2014 Volta ao Algarve, Feb 19-23 (2.1)

[LaFlorecita]

Competing Teams (Important Riders)
2. Belkin-Pro Cycling Team (Kelderman, Vanmarcke)
3. Movistar Team (Ventoso, Malori)
4. Lampre - Merida (Costa, Horner)
5. Omega Pharma - Quick-Step (Martin, Cavendish)
6. FDJ.fr (Démare, Geniez)
7. Tinkoff-Saxo (Contador, Majka)
8. Team Europcar (Coquard, Voeckler)
9. Team Katusha (Spilak, Chernetckii)
10. Wanty - Groupe Gobert (Leukemans, Drucker)
11. Cofidis, Solutions Crédits (Petit, Coppel)
12. Team NetApp – Endura (Barta, Machado)
13. Efapel - Glassdrive (Bravo, De La Parte)
14. Banco BIC - Carmim
15. LA Aluminios - Antarte (Pinto, Sancho)
16. Louletano - Dunas Douradas (Martín Montenegro, Alarcon)
17. OFM - Quinta da Lixa
18. Rádio Popular (Silva, dos Santos)
19. Caja Rural - Seguros RGA (Madrazo, Mas)
20. Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team (Mancebo, Jelloul)
21. RusVelo (Pozdnyakov, Lagutin)
22. An Post - Chain Reaction

Startlist

I can see it now... Papy Horner, Rui and Contador battling it out on Malhao... Maybe Majka will be in the mix too

Costa vs Kwiatkowski vs Papy vs Contador vs maybe Martin and Kelderman for the win

Top-10 2013
1.Tony Martin (GER) OPQ 15:36:26
2.Michal Kwiatkowski (POL) OPQ 0:58
3.Lieuwe Westra (NED) VCD 0:59
4.Denis Menchov (RUS) KAT 1:21
5.Rui Costa (POR) MOV 1:26
6.Tiago Machado (POR) RLT 1:30
7.Jesse Sergent (NZL) RLT 1:40
8.Jonathan Castroviejo (ESP) MOV 1:45
9.Andréas Klöden (GER) RLT 1:53
10.Rigoberto Uran (COL) SKY 2:31

Previous Winners
2013 | MARTIN Tony
2012 | PORTE Richie
2011 | MARTIN Tony
2010 | CONTADOR Alberto
2009 | CONTADOR Alberto
2008 | DEVOLDER Stijn
2007 | PETACCHI Alessandro
2006 | CABREIRA Joao
2005 | SABIDO Hugo
2004 | LANDIS Floyd

Stage 1 Faro --> Albufeira 160km

Stage 2 Lagoa --> Monchique 196km hopefully we'll see some GC action

Stage 3 ITT Vila do Bispo --> Sagres 13.6km

 

[LaFlorecita]

Stage 4 Almodovar --> Alto do Malhao 164.5km

Stage 5 Tavira --> Vilamoura 155.8km

Malhao 2013

Malhao 2012

Malhao 2011

Malhao 2010

 

[LaFlorecita]

No idea why the profiles are not the same size

 

[jens_attacks]

will this be broadcasted live?
otherwise it sucks big time

 

[De Snelle Duif]

Spilak will do well

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Lol @ Meta Volante at the top of the biggest climb in the race.

Overall, this is a climber's year. They seem to alternate them - last year's TT was about 30km, which was far too long for the gaps that can be created by the Alto do Malhão. There ought to be bigger gaps created on the Monchique stage, but the 5km gentle descent to the finish ought to keep things tighter than Malhão. Definitely better to have the TT before Malhão as well, as it ought to negate gaps from Monchique and set the race up well. Looks like a pretty good route, though I think the TT could perhaps have an extra 5km.

 

[Boardslide]

will this be broadcasted live?
otherwise it sucks big time

Eurosport ar live in th UK from 13.30

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Parcours gets full marks from me.

I think Contador will show intent here. but he will get significant competition from Kwia, Kelderman and Costa.

And then we have the battle between Mancebo and Horner.

 

[roundabout]

Malhao goes from 600 to 1200 meters?

Who knew.

or profiles are measured in 0.5 m?

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Looks nice. Gonna cheer for AC. Perhaps he can win something this year

 

[Cyivel]

Eurosport ar live in th UK from 13.30

Different race.

 

[Boardslide]

Different race.

Sorry misread TV schedule

 

[LaFlorecita]

Different race.

Freaking hell I thought it was going to get broadcasted on ES.

 

[the sceptic]

Contador will get everyone excited with a win here. Feel pretty confident about it.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Contador will get everyone excited with a win here. Feel pretty confident about it.

Fingers crossed

 

[BigMac]

Malhao goes from 600 to 1200 meters?

Who knew.

or profiles are measured in 0.5 m?

Profiles are wrong. The highest point in the Algarve is 900m.

Flor, though this ones look much better, better use the offical profiles.


Winner will be Kwia, the amount of mountains are not enough to hurt him just a bit. And he'll put some precious seconds on the TT.

 

[BigMac]

Also, it seems it won't be broadcast live. ES will only be showing the highlights at end of the day.

No news if it will be broadcast by a national sports channel.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Profiles are wrong. The highest point in the Algarve is 900m.

Flor, though this ones look much better, better use the offical profiles.


Winner will be Kwia, the amount of mountains are not enough to hurt him just a bit. And he'll put some precious seconds on the TT.

Apparently these are the official profiles.

 

[postmanhat]

Also, it seems it won't be broadcast live. ES will only be showing the highlights at end of the day.

No news if it will be broadcast by a national sports channel.

Looks like they're not even doing that in The UK

Live coverage of Andalusia, and highlights of Oman only as far as I can see for next week

 

[postmanhat]

Winner will be Kwia, the amount of mountains are not enough to hurt him just a bit. And he'll put some precious seconds on the TT.

If the big guns are still in training mode, could be a great race for the Eastern Europeans

 

[Netserk]

Apparently these are the official profiles.

And they are crap. But at least there are maps on the official website, so I have mapped the finish of stage 2 myself, which is quite different to the profile (at least the altitude):

 

[Netserk]

Lol @ Meta Volante at the top of the biggest climb in the race.

That is a PM3 now.

 

[BigMac]

Apparently these are the official profiles.

They are not. This are the official ones.


The ones you posted and that are being used by procyclingstats are wrong scaled.

EDIT: Ok sorry, looked in the site and those are the profiles shown. What a fail by the organisors.

 

[BigMac]

Looks like they're not even doing that in The UK

Live coverage of Andalusia, and highlights of Oman only as far as I can see for next week

It is not scheduled in ES.pt either but one of the commentators said they were doing it. There's a chance they will be showing it in the UK.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Malhao goes from 600 to 1200 meters?

Who knew.

or profiles are measured in 0.5 m?

Profiles are wrong. The highest point in the Algarve is 900m.

Flor, though this ones look much better, better use the offical profiles.


Winner will be Kwia, the amount of mountains are not enough to hurt him just a bit. And he'll put some precious seconds on the TT.

The scale being inconsistent is the problem. 200-600, 600-1200 and 1200-1400 all the same size? Nonsense.

However, if you take that left hand scale and count up each increment as 200m, in line with the bottom part, it becomes pretty accurate - Malhão from 400 to 600 rather than 600 to 1200, and highest point in the race around 800.

And they are crap. But at least there are maps on the official website, so I have mapped the finish of stage 2 myself, which is quite different to the profile (at least the altitude):

If Malhão is 2, that really ought to be a cat.2 not .3 too. Interesting bonus ramp there.