search said:so apparently everybody is allowed to start tomorrow?! That's what Jonathan Vaughters mentions on twitter at least.
search said:so apparently everybody is allowed to start tomorrow?! That's what Jonathan Vaughters mentions on twitter at least.
Andy Schleck FTW!hatcher said:It certainly reads that way.
For viewing reasons I'm glad. For fairness reasons it seems wrong.
Yeah, when I read the weather forecasts this weekend I feared it could be a bit of a disappointment, but the organizers have managed to screw it up even more than the weather already did for them. What a shambles of a race.Dekker_Tifosi said:You got to be KIDDING me...
Ok this race has just lost all remaining interest
Dekker_Tifosi said:You got to be KIDDING me...![]()
Dekker_Tifosi said:You got to be KIDDING me...
Ok this race has just lost all remaining interest
King Of The Wolds said:What choice did they have?
"Hello Mr. TV Broadcaster, you're OK with us sending home half of the race's biggest stars after 3 stages, aren't you?"
It's just not going to cut the mustard, is it?
There weren't that many abandonsKing Of The Wolds said:What choice did they have?
"Hello Mr. TV Broadcaster, you're OK with us sending home half of the race's biggest stars after 3 stages, aren't you?"
It's just not going to cut the mustard, is it?
hrotha said:I think you guys are giving too much credence to some passing comments by Vaughters.
hrotha said:I think you guys are giving too much credence to some passing comments by Vaughters.
On the other hand, four Spaniards DNSed - Valverde, Moreno, Horrach and Navarro.ansimi said:Wiggins and Porte were the only ones from the +1'32 group who quit.
Aramendia and Txurruka were the only Spaniards who quit.
It's still a good field.
Frosty said:Yeah, i mean Andy Schleck and Ivan Basso leaving the race has killed the entertainment for me. They were animating it so much.
Libertine Seguros said:I think the organisers are under a lot of pressure to make the race a success, they put out a killer stage, far better than we've seen in the last three or four years here; they got the race back on TV (last year it was down to half hour highlights on ETB and other regional broadcasters) and were so determined to make it work that they blithely insisted on carrying on with Plan A long past the point at which the decision should have been made to go to Plan B, and a lot of things happened in between the point at which they should have gone to Plan B, and the point at which they went to Plan B, to totally ruin Plan B and mean they had to scramble to try and find a way out of the hole they'd dug for themselves.
Their determination to make the race successful as planned has been a greater failure than the race itself.
Libertine Seguros said:On the other hand, four Spaniards DNSed - Valverde, Moreno, Horrach and Navarro.
Key figures in:
Brajkovic
Albasini
CA Sørensen
Leipheimer
van den Broeck
Arroyo
Danielson
Fuglsang
Cunego
Gesink
Hesjedal
Zaugg
Kelderman
Samuel Sánchez
Dan Martin
Menchov
Karpets
Bruseghin
Nieve
LL Sánchez
Moncoutié
Kashechkin (!)
Key names out:
de Gendt
Siutsou
Wiggins
Porte
Schleck
Machado
Basso
Txurruka
Tiralongo
van Garderen
Valverde
Still a pretty decent field, probably as good as 2009-10.
Cancellator said:From the RSN website : Many riders abandoned today, including Tiago, Andy and Ben for RSNT. The three riders were suffering from the cold and it was impossible for them to continue on the dangerous and icy descent.
This is the team I support but that paragraph sounds really, really funny, like something a forum member would write ironically.
Cancellator said:From the RSN website : Many riders abandoned today, including Tiago, Andy and Ben for RSNT. The three riders were suffering from the cold and it was impossible for them to continue on the dangerous and icy descent.
This is the team I support but that paragraph sounds really, really funny, like something a forum member would write ironically.
Froome19 said:I agree with this article some riders suffer more from the cold than other and it isnt fair to make them ride in conditions which are in fact actually deemed not suitable by the race officials themselves, if they dont want to.