Vuelta a Espana Stage 2: Assen - Emmen 203,7 km

[Cobber]

http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-la-vuelta-a-espana.html

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Thanks Krebs303!

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

great sprint. loved watching the teams battling for the best lead out (think many of the teams learnt something at the tour)
boonen went too early. Hammond did fantastic.
Griepel lost his postion a bit at the end, cost him the stage tho not sure he would have won, obviously great sprint by ciolek

 

[titan_90]

universalsports wants me to pay for fullscreen video now......

When I seen that my reaction was WTF!! What BS.

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+1

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-la-vuelta-a-espana.html

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that is what i was using. great stream.

 

[issoisso]

Ciolek again shows that he has the pure speed of a top, top sprinter. He went extremely early, everyone else that went with him faded very badly, yet he held on for the win.

 

[lostintime]

Universal Sports does the classic bait and switch.
They won't earn many fans that way.

What happened to Farrar? . . . . He just didn't have it today I suppose.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

I don't think farrar will be as dominant in the sprints as many think he will.

IMO that was more entertaining then any of the sprints at the tour .

 

[Mellow Velo]

Once again, Garmin show that they are terrible at playing "chicken".
Not there in numbers, when Farrar needed them.
Bennati is back......finally.

 

[issoisso]

Universal Sports does the classic bait and switch.
They won't earn many fans that way.

What happened to Farrar? . . . . He just didn't have it today I suppose.

Went waaaaaaay too early. So did Boonen, Ciolek and others. And as predicted they faded badly towards the end. Ciolek somehow didn't, which is very strange.

 

[Cobber]

I don't think farrar will be as dominant in the sprints as many think he will.

IMO that was more entertaining then any of the sprints at the tour .

+1.... much more entertaining sprint today!

 

[issoisso]

Sánchez, F. Schleck and Vinokourov lose 18 seconds in the split.

A.Schleck loses half a minute

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Sánchez, F. Schleck and Vinokourov lose 18 seconds in the split.

A.Schleck loses half a minute

do you know if gesink was in the front group?

 

[issoisso]

do you know if gesink was in the front group?

Everyone important not mentioned was there

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

cheers!

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

I don't know who the announcer was that I listened to, but I do know that Ciolek is not pronounced "cherr-lick" and it is definitely not Marcil "Sigh-berg"

Susan

 

[HL2037]

Sánchez, F. Schleck and Vinokourov lose 18 seconds in the split.

A.Schleck loses half a minute

So maybe Saxobank really are riding for Jacob Fuglsang, as Bjarne has been saying.

 

[Connor Pass]

Everyone important not mentioned was there

The official site doesn't have times for Gesink or Kreuziger and a few others.

They only have 173 times listed but there should've been 198 riding.

Definitely agree with the views here that it was better than any spring in Le Tour. Hopefully more of the same in the next few days.

 

[issoisso]

So maybe Saxobank really are riding for Jacob Fuglsang, as Bjarne has been saying.

Kim Andersen said so a few weeks ago. And he never lies in these matters.

Anyway, Frank has an injured knee and Andy is aiming for the Worlds and can only hold top form for an extremely small window compared to most riders. So neither of them have a chance.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

Fränk got caught up in that big crash and never made it back all the way up to the front again. Whether that's because he couldn't or didn't really try to, I don't know.

Susan

 

[hfer07]

Regardless of the stage outcome-it seems to my like Tom Boonen's years are behind him as a sprinter?

 

[issoisso]

Should also be noted that before being left behind, Andy Schleck spent most of the last 20kms pacing Breschel and keeping him out of the wind.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

The official site doesn't have times for Gesink or Kreuziger and a few others.

They only have 173 times listed but there should've been 198 riding.

Definitely agree with the views here that it was better than any spring in Le Tour. Hopefully more of the same in the next few days.

Gesink finished in the first group. Kreuziger as well. Don't know about any others.

But for those 2 I'm 100% sure. Gesink also already replied on his twitter and said it was a good day, so that must mean he simply finished in the 1st group

 

[ruamruam]

Anybody have any news of Dan Martin today? He is not listed in cyclingnews.com stage results.

ruamruam

 

[Anonymous]

am in the only one finding a northern europe veulta completely and utterly weird

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

So maybe Saxobank really are riding for Jacob Fuglsang, as Bjarne has been saying.

I've been saying this for weeks on another forum, and even there nobody believed me

Here I didn't even try, because it's like talking into a brick wall. (people are very stubborn here)