Tour of the Basque Country 2012

[Gloin22]

Nordhaug: "We were going to set up the sprint for Appolonio when an insanely steep wall suddenly appeared. We had no idea that climb was going to be there!"

Seriously, Sky? There were people on this forum talking about it all day, and Sky, a team which focus on "marginal gains", didn't know it was coming. Luckily it didn't matter too much as they were all positioned nicely because they were ready to set up Appo for the sprint

Nobody knew it was coming in last km's ? Many thought it was false flat. Nobody here expected it, even Libertinie imo looking at his reactions.

 

[theyoungest]

The Rabobus knew it! But they have Juanma Garate.

 

[The Hitch]

You mean last year when he got third at Milan-San Remo, blew the race apart in the Ronde van Vlaanderen, got second in a prologue at the Tour of Belgium and won the queen stage and overall, won a flat Belgian championship road race, won the national time trial title, got second in a bunch sprint of the Tour was fighting for the green jersey with Cavendish him self? Or when he beat Boonen in a sprint at Paris-Tours?

How exactly is Gilbert a one trick pony compared to Rodriguez who can't time trial, descent, ride on cobbles and can't actually climb very consistently either.

Another way to look at it is that Gilbert can only do classics with loads of hills in them. He just about manages when the hills are cobbled.

Joaquim Rodriguez can do hilly classics, mountain stages of gts, and overall gts.

Its a bit dumb to claim that a guy who cant tt cant perform in stage races cant really sprint or do cobbles and sure as hell cant climb mountains, is definately not a 1 trick pony yet label Purito as such.

 

[jens_attacks]

Nordhaug: "We were going to set up the sprint for Appolonio when an insanely steep wall suddenly appeared. We had no idea that climb was going to be there!"

gotta love pais vasco

the strongest to win tomorrow,hopefully no crashes or mechanicals
it was a good pais vasco anyway.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

The Rabobus knew it! But they have Juanma Garate.

Unfortunately Garate didn't tell Mollema about the corner before the finish line. So he lost 5 seconds

 

[theyoungest]

Unfortunately Garate didn't tell Mollema about the corner before the finish line. So he lost 5 seconds

He said he got "gekwakt", and thus came to a standstill.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Do we already know starting times?

 

[search]

Do we already know starting times?

we do:

País Vasco: Orden de salida CRI completo

 

[Bavarianrider]

we do:

País Vasco: Orden de salida CRI completo

Thanks

 

[Bavarianrider]

So Tony is the last one to start in the one minute intervall.
Catching Danieslon could give Tony some extra seconds.

 

[Frosty]

Kiryenka looked good today and can tt quite well. Could be one to move up quite well tomorrow.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Do we already know starting times?

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=49701

begins: 14:28

ends:
16:13 Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-Quick Step)
16:15 Rui Costa (Movistar Team)
16:17 Simon Spilak (Katusha)
16:19 Wouter Poels (Vacansoleil-DCM)
16:21 Vasili Kiryienka (Movistar Team)
16:23 Jean-Christophe Peraud (AG2R)
16:25 Bauke Mollema (Rabobank)
16:27 Chris Horner (RadioShack-Nissan)
16:29 Damiano Cunego (Lampre-ISD)
16:31 Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Barracuda)
16:33 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Lotto-Belisol)
16:35 Sergio Luis Henao (Sky)
16:37 Michele Scarponi (Lampre-ISD)
16:39 Lars Petter Nordhaug (Sky)
16:41 Robert Kiserlovski (Astana)
16:43 Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi)
16:45 Joaquim Rodríguez (Katusha)


Edit: ooops so slow to get in there!

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Or be a messy hold up on a technical corner.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

So Tony is the last one to start in the one minute intervall.
Catching Danieslon could give Tony some extra seconds.

It could give Danielson some extra seconds if he lets Tony catch him quickly and try to hold on as long as possible

This way Tony has brought many great positions to guys he caught in time trials

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Kiryenka looked good today and can tt quite well. Could be one to move up quite well tomorrow.

For some reason Movistar had him pulling in the front of the peloton today

 

[Mellow Velo]

So Tony is the last one to start in the one minute intervall.
Catching Danieslon could give Tony some extra seconds.

Cos Danielson can't trial, right?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Cos Danielson can't trial, right?

1 minute isn't much, even for Danielson

T.Martin usually goes twice as fast as even many TT-ers.

 

[Frosty]

For some reason Movistar had him pulling in the front of the peloton today

Hm, ok, put your top GC rider on the front of the peloton. Was wondering if maybe they fancied Rojas but he finished quite a way down.

 

[Lexman]

He might have a shot to podium
The fact that he finished 7 sec. behind Purito and Samu is a good sign.

I'm curious on his TT abilities, they were quite well in Algarve, he might win a few sports tomorrow i guess

Didn't Vanendert finish today? don't see him mentioned in the results on CN page but some twenty riders are missing???

 

[will10]

I'm curious on his TT abilities, they were quite well in Algarve, he might win a few sports tomorrow i guess

Didn't Vanendert finish today? don't see him mentioned in the results on CN page but some twenty riders are missing???

Vanendert DNF

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Nobody knew it was coming in last km's ? Many thought it was false flat. Nobody here expected it, even Libertinie imo looking at his reactions.

Indeed, I thought they were just riding into Oñati and maybe a loop around the town.

Hm, ok, put your top GC rider on the front of the peloton. Was wondering if maybe they fancied Rojas but he finished quite a way down.

If they did a better job of studying the routebook than Sky, then could have been that Rui Costa was their man.

In the end Kiryienka finished 4th anyhow, a couple of seconds ahead of the Portuguese.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Easy...it does not look

 

[Bavarianrider]

Easy...it does not look

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Good news for you - you've got this week's excuse ready made.

Please let me know when Tony will actually win something this year.

 

[will10]

Tony M. will not win tomorrow.