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Crossroads (The Vino Diary) - June - Tour de Luxembourg
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 13-05-2017 10:32
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Good showing from the team today.
Aru to fight for KoM will be awesome.
Nibali might be in an uncomfortable position. Too far behind to really fight for GC but not far enough I think for people to let him ride away. |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 13-05-2017 13:31
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It's a shame both Aru and Nibali have suffered but I really do like this scenario. Minutes can be gained in one single mountain stage so keep going for an improved GC position / stage win(s) / that KoM jersey 
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 13-05-2017 22:45
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@Butler/Kiserlovski01 - We still hope for some miracle, this can go in many directions, but i dont think a podium or something like that is likely.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 14-05-2017 08:03
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NEXT STAGE
 6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
14/5 Stage 9/21 Radda in Chianti – Greve in Chianti ITT 40.5 km
Location:
Provincia di Siena, Regione Toscana
Description:
Hilly ITT
Media Favorites:
Kiryienka (Sky) - Porte (BMC) – Urán (Cannondale)
Secondary Favorites:
Malori – Coppel – Nibali
Outsiders:
Kelderman – Durbridge – Vorobyev - Quinziato
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 14-05-2017 10:21
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6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
14/5 Stage 9/21 Radda in Chianti – Greve in Chianti ITT 40.5 km
It is not raining, but very cloudy and a strong breeze.
The first rider to take the hot-seat for a longer period is Lotto Soudal’s Lars Ytting Bak, with a 1h00’17” time.
Astana’s first is Zeits he loses 54” to Bak.
New best Stefan Küng (BMC) 59’09”
Aru has a very good day, despite ITT is not his game he only loses 12” to Küng.
As expected Guardini will not fight for this he loses 3’23”
New best Silvan Dillier (BMC) with 58’54” but right behind him Jérôme Coppel (IAM) it setting new best on sector 2 and 3 and get in with new best 58’42”
Kangert a pretty god tempo rider get in 8th losing 44” to Coppel, acceptable but no more than that.
Almost having passed Steve Morabito, Cataldo get new best sector 3, but he get a very bad last sector must have started out too hard and get in 31” behind Coppel.
It has started to rain.
Nibali is having if not diamonds then at least good legs, he beat Coppel at any sector setting new best with 58’09, 32 seconds faster.
GC 5th Roman Kreuziger (Tinkoff) sets new best just 3” faster than Nibali: 58’06”
But Rigoberto Urán is just in an unbelievable good shape right now the GC leader set the final time 56’54 stunning 1’12” faster than Kreuziger.
Result of previous GC top 10:
| Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 56’53” | | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | +01:37 | | Mikel Landa Meana | Team Sky | +03:15 | | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek - Segafredo | +02:24 | | Roman Kreuziger | Tinkoff | +01:12 | | Andrey Amador Bikkazakova | Movistar Team | +02:12 | | Adam Yates | Orica-GreenEDGE | +03:39 | | Jarlinson Pantano Gomez | IAM Cycling | +03:33 | | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | +03:03 | | Gianluca Brambilla | Etixx - Quick Step | +02:36 |
Evaluation:
Overall:
Despite being GC leader this was the first season win by win 29 years old Colombian Rigoberto Urán, his first win since winning Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec September last year.
Today positive surprise was Roman Kreuziger (Tinkoff) 2nd although not considered a favorite by bookmaker and media.
The worst result was clearly Sky, with Kiryienka being a top favorite coming in as 17th.
Astana:
Vincenzo Nibali did great with a podium, slowly advancing the GC.
Dario Cataldo also with a very fine ITT just outside top 10
Miguel Ángel López also did fine considering this is not his favorite discipline, holding on the his GC.
