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| Smowz |
Posted on 20-09-2012 08:22
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247 kilometres on the Swiss designed world course and with this years world’s hardly one for the punchaers look for those type of riders to dominate proceedings today.
The key climb of 3.5km averaging 8% is a bit lengthy for our pure punchy men like recently deposed world champion  Tejay Van Garderen or Belgian darling  Philippe Gilbert and just may swing in the favour of those mountain types like Giro champ  Riccardo Ricco, GTour phobic  Robert Gesink and I’m a Protour rider get me outta Spyker  Thomas Dekker.
Of course the ever classy  Frank Schleck and his young rival  Jan Bakelants are good enough to straddle both mountains and hills theatre’s. Pearl Adidas’s young prodigy seems to be heir apparent to the now legendary Luxembourger, he will badly want his scalp before seasons end.
Talking of season’s end many riders will have an eye on the Giro di Lombardia, Italian’s such as Festina pair  Filippo Pozzato and Diego Ulissi along with Wiggle star  Simone Ponzi will be looking for a tune up.
The home team are UBS and their hopes rest on the unpredictable  Stefan Schumacher, the team will likely be happy that this season has consolidated their protour position as they will no doubt look to push on next year.
I should mention  Edvald Boasson Hagen but doing so seems to curse him to a dreadful race... whoops!
Startlist:
Spoiler Vesuvio
1. F. Schleck
2. C. Betancourt
3. S. Einsle
4. B. Gastauer
5. J. Hoogerland
6. D. Mehr-Wenige
7. M. Paterski
8. J. Wallays
Pearl
11. J. Bakelants
12. E. Berthou
13. C. Ji
14. T. Kangert
15. J. Mendes
16. E. Popov
17. M. Richeze
18. P. Velits
UBS
21. S. Schumacher
22. M. Albasini
23. S. Barrio
24. R. Bertogliati
25. F. Stalder
26. J. Tschopp
27. S. Zahner
28. O. Zaugg
B&O
31. E. Hagen
32. R. Guldhammer
33. M. Hacecký
34. D. Klemme
35. T. Riber-Sellebjerg
36. J. Sagan
37. K. Sobota
38. T. Vinter
Festina
41. D. Ulissi
42. D. Drapac
43. J. Ljungblad
44. F. Pozzato
45. V. Reynès
46. R. RodrÃguez Segarra
47. R. Sentjens
48. P. Voss
Pendleton's
51. P. Gilbert
52. S. Cummings
53. R. Downing
54. S. Duret
55. R. Margaliot
56. J. McEvoy
57. D. Menchov
58. A. Moletta
Bacardi
61. R. Ricco
62. J. Kocjan
63. A. Kruopis
64. S. Mancuso
65. M. Mugerli
66. M. Perget
67. E. Sokolov
68. F. Terciado
Wiggle
71. S. Ponzi
72. L. Bertagnolli
73. D. Caruso
74. D. Cataldo
75. T. Diggle
76. T. Kritskiy
77. R. Nocentini
78. M. Pavarin
Jack Wolfskin
81. R. Gesink
82. M. Ardila
83. S. Chavanel
84. X. Florencio
85. P. Martens
86. W. Poels
87. L. Ten Dam
88. H. Zubeldia
Spyker
91. P. Sinkewitz
92. T. Dekker
93. A. Geniez
94. V. Gusev
95. M. Schreurs
96. D. Teklehaimanot
97. E. Weiss
98. A. Zeits
Wikipedia
101. T. Van Garderen
102. D. Atapuma
103. R. Cleaver
104. J. Decouttere
105. E. King
106. G. Lejman
107. T. Pinot
108. A. Semple
Milka
111. A. Efimkin
112. A. Domont
113. A. Honkisz
114. J. Hosek
115. L. König
116. T. Paprstka
117. T. Reinhardt
118. M. Vysna
Sony
121. R. van der Hugenhaben
122. S. Anza
123. L. Fernández Oliveira
124. K. Fouquet
125. B. Kohl
126. M. Mortensen
127. M. Reihs
128. M. Öste-Macdonald
Webeffect
131. E. Sella
132. T. Danielson
133. A. Gilanipoor
134. A. Kashechkin
135. B. Khalilikhosroshani
136. L. Mas
137. F. Matamoros
138. C. Schmieg
Santander
141. D. López Garcia
142. D. Allonca
143. F. Echarri
144. A. Galdos
145. A. Hernández Gutierrez
146. D. Ortega
147. J. Rienda Segura
148. R. Serrano
Nestlé
151. S. Denifl
152. T. Boonen
153. H. Broco
154. S. Caldeira
155. D. Di Luca
156. P. Fédrigo
157. D. Loosli
158. D. Vitoria
Carmeuse
161. G. Levarlet
162. A. Aulas
163. JF. Camier
164. J. El Fares
165. P. Jacobs
166. C. Lhotellerie
167. J. Libert
168. S. Vandousselaere
Meiji
171. M. Lloyd
172. Y. Hiratsuka
173. S. Lagutin
174. J. Murakami
175. R. Nishizono
176. J. Sano
177. Y. Suzuki
178. Y. Wei
Colombia
181. J. Baños Ballester
182. A. Ardila Cano
183. S. Ivars
184. S. Joly
185. H. Machado
186. F. Perez Sanchez
187. W. RodrÃguez Parra
188. J. Tendero
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| SotD |
Posted on 20-09-2012 09:07
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Top 10 is a must here, but it's very very tough, so it will be exciting to see what will happen.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 20-09-2012 12:10
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Smowz wrote:
... and I’m a Protour rider get me outta Spyker Thomas Dekker.
