13th Tour Down Under 2011, (809 kms) WT Jan 16-23

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The Tour Down Under first edition in 1999, is a cycling race in Adelaide, South Australia and surrounding area. The Tour generally features stages surrounding Adelaide, which varies from flat to moderately undulating. The race starts on the third Tuesday of January each year and attracts riders from across Australia and the world.

Website: [http://tourdownunder.au/home]

Stages
16.01 | Cancer Council Classic | Rymill Park, Adelaide (51k /30 Laps à 1,7k)
18.01 | Stage 1 | Mawson Lakes - Angaston (138k) [MAP]
19.01 | Stage 2 | Tailem Bend - Mannum (146k) [MAP]
20.01 | Stage 3 | Unley - Stirling (129k) [MAP]
21.01 | Stage 4 | Norwood - Strathalbyn (124k) [MAP]
22.01 | Stage 5 | McLaren Vale - Willunga (131k) [MAP]
23.01 | Stage 6 | Adelaide City Council Street Circuit (90k/20 Laps à 4,5k) [MAP]

Teams
Pro-Teams (18): Omega Pharma-Lotto (Greipel), Quick Step (Chicchi), HTC-High Road (Cavendish), RadioShack (Armstrong), BMC, Garmin-Cervelo (Farrar), Team Sky (Henderson), Team Saxo Bank, Luxemburg Pro Cycling, Katusha, Astana (Davis), Movistar, Euskaltel-Euskadi, Ag2r-La Mondiale, Rabobank (Brown), Vacansoleil (R.Feillu), Lampre-ISD and Liquigas (Wulf).


Startlist: [http://startlists.com]

Honor Roll
2010 André Greipel (Ger)
2009 Allan Davis (Aus)
2008 André Greipel (Ger)
2007 Martin Elmiger (Sui)
2006 Simon Gerrans (Aus)
2005 Luis Leon Sanchez (Esp)
2004 Patrick Jonker (Aus)
2003 Mikel Astarloza (Esp)
2002 Michael Rogers (Aus)
2001 Stuart O'Grady (Aus)
2000 Gilles Maignan (Fra)
1999 Stuart O'Grady (Aus)

Last Year
1. André Greipel (Ger) HTC-Columbia 18:47:05
2. Luis Leon Sanchez (Esp) Caisse d'Epargne 0:00:11
3. Gregory Henderson (Nzl) Team Sky 0:00:15
4. Robbie McEwen (Aus) Katusha 0:00:17
5. Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Milram 0:00:17
6. Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:00:21
7. Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Katusha 0:00:25
8. Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:00:26
9. Robert Hunter (Rsa) Garmin-Transitions 0:00:26
10. Markus Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 0:00:27

Points: André Greipel (Ger) HTC-Columbia
KOM: Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team Milram
Teams: Ag2r-La Mondiale

Stage winners: André Greipel (3x), Gregory Henderson (Classic), Manuel Cardoso, Luis Leon Sanchez and Christopher Sutton.

 

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The Santos Tour Down Under 2011 - 758 Kilometres / 471 Miles - Overall Distance


Stage Profiles


Stage 1 - Mawson Lakes to Angaston - 138 Km / 85.74 Miles

Stage 2 - Tailem Bend to Mannum - 146 Km / 90.72 Miles

Stage 3 - Unley to Stirling - 129 Km / 80.15 Miles

Stage 4 - Norwood to Strathalbyn - 124 Km / 77 Miles

 

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Stage 5 - McLaren Vale to WIllunga - 131 Km / 81.39 Miles

Stage 6 - Adelaide City Council Street Circuit - 90 Km / 55.92 Miles

From the Website: http://www.tourdownunder.com.au/home

 

[Libertine Seguros]

what the hell is with the KOM point in stage 2?

 

[royalpig180]

RadioShack:

Lance Armstrong
Robbie McEwen
Markel Irizar
Sebastian Rosseler
Gregory Rast
Ben Hermans
Manuel Cardoso

McEwen replaced Jason McCartney

Kind of surprising that they won't be bringing Hunter along too... I guess McEwen will REALLY be fending for himself all year, even at a "sprinter's" race like the TDU where Radioshack clearly has no other real chance at doing much of anything...

 

[DAOTEC]

Latest thus far

Kind of surprising that they won't be bringing Hunter along too...

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Ag2r: Dimitri Champion, Kristof Goddaert, Blel Kadri, Julien Loubet, Matthieu Perget, Mickaël Chérel & Steve Houanard

Astana: Allan Davis, Simon Clarke, Tanel Kangert, Valentin Iglinskiy, Maxim Gourov, Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy & Andriy Grivko

BMC: Alessandro Ballan, Alexander Kristoff, John Murphy, Simon Zahner, Timothy Roe, Martin Kohler & Amael Moinard

Euskaltel-Euskadi: Rubén Pérez, Iñaki Isasi, Gorka Izagirre, Iván Velasco, Miguel Minguez, Daniel Sesma & Ion Izagirre

HTC-High Road: Mark Cavendish, Bernhard Eisel, Bert Grabsch, Matt Goss, Hayden Roulston, Mark Renshaw & Danny Pate.

