Minor Races Thread 2015 - [SPOILERS]

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Live coverage of road race from European Games in Baku:
http://www.baku2015.com/video/live/video/live-video-road-cycling.html

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

From the lack of people in Baku watching it I'm imagining they are all indoors watching the live link I posted.

 

[robertob]

From the lack of people in Baku watching it I'm imagining they are all indoors watching the live link I posted.

All watching the gymnastics.

 

[robertob]

Louis Leon Sanchez won the road race in a sprint.... finally. It felt this race would never end. The same lap over and over again. Since the morning when first I started to watch at 8.30, while the race went on ,I went to Lidl, cleaned the house, wrote some stuff... and whenever I glimpsed at the TV, it looked all the same. It was pretty dull I have to say. Thanks good they show the rhythmic gymnastic on BT.

 

[rich p]

My heartfelt congrats to the (ex) doper LLS

 

[smutchin]

Watching a French stream of the TdS. The miserable unpatriotic commentators are being pretty down on Pinot's chances of winning! They seem to think Dumoulin is the favourite.

 

[smutchin]

And they're right to be concerned - Pinot already 13 seconds down on Dumoulin at first time check after 3.8km.

Thomas is matching Dumoulin's time so far.

 

[smutchin]

Dumoulin 11 seconds quicker than Spartacus at 21km.

 

[smutchin]

Dumoulin, Spilak and Thomas all went through 15km in exactly the same time, 3 seconds quicker than Fab! And Spilak has just gone through 21km in the same time as Dumoulin.

Pinot won't even finish on the podium at this rate.

 

[smutchin]

Thomas 7 seconds down on Spilak at 21km - it's going to be very close between them at the finish.

Pinot a minute down at the same check.

 

[smutchin]

Spilak to nick it for me tomorrow, by a few seconds over Thomas.

5 seconds, to be exact. Shame.

Well done Spilak, though. Great ride. Thomas looked like he was really suffering for most of the second half of that.

Dumoulin wins the stage and pips Pinot to third place on the podium.

 

[raindog]

FFS - the trophy
can't imagine what that might get used for in the future. Obviously too big to fit into the cabinet with the others.

 

[raindog]

Tremendous ride from Dumoulin.

 

[Crackle]

Disappointed for Thomas.

 

[rich p]

It shows a serious fallibility of Pinot's on his future GT aspirations