Il Lombardia, Sunday October 6 2013, **Warning - Unmasked Spoilers**

dastardly00

Il Lombardia 242km, Sunday October 6 2013 - UCI World Tour

The final Monument of the year, Il Lombardia / Giro di Lombardia / Tour of Lombary, takes place this Sunday (official website and official guide).

Here's the start list.

MORE TO FOLLOW.......








Live TV coverage ..... This is not live on British Eurosport / Sky Sports. Rai and Sporza, and other European TV channels should have live coverage. I think Eurosport International will be showing it live.
Highlights on British Eurosport1 at 6.45pm, and on Sky Sports 4 at 9pm.

Live text-ticker will be here.

AnotherView

Going to be interesting

Andy Schleck says he has targeted this.....wonder how he will do
Oh and Robert Gesink has also targeted this one

Movistar with Costa , Valverde and Quintana very strong
BMC with Gilbert, Van Avermaet and TJ Van Garderen ditto
And of course Niabli , J-Rod , Uran and Sagan

Contador is leading the Saxo charge with Majka ...eemm??
Betencur and Mollema, Kwiatkowski and Froome also could do it

So that is practically everyone mentioned now :eek:...........except who I really want to win it

at1withmyself

Hopefully an Irish win but my complete outside chance would be to see something from Andy Schleck!

Brian?

It's going to be interesting. A lot of riders trying to make up for disappointing seasons. I'm thinking mainly of Contador.

Could well suit Dan Martin.

Darkglasses

I know this could come back to bite me but I just hope it's not embarrassing for Andy.

Would like to see Majka have a good go, he's worked hard for the team all year. I'd also like to see bridesmaid J-Rod get his win.

Anyone but Mollema and Froomey. Hope the weather's good.

Super Freak

What's up with Eurosport? No worlds, and now missing a classic?

"Home of cycling" me arse!!

AnotherView

Dan Martin is good odds at 18/1 and Dan Moreno at 33/1

But the two polish boys (Kwiatkowski and Majka) are very good odds at 150/1.....each way bet ?

downwiththatsor

Super Freak wrote: »

What's up with Eurosport? No worlds, and now missing a classic?

"Home of cycling" me arse!!

Crazy they are showing cricket and superbikes, they need a 3rd channel. Streams are not the same, have italian rai but not hd
Would like to see purito win if martin or roche cant

at1withmyself

Glass Prison 1214

We need to poll on who's gonna win.

Inquitus

It's this available with English commentary anywhere?

AnotherView

Reports that Sagan has been dropped and is out of the race

at1withmyself

From cycling news:

The leaders are over the top of the first major climb of the day but the big news is that Peter Sagan has abandoned the race. Cannondale were set to ride for Ivan Basso today, with Sagan as a plan b. At least things are a little clearer for the team in terms of leadership now.

at1withmyself

Inquitus wrote: »

It's this available with English commentary anywhere?

English commentary is available on Eurosport from 2:30 according to steephill

wirelessdude01

at1withmyself wrote: »

English commentary is available on Eurosport from 2:30 according to steephill

Isn't that the international version rather than british version.

Everything Italian

wirelessdude01 wrote: »

Isn't that the international version rather than british version.

Yes. Not on UK ES. International ES may be available online, otherwise its highlights on UK ES late this afternoon/early evening

at1withmyself

Peter Sagan is joined by Andy Schleck in terms of prominent abandons so far in this year's race. Schleck came into the race having recovered from illness earlier in the week. He spoke to Cyclingnews earlier this week, stating that the Tour de France and the Classics would be his major objectives for 2014.

at1withmyself

Roche in the Break:

reminder of those in the break, they have roughly a minute over the peloton:

Angel Vicioso (Katusha), Diego Rosa (Androni Giacottoli), Francesco Gavazzi (Astana), Stef Clement (Belkin), Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), Alessandro Di Marchi (Cannondale), Paolo Longo Borghini (Cannondale), Juan Valencia (Colombia), Reto Hollenstein (IAM Cycling), Damiano Cunego (Lampre), Jesus Herrada (Movistar), Benat Intxausti (Movistar), Christian Meier (Orica-GreenEdge), Jan Bakelants (RadioShack), Georg Priedler (Argos-Shimano), Björn Thureau (Europcar), Cesare Benedetti (NetApp-Endura), Sergio Paulinho (Saxo-Tinkoff), Nicolas Roche (Saxo-Tinkoff), Marco Marcato (Vacansoleil-DCM) and Maurits Lammertink (Vacansoleil-DCM)



Scarponi out

at1withmyself

A lot of big names out now:

crash in the bunch and Nibali is one of those down. He's limping, blood on one of his legs and out of the race.

downwiththatsor

Roche lost a bit on the climb after his turn at the front earlier but still ahead of Contador, Martin well placed for the descent.

dastardly00

I think I'm going to just wait for the highlights later this evening rather than worrying about getting a decent stream!

