weather and the TTT

"David Off" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I'm looking out of my window in Northern France today and the weather
looks very threatening, I can see storms throwing a spanner in the TTT
this afternoon.

That's what they've been saying. Early teams may sneak by. Late teams (all
the ones expected to do well) will likely be running in heavy rain and
strong wind. Should be interesting.

Bob C.

psycholist said:

That's what they've been saying. Early teams may sneak by. Late teams (all
the ones expected to do well) will likely be running in heavy rain and
strong wind. Should be interesting.

There off! it is wet but not raining at the start but there is a big
thunderstorm between Cambrai and Arras (must have been the one that
caught me half an hour ago). The last 20 km are into a strong headwind.

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psycholist said:

That's what they've been saying. Early teams may sneak by. Late teams

(all

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

the ones expected to do well) will likely be running in heavy rain and
strong wind. Should be interesting.

There off! it is wet but not raining at the start but there is a big
thunderstorm between Cambrai and Arras (must have been the one that
caught me half an hour ago). The last 20 km are into a strong headwind.

Excellent! Real bike racing!!!!

B. Lafferty said:

Excellent! Real bike racing!!!!

It is lashing down at Cambrai now, Mayo was off early so this could even
things up a bit.

David Off said:

I'm looking out of my window in Northern France today and the weather
looks very threatening, I can see storms throwing a spanner in the TTT
this afternoon.

It's cool how this stuff is playing out. The TTT rule comes into
effect, so the strong TTT teams put the hammer down on stage 3 to get even.

The weather threatens the afternoon starters (at least that's what I
read early this morning, although it seems to be raining on the start
now) so that it favors one of the earlier starters, maybe a team with a
high-GC sprinter like Lotto.

The big guns mark eachother in the bad weather and loose a little time
to some non-contender's team, but extend their lead over Mayo too.

A non-GC rider/sprinter gets the yellow and his team rides like hell to
keep it until stage 12.

Postal rode it's TTT yesterday so it could get every second and more
that they could.

gym gravity said:

David Off said:

I'm looking out of my window in Northern France today and the weather
looks very threatening, I can see storms throwing a spanner in the TTT
this afternoon.

It's cool how this stuff is playing out.

At the moment T-Mobile is 47 seconds down on Mayo's EE team at the 19km
point. T-Mobile had a puncture but they are riding in awful weather. The
Posties have just started in very poor conditions.

David Off said:

gym gravity said:

David Off said:

I'm looking out of my window in Northern France today and the weather
looks very threatening, I can see storms throwing a spanner in the
TTT this afternoon.

It's cool how this stuff is playing out.

At the moment T-Mobile is 47 seconds down on Mayo's EE team at the 19km
point. T-Mobile had a puncture but they are riding in awful weather. The
Posties have just started in very poor conditions.

T-Mobile is now only 11 secs down on EE at the 48km point. The posties
have lost Benjamin at 19km

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I'm looking out of my window in Northern France today and the weather
looks very threatening, I can see storms throwing a spanner in the TTT
this afternoon.

It would be really cool to look out my window and see Northern France,
til then I'll settle for the fog and drizzle of a 'marine layer'

As it played out it looks like first and last teams got the best of
the weather.

Richard Adams said:

It would be really cool to look out my window and see Northern France

I don't know, I'd rather see southern France.

Ewoud Dronkert said:

Richard Adams said:

It would be really cool to look out my window and see Northern France

I don't know, I'd rather see southern France.

Nice to visit, dunno if I'd want to live there. I've got too much of
the dutch and english blood for that climate. Gimme a cold, blustery
day and I'm a rocket.