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Crossroads (The Vino Diary) - June - Tour de Luxembourg
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 12-01-2017 10:40
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The first part of the season is over, this is the rankings after 31/3-2016
Rider:
| 1 | Peter Sagan | Slovakia | Tinkoff | 899 | | 2 | Alejandro Valverde | Spain | Movistar Team | 782 | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Spain | Tinkoff | 747 | | 4 | John Degenkolb | Germany | Team Giant - Alpecin | 746 | | 5 | Julian Alaphilippe | France | Etixx - Quick Step | 679 |
Astana:
| 8 | Michele Scarponi | Italy | Astana Pro Team | 543 | | 27 | Dario Cataldo | Italy | Astana Pro Team | 343 | | 52 | Luis León Sánchez | Spain | Astana Pro Team | 247 | | 57 | Lars Boom | Netherlands | Astana Pro Team | 243 | | 59 | Jakob Fuglsang | Denmark | Astana Pro Team | 236 |
Team:
| 1 | Etixx - Quick Step | 2701 | | | | 2 | Movistar Team | 2402 | | | | 3 | Tinkoff | 2193 | | | | 4 | Team Sky | 2109 | | | | 5 | Astana Pro Team | 1919 | | |
Rider:
| 1 | Peter Sagan | Slovakia | Tinkoff | 193 | | 2 | Alberto Contador Velasco | Spain | Tinkoff | 177 | | 3 | John Degenkolb | Germany | Team Giant - Alpecin | 152 | | 4 | Marcel Kittel | Germany | Etixx - Quick Step | 144 | | 5 | Alejandro Valverde Belmonte | Spain | Movistar Team | 115 |
Astana:
| 32 | Michele Scarponi | Italy | Astana Pro Team | 41 | | 54 | Lars Boom | Netherlands | Astana Pro Team | 10 | | 93 | Fabio Aru | Italy | Astana Pro Team | 1 |
Team:
| 1 | Tinkoff | 371 | | 2 | Etixx - Quick Step | 346 | | 3 | Team Giant - Alpecin | 337 | | 4 | Lotto Soudal | 304 | | 5 | Team Katusha | 257 |
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Posted on 12-01-2017 10:41
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 12-01-2017 19:19
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NEXT RACE
 1/4-2016 Route Adélie de Vitré 1.1
Vitré - Vitré 199.3 km
Location:
Fougères-Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Description:
Categorized flat, but rather bumpy
From 1980 - 1994 a stage race called Tour d'Armorique
First Winner:
1996 Marc Bouillon (BEL)
Latest Years Winner’s
2013 Alessandro Malaguti
2014 Bryan Coquard
2015 Romain Feillu
Media Favorites:
Lars Boom (Astana) – Marcato (Wanty) - Vichot (FDJ)
Secondary Favorites:
Voeckler – Brändle – Westra
Other notable riders:
Hansen - Bakelants – Anderson – Le Bon
Astana:
Lars Boom – Lieuwe Westra
Matvey Nikitin - Alexey Lutsenko - Davide Malacarne
Diego Rosa - Dmitriy Gruzdev - Oleg Zemlyakov
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 13-01-2017 09:33
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1/4-2016 Route Adélie de Vitré 1.1
Vitré - Vitré 199.3 km
Some attempts right from the start are all reeled back, but after a while a group of 9 riders start to get some distance making it to more than 3 minutes, the strongest rider in the break seems to be Carlos Verona from Etixx - Quick Step .
The pace is relative hot, making for a stretched out peloton, weaker riders fighting hard just to hang on.
The result is that the breakaway doesn’t hold, but as soon as it is over Pierre-Roger Latour (Ag2r) and Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier (FDJ) gets away on a new adventure. The duo gets about 2’40 with 52 km to go.
They don’t make it, on the last 25 km the pace in front of the peloton is very high, more and more riders lose contact every time the front group passes the steepest climb.
With 13 km to go the front group is down to just 15 riders, with Jan Bakelants and Pierre-Roger Latour hanging 30 sec behind.
3 riders slip away over the top Marco Marcato, Matthias Brändle and Thomas Voeckler, Lars Boom attacks to close the gap.
