Blueprint wrote:
So, will Silvio Herklotz be shining in Poland today?
Solid first stage. The favourites Rebellin, Rutkiewicz, Barta and Huzarski took 50 seconds on him with two others. Still a good 9th place with shattered groups behind.
Another former Konya Torku rider in Petrov there. But more importantly that's an incredible result from Landa.
Edited by CountArach on 04-05-2013 13:39
CountArach wrote: Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid (1.1)
Javier Moreno
Movistar
4:00:00
Mikel Landa
Euskaltel
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Delio Fernandez
OFM - Quinta da Lixa
0:04
Ruben Plaza
Movistar
0:20
Amets Txurruka
Caja Rural
0:27
Marcos Garcia
Caja Rural
0:29
Mikel Bizkarra
Euskadi
0:31
Danail Petrov
Caja Rural
0:41
Sylvester Szmyd
Movistar
0:49
Aleksey Rybalkin
Lokosphinx
1:06
Another former Konya Torku rider in Petrov there. But more importantly that's an incredible result from Landa.
I wouldn't call it incredible. Last year in at GP Migueld Indurain ( with much better lineup than this race had ) he came 2nd. Similar performance. Still good to see him doing well, Euskaltel needs it.
CountArach wrote:
Another former Konya Torku rider in Petrov there. But more importantly that's an incredible result from Landa.
I think incredible is kind of an overstatement. I think it's rather the kind of performance we all expected from Landa instead of the total suckage of this season, until today.
11 km to go in Dunkirk, 30" for El Farès and Kadri who've just dropped Guillou. Elmiger (which the commentators on ES keep calling ElmiNger), tried but has been brought back.
FDJeux setting a tempo, with all the sprinters (theirs and others) still there.
I'd bet one euro on the break, if I had to.
edit : thankfully I didn't have to. FDJeux paced the peloton very constantly, slowly annihilating the break.
With 3 km to go on the penultimate mount, Vachon attacked, with a couple of other guys who didn't make it anywhere. Démare only had Vaugrenard then, who paced him until the bottom of the last climb, starting with 1,1 km to go.
Vachon then had like a 10 seconds gap on a 30 guys peloton.
I thought Démare would crack there, but he started pacing the peloton, before attacking (wtf), and almost closed the gap to Vachon. Only Michel Kreder and 3 or 4 other guys managed to hang on.
Vachon still had 3 or 4 seconds with 300 m to go, on the flat. Kreder launched a long sprint and passed Vachon 20 m from the line. Heartbreaking for Vachon...
Démare was too exhausted to sprint efficiently, he finished fourth but is now in excellent position to win the G.C. (today's stage was the hardest one).
Edited by Aquarius on 04-05-2013 16:30