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Don't forget Paris-Nice if you're at home today !
This always seems like the proper start of the season ! All those 'new' Jan/Feb races are ok for training runs but they're either on overnight (Aus) or are intrinsically a bit dull( the desert) Proper season starts today ! |
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ps...........I think they've moved P-N forward a week in the calender over the last couple of years because it always used to coincide with the Cheltenham Festival which took priority for me...............
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ps...........I think they've moved P-N forward a week in the calender over the last couple of years because it always used to coincide with the Cheltenham Festival which took priority for me...............
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Wiggins in yellow in the P-N, finished in leading group, after the bunch was split into pieces by strong winds.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/17261475 |
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Great to see Wiggins leading ParisNice.
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You could still argue that Martin put in the second best ride of the day.
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Gerrans was fired up today trying to get one back on Valverde for squeezing him out of the similar stage at the TDU. The hill looked a little to long for many early season legs - probably not looking forward to finishing on Mende. Nuyens hit the ground really hard in Sunday's ITT: http://www.teamsaxobank.com/ny_news.asp?n_id=3516
Near solid cycling tomorrow afternoon with the start of Tirreno-Adriatico. |
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Near solid cycling tomorrow afternoon with the start of Tirreno-Adriatico.
And Milan-San remo in between Harmon reporting that Cippo has said he wants to make a comeback and ride in this years Giro............ ( set these words 'cat, hell, chance' into a common phrase or saying !)
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Harmon reporting that Cippo has said he wants to make a comeback and ride in this years Giro............
( set these words 'cat, hell, chance' into a common phrase or saying !)Ah, I didn't dream it after all
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It's wall to wall.........Tour of taiwan next week (might just be highlights not live) then Tour of Catalonia the week after
Saxobank will be there (their post-Contador future?) and the rest are smaller 'Continental' teams including the British Rapha team: http://tourdetaiwan.org.tw/cycling/T.../tour_team.php |
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Looking at the weekend schedule,it's only 15min highlights from Taiwan: http://tv.eurosport.co.uk/
Saxobank will be there (their post-Contador future?) and the rest are smaller 'Continental' teams including the British Rapha team: http://tourdetaiwan.org.tw/cycling/T.../tour_team.php |
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Sky have some incredible depth to their squad, Another win for them today with EBH and Wiggins still leading GC. Impressive stuff.
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Sky have some incredible depth to their squad, Another win for them today with EBH and Wiggins still leading GC. Impressive stuff.
I guess we're so blasé now that we don't even bother posting it up when Cav wins............. |
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I guess we're so blasé now that we don't even bother posting it up when Cav wins.............
Good to see the veteran Voigt still riding strongly. Only just eclipsed in the final few metres by Sanchez, twelve years younger than him. Today's T-A stage is re-routed around the single major climb to eliminate a potentially treacherous descent. |
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Can anyone beat Wiggins now?
Leipheimer's tweet about his 3rd crash was quickly deleted and QS are smoothing over the issue on their website. On Twitter, Thomas and Wiggins have expressed their views about Movistar's tactics. |
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Can anyone beat Wiggins now?
Leipheimer's tweet about his 3rd crash was quickly deleted and QS are smoothing over the issue on their website. On Twitter, Thomas and Wiggins have expressed their views about Movistar's tactics. The Leipheimer thing is unfortunate, but you can't really blame Movistar for trying to split the field when they did. The parcours this year has been very uninspiring... it was either try on that climb or not at all. |
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Well done Brad !............wins the stage and the GC....
Westra put in a big one and it looked a bit iffy for Brad at one point but he rallied towards the finish to pip Westra's time |
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Great stage win Brad to win by two seconds after the effort by Vestra was true champion cycling
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Wiggins looks like the real deal this year, but that was the most boring edition of P-N I've seen since I started following cycling.
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Nice win for Wiggins, bit dull overall but credit to Sky for neutralising the breaks I guess. Could of done without the cheat Valverde on the podium though.
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Fantastic result and achievement. Hope this is the start of even bigger things for 2012.
Is it too early to start BBC SPOTY nominations? |
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Brad is going for the Tour of Catalonia next week
It's live on Eurosport from Monday Not sure if It's been on Eurosport recently but it always used to be about 10 years ago.............nice race, great scenery, mountains and Barcelona............. |
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Fantastic result and achievement. Hope this is the start of even bigger things for 2012.
Is it too early to start BBC SPOTY nominations? |
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Wiggins reckons he is around 95% of his potential in his blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...radley-wiggins
The British Olympic committee have their lifetime ban under threat. CAS will decide whether Millar can ride at London: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...nghearing.html |
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San Remo predictions?
Gotta be Cav for me, with Boonen and Sagan (?) to place high |
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