49° Trofeo Laigueglia 18th Feb 2012

[jens_attacks]

49° Trofeo Laigueglia 18th Feb 2012

First serious italian race with a hilly profile,this year looks even better.

Last ten winners:
2002 Danilo Di Luca
2003 Filippo Pozzato
2004 Filippo Pozzato
2005 Kim Kirchen
2006 Alessandro Ballan
2007 Michail Ignat'ev
2008 Luca Paolini
2009 Francesco Ginanni
2010 Francesco Ginanni
2011 Daniele Pietropolli

2011 edition:
1.Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Lampre - ISD 4:42:20
2.Simone Ponzi (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
3.Angel Vicioso Arcos (Spa) Androni Giocattoli
4.Fabio Taborre (Ita) Acqua & Sapone
5.Pavel Brutt (Rus) Katusha Team
6.Fortunato Baliani (Ita) d'Angelo & Antenucci - Nippo
7.Alessandro Ballan (Ita) BMC Racing Team
8.Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet
9.Paolo Ciavatta (Ita) Acqua & Sapone
10.Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMdoW27dHo0

The profile of this year's edition:

Official site
http://www.trofeolaigueglia.it/

Provisional Startlist
ACQUA & SAPONE
GARZELLI Stefano
GINANNI Francesco
CORIONI Claudio
CODOL Massimo
CIAVATTA Paolo
MIHOLJEVIC Vladimir
REDA Francesco
TABORRE Fabio

ADRIA MOBIL
DURASEK Kristijan
FAJT Kristjan
GNEZDA Matej
KUMP Marko
MUGERLI Matej
NOSE Tomaz
PAVLIN Simon
ROGINA Radoslav

AG2R LA MONDIALE
BELLETTI Manuel
BERARD Julien
GODDAERT Kristof
HINAULT Sébastien
HOUANARD Steve
LEMARCHAND Romain
MONTAGUTI Matteo
SHPILEVSKIY Boris

AMORE & VITA
DABROWSKI Jaroslaw
LIBNER Niv
LUKSEVICS Viesturs
MOREN Patrik
PALANDRI Marino
YOVCHEV Yovcho

ANDRONI - VENEZUELA
DE MARCHI Alessandro
ERMETI Giairo
FELLINE Fabio
MORENO Francisco
RUBIANO Miguel
SANTORO Antonio
SELLA Emanuele
SERPA PEREZ Jose

ASTANA
GASPAROTTO Enrico
GAVAZZI Francesco
KISERLOVSKY Robert
NEPOMNYACHSHIY Yevgeniy
PONZI Simone
RENEV Sergey
TIRALONGO Paolo

ATLAS PERSONAL JAKROO

COLNAGO - CSF INOX
BATTAGLIN Enrico
BRAMBILLA Gianluca
LOCATELLI Stefano
MODOLO Sacha
PAGANI Angelo
PIRAZZI Stefano
POZZOVIVO Domenico
SAVINI Filippo

COLOMBIA - COLDEPORTES
ATAPUMA Darwin
CHAVES Esteban
DUARTE Fabio
GONZALEZ Javier
LAVERDE Felipe
OSORIO Frank
OSPINA Dalivier
PANTANO Jarlinson

EUROPCAR

FARNESE VINI - SELLE ITALIA
ANDRIATO Rafael
BALLONI Alfredo
FAILLI Francesco
FAVILLI Elia
GIORDANI Leonardo
MAZZANTI Luca
RABOTTINI Matteo
RICCI BITTI Davide

FDJ - BIGMAT
COURTEILLE Arnaud
DELAGE Mickael
DEMARE Arnaud
ELISSONDE Kenny
GESLIN Anthony
HUTAROVICH Yauheni
OFFREDO Yohan
SOUPE Geoffrey

KATUSHA
BELKOV Maxim
BRUTT Pavel
CARUSO Giampaolo
HORRACH Juan
IGNATENKO Petr
KRITSKIY Timofey
LOSADA Alberto
VICIOSO Angel

