GP Yekaterinburg Discussion
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OlegTinkov |
Posted on 05-11-2015 10:31
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Welcome to the Pre-race Discussion Thread of GP Yekaterinburg (which btw clashes with another "Grote Prijs"; Rheden GP (a hors catégorie cobble race in Gelderland, The Netherlands). GP Yekaterinburg's profile is pretty straightforward; 8 laps of 25kms and finish uphill. Netia - Norske Skog is probably the strongest team here with Zeits, Sinkewitz, Der and Stachowiak, but Severstal-Mercator has the strongest puncheur on paper; Jose Mendes, who was 2nd last year behind Gracjan Lejman.
There're six riders from Russia on the startlist, Kirill Pozdnyakov is the best puncheur of those six riders but he will probably be supporting his team-leader Frantisek Rabon, so a Russian on the podium (like in 2013 when Eduard Vorganov won the race) is unlikely to happen.
184 riders on the full startlist, a nice mix of riders with oldies like Sylvain Chavanel and Mauricio Ardila (both 36yrs old) and youngsters like Anton Cooper and Christos Loizou (both 21yrs old).
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Actavis | AkzoNobel | Alpina | Zilioli 74 | Proni 74 | Acevedo 76 | Alafaci | Ibanez | Godoy 75 | Ikibe | Van Ooijen | Bru | Morabito | Lindeman | Bravo | Schwab | Reckweg | Henao | Feng | Vandaele | Affonso | Nakane | Uugunbayar | Navarro | Giger | Bontenackels | Cancellara | Carlsberg | Chiquita | Compal | De Maar 74 | Selander 74 | Shushemoin 75 | Bøchman | Duggan | Khalilikhosroshani 75 | Koep | Santambrogio | Hung | Schoffmann | Salas | Dyachenko | Wengelin | Esmaeli | Lowe | Stevenson | Rathe | Bauer | Sabatini | Le Montagner | Kozontchuk | Lilholt | Murphy | Matthews | DeLaval | Elta | Fablok | Cioban 75 | Ilias 75 | Lejman 77 (1st 2014) | Sarabia | Kulhavy | Durasek 75 | Lehtinen | Rienda Segura | Zielinski | Khalifa | Bouglas | Podlaski | Taciak | Saramotins | Owsian | Aaltio | Sakellaridis | Svab | Manninen | Efstathiou | Pszczolarski | Renäng | Katrakis | Stimulak | Fox | Fred | Gatorade | Daspuntsag 73 | Moreno 70 | Fairly 74 | Barbas | Mayo | Blazquez | Chavanel (36yr) | Coutts | Weiss | Jacobsen | Field | Varabei | Altanzul | Last | Delgado Rubio | Bertilsson | Meyer | Ardila (36yr) | Davis | Navarro | Grivell-Mellor | De Vocht | Carsi | Roth | Generali | Indosat | In-n-Out | Passalacqua 76 | Rocchetti 75 | Gaimon 75 | Molard 75 | Uchima | Rosskopf | Possoni | Bayly | Delage | Vauvourzeix | Banihammad | Hardy | Girardi | Signorini | Sonnery | Jeandesbosz | Lee | Aulas | Sterbini | Lee | Lemoine | Scodeller | Spokes | Ruiz | Lierse | Netia | Novatek | Umerbekov 74 | Zeits 77 | Rabon 76 | Rosa | Sinkewitz 76 | Hudecek | De Greef | Der 75 | Pozdnyakov | Stuyven | Stachowiak 75 | Kharatyan | Dall'Oste | Mørkøv | Iglinski | Cerny | Fahnert | Kuznetsov | Theuns | Marczynski | Barta | Senni | Loizou (21yr) | Shalunov | OTP | Severstal | Strava | Simon 76 | Mendes 78 (2nd 2014) | Belmokhtar 75 | Mahdar | Belka | Favilli 75 | Jurco | Kasa | Einsle | Canecky | Golas | Canola | Siskevicius | Kiserlovski | Pfingsten | Potocki | Pibernik | Tulik | Molnar | Foliforov | Zilberstein | Simon | Savitskiy | Cooper (21yr) | Type 1 | Verkefnid | | Bissinger 71 | Omarsson 74 | | Lozano | Løvik | | Clancy | Jakin | | McLay | Landa | | Henttala | Einarsson | | Wynants | Elfarsson | | Wiggins | Olafsson | | Mejias | Bakari | |
2014: Gracjan Lejman (FCB - Polska)Spoiler 1 | Gracjan Lejman | FCB - Polska | 5h16'06 | 2 | Jose Mendes | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | s.t. | 3 | Aleksandr Kolobnev | Grupo Nutresa | s.t. | 4 | Marcel Wyss | Team Vontobel | s.t. | 5 | Jonathan Tiernan-Locke | Team ASDA-Savers | s.t. | 6 | Christer Rake | Risa - Ergon | s.t. | 7 | Vegard Robinson Bugge | Risa - Ergon | s.t. | 8 | Simon Geschke | Evonik - Signal Iduna | s.t. | 9 | Markus Fahnert | Maloja Mountain Nomads | s.t. | 10 | Kirill Pozdnyakov | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | s.t. | 11 | Ciaran Kelly | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | s.t. | 12 | Grega Bole | Team Nordeus | s.t. | 13 | Cesar Andre Fonte | Grupo Nutresa | s.t. | 14 | Yauhen Sobal | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | s.t. | 15 | Florian Bissinger | Evonik - Signal Iduna | s.t. | 16 | Michael Olsson | Risa - Ergon | + 29 | 17 | Connor McConvey | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | s.t. | 