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Actually they'd already counted that. So does Brad ride for Chris now?
Nibali got to be favourite from here
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Froome looks a very good prospect. He could be an alternative if Brad has an off-day.
Velogames update from yesterday's stage: MINI LEAGUE SCORES CPFC BBS Rank Team Directeur Score 1 Dougie`s Red And Blue Rouleurs Fozzie Selhurst 2168 2 A Team of Alan Lees Palestinian 1897 3 Wiggos Bionic Collar Bone Kemper 1684 4 Team Ken Buterol laiglely 1659 5 Joyryderz Andy 1599 6 Caterham Spinners Grant McManus 1400 7 No Ser Una Mandarina David Manley 1287 8 Snazzy Phone Excowboy 1254 9 Spoke City Max Whitefoot 1248 10 Jammy`s Dodgers Jammy 1245 11 the norton Adam 1133 12 Salfords Eagles steve sugg 1083 13 Fozzie`s Flyers Stephen Foss 1053 14 Sore Arsed Riders Jazman 974 15 El Farolillo Rojo Griggs 912 16 KFK Kimber 732 17 Cahtc me if you can Suits you 436 18 Pimp my wheels Dan Lane 332 |
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What a crazy day! Wiggo overcooked it early IMO. No point putting the youtube up - it's just the last guys rolling in.
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Wow that was a surprise!
Where did Froome's ITT come from? As Forza, suggested I think Brad went out a bit too quickly, perhaps trying too hard to mTch the splits of Martin and Cancellara and seemed to pay for it in the last few km. Will be interesting to see how Sky play this for the rest of the race, Frome is clearly more than able to hold his own in the mountains, a good problem to have though. |
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Velogames after ITT:
MINI LEAGUE SCORES CPFC BBS Rank Team Directeur Score 1 Dougie`s Red And Blue Rouleurs Fozzie Selhurst 2423 2 A Team of Alan Lees Palestinian 2058 3 Wiggos Bionic Collar Bone Kemper 1861 4 Team Ken Buterol laiglely 1710 5 Joyryderz Andy 1682 6 Snazzy Phone Excowboy 1588 7 Caterham Spinners Grant McManus 1543 8 Jammy`s Dodgers Jammy 1487 9 No Ser Una Mandarina David Manley 1483 10 Spoke City Max Whitefoot 1450 11 Salfords Eagles steve sugg 1398 12 Sore Arsed Riders Jazman 1383 13 the norton Adam 1332 14 El Farolillo Rojo Griggs 1226 15 Fozzie`s Flyers Stephen Foss 1206 16 KFK Kimber 891 17 Cahtc me if you can Suits you 670 18 Pimp my wheels Dan Lane 345 |
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Rest day in the Vuelta. Check out my new blog post: Volta of Spagna, a review of La Vuelta so far. Enjoy! http://wp.me/1NwY6
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Nice bloggings Griggs. The Giro's first week certainly didn't seem like a warm up to me though! Re 'Volta' - if people want pronounce their spanish with a catalan accent then I certainly don't have a problem with that! ('tis a small part of my bloodstream) |
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Cheers for the comments. The point I was trying to make was that the first week wasn't a warm up. Some of those climbs! |
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Really nice blog Griggs, worth a read for sure. Be interesting to see what Wiggins (and Froome) can do in the next mountain stages. Very difficult to get an idea of where he is, he has definitely improved as a climber, I think based on the dauphine he willl need someone to pace him up a climb if he is going to do anything. It seems its the stop start climbing that really affects him.
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Tomorrow could see Wiggo & Froome having another chance to attack like they did on Sunday. The final climb is a long drag up - it touches 10% in places but nothing too mental. The climb tapers off to the end with a flat section. Hopefully they can repeat the trick. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Just watched the highlights from yesterday. Great day for Wiggo but even better for Froome. Considering I, like those on commentary, thought he was a climber more so does this mean he could be a GC contender in future?
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He finished 5th in commenwealth games TT last year, so that he should be decent shouldn't shock the pundits. I think he could well be a future GC contender - well he is here but I take it you mean generally - something will depend over whether this parisitic infection thing is completely out of his system and what damage that has done and how he will hold up over the three weeks here. A little interview with 'cycling weekly': http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/...milestone.html Strangely I was directed to that UK story from l'equipe who are reporting that bilharzia is a 'rare' tropical diesease - they repeat this several tiimes. That's why I mention this - I only 'researched' (googled about) this over the last couple of days or so. From the NHS website on Schistosomiasis (bilharzia): Quote:
I hope that Froome, Sky & British Cycling can help raise awareness of this issue - which I gather is under-reported in the sense of the symptoms being similar to those one would expect in poverty - and help thereby do something about it. It certainly has more potential than that rainforest thing. |
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Good info there Forza, interesting reading.
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Break mostly stayed away, Wiggins into first in the GC, Froome 7 back, Nabali ominous at 11
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I was out all day today and forgot to record the stage. Moncoutié did the business as usual.
