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| Smowz |
Posted on 30-11-2013 16:32
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Time for the annual trudge around the grippy roads of Blighty. The route organisers have served up a backloaded race this year with the really tough stages from five through to seven.
Plenty of British interest here including Two time winner Johnny Bellis (Rothaus). Last years race showed that a decent all round sprinter can survive for a high placing and you feel that managers had that in mind with the likes of Ventoso (Prio-Porto), Haussler (SRAM), Gavazzi (UPC) and Kreder (Swedbank). Hell even the likes of Cavendish (AirBaltic) and Kennaugh(Vueling) could survive.
That said there are riders such as Jaguar duo Froome and Dowsett along with Wegmann (SRAM) and Scheurs (Vueling) who could make things more difficult.
Expect a speedy pace for this one. He says rubbing his rabbits foot.
Startlist:
Spoiler | Andris Smirnovs | airBaltic - Endura | | Dylan Van Baarle | airBaltic - Endura | | Ermin Van Wyk | airBaltic - Endura | | Graham Briggs | airBaltic - Endura | | Jörgen Matt | airBaltic - Endura | | Mark Cavendish | airBaltic - Endura | | Simon Richardson | airBaltic - Endura | | Dale Appleby | ANC-Halfords | | Danny Pate | ANC-Halfords | | David Millar | ANC-Halfords | | Kevin Barclay | ANC-Halfords | | Richard Tanguy | ANC-Halfords | | Ricki Nelson | ANC-Halfords | | Russell Hampton | ANC-Halfords | | Enrico Barbin | HTC Nieuwsblad | | Ian Boswell | HTC Nieuwsblad | | Kenneth Vanbilsen | HTC Nieuwsblad | | Kenny De Haes | HTC Nieuwsblad | | Kenny Van der Schueren | HTC Nieuwsblad | | Sander Armee | HTC Nieuwsblad | | Tom Van Asbroeck | HTC Nieuwsblad | | Alex Dowsett | Jaguar - Eritel | | Bassirou Konte | Jaguar - Eritel | | Chris Froome | Jaguar - Eritel | | Philip Lavery | Jaguar - Eritel | | Richard Cleaver | Jaguar - Eritel | | Sam Bennett | Jaguar - Eritel | | Tesfar Teklit | Jaguar - Eritel | | Behnam Khalilikhosroshani | Kenya Airways - Barclays | | Henrique Madeira Casimiro | Kenya Airways - Barclays | | Matthew Brammeier | Kenya Airways - Barclays | | Nico Schinker | Kenya Airways - Barclays | | Riadh Ghdamsi | Kenya Airways - Barclays | | Tarik Chaoufi | Kenya Airways - Barclays | | Vahid Ghafari | Kenya Airways - Barclays | | Bruno Borges | Prio - Porto | | Bruno Pires | Prio - Porto | | Francisco Ventoso | Prio - Porto | | Lionel Coutinho | Prio - Porto | | Luis Afonso | Prio - Porto | | Ricardo Ferreira | Prio - Porto | | Samuel Caldeira | Prio - Porto | | Aurélien Passeron | Rothaus - Aegon | | Christoff Van Heerden | Rothaus - Aegon | | Daan Olivier | Rothaus - Aegon | | Jonathan Bellis | Rothaus - Aegon | | Kristian Sbaragli | Rothaus - Aegon | | Martin Velits | Rothaus - Aegon | | Valentin Iglinski | Rothaus - Aegon | | Fabian Wegmann | Sram-Riboxx Cycling Team | | Heinrich Haussler | Sram-Riboxx Cycling Team | | Huub Duyn | Sram-Riboxx Cycling Team | | Iljo Keisse | Sram-Riboxx Cycling Team | | Jan Barta | Sram-Riboxx Cycling Team | | Markus Eichler | Sram-Riboxx Cycling Team | | Michel Koch | Sram-Riboxx Cycling Team | | George Alexandru Stancu | Swedbank-PEAB | | Jérome Giaux | Swedbank-PEAB | | Kenny Van Hummel | Swedbank-PEAB | | Mattias Westling | Swedbank-PEAB | | Michel Kreder | Swedbank-PEAB | | Petter Renäng | Swedbank-PEAB | | Thor Hushovd | Swedbank-PEAB | | Guillaume Van Keirsbulck | Team BPost | | Kris Boeckmans | Team BPost | | Mathieu Drujon | Team BPost | | Mathieu La Lavandier | Team BPost | | Niels Albert | Team BPost | | Romain Feillu | Team BPost | | William Maesen | Team BPost | | Aaron Gate | Team Cadbury - Schweppes | | James Oram | Team Cadbury - Schweppes | | Kieran Frend | Team Cadbury - Schweppes | | Sam Harrison | Team Cadbury - Schweppes | | Simon Gaywood | Team Cadbury - Schweppes | | Simon Yates | Team Cadbury - Schweppes | | Tom David | Team Cadbury - Schweppes | | Bobbie Traksel | Team UPC - Boehringer-Ingelheim | | Danny Van Poppel | Team UPC - Boehringer-Ingelheim | | Dylan Groenewegen | Team UPC - Boehringer-Ingelheim | | Francesco Gavazzi | Team UPC - Boehringer-Ingelheim | | Javier Joaquin Navarro | Team UPC - Boehringer-Ingelheim | | Matteo Priamo | Team UPC - Boehringer-Ingelheim | | Mike Teunissen | Team UPC - Boehringer-Ingelheim | | Blel Kadri | Team Vueling Airlines | | Lars Ytting Bak | Team Vueling Airlines | | Martin Pedersen | Team Vueling Airlines | | Maurice Schreurs | Team Vueling Airlines | | Peter Kennaugh | Team Vueling Airlines | | Rasmus Sterobo | Team Vueling Airlines | | Tosh Van der Sande | Team Vueling Airlines | | Alexander Sulimov | Tinkoff Bank - Rosneft OJSC | | Artjom Timofeev | Tinkoff Bank - Rosneft OJSC | | Denis Galimzyanov | Tinkoff Bank - Rosneft OJSC | | Ivan Rovny | Tinkoff Bank - Rosneft OJSC | | Leonid Krasnov | Tinkoff Bank - Rosneft OJSC | | Nikolai Trusov | Tinkoff Bank - Rosneft OJSC | | Pavel Korzh | Tinkoff Bank - Rosneft OJSC |
Edited by Smowz on 30-11-2013 16:46
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| tyriion |
Posted on 01-12-2013 10:56
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Big startlist for this one. Absolutely crucial race for us, a bad result will mean relegation for sure.
