Tour of Poland

scooters

Anybody watching the Tour of Poland?

Was a pretty good stage today with

Dan Martin taking the stage win and the overall lead.

Highlights on Eurosport tonight at 9

Guybrush T

I've just found out that the spoiler thing doesn't work if you hover over the thread title to see what the first post is about:mad:

Since this is vbulletin, is there any chance the mods would turn on the show/hide spoiler thing, instead of just having it greyed out?

Dodge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc0sS8EiAGU

Highlights here

Lumen

Guybrush T wrote: »

I've just found out that the spoiler thing doesn't work if you hover over the thread title to see what the first post is about:mad:

For this reason stage-specific threads should be named appropriately and first posts should avoid spoilers, regardless of tags.

Guybrush T wrote: »

Since this is vbulletin, is there any chance the mods would turn on the show/hide spoiler thing, instead of just having it greyed out?

Mods don't control vBulletin settings, we are but humble footsoldiers. That would be an Admin thing. Perhaps try posting in Site Development.

sy

Teriffic win for the young man. A great talent

kennyb3

Heard it on RTE radio this morning, fantastic performance

kenmc

kennyb3 wrote: »

Heard it on RTE radio this morning, fantastic performance

Don't recall hearing anything on newstalk this morning They were full of news on Nico during the TdeF though.

ednwireland

heard it on rte radio as well, kenmc servers you right for listening to newstalk, anyway i'm off to france in the morning.

Chips Lovell

Watched it last night. Great win by Martin. Savage attack. He just took off and nobody could go with him. Really committed and he didn't seem to let up at all. That cadence he was spinning must be lung bursting.

NickDrake

kenmc wrote: »

Don't recall hearing anything on newstalk this morning They were full of news on Nico during the TdeF though.

Ya the usual the media is all about Nico which is a shame

Chips Lovell

Does anyone seriously expect the Tour of Poland to get the same coverage as the Tour de France?

NickDrake

el tonto wrote: »

Does anyone seriously expect the Tour of Poland to get the same coverage as the Tour de France?

Obviously not but it could do with a mention. Martin had a great Giro and not a mention of him during it.

Media falling all over Roche, who is a class act, but there are other riders too.

Esroh

Lads it took over an hour after the 5th stage finished for ToP to get a thread on here.
It was mentioned on Net2 News last night
Wysokosciówka Etap 6 | OŚWIĘCIM – TERMA BUKOWINA TATRZ. | 228,5 km

Todays stage for those of you who have missed EdIs daily posts from the TdF:D

Dodge

Roche didn’t get a mention for his Giro or Vuelta stints either. Sport Cycling is a hugely minority sport in this country and the only race that ever gets any attention is the TdF. Even with no Irish participation it got more coverage. We should be thankful we have people like Roche getting any positive coverage at all rather than begrudging him, and the sport

Regardless, in no way should newstalk be seen as the barometer.

Shane Stokes has a nice piece in the Irish Times today, and the Indo have it as a “sport in brief” bit.

Chips Lovell

NickDrake wrote: »

Obviously not but it could do with a mention. Martin had a great Giro and not a mention of him during it.

Media falling all over Roche, who is a class act, but there are other riders too.

It's not like Martin is being ignored. Plenty of press aobut him today. Just because Newstalk doesn't pick up the Tour of Poland doesn't mean the media only pay attention to Nicolas Roche.

NickDrake

Who is begrudging Roche???? He is a ledgend.

What else would you epxect from the Indo? Shocking paper and a tabloid and I always have no respect for its readers.

kennyb3

NickDrake wrote: »

I always have no respect for its readers.

Dont worry im sure they have no respect for you too. As usual you havent a positive word to say at all, you look at everything from the glass half empty perspective.

Personally im glad to hear anything at all on any of the stations/papers etc. Different papers and different stations cater for different audiences.

BryanL

el tonto wrote: »

Does anyone seriously expect the Tour of Poland to get the same coverage as the Tour de France?

half the country is Polish, you'd think they could give Ireland one stage at least?:D

Lol at this bit of the commentary:
"blah blah blah Stephen Roche blah blah blah Nicholas Roche blah blah blah John Gadret":D

emtroche

Whatever about the comparisons with Roche, what did annoy me was that on the RTE lunchtime news there was no mention of Daniel Martin yet they were happy enough to talk to Cian O'Connor who made a show of the country!

NickDrake

emtroche wrote: »

Whatever about the comparisons with Roche, what did annoy me was that on the RTE lunchtime news there was no mention of Daniel Martin yet they were happy enough to talk to Cian O'Connor who made a show of the country!

Cian would have plenty of connections with RTE

emtroche

NickDrake wrote: »

Cian would have plenty of connections with RTE

Yeah i know. That sort of thing bugs me sometimes. One big happy family in there! I wonder could somebody contest the payment of a tv licence over a lack of clarity in the recruitment procedures and the decisions on whats worthy and unworthy of being broadcast?

emtroche

emtroche wrote: »

Yeah i know. That sort of thing bugs me sometimes. One big happy family in there! I wonder could somebody contest the payment of a tv licence over a lack of clarity in the recruitment procedures and the decisions on whats worthy and unworthy of being broadcast?