Hey! I'm sure Dekker would love to stay with this sinking ship  |
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 20-09-2012 16:31
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Come on Schumacher...
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 20-09-2012 20:20
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A top ten for Lopez Garcia is probably to much to ask for, but I'm going to ask anyway.
 [url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182] Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 20-09-2012 21:10
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Hopefully we can wheelsuck our way to finish and get 8 finishers. Any more than that and it's been an amazingly successful race. |
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| Kami |
Posted on 21-09-2012 19:40
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Not bad, but could have gone better. Especially, since all teams that i had to hold behind me, just finished in front of me  .
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 21-09-2012 19:41
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rubbish. |
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| Kami |
Posted on 21-09-2012 19:43
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Kami wrote:
Not bad, but could have gone better. Especially, since all teams that i had to hold behind me, just finished in front of me .
wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
rubbish.
Except for you, apparently .
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| Smowz |
Posted on 21-09-2012 19:50
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fenian_1234 wrote:
Hopefully we can wheelsuck our way to finish and get 8 finishers. Any more than that and it's been an amazingly successful race.
Success 
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 21-09-2012 20:40
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Indeed.  |
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 21-09-2012 21:00
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Rubbish, but also as expected.
[url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182] Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 21-09-2012 21:02
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Shcleck beaten, but not for lack of trying, so can't complain about 2nd. This is the start of the shift in world order as Bakelandts steps up to claim the #1 puncheur spot.
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| SotD |
Posted on 21-09-2012 21:02
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Horrible result. 5th will be difficult to maintain, if this is the level for the final races.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 21-09-2012 22:00
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Top 50.
As expected though, Meiji were never really going to do that well.
Would have liked Lloyd to do more though...
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| ember |
Posted on 21-09-2012 22:06
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Great report, and a nice win by Bakelants, congratulations to p3druh.
It was also nice to see Meiji active early on, but those one day classics are always going to be tough for Continental teams, as long as the wildcard team doesn't contain a world class rider. |
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 21-09-2012 22:14
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Really exciting race! 4th isn't bad for Schumacher, although it would have been nice if he could have got on the podium. Would have expected Albasini to do alright also, but I guess not today. Maybe in Lombardia
Oops, I'm looking back and it says I have that as a win goal. Well that's a bummer. Schumacher you're fired.
Edited by Bushwackers on 21-09-2012 22:21
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| p3druh |
Posted on 21-09-2012 22:36
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Wow, Bakelandts finally wins but it came in the most unexpected race.
@ember, thanks
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 21-09-2012 22:54
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Not really anything to note here. Exciting race, though. |
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| Roman |
Posted on 22-09-2012 00:54
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Exciting race, great report!
Podium for Efimkin, amazing result! 
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