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Tour de Boland Discussion
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 02-10-2011 16:22
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The Tour of South Africa was a great race rankings wise for Rapha Condor, Red Bull and Bianchi, by far the strongest 3 of the 8 teams there. Well the next hilly South African stage race is the Tour de Boland, and we have 9 teams this time.
Tour of South Africa winner Jonathan Bellis will look to continue his success, with support from Alex Dowsett - who was 7th there. Jayco RB bring back ToSA Top-10ers Mori, Gerrans and Vorganov, but South African national champiuon Daryl Impey is a surprising absence - leaving it to Emu's Augustyn to fight for a home victory, while Bianchi are this time led by Rabon, not Monfort.
Theres two new big challengers though. Vuelta a Mallorca winner Samuel Sanchez, and GP di Lugano winner Aleksandar Flugel. These two could well take up the Top 2 GC positions, and should at least ensure a greater rankings points spread here!
Costa (CSC) and Bosisio (Vespa) will also hope to play a role, while Trilux may not be doing much other than making up the numbers.
Spoiler Cal Giant
1. S. Sánchez Gonzalez
2. P. Ghyllebert
3. J. Haedo
4. B. Jacques-Maynes
5. L. Pasamontes
6. K. Reijnen
7. T. Tolleson
Rapha Condor
11. J. Bellis
12. C. Anguilet
13. A. Dowsett
14. T. Grmay
15. D. Jiriakov
16. W. Sulzberger
17. T. Teklit
Team VW
21. A. Flügel
22. A. Klier
23. W. Li
24. C. Müller
25. B. Noval
26. C. Pfannberger
27. J. Veikkanen
Bianchi
31. F. Rabon
32. J. AramendÃa
33. D. De la Fuente
34. R. Dennis
35. W. Gustov
36. J. Hochmann
37. F. Odebrecht
CSC
41. R. Costa
42. B. Armstrong
43. I. Basso
44. S. Blanco
45. J. Perez Cuapio
46. C. Verona
47. C. Zaballa
Red Bull
51. S. Calzati
52. M. Chérel
53. S. Gerrans
54. A. Hansen
55. M. Mori
56. M. Priamo
57. E. Vorganov
Export
61. JL. Augustyn
62. A. Bajadali
63. D. De Fauw
64. G. Hasta
65. D. Kairelis
66. M. Karagobek
67. I. Seledkov
Vespa
71. G. Bosisio
72. A. Balloni
73. D. Cimolai
74. O. Gatto
75. A. Pagoto
76. A. Petrie-Armstrong
77. I. Speirs
Trilux
81. D. Devenyns
82. J. Barta
83. P. Bercz
84. T. Criel
85. R. Scholz
86. S. Sousa
87. R. Zepunkte
Edited by SportingNonsense on 02-10-2011 16:39
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| CountArach |
Posted on 02-10-2011 16:25
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I could see a break taking either stage two or three and then holding on for a high GC position.
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| ember |
Posted on 02-10-2011 16:33
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This should be interesting. All the stages are relatively short, don't know whether that's in favour for the big favourites or breakaways. Should be a good race for the 9 teams in it, pointwise. Looking forward to a great battle for the overall win! |
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| Rin |
Posted on 02-10-2011 16:37
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I guess it should say that "while Bianchi are this time led by Rabon, not Monfort." as Bianchi can't lead Bianchi 
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 02-10-2011 16:40
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Rin wrote:
I guess it should say that "while Bianchi are this time led by Rabon, not Monfort." as Bianchi can't lead Bianchi
Indeed. What you said is what I thought I was typing, my fingers clearly decided to rename Monfort to Maxime Bianchi 
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| Christer |
Posted on 02-10-2011 16:52
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This will be an interesting race to watch. Team WWE could have gotten a top 10 place here, I think. At least with some luck. I hope that some of the underdogs win here. 
Good luck, and good to see the season go on!
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 02-10-2011 18:39
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Hopefully this is a good race for us. Sanchez is a gc threat, Haedo looks the favorite to take stage 1, and depending on how difficult the 2nd stage is, Tolleson might be able to do something.
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 02-10-2011 18:45
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The only way i can get a decent result here is a breakaway. But i´m confident in PCM2011
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| Smowz |
Posted on 02-10-2011 19:27
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Some big time early season winners are here, but I feel the Red Bull guys have a chance of upsetting the cyanide odds.
Impey is away working on his speed, unable to land a win so far and his hill climbing ability has been found wanting. He will try some flatter races soon.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 02-10-2011 19:34
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Happy to go racing again Come On Costa!
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 02-10-2011 19:36
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Love this race when i had it in my career can definatly see a breakaway being the main brek of the tour and the winner coming from there Costa maybe could be allowed away so i'll go for him. |
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| laidbackmarc |
Posted on 02-10-2011 21:44
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jt1109 wrote:
Love this race when i had it in my career can definatly see a breakaway being the main brek of the tour and the winner coming from there Costa maybe could be allowed away so i'll go for him.
Same here. I played this race twice in my Rapha - Condor carrier. All three times a rider form a succesive break won.
The last stage is awesome. A steep gravel climb. A break usually stays clear at this stage two.
Also, there is a sharp left-turn in the final if I am right? The rider who enter this bend first, wins the stage.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 02-10-2011 21:51
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Just to point out, any past experience may be slightly different, because they were on the PCM10 Boland stage files - Mb only converted the race to PCM11 form yesterday.
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 02-10-2011 22:24
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The hill on the final stage is slightly easier than the 2010 version, as I am a better stage maker now, so it is no longer a triple peak at the top.
Apart from that it's the same.
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| Heine |
Posted on 03-10-2011 06:45
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Flügel has been in the form of his life til now this season, I just gotta hope he stays there 
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| roturn |
Posted on 03-10-2011 18:45
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Fun Facts
| - Italy with the biggest amount of riders (8) followed by Spain and Germany (7) | | - John-Lee Augustyn (Emu Export) the only South African | | - Weakest rider: Serafin Josè Blanco (CSC/63,20) | | - Strongest rider: Jonathan Bellis (Rapha/75,60) | | - Average average: 70,120 | | - Highest salary: Rui Costa (CSC/€ 400.000) | | - Average wage: 82.022€ | | - Youngest rider: Ruben Zepunkte (Trilux/19) | | - Oldest rider: Andreas Klier (Volkswagen/36) | | - Average age: 28,063 | | - Youngest team: Rapha Candor (24,143) | | - Oldest teams: California Giant (30,714) | | - 5 loanies | | - 4 National Road Champions: Tolleson (California/USA), Anguilet (Rapha/GAB), Jiriakov (Rapha/LIE), Rabon (Bianchi/CZE) |
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| Heine |
Posted on 03-10-2011 18:48
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Both youngest and oldest are mine (Zepuntke loaned out ) Haha
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 03-10-2011 18:54
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Gatto to win the first stage for Vespa and then Bosisio to nurse him through the second stage and loose 15 minutes on the others..... |
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| Heine |
Posted on 03-10-2011 18:57
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Talking from experience?
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 03-10-2011 18:59
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fenian_1234 wrote:
Gatto to win the first stage for Vespa and then Bosisio to nurse him through the second stage and loose 15 minutes on the others.....
At least that gives you a stage win
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