La Vuelta al País Vasco (Tour of the Basque Country)

[The Couch]

Contador, Valverde, Tejay, Betancur, Costa, Peraud, Kwiatek and Evans are present

Edmondson, Kennaugh and the Yates brothers for the Brits
Schleck, Rolland, JVDB and Gesink for the Hail Mary's (was wondering where to put Evans )

 

[BrumJim]

I'm interested to see how Kennaugh performs. He did some mighty shifts on the TdF last year, and won a 2.1 stage race this year. This is a step up and with some big names. I hope he impresses all with his performance.

 

[Brightski]

Just got in from work, who's wearing the 1 number for Sky??

 

[tug benson]

Contador with some attack on the last climb of the day

 

[PpPete]

Just got in from work, who's wearing the 1 number for Sky??

from: http://www.steephill.tv/vuelta-al-pais-vasco/:

SKY (SKY)
GBR
61NIEVE ITURALDE MikelESP
62HENAO GOMEZ SebastianCOL
63EDMONDSON JoshuaGBR
64KENNAUGH PeterGBR
65KIRYIENKA VasilBLR
66PATE DannyUSA
67SWIFT BenGBR
68ZANDIO ECHAIDE XabierESP

 

[Brightski]

from: http://www.steephill.tv/vuelta-al-pais-vasco/:

SKY (SKY)
GBR
61NIEVE ITURALDE MikelESP
62HENAO GOMEZ SebastianCOL
63EDMONDSON JoshuaGBR
64KENNAUGH PeterGBR
65KIRYIENKA VasilBLR
66PATE DannyUSA
67SWIFT BenGBR
68ZANDIO ECHAIDE XabierESP

 

[rich p]

Impressive stuff from Dirty Bertie to blow Valverde away like that.
Froome may need to up his game this year.

 

[laurence]

oooh, Nieve is team leader, GORA GORA!

 

[laurence]

good to see cycling news hasn't gone downhill recently...

1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 4:05:07
2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:14
3 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:00:34
4 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Katusha 0:00:36
5 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Merida
6 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
7 Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Spa) Team Sky
8 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team
9 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:00:54
10 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
11 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ 0:00:56
12 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Team Europcar
13 Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Blanco Pro Cycling Team
14 Wouter Poels (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:00:58
15 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi

 

[smutchin]

good to see cycling news hasn't gone downhill recently...

1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 4:05:07
9 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:00:54

Team Tinko-Saxoff, shurely?

I don't imagine Wout Poels is riding for an obsolete team either. He's at OPQS now, isn't he?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

And Slagter as well, still showing as Blanco

 

[laurence]

they seem to have got some of them right - Nieve, Evans - but some very worng. i was excited as i thought i'd had a Bobby Ewing moment and Euskaltel Euskadi really didn't fold.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

they seem to have got some of them right - Nieve, Evans - but some very worng. i was excited as i thought i'd had a Bobby Ewing moment and Euskaltel Euskadi really didn't fold.

keep showering laurence and one day it might come true

 

[The Couch]

Costa doesn't seem interested in this one.. loosing already 4 minutes yesterday
The same applies to Mollema (9 min down)
(Andy) Schleck and Rolland continue to confirm that they have completely lost their climbing legs

Pinot looks to be (pretty much) over his fear of descending, since he ended in a decent group within 1 minutes behind
Pretty decent result from Jurgen Van Den Broeck after the recent crash and re-injuring of his knee

Betancur has abandoned this morning (his knee injury keeps bothering him)... doesn't look like he'll be able to repeat his nice Ardennes results of 2013

 

[Crackle]

Betancur has abandoned this morning (his knee injury keeps bothering him)... doesn't look like he'll be able to repeat his nice Ardennes results of 2013

I didn't know about the knee injury but as he was 15 minutes down yesterday I figured something was wrong or he too wasn't interested. Sometimes hard to know whether a race entered is a race targetted.