Vuelta a España - Stage 1 August 28, TTT Sevilla 16.5km

[The Sheep]

Garmin behind?

 

[The Hitch]

Augusterone

Dissapoint 17 seconds down.
finish with only 5 men.

Cav in red. Grand slam to be completed on passage du gois stage

 

[icefire]

Shucks.... What did Garmin do????

+17 s (to HTC)

 

[Moondance]

+17 s (to HTC)

Damn.......

 

[Francois the Postman]

lol. Organisers want to create excitement so they dont show Garmin time.

And they are not bringing it back until the bickering stops and everyone here promises to play nice....

...until rabo starts. All gloves can come off. Menchov on the road.

 

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

Garmin screwed that up big time. How one earth have they only get the 4th best time with the team they have (which looks like it was picked to win the TTT and nothing else).

Major, major balls up. I bet HTC are pi**ing themselves at that.

 

[Moondance]

Saxo looking smooth....

 

[theyoungest]

Damn.......

They dropped someone almost immediately... didn't bode well for the rest of the TT, apparently.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Why? Are you basing that purely on the general quality of the team, or the actual riders on the particular team..

Who cares anyway, its the prologue. Sky are at the vuelta to pick up some experience for the young riders and try and snatch a stage win maybe two if they are lucky, thats all.

Bashing is a very strong word Dim! I thought with there team they could of done better. not a prologue dim. They have 3 young guys but the rest are old.

 

[sublimit]

When Sky get Dowsett on board they will unstoppable in TTT'S when combined with Wiggans, Thomas, Hagen. they were **** today though to be fair with an underpowered team.

 

[Francois the Postman]

Garmin, wow... now that is a surprise.

 

[Zoncolan]

Guess I was wrong about Garmin.
Glad that Xacobeo did well though.

 

[The Hitch]

Garmin screwed that up big time. How one earth have they only get the 4th best time with the team they have (which looks like it was picked to win the TTT and nothing else).

Major, major balls up. I bet HTC are pi**ing themselves at that.

yeah and htc have none of their super time trialers.

Former 3 time word champion mick rogers- not here
Former word champion Bert Grabsch- not here
5 time italian champion Pinnoti - not here
Future word champion and 2nd in world TOny Martin - not here

 

[Moondance]

I guess the 4 guys on Garmin riding their third GT this year was just too much to be fresh enough to go FTW here.

 

[auscyclefan94]

dave harmon is awesome. I see your tatic dim. Go in woth low expectations so you won't be dissapointed if sky does fail.

 

[rxgqgxnyfz]

Cervelo going to be using that all black uniform???

Epic fail
________
TEEN ANAL

 

[The Sheep]

NOS also found out the Vuelta started

 

[Moondance]

Cervelo going to be using that all black uniform???

Epic fail

Yep, major cock up.

 

[Francois the Postman]

CTT in black. Befitting..

Are they seriously sporting that strip over the coming days then, or have they got the white with black letters one on standby?

 

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

Bashing is a very strong word Dim! I thought with there team they could of done better. not a prologue dim. They have 3 young guys but the rest are old.

The best TTer for Sky was probably Lofkvist. I think that tells you all you need to know about the strength of Sky's team for the TTT. People have hyped them up for this stage assumign they'd have the strong roluers like at the Giro. If people had bothered to look in any detail they'dknow that wasn't the case.

 

[The Hitch]

I guess the 4 guys on Garmin riding their third GT this year was just too much to be fresh enough to go FTW here.

Does that include CVV who has a total of 5 stages under his belt? Farrar who only did part of the Tour, though has done lots since. Then again Millar killed himself during the tour and stayed on.

Rabo unlucky. Freire dropped.

 

[auscyclefan94]

garmin shocking, rabo rider taking nature break?

 

[The Hitch]

Caisse not bad. Are they going to try to insert themselves again into the gc. Does Arroyo have a chance at competing?

 

[Francois the Postman]

Caisse coming in. I'm gonna miss that strip.

 

[The Hitch]

Andalucia Caja Sur

Really nice kit.