Minor Stage Races 2016 **may contain SPOILERS**

[smutchin]

Disastrous day for Sky at Ronandie.

Great battle between Quintana and Zakarin though.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Zakarin has been relegated for an "irregular sprint". Quintana wins the stage.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Well, that's Froome's tilt at the GC over. He came in 17m 30s down on Quintana.

 

[smutchin]

Nice to see Voeckler racing rather than showboating for a change. Good win.

 

[Crackle]

He still had his tongue out though.

 

[smutchin]

He just can't help himself.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Good ride from Voeckler, pity he doesn't do that more

 

[SWSteve]

Before today's result I was wondering why Voekler doesn't get results/race for the win more. He can read a race, and must have the legs for long efforts. So why do we never see him on the podium...

 

[Apollonius]

Possibly because he is a one-man team. Only two other Direct Energie riders finished the race. he is either off on his own doing mad breakaways or coming back from being dropped (like today) to win. He is a one-off. Love it.

 

[rich p]

A bit embarrassing for Nico Roche getting mugged by Voekler though.

 

[rich p]

Quintana is still looking pretty good for the Tour after his Romandie success.
Pinot (or TboPno, as I saw him referred to) didn't do his chances any harm either. I still find it hard seeing him as a future TdF winner though.
Froomedawg redeemed his race with a stage win, a decent ITT and a futile last stage breakaway. His prep. doesn't seem ideal to me, this year though.

 

[smutchin]

Pinot (or TboPno, as I saw him referred to) didn't do his chances any harm either. I still find it hard seeing him as a future TdF winner though.

I think there aren't many better than him at the moment. And it will only take a bit of luck to go his way...

 

[Crackle]

I wrote Pinot off after last year. Still not convinced. Just needs something not to go his way and.then we'll see if he has the character yet.

 

[rich p]

Talking of GC contenders...
Nibali and his Astana mate, Aru , haven't shown much form this year.
If His Nibs goes on to smash it up the mountains in the Giro, I'm going to have to PM Marmion to get his witchfinder snap out again

 

[ColinJ]

I was in Scarborough for yesterday's Tour de Yorkshire stage finish. The atmosphere was electric for the last 45 minutes or so. Tommy V's win seemed very popular. He was really chuffed and kept on kissing the big Y trophy (Y for Yorkshire - do try to keep up!). He cracked a joke about it when someone handed him a microphone - "Ah am keeesing zis trophee more zan ah am keeesing ma waf" which got a big laugh from the crowd.

He is surprisingly short and his legs are scrawny. Somehow, I expected him to be bigger.

I'll see if any of my video clips are worth sticking on YouTube.