Go Gavazzi!
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| ember |
Posted on 01-12-2013 11:16
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This should be a great race. I think the key for the puncheurs is that a "true" sprinter with a bad hill stat wears the yellow jersey on stage 5. If a rider like Haussler has yellow, it will be tough to gap him on such a hilly stage. |
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| viking90 |
Posted on 01-12-2013 11:43
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Hope our recent form can continue here 
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 01-12-2013 12:54
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Got a top 10 overall goal here, but it will be really tough to fulfill. Hopefully the hills will be selective and Chaoufi can do something there. |
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| roturn |
Posted on 01-12-2013 13:21
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I hope to win it here with Bellis. But actually less than a podium would be a small disappointment. |
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| roturn |
Posted on 01-12-2013 15:58
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Why my guys don`t even care about the sprints?
Bellis should try to do something and if the game doen`t let him sprint, then Van Heerden or Iglinski could do better.
Hope this will be different on the hillier stages... |
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 01-12-2013 16:04
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Hmm from me losing that much time earlier makes the hilly stages intresting chance of jaguar making it really hard now hopefully |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 01-12-2013 16:07
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All riders bar De Haes in the 2nd group, great start.. I guess Armee fell and the whole team waited for him, or they just took a day off. Oh well.
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 01-12-2013 16:08
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Great from Schinker, terrible from Chaoufi though... PCM 12 strikes again. It was going to be hard anyway without this. Looks like another goal missed for me.
Edited by FroomeDog99 on 01-12-2013 16:09
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| viking90 |
Posted on 01-12-2013 19:42
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We´re doing good so far, many Swedbank riders quite high up on these two stages |
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 01-12-2013 19:48
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I've been looking forward to this race all season. It's perfect for Ventoso. And it's looking great so far.
This is a long race however, and those late hilly stages are anything but easy.
Thanks for the reports Smowz 
Edited by Gustavovskiy on 01-12-2013 20:07
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| roturn |
Posted on 01-12-2013 19:51
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Ventoso gaining time with Rothaus being invisible so far...Can only hope for selective hilly stages where most sprinters if not all are dropped and Bellis getting a better position there.
So far a big flop in a race I had so high expectations. |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 01-12-2013 20:09
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Poor second stage, but at least no time lost. Brammeier in the break is also a positive I guess, but the sprinting from Schinker wasn't great. |
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| baggieboys32 |
Posted on 01-12-2013 20:27
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Nelson has struggled all the way through the season but it's nice that he grabbed a top 10 for the team on stage 2
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| tyriion |
Posted on 01-12-2013 22:08
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No bonus seconds so far, this could be the end...
Come on Gavazzi, you can do it!
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| roturn |
Posted on 01-12-2013 22:12
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Could you tell me, if Bellis is just sprinting horribly bad or if he is not seen as sprinter and has to sprint out of the pack from far behind? |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 01-12-2013 22:25
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roturn wrote:
Could you tell me, if Bellis is just sprinting horribly bad or if he is not seen as sprinter and has to sprint out of the pack from far behind?
He is sprinting out of the pack. There are about 25 or so decentish sprinters and he doesn't seem to be rated in the best ten. There seems for a short time to be an uber queue behind the AirBaltic crew but it disappears fast. Bellis and Rothaus sitting way too far back to be involved in the sprints so far.
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| roturn |
Posted on 01-12-2013 22:28
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Thanks for the info.
Doesn`t sound very promising. Hope he will wake up soon. |
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 01-12-2013 22:31
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Seems like you have a battle for the highest reports/day-ratio for a stage-race with Roturn, great work.
Haussler doing great so far, but i still doubt that he can hang on once the race reaches the hills.
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