Coureur Equipes Temps Diff 1 David Moncoutié (FRA) Cofidis 4:38:00 2 Beñat Intxausti (ESP) Movistar +1:18 3 Luis León Sánchez (ESP) Rabobank +1:18 4 Mathias Frank (SUI) BMC Racing +1:36 5 Sérgio Paulinho (POR) RadioShack +1:43 6 Matteo Montaguti (ITA) AG2R +2:29 7 Amets Txurruka (ESP) Euskaltel +2:29 8 Aitor Pérez (ESP) Lampre +2:55 9 Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) Katyusha +3:01 10 David Bernabéu (ESP) Andalucía +3:08 11 Sergey Lagutin (UZB) Vacansoleil +3:08 12 Wout Poels (NED) Vacansoleil +3:08 13 Bradley Wiggins (ENG) Team Sky +3:08 14 Juan José Cobo (ESP) Geox +3:08 15 Sergio Pardilla (ESP) Movistar +3:08 16 Bauke Mollema (NED) Rabobank +3:08 17 Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) Liquigas +3:08 18 Fredrik Kessiakoff (SWE) Astana +3:08 19 Daniel Moreno (ESP) Katyusha +3:08 20 Chris Sørensen (DEN) Saxo Bank +3:08 21 Mikel Nieve (ESP) Euskaltel +3:08 22 Daniel Martin (IRL) Garmin +3:08 23 Jurgen Van den Broeck (BEL) Omega Pharma - Lotto +3:08 24 Haimar Zubeldia (ESP) RadioShack +3:08 25 Janez Brajkovic (SLO) RadioShack +3:24 26 Nicolas Roche (IRL) AG2R +3:31 27 Oliver Zaugg (SUI) Leopard +3:35 28 Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) Leopard +3:35 29 David Blanco (ESP) Geox +3:35 30 Kevin Seeldraeyers (BEL) Quick-Step +3:35 31 Fabio Duarte (COL) Geox +3:35 32 Maxime Monfort (BEL) Leopard +3:35 33 Marzio Bruseghin (ITA) Movistar +3:35 34 Chris Froome (ENG) Team Sky +3:35 35 Denis Menchov (RUS) Geox +3:35 36 Carlos Sastre (ESP) Geox +3:35 37 Michele Scarponi (ITA) Lampre +3:35 38 Thomas Rohregger (AUT) Leopard +3:35 39 Tanel Kangert (EST) Astana +3:35 40 Stuart O'Grady (AUS) Leopard +3:35 |
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GC after today's stage:
Coureurs Equipes Temps Diff 1 Bradley Wiggins (ENG) Team Sky 42:50:41 2 Chris Froome (ENG) Team Sky +7 + 3 Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) Liquigas +11 + 4 Fredrik Kessiakoff (SWE) Astana +14 + 5 Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) Leopard +19 + 6 Bauke Mollema (NED) Rabobank +47 + 7 Maxime Monfort (BEL) Leopard +1:06 + 8 Juan José Cobo (ESP) Geox +1:27 + 9 Haimar Zubeldia (ESP) RadioShack +1:53 + 10 Janez Brajkovic (SLO) RadioShack +2:00 + 11 Jurgen Van den Broeck (BEL) Omega Pharma - Lotto +2:01 + 12 Marzio Bruseghin (ITA) Movistar +2:22 + 13 Denis Menchov (RUS) Geox +2:42 + 14 Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) Katyusha +2:56 + 15 Sergio Pardilla (ESP) Movistar +3:03 + 16 Daniel Moreno (ESP) Katyusha +3:39 + 17 Chris Sørensen (DEN) Saxo Bank +3:47 + 18 Nicolas Roche (IRL) AG2R +3:50 + 19 Tiago Machado (POR) RadioShack +4:06 + 20 Wout Poels (NED) Vacansoleil +4:21 + |
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Velogames after today's stage:
MINI LEAGUE SCORES CPFC BBS Rank Team Directeur Score 1 Dougie`s Red And Blue Rouleurs Fozzie Selhurst 2522 2 A Team of Alan Lees Palestinian 2311 3 Wiggos Bionic Collar Bone Kemper 2035 4 Team Ken Buterol laiglely 1957 5 Caterham Spinners Grant McManus 1885 6 Snazzy Phone Excowboy 1763 7 Joyryderz Andy 1758 8 No Ser Una Mandarina David Manley 1675 9 Salfords Eagles steve sugg 1610 10 Jammy`s Dodgers Jammy 1557 11 Sore Arsed Riders Jazman 1555 12 Spoke City Max Whitefoot 1524 13 Fozzie`s Flyers Stephen Foss 1461 14 the norton Adam 1444 15 El Farolillo Rojo Griggs 1308 16 KFK Kimber 1005 17 Cahtc me if you can Suits you 917 18 Pimp my wheels Dan Lane 393 |
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Persistence paid off. Always pays if you feel you have the legs to attack after a rest day I think because so many riders seem to not be able to hit the ground with the same intensity. Anyway, how's your flemish? |
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