Lars Boom can’t catch the trio in front, but form behind Johan Le Bon (FDJ) gets contack with Boom and later attacks to leave the dutchman behind.
The race was won by Marco Marcato over Matthias Brändle and Thomas Voeckler.
Evaluation:
Overall:
This was the first season win by the 32 years old Italian, and his first win since winning Paris–Tours back in October 2012.
The most disappointed riders must be podium favorite Arthur Vichot finishing as 30th losing 5’04
Astana:
Lars Boom was a top favorite to the race, a 5th is a mediocre result acceptable but far from great. Hopefully Lars will have a better day in the upcoming Ronde van Vlaanderen.
Result
| 1 | Marco Marcato | Wanty - Groupe Gobert | 4h46'11 | | 2 | Matthias Brändle | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 3 | Thomas Voeckler | Direct Energie | s.t. | | 4 | Johan Le Bon | FDJ | + 27 | | 5 | Lars Boom | Astana Pro Team | + 1'47 | | 6 | Florian Vachon | Fortuneo - Vital Concept | + 2'09 | | 7 | Jérémy Roy | FDJ | + 2'52 | | 8 | Jérôme Coppel | IAM Cycling | + 3'05 | | 9 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | + 3'27 | | 10 | Anthony Delaplace | Fortuneo - Vital Concept | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | Matvey Nikitin | Astana Pro Team | +03:27 | | 14 | Lieuwe Westra | Astana Pro Team | +04:08 | | 18 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | +05:04 | | 98 | Diego Rosa | Astana Pro Team | +08:40 | | 100 | Davide Malacarne | Astana Pro Team | +08:40 | | 111 | Dmitriy Gruzdev | Astana Pro Team | +12:00 | | 112 | Oleg Zemlyakov | Astana Pro Team | +12:00 |
Team : FDJ
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 20-01-2017 12:42
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NEXT RACE
 3/4-2016 Ronde van Vlaanderen
Brugge – Oudenaarde 258.6 km
Location:
from Brugge, West-Vlaanderen
to Oudenaarde, Oost-Vlaanderen
Description: Hilly Cobbled Classic
First Winner:
1913 Paul Deman (BEL)
Latest Years Winner’s
2013 Fabian Cancellara
2014 Fabian Cancellara
2015 Alexander Kristoff
Media Favorites:
Cancellara (Trek) – Degenkolb (Giant – Alpecin)
Terpstra (Quick Step)
Secondary Favorites:
Vanmarcke – Kristoff - Van Avermaet
Other notable riders:
Thomas - Vandenbergh - Stybar - Boom
Astana:
Lars Boom - Alexey Lutsenko
Arman Kamyshev - Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev - Dmitriy Gruzdev
Gatis Smukulis - Lieuwe Westra - Ruslan Tleubayev
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 20-01-2017 16:30
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3/4-2016 Ronde van Vlaanderen
Brugge – Oudenaarde 258.6 km
After 30 km a total of 11 riders are in front of the peloton, Nordhaug (Sky) alone in front, with 26 sec to a group of 6 and another 43 sec to a group of 4, the peloton with a total of 2’15 to Nordhaug.
With a hard push from the peloton over the next 30 km the original breakaway is over, and a new more manageable group get away, this time just two riders. Movistar’s Adriano Malori and Lotto-Jumbo’s Victor Campenaerts, they get about 6 minutes.
Over the first series of cobbled sections there are a lot of crashes, some of them fatal. In the confusion a dangerous group of riders lay distance to the peloton, with about 100 km left Degenkolb, Cancellara, Lampaert, Van Winden, Terpstra and Vanmarcke suddently has more than a minute to the peloton.
The peloton starts racing like mad, and with 60 km to the finish the breakaway is brought back in, now we have a group of 33 riders leading the race, Astana only got Lars Boom left in this group.
From here the pace is very hard, and the selection begins, over the next 20 km a group of 8 riders manages to lay a lot of distance to the others, most of the favorites are in this group except John Degenkolb sitting in a group with Lars Boom 3’31 after, with only Sagan and Stuyven caught inbetween.