Liquigas-Cannondale: Cameron Wurf, Kristjan Koren, Davide Cimolai, Simone Ponzi, Alan Marangoni, & Fabio Sabatini y Elia Viviani

Leopard Pro Cycling Lux: William Clarke, Martin Pedersen, Martin Mortensen, Stefan Denifl, Bruno Pires, Stuart O'Grady & Davide Viganò

Omega Pharma-Lotto: André Greipel, Mario Aerts, Adam Hansen, Olivier Kaisen, Vicente Reynes, Jurgen Roelandts & Marcel Sieberg

Quick Step: Francesco Chicchi, Gerald Ciolek, Julien Vermote, Marco Bandiera, Addy Engels, Francesco Reda & Davide Malacarne

Rabobank: Michael Matthews, Graeme Brown, Thomas Leezer, Jos Van Emden, Laurens Ten Dam, Pieter Weening & Coen Vermeltfoort

RadioShack: Lance Armstrong, Markel Irizar, Sebastian Rosseler, Robbie McEwen, Gregory Rast, Ben Hermans & Manuel Cardoso

Saxo Bank-SunGard: Richie Porte, Juan José Haedo, Baden Cooke, David Tanner, Sebastián Haedo, Brian Vandborg & Nicki Sorensen

Sky: Michael Rogers, Simon Gerrans, Geraint Thomas, Greg Henderson, Christopher Sutton, Mathew Hayman & Ben Swift

Garmin-Cervélo: Tyler Farrar

tba: Garmin-Cervélo. Katusha, Movistar Team, Lampre-ISD & UniSa

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[maltiv]

Quite funny looking through the list, seeing how ridiculously much stronger the HTC team is than everybody else. Would surprise me if they get less than 6 stages...

 

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Movistar Team: José Joaquin Rojas, Angel Madrazo, Txente García, José Iván Gutiérrez, Luis Pasamontes, Francisco Ventoso & David López.

Katusha: Denis Galimzyanov, Aliaksandr Kuchynski, Eduard Vorganov, Joan Horrach, Sergei Ivanov, Nikolay Trusov & Stijn Vanderbergh

Lampre-ISD: Alfredo Balloni, Vitaliy Buts, Alessandro Spezialetti, Aitor Pérez Arrieta, Matteo Bono, Daniele Righi & Manuele Mori

Edit complete Vacansoleil-DCM: Maxim Belkov, Sergey Lagutin, Mirko Servaggi, Thomas de Gendt, Romain Feillu, Joost van Leijen & Alberto Ongarato

Latest release of the organización Tour Down Under tonight

 

[Tuarts]

Movistar Team: José Joaquin Rojas, Angel Madrazo, Txente García, José Iván Gutiérrez, Luis Pasamontes, Francisco Ventoso & David López.

My roughie. If he's at a decent fitness level, he'll be challenging in the sprints and can climb ok too.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Movistar Team: José Joaquin Rojas, Angel Madrazo, Txente García, José Iván Gutiérrez, Luis Pasamontes, Francisco Ventoso & David López.

Katusha: Denis Galimzyanov, Aliaksandr Kuchynski, Eduard Vorganov, Joan Horrach, Sergei Ivanov, Nikolay Trusov & Stijn Vanderbergh

Lampre-ISD: Alfredo Balloni, Vitaliy Buts, Alessandro Spezialetti, Aitor Pérez Arrieta, Matteo Bono, Daniele Righi & Manuele Mori

Edit complete Vacansoleil-DCM: Maxim Belkov, Sergey Lagutin, Mirko Servaggi, Thomas de Gendt, Romain Feillu, Joost van Leijen & Alberto Ongarato

Latest release of the organización Tour Down Under tonight

Movistar is the only team listed there that actually put in a half decent team.

 

[ISDfan]

Lampre-ISD: Alfredo Balloni, Vitaliy Buts, Alessandro Spezialetti, Aitor Pérez Arrieta, Matteo Bono, Daniele Righi & Manuele Mori

Interesting . They know that Cavendish , Greipel , Farrar , and other good sprinters will be in race , and they dont have any sprinter in their roster . For what they can to count ?

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Movistar is the only team listed there that actually put in a half decent team.

translation:

movistar are the only team bringing riders i know

the vacs. team is not to bad.

Interesting . They know that Cavendish , Greipel , Farrar , and other good sprinters will be in race , and they dont have any sprinter in their roster . For what they can to count ?

bizarre, but i suspect lampre really don't give a hoot about the TDU.

 

[craig1985]

What odds that if there is a break that goes, Thomas de Gendt will be in it?

I would like it if they raced over Willunga hill twice, and actually finished on it come the second time.