Stage
| 1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 56'54 | | 2 | Roman Kreuziger | Tinkoff | + 1'12 | | 3 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | + 1'15 | | 4 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | + 1'37 | | 5 | Jérôme Coppel | IAM Cycling | + 1'48 | | 6 | Silvan Dillier | BMC Racing Team | + 2'01 | | 7 | Maxime Bouet | Etixx - Quick Step | + 2'02 | | 8 | Andrey Amador Bikkazakova | Movistar Team | + 2'12 | | 9 | Adriano Malori | Movistar Team | + 2'15 | | 10 | Stefan Küng | BMC Racing Team | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +02:18 | | 16 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +02:28 | | 20 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +02:33 | | 29 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | +03:03 | | 77 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +03:55 | | 96 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +04:11 | | 176 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +05:39 |
GC
| 1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 32h43'41 | | 2 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | + 3'10 | | 3 | Mikel Landa Meana | Team Sky | + 5'29 | | 4 | Roman Kreuziger | Tinkoff | + 5'48 | | 5 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek - Segafredo | + 6'29 | | 6 | Andrey Amador Bikkazakova | Movistar Team | + 7'17 | | 7 | Gianluca Brambilla | Etixx - Quick Step | + 8'38 | | 8 | Adam Yates | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 8'43 | | 9 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | + 9'02 | | 10 | Beñat Intxausti Elorriaga | Team Sky | + 9'08 |
Spoiler | 21 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +12:16 | | 33 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +16:47 | | 51 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +23:40 | | 52 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +23:58 | | 135 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +57:30 | | 144 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +01:03:06 | | 159 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +01:14:55 |
Points
| 1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 114 | | 2 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | 74 | | 3 | Marcel Kittel | Etixx - Quick Step | 71 |
KoM
| 1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 23 | | 2 | Cédric Pineau | FDJ | 22 | | 3 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | 18 |
Team: Team Sky
Young: Adam Yates - Orica-GreenEDGE
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 14-05-2017 11:06
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The top 10 certainly is within reach now if Nibali can keep this up. Would be a great comeback. 
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 14-05-2017 11:22
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Can only hope, but a top ten seems to be possiable
Edited by Tamijo on 14-05-2017 11:32
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 14-05-2017 11:30
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6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
15/5 REST DAY
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 14-05-2017 12:00
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Pretty good day on the time trial bike for Nibali  |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 14-05-2017 12:49
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 14-05-2017 12:54
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FAST REPORT RACE
 13/5-15/5 2016 Tour de Picardie 2.1
Astana:
Lieuwe Westra - Alexey Lutsenko
Davide Malacarne - Gatis Smukulis - Dmitriy Gruzdev
Arman Kamyshev - Maxat Ayazbayev - Daniil Fominykh
Stage winner stage 1: Guise - Flixecourt
Alexey Lutsenko – (Astana Pro Team)
Stage winner stage 2: Oisemont - Bailleul-sur-Thérain
Lieuwe Westra – (Astana Pro Team)
Stage winner stage 3: Nanteuil-le-Haudouin – Soissons
Adrien Petit - Direct Energie
GC
| 1 | Lieuwe Westra | Astana Pro Team | 11h25’51 | | 2 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | +00:02 | | 3 | Dylan Page | Team Roth | +00:05 | | 4 | Adrien Petit | Direct Energie | +00:07 | | 5 | Christophe Laborie | Delko - Marseille Provence KTM | +00:11 | | 6 | Ben Swift | Team Sky | +00:11 | | 7 | Thomas Boudat | Direct Energie | +00:11 | | 8 | Matteo Montaguti | Ag2r La Mondiale | +00:11 | | 9 | Arnaud Démare | FDJ | +00:13 | | 10 | Dries Devenyns | IAM Cycling | +00:14 |
Spoiler | 45 | Gatis Smukulis | Astana Pro Team | +00:17 | | 75 | Davide Malacarne | Astana Pro Team | +02:50 | | 83 | Dmitriy Gruzdev | Astana Pro Team | +02:50 | | 127 | Daniil Fominykh | Astana Pro Team | +08:27 | | 128 | Maxat Ayazbayev | Astana Pro Team | +09:19 | | 129 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana Pro Team | +10:57 |
Points : Alexey Lutsenko (Astana)
KoM: Dries Devenyns (IAM)
Team : Team Giant – Alpecin
Young: Alexey Lutsenko (Astana)
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 14-05-2017 17:42
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NEXT RACE
15/5-17/5 2016 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon 2.1
(3 stages)
First Winner:
1985 Jesús Blanco (ESP)
Latest Years Winner’s
2013 Rubén Plaza
2014 David Belda
2015 Pierre Rolland
It is hard to predict this race, without any serious climbing or time trails. The Sports press expect it to be a combination of punch and/or sprint.
