Volta a Catalunya 2013 - Stage 7: El Vendrell → Barcelona (122km)

[trevim]

Yay De Gendt! That's better

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

De Gendt easily!

Scarponi moves to 3rd or 4th in gc i think

 

[Miburo]

WTF was that sprint in the peloton???

 

[will10]

Nice stage.

 

[l.Harm]

Lol that guy from Saur-Sojasun (?) in the peloton sprint made a very strange move on the finish line

 

[Parrulo]

the peloton got together on the descent

great win for thomas

and for martin

 

[cineteq]

De Gendt easily!

Scarponi moves to 3rd or 4th in gc i think

First win for Vacansoleil.

 

[webvan]

WTF was that sprint in the peloton???

Phew...that was a near miss!

 

[The Hitch]

Daniel Martin gets his second biggest wt stage race

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Daniel Martin gets his second biggest wt stage race

But most historic, as Catalunya is one of the few WT stage races you can't pull the history card on

 

[Ferminal]

Daniel Martin gets his second biggest wt stage race

Apparently Scarponi won 2011 so may as well give Dan that too.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

First win for Vacansoleil.

Finally.

 

[brilleaben]

Still doesn't exceed his Japan Cup win.

 

[happytramp]

But most historic, as Catalunya is one of the few WT stage races you can't pull the history card on

Fantastic all week from Martin. Great support from his team too. Well deserved and to be honest he looked stronger than Rodriguez today.

 

[cocteau_ireland]

Brilliant Danny boy. Turned out rodriguez offered diddly.

 

[happytramp]

Yeah, there was a lot of talk of Roriguez 'crushing' it today. Turns out he couldn't crush a paper cup

 

[manafana]

pity break got away was right that this was a stage the bunhc would come in for.

 

[jaylew]

Scarponi on the podium with that move.

 

[trevim]

Scarponi on the podium with that move.

Looks a lot better than last year. He still has a few good mountain stages left I believe.

 

[martinvickers]

Brilliant Ride, Dan. big smile on my face today.

 

[Potomac]

What happened to Stetina, I wonder. Started today in 10th place but isn't listed in CN's brief results showing the top 16.

 

[jaylew]

I'm sure he was in the group. It was quite large.

Nevermind, you're talking about the gc. Not sure, guess he could have had a bad day.

 

[Jelantik]

Great ride by scarponi, bumping Quintana out. Quintana still have a lot to learn. Wiggins?? more calculation to come, I bet. According to Brailsford's calculation, he should have won the mountain stage and take the leader's jersey. But one thing for sure, at this time around, clearly he is not as strong as his teammate Froome and even his domestique Porte. I guess no ITT, he probably just have to dream to hang with the "real climber". I think the more Porte shines in the mountain, Wiggin's hierarcy just got bump one level down. But we are all know... god forbid that the sky will let the Australian lead their Brits TDF winner for the Giro. Sky's plan is to put the first Brit's to win another GT race. So Porte is not part of the plan, no matter how strong he is. Porte (seems to me) is ready to be co-leader for the Giro looking at his performance so far. Another Froome-Wigging de ja vu in the Giro?

 

[cineteq]

Great ride by scarponi, bumping Quintana out. Quintana still have a lot to learn.

He's not ready for prime time just yet. Supporting Alejandro's the right call.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Wellens had a puncture, thats why he dropped so fast from the breakaway. Bad luck for him he is pretty fast in a sprint.