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Ryo Hazuki said:he seems better than pre-bann but no his sprint. valverde before his bann could place top 3 in massprints
classicomano said:A 25 kms de meta. El grupo de cabeza:
Valverde, Quintana y Moreno (Movistar), Gesink y Mollema (Blanco), Van den Broeck, De Clercq y Van de Walle (Lotto), Nieve (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Brajkovic, Fuglsang, Ponzi y Seeldrayers (Astana), Armee (Topsport), Maté y Navarro (Cofidis), Spilak (Katusha), Arroyo (Caja Rural), Hivert (Sojasun) y Belda (Burgos-BH)
Eyeballs Out said:Hivert has a good chance here
What are the gaps?Dazed and Confused said:Good call. Good win for him.
Top on the stage:
1,. Jonathan Hivert (Sojasun)
2. Alejandro Valverde (MoviStar Team)
3. Bauke Mollema (Blanco)
cineteq said:What are the gaps?
Froome19 said:1 Hivert 2 Valverde 3 Mollema 4 Ponzi 5 Rebellin 6 Van den Broeck 7 Armee 8 Gesink 9 Fuglsang 10 Nieve
Yeah, he's the Matt Goss of mountain stages.classicomano said:TGBM always on the podium, never wins
FFrenchcyclisme said:French riders are doing fine
These numbers kinda lie. Lot of French races done already.Dazed and Confused said:numbers can lie, but probably not in this case: from CQ country ranking stats (2013) below.
1. (5) France Europe Riders 1277
2. (1) Spain Europe Riders 1272
3. (6) Great Britain Europe Riders 1142
4. (8) Netherlands Europe Riders 988
5. (7) Australia Oceania Riders 830
6. (2) Italy Europe Riders 828
7. (3) Belgium Europe Riders 779
8. (9) United States America Riders 511
9. (4) Germany Europe Riders 493
10. (32) New Zealand Oceania Riders 294
theyoungest said:These numbers kinda lie. Lot of French races done already.
Pretty convincing win by Hivert, BTW.
Then he could try to do his best with what he has leftDazed and Confused said:Numbers. Very true.
Hivert
Impressive. Should be able to do something on stage two as well perhaps, but then what?
Dedelou said:Then he could try to do his best with what he has left
He won a few races in his carreer. (7) one Stage of the Tour of Romandie once and the general at Etoiles de Besseges. He looks like he is trying harder now that he is with SojasunDazed and Confused said:yep, but I am curious if anybody have info on whether he has done a similar stage and getting a good result.