Vuelta a Castilla y León 2012

[Bala Verde]

Kilómetro 109. A punto de comenzar el ascenso a Navacerrada, la diferencia vuelve a subir, 3:20 para los 19 escapados:

Arroyo, Karpets, Plaza (Movistar), Bennet y Busche (RadioShack), Palomares (Andalucía), Aramendia y Yelko Gómez (Caja Rural), Coppel, Jeandesboz y Mederel (Saur-Sojasun) Bizkarra (Orbea), Lill (Bonitas), Báez, Colorado y Pedraza (EPM), Camaño (Endura), Di Gregorio y Moncoutie (Cofidis)

rabo trying to control?

 

[theyoungest]

They're doing a pretty good job at it, if they manage to keep 19 guys at 3 minutes.

 

[Bala Verde]

An earlier dispatch on biciciclismo mentioned the other orange brigade was helping out.

 

[Frosty]

Plenty of space to road to race along.

http://twitter.com/#!/rafamzz/status/191487077223899137/photo/1

 

[Sylvester]

Who the hell is Hillary S***?

 

[Bala Verde]

Kilómetro 120,5. La diferencia baja ahora, 1:40.

Última referencia: 2:20

Kilómetro 119. La fuga no tiene peligro para el liderato de Luis León Sánchez puesto que el mejor clasificado es el colombiano Báez (EPM) a 8:08.

>10charcuterie

 

[Bala Verde]

Kilómetro 122. Tres corredores del Rabobank han abandonado después de trabajar a favor de su líder Luis León Sánchez.

Kilómetro 120,5. La diferencia baja ahora, 1:40.

3 RAB riders abandoned after more or less securing the win for LLS

 

[Frosty]

Wintry

http://twitter.com/#!/EduardoRTVCyL/status/191494524294545408/photo/1

 

[jens_attacks]

Who the hell is Hillary S***?

too obvious is too obvious

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Seems that Lulu Sanchez got dropped on the Navacerrada.

 

[jens_attacks]

luis leon dropped!

oh rabobank uh oh

 

[Bala Verde]

good thing those 3 rabo riders abandoned...

 

[LaFlorecita]

Luisle 55" behind.

 

[Frosty]

11 people close on the overall, no problem?

Maybe the Rabobank riders had already been dropped but it doesnt read like that.

 

[Frosty]

Maybe its only 55 seconds to the breakaway rather than Lulul having been dropped. Still quite a way to go though and its close on GC

 

[rantanplan]

Gerdemann (RadioShack) y Maté (Cofidis), and Schumacher (Christina Watches) tried to stop the race this morning...

Rabobank director said his riders to race and everybody follow them

In Morcuerra past -3ºC

Now they are climbing Navacerrada and LL Sanchez already lost contact with the main group...

 

[Frosty]

Obviously not. Castroviejo and Moreno are in the lead group

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/eventos_online-ficha.asp?id=188

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Go Castroviejo!

 

[LaFlorecita]

Castroviejo and Javi Moreno, both of Movistar, have 50'' gap on LL Sanchez. Both riders are only 15" down in GC. @VueltaCyL

Don't know where the riders placed 2nd and 3rd are though.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Obviously not. Castroviejo and Moreno are in the lead group

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/eventos_online-ficha.asp?id=188

Yes, the break is already caught.

Bunch = front group.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Or not...........

35 km to go: gap is down to 25" for the large escape (24 riders) ahead of leader LL Sanchez. @VueltaCyL

 

[Frosty]

25 seconds now the gap. 24 riders up front. Keldermann was the only Rabobank rider to finish in the main group yesterday, Graeme Brown was the next Rabo finisher after that, which doesnt sound great for there being many Raboriders still there.

Edit: Of course Slagter finished up front too.

 

[Frosty]

Arroyo, Karpets, Moreno and Plaza (Movistar Team), Urtasun (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Bennett, Machado and Busche (RadioShack), Toribio and Palomares (Andalucia), De la Cruz and Yelko Gomez (Caja Rural), Coppel, Jeandesboz, Levarlet and Mederel (Saur Sojasun), Lill (Nice), Parra, Baez, Colorado and Pedraza (EPM), Di Gregorio and Moncoutie (Cofidis)

Levarlet is up front too. 4 Saur riders and 4 Movistar riders, thats a lot to ride on the front and try to keep the gap up.

 

[Bala Verde]

GC after stage 2 was as follows

1 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Rabobank Cycling Team 8:03:09
2 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 0:00:06
3 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0:00:08
4 Javier Moreno Bazan (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:15
5 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Movistar Team
6 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) RadioShack-Nissan
7 David De La Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) Caja Rural
8 Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:00:19
9 Ivan Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0:00:22
10 Tiago Machado (Por) RadioShack-Nissan 0:00:24
11 Jose Vicente Toribio Alcolea (Spa) Andalucia 0:00:35
12 David Blanco (Spa) Efapel - Glassdrive 0:01:45

Any of those ahead of LLS?

 

[Frosty]

Most of them. Gerdemanmn, Bazan, Slagter arent, maybe the odd other one.