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| Tamijo |
Posted on 16-05-2017 17:05
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Life is not easy at Astana 
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 16-05-2017 19:21
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 6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
16/5 Stage 10/21 Campi Bisenzio – Sestola 215.3 km
It is partly clouded does not look like rain and with very little wind.
A huge breakaway of 17 riders form at the early km’s of the stage, with Cannondale looking at a long hard defence of the “pink”, they don’t want to chase this early.
The strongest rider in the breakaway is clearly Mikel Nieve (Sky) but he is 29’04” behind the leader in the GC.
Cannondale does not have to worry about the workload in the peloton, because as soon as they start the climb to Passo della Collina (13.4 km at 5.2%) Astana starts working with Tanel Kangert up front, seems they have decided to make this as hard as possible for anyone sitting with the bunch.
Nieve win’s the KoM with about 2’30” to the peloton.
The high pace in the peloton forces the riders in front to speed up, on Pietracolora (8.7 km at 6.1%) the group explodes, only 5 riders make it to the top together, it is Nieve (Sky), Fraile (Dimension), Gavazzi (Androni), Txurruka (Orica), and Kadri (Ag2r).
Nieve wins the KoM in front of Gavazzi, they got 2’21” to a peloton of 96 riders.
On the descent we got the first crash, 12 riders down amongst them we can spot Pantano, Reichenbach, Kelderman, Caruso, Serry, De Clercq and Cataldo
Astana slow’s down a little to save some energy waiting for Cataldo to get back.
Then on the uncategorized but rather hard climb mid stage another important attack gets away and join the riders in front.
There are now 30 km to the top of Pian del Falco (14.1 km at 5.5%) and 44 to the finish. In front we now got, Jungels, Nieve, Ulissi, Van den Broeck, Betancur and Kruijswijk.
At 44” Fraile, Gavazzi, Txurruka, and Kadri.
At 3’05 the peloton now 78 riders.
From the bottom of Pian del Falco Astana is now pushing very hard, Scarponi, López , Aru all in front of Nibali, after the first and tough 4.5 km the distance to the break is reduced to 1’27, the peloton down to 34 riders.
Just as the breakaway is reeled back in with just 2 km to the top, Adam Yates attack and an alert Richie Porte counters. Astana was caught off guard, stuck between the breakaway riders, but Aru start the chase with Vincenzo Nibali on wheel.
At this point it is clear that the Rigoberto Urán we have seen previously, is not the same when the climbs get this hard, he will have to limit the damage in his own pace.
Porte is first over the top in front of Yates, with a small gap down to Nibali behind him first Landa then Pozzovivo, the bunch about 30 sec further back.
Nibali passes Adam Yates on the way down, but he got some distance to Porte when the climb to Sestola starts (6.9 km at 5.5%), but Nibali slowly getting closer and closer is finally on Porte’s wheel with just 1 km to the top.
Porte starts the final sprint.
Porte has used everything on the climb, trying to keep the gap open, now he has no sprint left, Nibali wins at Sestola with 8” to Porte, Domenico Pozzovivo (Ag2r) had a perfect last climb passing Mikel Landa for the last podium.
Overall:
This was the 5th season victory of 31 years old Italian Vincenzo Nibali.
Again today LottoNL had a horrible stage, both Kelderman and Kruijswijk was down in crashes, Kruijswijk best coming in 29th losing 4’40.
The positive surprise was Ag2r’s Domenico Pozzovivo unexpectedly getting on the podium.
Astana:
Astana decided to disregard López GC and Aru’s KoM, focusing only on Nibali’s GC, seems to be the best choice in this situation. A long way to the top, but not that long to a top 5 or even a podium.
After the crash Dario Cataldo had a hard day, tomorrow will show how bad is it.