LAMPRE - ISD
BERTAGNOLLI Leonardo
BONO Matteo
CIMOLAI Davide
CUNEGO Damiano
MALORI Adriano
PIETROPOLLI Daniele
RIGHI Daniele
VIGANO Davide

LANDBOUWKREDIET - EUPHONY
AMORISON Frédéric
BARBE Koen
BELLEMAKERS Dirk
COMMEYNE Davy
DE WAELE Bert
DELFOSSE Sébastien
HOVELYNCK Kurt
JUODVALKIS Egidijus

LEOPARD - TREK
ALAFACI Eugenio
JUNGELS Bob
KERN Julian
PLIUSCHIN Alexandr
SCHLECHTER Pit
SILVESTRE Fabio
ZANGERLE Joel

LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE
AGOSTINI Stefano
BASSO Ivan
CAPECCHI Eros
LONGO BORGHINI Paolo
MOSER Moreno
NERZ Dominik
RATTO Daniele
SALERNO Cristiano

MERIDIANA - KAMEN
BIONDO Maurizio
BONCA Blaz
DI LORENZO Alberto
GIALLORENZO Mariano
MC LEAN David John
RADOTIC Bruno
ROSSI Enrico

OMEGA PHARMA - QUICKSTEP
BANDIERA Marco
BRAMMEIER Matthew
DE WEERT Kevin
FENN Andrew
GOLAS Michal
PINEAU Jérome
VANDEWALLE Kristof
VERMOTE Julien

SAXO BANK
BOARO Manuel
CHRISTENSEN Mads
GUSTOV Volodymir
HAEDO Juan José
HAEDO Lucas Sebastian
LUND Anders
MAJKA Rafael
TANNER David

SELEZIONE UNGHERESE
LOVASSY Krisztiàn
SIMON Péter

TEAM IDEA
BARLA Luca
BISOLTI Alessandro
BOIFAVA Simone
DE MARIA Giuseppe
DODI Luca
FRAPPORTI Marco
PALINI Andrea
RATTI Aristide

TEAM NIPPO
BALIANI Fortunato
GAROFALO Vincenzo
NAKANE Hideto
SAKAKIBARA Kenichi
SANO Junya
UCHIMA Kohei
ZHDANOV Alexander

TIROL CYLING TEAM

UTENSILNORD NAMED
BERDOS Oleg
BOSISIO Gabriele
FANELLI Stiven
FEDI Matteo
GIRARDI Edoardo
KUREK Adrian
ROCCHETTI Federico
VILA Patxi
Big guns and favourites at the start:

Ivan Basso

Domenico Pozzovivo

I will update it when i will hear more of the startlist names.


No live broadcast,just the usual 45 minutes highlights from RAI Sport 2 at 21:30 CET

 

[Fetisoff]

Nice race.
Pavel Brutt to showcase his Russian Champion jersey and take the 5-man sprint for the victory this year.

 

[jens_attacks]

very curious if acqua e sapone will show up with di luca.he has as goal tirreno-adriatico,he has to show up in some races i guess.

coldeportes of course is a team to watch here.

other big guns and favourites:

Jose Serpa & Micky Rubiano

Stefano Garzelli

Damiano Cunego

Esteban Chaves & Fabio Duarte

 

[Fetisoff]

Kinda sucks http://www.cyclingstartlists.com/ shut down this year. They used to give the most up-to-date startlists, and very accurate ones two, I found. cyclingfever isn't nearly as good. I guess we'll have to wait

 

[roundabout]

Hopefully the full planned route will be raced

 

[Michele]

Weather forecast is looking quiet good for next days in north Italy.

 

[Mellow Velo]

I love this race. It kick starts the season proper.
Hettie just around the corner.........

 

[Zam_Olyas]

I love this race. It kick starts the season proper.
Hettie just around the corner.........

plus sign..

