Volta a Catalunya 2012 - Stage 6: Sant Fruitós de Bages - Badalona (169km)

[Geraint Too Fast]

Volta a Catalunya 2012 - Stage 6: Sant Fruitós de Bages - Badalona (169km)

Alt de la Conreria

Likely stage winners; Appollonio, Sabatini, Davis, Van Hummel, Haedo, Gavazzi.

Not a lot of fast men in the race and plenty of GC contenders on the same time - could be an interesting sprint...

 

[JRanton]

Downhill sprint as well. This is going to be chaos.

 

[Catwhoorg]

Unless some GC contenders get away before Estany and keep going as a group on the descent and beyond.

Bedlam. Absolute bedlam.

 

[wirral]

Menchov to spring a surprise.

Like wearing a funny hat or throwing stuffed olives at the moto-cameras.

But seriously, here are my calculations for positions 2 to 6. The figures in brackets reflect the total sum of positions on stages 1, 2, 4 and 5 but not stage 3 as it seems is was not counted for this purpose.

Van Den Broeck (72)
Martin (76)
Sanchez (94)
Uran (94)
Cunego (110)

Theoretically, using my method, Uran should be ahead of Sanchez as, in the case of a tie, the most recent stage is taken as the decider.

So, if anyone can explain this and/or provide a more accurate reasoning to the current GC placings, please do.

 

[ferryman]

Cunego go go

 

[Lexman]

one big lottery

Albasini for his third stage win

 

[manafana]

not much happen today bar crashes lots of crashes.

 

[jens_attacks]

albasini for the win
but this year's race is already wasted

 

[Frosty]

Maybe its the day for a big break to get away, would improve matters towards the end as hopefully then not many of the sprinters would bother with sprinting for 14th place.

Saw Kenny quoted as favourite for this stage last night. Would think Appollonio would be quite handy if it comes down to a bunch gallop but they may decide he is better off looking after Uran as they only have a three man team.

Lulu Sanchez to win the stage from a break.

 

[pastronef]

Dan Martin, yesterday from his twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/DanMartin86 Basically tune in 2moro to see the most chaotic, dangerous sprint in history as 15 climbers fight for every spot possible


DanMartin86 Disappointed today. Had to slam the brakes with 250 Togo. Gc is too tight to call. For those who don't know, GC is all on stage placings

 

[Frosty]

Its not just the climbers and sprinters. If you were well placed then you could try to get your team mates to sprint from further back hoping to get an extra place or two separating yourself from, say, VDB. Some big points at stake in this race.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Its not just the climbers and sprinters. If you were well placed then you could try to get your team mates to sprint from further back hoping to get an extra place or two separating yourself from, say, VDB. Some big points at stake in this race.

Exactly - appolonio should be leading Uran out and then getting straight in to his wheel.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

according to sky website. they go for appollonio. what a bunch of idiots as if they hadn't f'd this race up enough as a team

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

according to sky website. they go for appollonio. what a bunch of idiots as if they hadn't f'd this race up enough as a team

Yeah, stage win and a top 5 GC position, what a **** up.

It's clearly their fault the local organisation is functionally brain dead and incapable of reacting to circumstances.

 

[Gloin22]

They won't. I am sure of it. They just wrote that imo, Appo will lead out Uran for sure...hopefully

 

[hrotha]

I don't see what's wrong with going for the stage victory instead of sacrificing everything so that Urán can get 2nd or 3rd instead of 4th or 5th.

 

[Richeypen]

They would be much better off going for stage wins instead of moving up GC placings. There is no prestige left in this race and its not like they will be struggling for WT points at the end of the season. Stage victories should be much more important than GC in a race like this

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I don't see what's wrong with going for the stage victory instead of sacrificing everything so that Urán can get 2nd or 3rd instead of 4th or 5th.

You're talking to Ryo. Look at the little flags next to the riders' names.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica]Dan Marin tweeted yesterday: 'Basically tune in 2moro to see the most chaotic, dangerous sprint in history as 15 climbers fight for every spot possible."[/font]

 

[burning]

Climbers sprinting?

I hope bad stuff wont happen and sprint will be downhill to make things worse

 

[hatcher]

I think they'd be crazy to go for Uran rather than Appollonio for the win, but there is not just the possibility of moving up onto the podium for Uran, but also the possibility of moving down to 15th (or wherever the maths allows).

No reason they can't both sprint really.

 

[wirral]

Kilometre 11, no successful breaks.

 

[Lexman]

Pineau & Montcoutié try to escape...

 

[Lexman]

They have 16 seconds in advance

 

[Mellow Velo]

The only way Albasini can lose this race is by contesting today's finish.
Something to steer clear of..............