Vuelta a España - Stage 5: September 3 - Tarragona - Vinaros, 174km

[powderpuff]

Vuelta a España - Stage 5: September 3 - Tarragona - Vinaros, 174km

Today's stage weather outlook

 

[Mellow Velo]

36C
Breakaway: Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Euskaltel), José Antonio Lopez Gil (Andalucía), Julien El Fares (Cofidis), Julian Sanchez Pimienta (Contentpolis-Ampo), Matthé Pronk (Vacansoleil) and Serafin Martinez (Xacobeo Galicia).

- Peloton at 4.03

 

[powderpuff]

Only 2 retirements (Chris Horner (Astana) and Robert Kiserlovski (Fuji)) from the stage 4 crash plus Wegelius... lucky not to have been alot more

 

[Cobber]

Quiet thread today!

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Friere ftw.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Horner is joining Team Zimmer, according to Eurosport.
Odd colour sky they have in Spain.
Very tranquilo....zzziesta time, recovering from their Belgian bash.

 

[krebs303]

Horner is joining Team Zimmer, according to Eurosport.

Who is TZ? all I can find is this

Team Zimmer is a volleyball club made up of veteran players from Northern Ireland most of which have represented Northern Ireland at international level

or do I not get the joke?

 

[taiwan]

It's the Shack, I think.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Course it's The Shack.
Zimmer frame?
never mind.
7 replies to this thread. Bring back the fanboys.
Charging onto the little finishing climb......
Gilbert's off.

 

[RhodriM]

Course it's The Shack.
Zimmer frame?
never mind.
7 replies to this thread. Bring back the fanboys.
Charging onto the little finishing climb......
Gilbert's off.

Aye but there's probably others like me reading it.

Feel free to give a commentary for those of us who can't see the stage

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Griepel wins again.
was too strong.

 

[Cobber]

Yeah.. good sprint by Greipel.

+1 for bringing back the fanboys. This thread was a little slow today, barely making it to page 2 at the finish.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Much as expected. A couple of the sprinters are well ahead of the rest.
Farrar needs a rest. Freire picks Farrar's wheel.
At least Bennati finally showed up.
Peloton split down to post Belgium fears?

 

[Faserr]

There was a split in the peloton because Ciolek crashed heavily in the final k.

 

[issoisso]

Well done Greipel. Blasted past the others

Ciolek continues his "awesome" bad luck

 

[titan_90]

Good win by Greipel. I have been waiting to see how he would fair against some A-list sprinters.

 

[taiwan]

Milram's website:
MILRAM captain Gerald Ciolek was stopped in the finale of the fifth stage of the Vuelta a Espana (August 29 – September 20 / UCI Category HIS) again by a crash. On the previous stage last Tuesday, a crash in the last 25 kilometers took away the 22-year-old's chances for a stage win. This time he went down in the chaos of the closing sprint and couldn't participate in the final decision.
„There were a lot of narrow streets and a small climb before the finish, and we lost ourselves a bit,“ said Ralf Grabsch, Directeur Sportif for Team MILRAM: „If there had still been two riders with Gerald Ciolek, then the final kilometer would have been optimal. As it was, he was alone. As a team we weren't attentive enough and we let Gerald down. We want to learn from this mistake and will talk about it, so that we can be successful again tomorrow.“

Does Milram definitely still have sponsorship for next season, by the way? Is it just the continental team that's coming to an end?

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

Does Milram definitely still have sponsorship for next season, by the way? Is it just the continental team that's coming to an end?

Yes, and yes.

Susan

 

[aarnold517]

loved seeing that all-or-nothing attack from gilbert near the end

im guessing either gilbert or gasparotto will win a stage by the end of the vuelta

 

[taiwan]

(Milram to continue) Ok, then.

Farrar did look pretty tired at this point. Maybe time to retire before the mountains.

 

[craig1985]

Griepel really does need to leave Columbia. Why play second fiddle to Cavendish and be his lead-out man when you take him on and see if you can beat him.

 

[Danilot]

Maybe he thinks he can't beat him and prefers to stay and have Columbia's train at his disposal when Cav isn't there.