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Vuelta Castilla y León Discussion
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| roturn |
Posted on 07-12-2011 14:24
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The Continental Tour continues with hard mountain races. The Castilla y Leon is a perfect race for a strong stage racer combining climbing and time trial skills.
So 18 teams including many big names participate here. One interesting aspect is the abstinence of some of the biggest climbers like Valverde, Alarcon or Van Den Broeck. So more riders will get a good chance to win this race.
Biggest favourite is  Jose Rujano.
The Venezuelan had a less successful season so far with some top 10 results but no big wins. He will surely try to prove the first critics wrong.
He will be mainly challenged by Tour of Taiwan winner
 Krasnoperov,
the Venchi duo
 Duarte & Pellizotti
and one of the Spanish hopes
 Castano.
Also Eastman, Ratiy and Anton must be named in the list of race favourites as also Lövkvist, Lloret and Efimkin. Especially the three Spaniards should be extra motivated with all the support they will get during the stages.
Several teams have good riders with outsider chances for a good result with riders like Larsson, Ochoa, Nicacio or Martinez but surely they need a good day on the hard mountain stage as the time trial is too short to gain that much time back.
With two sprint stages and a not too hard looking hilly stage sprinters like
 Allan Davis
 JJ Haedo
Guillen
will surely aim for stage wins or the point jersey as also Lorenzetto, Dall`Antonia, Vingerling or Marinangeli.
Full startlist Spoiler Pokerstars
1. J. Rujano
2. S. Dumoulin
3. M. Guillén
4. C. Kern
5. M. Maaskant
6. H. Raabe
7. J. Vermote
Pirelli
11. C. Castaño
12. D. Caccia
13. D. Di Nucci
14. M. Iannetti
15. S. Masciarelli
16. F. Montaña
17. E. Murgoitio
Saab
21. T. Lövkvist
22. J. Bjelkmark
23. N. Brolin
24. U. Galiev
25. E. Salgueiro
26. M. Van Aelbroeck
27. M. Wyss
Venchi
31. F. Duarte
32. V. Agnoli
33. F. Aru
34. O. Haavardsholm
35. S. Marinangeli
36. F. Pellizotti
37. L. Sestili
Bianchi
41. M. Lloret
42. J. AramendÃa
43. J. Cobo
44. R. Dennis
45. P. Mazur
46. P. Rooijakkers
47. H. Schwab
Aker Solutions
51. G. Larsson
52. H. Duenas Nevado
53. O. Hirschlein
54. J. Le Bon
55. M. Ortega
56. J. Rovira
57. J. Zrimsek
CSC
61. I. Antón
62. M. Dueñas
63. B. Lima
64. E. Parra Bustamante
65. J. Rodas
66. M. Soler
67. C. Verona
Cal Giant
71. R. Eastman
72. T. Brandt
73. J. Haedo
74. K. Koren
75. T. Peterson
76. K. Reijnen
77. T. Tolleson
Team VW
81. V. Ratiy
82. R. Förster
83. W. Li
84. G. Preidler
85. F. Sabatini
86. L. Schädlich
87. R. Zabel
Tinkoff
91. S. Kolesnikov
92. M. Belkov
93. V. Efimkin
94. D. Galimzyanov
95. E. Petrov
96. A. Timofeev
97. N. Trusov
Cerne
101. P. Nicácio
102. A. Antunes
103. L. Coutinho
104. J. Insausti
105. J. Martins
106. R. Reis
107. B. Santos
Hollister
111. Y. Martinez
112. R. Caminiti
113. A. Davis
114. R. Ochoa Quintero
115. J. Pantano Gómez
116. P. Pereyra
117. A. Proni
Export
121. M. Krasnoperov
122. D. De Fauw
123. G. Hasta
124. F. Montenegro
125. V. Orozco
126. M. Rutkiewicz
127. T. Ziegler
Bpost
131. J. Vanendert
132. F. De Greef
133. M. Elijzen
134. S. Poulhiès
135. J. Stallaert
136. T. Stubbe
137. W. Van Den Eynde
UniCredit
141. S. Ortega
142. M. Brändle
143. M. Lorenzetto
144. A. Signego
145. T. Valjavec
146. B. Vandborg
147. G. Visconti
WWE
151. C. Sørensen
152. J. Keukeleire
153. B. Mollema
154. R. Sutherland
155. A. Txurruka
156. M. Vingerling
157. T. Voeckler
Ferrari
161. M. Osella
162. E. Battaglin
163. E. Capecchi
164. T. Dall'Antonia
165. M. Marcato
166. M. Pozzo
167. M. Santambrogio
Koppert
171. J. Thomson
172. J. Dieteren
173. A. Kamyshev
174. P. Ligthart
175. J. McCarthy
176. F. Taillefour
177. P. Vlatos
Edited by roturn on 07-12-2011 14:25
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| ember |
Posted on 07-12-2011 14:56
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I have som hopes for Larsson here, but the mountain stage looks like a killer for him, a top 15 would be nice. But we should feature in most breakaways, as it feels like we're having a pretty strong team here (compared to our team in previous races). |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 07-12-2011 15:00
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A stage win would be nice. Hopefully Dall'Antonia and Capecchi can do something in the sprints and maybe Osella for a Top 10 on the mtf.
