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Thomas leads Nibali by 19 seconds in P-N. Worrying for the Italian, Astana left him to do his own chasing. Fuglsang, his chase group companion, apparently unable to assist. Not much in the way of organised teams visible after the climb.
Thomas suspects Degankolb (@ 3 secs) may regain lead tomorrow from intermediate sprint time bonuses (3pts each). The Schlecks are only seen when something goes wrong. |
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I noticed that ES have 'jocked off' Paris-Nice in favour of live coverage of Tirrano-Adriatico
Highlights of P-N after the Italian race finished today Cav took the leaders jersey in Italy being first of his team over the line in the team time trial |
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Why ditch a decent climb and chase to the finish in favour of a short opening TTT?
At least it wasn't replaced by show-jumping. I noticed Bruce Springsteen's daughter was competing in that. |
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Kittel did a spectacular 'bike chuck' today when he crashed out of T-A with about 2K to go........
![]() Even with no Kittel, Cav could only finish 17th in the sprint.......I really am beginning to worry now that he's gone over the top. |
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Geraint Thomas down in P-N hitting armco barrier - he rode to finish seven minutes down.
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The Crashy Mc Crash version of GT from last year is back then :/
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Oleg Tinkoff tweeted the Sky tactic with Froome/Porte did not work at T-A today
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Contador looked rather impressive in the T-A today, last climb was a bit comedy value though.
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The difference this year is there was no depth in the Sky team to tap out a high pace and draw the sting out of Contador's attacks: http://youtu.be/A-vm3frG9tI?t=51m40s
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Contador looked rather impressive in the T-A today, last climb was a bit comedy value though.
After OPQS nailed the finish at T-A yesterday, Cavendish is looking forward to Sunday's MSR. Still is not decided if the new Pompeiana hill between the traditional Cipressa (22km out) and Poggio (6km out) is excluded. |
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World Tour round up.
We've now had 3 events of this year's World Tour and the winners are...... Tour Down Under - Simon Gerrans Paris-Nice - Carlos Betancur Tirreno-Adriatico - Alberto Contador The leader boards in the various categories....... Individual rider 1 Betancur - 114 points 2 Gerrans - 114 points 3 Contador - 112 points The highest ranked British rider is Geraint Thomas with 25 points The top 3 teams - 1 AG2R - 216 points 2 Tinkoff=Saxo - 183 points 3 Lampre-Merida - 171 points The team classification totals up the points of the 5 highest scoring riders in each team. Sky are currently in 7th place with 98 points The top 3 nations - 1 Australia - 336 points 2 Colombia - 248 points 3 Spain - 206 points Like the team classification this takes the top 5 scoring riders from each country. This classification is quite important as it determines how many riders each country can enter into the World championships. The Brits are off to a slow start, languishing in 11th place with 35 points Coming Up.......... We have 4 world tour races coming up in the next week or so Milan- San Remo. A one-day classic on Sunday Tour of Catalunya - a week long stage race starting Monday E3 Harelbeke - a one day race in Belgium on Friday Gent-Wevelgem - a one day race in Belgium on Sunday 30th March Next update after that lot !......... ps Eurosport are showing Milan-San Remo and the Harelbeke races live, with live coverage of Catalunya Mon-Thurs . Recorded highlights of Catalunya on Friday. Haven't seen the schedule past next Friday yet |
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Video preview of tomorrow's MSR: http://youtu.be/Y0mwvbm5Qj4
Bookies have it narrowed down to Sagan, Cavendish or Degenkolb. |
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Video preview of tomorrow's MSR: http://youtu.be/Y0mwvbm5Qj4
Bookies have it narrowed down to Sagan, Cavendish or Degenkolb. If it comes to a sprint it's either Cav, Greipel or Deg but if it doesn't then the first two and probably all three will not even be placed. Given the distance, it isn't the most difficult thing to jump off 20km out, which will likely include Sagan, Fab maybe Roelandts. Hard to see how anyone outside of those, even Gilbert, the FDJ guys can find a way to win it. It's really either Sprint=Cav or Deg, no sprint=Sagan. If I was to be pushed for someone outside of those Kwiatowski looks a good price (40/1) for a place. |
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It's chucking down in Italy............Sean reckons the sprinters might struggle in the conditions
87K to go |
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MSR organisers reporting Ulissi, Renshaw and Kwiatkowski as recent abandons
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It came down to a bunch sprint.
Flash results for Milan San-Remo: 1 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Team Katusha 2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek Factory Racing 3 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Sky 4 Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Spa) Movistar Team 5 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team 6 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bardiani-CSF 7 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team 8 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre-Merida 9 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) MTN-Qhubeka 10 Peter Sagan (Svk) Cannondale |
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Kristoff beats Cavendish to the line for the second year running. OPQS did very little from what I saw with only Stybar left at the end despite their apparent team strength.
Cancellara histrionics breaks the unwritten rule about keeping his hands on the bars. All riders is disappointed to miss out by a small margin. It seems Sagan's Cannondale tried to apply the pressure early and break the group rather than wait for the sprint. Great ride by Swift. The race really needs bike transponders on the top of the last two climbs. It was a very elite group and a run down of riders remaining would have been useful (instead of a confusing split screen of the final kilometre). |
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Kristoff wins from Cancellara with Ben Swift in 3rd
Well done Ben ! Cav made it to the final in the lead group of about 20 ?.........Griepel got there as well but had had to do a bit of a solo catch up to reach them so had nothing for a sprint I thought Cav was going to win as he came up on the outside but he just couldn't go through with it |
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Amazing sprint by Kristoff: http://youtu.be/7QZuAUhcl8M?t=2m4s
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I thought Cav was going to win as he came up on the outside but he just couldn't go through with it
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Just noticed this on the BBC Sport website......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/26663953 It's a nice little guide to the 'Spring Classics' |
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Stages 3 and 4 of the Tour of Catalunya are the mountain stages (Wed and Thurs)
Although stage one, today, has a 1st category climb and there seems to be climbs on most stages. Carlton and Magnus in the box Live pictures just starting......... |
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The commentary at the finish has to be the worst I've heard. Think he mentioned 2 riders names, the rest of the time was just naming teams. Absolutely awful!!
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Coming up to the finish today in the rain.........Tommy Voeckler has gone out on a solo and has about 10K to hang on
The race finish today is in Gerona I've been to the bull fighting in Gerona.........sometime in the 1960s I see now that the bullring was demolished in 2006 as the Catalan Government has outlawed the barbaric practise.......Hemingway would be turning in his grave |
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Should be a corking stage today in Catalunya............two category 1 and a Hors category climb with a mountain top finish
starting at sea level..........getting up to over 6000 feet on the HC a few tired legs today ! |
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