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| CountArach |
Posted on 19-02-2012 00:18
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Welcome to the last of the big sprinter’s classics, the 184km HC-classified ProRace Berlin. The big question on everyone’s lips is “can anyone beat  Daniele Bennati?” The man has won two of the last three sprinters’ classics and the only reason he didn’t win the other one was thanks to a determined series of attacks in the last few laps. Even then he won the group sprint for 20th after crashing earlier. To spur him on to even greater heights he is riding at the head of a German team in this German race. He has a great team around him too with Gasparotto and Kvist to lead him out. All the cards are in his favour, but there is a huge startlist of 17 other teams all trying to dethrone the sprint King.
Unsurprisingly the rest of the world’s sprint talent is out for the HC classic win. A total of 57 riders here today have a sprint of 75 or greater. Let’s look through the other lead sprinters.
 Danilo Naplitano leads the UniCredit team and will be hoping to take the win off his countryman. He came a rather disappointing 6th at the Rogaland GP and will be looking to improve that. He has a great team around him, with 4 riders who could potentially lead him out.
Rothaus is lead by  Maxime Vantomme, who has otherwise given the sprinter’s classics a miss this season. He is so far winless, and Rothaus really need him to justify his huge wage soon. Could this be the race for him? Once again the German team have set this race as a target and once again there are numerous riders who could lead him out to perfection. He just has to find that little bit extra in his legs to get the results.
The most impressive of the German sprint talent at this race is  Erik Mohs, who has showed all season that he is one of the best sprinters out there, starting with stage wins at the ProTour Tour of Qatar. Of the recent sprint classics he has only raced Rogaland GP, where he came in 8th after leading out Bennati. With fellow Germans Degenkolb and Kluge around him, he should be able to get into a good position to challenge for a big win on home soil.
Another German sprinter who will have high expectations for today is  Gerald Ciolek, who is teaming up with Jiri Hochmann to create a double threat for Bianchi. There are numerous riders who should be able to get these two into position, so expect to see whoever has the better legs on the day to be up front fighting for the win.
 Andre Greipel leads Team WWE and will be looking to make up for getting caught out by a crash at the Rogaland GP. There aren’t a lot of lead-out men in his team so he will largely be on his own. In a similar position are  Tomas Vaitkus and Mitch Docker, who will have to work together to fight for position. One final German who will probably be worth noting is  Heinrich Haussler, who generally performs well in the sprint classics and is always someone to look at in this sort of race.
There are numerous others who will hope to fight for a top 10 place here. The biggest names amongst these are Italain sprinter  Francesco Chicchi, Oz’s aging leader  Baden Cooke, Tour de Langkawi stage winner  Bruno Santos, Jayco strongmen  Chris Sutton and Carlos Manarelli, Koppert’s lead sprinter  Hans Dekkers, the three Meiji riders  Anuar, Arashiro and Park, almost any of the  Tinkoff sprinters, the man coming off a personally disappointing Giro  Oscar Gatto and another Giro rider  Alberto Loddo. Strangely Hollister did not send either of their lead sprinters Davis and Serebriakov and instead they will probably be hoping for a breakaway win as  Damian Martinez is their best sprinter here.