18 | Alireza Ashgarzadeh | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. | 19 | Sergey Chernetskiy | Grupo Nutresa | s.t. | 20 | Ruben Fernandez | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | s.t. | 21 | Manuel Fumic | Maloja Mountain Nomads | s.t. | 22 | Masakazu Ito | Siam Cement - Lenovo | s.t. | 23 | Reto Hollenstein | Team Vontobel | s.t. | 24 | Stefan Schafer | Maloja Mountain Nomads | s.t. | 25 | Diego Rosa | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | s.t. | 26 | Dimitri Jiriakov | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. | 27 | Michal Golas | Grupo Nutresa | s.t. | 28 | Nebojsa Jovanovic | Team Nordeus | s.t. | 29 | Nikita Umerbekov | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | s.t. | 30 | Martin Kohler | Team Vontobel | s.t. |
2013: Eduard Vorganov (Team Privatbank)
Spoiler 1 | Eduard Vorganov | Team Privatbank | 5h29'53 | 2 | Paidi O'Brien | Magna-Ryanair | + 9 | 3 | Pieter Weening | Team Gazelle | s.t. | 4 | Dietmar Mehr-Wenige | Adira-Isq Project | s.t. | 5 | Aleksei Saramotins | Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team | s.t. | 6 | Pedro Miguel Paulinho | Adira-Isq Project | s.t. | 7 | Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver | Iberia - Communidad Valenciana | s.t. | 8 | Cesar Andre Fonte | Team Privatbank | s.t. | 9 | Andoni Blazquez | Iberia - Communidad Valenciana | s.t. | 10 | Perikles Ilias | Magna-Ryanair | s.t. | 11 | Christiaan Kriek | Team Gazelle | s.t. | 12 | Marco Minnard | Team Gazelle | s.t. | 13 | Matej Mugerli | Team Gazelle | s.t. | 14 | Blaz Furdi | Team Gazelle | s.t. | 15 | Sergiu Cioban | Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team | s.t. | 16 | Sergey Rudaskov | Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team | s.t. | 17 | Erdenebayar Daspuntsag | Team Gazelle | s.t. | 18 | Jose Vicente Toribio | Iberia - Communidad Valenciana | s.t. | 19 | Michal Golas | Team Credexbank | s.t. | 20 | Evaldas Siskevicius | Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team | s.t. | 21 | Mykhaylo Kononenko | Team Privatbank | s.t. | 22 | Gert Joeaar | Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team | s.t. | 23 | Alexander Schrangl | Magna-Ryanair | s.t. | 24 | André Cardoso | Adira-Isq Project | s.t. | 25 | Lars Andersson | Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team | s.t. | 26 | Vadim Maslennikov | LukOil-Rostelekom | s.t. | 27 | Kévin Lalouette | Team Gazelle | s.t. | 28 | Evgeni Popov | LukOil-Rostelekom | s.t. | 29 | Adrian Honkisz | Team Credexbank | s.t. | 30 | Alexei Tsikhanau | Team Credexbank | s.t. |
As PT:
2011: Frank Schleck (Vesuvio-Accumalux)
Spoiler 1 | Frank Schleck | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 7h43'08 | 2 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Team B&O | + 30 | 3 | Jan Bakelants | Pearl Adidas | s.t. | 4 | Damiano Cunego | La Gazzetta dello Sport | s.t. | 5 | Luis Leon Sanchez Gil | Energie - Diesel | s.t. | 6 | Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez | Festina - Corona | + 1'20 | 7 | Aleksandr Efimkin | Milka | s.t. | 8 | Diego Ulissi | Festina - Corona | + 1'44 | 9 | Vincenzo Nibali | Domina Vacanze | s.t. | 10 | Patrik Sinkewitz | Auber 93 - Look | + 2'02 | 11 | Yuri Trofimov | Sony Ericsson | s.t. | 12 | Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver | Philips - TDC | + 2'31 | 13 | Tejay Van Garderen | Wikipedia | s.t. | 14 | Jelle Vanendert | Domina Vacanze | + 2'41 | 15 | Andrei Grivko | Team B&O | s.t. | 16 | Sergio Ghisalberti | Lipton Ice Tea | + 3'23 | 17 | David Arroyo | Lipton Ice Tea | s.t. | 18 | Pieter Weening | Pearl Adidas | s.t. | 19 | Andrei Amador | Team Starbucks-RadioShack | + 3'56 | 20 | Danilo Di Luca | Team Nespresso | + 4'15 | 21 | Maxim Iglinski | Vesuvio-Accumalux | s.t. | 22 | José Rujano | Pearl Adidas | s.t. | 23 | José Angel Gomez Marchante | Café de Colombia | s.t. | 24 | Giovanni Visconti | Team Starbucks-RadioShack | s.t. | 25 | Sergei Kolesnikov | Warner Brothers - Carrefour | s.t. | 26 | Carlos Castaño | Festina - Corona | s.t. | 27 | Nico Keinath | Team B&O | s.t. | 28 | Santo Anza | Sony Ericsson | s.t. | 29 | Sandy Casar | Carmeuse Cyclisme | s.t. | 30 | Cyril Gautier | Lafarge | s.t. |
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Bjartne |
Posted on 05-11-2015 10:37
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Thank you for a very nice preview Oleg!
