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Crossroads (The Vino Diary) - June - Tour de Luxembourg
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 21-04-2017 22:01
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 21-04-2017 23:39
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2/5 2016 - A look at the rankings after Vuelta a Asturias
World Tour Individual
World Tour Team
World Tour Astana
31/3 World Tour Individual Astana's best was 32th (Michele Scarponi) - Improved 22 places.
31/3 World Tour Team ranking was 16th - Improved 6 places.
CQ Rankings Individual
CQ Rankings Team
CQ Rankings Top 10 Astana
31/3 CQ Individual Astana's best was 8th. (Michele Scarponi) - Not Improved
31/3 CQ Team ranking was 5th - Improved 1 place.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 22-04-2017 00:07
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20 years old Italian Lido Franzini riding on Astana U23,
Came 8th in U23 Liège–Bastogne–Liège 2/5 - his 2nd top ten of the year.
Very likely he will be signed on the Pro Tour team.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 22-04-2017 00:51
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NEXT RACE
 4/5-8/5 2016 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan 2.1
(5 stages)
First Winner:
2012 Youcef Reguigui (ALG)
Latest Years Winner’s
2013 Sergiy Grechyn
2014 Ilnur Zakarin
2015 Primož Roglič
Media Favorites:
Fuglsang (Astana) - Atapuma (BMC) – Machado (Katusha)
Secondary Favorites:
Tiralongo - Szmyd - Koshevoy
Outsiders:
Silin – Đurasek – Losada - Velits
Sprinters :
Howard (IAM) – Enger (IAM) - Reynès (IAM) - Lutsenko (Astana)
Astana:
Jakob Fuglsang
Alexey Lutsenko - Paolo Tiralongo
Davide Malacarne - Dmitriy Gruzdev - Valerio Agnoli
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 22-04-2017 03:50
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Congrats on the win  but Aru needs to pull up his socks in the WT!
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 22-04-2017 05:24
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Ya - Aru have been and will be often be acting as lieutenant for Nibali. He is a great climber but he got a shitty ITT, but he will get some WT leads, TDF and Tour de Suisse mainly.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 22-04-2017 06:46
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4/5-8/5 2016 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan 2.1
4/5 Stage 1/5 Baku Circuit 148.4 km
Location:
Baku City
Description:
Flat with short uphill finish
Media Favorites:
Wegmann (Stölting) – Howard (IAM) – Velits (BMC)
Secondary Favorites:
Vorganov – Enger - Hermans
Outsiders:
Lutsenko – Reynès – Agnoli - Polnicky
Astana:
Jakob Fuglsang
Alexey Lutsenko - Paolo Tiralongo
Davide Malacarne - Dmitriy Gruzdev - Valerio Agnoli
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 22-04-2017 07:54
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4/5-8/5 2016 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan 2.1
4/5 Stage 1/5 Baku Circuit 148.4 km
We got fine weather with no wind.
A lot of attacks and a very high pace in the peloton, makes for a hard start with noone allowed to get away, up to the first intermediate sprint.
Then we got the breakaway of the stage, it is Artem Nych (Gazprom), Michał Podlaski (Verva), Fatih Keles (Torku) and Marco Zamparella (Amore). They get a little more than 4 minutes.
The pursuit is led by IAM Cycling with some help from Paolo Tiralongo.
The break is over near the 20 km banner
It comes to the expected mass sprint, Astana lose the front with a tactical mistake.
The stage was won be Leigh Howard in front of Fabian Wegmann and Eduard Vorganov
Evaluation:
Overall:
This was the 1st season win by the 26 years old Australian Howard Leigh, and his first win since Trofeo Alcúdia back in 2013.
Velits (BMC) did not perform as well as the press expected, but it was a strange prediction as he is not the strongest sprinter, not sure the team is very disappointed.
Otherwise the race turned out as expected.
Astana:
Astana could have done a bit better, seemed there was a misunderstanding between the riders in the train, but anyway an ok result.