Group Degenkolb
5 riders make is to the finish together, the final sprint is von by Alexander Kristoff in front of Greg Van Avermaet and Jürgen Roelandts, Lars Boom makes it in with John Degenkolb’s group but so worn out that he crosses the line last 2nd last in 19th position.
Evaluation:
Overall:
This was Norwegian Alexander Kristoff’s 2nd Ronde van Vlaanderen win in a row, his first win of the season, and his first win since GP Ouest-France 30 August 2015.
The most disappointed riders must be podium favorite John Degenkolb finishing outside top 10 losing 6'47.
The crashing was very bad today a total of 30 riders never made it to the finish line.
Astana: With another very bad result in a sponsor focus race the situation in Astana’s camp is desperate. Unconfirmed rumors are spreading, from the sacking of various managers to a total collapse of the team, but nothing is confirmed so far and Vinokourov is not talking to the press.
Result
| 1 | Alexander Kristoff | Team Katusha | 5h58'47 | | 2 | Greg Van Avermaet | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 3 | Jürgen Roelandts | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 4 | Geraint Thomas | Team Sky | s.t. | | 5 | Niki Terpstra | Etixx - Quick Step | s.t. | | 6 | Fabian Cancellara | Trek - Segafredo | + 1'20 | | 7 | Sep Vanmarcke | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | s.t. | | 8 | Zdenek Stybar | Etixx - Quick Step | + 2'57 | | 9 | Martin Elmiger | IAM Cycling | + 4'34 | | 10 | Jens Debusschere | Lotto Soudal | + 5'50 |
Spoiler | 19 | Lars Boom | Astana Pro Team | +06:47 | | 86 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | +24:22 | | 108 | Dmitriy Gruzdev | Astana Pro Team | +26:53 | | 122 | Lieuwe Westra | Astana Pro Team | +29:29 | | 135 | Ruslan Tleubayev | Astana Pro Team | +31:14 | | 137 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana Pro Team | +31:14 | | 138 | Gatis Smukulis | Astana Pro Team | +31:14 | | 145 | Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev | Astana Pro Team | +33:03 |
Team : Etixx – Quick Step
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 21-01-2017 08:47
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NEXT RACE
 3/4-2016 Vuelta a La Rioja 1.1
Logroño - Logroño 164.7 km
Location:
Logroño, La Rioja 1.1
Description: Sprinter friendly race.
First Winner:
1957 Alberto Sant (ESP)
Latest Years Winner’s
2013 Francesco Lasca
2014 Michael Matthews
2015 Caleb Ewan
Media Favorites:
Lobato (Movistar) - Haller (Katusha) - Mørkøv (Katusha)
Secondary Favorites:
Palini – Groenewegen - Pozzato
Other notable riders:
Gatto – Ruffoni – Kluge - Clarke
Astana:
Jakob Fuglsang - Matvey Nikitin
Michele Scarponi - Maxat Ayazbayev
Eros Capecchi - Alessandro Vanotti
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 21-01-2017 10:59
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3/4-2016 Vuelta a La Rioja
Logroño - Logroño 164.7 km
It is not a perfect day for racing, not much wind but cold and cloudy, might start to rain. The morning break is 3 riders getting away without much fighting. Bruno Armirail (l'Armée de Terre), Samuel Magalhaes (Louletano) and Cheng Ji (Giant – Alpecin)
As expected it starts to rain, Alessandro Vanotti attacks on the first hill’s trying to catch up with the breakaway.
The wet roads takes its toll, but there is no serious injuries today, about mid stage Alessandro Vanotti makes contact with the riders in front, at this point the break has about 4 minutes.
The sprinter teams starts working for their captain's, with about 50 km to the line. With the harder pace the distance is melting fast and with about 20 km to the line the break is within sight.
It comes down to the expected mass sprint finish, won by Juan José Lobato over Filippo Pozzato and Pim Ligthart
Evaluation:
Overall:
This was Spanish Juan José Lobato’s first win of the season, and his first win since winning two stages in Vuelta a Andalucía last year.
The most disappointed riders might be top 5 favorite Dylan Groenewegen, finishing outside top 20.
Astana: With no good sprinter Astana had no expectations in this race. The only option was a breakaway win.
