From the Tour Down Under, the results so far, overall (ochre jersey):
Classic: Greipel, Lotto-Belisol
Stage 1: Greipel
Stage 2: Kohler, BMC
Stage 3: Greipel
Stage 4: Kohler
Stage 5: Gerrans, GreenEdge
Stage winners:
Classic: Greipel
Stage 1: Greipel
Stage 2: Clarke, UNI SA
Stage 3: Greipel
Stage 4: Friere, Katusha
Stage 5: Valverde, Movistar (doper!)
Overall going into the final stage:
1. Gerrans 18h.49m.24s
2. Valverde, Movistar (same time)
3. Machado, Radio Shack-Nissan (-8 secs.)
4. Rogers, Team Sky (-14)
5. Dennis, UNI SA (-14)
6. Boasson Hagen, Team Sky (-18)
7. Bakelants, Radio Shack-Nissan (-19)
8. Moreno, Movistar (-23)
9. Matthews, Rabobank (-29)
10. Vorganov, Katusha (-32)
What a log jam going into the final stage, a 20 lap circuit that you can see here. Hill profile here. Yep, that is FLAT. Going to be tough to make up time on the leaders today, but with all those tight turns, there could be crashes.
From what I can figure out this starts at 9.10pm central time tonight, which is 1.10pm on Sunday in Australia. Too late for me but I will watch the delay tomorrow on Steephill.
January 21, 2012 at 7:56 am |
I got 2 out of 4 teams going into Sunday (thanks to DFM’s daughter). What will I emerge with? I think 1.
January 21, 2012 at 9:18 am |
I think ZERO.
January 21, 2012 at 6:42 pm |
You will get nothing and likey the tears.
January 21, 2012 at 8:26 pm |
+1
January 21, 2012 at 6:17 pm |
Holy crap, Jopa:
http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2012/01/21/former-penn-state-coach-joe-paterno-reportedly-near-death/
January 21, 2012 at 6:40 pm |
…That poor bastard, I imagine the whole sandusky-little-boy-ass-rape scandal is doing him in…Can’t be good for his psyche…Sad story my friends, sad…
January 21, 2012 at 8:26 pm |
what a fuster cluck to the nth degree.
January 21, 2012 at 7:38 pm |
What’s all this queer biking nonsense? And you guys think SOCCER is gay? Puh leeeze…
Just kidding, THE TDF is cool and I know ‘bikers’ are phenomenol athletes…
January 21, 2012 at 8:30 pm |
It is cycling rr, not biking. Get it right. Here are the rules to help you.
http://www.velominati.com/blog/the-rules/
Rule 5 is the most important. I violate rule 33 all the time, wife simply won’t allow that shit (not that I want to do it anyways).
January 21, 2012 at 9:32 pm |
Hey jackass, I wrote it ‘bikers’—-Little bunny ears….pay attention to my voice…
Thanks for the link, will you fax that to me so I have something to wipe my ass with later? Thaaaanx.
January 21, 2012 at 9:56 pm |
…That’s pretty cool though. I like ‘The Rules.’
January 21, 2012 at 10:01 pm |
#33 is debatable. The woman is expected to…As far as guys go, I hire a gardener once a year just to keep the place looking respectable…
I know, TMI babee, TMI…It is what it is…Swimmers do it too…
Hair is hair, it’ll grow back, I guess…
January 22, 2012 at 5:27 am |
the theory is that it is WAY better for road rash and associated infections. In reality it is more of a cult thing. On my France trip a lot of the people (men) had their legs and arms shaved. It was a bit freaky.
I am just not going to waste the time on it.
January 22, 2012 at 5:30 am |
+1
January 22, 2012 at 1:36 am |