Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla y León - 13th to 17th April

[theyoungest]

63 Richie Porte (Aus) Saxo Bank Sungard 0:13:53
Another stirling performance from our Richie.
Clearly Riis has him on Andy's old racing programme of doing squat until July, when he will suddenly find his super charger.

As for the ITT, it must be another Rabo romp, no?
They certainly have the clock nailed to the wall, this season.

Actually Porte was climbing better than I've seen all year. Not great, but on the penultimate climb he was in a group with Coppel when they passed Contador who had his first flat, and waited for him. And then on the final climb he "controlled" the break (not very succesfully, the gap went from 10 secs to 45 secs under his guard).

 

[jaylew]

True, he's said doing nothing but working for AC here and then having a go in the TT. I'm sure he soft-pedaled after working on the front today. I guess his next goal is Romandie.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Go TGBM!!!!!

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Slagter was actually stronger than him today, and he is doing the Giro

nice, i still haven't seen it, but am glad to here it
Didn't think we'd see a whole lot of slagter this year. Hopefully he can have a nice ride.
How did kruijswijk look? also looking forward to him at the giro.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Ortega seems to be in such a bad shape, that he had to abandon today.

he has crashed in anapoima a few weeks ago and isn't recovering, he is their best guy by far

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Froome's tt'ing has been getting better and better. Could/Should move himself inside the top ten.

he's not going to go over any of the guys standing on 27 seconds excedpt MAYBE atapuma and martinez. making up more than 33 seconds in 11 km is a lot! and there aren't exatcly too bad of itt guys in front of him.

 

[nobilis]

You should think to replace TGBM by TGTS

 

[hrotha]

You mean TGTJS.

 

[theyoungest]

You mean TGTJS.

Personally, I like The Butcher better.

 

[boomcie]

Personally, I like The Butcher better.

He should earn that first.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Minor prediction for today

ITT
1. Contador
2. Coppel
3. Random guy

GC
1. Tondo
2. Mollema +1s
3. Coppel

 

[Cobblestoned]

Full prediction for today

ITT
1. Contador
2. Coppel
3. whoever

GC
1. Coppel
2. Mollema +2s
3. Perez

 

[sublimit]

ITT:
1.Contador
2.Dowsett
3.Cioni

GC:
1.Tondo
2.Cioni
3.A N Other

 

[TourOfSardinia]

shouldn't this be going live any time now?
Any one get a live feed?

oops it's started on the usual http://www.rtvcyl.es/Directo.aspx

eventhough it's changed channels from Cyl7 to Cyl8

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

is there a stream with better image?? because I can't read any name or time

 

[superconfex]

is there a stream with better image?? because I can't read any name or time

have you tried http://www.rtvcyl.es/Directo.aspx ?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

is there a stream with better image?? because I can't read any name or time

that number 7 wobbling abit is Richie Porte.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

yeah that one is impossible to read times for me

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Why did conti lose 2.03 minutes? he flatted in the last 3K's did he not?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Why did conti lose 2.03 minutes? he flatted in the last 3K's did he not?

I read it was in the 4kms.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

sastre looks fat to anyone else??

 

[Descender]

It was a MTF anyway, the 3km rule doesn't count.

 

[Descender]

Porte best time by 14s at 5,7km.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

R.Porte 7.41 at half way?

 

[hrotha]

sastre looks fat to anyone else??

Sastre is a bit of a joke. Okay, few people do two GTs (let alone three) at top level anymore, kudos for that, but he uses every other race (certainly those in the early season) to simply stroll around, and he's always talking about how he's getting better and everything's going to plan. Even though he's in a non-World Tour team that should have something to prove this season.