Result
| 1 | Juan Jose Lobato | Movistar Team | 3h46'02 | | 2 | Filippo Pozzato | Southeast – Venezuela | s.t. | | 3 | Pim Ligthart | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 4 | Adam Hansen | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 5 | Michael Mørkøv | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 6 | Andrea Palini | Sky Dive Dubai Pro Cycling Team - Al Ahli Club | s.t. | | 7 | Simon Clarke | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 | Maximilian Walscheid | Team Giant - Alpecin | s.t. | | 9 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 10 | Jack Bobridge | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. |
Spoiler | 30 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 37 | Matvey Nikitin | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 68 | Maxat Ayazbayev | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 134 | Eros Capecchi | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 136 | Alessandro Vanotti | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 137 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 |
Team : Lotto Soudal
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 22-01-2017 12:29
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4/4-9/4 2016 Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco
(6 stages)
First Winner:
1924 Francis Pélissier (FRA)
Latest Years Winner’s
2013 Alberto Contador
2014 Joaquim Rodríguez
2015 Alberto Contador
Media Favorites:
Nibali (Astana) - Quintana (Movistar) - Van Garderen (BMC)
Secondary Favorites:
Dumoulin – Porte - Urán
Outsiders :
Majka - Pinot - Valverde - Mollema
Astana:
Vincenzo Nibali - Fabio Aru
Alessandro Vanotti - Alexey Lutsenko - Andrey Zeits
Dario Cataldo - Paolo Tiralongo - Tanel Kangert
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 22-01-2017 13:14
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4/4-9/4 2016 Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco
Stage 1/6 Bilbao – Bilbao 164.9 km
Location:
Gran Bilbao, Provincia de Vizcaya
Description:
Very hilly, with downhill finish.
Media Favorites:
Valverde (Movistar) - Alaphilippe (Quick Step)
Kwiatkowski (Sky)
Secondary Favorites:
Rodriguez – Martin - Quintana
Outsiders:
Costa – Mollema – Gilbert - Porte
Astana:
Vincenzo Nibali - Fabio Aru
Alessandro Vanotti - Alexey Lutsenko - Andrey Zeits
Dario Cataldo - Paolo Tiralongo - Tanel Kangert
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 23-01-2017 12:47
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A bit of a quiet spell for the guys of late but hopefully they can change that in Spain  |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 23-01-2017 13:05
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I hope they can, not looking good for the team so far this season.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 23-01-2017 15:54
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4/4-9/4 2016 Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco
4/4-2016 Stage 1/6 Bilbao – Bilbao 164.9 km
Three riders form todays early breakaway, Rosskopf (BMC), Geniez (FDJ) and Tjallingii (LottoNL), last year’s Giro d'Italia 9th Alexandre Geniez is a strong climber. May not be likely that the peloton will let him win the stage, but he may well be happy with a head-start in the mountain competition.
The peloton is cautious keeping the distance at about 2’30, with Movistar working hardest. It is raining a little and we got the occasional crashes from time to time, Kenneth Vanbilsen (Cofidis) abandon the race.
Alexandre Geniez win’s the first two KoM sprints, but the peloton catches the breakaway at the begining if the final climb and it is Jean-Christophe Péraud first over the last top in a group of 14 riders. Nibali is the only Astana rider in the group.
On the downhill other riders join the first group, 48 riders get to the final sprint together. Jean-Christophe Péraud is still leading the group with Vincenzo Nibali on wheel.
Simon Gerrans is the fastest on the final km, he wins the stage in front of Julian Alaphilippe and Bauke Mollema, Nibali crosses the line as 14th, with no time lost, there are no bonus seconds.
Evaluation Stage :
This was the 35 years old Australian’s first win of the season, after making it 3rd in the Australian National Road Race. Simon Gerrans last win was Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 2014 same year where he also won the prestigious 100th edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège.
The most disappointing result today was race outsider Rafał Majka (Tinkoff) losing 1’24 to the first group. Alexandre Geniez got the KoM lead, but paid a price of losing 4 minutes.
Astana: Ok stage for Astana, Nibali is very much still in this and he has shown fine form today.