Stage
| 1 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | 5h29'08 | | 2 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | + 8 | | 3 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 1'31 | | 4 | Mikel Landa Meana | Team Sky | + 1'45 | | 5 | Andrey Amador Bikkazakova | Movistar Team | + 2'03 | | 6 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | + 2'14 | | 7 | Adam Yates | Orica-GreenEDGE | s.t. | | 8 | Diego Ulissi | Lampre-Merida | + 2'43 | | 9 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek - Segafredo | + 2'53 | | 10 | Roman Kreuziger | Tinkoff | + 3'03 |
Spoiler | 11 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +03:03 | | 16 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +03:30 | | 22 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | +04:40 | | 53 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +11:28 | | 71 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +13:35 | | 152 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +30:25 | | 155 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +30:25 |
GC
| 1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 38h15'03 | | 2 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | + 58 | | 3 | Mikel Landa Meana | Team Sky | + 5'00 | | 4 | Roman Kreuziger | Tinkoff | + 6'37 | | 5 | Andrey Amador Bikkazakova | Movistar Team | + 7'06 | | 6 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek - Segafredo | + 7'08 | | 7 | Adam Yates | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 8'43 | | 8 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | + 9'52 | | 9 | Gianluca Brambilla | Etixx - Quick Step | + 10'46 | | 10 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | + 11'28 |
Spoiler | 36 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +25:14 | | 48 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +35:01 | | 66 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +44:58 | | 102 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +01:03:55 | | 138 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +01:24:09 | | 139 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +01:25:41 |
Points
| 1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 124 | | 2 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | 94 | | 3 | Marcel Kittel | Etixx - Quick Step | 71 |
KoM
| 1 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | 52 | | 2 | Adam Yates | Orica-GreenEDGE | 34 | | 3 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | 28 |
Team: Team Sky
Young: Adam Yates (Orica-GreenEDGE)
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 16-05-2017 19:32
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Great ride!
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 16-05-2017 19:51
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 16-05-2017 20:12
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There it is! Typical Nibali  nice! |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 16-05-2017 20:14
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Thanks - was nice to have him going at 100%
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 17-05-2017 02:12
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Great day for Nibali |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 17-05-2017 07:27
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Thanks, hope he can keep this level.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 21-05-2017 12:03
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NEXT STAGE
 15/5-17/5 2016 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon 2.1
16/5 Stage 2/3 Urueña – Palencia 168.9 km
Location:
from, Castiglia e León, Provincia de Valladolid
to, Comarca Tierra de Campos, Provincia de Palencia
Description:
Relative flat and sprinter friendly, yet some sharp short climbs.
Media Favorites:
Cimolai (Lampre) - Van Asbroeck (LottoNL) - Groenewegen (LottoNL)
Secondary Favorites:
Haller - Trentin - Ferrari
Outsiders:
Božič - Cort Nielsen - Thwaites - Archbold
Astana:
Lars Boom - Jakob Fuglsang
Diego Rosa - Alessandro Vanotti
Oleg Zemlyakov - Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev - Andriy Grivko
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 21-05-2017 17:10
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15/5-17/5 2016 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon 2.1
16/5 Stage 2/3 Urueña – Palencia 168.9 km
The morning breakaway is 6 riders, Simone Andreetta (Bardiani), Julien Vermote (Quick Step), Victor Etxebarria (Rádio Popular), Daniel Ginés (Area Zero), Pablo Torres Muiño (Burgos) and Cristian Canada Carralero (Louletano)
The pace is high and the break struggles to keep the gab above 2 minutes, Stage favorite Matteo Trentin (Quick Step) has a puncture, the team sends rider back to help.
With the relative limited gap Andriy Grivko decides to attack, attempting to join the front over the first climb, it takes longer but finally about mid stage he makes contact.
From here there is not much action, Lampre keeps the distance low and the break is over on the flat section after the last climb.
It is also Lampre leading on the final kilometers, but it is again LottoNL’s Tom Van Asbroeck reaping the harvest in front of Borut Božič (Cofidis) and Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNL)
Evaluation:
Overall:
This was the 2nd back to back stage win by the 26 years old Belgian Tom Van Asbroeck, adding up to a total of 5 season wins.
After all the work provided by Lampre-Merida must be disappointing only to get Davide Cimolai in as 4th.
Astana:
A very uneventful stage, after Astana has lost their sprinter, not much to do.