Stage
| 1 | Leigh Howard | IAM Cycling | 3h14'50 | | 2 | Fabian Wegmann | Stölting Service Group | s.t. | | 3 | Eduard Vorganov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 4 | Vicente Reynès Mimi | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 5 | Matej Mugerli | Synergy Baku Cycling Project | s.t. | | 6 | Sondre Holst Enger | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 7 | Dmitry Strakhov | Lokosphinx | s.t. | | 8 | Michael Reihs | Stölting Service Group | s.t. | | 9 | Valerio Agnoli | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 10 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | s.t. |
Spoiler | 29 | Davide Malacarne | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 32 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 50 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 55 | Dmitriy Gruzdev | Astana Pro Team | +01:38 |
GC
| 1 | Leigh Howard | IAM Cycling | 3h14'37 | | 2 | Fabian Wegmann | Stölting Service Group | + 7 | | 3 | Eduard Vorganov | Team Katusha | + 9 | | 4 | Vadim Zhuravlev | Lokosphinx | + 11 | | 5 | Davide Malacarne | Astana Pro Team | + 12 | | 6 | Vicente Reynès Mimi | IAM Cycling | + 13 | | 7 | Matej Mugerli | Synergy Baku Cycling Project | s.t. | | 8 | Sondre Holst Enger | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 9 | Dmitry Strakhov | Lokosphinx | s.t. | | 10 | Michael Reihs | Stölting Service Group | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | Valerio Agnoli | Astana Pro Team | +00:13 | | 12 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | +00:13 | | 33 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:13 | | 50 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana Pro Team | +00:13 | | 55 | Dmitriy Gruzdev | Astana Pro Team | +01:51 |
Points
| 1 | Leigh Howard | IAM Cycling | 35 | | 2 | Fabian Wegmann | Stölting Service Group | 25 | | 3 | Eduard Vorganov | Team Katusha | 22 |
KoM
| 1 | Artem Nych | Gazprom - RusVelo | 3 | | 2 | Michał Podlaski | Verva - ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team | 2 | | 3 | Fatih Keles | Torku Seker Spor | 1 |
Team: IAM Cycling
Young: Vadim Zhuravlev - Lokosphinx
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 22-04-2017 18:38
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NEXT STAGE
4/5-8/5 2016 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan 2.1
5/5 Stage 2/5 Baku – Ismayilly 184.8 km
Location:
From Bakı to İsmayıllı rayonu
Description:
Medium hard mountain stage
Media Favorites:
Fuglsang (Astana) – Tiralongo (Astana) – Atapuma (BMC)
Secondary Favorites:
Machado – Koshevoy – Szmyd
Outsiders:
Shilov - De La Parte – Velits - Zaugg
Astana:
Jakob Fuglsang
Alexey Lutsenko - Paolo Tiralongo
Davide Malacarne - Dmitriy Gruzdev - Valerio Agnoli
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| DiCyc |
Posted on 22-04-2017 22:17
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Amazing GC victory by Aru!
Now Fuglsang need to win this stage! 
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 23-04-2017 22:46
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DiCyc wrote:
Amazing GC victory by Aru!
Now Fuglsang need to win this stage!
Not as easy as it looked like, as shown below
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 23-04-2017 22:50
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4/5-8/5 2016 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan 2.1
5/5 Stage 2/5 Baku – Ismayilly 184.8 km
Another fine day, sunny with a little more wind than yesterday, a gentle to a moderate breeze.
Several break are getting some limited TV time, amongst them also Astana’s Valerio Agnoli, but everything are brought back just before the mountains.
Some 130 km left.
60 km left, over the two first climbs at Ilanli and Tenha Mezar, KoM leader Artem Nych (Gazprom) and Jonas Tenbrock (Stölting) have built up a gap of 3’51 to the peloton.
In between we also got Muhammet Atalay (Torku) at 1’54”
Astana and IAM have been leading the peloton, but from here Astana set Malacarna, Agnoli and Lutsenko in front, pulling very hard, they want to bring back the breakaway before the climb to “Xasidara”.
At the start of the climb Nych and Tenbrock has about a minute, then Tiralongo accelerates with Fuglsang on wheel.
32 km to the line.
The breakaway is over
Tiralongo has got fine legs, but Fuglsang has a very bad day he can’t hold wheel and gets reeled in by a favorite group of 28 riders.
Darwin Atapuma (BMC) sense the weakness of Astana, he accelerate away from the group.
Fuglsang is in pain, Tiralongo has to fall back and help him.
Also Kristijan Đurasek (Lampre), Sylvester Szmyd and Victor De La Parte both CCC Sprandi, has started to distance the Astana riders.
The four riders in front passes the top with about 40” to Fuglsang and Tiralongo.
Astana decides to let Tiralongo chase alone, to minimize his loss as Fuglsang seem done.
Darwin Atapuma win in Ismayilly, in front of Kristijan Đurasek.
Paolo Tiralongo comes in 5th at 48”, Fuglsang 7th in 1’49.
Evaluation:
Overall:
This was the 1nd season win by the 28 years old Colombian John Darwin Atapuma , and his first win since a stage in Tour de Pologne back in 2013.
Today’s big loser was Astana, all the other top teams did fine.
Astana:
On paper 5 & 7 is a good result, but not in this case, was a bad day for the team, ironically Fuglsang’s bad form was the only comfort, as it suggests he may be able to do better in the coming day.
Will be a tough decision to choose if Jakob Fuglsang is still the right leader, with Paolo Tiralongo over a minute ahead.