Stage
| 1 | Simon Gerrans | Orica-GreenEDGE | 3h51'07 | | 2 | Julian Alaphilippe | Etixx - Quick Step | s.t. | | 3 | Bauke Mollema | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 4 | Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 5 | Juan Jose Lobato | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 6 | Daniel Moreno Fernandez | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 7 | Alejandro Valverde Belmonte | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 8 | Jean-Christophe Péraud | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 9 | Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 10 | Michal Kwiatkowski | Team Sky | s.t. |
Spoiler | 14 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 64 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +03:24 | | 74 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +04:00 | | 79 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +04:00 | | 80 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana Pro Team | +04:00 | | 128 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +12:03 | | 145 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | +15:02 | | 153 | Alessandro Vanotti | Astana Pro Team | +17:46 |
GC
| 1 | Simon Gerrans | Orica-GreenEDGE | 3h51'07 | | 2 | Julian Alaphilippe | Etixx - Quick Step | s.t. | | 3 | Bauke Mollema | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 4 | Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 5 | Juan Jose Lobato | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 6 | Daniel Moreno Fernandez | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 7 | Alejandro Valverde Belmonte | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 8 | Jean-Christophe Péraud | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 9 | Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 10 | Michal Kwiatkowski | Team Sky | s.t. |
Spoiler | 14 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 64 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +03:24 | | 74 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +04:00 | | 79 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +04:00 | | 80 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana Pro Team | +04:00 | | 128 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +12:03 | | 145 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | +15:02 | | 153 | Alessandro Vanotti | Astana Pro Team | +17:46 |
Points
| 1 | Simon Gerrans | Orica-GreenEDGE | 25 | | 2 | Julian Alaphilippe | Etixx - Quick Step | 20 | | 3 | Bauke Mollema | Trek - Segafredo | 16 |
KoM
| 1 | Alexandre Geniez | FDJ | 8 | | 2 | Joey Rosskopf | BMC Racing Team | 7 | | 3 | Jean-Christophe Péraud | Ag2r La Mondiale | 6 |
Team - Movistar Team
Young - Julian Alaphilippe Etixx - Quick Step
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 24-01-2017 12:51
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4/4-9/4 2016 Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco
Stage 2/6 Bilbao – Vitoria Gasteiz 175.8 km
Location:
from Gran Bilbao, Provincia de Vizcaya
to Cuadrilla de Vitoria, Provincia de Álava
Description:
Very hilly, with downhill finish.
Media Favorites:
Valverde (Movistar) - Alaphilippe (Quick Step) – Kwiatkowski (Sky)
Secondary Favorites:
Rodriguez – Martin - Costa
Outsiders:
Mollema - Quintana - Gilbert - Henao
Astana:
Vincenzo Nibali - Fabio Aru
Alessandro Vanotti - Alexey Lutsenko - Andrey Zeits
Dario Cataldo - Paolo Tiralongo - Tanel Kangert
Edited by Tamijo on 24-01-2017 16:16
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 24-01-2017 14:12
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Posted on 24-01-2017 16:02
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Yes - with the ITT he must be our only hope in this one.
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Posted on 24-01-2017 16:12
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4/4-9/4 2016 Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco
5/4-2016 Stage 2/6 Bilbao – Vitoria Gasteiz 175.8 km
The morning breakaway are 3 riders, Blel Kadri (Ag2r), Maarten Tjallingii (LottoNL) and Cédric Pineau (FDJ), after about 20 km Alexey Lutsenko attempts to join the breakaway.
Blel Kadri (Ag2r) wins the first KoM sprint at Orduña (cat1), Jean-Christophe Péraud (Ag2r) attacks from the peloton and starts to catch up to the front group. Péraud attack, makes the peloton up the pace and Alexey Lutsenko attack is soon over, instead he fall back to get water for the teammates.
Péraud joins the front group before the 2nd climb, Ag2r has now two riders in front, the distance is 2’08. With another 100 km to go the high pace has already cut the peloton down, about 30 riders are forming small groups further back.
While Péraud collect KoM points, it has started to rain just a little. Rafał Majka has another day of misfortune, he makes a solo crash and fall back to a group behind the peloton.
Maarten Tjallingii and Cédric Pineau can’t keep up with the Ag2r riders, they both give up and fall back to the peloton, with about 50 km left the duo has over 2’30. Meanwhile Majka is back in the peloton.
