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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 27-03-2013 00:04
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A return to the Asia Tour and the Tour of  Taiwan. Plenty of hills on the route, and a strong field lines up.
Gisborne GP winner  Francesco Ginanni is the obvious favourite, as the rider with the best hill stat. But so often is he an inconsistent rider, so that is never a guarantee. Froome beat him in Sweden recently, but the Italian does seem to be in form after a disastrous Tour of South Africa.
Challenging him will be  Aleksandr Efimkin, runner up in Gisborne. The Russian was also runner up in the Tour Down Under, despite winning a stage. Time to go one better? The man who beat him Down Under was  Alex Dowsett, and he leads the Jaguar squad here.
Vueling will expect better than we have seen so far from  Patrik Sinkewitz. He has been there or there about, but not securing the big points scores desired.  Hassen Ben Nasser is also searching for his first big result of the season, for Pivovarna Lasko.
Some other puncheurs to look out for are  Roy,  Betancourt,  Ghisalberti,  Konovalovas,  Mehr-Wenige and  Hatanaka. While  Oz have a trio of options in Lloyd, Jiao and Visconti as they continue to hunt for Asian Tour points.
It's not all hills, there are some sprints too.
Allan Davis heads the field in this category, and will have a strong leadout in Brea. To challenge him are  Peeters, Gatto, Pedersen, Bozic, Nateghi, Rasmussen (for stage one at least), etc etc
I'm sure  Armavia,  Cadbury-Schweppes,  Evian-MIAT,  HTC-Nieuwsblad and  Sauber Petronas will find a way to be involved in the race as well.
The defending champion does return, but the terrain certainly does not suit Krasnoperov this year. In truth, they did not favour him last year either as breakaways dominated the race. Maybe they will again?
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 27-03-2013 03:20
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What a strong field indeed! Will be happy with a Top-10 and our three puncheurs should all score in the end. No need for a disappointing race like langkawi 
Last year we finished 3rd here, thanks to a breakaway. Wouldn't mind if the same happens again, with an Oz-rider involved.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 27-03-2013 03:28
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Gambled a bit here by leaving Zaini out and I think its going to bite me.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 27-03-2013 05:45
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Wow, strong field, i am happy that Asia and hills are combination not for us and we are avoiding these. Good luck to all, looks like Ginanni - Efimkin battle to me.
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 27-03-2013 07:17
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Aargh, Ginanni present... Was hoping for a relatively easy field for Efimkin, considering the many race days. Oh, well.
Fingers crossed for a miracle, as I really want to check one of the win goals, at least.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 27-03-2013 08:03
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Ginanni Vs. Efimkin. But maybe, the hills might have a surprise in store. |
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| jph27 |
Posted on 27-03-2013 08:16
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I'm here for Asia Tour points. I expect nothing  |
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 27-03-2013 08:28
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We're hoping to get in a few breakaways and secure some points towards our goal in the Asia tour rankings.
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| ANFreeman |
Posted on 27-03-2013 09:56
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What a strong field...
Brought the Kono-Mandri-Lowe trio, but I feel it may turn out to be a waste of race days for all three, given the competition.
Hard to pick a favourite, could be a good battle for top spot.
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 27-03-2013 11:16
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Pretty strong field indeed! Not that I had any big plans for this race anyway, but since we're that well below standard compared to the top notch, it may be slightly easier to slip in to a few breakaways. Bikienga, Burlutsky and Sai-Udomsin will be our keys here  |
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 27-03-2013 11:26
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Like others have said, glad I didn't sent a team here. Costa/Barrio would have struggled to pick-up and decent amount of points.
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| Heine |
Posted on 27-03-2013 15:32
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Glad i decided the race days wouldn't be worth it. Even more happy to see ginanni and efimkin spendingmrace days here
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| kumazan |
Posted on 27-03-2013 15:38
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Damn, I didn't expect such strong startlist. Oh well, at least I hope we're not beaten by a random sprinter this time.
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| tyriion |
Posted on 27-03-2013 16:27
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Happy I changed my mind about entering this one 
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 27-03-2013 16:27
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managed to hit the hard race again but it seems so did everyone else at least:/ be good if Roy can at least do something! |
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| fintas |
Posted on 27-03-2013 17:18
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dammit was not waiting for an initial list so strong ... So I have to lower quite my expectations... Still think Dietmar is able to achieve a top 10 and finish well most of the stages, also Van Loocke may be able to discuss the flat stages since none of them are very long.
Efimkin is my favorite
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 27-03-2013 18:54
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With 4 out of 7'hilly' stages it was always going to be fairly competitive.
Having the hardest hilly stage first should on paper mean Ginanni should be fairly comfortable - but never quite works out like that.
Someone like Ben Nasser may well end up taking this one. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 27-03-2013 19:32
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I dont quite get how people thought "Look, a hilly C1 stage race with 4 hill stages. Clearly no PCT team will send their best puncheur their"
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| ANFreeman |
Posted on 27-03-2013 19:41
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SportingNonsense wrote:
I dont quite get how people thought "Look, a hilly C1 stage race with 4 hill stages. Clearly no PCT team will send their best puncheur their"
I think a lot of people were counting on the race days to put the big names off - but it's going to make for a great race
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 27-03-2013 19:44
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ANFreeman wrote:
SportingNonsense wrote:
I dont quite get how people thought "Look, a hilly C1 stage race with 4 hill stages. Clearly no PCT team will send their best puncheur their"
I think a lot of people were counting on the race days to put the big names off - but it's going to make for a great race
My thought pattern was more along the lines of oh that's in asia and it's a tour which means it could help towards 3 of my goals, lets go there and hope we get lucky.
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