Media Favorites:
Cimolai (Lampre) - Cháves (Orica) – Lars Boom (Astana)
Secondary Favorites:
Finetto – Gautier – Bilbao – Fuglsang - Vuillermoz
Top sprinters:
Cimolai – Asbroeck - Marco Haller
Trentin – Groenewegen - Cort Nielsen
Astana:
Lars Boom - Jakob Fuglsang
Matvey Nikitin - Diego Rosa - Alessandro Vanotti
Oleg Zemlyakov - Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev - Andriy Grivko
Edited by Tamijo on 14-05-2017 17:56
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 14-05-2017 22:42
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Great performance from the guys at the Tour de Picardie |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 15-05-2017 09:34
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Thanks - and yes they were brilliant, weird they could beat Ben Swift and Arnaud Démare in those sprints.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 15-05-2017 10:41
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NEXT STAGE
15/5-17/5 2016 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon 2.1
15/5 Stage 1/3 Arevalo – Valladolid 194.3 km
Location:
from, Comarca La Moraña, Provincia de Ávila
to, Comarca Campiña del Pisuerga, Provincia de Valladolid
Description:
Relative flat and sprinter friendly
Media Favorites:
Van Asbroeck (LottoNL) - Cimolai (Lampre) - Haller (Katusha)
Secondary Favorites:
Groenewegen – Trentin – Božič
Outsiders:
Cort Nielsen – Ferrari – Nikitin – Thwaites
Astana:
Lars Boom - Jakob Fuglsang
Matvey Nikitin - Diego Rosa - Alessandro Vanotti
Oleg Zemlyakov - Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev - Andriy Grivko
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| Ripley |
Posted on 15-05-2017 12:34
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Real life has caught up with your story, if you replace Astana, Aru and Nibali with Sky, Thomas and Landa. |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 15-05-2017 14:49
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So true - too often bikes or cars create those accidents.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 15-05-2017 16:58
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15/5-17/5 2016 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon 2.1
15/5 Stage 1/3 Arevalo – Valladolid 194.3 km
Right from the start we got a 7 rider breakaway, they are reeled in. then we got a 4 riders breakaway.
The pace in the peloton is very fast, and in a sharp turn we have a crash right in front of Tour’s director’s car number one, it looks very bad.
Race favorite Cyril Gautier (Ag2r) was down.
Again the breakaway are reeled in, the pace have now been hard for more than 53 km.
Then finally we get a breakaway that the peloton will accept, it is Malaguti (Unieuro – Wilier), Vinhas (FC Porto), Fonte (Rádio Popular), Parrinello (Area Zero) and Antunes (LA Aluminios).
The breakaway gets about 5’30 before the peloton starts the chase, it is mainly Lampre and Cofidis sharing the workload.
The breakaway is over with just 3500 meters to the line, it this point the sprint trains has already been formed.
Astana got Fuglsang in front of Boom leading for Nikitin.
It is a technical sprint with some difficult curves, the strongest today is Van Asbroeck in front of Cimolai and Božič.
Nikitin gets a respectable 8th
Evaluation:
Overall:
Having a great season so far this was the 4th season win by the 26 years old Belgian Tom Van Asbroeck.
He previously won Volta Limburg Classic and got stage wins in Tour de San Luis and Szlakiem Grodòw Piastowskich,
The stage played out as expected, all the favorite teams got a rider in top 5.
