Vuelta a Espana Stage 1: Benidorm TTT 13.5km

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Nibali in a great position to defend his title, impressive from leaky.

As usual in TTTs. If they acutally had some riders who were specialits in the disicpline they'd shred everyone.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Only the rabbits of Andalucia worse than Geox and Sky.
Who would have thought?

 

[The Hitch]

Fuglsang. Cav better chances than Sagan, surely?

No Cav has no chance at red. He was dropped.

 

[jobiwan]

Shack didn't do that bad for Brajkovic's epic fail.
Nibbles in the best position, and JRod and Anton looking pretty good.
GEOX was a fail today.

 

[Jamsque]

HTC were 3rd but Cav wasn't with them, so Fuglsang's lead should be safe tomorrow. He will maybe lose it on stage 3 and definitely lose it on stage 4.

Sky the biggest failure today, 20th out of 22 in a TTT is awful.

[edit] Forgot about Sagan! How could I. If he can grab 3rd tomorrow he'll take it.

 

[jobiwan]

No Cav has no chance at red. He was dropped.

I think Cav made it back, says the CN ticker.
EDIT: Maybe not. Who knows?

 

[Ferminal]

I want to see a stage finish at the top of that cliff.

 

[Moondance]

Par for the course for Geox.

I guess splurging on getting Menchov has forced them to cut back elsewhere... Like, you know, training their riders or something.

 

[ScottyMuser]

HTC were 3rd but Cav wasn't with them, so Fuglsang's lead should be safe tomorrow. He will maybe lose it on stage 3 and definitely lose it on stage 4.

Sky the biggest failure today, 20th out of 22 in a TTT is awful.

Sagan could try something to surprise the main sprinters to get the bonus secs he needs?

 

[zapata]

Biggest failure must be GEOX. Sky pretty close, though.

 

[jobiwan]

I think Cav made it back, says the CN ticker.
EDIT: Maybe not. Who knows?

If Bennati stayed with them, he's in the running for red.
And he did, podium gets red tomorrow.

 

[Jamsque]

Geox were poor but they have no pedigree in the TTT.

 

[cineteq]

Virtual GC

Nibali 16.34
VDB +14
Rodriguez +21
Anton +24
Brajkovic +25
Kloeden +25
Kruijswijk +26
Scarponi +28
Taaramae +33
Wiggins +38
Menchov +39

Big winners: Anton and Rodriguez
Big losers today: Wiggins and Menchov!

 

[hrotha]

Biggest failure must be GEOX. Sky pretty close, though.

Personally I think that Andalucía is a contender. Sure, it's no surprise that they came dead last, but they were 20 seconds slower than the teams immediately above them. That's amateur level.

 

[LaFleur]

Virtual GC

Nibali 16.34
VDB +14
Rodriguez +21
Anton +24
Brajkovic +25
Kloeden +25
Kruijswijk +26
Scarponi +28
Taaramae +33
Wiggins +38
Menchov +39

Big losers today: Wiggins and Menchov!

Fixed it for yah

 

[Descender]

Learn English with Spanish TV guy and Jakob Fuglsang.

 

[Fetisoff]

Did anyone (and by that i mostly meat Hitch, most likely) notice if Mr. Dan Brown finished with the team, or was he dropped?

 

[cineteq]

Fixed it for yah

Thanks he's on my fantasy team LOL

 

[insideout leadout]

Learn English with Spanish TV guy and Jakob Fuglsang.

Yeah it was a good Team TTT

 

[Andy99]

Steven de jongh interview on itv now

Apparently combination of a crash at a roundabout followed by lack of communication causing Zandio to sit up, not realising he was the last man!!

 

[Lance Armstrong]

Sagan could try something to surprise the main sprinters to get the bonus secs he needs?

There is a 250m @ 8% in the last km tomorrow. That should suit more Sagan than Cav or Kittel.

 

[roundabout]

It's weird though. Outside of Murcia Menchov seemingly forgot how to TT (not that he had done many of them this year) so maybe it's Fuji who are to blame.

 

[hfer07]

Liquigas did a fantastic TT- and have Vincenzo placed nicely in the overall
BTW -WTF happened to Sky?

 

[mewmewmew13]

wow really surprised at SKy.

what happened to Cav?

 

[Fetisoff]

It's weird though. Outside of Murcia Menchov seemingly forgot how to TT (not that he had done many of them this year) so maybe it's Fuji who are to blame.

Yeah, the Burgos TTT was a good indication that Geox as a whole were gonna fail big time here