Tour of Qatar Stage 2....LIVE
by Jens on Feb 8, 2010 4:00 AM EST
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After Sky have grabbed the racelead with an impressive ride in the Stage 1 TTT, todays stage will no doubt be a tougher one for the brits. Yellow jersey Edvald Boasson Hagen faces as good a sprinters field as you are likely to find anywhere this year. Look out for a revenge-hungry Cervelo-squad eager to avenge yesterdays relegation.
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Congrats. You just won yourself a ticket to the Champions Leage preliminaries of the Eurosong festival
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
You've lost it
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Kurt down and out arghhhhhhhh suspected broken collarbone
Ohh not a sexybanker anymore… hehe (nah joking)
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
yes.... CW tweeted it..
i’m trying to get live…
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
CW?
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
oops yes cyclingweekly.. sorry pdc was playing up
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
Cyclingweekly
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
Ah ok.. Kurt was quite obvious.. CW was think bout a rider. Didn't work out
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Charlie Wegelius
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.
by TheFigurehead on Feb 8, 2010 5:13 AM EST up reply actions
Like I know the front name of Wegelius!
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
In the race
He’s in Qatar.
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.
by TheFigurehead on Feb 8, 2010 5:14 AM EST up reply actions
no crashed today stage 2
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
Oh I see, he's only just done it...I forgot stage 2 would have started already!
Albertina -→ a bit thick on a Monday morning. It’s here: http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/441621/arvesen-suffers-suspected-collarbone-break-in-qatar.html
yep no more tweets yet
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
Why did you have Arvesen. That guy is like 36?!
Not getting better!
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Perished! Almost burried
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Probably the best reason.. So you don't have EBH?
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
There si another Norwegian youngster with Sky..
Holgland or something. Might be a rising star
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Lol.. Nordhaug that is
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
I found him last year overpriced...
Oops
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Why are you shouting at me? I'm really sensitive you know
At 4 points (because he had a crappy season last year) I thought he was a bargain given he is on a good but not overloaded team (like Saxo 2008-09) and can score in many types of races. Now he’s going to lose to many races to be a bargain in my opinion. If he were 2 points he’d be worth the gamble even with the injury.
There there, Jens. Never mind those bullies.
I have to go back to the drawing board, too. Sigh…
ohh crap i've submitted.. hmm i don't think i picked him, have to go check
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
Sorry.. I'll change my style
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Bah!
He suffered the injury before the peloton had exited the neutralised zone, with Arvesen explaining: "It was really an absurd kind of accident because it happened before the race proper had started.
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.
by TheFigurehead on Feb 8, 2010 6:46 AM EST up reply actions
So who's gonna win today then?
Is Boasson Hagen just gonna win every stage? I’d say Farrar could be hard to beat if Garmin get the lead out right. Although I wouldn’t write off Boonen.
http://www.irishpeloton.com/
I think Barbie has a burning desire to kick some arse...
So i’ll say Heinrich, but don’t forget (first time but not last this season) watch out for Gilbert :-))
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
Farrar.. HH can not win a bunchsprint.. Boonen doesn't want to sprint
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
For those unaware of Holdenmates nationality
ask him/her for some good lutefisk-recipes and you’ll find out.
Mol and Steurs out front on their own
Seem to be 12 minutes ahead of a 25ish man chase group containing Tom Boonen
http://www.irishpeloton.com/
Just like last year then
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.
by TheFigurehead on Feb 8, 2010 7:18 AM EST up reply actions
YEAH. I also have coverage..
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Already Echolons
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Ha Mol and Steur are going to make it!
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
no idea
TDU organizers like to schedule their race same time as the Australian Open….obviously they don’t fancy tennis…..
In Group 1:
Bandiera, Schröder, Boonen, Burghardt, Boonen, Reimer, Napolitano +many more
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Hulsmans Velo HH Hammond
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
+
Hunt, Gilbert, Farrar, Ballan, Chicchi, Schröder
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
+Cooke Ogrady Lemoine Kluge Lodewijck
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
C;est tote
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
I seeing double.. Could be the coke
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
I'm on the enquiry desk...not that it's busy
It’s more the fact that there’s a total crisis going on with my literature search from hell.
