weather and the TTT

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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

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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.

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.