Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian 2015 **warning: contains unmasked spoilers**

dastardly00

I haven't seen a thread for this race. It's Spain's most prestigious one-day race.

Coverage on Eurosport at 2.30pm.

Nico and Dan are racing. Nico has performed well in this race before. Stellar line-up today with a mixture of riders who rode the TdF and riders who are warming up for the Vuelta.

Startlist:
http://procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=149965&c=3

dastardly00

Less than 80km to go and the breakaway have a lead of 1'50".

The eight riders in the break are: Manuel Boaro (Tinkoff-Saxo), Valerio Agnoli (Astana), Dennis Vannendert (Lotto Soudal), Nathan Haas (Cannondale-Garmin), Maarten Wynants (LottoNL-Jumbo), Thomas Degand (IAM Cycling), Liuis Mas (Caja Rural) and Romain Hardy (Cofidis).

dastardly00

And there are technical difficulties with the live TV coverage

godtabh

dastardly00 wrote: »

And there are technical difficulties with the live TV coverage

What channel,is it on?

godtabh

godtabh wrote: »

What channel,is it on?

Looks like it's on the Eurosport player

godtabh

dastardly00 wrote: »

And there are technical difficulties with the live TV coverage

Only showing last 12km

Daroxtar

dastardly00 wrote: »

And there are technical difficulties with the live TV coverage

By the sounds of it the Basque TV station ain't allowing Eurosport to show the race except for the last 12 km.

dastardly00

Basque TV companies are always useless at showing coverage.

dastardly00

9km left.

20 second lead for Serry, Arredondo, Gilbert, Barquil, Rossetto, Hejsedal, Silin, Caruso, and Landa.

godtabh

Barquil attacks

Inquitus

godtabh wrote: »

Barquil attacks

Allegedly

dastardly00

Live pictures now. Kind of.

godtabh

one of the yeats at the front

dastardly00

Adam Yates #71

godtabh

martin in the second group but not attacking

dastardly00

Yates has a 15 second lead with 3km to go.

dastardly00

Yates is going to win this.

godtabh

dan attacks from the group

godtabh

ha Yates didnt know he won

dastardly00

Yates crosses the finish line to win but doesn't realise it is the finish.... Bizarre!

dastardly00

Nasty crash in the last couple of hundred metres.

dastardly00

Gilbert was 2nd, Valverde was 3rd.

Dan finished 7th. Good result for him considering he has been sick for the last couple of weeks.

dastardly00

Nico finished in 16th place.

Inquitus

GVA get taken out while riding away potentially to the win

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWDjzRf_G4

godtabh

Inquitus wrote: »

GVA get taken out while riding away potentially to the win

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWDjzRf_G4

BMC have taken to Twitter and are pissed!

Inquitus

Don't blame them, today was like Benny Hill does Pro Cycling, from Tv Coverage to Moto's taking out winning attacks.

dastardly00

https://twitter.com/DanMartin86/status/627533180229263360

dastardly00

https://twitter.com/nicholasroche/status/627506752758673409

godtabh

They are all taking it easy tonight

Raam

Daroxtar wrote: »

By the sounds of it the Basque TV station ain't allowing Eurosport to show the race except for the last 12 km.

dastardly00 wrote: »

Basque TV companies are always useless at showing coverage.

There was a serious problem with the aircraft which assists with broadcast, so it had to land.

Daroxtar

Raam wrote: »

There was a serious problem with the aircraft which assists with broadcast, so it had to land.

Ya, heard that later on alright but for the first part of the broadcast Eurosport themselves were saying it was a problem with the Basque TV station and they had no idea why.

ThisRegard

I know it was due to "technical" difficulties but even watching the highlights bored me to tears.