No expectations here though.
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| jack888 |
Posted on 07-12-2011 15:03
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This will be an interesting one. Rujano will be tough to stop, but we can always hope for more breakaway success!
Sprinters might pick up some decent points here as well.
Edited by jack888 on 07-12-2011 15:05
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| rycadinho |
Posted on 07-12-2011 15:15
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Have a good feeling about this one. Castaño has been the by far most consistent rider out of my star trio, and he should defiantly be strong enough to fight for a podium spot.
- Rujano is good but not unbeatable and his team looks quite weak something that can be a problem, with so many good riders who can put pressure on him.
Di Nucci will hopefully produce a couple of decent sprints, though it's mostly about Castaño - looking forward for your reports roturn!
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| beagle |
Posted on 07-12-2011 15:40
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now or never!
pretty strong start list, I think Rujano, Ratiy and Duarte are biggest guns and will fight for win (at least I hope...)
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| viking90 |
Posted on 07-12-2011 15:52
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Hope for a nice result by Lövkvist and that Bjelkmark can hang on quite good too. |
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 07-12-2011 15:54
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Hopefully Anton gets enough motivation from the home crowds to lead him to the win  Glad the startlist isn't to heavily stacked.
Edited by Mresuperstar on 07-12-2011 16:16
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 07-12-2011 17:00
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No Valverde here - suppose a tight squeeze with his race days and 'only' two stages he might win. Certainly the reason Vespa ducked this race.
Guillen to get himself in yellow, and Rujano to pace him up the climb on stage 3....
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| Heine |
Posted on 07-12-2011 17:08
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I can't say it sounds positive when you don't mention Ratiy among the favorites 
I want 2 stage wins (TT by Schädlich and 1 more), and a top 3 from Ratiy 
Edited by Heine on 07-12-2011 17:10
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| Christer |
Posted on 07-12-2011 17:09
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This field is stronger than I like. Hope Txurruka can mess up the favorites. This is my first race in a long time.
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| Smowz |
Posted on 07-12-2011 17:44
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Startlist looks quite strong, was certainly a race on my shortlist but I was scared off when I saw Valverde signed up by a CTour team.
Should be interesting to see how attacking the climbers are on the mountain stage with the TT afterwards. Will Rujano and Duarte go all in given that they are decent TTers?
I think Lloret could be the winner here.
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| ltt |
Posted on 08-12-2011 10:29
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I'm hoping that the 1st 2 stages will come down to sprints, and not have breakaways win, something that my team hasn't been very good at doing recently.
Be interesting to see who comes out on top without Valverde and Alarcon here though. |
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| CountArach |
Posted on 08-12-2011 12:06
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Wow what an unexpected result and a great win for Ferrari.
Good to see Eijzen trying to mix things up. Also Van den Eynde losing over 6 minutes on a flat stage...
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| ember |
Posted on 08-12-2011 12:06
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Congratulations to Ferrari, clever move from Santambrogio. 2 minutes are also a nice gap, and he isn't the worst climber, nor the worst time trialist. Has Pokerstars given totally up on Rujano?  |
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| Christer |
Posted on 08-12-2011 12:09
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Impressive effort there by Santambrogio. (if I spelled that wrong, I blame ember!)
Not too bad with a 7th, and also some attacking.
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| Heine |
Posted on 08-12-2011 12:15
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Nice win by Santambrogio, 2 min, I lack his stats, but he should loose that in the mountains, right?
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| ember |
Posted on 08-12-2011 12:21
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Santambrogio is 66MO and 68TT. And thanks to the bonus seconds he got, I think he can loose 3 minutes to the winner of stage 3, and still be a strong contender for the overall podium. Definitely a great move from him! |
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| Heine |
Posted on 08-12-2011 12:31
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Considering that he is minimum 14 stats below the best here he should loose those 3 minutes, but he could be able to fight for the top, I'm usually wrong in my predictions :-p
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| Rin |
Posted on 08-12-2011 12:33
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I would bet Santambrogio won't even manage to hold on to the Top 5
He will loose all the gap on the mountain stage as it's long, tricky and the climbers have to get their gap there before the TT stage
Some of the climbers aren't bad at TT whilst some are worse climbers then Rujano but better then Santambrogio and are better at TT then Rujano and Santambrogio
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