 

[rxgqgxnyfz]

Movistar is the only team listed there that actually put in a half decent team.

Ivanov is a distinguished classics specialist, though he definitely underachieved last year after spectacular 2009.

Kuchynski is a very good rider and won a few GT stages (one time in Giro, i think) after solo breakaways.
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[ISDfan]

bizarre, but i suspect lampre really don't give a hoot about the TDU.

I think if they dont want obtain good result they should skip race like they did before .

 

[auscyclefan94]

Ivanov is a distinguished classics specialist, though he definitely underachieved last year after spectacular 2009.

Kuchynski is a very good rider and won a few GT stages (one time in Giro, i think) after solo breakaways.

Yes but I thought they would be looking for some results early in the season and having a gy like Pozzato or paolini would be a good choice for katusha.

translation:

movistar are the only team bringing riders i know

the vacs. team is not to bad.



bizarre, but i suspect lampre really don't give a hoot about the TDU.

Again you make some very silly assumptions which make you look stupid. I personally thought that vacansoleil being in their first ever World Tour race would want to do well and send a squad with a guy like Bozic. That is why I said that. Felliu is known a bit but over than that they are a bunch of no names. They are that for a reason.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Yes but I thought they would be looking for some results early in the season and having a gy like Pozzato or paolini would be a good choice for katusha.


Again you make some very silly assumptions which make you look stupid. I personally thought that vacansoleil being in their first ever World Tour race would want to do well and send a squad with a guy like Bozic. That is why I said that. Felliu is known a bit but over than that they are a bunch of no names. They are that for a reason.

1. just because a race is a world tour race, does not make it special imo. your post is pretty much McQuacks frame of mind... this is pt race. this must be top priority for all.. blah blah. Because the TDU is a 'pt race' means little to me.
2. Vasc have road many ' world tour' races
3. You assume bozic, paolini, pozzato wants to ride this. incorrect. maybe they have a program which requires a later start etc.
4. Because you say these riders are no names, does not make it true. Again you are very ignorant. Are you phil liggit maybe?

 

[rxgqgxnyfz]

Again you make some very silly assumptions which make you look stupid. I personally thought that vacansoleil being in their first ever World Tour race would want to do well and send a squad with a guy like Bozic. That is why I said that. Felliu is known a bit but over than that they are a bunch of no names. They are that for a reason.

Hilarious seeing ACF calling Bozic the best rider in Vac, when just a few weeks before ACF measured him as a Z-list rider.

Apparently now ACF is sad because his new favourite rider Bozic couldn't care less about TDU.

Classic. Constant amnesia, wildly flaying around hipsterrific opinions and overall ACF-ness. ;D
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[auscyclefan94]

1. just because a race is a world tour race, does not make it special imo. your post is pretty much McQuacks frame of mind... this is pt race. this must be top priority for all.. blah blah. Because the TDU is a 'pt race' means little to me.
2. Vasc have road many ' world tour' races
3. You assume bozic, paolini, pozzato wants to ride this. incorrect. maybe they have a program which requires a later start etc.
4. Because you say these riders are no names, does not make it true. Again you are very ignorant. Are you phil liggit maybe?

1. I never said that but i just thought that those teams would of put more stronger teams into the tour down under. If Vacansoleil didn't care about being a World Tour team then they would of not applied to have the WT license.
2. What does that mean?
3. Bozic, paolini & pozzato were suggestions because some of the stages suit them. They may find success.
4. Again I never said that. I said they were no names but I never said they were bad riders but I just expected a sprinter in that team like Bozic to go to the tour down under.

Hilarious seeing ACF calling Bozic the best rider in Vac, when just a few weeks before ACF measured him as a Z-list rider.

Apparently now ACF is sad because his new favourite rider Bozic couldn't show up at TDU.

Classic. Constant amnesia, wildly flaying around hipsterrific opinions and overall ACF-ness. ;D

Please show me where I said he was a z-list rider? Secondly I never called him the best rider at vac. Another incorrect assumption. Please read the post and use the online dictionary provided if you have any troubles understanding any of the words.

 

[rxgqgxnyfz]

Another incorrect assumption. Please read the post

to see that i'm not Timmy-loves-Rabo and i didn't do any assumptions, hence -- it can't called "another".

(Nor did Timmy-loves-Rabo btw ;D )

Please show me where I said he was a z-list rider?

You said he's worse than Kristoff.

Hmm.. Actually that makes it that you said that Bozic is zz-list rider ;D
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[auscyclefan94]

to see that i'm not Timmy-loves-Rabo and i didn't do any assumptions, hence -- it can't called "another".

(Nor did Timmy-loves-Rabo btw ;D )


You said he's worse than Kristoff.

Hmm.. Actually that makes it that you said that Bozic is zz-list rider ;D

I was meaning 'another' in the context of another poster has incorrectly assumed my contention.

The only thing I said about Bozic is that he is not a great sprinter. Well not yet. That doesn't mean I said he is a z- list rider.