Vuelta a Castilla y León Stage Three.... Live!
by ursula on Mar 25, 2009 7:00 AM EDT
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Video should begin around 10:30, eastern.
Most of us, including me, will be watching (hopefully) the Dwars door Vlaanderen this morning. While you are, or afterwards, notice this race and the stages both today and tomorrow because these stages may say a bit about how that July Tour plays out.
Remember last September's Tour of Spain, where the Bald Dwarf came oh so close to winning while working for The Accountant? Well here we are again, and Levi's 16 seconds ahead of Bert with two hilltop finishing stages today and tomorrow and Menchov, Zabriskie and Clement close behind. Will Levi step aside? Will Bert attack Levi? Will they work together to hold on to 1st and 2nd? Now that Lance is injured, we will see how Astana will play out this year.
Go to Cycling Fans for a link to the video and tracker.
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"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
The babelfish ticker is hysterical, yet again
“The runners reserve their forces for the last section of the stage, where the all the codfish will distribute itself.”
Self-distributing codfish? W
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
Flying fish
No longer that I call them tights, I call them freedom ware.
by TheFigurehead on Mar 25, 2009 8:59 AM EDT up reply actions
All together at km46. Euskatel and Contentpolis most active.
13:26: Km. 46. El pelotón sigue agrupado. Han habido leves intentos de fuga que no han cuajado por el momento. Los más activos, Euskaltel-Euskadi y Contentpolis-Ampo en estos primeros kilómetros. Ahora mismo el pelotón ocupa todo el ancho de la calzada.
Fast start of the stage...
13:45. Km 61. Pelotón agrupado. La organización indica que en la primera hora se han recorrido 51,600 km. Rápidos, pero juntitos.
Mollema
Did a pretty louse ITT. Wants to gain back some time on the mountaintop finishes. Hopes to make it in the GC top-10 in the end.
Ergo, Rabobank will make sure there’ll be fireworks!
Bert is American now
We remembered to you as the general classification goes…
… the North American Levi Leipheimer (05: 05: 10), the Astaná, march in first position, followed of their teammate Alberto Accountant, to 16 seconds, and their compatriot David Zabriskie, of the Garmin-Slipstream, to 22.
Still all together
14:20: Km 90. Siguen todos juntos… muy rápido, eso sí. A medias de más de 50 km/h.
Group of six off the front w/ 1:5 gap at the 115km mark
Just spinning the pedals in the hills of Western Maryland
6 riders are...
Pablo Urtasun (Euskaltel Euskadi), Mountain Ricardo (Fuji Servetto), Lucas Euser (Garmin), Serge Pauwels (Cervelo), Raul Santamaría (Monumental Burgos) and Francisco Mancebo (Racing Rock).
by PopUp Rolen on Mar 25, 2009 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions
Francisco Mancebo eing very determined to get out front in these races
Just spinning the pedals in the hills of Western Maryland
You guys are great.
It’s hard to keep from going crazy when there’s a half hour between ticker updates.
Anyone have any updates
Just spinning the pedals in the hills of Western Maryland
26km to go (and only 12 to the begin of the climb)
15:15: Km. 130. Los escapados mantienen la ventaja pero el trabajo del Astaná atrás no permite alegrías. La diferencia está en 1:25. Quedan menos de 27 kilómetros para meta y 12 para que comience la subida.
Climb begins, only 13,7km left in this stage.
15:35: Comienza la subida. Quedan 13,7km. El mejor colocado de los seis es Urtasun (a 2:49 en la general). Atrás tira Rubiera.
Best rider with the escapees is Urtasan (at 2’49 of Leipheimer)
av
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
He's guilty as hell..
So please let me also be a hater
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
You're just spouting filth
Please keep it to yourself. Valverde has always (and I mean always) been a class act and has never tested positive. The end.
Like Ricco did...
C’mon you can’t be serious… In every Puerto cas his name popped up.. Just naive to think he didn’t dope….
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
Too bad for him CONI will most likely say a much bigger FUCK YOU to Valverde
I believe not be able to ride Le Tour is a bit bigger than winning a stage at CyL.
Heinrich Haussler (GERMANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Cervélo TestTeam
your ears burning?
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
by umwolverine on Mar 25, 2009 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions
Ok this cracks me up
Listening to Spanish announcers (not that I speak it) but the only names I hear are Bert and Valverde. I know they are the home town boys and all but …. can’t chat about the race leader even once?
Well I admit I speak Spanish
But I do think agree that the man from Norcal get so little respect compared to the flashy rider like Valverde.
I have always routed for LL
I like the fact he has been a good teammate and ride great when given the opportunity for himself. Also the whole no respect thing makes me cheer for him even more. I think he could have won the Vuelta if the politics were different. I have high hopes for the Giro for him If the team is strong the race may suit him very well.
Levi tends to be
the Rodney Dangerfield of cycling.
Levi Leipheimer
is not a name that rolls easily off the tongue when you speak such a beautiful fluid language.
I think that it's Valverde's great acceleration
that hurts him in the ITTs and the long climbs. Different kind of muscles.
LL Sanchez will be their best GC guy in 2010.
He went up the mountain with Frank Shleck
in Paris Nice.
saluki...Cd'E has made no secret that they are grooming LLSanchez for GT races
He is a fab TT’er and his climbing will get just get better.
Per CN: No changes at the top
Results
1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
2 Rubén Plaza (Spa) Liberty Seguros
3 Javier Moreno (Spa) Andalucía-Cajasur
General classification after stage 3
1 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana
2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 0.16
3 David Zabriskie (USA) Garmin-Slipstream 0.22
That climb sucked ass!
damn tomorrow’s better be tougher, it looked like a flat sprint in those final few km’s today, no attacking, a leadout train of about 4, and everyone finishing together. There is no Dwars to save CyL’s ass tomorrow, so make it good!
Heinrich Haussler (GERMANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Cervélo TestTeam
Too much Czech beer these last few days...oh it's so good
actually it’s probably because it’s already evening over here, so I’m hyped up right now! Actually it’s probably because Flanders is just 11 days away, and HH has made it clear he can win it, I’m real pumped!
"It’s disappointing. Second place is the first loser."
~Heinrich Haussler (GERMANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Cervélo TestTeam
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