I'm sorry! I know its friday! Just annoys me.

Namabillion

All they said on last nights rte news was : dan martin won stage 5 of the tour of poland. Martin who is the nephew of stephan roche also leads.

During the TDF all they said was who won stage, where n roche came and where armstrong came.

Dodge

lads let it go.

Any news from today. Looked a tough, tough day with plenty of up and downs in it.

Namabillion

Dodge wrote: »

lads let it go.

Any news from today. Looked a tough, tough day with plenty of up and downs in it.

Dan was 7th and holds lead by 8 secs

Beasty

Namabillion wrote: »

Dan was .......

Perhaps one of the mods could put something in the thread title about spoilers, as the message does not seem to be getting through!

jwshooter

Beasty wrote: »

Perhaps one of the mods could put something in the thread title about spoilers, as the message does not seem to be getting through!

do you live in a box . i did not see yesterdays stage as i was working late , i got two texts about it and when i opened up google they had it .before i got to see the stage .

if you do not want to hear about it dont click a post about it.

jwshooter

the road marking are lethal , way do the teams not put a stop to this .

dan has two hard days left .

Esroh

Highlights here

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=CanalF10&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_202573

Dodge

jwshooter wrote: »

the road marking are lethal , way do the teams not put a stop to this .

dan has two hard days left .

Only 1 day left. Should be a sprint but Bole is a good sprinter and will be looking for time bonuses

Chips Lovell

manwithaplan

Who knew that giant tortoises were native to Poland.

Daithi BC

Today's final Stage into Krakow - 163.9km including 3x4km laps of the city centre at the end. Dan Martin is only 8 seconds ahead of Grega Bole, and with 10, 6 and 4 second time bonuses at the finish, a 3 man breakaway winning the stage would be the best case scenario!

petethedrummer

manwithaplan wrote: »

Who knew that giant tortoises were native to Poland.

thats a trouser snake.

emtroche

el tonto wrote: »

Wheres the tortoise?

jwshooter

good man dan

iregk

well done dan, great stuff

karltimber

good stuff

The tax man

God they were hairy looking conditions on those few laps. Nothing like an easy ride to the line for a tour win.:eek:

Well done to Dan.

NeedsTraining

Well done Dan.

Conditions looked terrible.
Great to see him take a big win

Esroh

Great win
Does anyone know what this will do for rankings re the Worlds and the number of riders Ireland could send

titan18

el tonto wrote: »

Those girls are hot.Congrats to Martin too

JacksonHeightsOwn

Ireland is getting tour winners again

it is the 80's isnt it

no jobs, no money,

but good cyclists

Dodge

Esroh wrote: »

Great win
Does anyone know what this will do for rankings re the Worlds and the number of riders Ireland could send

Not sure how it affects the worlds but we get 100 points for the overall win, and 6 points for the stage win.

Without checking all the results I think that brings us up to 16th (from 21st) - past Denamrk, Estonia, new Zealnd, Norway and the Cech Republic. We'd be 12th ranked european nation. Dan shoots into top 40 with his first points of the year

velo.2010

Shock, Horror but RTE News actually mentioned another bike race other than the Tour or Ras. Also lead headline on Aertel!

ajk24

Dodge wrote: »

Not sure how it affects the worlds but we get 100 points for the overall win, and 6 points for the stage win.

Without checking all the results I think that brings us up to 16th (from 21st) - past Denamrk, Estonia, new Zealnd, Norway and the Cech Republic. We'd be 12th ranked european nation. Dan shoots into top 40 with his first points of the year

denmark will pull in a bunch of points thru breschel and fuglsang in their home tour.

emtroche

velo.2010 wrote: »

Shock, Horror but RTE News actually mentioned another bike race other than the Tour or Ras. Also lead headline on Aertel!

Only after the "more important" stuff like New Zealand against Australia in the rugby!!!

Anyway it was a great win and well deserved.

I loved it at the end when Harmon was asking who the last Irish or English rider to win a tour was. As he was sitting beside a scotsman!

emtroche

ajk24 wrote: »

denmark will pull in a bunch of points thru breschel and fuglsang in their home tour.

Yeah there'll be a rake of points going denmarks way. Hopefully we're in for a good vuelta though.

velo.2010

emtroche wrote: »

I loved it at the end when Harmon was asking who the last Irish or English rider to win a tour was.

He couldn't just say 'last Irish rider'. Typical Brits having to have some sort of claim on our success.

SkyNews were the worst offenders during the Tour. They updated the 'leading British rider' every day. When Wiggins was out of contention it suddenly became 'best British or Irish rider' and Roche was obviously leading that.

Dodge

velo.2010 wrote: »

Shock, Horror but RTE News actually mentioned another bike race other than the Tour or Ras. Also lead headline on Aertel!

Wonder will NickDrake will moan about now

ajk24 wrote: »

denmark will pull in a bunch of points thru breschel and fuglsang in their home tour.

Thats not part of the ProTour. You can see the full list here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_UCI_World_Ranking

The official scores are here (usually updated the week after races);
http://www.uci.ch/templates/BUILTIN-NOFRAMES/Template3/layout.asp?MenuId=MTU2NzU&LangId=1

You can click on "Detailed gained points" on the top right and see how each rider gained those points.