16° Gran Premio Costa degli Etruschi-Trofeo TMC ~ Sat Feb 5

[DAOTEC]

16° Gran Premio Costa degli Etruschi-Trofeo TMC ~ Sat Feb 5

Tomorrow (1.1) Start: 10.45

Starter-List: [http://ciclonet.it/PARTENTI.pdf]

Profile

Lats year Movi: [http://inmotion.com/gp-etruschi-2010]

Honor Roll
2010 PETACCHI Alessandro
2009 PETACCHI Alessandro
2008 PETACCHI Alessandro

stripped> and replaced by Gabriele Balducci as the winner, due to Ale his positive test during the Giro 2007
2007 PETACCHI Alessandro
2006 PETACCHI Alessandro
2005 PETACCHI Alessandro
2004 METLUSHENKO Yuri
2003 KIRSIPUU Jaan
2002 METLUSHENKO Yuri
2001 GAVAZZI Nicola

 

[The Hitch]

I predict PETACCHI Alessandro

 

[Mellow Velo]

Rai Sport 2 at 22-30CET.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Oh, time for the GP Ale-Jet again is it?

 

[roundabout]

He had bronchitis recently so this time around the field has a chance

 

[whittashau]

Sagan's first race. I predict a win for him or Oss

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Would be much better run in reverse.

 

[taiwan]

He had bronchitis recently so this time around the field has a chance

Yeah he's not even appearing on that start list.

[edit]Belletti and Viviani are the names that jump out, maybe a couple of others. I wonder if Guardini rides.

 

[will10]

Yeah he's not even appearing on that start list.

[edit]Belletti and Viviani are the names that jump out, maybe a couple of others. I wonder if Guardini rides.

Guardini is riding Qatar.

C'mooonnnn Goddaert!

 

[DAOTEC]

just in result

GP Coppa degli Etruschi (1.1)

1. Elia Viviani (Liquigas-Cannondale)
2. Roberto Ferrari (Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti Diquigiovanni-Bianchi) mt.
3. Elia Favilli (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) mt.

 

[taiwan]

GP Coppa degli Etruschi (1.1)

1. Elia Viviani (Liquigas-Cannondale)
2. Roberto Ferrari (Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti Diquigiovanni-Bianchi) mt.
3. Elia Favilli (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) mt.

Nice for Viviani, I wonder if he could get to be Liqui's sprinter for the Giro this year. More persuasive than Guarnieri or Sabatini for that slot.

 

[roundabout]

Guanieri was second behind Petacchi at this race 2 years ago and hasn't really delivered yet.

Sabatini was actually pretty good in the Giro last year.

 

[ingsve]

Nice for Viviani, I wonder if he could get to be Liqui's sprinter for the Giro this year. More persuasive than Guarnieri or Sabatini for that slot.

Ya, since he got some nice wins already last season and with Chicchi and Bennati gone I expected him to get sprinter leadership this year and from this is looks like that might be the case.

 

[DAOTEC]

GEOX in motion

 

[taiwan]

Sabatini was actually pretty good in the Giro last year.

True he got some good placings against quality competition at the Giro but victories are missing from the whole season.

[edit] You can just about make out the Geox Jersey here, too. Not Dissimilar to the Farnese Vini, in fact.

 

[Mellow Velo]

It appears Rai have already upped their game, in the light of today's international coverage agreement.
63 minutes tv coverage and Paolo Bettini, for what is a relatively small Italian race.

 

[jens_attacks]

It appears Rai have already upped their game, in the light of today's international coverage agreement.
63 minutes tv coverage and Paolo Bettini, for what is a relatively small Italian race.

oh great news then.too bad that petacchi wasn't here...it's mainly his race in the last decade.

 

[zapata]

Nice for Viviani, I wonder if he could get to be Liqui's sprinter for the Giro this year. More persuasive than Guarnieri or Sabatini for that slot.

Hope not. I have guarnieri AND sabatini in my CQ-team, but no viviani.

 

[craig1985]

The race is up on cyclingtorrents.nl BTW. It's in Italian, but I'm sure you will get the gist of what is happening, even if you don't speak Italian. FYI it is the last hour of the race.

 

[Ryaguas]

Viviani ------> next Alejet??? NOT

ALEJET IS UNIQUE!!!!

 

[taiwan]

Click thru to discover the identity of the very special guest rider.

 

[The Hitch]

Ah crap. I find ongoing Schumacher fanboyism even more annoying than Lance's. Wasnt his era like 5 years ago

Cycling should stop bowing down to f1 as if it was a superior sport. Alonso gets the honour of presenting pink jersey and potentialy sponsoring a team. Stephen Roche talks about how amazing some f1 driver from the 90's is during tdf coverage. Now Schumacher gets to be in the peloton. I wonder what responce a normal hardworking joe would get for such a request

Maybe cycling really is a loser sport. You push your body and pain barrier to the absolute limit day in day out, and then bow down to "athletes" (and i use that term very loosely) who let machines do that for them.

 

[royalpig180]

Is that really Michael Schumacher or is it just Stefan Schumacher misidentified by CN? Would be kind of strange if they were both on Miche for the same race (though possible I suppose as Michael Sch. has ridden races before).

 

[Ryaguas]

wow... I didnt know that... Schumi has some bike skills ah? I'm pretty sure that He can do the changes better than Andrew =D

 

[The Hitch]

Is that really Michael Schumacher or is it just Stefan Schumacher misidentified by CN? Would be kind of strange if they were both on Miche for the same race (though possible I suppose as Michael Sch. has ridden races before).

Yeah i thought of that but was too quick to go off into a rant. Fail on my part. I would apreciate it if you could delete your last comment (or at leas the quote=the hitch part) so i can delete mine. otherwise, i will just end up looking like a plank.