Full Startlist:
Spoiler Puma
1. D. Bennati
2. J. Bar
3. J. Bol
4. M. Delage
5. E. Gasparotto
6. T. Kvist
7. G. Meersman
8. M. Vogt
UniCredit
11. D. Napolitano
12. F. Borghesi
13. A. Borrajo
14. D. Bragazzi
15. F. Gavazzi
16. M. Lorenzetto
17. A. Signego
18. T. Van der Sande
Rothaus
21. M. Vantomme
22. J. Ariesen
23. E. Baumann
24. C. Cucinotta
25. A. Gajek
26. A. Krieger
27. F. Scheit
28. C. Westphal
Pokerstars
31. E. Mohs
32. D. Boucher
33. J. Degenkolb
34. A. Geslin
35. R. Kluge
36. F. Nolf
37. N. Terpstra
38. K. Van Impe
Bianchi
41. G. Ciolek
42. R. Dennis
43. W. Gustov
44. J. Hochmann
45. G. Lequatre
46. A. Matzbacher
47. F. Odebrecht
48. F. Rabon
WWE
51. A. Greipel
52. J. Becerra
53. S. Damrow
54. A. Gottfried
55. J. Keukeleire
56. J. Mayo
57. B. Tankink
58. D. Veilleux
Cyclevox
61. T. Vaitkus
62. C. Beyer
63. G. Briggs
64. M. Docker
65. C. Opie
66. K. Pauwels
67. S. Thwaites
68. P. Williams
Focus
71. M. Drujon
72. R. Feillu
73. D. Gaudin
74. R. Hardy
75. A. Kirsch
76. C. Pineau
77. J. Roy
78. T. Skujins
Saab
81. F. Chicchi
82. N. Brolin
83. K. Ista
84. T. Larsson
85. P. Lavery
86. M. Van Aelbroeck
87. K. Van Hummel
88. M. Westling
Oz
91. B. Cooke
92. J. Clarke
93. S. Clarke
94. L. Durbridge
95. A. Haidar Anuawar
96. G. O'Shea
97. M. Renshaw
98. M. Vink
Trilux
101. H. Haussler
102. P. Bercz
103. A. Coyot
104. M. Eichler
105. T. Fothen
106. I. Keisse
107. A. Saramotins
108. S. Tronet
Cerne
111. B. Santos
112. A. Carvalho
113. L. Coutinho
114. M. Cunha
115. J. Insausti
116. R. Martins
117. J. Martins
118. E. Viviani
Red Bull
121. C. Sutton
122. J. Cooper
123. J. Giaux
124. A. Hansen
125. C. Manarelli
126. M. Mori
127. M. Priamo
128. S. Vanthourenhout
Koppert
131. H. Dekkers
132. F. Goesinnen
133. A. Kamyshev
134. T. Slagter
135. T. Stamsnijder
136. R. Te Brake
137. B. Traksel
138. P. Vlatos
Meiji
141. Y. Arashiro
142. J. Bauer
143. M. Kikuchi
144. HT. Kwok
145. A. Manan
146. S. Park
147. T. Scully
148. G. Yamamoto
Tinkoff
151. A. Markov
152. P. Brutt
153. D. Galimzyanov
154. A. Khatuntsev
155. P. Korzh
156. D. Kozontchuk
157. A. Timofeev
158. N. Trusov
Vespa
161. O. Gatto
162. V. Bastaens
163. A. Cappelle
164. D. Cimolai
165. A. Petrie-Armstrong
166. M. Scanlon
167. I. Speirs
168. R. Traficante
Team VW
171. A. Loddo
172. W. Anacona
173. G. Brenes
174. A. Flügel
175. R. Förster
176. W. Li
177. F. Sabatini
178. R. Zabel
Hollister
181. J. Murphy
182. R. Caminiti
183. J. Hicks
184. D. Martínez
185. J. Mercado
186. P. Pereyra
187. S. Scheirlinckx
188. B. Selander |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 19-02-2012 07:31
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Flat as a pancake, by the looks not really my teams cup of tea.
Hoping to see them on the attack which I suspect is the only chance of a decent result or I suppose a decent place in the sprint train which may give us a shot at a top 10.
That's the target a top 10, but I think it is very unlikely. This is a race for the sprinters and I can't see Bennati being beaten in a straight out fight, his sprint train is very strong too.
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| ANFreeman |
Posted on 19-02-2012 09:17
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Half expecting a shock break win, half expecting a completely unsurprising Bennati win. I just hope my duo can repeat what they did in the Down Under Classic, and one lead the other out. We need a good result, to break this string of appalling finishes.
