Tour of Qatar **SPOILER**

[rich p]

The flat, dry, dusty and windblown sprint fest is almost upon us. It's not a race to match the Giro for sweeping vistas and a bunny hop up a kerb can win you the King of the Mountains.

Having said that there are a bunchful of sprinters to give us a taster of future battles.

Cav, Greipel, Appolonio, Degenkolb, Farrar, Robbie, Galymzynov etc, not to mention Sagan and Gilbert - oh, I just did!
The last couple of years we've always wondered and worried if Cav was going to 'train on' so I'm going to be more relaxed this year knowing that he starts the season slowly.

 

[ColinJ]

Thanks for the reminder Rich! I have subscribed to Eurosport Player so I will be able to watch the race this year.

 

[Keith Oates]

Well, we will soon see the action as it starts on Sunday and althought it may give an indicator of the season ahead as far as form is concerned I suspect most of the riders are using it as a training race!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[iLB]

Cav shouldn't be looking like too much of a slouch as he has MSR firmly in his sights.

 

[Keith Oates]

Your right iLB, the 17th March is not that far away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

The sprints will hopefully make up for the unremitting tedium of the rest of the stages... unless the wind wrecks the peloton.

 

[iLB]

Greipel is out with illness, gutting for him as he was going well down under.

 

[Ruary]

Isn't the big test going to be whether or not Renshaw can outsprint Cav now he's not his lead out man?

 

[rich p]

Isn't the big test going to be whether or not Renshaw can outsprint Cav now he's not his lead out man?

He looked slightly off the pace at the TdU but it could be interesting.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Isn't the big test going to be whether or not Renshaw can outsprint Cav now he's not his lead out man?

Renshaw didn't look like he would be the big threat in the TdU.

 

[rich p]

Renshaw didn't look like he would be the big threat in the TdU.

Am I on your ignore list? Please don't answer this if I am

 

[Nearly there]

Its on British Eurosport 2 sadly not in Hd

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Am I on your ignore list? Please don't answer this if I am

No, not at all, I don't have an ignore list. For some reason I couldn't see your comment when I posted mine. No idea why, but it was happening a lot yesterday too.

 

[rich p]

No, not at all, I don't have an ignore list. For some reason I couldn't see your comment when I posted mine. No idea why, but it was happening a lot yesterday too.

Ha! I feel I've just exposed my lack of self esteem!

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

Its on British Eurosport 2 sadly not in Hd

Mmm apart from Eurosport2 UK (Sky 411) it is also on Eurosport UK (Sky 410) isn't it or is 410's just a repeat of the one shown in 411*? It seems to be coming in dribs and drabs of 1 hour/2hour bits with no clue from the description if one is a repeat of another, and Record Series doesn't seem to record series at all...

* Description of 410 this Sunday 2pm says "Stage 5 of the 2012 Tour..."!!!