Tour of Poland

Chips Lovell

Is on this week.

Chips Lovell

Ireland's Dan Martin, who's the defending champion, was 2nd to Peter Sagan on today's Stage Four and is now fourth overall.

happytramp

Just starting to get interesting. The first three stages were a little flat (no pun attended) although your man Kittel looks to be some sprinter.

Fair play to Martin didn't think he's be so good in what was essentially an uphill sprint finish.

ednwireland

yep geat ride from dan, seems to have some form looking at how he rode that finishing circuit

Hail 2 Da Thief

el tonto wrote: »

Ireland's Dan Martin, who's the defending champion, was 2nd to Peter Sagan on today's Stage Four and is now fourth overall.

Great sprint finish by Sagan to take the victory. Impressive young rider! Dan will be keen to impress after his non selection for the TdF.

happytramp

The next two days look to be much more up Martin's street. Should be interesting to see how he does against a grand tour winner in Vincenzo Nibali.

Tomorrow's stage.

happytramp

Friday's Stage.

ColSheehan

Apparently Marcel Kittel puts out 1800 watts in the sprint :eek: Source

dastardly00

20km left in today's stage. All the big GC contenders are still in the main bunch with 2 climbs left.

dastardly00

Dan Martin attacking on an unbelievably steep section of the second last climb! 25%!!!!! :eek::eek:

Morrisseeee

Some dig there from D Martin :cool: Edit: it'll be a fair effort to get to the finish alone now!

happytramp

Going to be a tough 11k for him... fingers crossed

Morrisseeee

Pity, but the gap wasn't enough, still there's still one climb left, really surprised by Sagan's climbing, fair play, he's a great talent.

dastardly00

Dan is caught. But there is still one more climb to go. Hopefully Dan can get his breath back and attack again. If he wins (he'll get a 10 second bonus) and gains around 15 seconds he will end up in yellow probably.

Chips Lovell

Has Martin's attack at least thinned out the group?

Chips Lovell

Watching now. Martin's putting Sagan under real pressure

dastardly00

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

Has Martin's attack at least thinned out the group?

maybe 15-20 left in the main bunch. Martin is attacking again on the final climb

Chips Lovell

Great win for Martin. I think he's shy of taking the overall though. 3 seconds off?

Pherekydes

Dan the man!

Morrisseeee

Well what a final dig that was, looked painful :eek:

mahoo

if only sagan had blown one attack earlier. great stage win for dan and fair play for sagan for hanging on to all those attacks.

Chips Lovell

Wow. Eurosport are saying he's in yellow. 3 seconds ahead of Sagan.

Inquitus

Martin does it by 3 secs provisionally

kennyb3

Brilliant finish - screaming at the tv, great to see Dan give it his all. Good stage win all the same.

mahoo

wow. dan's taken the lead! thought sagan had hung on to it!

Morrisseeee

Yay, Martin wins the Yellow by 3 secs .

dastardly00

DAN IN YELLOW!

Pherekydes

Very tough finish and Martin takes yellow! He fought like a tiger for that. Great effort, and patience in that final K

Chips Lovell

Flat stage tomorrow through the streets of Krackow. You'd fancy Sagan in a bunch sprint to take bonus seconds.

happytramp

How many places get bonus seconds at the finish? Don't see Sagan in the top three. A break will take the intermediate points and Garmin will do nothing to stop them. They'll sit on Sagan (who's team will have to all the work) Haussler will be fresh as a daisy and take second behind Kittel. Where would Sagan have to place to take four bonus seconds??

Chips Lovell

For the first, second and third place at each stage the time bonuses will be awarded: 10 sec., 6 sec. and 4 sec. respectively.

He just has to get third. He's well able to sprint, so Martin doesn't have it in the bag just yet.

el tel

One day to go, how exciting!

ednwireland

woo hoo great ride by dan really got some legs for the vuelta
dont forget 3 2 and 1 s in the intermediate sprint

Morrisseeee

The breaks have begun already and Garmin have stuck someone in it to drive it along

Fingers crossed for 'Dan the man' today

Junior

What time does coverage kick off on Eurosport at ?

Morrisseeee

Junior wrote: »

What time does coverage kick off on Eurosport at ?

I'm not near a TV right now, so I tried the Sky TV player on the internet but all it has is Brittish Eurosport and they're showing motorbike racing :mad:, so I tried the www.cyclingfans.com website for links but those aren't working for me either :mad: Looks like I will have to wait till 7pm for highlights.

elduggo

the links work fine. Try the channel 5 one

Beasty

Currently live on Eurosport HD

Highlights on Eurosport UK between 7.30 and 9 this evening

Beasty

Sagan picks up 2 second in the intermediate sprint, putting him 1 second behind Martin with further bonus seconds available in the final sprint....

Junior

Bastard bastard bastard - why eurosport do you move it to Eurosport HD and don't show it on your player either. You shower of bastards.

Moflojo

Linky

In Polish though.

zzzzzzzz

Junior wrote: »

Bastard bastard bastard - why eurosport do you move it to Eurosport HD and don't show it on your player either. You shower of bastards.

it's on the online player with no commentary

uberwolf

so eh, I'm watching in Dutch I think, and have no idea how it just ended?

Beasty

Sorry guys - Sagan takes 2nd place and 6 bonus seconds to take the title ...

Morrisseeee

Damn, but fair play to Sagan, he's a fine prospect.

el tel

Circuits are such a **** way to organise these big tour stage races. Only nice scenery today was those two chicks in the back of the car.

themandan6611

lads, what is Martin's climbing like when it comes to the big mountains ? will he be able to complete in the Veulta ?

ednwireland

quick post race interview
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/video-dan-martin-upbeat-despite-his-tour-of-poland-defeat

Pherekydes

Dan Martin moves up to #19 in the latest world rankings on the strength of this tour showing.

Ireland is currently ranked 14th.

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