Tour of California *SPOILERS*

[Flying_Monkey]

ToC just kicked off with quite a strong field this year. The first stage was fast and Cav took it by inches from John Degenkolb. It was great to see Bradley Wiggins splitting the peloton in the latter stages with clever use of the strong winds - it looks like he is great shape and intends to win this one. Also fantastic to see for British fans was a guy who at just 19, is almost young enough to be Wiggo's son, Tao Geoghegan Hart, riding for Bissel Development Squad, not only in the early break but then recover his energies to finish 4th and get the young rider jersey. Britain seems to be full of prospects right now...

 

[raindog]

yep - that was about as close as it gets


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_X6NTIzi0

 

[User169]

Tao Geoghegan Hart, riding for Bissel Development Squad, not only in the early break but then recover his energies to finish 4th and get the young rider jersey. Britain seems to be full of prospects right now...

Sagan was 4th. Geoghegan was 51. Strong riding nevertheless: the Belgian commentators were impressed.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Sagan was 4th. Geoghegan was 51. Strong riding nevertheless: the Belgian commentators were impressed.

Sorry, I was looking at the wrong list - he's 4th in the GC after Stage 1 (picked up some bonus seconds along the way).

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Good stuff, looks like being an interesting race. Its a shame though that its always spoilt by the idiots in fancy dress running alongside.

 

[User169]

Bradders going well. Caught his one minute man and flew past him.

 

[thom]

Bradders going well. Caught his one minute man and flew past him.

he's caught his one minute man's one minute man now

 

[User169]

Now he's done the two minute man!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Ten Dam on his arse after the finish line, looks like someone may have walked into him: was it @montage getting all fanboy on him?

 

[User169]

ten dam's crashed - having finished!

 

[Crackle]

No one left who can beat Wiggins now.

 

[StuAff]

...and he won!

 

[screenman]

32mph average, that was awesome and kept me up way beyond my bed time.

 

[jifdave]

Bloody annoying commentary constantly repeating how amazing phinney is and how he'd beat wiggo.
Then the whole watts over and over again, wiggos 550 at Olympics and phinneys 480 this year...
Soon as the time check came in they jumped ship like it was on fire

 

[Crackle]

I couldn't get on the Amgen website so ended up watching it in French. Given it was Sherwen and Liggett, pandering to an American audience on Amgen; no loss really.