Stage
| 1 | Tom Van Asbroeck | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | 3h36'29 | | 2 | Borut Božič | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 3 | Dylan Groenewegen | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | s.t. | | 4 | Davide Cimolai | Lampre-Merida | s.t. | | 5 | Marco Haller | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 6 | Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso | Sporting Lisboa-Tavira | s.t. | | 7 | Scott Thwaites | Bora - Argon 18 | s.t. | | 8 | Mauro Finetto | Unieuro - Wilier | s.t. | | 9 | Mitchell Docker | Orica-GreenEDGE | s.t. | | 10 | Alexis Vuillermoz | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
Spoiler | 12 | Lars Boom | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 15 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 71 | Alessandro Vanotti | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 92 | Andriy Grivko | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 138 | Diego Rosa | Astana Pro Team | +03:34 | | 170 | Oleg Zemlyakov | Astana Pro Team | +13:07 | | 175 | Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev | Astana Pro Team | +19:03 |
GC
| 1 | Tom Van Asbroeck | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | 7h44'28 | | 2 | Borut Božič | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 10 | | 3 | Davide Cimolai | Lampre-Merida | + 14 | | 4 | Dylan Groenewegen | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 16 | | 5 | Marco Haller | Team Katusha | + 20 | | 6 | Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso | Sporting Lisboa-Tavira | s.t. | | 7 | Scott Thwaites | Bora - Argon 18 | s.t. | | 8 | Mauro Finetto | Unieuro - Wilier | s.t. | | 9 | Mitchell Docker | Orica-GreenEDGE | s.t. | | 10 | Alexis Vuillermoz | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
Spoiler | 12 | Lars Boom | Astana Pro Team | +00:20 | | 15 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:20 | | 71 | Alessandro Vanotti | Astana Pro Team | +00:20 | | 114 | Andriy Grivko | Astana Pro Team | +03:22 | | 151 | Diego Rosa | Astana Pro Team | +06:56 | | 167 | Oleg Zemlyakov | Astana Pro Team | +13:27 | | 173 | Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev | Astana Pro Team | +22:25 |
Points
| 1 | Tom Van Asbroeck | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | 50 | | 2 | Borut Božič | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | 36 | | 3 | Davide Cimolai | Lampre-Merida | 34 |
KoM
| 1 | Julien Vermote | Etixx - Quick Step | 5 | | 2 | Pablo Torres Muiño | Burgos - BH | 4 | | 3 | Simone Andreetta | Bardiani - CSF Pro Team | 4 |
Team: Burgos - BH
Young: Dylan Groenewegen - Team LottoNL - Jumbo
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 21-05-2017 18:30
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Nice that Grivko showed himself but a rather invisible stage for Astana besides that |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 21-05-2017 19:30
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Move on asap !! |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 21-05-2017 19:50
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@Ian Butler: Grivko did what he could, but did not get much from it.
sutty68: Yes, hope we can do more on the final and harder stage.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 22-05-2017 11:01
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NEXT STAGE
6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
17/5 Stage 11/21 Modena – Asolo 226.1 km
Location:
from Provincia di Modena, Emilia-Romagna
to Provincia di Treviso, Regione Veneto
Description:
Flat start but undulated finish (hilly)
Two small cobbles stone sections.
Media Favorites:
Porte (BMC) - Nibali (Astana) - Aru (Astana)
Secondary Favorites:
Kreuziger - Urán - Barguil
Outsiders:
Antón – Bakelants – Vanendert - Pozzovivo
Astana:
Vincenzo Nibali - Fabio Aru - Andrea Guardini
Michele Scarponi - Dario Cataldo - Tanel Kangert
Miguel Ángel López - Andrey Zeits
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 22-05-2017 19:55
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6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
17/5 Stage 11/21 Modena – Asolo 226.1 km
We have a sunny day with no wind at the startline, but expected wins up to 30 km/h at the last third of the stage.
The start of the race is frantic with 100 km of high speed racing without anyone allowed to get away. Lampre-Merida sitting with a number of riders in front, ready to hunt down every attempt to get away.
Then we get a breakaway that the peloton will accept is it at first Nicola Boem (Bardiani), Adam Hansen (Lotto Soudal), Iljo Keisse (Quick Step) and Maarten Wynants (LottoNL), a little later also Warren Barguil (Giant) and Francesco Gavazzi (Androni) joins the group.
The peloton is still cautious aware that especially Barguil is strong on the hilly section, they never get more than 2’30.
With about 60 km left the peloton speed up again, it is again Lampre-Merida this time with help from Tinkoff, the pace is 48-52 km/hour and the breakaway is over already with 11 km to the top of the cat.4.
Aru starts the climb in pole position, with Nibali on wheel.
On the last and most extreme part of the climb (12%) it is revealed why Lampre-Merida have been pulling hard all day, Diego Ulissi flies away from the favourite group now just 17 riders.
The situation when Ulissi has just 100 m to the top:
Kreuziger and Nibali did counter right away, they are at 27” (Kreuziger hidden behind the moto but he is right behind Nibali)
Porte (also hidden) at 53”
A group of 14 riders at 1´05” with Urán, Amador, Pozzovivo, Landa, Brambilla.
The distance Ulissi’s got stays close to 25”, but with 10 km left Porte has got contact with Kreuziger and Nibali.
