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Tour de Delhi Discussion Thread
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| Crommy |
Posted on 21-06-2012 13:28
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2012 sees the inaugraul Tour de Delhi hit the Continental Tour.
The riders face seven laps of a pancake flat circuit, featuring a frankly ridiculous 50m of elevetaion change over 105km. The racing should be fast and furious and should almost definitely come down to a sprint.
Nine teams are here to compete for victory, and the absolute standout favourite has to be Daniele Bennati (Puma - SAP  ). He's the finest sprinter in the world along with Tom Boonen (and, dare I say, Theo Bos), and with Thomas Kvist and Enrico Gasparotto as leadout, he's be a tough nut to beat.
His biggest challengers are Erik Mohs (Team Pokerstars.com  ) and Mark Cavendish (Proximus - Trek  ). But you can't discount some of the second string sprinters, such as Mark Renshaw (The Oz Cycling Project  ) and Matheiu Drujon (Focused Cycling  ).
Spoiler
Puma
1. D. Bennati
2. N. Bouhanni
3. M. Delage
4. E. Gasparotto
5. W. Kelderman
6. T. Kvist
7. G. Meersman
Pokerstars
11. E. Mohs
12. G. Atkins
13. D. Boucher
14. J. Engoulvent
15. M. Guillén
16. N. Ingels
17. F. Nolf
Proximus
21. M. Cavendish
22. J. Claes
23. V. Hacecký
24. H. Ma
25. J. Mouris
26. M. Ulanowski
27. M. Zenagui
Focus
31. M. Drujon
32. D. Beatse
33. D. Gaudin
34. B. Jungels
35. T. Meyer
36. A. Nechita
37. C. Pineau
Oz
41. B. Cooke
42. H. Antoniou
43. K. Cheung
44. S. Clarke
45. W. Ford
46. M. Othman
47. M. Renshaw
Red Bull
51. C. Sutton
52. G. Brown
53. J. Cooper
54. A. Hansen
55. A. Jelloul
56. C. Manarelli
57. G. Tzortzakis
Saab
61. T. Hushovd
62. T. Azaltovic
63. M. Brammeier
64. J. Lindgren
65. L. Persson
66. E. Salgueiro
67. K. Van Hummel
Meiji
71. Y. Arashiro
72. F. Beppu
73. A. Manan
74. T. Miyazawa
75. T. Nishitani
76. T. Scully
77. G. Yamamoto
Hollister
81. J. Murphy
82. R. Caminiti
83. F. Cruz
84. D. MartÃnez
85. P. Pereyra
86. A. Proni
87. B. Selander
A
91. C. Chen
92. S. Haimy
93. P. Sai-Udomsin
94. T. Tsuji
95. C. Xingfang
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 21-06-2012 13:32
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Time for Baden Cooke to repeat his success he had in India earlier this season (2nd in Mumbai I).. a Top 5 would be fine for me with Bennati, Mohs and maybe Cav battling for the win (most probably).
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| roturn |
Posted on 21-06-2012 13:43
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Surprise, surprise...Don`t see Vantomme...
Seriously, I spent quite a long time on the race planning but somehow missed every single sprinter classic.
Probably due to the fact that I focused mainly on European races and all the sprinter classics are mainly in Asia. Still disappointing. |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 21-06-2012 13:57
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You're not the only one roturn, as there is far less opposition to Bennati than I thougt.
Suprised to see a sprinters classic without Corioni, Napolitano, Maksimov, and obviously Vantomme, who I'd liked to battle more often than these few times.
So podium is an absolute must, most probably together with Mohs and Cav, as these three seem to stand quite a bit above the rest.
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| beagle |
Posted on 21-06-2012 14:03
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I brought two 80´s sprinters with absolutely no lead-out around them. I´m really curious how AI will handle with that  Bennati surely winner I guess, podium place would be nice addition for me.
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| Smowz |
Posted on 21-06-2012 18:20
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Going to be tough to break the podium, but given a weak startlist there are chances for me her to post a decent result.
A report from Crommy - how long has it been? Scouting the CTour no doubt!
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 21-06-2012 18:23
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Darn, I was hoping for a weaker startlist, so that maybe Arashiro could get a decent result.
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| Smowz |
Posted on 05-07-2012 12:18
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Considering how badly Oz Cycling have been doing of late and how dominent Bennati has been it is hard to be disappointed with the way the race turned out. A very good race by Pokerstars too, which really helps them.
Possibly the lack of top quality chasers (or lack of riders in general) led to it being won by punchy types.
For JRB it was the usual safety in numbers type of strategy - a top five would have been nice but I will settle for five points scorers a consequence of a small field no doubt.
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| roturn |
Posted on 05-07-2012 14:15
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Good race for Oz and also Meiji here I think.
Disappointing for Puma of course, who have controlled all the races normally. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 05-07-2012 14:35
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Top 5, great result after looking at the startlist! Arashiro even beat Cavendish 
The race played out pretty well, but I'm disapointed that Manan went in the break.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 05-07-2012 14:36
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 Just as Smowz said, Oz had some very disappointing months and that makes this win as brillaint as Bobrdige's win earlier this season. Great effort by Ford and also nice to see Simon Clarke adding a Top-10 here.. very important race for our Asian rankings as well. Wow, this made my day 
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| kumazan |
Posted on 05-07-2012 14:41
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Really surprising that the win came from a late attack, I was sure that we'll have a Benna... I mean a bunch sprint here. Congrats to Oz.
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 05-07-2012 21:03
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What? Bennati didn't win? The sky will be falling on our heads next. |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 05-07-2012 21:15
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Oh, you're kidding me....just do fucking 20 seconds of additional work and don't refuse to do anything better than 38, 47, 51, 53, 54, 55 in a race of 63!
3rd is okay in a way, but taking 46 points out of a race where half of the starters get points....
Congratulations to Oz though, deserved to take it after such a horrible game bug.
And thanks Crommy, nice report
Edited by cio93 on 05-07-2012 21:26
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 06-07-2012 05:40
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Really enjoyed that report. Liked the screens a lot.
And of course, congrats to Oz!
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| beagle |
Posted on 08-07-2012 12:25
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congratulations to Tsmoha! I can´t blame my team for anything, Nolf and Mohs collected a nice sum of points here
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| viking90 |
Posted on 08-07-2012 12:31
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I hoped for something better by Hushovd, atleast a top 10 shouldn´t been so hard.
Wellwell, time for Swaziland. |
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