It should be more exciting (or should I say - unpredictable) than time trial. Battle between Italians and Spaniards is what is expected. I don't have idea how cumulative uphill meters will effect riders like Gilbert or Cancellara (who's aiming high on the home turf). Also, other riders with less support, like Schleck, will be interesting to watch. What escape will they choose, will they wait until last lap?
Has Valverde recovered from Vuelta and does Cunego have what it takes to [censored] the Rainbow jersey? How Sanchez will ride?
Spanish squad looks stronger to me (more options for the final lap). Italians will have to control the race, I think.
Valverde, Cunego, Sanchez, Schleck in the first row; then Evans, Cancellara, Gilbert, Bruseghin, Martin, Nuyens and some other, less expected riders. I really hope none of these will take the jersey. It would mean very interesting race.
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Is there a start list available? I can't find it.
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pantani_lives said:
Is there a start list available? I can't find it.
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Thanks for the list. The Italian team looks very strong, and so does the Spanish. My favorites:
*****Cunego, Valverde
****Cancellara, Sanchez
***Boasson Hagen, A. Schleck
**Gilbert, Kroon, Freire, Basso, Ballan
*Scarponi, Boonen, Evans, Gesink, Ivanov -
Gerrans v's Cunego
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Kreuziger from Gilbert and Cunego
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Can a Columbian or a Japanese or an Australian win the Worlds for the first time?🙂
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JAPANic said:
Gerrans v's Cunego
I hope you are right about Gerrans...
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Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
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JAPANic said:
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well deserved win by Evans. It was so good to see him attack!!! -
Australia's first Gold medal in the Elite Road Race. I hope that gets rid of some of doubts that people have had about Cadel Evans. He found true grit today.
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Fantastic result for Cadel Evans.
Absolutely delighted for the man - after a lot of abuse about never attacking and having been denied a top GC spot in a GT - it's brilliant to see him win.
And he will be defending the title next year, in his home townGreat race today :
Huge round of applause for all the podium presentation : knowledgable crowd know the significance of this result.
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A couple of points:
1. Evans has shown you can ride and compete at La Vuelta and still be race ready for the Worlds. Who else has ridden as hard as he has this year?
2. Alexander Kolobnev once again left his more famous team mates eating dust - that's three years in a row he has outperformed the world's best. Is this how good he is when he is not having to follow team orders? The Worlds, the Olympics and now again at the Worlds. Yet with Saxo Bank he is the forgotten man where all the attention is on the Schlecks and Cancellera. Perhaps he would be better offf finding a team with a few less stars?
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limerickman said:
Fantastic result for Cadel Evans.
Absolutely delighted for the man - after a lot of abuse about never attacking and having been denied a top GC spot in a GT - it's brilliant to see him win.
And he will be defending the title next year, in his home townGreat race today :
Huge round of applause for all the podium presentation : knowledgable crowd know the significance of this result.
Very strong showing from Cadel. He attacked in a race where is most difficult to launch successful attack if you don't have support from team mates.
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Denia said:
A couple of points:
1. Evans has shown you can ride and compete at La Vuelta and still be race ready for the Worlds. Who else has ridden as hard as he has this year?
2. Alexander Kolobnev once again left his more famous team mates eating dust - that's three years in a row he has outperformed the world's best. Is this how good he is when he is not having to follow team orders? The Worlds, the Olympics and now again at the Worlds. Yet with Saxo Bank he is the forgotten man where all the attention is on the Schlecks and Cancellera. Perhaps he would be better offf finding a team with a few less stars?
Kolobnev raced another great race today - I agree with you.
He's got great fighting qualities and he has the talent.Should he change squad? He'sin the best squad in the world at the moment and it must be hard to elbow your way past Canc, the Schlecks etc.
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Andrija said:
Very strong showing from Cadel. He attacked in a race where is most difficult to launch successful attack if you don't have support from team mates.
He saved his season.You make an excellent point - he has ridden another tough season.
His Vuelta result was very hard fought : this win though has been
made his season/career.
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Limerick - The problem with being in such a great squad is he clearly doesn't get the chance to win stages in major races which he is capable of doing. Look at the effort Cancellera had to put in on the final lap to catch him on the hill but then couldn't go with him when he broke again. I know for a fact he wants to ride the TdF but has never been given the opportunity. Another team could surely offer him a better chance to get some well deserved wins.
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well deserved victory by Evans... he was decisive and brave and smart... put his head down and got to work... all the things that we criticize him for not doing usually.
sanchez, and cancellara (must be kicking himself) were so strong but tried to be WAY too cute about it and needed some of the qualities that Evans displayed today. basically, the race is up the road and it's time to go, god damned who's on my wheel.. i can't win from back here. i more so blame Cancellara since Sanchez had rodriguez up the road... so the ball was more so in Cancellara's court... Evans showed them how it's done today though.
the coverage i watched never showed how the last ~1min to the break got bridged... i saw the spanish pulling up the hill but some one must have put in one hell of an attack to bridge all that time in such a short distance... saw Cancellara working the descent but it must have started before that. actually i was watching EuroSport audio with god knows which video (north america sucked this year for coverage) and they were not quite in sync..
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limerickman said:
Kolobnev raced another great race today - I agree with you.
He's got great fighting qualities and he has the talent.Should he change squad? He'sin the best squad in the world at the moment and it must be hard to elbow your way past Canc, the Schlecks etc.
ah, i don't know about that... he seems to be a one day ardennes, hilly classics type specialist.. shows quite well and given pretty free rein at races like Fleche Wallone, Amstel Gold, Liege, Lombardy etc.. and of course worlds and olympics if they are hilly.. hasn't shown himself to be capable as a stage racer (no saying he couldn't do it but..).. i think the thing is that he hasn't got that big win so he's off people's radar, but i'm no sure i'd agree that he doesn't get support in the races he targets...
best team in the world i guess is a subjective thing but just on pure wins there is no team in the world even close to Columbia-HTC...
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