2011 Criterium du Dauphine - Prologue: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, 5.4km

[Ferminal]

Who else would you consider a 'prologue specialist'?

Boom, Thomas, maybe Wiggins...

Sprinters

 

[Bagaskara]

let's not forget the weather guys, it could play an important role today..

just look at the forecast here

http://local.msn.com/worldweather.aspx?eid=8533840&q=St.-Jean-de-Maurienne-FRA

there's a slight chance it's gonna be rainy prologue..

 

[auscyclefan94]

Having no prologue start times 4 hours before the stage is annoying me!

 

[lucybears]

Having no prologue start times 4 hours before the stage is annoying me!

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=39614

 

[Woody22]

Hope they let the riders know what time they are off. I have been checking all day for times and with only a couple of hours to go till the start I am a little annoyed as well. I am picking Boom for the win over Wiggins and Evans to take the overall. But please Cadel, don't get carried away and over race. You have bigger fish to fry next month.

 

[Kwibus]

A very strong field so it's hard to predict who will win. A small ****up during a prologue can cost you a few seconds and it all comes down to seconds.

I'll be rooting for Boom, but he's just coming back from an injury so if he won that would be really surprising. With riders like Wiggo, Thomas, Zabriskie, Martin and many more it's impossible to say who will win, but I´m going with 1 of the 5 I´ve mentioned so far.

 

[lucybears]

Hope they let the riders know what time they are off. I have been checking all day for times and with only a couple of hours to go till the start I am a little annoyed as well. I am picking Boom for the win over Wiggins and Evans to take the overall. But please Cadel, don't get carried away and over race. You have bigger fish to fry next month.

the start times were given yesterday evening. The result today could be influenced by those start times as the weather forecast is showers. It seems to be raining there at the moment.
http://www.viewsurf.com/vue-441.html

 

[auscyclefan94]

Riders of note & their times

11:48 Joaquim Rodríguez (Katusha
11:50 Geraint Thomas (Sky)
12:11 Juan Antonio Flecha (Sky)
12:17 Jean-Christophe Peraud (AG2R)
12:23 Matthew Busche (RadioShack)
12:43 Tony Martin (HTC-Highroad)
13:05 Kanstantin Siutsou (HTC-Highroad)
13:17 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky)
13:18 Daniel Martin (Garmin-Cervélo)
13:23 Nicolas Roche (AG2R)
13:24 Rein Taaramae (Cofidis)
13:43 Luis León Sánchez (Rabobank)
13:53 Adriano Malori (Lampre-ISD)
14:05 Robert Gesink (Rabobank)
14:11 Frantisek Rabon (HTC-Highroad)
14:14 Lieuwe Westra (Vacansoleil)
14:21 Mikhail Ignatiev (Katusha)
14:23 Bradley Wiggins (Sky)
14:24 Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo)
14:25 Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi)
14:26 Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale)
14:27 Lars Boom (Rabobank)
14:28 Cadel Evans (BMC)
14:31 Jerome coppel (Saur Sojasun)
14:32 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Omega Pharma-Lotto)
14:33 John Degenkolb (HTC-Highroad)
14:34 Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana)
14:35 Janez Brajkovic (RadioShack)

 

[Michielveedeebee]

rodriguez might actually get caught by Thomas

 

[auscyclefan94]

Certainly does look wet

The fact that it is already wet may favour the later starters as it may dry up a bit by then.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Certainly does look wet

Wouldn't want to take corners with a TT bike in that weather :s

 

[auscyclefan94]

Anyone been to Saint jean de maurienne? Nice place?

Anyway, see you all in 2.5 hrs.

 

[hrotha]

Degenkolb as the last HTC man? Slightly surprising.

 

[LabMonkey]

So who out of this lot can ride a TT bike really well in the rain... maybe Boom with his CX experience?

 

[just some guy]

Degenkolb as the last HTC man? Slightly surprising.

I had him in my top 10 so we will see

 

[Spine Concept]

So who out of this lot can ride a TT bike really well in the rain... maybe Boom with his CX experience?

Wouldn't put money on him seeing as his form is questionable. He just came off an injury and has not had proper training. I'd say Wiggo or Martin.

 

[Kwibus]

rodriguez might actually get caught by Thomas

I have to defend Purito a bit here

40 Joaquím Rodríguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha Team 0:02:14

That was in the last Giro time trial. It seems he has improved his TT a bit and he also thinks so himself allthough he wanted to confirm that in the Grenoble TT.
I also think Purito was getting better and better in the Giro so his form was probably very good during that TT.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Rodriguez started the Giro on anti-biotics, which is also why he was bad in the first couple of mountain stages (or not his normal level).

If he didn't get sick he'd probably have been a podium threat

 

[lucybears]

So who out of this lot can ride a TT bike really well in the rain... maybe Boom with his CX experience?

might mean that some of the favourites for the overall might not be prepared to take any risks, leaving it open for a rider who is

 

[wirral]

running order??

 

[lucybears]

running order??

see earlier post
live
http://www.letour.fr/fr/homepage_courseCDD.html

http://www.letour.fr/2011/CDD/LIVE/fr/0/allChronos.html

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Standings so far

1. TJALLINGII Maarten 88 RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM 00:06:34
2. THOMAS Geraint 126 SKY PROCYCLING 00:06:35 00:00:01
3. ZABRISKIE David 111 TEAM GARMIN - CERVELO 00:06:41 00:00:07
4. KOREN Kristjan 95 LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE 00:06:41 00:00:07
5. MURPHY John 75 BMC RACING TEAM 00:06:41 00:00:08
6. PIRES Bruno 184 TEAM LEOPARD-TREK 00:06:41 00:00:08
7. RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquim 141 KATUSHA TEAM 00:06:44 00:00:11
8. MOUREY Francis 155 FDJ 00:06:53 00:00:19
9. ARASHIRO Yukiya 132 TEAM EUROPCAR 00:06:54 00:00:20
10. GARCIA ACOSTA Vicente 165 MOVISTAR TEAM 00:06:54 00:00:21

Pretty good prologue by Rodriguez only losing 11 seconds to Tjallingii and 4 to Zabriskie
Anyway, we can scrap Thomas for a prologue win already

 

[wirral]

see earlier post
live
http://www.letour.fr/fr/homepage_courseCDD.html

http://www.letour.fr/2011/CDD/LIVE/fr/0/allChronos.html

Thanks for that.

 

[python]

So who out of this lot can ride a TT bike really well in the rain... maybe Boom with his CX experience?

my thought exactly. it's also the distance he excelled at before.

 

[Cogombre]

Pretty good prologue by Rodriguez only losing 11 seconds to Tjallingii and 4 to Zabriskie
Anyway, we can scrap Thomas for a prologue win already

Joaquim can limit his losses pretty well in short prologues such as this, specially with a 'climb' in it.