Tour of Qatar - Stage 4: West Bay Lagoon → Al Kharaitiyat 154 km

[woodie]

Renshaw!!!!!!!!

 

[TRDean]

Renshaw! Yes good for CQ team!

Never been a big Renshaw fan...but great for him!!

 

[Ferminal]

Renshaw
Bennati
Boonen
Haussler
Galimzyanov
Kluge
Flecha
Vaitkus
Hammond
Van Avermaet
Hondo

 

[palmerq]

6 seconds ahead, thats a good lead, it'll be hard for him to lose that aslong as he makes it into the final group tomorrow... is it the last stage tomorrow?

what are the time bonuses , i know the winner gets 10, is 2nd place 6 and 3rd 4?

 

[TRDean]

Renshaw
Bennati
Boonen
Haussler
Galimzyanov
Kluge

Nice to see Kluge up there...didn't know he was a fast guy...

 

[Boardslide]

Renshaw!!!!!!!!

Brilliant

 

[auscyclefan94]

I can't bag sky as their tatic was actually quite clever but unfortuntely for them it didn't quite work out.

 

[sublimit]

Well done Renshaw nice to see him grab a win after all the donkey work he does, Flecha had a go at the sprint and came 7th... looks in good form for the classics.

 

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

Nice win by Renshaw. Haussler looked uncomfortable in the last 10km there.

Decent try by Sky. At least they gave it a go and tried to do something different. Better to do that than be like BMC.

Massive crouds at the finish too. They went crazy!!

 

[ttrider]

yeh good sky tactic in fairness
Haussler not bought forward and a wheel to far back

 

[auscyclefan94]

Nice win by Renshaw. Haussler looked uncomfortable in the last 10km there.

Decent try by Sky. At least they gave it a go and tried to do something different. Better to do that than be like BMC.

Massive crouds at the finish too. They went crazy!!

What does it have to do with BMC? Go back into your little hole you moron!

 

[Anonymous]

Closing 6k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wy2NrfR0AY

 

[ingsve]

yeh good sky tactic in fairness
Haussler not bought forward and a wheel to far back

Ya, Garmin might have lost a few when Sky pushed it and then they lost Rasch to a puncture with 3 km to go so Haussler was a little alone when it counted perhaps.

 

[sublimit]

If Sky had Swift or Hendo maybe more a chance for the win, Downing is better from a smaller group I think.

Swift is sitting this month out for some reason.

 

[TRDean]

What does it have to do with BMC? Go back into your little hole you moron!

ACF...you are in regular season form already!! Calm down. But I am gonna go out on a limb and say Skil will have a better season than BMC...

 

[Ferminal]

Such a two-tiered race. There's about 30-40 who are in the front groups on each day. Shows who is in form and who is obviously unsuited to these conditions.

 

[Andy99]

What does it have to do with BMC? Go back into your little hole you moron!

He is just citing BMC as a typical example of a team that contributes little to the race. Seems fair enough!

 

[TRDean]

Such a two-tiered race. There's about 30-40 who are in the front groups on each day. Shows who is in form and who is obviously unsuited to these conditions.

Quite a few riders are sick...at least the Skil riders...

 

[taiwan]

Never been a big Renshaw fan...but great for him!!

+1 how I feel.

 

[Anonymous]

Swift is sitting this month out for some reason.

track world cup.

 

[auscyclefan94]

ACF...you are in regular season form already!! Calm down. But I am gonna go out on a limb and say Skil will have a better season than BMC...

we'll see. But it was a stupid thing to say. BMC was apart of a fair bit of the racing today and I don't see how they didn't have a go. It is a bit hard when guys are not in form and the main sprinter has been caught behind in echelons every day.

 

[Ryaguas]

Good for Renshaw... his 1st of the season!

 

[sublimit]

track world cup.

Ah yes I should of realised, I haven't been following track that closely recently- Thanks for that.

 

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

What does it have to do with BMC? Go back into your little hole you moron!

Christ! What's up with you? The cat died or something?

I mearly picked on BMC as a team similar to Sky in that they don't have a sprinter who can beat the likes of Renshaw, Boonen, Haussler etc. Whereas Sky (and Rabobank to be fair) have given it a go, particularly trying something different today, BMC have had some riders at the front but haven't contributed anything to the race.

I have nothing against BMC as a team, just saying it as I see it that's all.

 

[Captain_Cavman]

ACF...you are in regular season form already!! Calm down. But I am gonna go out on a limb and say Skil will have a better season than BMC...

...and I'll be looking to see whether Azad University Iran can maintain their CQ advantage over BMC.