TDF Stage 4 Tours - Blois TTT : Spoiler

limerickman

TTT : very interesting viewing.

Poor David Zabriskie : crashing before the last kilometre of the course, as well.
If the crash had occured within the final kilometre, he would have got the CSC
final time which was 1.97secs slower than Discovery and would have still been in yellow.
Very disappointing for DZ.

Great ride by Liberty and Mobile : 34secs isn't a bad result for Mobile and Liberty
did very very well.

CSC were very very impressive.

Ullefan

Yeah there had to be a mishap of some sort, so drama.....
I really wanted DC to be beaten.
Great for T-mobile to finish 3rd and only loose 34 seconds to the best team...
I'm sure that's given them hope for the tour, i'm really happy for them, they've come across a lot of critcism.

wolfix

THE TOUR de FRANCE HAS FINALLY STARTED !!!!!!!

limerickman

Mobile went very well, I thought.

The wafflers here were suggesting CSC, Phonak and Discovery as the top three,
with our resident "objective analyst" even suggesting that Gerolsteiner would beat Mobile !
Gotta laugh.

wolfix

We know who the sprinter is ...........

We know who the time trialers are ........

The only question left .......
Who are the climbers ????

Ullefan

Yeah Ithink the difference this year is the lack of puncutures, vino, dry weather, and the scouting of the course they did last wednesday.

whiteboytrash

...I agree does this also mean there time of 34" will be 'corrected' to 30" with the hard set times losses ?

limerickman

On the road : Mobile were 1min 19secs down on time to USPS in the 2004 TDF TTT.

So 34 seconds this year is a big improvement on last years performance in TTT.

The 1min 34sec deficit is the "on the road deficit", provisional between LA and JU, on GC.
Vino is 1min 26secs down on LA, on the same basis.

peterlip

Yes, 30" is correct.

whiteboytrash

That’s impressive considering...

The Discovery Channel team has set the fastest average speed for a team time trial in the Tour de France. The nine riders finished the 67.5km course in one hour, 10 minutes and 39 seconds. The average speed is 57.31km/h - eclipsing the previous best (that of Gewiss-Ballan from 1995 - 54.930km/h).

limerickman

Gewiss-Ballan !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr.Ferrari's team as well.

I bet he's celebrating tonight too.

sopas

Yeahh great TTT.
I was really surprised by Liberty's good performance. I hope Heras and Boloki have recovered their best shape and are ready for the mountains.

wilmar13

What happened that caused him to go down?

limerickman

Hard to determine.

The camera followed the CSC team coming out of a corner.
The camera was behind the team.

DZ was third or fourth from the front and his front wheel jerked to the right and he came off the bike.
The view was obscured because there were three riders behind him and blocked the camera view as to what the exact cause was.
The commentators reckon his foot left the pedal.
Then it was suggested that he might have touched the rear wheel of the rider ahead of him.