2016 Strade Bianche, March 5th, 176 km, 1.HC

[pastronef]

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nibs to confirm his ambitious giro plans and take a great victory.

no please, I'd prefer GVA

 

[pastronef]

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Rain rain rain rain rain!

rain forecast just for thursday. Fri and Sat cloudy.

 

[Nirvana]

Heavy rain is forecasted for the next days in the area, there is also an alert for flooding and landslides from Tuscany region for this weekend.
I hope that RCS has a B plan in case of problems over the route only a week before the race.

 

[Brullnux]

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Rain rain rain rain rain!

rain forecast just for thursday. Fri and Sat cloudy.

Too far away for actual predictions. Over 5 days is basically guesswork.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

God forbid this fine race turning into a dull ardennes type race with more climbs.....

 

[Arredondo]

Oh my god! Montalcino *** returns!!!

Bring Evans and Vino out of retirement ffs!

 

[Eshnar]

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Oh my god! Montalcino **** returns!!!

Bring Evans and Vino out of retirement ffs!

Huh? I guess you've misunderstood something.

 

[TMP402]

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Heavy rain is forecasted for the next days in the area, there is also an alert for flooding and landslides from Tuscany region for this weekend.
I hope that RCS has a B plan in case of problems over the route only a week before the race.

Imagine if it turned into a 30km criterium like Almeria a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Arredondo]

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Oh my god! Montalcino **** returns!!!

Bring Evans and Vino out of retirement ffs!

Huh? I guess you've misunderstood something.

It's going to rain right?

I'm counting on the perfectly amount of rain while not cancelling the whole thing.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

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Heavy rain is forecasted for the next days in the area, there is also an alert for flooding and landslides from Tuscany region for this weekend.
I hope that RCS has a B plan in case of problems over the route only a week before the race.

Crazy thing happening in southern Europe this weekend. Monchique, Algarve where they raced last week has a snow forecast for the weekend. There hasn't been any snow since 2006.

 

[Eshnar]

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Oh my god! Montalcino **** returns!!!

Bring Evans and Vino out of retirement ffs!

Huh? I guess you've misunderstood something.

It's going to rain right?

I'm counting on the perfectly amount of rain while not cancelling the whole thing.

On Thursday. And it's too early to be sure anyway.

 

[Eshnar]

I should have probably put Benoot in the poll
Anyway, all the favourites have been looking really good. Can't wait

 

[jsem94]

Too uncertain for me to predict the outcome. Always one of the best races. Can't wait!

 

[May0maniac]

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Oh my god! Montalcino **** returns!!!

Bring Evans and Vino out of retirement ffs!

Huh? I guess you've misunderstood something.

It's going to rain right?

I'm counting on the perfectly amount of rain while not cancelling the whole thing.

Spartacuss has a good chance of winning the race, so it won't be cancelled or neutralized.

 

[Nirvana]

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Heavy rain is forecasted for the next days in the area, there is also an alert for flooding and landslides from Tuscany region for this weekend.
I hope that RCS has a B plan in case of problems over the route only a week before the race.

Imagine if it turned into a 30km criterium like Almeria a couple of weeks ago.

Yesterday on local newspapers were reported problems with some street closed near Siena because the road surface falls down.

 

[Eshnar]

Kwiatkowski has appeared in the Tirreno SKY list.
Might it be that he'll also race Strade Bianche?

 

[Bushman]

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Kwiatkowski has appeared in the Tirreno SKY list.
Might it be that he'll also race Strade Bianche?

Was he scheduled for PN earlier?

If he is going to Tirreno he might as well ride Strade. It's the perfect race for him.

 

[Eshnar]

Yes, he was scheduled for PN.

