Tour De Suisse

neris

Eurosport finally got the finger out and have a live stage on today

Stage 4 193km

Sagan has yellow
Irish interest in Matt Barmier and Chris Jul Jensen (if he counts)


VK 1 SAGAN, Peter (TINKOFF) 9:14:13
BEL 2 ROELANDTS, Jurgen (LOTTO SOUDAL) + 3
SUI 3 DILLIER, Silvan (BMC RACING)
ESP 4 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI, Jon (MOVISTAR) + 13
BEL 5 WELLENS, Tim (LOTTO SOUDAL) + 14
ESP 6 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI, Gorka (MOVISTAR) + 17
NED 7 KELDERMAN, Wilco (LOTTO NL - JUMBO)
AUS 8 MATTHEWS, Michael (ORICA GreenEDGE) + 18
GBR 9 THOMAS, Geraint (SKY) + 19
GER 10 GESCHKE, Simon (GIANT - ALPECIN) + 20

pelevin

Seeing as he's without as yet a scheduled team for next season, I'm thinking the Irish govt should plough millions into An Post team & sign up Peter Sagan to spearhead the team for a few years. The justification to the grumblers could be something like "a fitting way to commemorate the events of 1916 & for which all right-thinking Irish people will fully & proudly support."

Borderfox

Stage 3 was on live and it was a cracker

neris

the irish national championships been discussed :eek:

buffalo

neris wrote: »

the irish national championships been discussed :eek:

heh, presume that was Quigley. What did he say?

neris

buffalo wrote: »

heh, presume that was Quigley. What did he say?

was quigley, not sure it was something about brammier and orwell

dastardly00

So let's put in a 90-degree corner with less than 150 metres to go to the finish line.... that won't be dangerous at all!

Here it is (from yesterday, Stage 4), and Danny van Poppel's ridiculous save! :eek:

https://twitter.com/CyclingHubTV/status/742754703767900160

pelevin

Crazy stuff. Van Poppel's composure & skill saved him some serious pain there.

TheBlaaMan

....but it didnt save him from a D/Q on the stage for 'dangerous riding' ..........nothing to do with course lay-out or anything

Brian?

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

....but it didnt save him from a D/Q on the stage for 'dangerous riding' ..........nothing to do with course lay-out or anything

DQ seems very harsh there.

neris

Not on Eurosport again today

pelevin

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

....but it didnt save him from a D/Q on the stage for 'dangerous riding' ..........nothing to do with course lay-out or anything

For touching Sagan's wheel? How could it not be dangerous riding to be contesting such a sprint in the first place?!

dastardly00

neris wrote: »

Not on Eurosport again today

No live coverage on Eurosport of any of the remaining stages

clog

There is a live feed with full commentary on the eurosport player, watching it at the moment. Im not sure how you can access it from the normal tv signal though.

TheBlaaMan

It is on ES2 tonight at 7pm for 90 minute or so


Look at yer mans head.....

What. Is . He. Like....?

irishrover99

FinalDash on Youtube are showing live English feed

neris

good ride from Carltons favourite Atapuma. that last climb looked tough

Lusk_Doyle

Did sky have the rights to this recently?

Taxuser1

tomorrow's final climb is a doozey

7kms

first 3 at 10.8%
next 3 at 13%
final km 7%

everyone looks just about on the same level so could be a cracker again

dastardly00

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Did sky have the rights to this recently?

I think a few years ago they did. Along with the Tour de Romandie and a few other races if I remember correctly.

Lusk_Doyle

The lovely Carlton will hardly sleep a wink tonight with excitement at the result today.

Lusk_Doyle

dastardly00 wrote: »

I think a few years ago they did. Along with the Tour de Romandie and a few other races if I remember correctly.

