Superb ride from Wiggo yesterday. Shame he couldn't quite find that extra second, but to see Tony Martin finishing so far back puts his performance in those conditions in some kind of perspective. Bodes well.Yup. And SchleckA was astonishingly poor - a minute behind Wiggins after just 9km?!?
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Getting a nice pride of lions in that team sky bus.. Wonder if Brad will give Cav one for his little girl..On first reading, I had no idea what 'lions' you were talking about. This makes for some very confusing images ... ;D
Getting a nice pride of lions in that team sky bus.. Wonder if Brad will give Cav one for his little girl..
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Roll on July...I just hope he doesn't overdo it inbetween, thinking he can win every race ... ::-)
Roll on July...I just hope he doesn't overdo it inbetween, thinking he can win every race ... ::-)
The green jersey was an unexpected bonus to the stage and overall.
I wonder if Westra is regretting his easing off and freewheeling to the line on his stage win.
Really impressed by Westra's performance today, but there was never really any doubt about what the result would be.
All this talk of it being close - correct me if I'm wrong, but surely as Wiggins went last he would have had his directeur bellowing in his ear all the way up, so he just rode more or less to Westra's pace giving it just enough to beat him at the end.
Great for Bradley, but I still suspect the changes in speed on the TdF stages will be his undoing. He has a great engine but doesn't seem to be able to respond when those nearby up the pace a bit, even if for only a short time. Fingers crossed though as I would really like to see him win this year.
Great for Bradley, but I still suspect the changes in speed on the TdF stages will be his undoing. He has a great engine but doesn't seem to be able to respond when those nearby up the pace a bit, even if for only a short time. Fingers crossed though as I would really like to see him win this year.
but there was only the one intermediate timing point, and I doubt, however good Sky’s preparation and implementation was, that they could be confident, to the second or even handful of seconds, where he was in relation to Westra’s time
I thnk Bobb's right, in that there is no reason they couldn't have done this (barring odd local geography, or regs, possibly). They even do this at lowly UK Championships - I think it was Dangerfield's coach who I heard speaking on this.but there was only the one intermediate timing point, and I doubt, however good Sky’s preparation and implementation was, that they could be confident, to the second or even handful of seconds, where he was in relation to Westra’s time
Maybe, but I doubt the Sky bods would have overlooked the fact that all they needed was a man with a pen and paper to write down Westra's times at any point on the road and pass those back to the team. I guess we'll never know...
I stand corrected. I'm happy to think that at least some of my Murdoch pounds are going towards stopwatches and timers, and not all to corruptible Met officers, seedy journalists, celebrity pay-offs, and curvaceous (and surprisingly erudite) girls from Essex. /b]