But the pace is very hot and with 23 km to the line the last breakaway rider Péraud gets caught. The peloton is now 110 riders of the 159 starting the stage.
There are some attempts on the final hill at Zaldiaran, but it is not hard enough to make a difference, it come to a mass sprint finish, won by Michael Matthews in front of Julian Alaphilippe and Giacomo Nizzolo, 73 riders get the same time.
Evaluation Stage :
This was the 25 years old Australian’s 2nd season win, after winning the 3rd stage in Tour of Oman 19/2. Could be the beginning of a very prosperous year for Matthews
Another very disappointing day for Rafał Majka (Tinkoff) losing time again, he is now 4'19 down in the GC.
Astana: Another OK stage for Astana, not a stage they could expect to win.
Stage
| 1 | Michael Matthews | Orica-GreenEDGE | 4h00'01 | | 2 | Julian Alaphilippe | Etixx - Quick Step | s.t. | | 3 | Giacomo Nizzolo | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 4 | Michal Kwiatkowski | Team Sky | s.t. | | 5 | Alejandro Valverde Belmonte | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 6 | Tiesj Benoot | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 7 | Simon Gerrans | Orica-GreenEDGE | s.t. | | 8 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 9 | Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 10 | Daniel Moreno Fernandez | Movistar Team | s.t. |
Spoiler | 24 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 59 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 81 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | +02:55 | | 92 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +02:55 | | 104 | Alessandro Vanotti | Astana Pro Team | +05:13 | | 108 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +05:13 | | 109 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +07:17 | | 124 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana Pro Team | +10:23 |
GC
| 1 | Julian Alaphilippe | Etixx - Quick Step | 7h51'08 | | 2 | Simon Gerrans | Orica-GreenEDGE | s.t. | | 3 | Alejandro Valverde Belmonte | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 4 | Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 5 | Michal Kwiatkowski | Team Sky | s.t. | | 6 | Bauke Mollema | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 7 | Daniel Moreno Fernandez | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 8 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 9 | Tim Wellens | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 10 | Rui Alberto Costa | Lampre-Merida | s.t. |
Spoiler | 12 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 56 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +03:24 | | 74 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +06:55 | | 83 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +09:13 | | 108 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana Pro Team | +14:23 | | 120 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | +17:57 | | 122 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +19:20 | | 127 | Alessandro Vanotti | Astana Pro Team | +22:59 |
Points
| 1 | Julian Alaphilippe | Etixx - Quick Step | 40 | | 2 | Simon Gerrans | Orica-GreenEDGE | 34 | | 3 | Michael Matthews | Orica-GreenEDGE | 25 |
KoM
| 1 | Jean-Christophe Péraud | Ag2r La Mondiale | 24 | | 2 | Blel Kadri | Ag2r La Mondiale | 16 | | 3 | Cédric Pineau | FDJ | 10 |
Team - Cannondale Pro Cycling Team
Young - Julian Alaphilippe - Etixx-Quick Step
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 24-01-2017 17:09
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Vincenzo waiting for his chance to shine |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 24-01-2017 18:40
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Sure hope he can and will. One more stage with a downhill finish, then the battle for GC begins with two uphill finish and finaly the hilly ITT.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 25-01-2017 11:08
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NEXT RACE
6/4-2016 Scheldeprijs - 1.HC
Antwerpen – Schoten 198.3 km
Location:
Antwerpen, Provincie Antwerpen
Description: sprinters’ semi-classic
the oldest existing race in Flanders
First Winner:
1907 Maurice Leturgie (FRA)
Latest Years Winner’s
2013 Marcel Kittel
2014 Marcel Kittel
2015 Alexander Kristoff
Media Favorites:
Greipel (Lotto) - Bouhanni (Cofidis) - Démare (FDJ)
Secondary Favorites:
Bennett - Guardini - Vanmarcke
Other notable riders:
Oss – Bonifazio – Coquard - Stuyven
Astana:
Andrea Guardini
Lars Boom - Luis León Sánchez
Arman Kamyshev - Lieuwe Westra - Matvey Nikitin
Ruslan Tleubayev - Valerio Agnoli
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