I think we field a strong team here, so I hope to see us in front towards the end of the race. The absolute worst case scenario is of course to see Andrey Zeits taking this |
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Ollfardh |
Posted on 05-11-2015 10:38
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Let's see, go breakaway
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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matt17br |
Posted on 05-11-2015 10:40
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Great preview as ever, Oleg!
Well as you can see we've almost ran out of suitable races to snap back into the CT top 6. This definitely is not. Once again, I'll be hoping for Passalacqua to redeem himself and prove, for once, his worth.. We have Molard here though, so hopefully he will keep scoring big.
Picking Rabon to win this!
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Roextro |
Posted on 05-11-2015 10:41
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Huge chance for Simon here, hoping for a top 5 |
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sgdanny |
Posted on 05-11-2015 10:52
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Great preview
Lejman won last year and he will fail hard by last years standards.
Top 5 would be great and also show our ambition for being in the Top 5 in the end of the final rankings. Nice place to be as you would've promoted regardless of disbandments.
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Jakstar22 |
Posted on 05-11-2015 11:02
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Hopefully we can get a nice result here as we near the end of the season!
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CountArach |
Posted on 05-11-2015 11:13
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Great preview Oleg.
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Marcovdw |
Posted on 05-11-2015 11:27
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I should've send Kinney to here instead of Canada, Selander/Duggan might not do the job here.
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Selwink |
Posted on 05-11-2015 11:48
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Very important race for us. After some horrible races for the last months we've dropped a bit on the rankings. Rabon/Pozdnyakov will need to score better here if we want to win the rankings. A good result would obviously please the sponsors too. That's two good motives to perform here, so hopefully the team lives up to the expectations.
Great preview Oleg, thanks for that
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baseballlover312 |
Posted on 05-11-2015 11:49
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Let's go De Maar! Finish the season strong! We brought the bet team we possibly could, with Koep, Bochman and Schoffman along for the ride.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
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trekbmc |
Posted on 05-11-2015 16:36
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A very important race for us if we want to promote, so really hoping to win here, and we've got a big hill train here.
5 riders motioned in the preview as well is pretty cool.
Thanks a lot for the great and in-depth preview Oleg.
@bjarnte: Always good to know he has support back home.
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Stromeon |
Posted on 05-11-2015 23:01
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Key race for us as we hurtle towards the end of the season, but a worryingly strong startlist. Acevedo absolutely has to emerge from his season-long rut and put in a good performance here. A podium would be greatly appreciated at this late stage!
EDIT: Sorry for mis-clicking on your preview and giving you a random Zabel'd thing by mistake
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Silvio Herklotz |
Posted on 06-11-2015 16:53
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First of all: Great preview Oleg, thanks for that!
We have a win goal here (as its our home race), so I really hope Mendes is gonna do that. Our only win so far was in a pretty similiar race in San Cristobal. Now Mendes, make your legs shut up!
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roro_352 |
Posted on 07-11-2015 11:06
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I hope the race will be as good as the preview
My team haven't been that good on hilly races this year, so i don't expect too much here
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OlegTinkov |
Posted on 08-11-2015 10:58
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GP Yekaterinburg is underway, live coverage (report) will start in 3 hours!
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trekbmc |
Posted on 08-11-2015 15:43
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We should of won that, or at least podiumed...
The team did so much work for Zeits, but in the finale nothing, we had all 8 riders up right at the front but it was just Der chasing for himself behind Zeits and points matter so much to us now...
Still the team worked well chasing and 5th isn't bad and Der finished 9th, I just feel we could of done more earlier rather then just chase everything.
Thanks for the report Oleg. And congrats Silvio.
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Roextro |
Posted on 08-11-2015 15:58
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Very happy with Julien finishing in 3rd place, looks like he is finally showing his worth
Thanks Oleg for the report and congratulations Silvio on the victory |
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sgdanny |
Posted on 08-11-2015 16:18
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Not a single mention
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OlegTinkov |
Posted on 08-11-2015 16:27
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... but they all are reeled back in by the peloton (Netia/Fablok).
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