Astana:
A crazy stage seen with Astana eyes, Nikitin crossed the line as 8th, but was accused of punching Katusha’s Marco Haller in the sprint and was kicked out of Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, to make things worse he fell on the stairs of the rented apartment later that night and was seriously injured. (*)
Stage
| 1 | Tom Van Asbroeck | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | 4h08'19" | | 2 | Davide Cimolai | Lampre-Merida | +00:00 | | 3 | Borut Božič | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | +00:00 | | 4 | Scott Thwaites | Bora - Argon 18 | +00:00 | | 5 | Marco Haller | Team Katusha | +00:00 | | 6 | Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso | Sporting Lisboa-Tavira | +00:00 | | 7 | Matteo Trentin | Etixx - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 8 | Matvey Nikitin | Astana Pro Team | DQ | | 9 | Mitchell Docker | Orica-GreenEDGE | +00:00 | | 10 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 |
Spoiler | 11 | Lars Boom | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 113 | Alessandro Vanotti | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 134 | Oleg Zemlyakov | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 158 | Diego Rosa | Astana Pro Team | +03:02 | | 162 | Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev | Astana Pro Team | +03:02 | | 165 | Andriy Grivko | Astana Pro Team | +03:02 |
GC
| 1 | Tom Van Asbroeck | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | 4h08'09" | | 2 | Davide Cimolai | Lampre-Merida | +00:04 | | 3 | Borut Božič | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | +00:06 | | 4 | Scott Thwaites | Bora - Argon 18 | +00:10 | | 5 | Marco Haller | Team Katusha | +00:10 | | 6 | Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso | Sporting Lisboa-Tavira | +00:10 | | 7 | Matteo Trentin | Etixx - Quick Step | +00:10 | | 8 | Mitchell Docker | Orica-GreenEDGE | +00:10 | | 9 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:10 | | 10 | Lars Boom | Astana Pro Team | +00:10 |
Spoiler | 112 | Alessandro Vanotti | Astana Pro Team | +00:10 | | 133 | Oleg Zemlyakov | Astana Pro Team | +00:10 | | 157 | Diego Rosa | Astana Pro Team | +03:12 | | 161 | Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev | Astana Pro Team | +03:12 | | 164 | Andriy Grivko | Astana Pro Team | +03:12 |
Points
| 1 | Tom Van Asbroeck | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | 25 | | 2 | Davide Cimolai | Lampre-Merida | 20 | | 3 | Borut Božič | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | 16 |
KoM
| 1 | Alessandro Malaguti | Unieuro - Wilier | 3 | | 2 | Rui Vinhas | W52-FC Porto-Porto Canal | 2 | | 3 | César Fonte | Rádio Popular ONDA Boavista | 1 |
Team - Astana Pro Team
Young - Marco Haller Team Katusha
(* Editorial note: He crossed the line as 8th, not been of the bike at any point, but that did not show in the results, he abandoned – doctor report: out for about a month.)
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 15-05-2017 20:14
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NEXT STAGE
6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
16/5 Stage 10/21 Campi Bisenzio – Sestola 215.3 km
Location:
from Città metropolitana di Firenze, Regione Toscana
to Provincia di Modena, Regione Emilia-Romagna
Description:
Long and hard mountain stage with summit finish
Media Favorites:
Nibali (Astana) - Porte (BMC) - Aru (Astana)
Secondary Favorites:
Urán - Kreuziger – Barguil
Outsiders:
Landa - A. Yates – Kelderman - Amador
Astana:
Vincenzo Nibali - Fabio Aru - Andrea Guardini
Michele Scarponi - Dario Cataldo - Tanel Kangert
Eros Capecchi - Miguel Ángel López - Andrey Zeits
Edited by Tamijo on 16-05-2017 08:18
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 16-05-2017 15:58
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Matvey Nikitin disqualified WTF.... |
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