2011 Giro d'Italia, May 7th, Stage 1: Venaria Reale → Torino, 19.3km TTT

[auscyclefan94]

Sorry, but I couldn't resist making this!

2011 Giro d'Italia, May 7th, Stage 1: Venaria Reale → Torino, 19.3km TTT

Approximate Start time: 16:15 CET (12:15am AEST)
Approximate Finish time: 17:45 CET (1:45am AEST)

Startlist, Feeds and other information - Steephill

Official race site

Team start times

1 OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO 15:50
2 KATUSHA 15:54
3 ASTANA 15:58
4 ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI-C.I.P.I. 16:02
5 COLNAGO-CSF 16:06
6 ACQUA & SAPONE 16:10
7 EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI 16:14
8 RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM 16:18
9 SKY PROCYCLING 16:22
10 GEOX-TMC 16:26
11 FARNESE VINI 16:30
12 SAXO BANK SUNGARD 16:34
13 BMC RACING TEAM 16:38
14 HTC - HIGHROAD 16:42
15 TEAM GARMIN - CERVELO 16:46
16 LAMPRE-ISD 16:50
17 LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE 16:54
18 LEOPARD-TREK 16:58
19 AG2R LA MONDIALE 17:02
20 QUICKSTEP CYCLING TEAM. 17:06
21 VACANSOLEIL - DCM PRO C.TEAM 17:10
22 TEAM RADIOSHACK 17:14
23 MOVISTAR TEAM 17:18

 

[Sasquatch]

Htc. Htc. Htc.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

will fail and finish 2nd, like they did in the tirreno

 

[Moondance]

Garmin-Cervelo FTW... Farrar to take pink.

 

[Eshnar]

No introduction?
A Giro stage deserves more than just a couple of images and links...

 

[Sasquatch]

will fail and finish 2nd, like they did in the tirreno

This is more technical than Tirreno.

Technical = HTC win.

 

[Barrus]

Does anyone know whether the profile is reliable. Because last year the profile for the TTT read about the same, but in reality the second part was a lot harder than what it looked like on the profile

 

[theyoungest]

Not too many teams with a couple of strong rouleurs at the start... HTC obviously, Garmin, maybe Saxo... that's about it, really. Liquigas will probably perform, they train for this. Rabo don't, although in terms of riders they're not looking too bad.

 

[El Pistolero]

Saxo will take this

 

[will10]

HTC, someone other than Cavendish in pink, causing outrage on the team bus

 

[Jamsque]

Should be the usual suspects fighting for the win. HTC, Garmin and Liquigas will probably duke it out. Sky, Saxo and Rabo will be well organised but under-powered.

 

[just some guy]

HTC , Garmin and then ???

 

[dlwssonic]

BMC of course. nah jk. leopard should be doing pretty good but garmin ftw

 

[cineteq]

Any time constraints? Meaning if the time gaps will have limit like the last TTT in TdF?

 

[LabMonkey]

How about Radioshack... they have a number of sprinters in their squad, maybe they will have enough punch do well on a shorter TTT?

 

[theyoungest]

Should be the usual suspects fighting for the win. HTC, Garmin and Liquigas will probably duke it out. Sky, Saxo and Rabo will be well organised but under-powered.

Saxo will come well-prepared for this, and they're not really under-powered when you compare them to Liquigas.

 

[Anonymous]

any chance of slightly smaller profiles. that one is about 3 times the width of my screen.

 

[Moondance]

any chance of slightly smaller profiles. that one is about 3 times the width of my screen.

No problems here.... How tiny is your screen?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

this course is very technical and absolute must to have explored beforehand for every team that don't want to lose too much time

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Garmin....

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

No introduction?
A Giro stage deserves more than just a couple of images and links...

Last year moonieD went all out on the profiles, was pretty cool. I enjoyed it anyway.
Pretty sure he never wanted to do another profile after it tho

 

[search]

this course is very technical and absolute must to have explored beforehand for every team that don't want to lose too much time

I don't think it's that technical or rather just the first part is.

the TTT in last years Vuelta was far more difficult and even Footon managed to lose less than a minute in there

I do know that it was shorter, but it should be possible not to lose too much with a reasonable squad.

 

[Anonymous]

No problems here.... How tiny is your screen?

1280 same as a majority of internet users, less about 50-100px for toolbars etc, so around 1200 wide. The image is 1200 wide but you have to add forum padding to that. The recognised recommended website width is 950-1000

some examples:
Facebook: 1004
CNN: 1000
MSN: 1000
BBC: 995
YouTube: 970
MySpace: 960
Flickr: 950
Ebay: 940

 

[Jamsque]

The image isn't really the problem, it's CN's huge damn adbar on the right.

 

[uphillstruggle]

Htc. Htc. Htc.

Try drinking a glass of water

But yeah, I think they will get this one. Too much power on the flat and too well drilled.