Behind them Urán, Amador, Pozzovivo, Landa and Brambilla at 1’47”
Pantano and Geniez at 2’23”, reduced peloton at 2’41”, 12 riders.
At the cobbles on the last uphill section, the pace gets too much for Kreuziger, he literally hits the wall and is a little later surpass by Fabio Felline (Trek).
Porte is hanging on Nibali’s wheel, but when Nibali starts sprinting from about 1.2 km, also Porte has to let go.
Diego Ulissi has no sprint, but just enough pace to take the win in Asolo in front of Nibali.
Richie Porte takes the last podium losing 34”.
Evaluation:
Overall:
Very exiting stage considering the on paper uninteresting profile.
This was the 3 season victory by 26 years old Italian Diego Ulissi, he also was stages in Catalunya and Romandie. A supreme attack by the Italian not even considered as a top 10 favorite.
Some of the stage favorite lost considerable time, Vanendert 3’17”, Bakelants 5’19”, Antón 7’33” and Barguil 8’22”. GC rider’s Landa lost 2’05”, Adam Yates 2’29” and also the otherwise strong Riccardo Zoidl lost 3’17” today.
Besides the great result from Ulissi, also Fabio Felline (Trek) surprised finishing 4th.
Astana:
Another great stage by Vincenzo Nibali taking time on everyone in top of GC.
Miguel Ángel López lost 3'17, his GC dreams is over now that his captain has surpassed him
Stage
| 1 | Diego Ulissi | Lampre-Merida | 4h44'01 | | 2 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 3 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | + 34 | | 4 | Fabio Felline | Trek - Segafredo | + 47 | | 5 | Roman Kreuziger | Tinkoff | + 59 | | 6 | Andrey Amador Bikkazakova | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 7 | Gianluca Brambilla | Etixx - Quick Step | + 1'24 | | 8 | Jarlinson Pantano Gomez | IAM Cycling | + 2'05 | | 9 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 10 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
Spoiler | 29 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +02:29 | | 37 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +03:17 | | 40 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | +03:17 | | 49 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +03:17 | | 86 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +04:34 | | 109 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +05:19 | | 176 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +12:24 |
GC
| 1 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | 43h00'32 | | 2 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | + 37 | | 3 | Mikel Landa Meana | Team Sky | + 5'37 | | 4 | Roman Kreuziger | Tinkoff | + 6'08 | | 5 | Andrey Amador Bikkazakova | Movistar Team | + 6'37 | | 6 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | + 8'18 | | 7 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek - Segafredo | + 8'57 | | 8 | Adam Yates | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 9'44 | | 9 | Gianluca Brambilla | Etixx - Quick Step | + 10'42 | | 10 | Jarlinson Pantano Gomez | IAM Cycling | + 12'27 |
Spoiler | 13 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | +13:17 | | 34 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +27:03 | | 48 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +36:50 | | 80 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +55:54 | | 99 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +01:04:56 | | 135 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +01:28:00 | | 137 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +01:28:47 |
Points
| 1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 130 | | 2 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | 110 | | 3 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | 73 |
KoM
| 1 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | 52 | | 2 | Adam Yates | Orica-GreenEDGE | 34 | | 3 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | 30 |
Team: Team Sky
Young: Adam Yates - Orica-GreenEDGE
Edited by Tamijo on 22-05-2017 21:05
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 22-05-2017 20:44
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Once again a great stage for Nibali. The win may be gone, but that podium is still within reach. 
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 22-05-2017 23:38
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Great battling display from Nibali |
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 23-05-2017 05:09
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Definitely in with a shot for the podium. Go Nibbles
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 23-05-2017 07:49
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Thanks all, if no more accident's it starts to look like a podium is within reach
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 23-05-2017 11:46
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NEXT STAGE
15/5-17/5 2016 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon 2.1
17/5 Stage 3/3 Aguilar de Campoo – Cervera de Pisuerga
187.3 km
Location:
Montaña Palentina, Provincia de Palencia
Description:
Very hilly from start to finish
Media Favorites:
Cháves (Orica) – Fuglsang (Astana) - Vuillermoz (Ag2r)
Secondary Favorites:
Machado – Mendes – Fernández
Outsiders:
Rodgers – Losada – Herrada - Đurasek
Astana:
Lars Boom - Jakob Fuglsang
Diego Rosa - Alessandro Vanotti
Oleg Zemlyakov - Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev - Andriy Grivko
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