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By David Hunter Unterterzen – Solden 237.3km Time for the Queen stage, although it’s still early in the race. The gaps today will shape the GC, although we have to wait until the final stage and the lengthy ITT, before anything is decided. This stage is not only difficult, but very long. At 236km, it’s the…
By David Hunter Anneyron – Sisteron 228km The longest stage in the race, in fact, the only stage over 200km. A long and mostly boring day in the saddle. The boredom is punctuated by 3 classified climbs and a long, unclassified bump.
By David Hunter Chiavari – La Spezia 150km After a very demanding day, there is no rest for the riders, as we continue in the “medium mountains.” Yet again, we hardly have a single kilometre of flat, making it very hard to control. Orica got their tactics spot on in stage 3, putting Clarke and Chaves…
By David Hunter La Neuveville – Fribourg 169.8km On paper, this is the easiest stage of the race, with only three categorised climbs. The opening cat 2 climb, Les Paccots, is 3.9km at 6.8%. That is followed by some undulating roads before the next cat 2 climb 2, Sorens. It’s 4.4km at 5.1%, before the final…
By David Hunter Male – Cles 161.5km The final stage has arrived and the GC is settled. Baring any crashes, Richie Porte will be the overall winner. That means we have a day where two things can happen: breakaway or “sprint” finish!
By David Hunter Zumarraga – Eibar 162km Queen stage alert! The organisers have tinkered with the well known stage, adding in two cat 3 climbs, this year
By David Hunter Tona – La Molina 188.4km The Queen stage is here and I think Europcar are in for a hell of a lot of work! Tinkoff-Saxo really turned up today and put the whole field under pressure. A combination of poor climbing and bad crashes allowed them to distance most of the GC riders,…
By David Hunter Arezzo – Castelraimondo 226km This is a monster of a stage. This is what the official website says the stage looks like. This was changed just a matter of days ago. The stage did have a profile that looked like this.
By David Hunter Varennes Sur Allier – Croix de Chaubouret 204km The Queen stage has arrived after 3 relaxing days for the bunch. The racing has been very boring so far, apart from the final 5km, but we should get a great day in the mountains.
By David Hunter Tavira – Alto do Malhao 218km It’s the big day in the Algarve. After today’s exciting TT, Geraint Thomas leads Tony Martin by 30 seconds and Michal Kwiatkowski by 39 seconds. This stage is long and full of short, steep climbs. It’s going to be a long day for Team Sky as…
By David Hunter Maracena – Alto de Allanadas 199.8km After the brutality of today’s final climb, the riders face an even harder stage. Not what they want to hear
By David Hunter Sultan Qaboos Grande Mosque – Green Mountain The big GC day is here! The stage is set for another epic day as the riders climb the wide open roads to Green Mountain.
By David Hunter Al Thakhira – Mesaieed 165.5km Remember the road where we had a sandstorm, during stage 2? Well, we’re back on that road but heading in the opposite direction. We are due more wind, this time around 16mph coming from the South-East. That means we have a cross/headwind for all of the stage….
By David Hunter Dubai-Dubai 123kmThe race ends with a stage held within the city. At just 123km, it’s short and will end in a bunch sprint. Stage 3 left the race poised for an epic showdown, as Degenkolb leads Cavendish by 4 seconds and Lobato by 8 seconds.
By David Hunter Stage 3 Recap Cadel Evans rolled back the years with a dominant display to take the stage and put one hand firmly around the title. A small group of favourites managed to get away near the end of the stage, before Evans and Pozzovivo battled it out for the win. It was another…
By David Hunter Stage 3 Recap A perfect prediction from myself. Everyone knew that this was the sprint stage, so much so, that only Ruben Fernandez went in the break. When he was brought back, with over 30km to go, there wasn’t any other attacks. As I predicted Swift is no where near the quality needed…