AnotherView

The one person I didn't mention Voecleur !

le petit braquet

Tommy V has 1.30 lead with 55 K to go. Wyss of IAM was chasing to join him but crashed. Pursuit not particularly animated at the moment. Time checks few and far between on coverage.

Inquitus

Oh noes, we have to look at Tommy gurning for the next feck knows how long!

le petit braquet

Zip down, tongue out - gap at 2.20 with 51.6K left

le petit braquet

Gap now 2.55 with 46.3 left. It may not be stylish but it's effective.

le petit braquet

And Betancur is still with us!

Pudsy33

Here's a useful tracker

http://tour.html.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/event/tour/default.asp?page=live&SportID=102&CompetitionID=20732&DerivedCompetitionID=24055&SeasonID=484&PhaseID=810699&EventPhaseID=810699&Taalcode=2&Cache=2

le petit braquet

Still 2.50 ahead with 29.6km left - looking good as there still doesn't seem to be urgency in the chase.

AnotherView

I am watching live

Carpenter

AnotherView wrote: »

I am watching live

How

le petit braquet

Oh dear, gap down to 1.13 with 17.6km to go!

Inquitus

le petit braquet wrote: »

Oh dear, gap down to 1.13 with 17.6km to go!

Not a fan of Tommy, so good to see him getting reeled in and hopefully Dan's in the mix now.

le petit braquet

No mention of Dan in the group behind unfortunately

downwiththatsor

Dan Martin is well placed at the moment

le petit braquet

Apologies Dan showing in 4th spot as they catch Tommy!

mahoo

dan well positioned.. looks like hes picked valverdes wheel to follow

thinks too much

http://www.sportlemon.tv/20131005/vv52500115a78a58.24053573-657915.html

watch end of race here..in french but who cares

wirelessdude01

Think Dan came off the bike in the last km.

Pudsy33

Dan 4th, well raced

J-Rod, Valverde and Majke ahead of him

n-dawg

4th for Dan :-)

le petit braquet

Saw an Irish flag near the top of the last climb and a couple more at the finish inside the last km.

letape

n-dawg wrote: »

4th for Dan :-)

Hope so! Looked like he might have lost that on the line?

Mechanical at 200m to go seems to have taken away chance of 3rd.

le petit braquet

On the podium JRod didn't offer to shake Valverde's hand although he did shake Majka's. Eventually Valverde reached out and took JRod's hand. Then for the podium photo, when second and third step up on to the top step, he put his arm around Majka's shoulder but not Valverde's

AnotherView

I am sorry - not allowed to post stream links here

However for future reference follow Inner Ring at nrng.com or Panche (@Kiss_my_Panache) or Velovoices (@VeloVoices) on Twitter - they usually point you in the right direction

AnotherView

Costa in rainbow jersey working for Valverde today as pay back according to Eurosport !!!!

J-Rod may have reasonable cause for his hump

f1000

thinks too much wrote: »

http://www.sportlemon.tv/20131005/vv52500115a78a58.24053573-657915.html

watch end of race here..in french but who cares

if you had have clicked on the link for Eurosport you would have had it in english

AnotherView

Attached is said podium image

Body language says it all

Darkglasses

Haven't seen any of the race but I'm delighted for majka, that's a really good result for him. Surprised at J-Rod at least not putting a brave face on for the camera. Some would say immature.

Inquitus

Pretty piss poor race on reflection, noone can live with J-Rod on the only bit of the race that matters, the last 500m of the final climb. Would not surprise me, if his luck holds and he avoids crashes, if we saw him win this on an annual basis for a few years to come unless they sort the route out.

dastardly00

The organisers need to change the route again. And it's on too late in the year as well.

And Eurosport should be showing this live considering it's a Monument. And their highlights package was piss poor.

/rant over.

Well done Dan, very good result. Super impressive performance from J-Rod. Close to unbeatable on that kind of course.