Tour of the Basque Country 2012

[dlwssonic]

Samu won again?

 

[Havetts]

Samu won again?

Yep, he did. 2 in a row.

 

[Bavarianrider]

obviously. He only lost 11 seconds. This should be a walk in the park for Tony now

Well there is still tomorrow. He needs good legs tomorrow too.

 

[maltiv]

Nordhaug finished right next to Henao, but Henao was clearly stronger this time!

Tony Martin will win the GC easily if he climbs like this.

 

[hatcher]

Martin a better climber than TTer this year.

 

[dlwssonic]

obviously. He only lost 11 seconds. This should be a walk in the park for Tony now

NOOOOO!! This sucks as much as wiggins winning the tour

 

[BillytheKid]

Does Horner ever climb in the saddle ?

Never anymore. Always out.

 

[hatcher]

Nordhaug finished right next to Henao, but Henao was clearly stronger this time!

Tony Martin will win the GC easily if he climbs like this.

Nordhaug did a bit too much too early I thought. Showing inexperience among the big boys again. Great to see him finishing among the sort of names he is doing though.

 

[Havetts]

Martin a better climber than TTer this year.

Haha

 

[Trofinios]

Sammy is happy!

 

[BillytheKid]

Well there is still tomorrow. He needs good legs tomorrow too.

Uncertain on tomorrows finish. A steep section supposedly added. Horner or Sanchez.

Horner looks pretty d@#$ good.

 

[thegrimpeur]

The finish tomorrow is on top of a hill, so I wouldn't give up on this race quite yet. Hope for more of a selection as it would be cool to at least have an interesting final TT, as it stands right now Tony Martin should take this pretty comfortably...

 

[cineteq]

Tony Martin in a Pharma Quick step jersey. I might start to take the clinic seriously.

Why? Tony had been a decent climber in the past.

 

[Cancellator]

Where did Horner finish?

 

[Sophistic]

the extra km tomorrow should be around 10%, enough to put maybe 15sec on Martin if they are really pushing it, they will need much more than 25s for the ITT.

 

[Arnout]

Why? Tony had been a decent climber in the past.

It's not only him though. But lets not dwell on that in this section.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Tony has to limit the gap to sanchez around 35 seconds. I don't think he can gain back more time in that 18km TT.

 

[Fetisoff]

Where did Horner finish?

3rd (after letting Samu and J-Rod basically do all the work up the climb, except for couple pulls he took)

 

[theyoungest]

It's not only him though. But lets not dwell on that in this section.

There were about 20 guys in that group? I think last year he also got 20th or something on this stage. They simply didn't climb fast enough.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Liquigas

 

[BillytheKid]

Where did Horner finish?

Third...same time as J-Rod, Sanchez...Horner attacking all the way up. Sanchez came up easy. J-Rod matching..

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

they also started attacking very late this year.
Seems like every year it gets slower or the group gets bigger...

Hopefully better racing tomorrow

 

[BillytheKid]

3rd (after letting Samu and J-Rod basically do all the work up the climb, except for couple pulls he took)

WTF! What were you watching?

 

[Euskaltel!]

The climb isn't great though, the last 2km are a write off and it only has a few km of real steep stuff, I'm not sure what you were expecting!

At least some selection has taken place, people will have to try things tomorrow to try to gain a little bit on Martin. We'll see...

 

[roundabout]

There were about 20 guys in that group? I think last year he also got 20th or something on this stage. They simply didn't climb fast enough.

He was very good today. One of the best apart from the 3 ahead.

Maybe he was the one who climbed faster than expected.

But you may be right, 20 people within 12 seconds doesn't point to a super fast climb. Or this is the new reality of cycling with minimal gaps and nobody well ahead of the rest to exploded the race.