Yesterday stage was hard and thrilling: lots of climbs - the last one 23% 20 km to go - Amets Txurruka (Euskaltel) crashed while flying solo to the finish in a fast descent and Joaquin Rodriguez of Katusha got the victor
y by an amazing powerful escape from a exploded peloton. Andy ended 13th and now is 6th in GC, in front of Gesink and Pinotti (they are 10 sec behinde).
How hard that stage was you can see by our guys' tweets:
Jakob_fuglsang In my bed...more dead than alive after todays stage...felt like my body was empty after 1h30m think it was after yesterday
andy_schleck On the massage table hard day again but I fell ok, tomorrow last stage a" contre la monter" time trail of 20 km with a nasty hill in it!
Ed Buchette wisely replied:
edbuchette @andy_schleck don't cry for me, A....., take the hill, make a good time and get top 5
Of course! Top 10 is good but top 5 is also better. TT isn't Andy's strength point but he improved a lot, moreover that 'nasty hill' could help him and penalize specialists. Anyway we must remember that in Vasco he's simply testing his shape. On fb in fact he just wrote: "Nasty race here in pays basque tomorrow a tt and done looking forward to Amsel". Classics are the goal. A top 10 or top 5 result in Vasco would be great: edbuchette said me @IlariaMe yes, he can! and I have no doubt. Allez Andy!
PS
A really sad news here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bahati-rider-killed-during-training-ride That's a war :(
Pic by Susi Goetze for www.cyclinginside.com
Stage
GC
y by an amazing powerful escape from a exploded peloton. Andy ended 13th and now is 6th in GC, in front of Gesink and Pinotti (they are 10 sec behinde).How hard that stage was you can see by our guys' tweets:
Jakob_fuglsang In my bed...more dead than alive after todays stage...felt like my body was empty after 1h30m think it was after yesterday
andy_schleck On the massage table hard day again but I fell ok, tomorrow last stage a" contre la monter" time trail of 20 km with a nasty hill in it!
Ed Buchette wisely replied:
edbuchette @andy_schleck don't cry for me, A....., take the hill, make a good time and get top 5
Of course! Top 10 is good but top 5 is also better. TT isn't Andy's strength point but he improved a lot, moreover that 'nasty hill' could help him and penalize specialists. Anyway we must remember that in Vasco he's simply testing his shape. On fb in fact he just wrote: "Nasty race here in pays basque tomorrow a tt and done looking forward to Amsel". Classics are the goal. A top 10 or top 5 result in Vasco would be great: edbuchette said me @IlariaMe yes, he can! and I have no doubt. Allez Andy!
PS
A really sad news here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bahati-rider-killed-during-training-ride That's a war :(
Pic by Susi Goetze for www.cyclinginside.com
Stage
| 1 | Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha | 4:07:52 | |
| 2 | Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi | 0:00:14 | |
| 3 | Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne | ||
| 4 | Christopher Horner (USA) Team Radioshack | ||
| 5 | Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux | 0:00:20 | |
| 6 | Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini | ||
| 7 | Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin - Transitions | ||
| 8 | Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick Step | ||
| 9 | Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto | ||
| 10 | Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) Omega Pharma-Lotto | ||
| 11 | Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team HTC - Columbia | ||
| 12 | Beñat Intxausti (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi | ||
| 13 | Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank |
| 1 | Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne | 22:54:56 | |
| 2 | Christopher Horner (USA) Team Radioshack | 0:00:01 | |
| 3 | Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha | 0:00:34 | |
| 4 | Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) Omega Pharma-Lotto | 0:00:38 | |
| 5 | Beñat Intxausti (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi | ||
| 6 | Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank | 0:00:45 | |
| 7 | Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team HTC - Columbia | 0:00:54 | |
| 8 | Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank | ||
| 9 | Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux | ||
| 10 | Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick Step | 0:01:16 |
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