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| roturn |
Posted on 19-02-2012 09:20
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Welcome to the last big sprinter classic and to the first one by star sprinter Vantomme. :-)
Beating Bennati might be hard but podium is our goal.
still tough against all the German and Italian sprinters. |
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| jph27 |
Posted on 19-02-2012 09:25
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57 riders with a Sprint stat of 75 or higher? 
I fancy Mohs for the win, although it'll be tough competition. |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 19-02-2012 09:33
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I'd be more than pleased with a Top-10 after some rather bad results in last few races..
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| ltt |
Posted on 19-02-2012 10:32
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Looking at the field, I'm glad I didn't send Davis or Serebriakov.
Reckon a breakaway could win here, with so many good sprinters here, you just know it's not going to come down to a sprint  |
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| beagle |
Posted on 19-02-2012 10:45
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jph27 wrote:
57 riders with a Sprint stat of 75 or higher?
I fancy Mohs for the win, although it'll be tough competition.
thank you, it´s my winning goal
with so many big guns here, I can only pray for good daily form, huge amount of national bonus and enough of patience not to start sprinting too early (my dreaming scenario is similar to Qatar´s stage 2  )
Edited by beagle on 19-02-2012 10:54
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 19-02-2012 10:49
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Seeing how the last flat classics have ended, it will certainly be very hard to do anything against Bennati.
But with nationality bonus, I reckon Mohs might be the winner here, with Bennati and Vantomme rounding off the podium.
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 19-02-2012 11:03
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With so many good sprinters there's a lot of luck involved. May my name be my team's motto for this race
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 19-02-2012 11:33
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Traficante or Petrie-Armstrong to take the win from a break!!! Or even Oscar Gatto again??? No real hope if it comes down to a sprint. Speirs is fairly quick but doesn't seem to do lead outs. |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 19-02-2012 11:55
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Honestly?
I have this as a Top5 goal, and that's all I expect.
Surely there's much more to gain, but the depth of the field here can shake things up quite a bit.
Being too far behind in the sprinters train, being boxed in by sprinters all over the road...too many unpredictable factors.
(I guess it's obvious that I'm pretty nervous about this? )
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| viking90 |
Posted on 19-02-2012 12:05
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Time for Chicchi to shine
It will be very hard to get a top result here of course. |
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| Christer |
Posted on 19-02-2012 15:49
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I really have to hope for some national bonus effect for Greipel. Too many sprinters here.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 20-02-2012 06:09
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This race has Bennati written all over it, but anything can happen. Incredibly strong field 
Edited by Avin Wargunnson on 22-02-2012 13:01
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| roturn |
Posted on 22-02-2012 12:56
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Huge disappointment for me. Why bringing Cucinotta, Baumann and Gajek if it`s still not enough to do something in the final for Vantomme.
6th at least brings some points but surely not what I expect of Vantomme. |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 22-02-2012 13:01
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Avin Wargunnson wrote:
This race has Bennati written all over it, but anything can happen. Incredibly strong field
So i was right, master of the sprints has won it, congrats. Also great 2nd for Vaitkus, meanwhile i feel sorry for Roturn as Vantomme continues failing ( it reminds me my own most expensive rider of the team, who is not able to even come close to the win).
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| CountArach |
Posted on 22-02-2012 13:04
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roturn wrote:
6th at least brings some points but surely not what I expect of Vantomme.
Well I mean, if you want to get rid of him...
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| Smowz |
Posted on 22-02-2012 13:05
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Big congratulations to Puma - not only did they snare one of the best sprinters in the world they have a brilliant sprint train to match.
There were a lot of great sprinters there - it was always a long shot. Even so I am disappointed the majority of my squad were dropped in the finale, they should be stronger than that. Inexcusable for them to have a day off just because Manarelli was in the breakaway!
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| Christer |
Posted on 22-02-2012 13:21
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Well.. A 9th isn't that bad in the sprint, when looking at the field. At least I can say that WWE brings the entertainment!
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