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Your 2012 Cycling Thread

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PrezdeJohnson09 said:
Feel really bad for Cance making that power move only to have Sagan and Hagon sit on his wheel and not help with the pacemaking so all the effort goes for not to gain time for Cance. He could have got 5-10 seconds if they worked with him.

The guy is an absolute monster and not only does he not win the stage, he doesn't get any time gained.
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Such is the lot for Cance. He had the exact same scenario in Milan-San Remo this year. He got away on the descent of the Poggio with Nibali and Simon Gerrans. Nibali tried to work but he was cooked and Gerrans didn't work. Cance pushed on and Gerrans out sprinted him. Interestingly the winner of the bunch sprint for 4th was Sagan (whose team-mate was in the break) so he knew Cance would keep working. As it was Cance did cook Boasson Hagen. I felt worse for Cance back in March then now, then he lost a monument today he lost lost a tour stage.


Still impressive to see Sagan's development this year. He didn't follow Cance at M-SR and lost. He made a pointless attack at Gent-Wevelgem and lost. He was strong in both RvV and AGR and lost both. Today he showed the experience to follow at the right time and not make a pointless attack.
 
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There was absolutely no reason for either to help Canc, he won yesterday he was in yellow why help in less they were in danger of being caught, which almost happened. if it had been someone other than Canc maybe Boassan Hagan helps to try and get the jersey though I doubt Sky wants it this early.
 
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Yeah, Sagan was in a perfect position. He absolutely shouldn't have helped since if they got caught, then he just wins the bunch sprint anyway. I think EBH was cooked anyway, just look at how far back he finished.

Kittel tomorrow?!? Go Marcel!
 
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Lot of bumping by Cav in the sprint yesterday looks like he had a little tougher go of it without Renshaw leading the way for him.
 
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Crash filled stage....guys still finishing the stage including Martin and LL Sanchez.

Glad Sagan stayed clear and was able to pick up another W. :)

Kid is impressive.

Cance stays in yellow with a fourth place finish. Valiant effort by Chavanel to pull away in the final 5 KM but couldn't quite hold on to the line.
 
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My team took a beating today with Rojas crashing out and Tommy D finishing back.
 
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Greipel!!!

Another solid day for the team.

Cance stays in yellow, Greipel wins the stage, Sagan pads his green points lead while finishing 5th and even 4-pointer Ruben Perez comes home 10th to nab some unexpected points for me.

Great day all around. Only regret I've had so far is the bad luck Tony Martin has come across this year. He looks like he's going to be a wasted pick unless somehow he can still time trial decently but with a broken wrist, I just don't see it happening.
 
PrezdeJohnson09 said:
Greipel!!!

Another solid day for the team.

Cance stays in yellow, Greipel wins the stage, Sagan pads his green points lead while finishing 5th and even 4-pointer Ruben Perez comes home 10th to nab some unexpected points for me.

Great day all around. Only regret I've had so far is the bad luck Tony Martin has come across this year. He looks like he's going to be a wasted pick unless somehow he can still time trial decently but with a broken wrist, I just don't see it happening.
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Is it me or do their seem to be a bit more crashes this year in the Tour than usual?
 
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Sagan and Greipel 1-2!!! another great day for the team.

Cavendish is MIA right now at the line. Not sure what happened to him. Had to have been involved in the crash?

Big changes in the overall tonight I think.

Continues to be Wiggins vs. Evans. 3rd spot on the podium is wide open.
 
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My favorite for the 3rd podium spot is Sammy Sanchez. He is the best climber of the 3 and can TT very well. IF he has recovered from this crash at the Dauphine then he is in with a chance and even seeing him win the thing wouldn't surprise me. In fact he is my favorite rider of the 3. Tomorrows stage favors him as well. Though I suspect that some of the climbers who crashed (Rabobank, Scarponi, et al) will try and get away early, something Sanchez doesn't need to do.
 
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I saw this translation of Rein Taaramae's blog on another site. Thought it was pretty interesting. Also had some smart tactics from his team.

Stage VI (totally *******ed how there are so many morons in the bunch and how much luck one could have)

Day: 207km, flat but nervy because there was a decent amount of wind. From km 0 there was a lot of pushing and everyone went full gas. The highlights of the day were the falls and there we alot of them. In the second to last crash, 60km before the finish, the road got really narrow on the uphill and riders everybody were blocking their wheels. I managed to break too, but I felt how a lot of others smashed each other and fell.

This was followed by some more pushing and shoving and I was around the 80th place, where about 25km from the finish everybody crashed big on the downhill. The only thing I remember was, that I tucked my head, because otherwise an other bike would've crashed into me. I luckily survived the crash (at speed 65-70km/h) and got into a little bunch with me, Gallopin and Horner - all very good time trial riders. The gap between the bunch was about 200m and even by giving it our all it took us 6km to take back that 200m.

When we catched the bunch I was like in a coma (that's an exact translation, don't know how to put it..), but after a few breathers I felt ok again, because it is very easy to ride in the back!

15km from the finish by backwheel punctured and ****it, I thought, ******, it's over now. But I digged all in and my teammates di Gregorio and Dumoulin' pushed me. Through a miracle we got to the 3km mark and I raised my hand. I showed the referees that my tire was punctured and I got a nod for "yes" and got my ending time the same as the others. So much for today.

Some words about the idiots: I don't know how the crashes happen, I've never organized something that dangerous in the bunch. But some riders block their brakes in 70km/h for every little fly they see. Morons. Now the first and the psycho week is over and the tour is just starting for me. And in the overall I'm in position....
Tomorrow I need every Estonian to wish me luck, because the stage ends on a 7km and a steep mountain. There it will be clear, how others stand. I think, I'm ready! In the start I also posted some pictures about my teammate Fouchard, who came into the bus with a wide smile and threw some jokes!
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So today and tomorrow 4 hours of network time which I think is a first as well as in the past they have always done a 1 hour recap of the week type show while this just appears to be same day coverage. Hope it gets some good ratings.
 
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Nice to see Taaramae back up his mouth with a strong showing. I was hoping for more from Cadel. Oh well there is still two weeks for Sky to step on each others @#$#@.
 
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Probert said:
So today and tomorrow 4 hours of network time which I think is a first as well as in the past they have always done a 1 hour recap of the week type show while this just appears to be same day coverage. Hope it gets some good ratings.
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I didn't even realize it was on NBC until a bit.

I turned on NBC Sports Network and it was on something else and I said where the is the race?! I didn't think it was a rest day and then I looked ahead in the schedule and saw the two-hour condensed coverage of stage 7 so I said what in the hey is going on.

I turned off the tv for a bit or went back to Sportscenter, can't remember which came first. But, then about 5 or 10 minutes later I thought maybe its on NBC so I switched it on there and sure enough thats where it was. Although i did have to wait a good 5 minutes before they brought race coverage on as Jimmy Roberts did an NBC Sports update and then they went to commericial before joining the race again.

I had to go into town so I missed the final climb. Was it worth watching? Good stuff?
 
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