Stage
| 1 | John Darwin Atapuma Hurtado | BMC Racing Team | 4h57'12 | | 2 | Kristijan Đurasek | Lampre-Merida | s.t. | | 3 | Sylvester Szmyd | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 4 | Victor De La Parte Gonzalez | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | + 14 | | 5 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana Pro Team | + 48 | | 6 | Tiago Machado | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 7 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | + 1'49 | | 8 | Jiri Polnicky | Verva - ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 9 | Matija Kvasina | Synergy Baku Cycling Project | + 1'58 | | 10 | Sergey Shilov | Lokosphinx | + 2'14 |
Spoiler | 26 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | +05:47 | | 48 | Davide Malacarne | Astana Pro Team | +10:38 | | 52 | Valerio Agnoli | Astana Pro Team | +10:38 | | 54 | Dmitriy Gruzdev | Astana Pro Team | +10:38 |
GC
| 1 | John Darwin Atapuma Hurtado | BMC Racing Team | 8h11'52 | | 2 | Kristijan Đurasek | Lampre-Merida | + 4 | | 3 | Sylvester Szmyd | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | + 6 | | 4 | Victor De La Parte Gonzalez | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | + 24 | | 5 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana Pro Team | + 58 | | 6 | Tiago Machado | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 7 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | + 1'59 | | 8 | Jiri Polnicky | Verva - ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 9 | Matija Kvasina | Synergy Baku Cycling Project | + 2'08 | | 10 | Fabian Wegmann | Stölting Service Group | + 2'18 |
Spoiler | 26 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | +05:57 | | 34 | Davide Malacarne | Astana Pro Team | +10:47 | | 42 | Valerio Agnoli | Astana Pro Team | +10:48 | | 51 | Dmitriy Gruzdev | Astana Pro Team | +12:26 |
Points
| 1 | Leigh Howard | IAM Cycling | 35 | | 2 | John Darwin Atapuma Hurtado | BMC Racing Team | 30 | | 3 | Fabian Wegmann | Stölting Service Group | 27 |
KoM
| 1 | John Darwin Atapuma Hurtado | BMC Racing Team | 10 | | 2 | Artem Nych | Gazprom - RusVelo | 8 | | 3 | Sylvester Szmyd | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | 7 |
Team : CCC Sprandi Polkowice
Young : Ilia Koshevoy - Lampre-Merida
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 23-04-2017 23:56
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NEXT RACE
Sponsors Goal – GC WIN
The Giro is Astana’s main season goal. Absolutely need a win or at least a podium in this one.
Good the see that the start list is missing the absolute top names.
Startlist:
 6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
(21 stages)
First Winner:
1909 Luigi Ganna - Italy
Latest Years Winner’s
2013 Vincenzo Nibali - Italy
2014 Nairo Quintana - Colombia
2015 Alberto Contador - Spain
GC favorites:
Vincenzo Nibali - Richie Porte - Rigoberto Urán
Secondary Favorites:
Fabio Aru - Roman Kreuziger - Andrey Amador
Outsiders:
Romain Bardet - Wilco Kelderman - Steven Kruijswijk - Mikel Landa
TT favorites:
Vasil Kiryienka - Adriano Malori - Jérôme Coppel
Richie Porte - Rigoberto Urán - Matthias Brändle
Sprinter favorites:
Marcel Kittel - Mark Cavendish - André Greipel
Alexander Kristoff - Elia Viviani - Fernando Gaviria
Astana:
Vincenzo Nibali -Fabio Aru - Andrea Guardini
Michele Scarponi - Dario Cataldo - Tanel Kangert
Eros Capecchi - Miguel Ángel López - Andrey Zeits
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 24-04-2017 08:27
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NEXT STAGE
6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
6/5 Stage 1/21 Apeldoorn – Apeldoorn ITT 10.3 km
Location:
Gelderland , Netherlands.
Description:
Prologue
Media Favorites:
Dennis (BMC) - Malori (Movistar) - Brändle (IAM)
Secondary Favorites:
Porte – Quinziato – Nibali
Outsiders:
Kelderman – Durbridge – Kreuziger - Vorobyev
Astana:
Vincenzo Nibali - Fabio Aru - Andrea Guardini
Michele Scarponi - Dario Cataldo - Tanel Kangert
Eros Capecchi - Miguel Ángel López - Andrey Zeits
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 24-04-2017 09:31
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All the best for this all-important race. The team looks very strong
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 24-04-2017 10:45
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 24-04-2017 11:10
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6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
6/5 Stage 1/21 Apeldoorn – Apeldoorn ITT 10.3 km
Not the best weather today, very clouded and wind speeds at around 40 km/h.
