World's 2017

Kaisr Sose

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

She bounced back fairly quickly afterwards and had some good wins earlier in the year including when she destroyed the field at le tour.

Of course, but surely yesterday was her biggest win of the year/since Rio, or would you refute that? It seemed to mean a lot to her. She is a world champion now and she was not one earlier in the year.

D9Male

Roche ahead of EBH at the moment. That is some achievement, given that EBH would be well up for this in his home country.

check_six

Roche is creeping up the leaderboard at every intermediate time check so far...

albert kidd

D9Male wrote: »

Roche ahead of EBH at the moment. That is some achievement, given that EBH would be well up for this in his home country.

EBH will be saving himself for the road race on sunday.

check_six

Nico sticks to the TT bike for the last climb. About 30 seconds down on the leader through the 5th intermediate. Should be able to have a good go at the climb.

D9Male

check_six wrote: »

Roche is creeping up the leaderboard at every intermediate time check so far...

He's not really. It is only because fewer riders have passed the later time checks. I reckon he will come 20th to 25th.

And as I say that, he smashes up the climb. Top 15 is a possible! Yay.

D9Male

albert kidd wrote: »

EBH will be saving himself for the road race on sunday.

Maybe you're right, but I really doubt that to be the case.

velo.2010

They've rejigged the bike change procedure. The early starters were having to come to a complete stop and then clip in before they were pushed off. Now its more of a typical bike change you see in an World Tour race.

Sky riders setting the best early times.

Roche is in , provisional 3rd.

letape

Nico had a great ride - just finished in a current third place. Gained time back on the climb.

StevieGriff

letape wrote: »

Nico had a great ride - just finished in a current third place. Gained time back on the climb.

Glad Nico is finished. If I had to listen to this tool on BBC say "Nickelo" one more time..
Solid ride though. Boasson Hagen screaming along so far.

check_six

Nico goes into 3rd place at the finish 19.2 seconds down on Wilco Kelderman's time

MPFGLB

Pity Nico lost time on the flat ...aaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhhh


and shoudl have ridden a road bike with bars...that climb suited him so much ...

Ooohhhh no Bodnar

MPFGLB

Roche was very fast on the climb..


0,02s faster than Kelderman.

Dcully

Watching the odd bit on the sly on my phone, what struck me was the amazing atmosphere, really great crowd and venue.

Kiryienka is some man to watch on a bike.

dastardly00

This is really exciting!
Kiryienka so so close

MPFGLB

Top 3 so far seperated by one second

And big boys now

It will be very close

Can't recall me ever being this hyped for a TT

dastardly00

Tejay Van Garderen, Ilnur Zakarin, Bob Jungels, Maciej Bodnar, Primoz Roglic, Rohan Dennis, Jonathan Castroviejo, Chris Froome, Tom Dumoulin and Tony Martin still out on course

dastardly00

Bodnar was 1'55" behind fastest time at Inter #1.
WTF?

check_six

How is the swap bikes vs no swap working out? Is Froome switching bikes? Will he have to switch the battery as well... for his power meter read out?

albert kidd

dastardly00 wrote: »

Bodnar was 1'55" behind fastest time at Inter #1.
WTF?

crashed on first corner

MPFGLB

dastardly00 wrote: »

Bodnar was 1'55" behind fastest time at Inter #1.
WTF?

He crashed

Thud

Roche guaranteed top 15, currently 6th with 10 left on road and Bodnar way down

dastardly00

Bodnar, who had been passed by Roglic, has now passed him back out!

D9Male

This rain will help Roche's finishing position.

dastardly00

We've seen very little of Zakarin on TV... and he's doing very well

TheBlaaMan

Jaysus, Froome 's average enough performance so far is killing Kirby - he is barely managing to cover it up. Wait till you see, he'll shed tears yet.....