the profile of today's stage.

Looks like a steep climb at the end.

 

[goggalor]

Got the profile of today's stage.

All flat then finishing off in a velodrome?

 

[pmcg76]

All together, 25kim to go. Very much looks like it will be a bunch sprint.

 

[Cerberus]

Tom Boonen wins the bunch sprint.

 

[Anonymous]

Tom Boonen

Iranu!

OK, that may be lost on people outside the UK. Let's try "Correctomundo!"

 

[cineteq]

Tom Boonen wins the bunch sprint.

More details please...

 

[Cobber]

Good win by Boonen - he looks pretty good at the moment. pretty cruel to put a roundabout 200m from the finish line, though.

 

[Anonymous]

Love the procycling twitter feed:

500m.


Sprint.


Crash!


Boonen winner!!

 

[pmcg76]

Crash in the last 200 metres, sorry but this race is a bit ridiculous, a roundabout in the last 300 metres, WTF. Hardly no spectators, would be more at a local amateur event in most countries.

 

[Anonymous]

Good win by Boonen - he looks pretty good at the moment. pretty cruel to put a roundabout 200m from the finish line, though.

Did you see who came off? Does it look like any serious injuries?

 

[ak-zaaf]

1. Boonen
2. Haussler
3. Cooke
4. De Haes
5. Bennati
6. Wrolich
7. Phinney
8. Traksel
9. Farrar
10. Gilbert



From what i could see from the crash, one guy was grabbing his shoulder and one didn't move. No clue on who they are.
/edit: milram guy should be Ciolek.

 

[Anonymous]

Did you see who came off? Does it look like any serious injuries?

I have a bad feeling it was sky boys, certainly flecha was there or thereabouts... hard to tell, im just rewinding to take a look

edit: rewound, well its a white back with black shorts, got a bad feeling thats another sky boy..

last ten k or so should be on youtube shortly...

 

[Ferminal]

God, that crash was coming from a mile out.

They thought Ciolek might have been the collarbone?

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

YEs, Ciolek broken collarbone.

Susn

 

[ak-zaaf]

YEs, Ciolek broken collarbone.

Susn

Pffff.

Milram just can't seem to get lucky.

 

[taiwan]

That's just about a fatal blow for Milram. Sponsorship due to end, looking to Ciolek for results, and there goes his season, just like that. that's rough.

 

[kurtinsc]

1. Boonen
2. Haussler
3. Cooke
4. De Haes
5. Bennati
6. Wrolich
7. Phinney
8. Traksel
9. Farrar
10. Gilbert



From what i could see from the crash, one guy was grabbing his shoulder and one didn't move. No clue on who they are.
/edit: milram guy should be Ciolek.

Okay... I know it's not a star studded field, but I'm a bit suprised to see Phinney in the top 10 in a bunch sprint. Were there odd circumstances that caused that to happen, or was that just where he finished in a straight sprint?

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

shame about ciolek.
nice to see boonen sprinting well again.

 

[Ferminal]

Okay... I know it's not a star studded field, but I'm a bit suprised to see Phinney in the top 10 in a bunch sprint. Were there odd circumstances that caused that to happen, or was that just where he finished in a straight sprint?

There was a crash ~250m out so it disrupted the field, the top4? had a bit of a gap.

 

[Greisty]

Good for Boonen. Bad for Ciolek, but if you're going to break a collarbone, now is not the worst time of year to do it. Lots of racing ahead.

Phinney is impressive. I raced against him in the Tour of the Gila. It was, like, his third bike race as a 17 year old, and he tied for the GC win as a Cat 2. (Full disclosure: I was not the guy who tied him).

 

[fatandfast]

Phinney needs to lighten up he is going to ruin what little self worth Farrar has left.