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2012 Glava Tour of Norway 16-19 May, 2.1s

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kanari

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I thought this race might deserve a thread of its own as its probably the strongest field ever seen in Norway except the 1993 WC in Oslo. It's been upgraded to 2.1 this year so 6 WT teams are participating. (GreenEdge, Lotto, Sky, Lampre, Garmin and Saxo). TV2 in Norway will be showing 2 hours live every day so hopefully there'll be some streams out there if anyone wants to give the Giro a little break :)

The full startlist can be found here:

http://www.glavatour.no/no/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Startliste-pr-110512.pdf

Some notable forum favourites racing are Vanmarcke, Ale-Jet, EBH, Schumacher, the Chicken, Nordhaug, Van Summeren and Nuyens. JTL is also on the startlist but I read on twitter that he is injured and won't start.

Previous winners (before 2011 winners are from Ringerike GP, the predecessor of ToN):

2011 KELDERMAN Wilco
2010 RAKE Christer
2009 FIRSANOV Serguei
2008 ERICSSON Fredrik
2007 BOASSON HAGEN Edvald
2006 RASCH Gabriel
2005 ANDRESEN Are
2004 KANANEN Kimmo
2003 HOLMKVIST Jonas
2002 KAGGESTAD Mads

The parcours doesn't look overly exciting, with three pretty flat stages and a couple that are a bit hilly. Stage 4 from Hamar to Lillehammer looks most promising IMO. Hopefully the race will gets better as it gets a couple of years experience as there are plenty of nice climbs they can use in later editions.

Stage 1: Sandefjord-Tønsberg (185,7 km):

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Stage 2: Oslo-Drammen (163 km)

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Stage 3: Lillestrøm-Elverum (180 km)

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Libertine Seguros

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I like this race, want to see it develop (would prefer it back in early June like last year), and appreciate the need to keep it fairly urban at the moment hence the "Tour of the Oslofjord" feeling, but really wish they'd put a Holmenkollen/Tryvann climb into it, make it a bit more selective. Though I guess they'd like to make sure the home riders are competitive (and it's pretty well suited for Boasson Hagen, no?).

Even so, we may be spoilt for choice for beautiful landscapes with this going up against the Giro; Norway is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, the areas the race goes through are comparatively mundane for it...
 
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EBH should pick up at least 2-3 stages here. Will probably get the overall as well, depending on how he climbs on stage 4. However, Firsanov could be scary, as he has shown some incredible form lately and could get away on stage 4.
 
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kanari

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Libertine Seguros said:
I like this race, want to see it develop (would prefer it back in early June like last year), and appreciate the need to keep it fairly urban at the moment hence the "Tour of the Oslofjord" feeling, but really wish they'd put a Holmenkollen/Tryvann climb into it, make it a bit more selective. Though I guess they'd like to make sure the home riders are competitive (and it's pretty well suited for Boasson Hagen, no?).

Even so, we may be spoilt for choice for beautiful landscapes with this going up against the Giro; Norway is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, the areas the race goes through are comparatively mundane for it...
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They wanted to host in the beginning of June this year as well but UCI gave them this slot in May instead. A consequence of that is that we'll have a stage on the 17th of May which is our national day and a pretty big deal here so very unusual to have any sort of sporting event on that date.

I think Boasson Hagen is the favourite here especially if he can get some bonus seconds from the sprints, but I'm hoping Vanmarcke will be a challenger as well he showed signs of good form with his 2nd in Rogaland GP on Sunday. Im sure there'll be lots of others as well, can't imagine the time gaps to be very big here.
 
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Don't think JTL is riding having been hospitalised at the Lincoln GP on Sunday.

Russ Downing is evidently in form though, so expect him to show himself for Endura.
 
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GreenEDGE have named a very interesting team for this race.

Clarke and Cooke seem to be the riders in the best form but they have some interesting inclusions;
Langeveld who was in terrific form before crashing horrifcially in the Tour of Flanders,
Mitch Docker who crashed in the pre season and hasn't raced this year and
Aidis Kroupis who was going very well in Qatar behind the rampaging Boonen and Cancerella. Is probably the No. 2 sprinter at GE behind Goss, maybe equal with Howard.
Teklehaymanot rode really strongly in Turkey, plus the young and old of the team with O'Grady and Hepburn.

I would think Clarke, Cooke, Langeveld and O'Grady would be looking to make the OGE Tour de France team.
 
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Fetisoff

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Catwhoorg said:
Sounds nasty. Any word on which riders were involved ?

Hope they bounce back quickly.
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Francisco Aramendìa (Caja Rural) - most severe injury
also injured - Morten Morland (PlussbankBMC)

+ 1 more (hasn't been named yet)
 
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Fetisoff said:
Francisco Aramendìa (Caja Rural) - most severe injury
also injured - Morten Morland (PlussbankBMC)

+ 1 more (hasn't been named yet)
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Last one is Alexander Mironov (Rusvelo)

Aramendia seems to have broken his hip.
 
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Fetisoff

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Last one is Alexander Mironov (Rusvelo)

Aramendia seems to have broken his hip.
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Thanks.

Ouch, that's too bad for Francisco. Hoping it's just a scare and his injury not as bad as it seemed originally
 
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Jonas Ahlstrand (Team Cykelcity) wins stage 1
Petacchi - 2, EBH - 3
:eek::eek:


On a "*** me" note. Does anyone else keep reading that team name as "CycleKitty"?
 
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maltiv

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Lol EBH started his sprint with 400(!!!!) meters to go. He immediately got a gap of 5-6 bike lengths, but was eventually passed because he went waaaaaaay to early.

Seriously, how can he still not have learned that one can't win a sprint from 400 meters to go? :eek:
 
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EBH started waaaay to early, but seemed very strong.

He actually got the jump on the rest of the pack, but was reeled inn before the finish. He's GOT to learn to time his sprint better.

Impressed by Ahlstrand. Kudos!
 
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maltiv

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Wait so Ahlstrand beat Petacchi and Hagen in a sprint?

Wow. :eek:
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Anyone who started that sprint on Edvald's wheel would have won really. Even Andy Schleck would've won from that position. When EBH kicked Ahlstrand immediatly lost 5-6 bike lengths to him, but just managed to stay in the slipstream and only had to ride past an Edvald who completely stopped.

Petacchi started very far back.
 
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Trofinios

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maltiv said:
Seriously, how can he still not have learned that one can't win a sprint from 400 meters to go? :eek:
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

-Einstein
 
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