The first to set an impressive time is Manuel Quinziato (BMC) 13’22, Quinziato start in the first wave of riders, but beating Jonas Van Genechten (IAM) with 38”, might be a time good enough to win the stage.
Also starting quite early we see Katusha’s Anton Vorobyev 2nd best, 12” behind Quinziato
Very surpricingly we see unregarded Serghei Tvetcov (Androni – Sidermec) overtaking Nicola Ruffoni on the route and coming in 2nd, just 9” behind Quinziato.
Danny Van Poppel and Stefan Küng sets relative bad times 30-40 sec after Quinziato
Svein Tuft (Orica) set a good time 3nd 10” after Quinziato
It has started to rain just as Nicolas Roche (Sky) starts his race, he loses about a minute.
Despite the rain 25 years old Belgian Yves Lampaert (Etixx - Quick Step) set 2nd best in the same time as Quinziato, a brilliant result.
The rain has stopped again, Dylan Van Baarle (Cannondale) 3rd 8” behind Quinziato
Patrick Gretsch new 3rd best, 4” behind Quinziato
Then we got a new best stage favorite Rohan Dennis (BMC) 13’16, 6” faster than Quinziato
Even though we are just half way trough the stage, the podium wont change after this. Rohan Dennis win the prologue in Apeldoorn, in front of Manuel Quinziato and Yves Lampaert
Vincenzo Nibali was the very last starter, he had a disapointing prologue finishing 24th losing 33” to Dennis.
Evaluation:
Overall:
This was the 3rd season win from the 25 years old Australian Rohan Dennis, after he won a stage in Volta Ciclista a Catalunya in March and a stage in Giro del Trentino – Melinda 22/4.
Let’s take a look at the position between the race favorites:
| 4 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | +00:06 | | 13 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | +00:20 | | 15 | Wilco Kelderman | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | +00:26 | | 19 | Roman Kreuziger | Tinkoff | +00:29 | | 24 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +00:33 | | 31 | Andrey Amador | Movistar Team | +00:38 | | 80 | Steven Kruijswijk | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | +00:59 | | 119 | Mikel Landa Meana | Team Sky | +01:10 | | 123 | Romain Bardet | Ag2r La Mondiale | +01:11 | | 144 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +01:16 |
Astana:
Not a good stage seen with Astana eyes, but in the GC only Rigoberto Urán has a notably advantage
Stage/GC
| 1 | Rohan Dennis | BMC Racing Team | 13'16 | | 2 | Manuel Quinziato | BMC Racing Team | + 6 | | 3 | Yves Lampaert | Etixx - Quick Step | s.t. | | 4 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | Adriano Malori | Movistar Team | + 8 | | 6 | Patrick Gretsch | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 10 | | 7 | Dylan Van Baarle | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | + 14 | | 8 | Serghei Tvetcov | Androni - Sidermec | + 15 | | 9 | Jérôme Coppel | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 10 | Svein Tuft | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 16 |
Spoiler | 24 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +00:33 | | 41 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +00:44 | | 49 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +00:45 | | 92 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +01:02 | | 117 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | +01:10 | | 128 | Eros Capecchi | Astana Pro Team | +01:12 | | 144 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +01:16 | | 178 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +01:32 | | 190 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +01:40 |
Points
| 1 | Rohan Dennis | BMC Racing Team | 25 | | 2 | Manuel Quinziato | BMC Racing Team | 20 | | 3 | Yves Lampaert | Etixx - Quick Step | 16 |
Team : BMC Racing Team
Young : Yves Lampaert - Etixx-Quick Step
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 24-04-2017 12:26
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Go Fight for Pink!
Honestly not a bad start at all, don't think Nibali is supposed to beat guys like Porte or Kelderman in this kind of stages.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 24-04-2017 13:04
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Kiserlovski01 wrote:
Go Fight for Pink!
Honestly not a bad start at all, don't think Nibali is supposed to beat guys like Porte or Kelderman in this kind of stages.
No - the results seems reasonable, the predictions was a bit unreal.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 24-04-2017 13:55
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NEXT STAGE
4/5-8/5 2016 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan 2.1
6/5 Stage 2/5 Qubala - Sheki - Qubala 166.8 km
Location:
Qabala Rayon to Shaki Rayon and back.
Description:
Hilly stage with uphill finish
Media Favorites:
Fuglsang (Astana) – Machado (Katusha) – Hermans (BMC)
Secondary Favorites:
Atapuma – Đurasek – Velits
Outsiders:
Losada – Tiralongo – Silin - Wegmann
Astana:
Jakob Fuglsang
Alexey Lutsenko - Paolo Tiralongo
Davide Malacarne - Dmitriy Gruzdev - Valerio Agnoli
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