Bad timing for commercial
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
42secs thay say.. But GPS is strange
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
So Group 1:
Lampre: Bandiera, Napolitano
Team Milram: Schröder,
QST: Boonen, Hulsmans, Velo
BMC: Burghardt, , Ballan
CTT: HH, Hammond, Hunt, Reimer
Sil: Gilbert
GRM: Farrar
Liqui: Chicchi
Saxo: Cooke, O’Grady
TSP: Lodewijck
Lemoine Kluge
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Hulsmans flatted, Benna too..
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
+Hunt
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
ohh sexybank and gilbert in there
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
You're right
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
37km 7"10
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Yep Mol and another guy
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Steurs that is
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
We haven't seen a single shot of the breakaway :S
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Lodewyck is 21.. As young as me.. Great he's there!
Chew on that EBH!
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
5.50 now
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
18k 5.30
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Seems book closed for me
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
There was the breakaway For 2 secs
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Mol I know.. But what team Steurs is on? Silence? Vac? Topsport?
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Topsport it is.. But he old for that team.. 28
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
You should be grateful for what you have! ;-)
It SNOWED here this morning…again! Thought we’d finished with all that.
The marmots told us last week (Feb. 2, national groundhog day)
that we still have six weeks of winter.
Marmots, groundhogs, woodchucks and whistlepigs throughout the
Northern Hemisphere are in agreement on this.
Don’t put your toboggan away yet.
Tireno-Adriatico and PN live on Eurosport
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
You're bad!
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
7km 3"45
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Boonen bridging!
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
On Hammond +1
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Boonen, Gilbert, Boonen with a gap
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
No.. They 6 in their wheels
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Ballan, HH, Schroder
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Schroder is Kluge
Hunt, Hammond, Napo
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
and gilbert :-)
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
Mol! He's Dutch
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
topsport, would be nice with what happened with frederik last year...
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
G1L Boonen, Haussler, Hammond, Hunt, Gilbert, Napo, Burgie and Kluge
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
They are talking
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Barbie Barbie
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Last km
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Bah
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Yay Topsport
"the rest was over 30. And that doesn't mean old and useless, but experienced and with the stamina"
Jens! Voigt, Crit Intl Interview, 2009
Who was the Milram in 3rd?
I will be a different rider in 2010, one who wins races.--Linus Gerdemann
I see what you did there
;)
"Let’s plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will- it’s only action that can make a man" Faust, Goethe
3. Kluge
4 Glibert
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
4 Barbie Barbie 5 HH
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
I'm gonna effing kill this commentator
“100kms from the end for the 3rd chase group”
French feed pour moi tomorrow
Team Sky relegated to the Championship
Let’s see if they can avoid getting relegated to League One as well.
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.
They'll probably focus on bad luck
Arvesen being taken out before the race started, EBH’s puncture.
OK so here's the answer
Stage two in Qatar overshadowed by Kurt’s injury. Edvald loses leader’s jersey after two-man break stays clear
Forgot to mention he was in the third group and would have lost it even if the long break was caught. :-)
Please, European teams often don't show up for the UEFA supercup(winner of CL vs winner of UEFA cup)
which this stage clearly was, tis just a little slip up.
March 14, 2010: The great one returns!
Vaughters Tweet
He says Steven Cozza’s collarbone is broken.
by Chief Commissaire on Feb 8, 2010 10:09 AM EST reply actions
Looks like Kluge, as long as he gets some climbing legs, might be able to upstage Ciolek this year...
Nice result for the trackie and hope he keeps it up.
Maybe a bit of an overreaction there?
one stage in Qatar in which Ciolek was nowhere close to the front at the finish may not be a great indicator of how the entire year will go.
March 14, 2010: The great one returns!
Well I know Ciolek will be in good form eventually, I don't care if he was 11 minutes down today.
Just jumping the gun but Kluge is just as young as Mr. Ciolek and can be every bit as strong as him and can ride hard. I could be jumping the gun but he has had results on the lower end and was 3rd at the German champs last year plus he has a silver medal from Beijing in the points. He should lead Milram to a lot of good results.
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