Yea, I thought so. I remember being annoyed at the time that ES didn't have it, especially as it was one of the final tune up events for the tour. Skys attempt to get cycling onto their pay-per-view looks to have been unsuccessful but I wonder whatthe reason is this year for the lack of ES live coverage?

neris

delightful looking day to be riding in this. would nearly remind u of the irish weather in april

TheBlaaMan

neris wrote: »

delightful looking day to be riding in this. would nearly remind u of the irish weather in april

where are you watching it?

neris

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

where are you watching it?

eurosport player online

buffalo

neris wrote: »

eurosport player online

Likewise. Working from home has its advantages.

I have http://live.cyclingnews.com/ open as well, no mention so far of Izaguirre riding solo into yellow.

neris

buffalo wrote: »

Likewise. Working from home has its advantages.

I have http://live.cyclingnews.com/ open as well, no mention so far of Izaguirre riding solo into yellow.

thats some gap the 2 boyos have

retalivity

Didnt realise how much time teejay lost yesterday...2 mins! The surprise of him attacking the previous day seems to have taken its toll

dastardly00

retalivity wrote: »

Didnt realise how much time teejay lost yesterday...2 mins! The surprise of him attacking the previous day seems to have taken its toll

I was surprised as well that Geraint Thomas lost a minute to Kelderman, Talansky, and Barguil.

Taxuser1

dastardly00 wrote: »

I was surprised as well that Geraint Thomas lost a minute to Kelderman, Talansky, and Barguil.

Great to see Talansky showing form and has carried it from California. Should hopefully progress to a big ride in the Tour now, he's been banging in and around the Top 10 the past few years.

irishrover99

dastardly00 wrote: »

I was surprised as well that Geraint Thomas lost a minute to Kelderman, Talansky, and Barguil.

Thomas will again turn into superman when he's leading Froome up the climbs. They always seem to perform at their best when Froome is racing.

retalivity

Taxuser1 wrote: »

Great to see Talansky showing form and has carried it from California. Should hopefully progress to a big ride in the Tour now, he's been banging in and around the Top 10 the past few years.

Dombrowski impressed me yday... driving at the front a la sky to whityle the group down. Although he did the giro so not sure if hes going to the tour

dastardly00

Taxuser1 wrote: »

Great to see Talansky showing form and has carried it from California. Should hopefully progress to a big ride in the Tour now, he's been banging in and around the Top 10 the past few years.

In terms of the tour, I still can't see Talansky challenging any of the top tier guys, i.e. Froome, Contador, Nibali, Quintana, and Aru.

If he makes it into the top-10 that would be a fantastic result for him since he will be battling for those positions with the likes of Pozzovivo, Porte, Van Garderen, Dan Martin, Valverde, Purito, Gesink, Kelderman.... holy sh*t that's some line-up when you start listing out the names!

Inquitus

Good result for TJ today, Geraint Thomas hasn't looked good in this TdS, nowhere near the form he had last year.

retalivity

And at the route de sud...

Quintana wins the tt ahead of chavanel and erviti, after being in a 150k break yesterday. Ominous.

Inquitus

Some great rides by the GC men in the TT today, what is tomorrow's stage like? many bonifications, it will all go down to the wire.

Click link for Stage and GC results

http://i.imgur.com/X7G2qLx.png

Hager

Tomorrow's stage is 117km with 2 HC climbs, the second one summits after 100km. Two bonus sprints are in the valley between the climbs. With such a short stage it should be fast and furious, unlikely that a break will be let go with so much to play for at the top of the GC.

Hager

Today's stage has been shortened to 57km due to bad weather. It will still feature one HC climb with a 17km descent from there to the finish. I can't really see the GC changing with such a short test.

All My Stars Aligned

Is it just my imagination or does the commentator (not the Scottish fella) sound remarkably like Pat Kenny.

irishrover99

Hager wrote: »

Today's stage has been shortened to 57km due to bad weather. It will still feature one HC climb with a 17km descent from there to the finish. I can't really see the GC changing with such a short test.

The descent looks really treacherous. Weather is horrible

68 lost souls

Trophy is taller than him :pac:

Andre 3000

Lopez is going to be huge. He has it all already at 22.