Tour of California starting on ITV4 at 9:30pm

macnab

The eight-day 2011 Tour of California, in its sixth year, starts May 15 at the California-Nevada state line on Lake Tahoe's south shore.
Starting on ITV4 at 9:30pm if anyone is interested.

Lusk Doyle

No snow today then?

Beasty

Unless someone wants to start a stage-specific thread, I guess we need to use spoiler tags for any race updates

Hail 2 Da Thief

Starting on Eurosport @ 10pm also.

Beasty

Great lead-out by Sky, and fantastic result for Ben Swift

Hail 2 Da Thief

Is the ToC always this boring?

happytramp

Yesterday's stage was quite exciting, I thought.

Beasty

Hail 2 Da Thief wrote: »

Is the ToC always this boring?

The final few kilometers makes up for what has gone before - not sure how many riders Sky have on their team, but their lead-out chain seems never-ending - another great result for them and Greg Henderson this time

SomeFool

Great finish to tonights I thought

Hail 2 Da Thief

Exciting finsh mind you. Sky impressive yet again

Beasty

This is not stage-specific - please use spoilers

Thanks

Beasty

TheTubes

Where can I get that Jelly Belly Jersey... :pac: (not used from ebay)
The team bike is pretty sweet too (no pun intended!)

ednwireland

anyone think the pace seems really slow compared to the giro ?

or is it just the wide roads make it seem like that

some smack jens took last night as well

MrCreosote

Hey Sports Fans!!

Cycling is huge in NZ at the moment with top rider, Greg Henderson taking the leader's yellow jersey in the Giro d'Italia!
It's hitting all the major TV stations.

http://tvnz.co.nz/othersports-news/henderson-wears-yellow-in-giro-d-italia-4178916

Arrivederci!

Edit- bah! they corrected the page. Must have realised that there's more than one cycling race happening at the same time.

Morrisseeee

Tonight's stage looks interesting, it has 2 lovely climbs, and a horrible (for the riders) finish !!
It looks like (from that link) that a certain Ryan S. (Sherlock) knows this 1st HC climb (Well done sir, and good luck in the RAS).

anyone think the pace seems really slow compared to the giro ?

See here to compare 2 Pro's in the Giro and the TOC, see the 'Follow the Pro's on Strava' link, ie. Ted King @ TOC & Craig Lewis @ Giro

More info on that Stage 3 sprint: here.
Quote from the winner: “I was so lactic I was cross-eyed!… I couldn’t even do a victory salute!”

happytramp

For F... sake MrCreosote!! Did you just tell me who won todays stage of the Giro?????????

phew, it was only a typo!!

TheBlaaMan

Well, finally the ToC burst into life! That was an epic stage win and really impressive to watch

Horner in

the final 3k - I think he must have spent 80% of that out of the saddle, grinding his way (rather easily - if thats not a contradiction) to the victory.

Not bad for an oul fella but he had great form in the Basque Tour so perhaps not so surprising!

What (to me) was surprising (given his stated aim to win the stage in Weylandts memory) was the late and lacklustre push by

Andy Schleck

. I was sure this was a perfect stage profile for him to ride away from the bunch, but he's obviously still 'building' towards the Tour. :rolleyes:

TinyExplosions

You're supposed to use spoiler tags! :eek:

el tel

I'm going to see the stage later today, i,m in Monterey at the minute and the start is only a few miles awayy :cool:

TheBlaaMan

TinyExplosions wrote: »

You're supposed to use spoiler tags! :eek:

Its OK not to on the following day, no? Anyway - just in case, I've added them in now. Hope I didn't ruin the surprise

TheBlaaMan

ednwireland wrote: »

some smack jens took last night as well

You have to give Jens Voight the Hard man award yet again......

Voigt was involved in an unfortunate crash during the stage three finishing circuits in Modesto.

"The good thing is that I didn't lose much skin but my hand hurts and I can't really move it, also I can't really use it. I will go and have an x-ray tonight to see if anything is broken, at least I would know the recovery and what to do next. My shoulder is functioning and I have a contusion and hopefully my hand is not broken"
:eek:

Beasty

As the racing takes place so late in the evening over here and Eurosport show coverage of the previous day's racing during the following day, I think it best to keep the spoiler tags in until midnight on the day following the stage for this race

Thanks

Beasty

ednwireland

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

You have to give Jens Voight the Hard man award yet again......

Voigt was involved in an unfortunate crash during the stage three finishing circuits in Modesto.

"The good thing is that I didn't lose much skin but my hand hurts and I can't really move it, also I can't really use it. I will go and have an x-ray tonight to see if anything is broken, at least I would know the recovery and what to do next. My shoulder is functioning and I have a contusion and hopefully my hand is not broken"
:eek:

must have been allright as he was riding last night

amazed the united healthtcare rider (dugan ?) got up they didnt mention him but he goes on his back and whiplashes his head into the tarmac

watch the slow -mo on here
http://www.cyclingfans.com/node/2025

they pulled him out of the race the following day as a precaution

beasty this was tuesdays stage how long should we use spoilers for

TinyExplosions

ednwireland wrote: »

amazed the united healthtcare rider (dugan ?) got up they didnt mention him but he goes on his back and whiplashes his head into the tarmac

They were saying on Eurosport that they didn't know what the status of the rider was, which was why they didn't speak about it at the end, but the next day they said he had a concussion so had withdrawn from the race, but was otherwise ok

Beasty

ednwireland wrote: »

beasty this was tuesdays stage how long should we use spoilers for

Tuesday's stage is fine now

Wednesday's stage - use them until midnight tonight

Tonight's stage until midnight tomorrow

Thanks

Beasty

TheTubes wrote: »

Where can I get that Jelly Belly Jersey... :pac: (not used from ebay)
The team bike is pretty sweet too (no pun intended!)

Commentators just mentioned you cannot get them exported from the USA, so it looks like you would need a friendly yank to buy one for you