 

[Jancouver]

Looking at the start list, this race is the 6th monument for sure. I dont think you will see anything of this field quality in any other Monument! Here is the top 100

1 VALVERDE Alejandro 2834
2 SAGAN Peter 2235
3 VAN AVERMAET Greg 1866
4 NIBALI Vincenzo 1588
5 BAKELANTS Jan 1152
6 ULISSI Diego 1009
7 NIZZOLO Giacomo 977
8 LANDA Mikel 961
9 STYBAR Zdenek 944
10 BENOOT Tiesj 884
11 CHAVES Johan Esteban 835
12 MODOLO Sacha 794
13 POELS Wout 777
14 COLBRELLI Sonny 729
15 GESINK Robert 681
16 FUGLSANG Jakob 660
17 REBELLIN Davide 634
18 TRENTIN Matteo 629
19 MARTIN Tony 624
20 KREUZIGER Roman 592
21 VAKOC Petr 559
22 ROELANDTS Jurgen 556
23 BOOKWALTER Brent 545
24 ROSA Diego 536
25 INTXAUSTI Beñat 534
26 CANCELLARA Fabian 518
27 DRUCKER Jean-Pierre 518
28 ROGLIČ Primož 489
29 DE CLERCQ Bart 481
30 PATERSKI Maciej 475
31 BOLE Grega 468
32 VISCONTI Giovanni 443
33 GRIVKO Andrei 425
34 AMADOR Andrey 420
35 OSS Daniel 420
36 QUINZIATO Manuel 417
37 JUNGELS Bob 414
38 VALLS Rafael 412
39 CUNEGO Damiano 408
40 MCCARTHY Jay 407
41 ROCHE Nicolas 400
42 CARUSO Damiano 396
43 JUUL-JENSEN Christopher 369
44 VAN ASBROECK Tom 363
45 PLAZA Rubén 355
46 FEDI Andrea 345
47 MONFORT Maxime 338
48 BELLETTI Manuel 333
49 SERRY Pieter 318
50 DE LA PARTE Víctor 315
51 STUYVEN Jasper 310
52 NORDHAUG Lars Petter 287
53 GROSU Eduard Michael 274
54 BENNATI Daniele 272
55 MONTAGUTI Matteo 267
56 BUSATO Matteo 253
57 GATTO Oscar 248
58 BODNAR Maciej 243
59 KEUKELEIRE Jens 240
60 TEUNISSEN Mike 236
61 LINDEMAN Bert-Jan 218
62 PHINNEY Taylor 208
63 LIGTHART Pim 194
64 BOSWELL Ian 192
65 DE MARCHI Alessandro 192
66 FERRARI Roberto 184
67 PIRAZZI Stefano 184
68 MARCZYNSKI Tomasz 180
69 PUCCIO Salvatore 176
70 RIBLON Christophe 172
71 QUINTANA Dayer 172
72 BATTAGLIN Enrico 168
73 AGNOLI Valerio 166
74 VERMOTE Julien 161
75 TVETCOV Serghei 149
76 BONGIORNO Francesco Manuel 149
77 HIRT Jan 147
78 MORI Manuele 144
79 SÜTTERLIN Jasha 136
80 CONTI Valerio 135
81 TURGOT Sébastien 133
82 MEGIAS Javier 132
83 NIEMIEC Przemyslaw 130
84 STACCHIOTTI Riccardo 120
85 HOULE Hugo 113
86 DE NEGRI Pier Paolo 112
87 SMUKULIS Gatis 110
88 HOWSON Damien 110
89 BARBIN Enrico 107
90 SERGENT Jesse 105
91 POZZATO Filippo 104
92 BLYTHE Adam 96
93 DUPONT Hubert 92
94 BRUTT Pavel 90
95 SELVAGGI Mirko 89
96 SANZ Enrique 89
97 MALACARNE Davide 89
98 SOLER Marc 83
99 ROOSEN Timo 82
100 FRAPPORTI Marco 80

 

[Gigs_98]

How likely is it that this race will be part of the world tour soon?
Seriously, its significance is so high that its as important as many WT races anyway, but it would just be kind of nice to also see this race officially becoming more important.

 

[Eshnar]

I think the WT will collapse before this race enters it.

 

[May0maniac]

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I think the WT will collapse before this race enters it.

That would be even better than the race entering the WT.
It's a fantastic and unique race, who cares about the whole Wt thing?

 

[Bushman]

I dont think the race really needs WT status. It already has become a favourite for many of the top spring riders and it always attracts a great field. Promoting it to WT would mean that some teams who dont really care for the race would be forced to race it.

The race also seems to hold a lot of prestige already considering the official status of the race. Its perfect the way it is now.

 

[Akuryo]

I think another Czech rider will win this year, but this time it will be Vakoc instead of his teammate Stybar. That guy is on fire the last few weeks.

 

[GP Blanco]

I thought RCS don't want this race to the WorldTour because of logistics.