TOC Stage 5 ITT

BTW as a Dutchie I was of course fully aware of Maarten Tjallingii's TT abilities, but Gesink's progression in this discipline is nothing short of amazing as he used to TT like my gran on her way to the bridge club.

Kelderman is considered one of the biggest talents of a quite promising pool of young riders we are currently blessed with (Kruiswijk, Slagter, Mollema, Dumoulin being some of the others...).

But Kelderman is still very young (just turned 21) and Rabobank tends to bring their talents very slowly (too slowly?) so as not to burn them off. In terms of TT'ing, Durbridge is already a household name, but for the general standings in a stage race Kelderman should be the one to watch in 3 or 4 years time.

(On a side note: Right now, I'd say Mollema is our brightest star (especially given his strong mentality), but if Gesink can TT like that in the Tour he may just end up on the podium this summer!)

Oh, I completely forgot about Jetse Bol! Another huge talent.

Nice one thanks! I only started really following it this year so don't know a great deal about a lot of the riders.

Gutted. Managed 4th overall with 174 and I left out DZ! Go Jensie!!!!!

gkam,

I think Levi was the last person I saw before I switched off and went to bed.

I take it you didn't catch the stage LP?

He had a large ice pack have way down his back, cant find a picture at the moment, but i'm sure there will be one about somewhere.

At the start when he was in an aero position, his helmet fitted nicely in with the ice pack

Gkam,

Having broken my fibula myself, I am surprised that he kept an icepack on whilst riding. It really wouldn't have made much difference, if any, during the race.

I used to use a big pack of frozen peas, which were in fact *better* than the specific ice pack that you can buy from Boots. Also, after a while, you need to remove the icepack as the coldness becomes too much and probably wouldn't help with reducing the swelling after a certain amount of time.

LP

ended up with 1,6,10,11 and 20th plus the usual gc points etc etc.

After doing this game for nigh on 18 months still dont know how to work out the points

Made my changes for tomorrow as well and got rid of Sagan. It might backfire but you never know.

For not aiming at a good TT Team i got 3rd 6th and 16th

I'm still waiting for a Levi investigation into that ice pack and fully expect a ruling on wearing things like that in the future. Not that he was any faster. But they might start shaping "ice packs" like shark fins soon

1 David ZABRISKIE Garmin-Barracuda 00:35:59.210
2 Jens VOIGT RadioShack-Nissan 0:00:23
3 Tejay VAN GARDEREN BMC Racing Team 0:00:34
4 Robert GESINK Rabobank Cycling Team 0:00:39
5 Andrew TALANSKY Garmin-Barracuda 0:00:48
6 Peter VELITS Omega Pharma-QuickStep 0:00:49
7 Maarten TJALLINGII Rabobank Cycling Team 0:00:52
8 Luke DURBRIDGE Orica GreenEDGE 0:01:01
9 Tom DANIELSON Garmin-Barracuda 0:01:07
10 Rory SUTHERLAND UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling 0:01:10
11 Cameron MEYER Orica GreenEDGE 0:01:26
12 Lawson CRADDOCK Bontrager Livestrong Team 0:01:30
13 George HINCAPIE BMC Racing Team 0:01:30
14 Markel IRIZAR ARRANBURU RadioShack-Nissan 0:01:33
15 Tom DUMOULIN Argos-Shimano 0:01:37
16 Luis Leon SANCHEZ GIL Rabobank Cycling Team 0:01:40
17 Levi LEIPHEIMER Omega Pharma-QuickStep 0:01:44
18 Nathan BROWN Bontrager Livestrong Team 0:01:49
19 Matthew BUSCHE RadioShack-Nissan 0:01:49
20 Vincenzo NIBALI Liquigas-Cannondale 0:01:52

can someone please post top 20 stage result?

1,3,5,6,7,11,12,17 for me today, 1,4,5 in the gen class.

A pile better than my giro performance

Just found this on Dave Zabriskie's website:

Quote:

Capt. America
Finally got out to see the best Marvel film to date. I was floating above my chair in that theater I was so excited. Loved every minute of it and walked out of there with a wide-ass grin wondering how I get myself into a bit role in the sequel.

Still jacked up when I got home that I mounted my life-size Capt. America shield onto the front of the new cargo bike and took to the streets. My kind neighbors, now used to my occasionally eccentric behavior, gave me the thumbs up, others an amused wave, and one rather serious gentlemen offered up a full military salute. You gotta love this country.

http://davezabriskie.com/?p=684

It's always ace reading about a pro-cyclist who will still ride just for enjoyment, rather than just training and racing.

Actually, have to be careful with transfers, might even keep Sagan for the duration... Hmm...

Just have to decide whether to keep Sagan for one more stage or bring in a GC guy (Gesink or Velits I guess).

Team is currently...

Tejay Van G
Sagan
Danielson
Sutherland
Talansky
Machado
Meyer
Durbridge
Boily

Don't know what I was thinking leaving van Garderen out... I actually had him in for stage 4 and took him out. I am completely lost in this race.

Good news is it looks like I have 1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 20, plus Sagan, who Lord knows will probably somehow top 10

Nibali 1:52 down

Yeah they said he was 1:22 down but only 34 so sets him up nicely for GC

Now thats what I like to hear!

My team is doing so-so, what happened to Nibali? he is nowhere, knew brining in Horner was a mistake

Nibali
Van Garderan
Horner
Velits

Bouet
Talansky
Meyer
Atapuma
Zabriske

6 in the top 11 with the sprinters to come, as always could've been better but pretty happy...

Error in his timing. He actually only finished 34" back!

What happened to tejay there? Didnt look comfortable at all!!

This having the TT on stage 5 after 4 sprint stages makes figuring out who is going to win the GC awfully difficult.

101 Fahrenheit... aka 38 C...

Sounds like a fun day to ride...

They were saying camelbak for Levi. Never heard of such a thing for a TT rider.

How great is it that in cycling you can have a nickname like "Captain America" and then wear a jersey of Captain America... God bless this sport