 

[Mellow Velo]

A pity that Rai have such a busy schedule on Saturday evening, highlighted by the Ospreys v Aironi rugby live match.

Leaves the race with the bare 45 minutes coverage, which could possibly get shifted around.
Anyhow, we have: 21:30 Ciclismo: Trofeo Laigueglia 2012 22:15

 

[Christian]

Provisional Startlist
http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html?detp=view&_ap=startlijst&editie_idd=MjMyNzI=

LEOPARD TREK CT should also be riding although they are not listed on that site. AG2R have released their line-up and Nocentini is not on it (he is riding in Haut Var)

http://www.cyclisme.ag2rlamondiale....-detail.asp?id=1101&ret=index.asp&saison=2012

 

[More Strides than Rides]

What kind of hills are we looking at? I'm always skeptical when theres no y-axis...

Also, is there live coverage? Delayed? Thanks

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

hills that leave groups from 10 to 30 men.

 

[jens_attacks]

balestrino i think has around 700 meters.this is a one day classic though so the legs will be ripped apart at the finish.reverberi said that their leader will be pozzovivo which says all about how hard the new route is.

 

[Froome19]

You forgot

Enrico Battaglin

 

[The Hitch]

Is Davide not riding?

 

[TeoSheva]

You forgot

Enrico Battaglin

He's my favorite with Rubiano

 

[jens_attacks]

Ancora presto per vedere protagonista, invece, il giovane Enrico Battaglin "Se fosse già al 100% della condizione sarebbe stato un percorso ideale per lui ma purtroppo il brutto tempo delle ultime settimane ci ha rallentato parecchio. Enrico sarà comunque al via e, se strada facendo le sensazioni dovessero essere buone, certo non si tirerà indietro."

reverberi said battaglin is not in good form.

about rebellin,i don't even have an idea if miche will ride it(they have some problems with the federation,some papers).also i don't know if rebellin signed with any team at all

 

[TeoSheva]

Ancora presto per vedere protagonista, invece, il giovane Enrico Battaglin "Se fosse già al 100% della condizione sarebbe stato un percorso ideale per lui ma purtroppo il brutto tempo delle ultime settimane ci ha rallentato parecchio. Enrico sarà comunque al via e, se strada facendo le sensazioni dovessero essere buone, certo non si tirerà indietro."

reverberi said battaglin is not in good form.

about rebellin,i don't even have an idea if miche will ride it(they have some problems with the federation,some papers).also i don't know if rebellin signed with any team at all

I'm confident in him anyway Reverberi is saying this to reduce the pressure on him...

 

[Michele]

about rebellin,i don't even have an idea if miche will ride it(they have some problems with the federation,some papers).also i don't know if rebellin signed with any team at all

As far as I know he didnt sign with anyone.

 

[Froome19]

As far as I know he didnt sign with anyone.

Yes they were rumours he was going to sign with Christina watches (don't know where those came from) but don't think he's with anyone in the end. Its a shame as he could have made a really good impact even at worldtour

 

[Kazistuta]

I'm confident in him anyway Reverberi is saying this to reduce the pressure on him...

I agree...this should be a perfect race for young Battaglin. He managed to sit along just fine in last weeks shortened race.

 

[Nicosix]

Updated startlist :

Trofeo Laigueglia

And you also can sign in in order to play our betting game

 

[jens_attacks]

Colombia-Coldeportes: Darwin Atapuma, Esteban Chaves, Fabio Duarte, Javier Gonzalez, Felipe Laverde, Frank Osorio, Dalivier Ospina e Jarlinson Pantano.

vamos!

 

[Froome19]

I agree...this should be a perfect race for young Battaglin. He managed to sit along just fine in last weeks shortened race.

Ummm... are you referring to the sprints won by viviani, if so that is not indicative of anything.
I would sorely love Battaglin to make an impression but i doubt he will, just as long as he is ready to take his stage wins in the giro and tirreno then I will be fine.

 

[jens_attacks]

pippo pozzato at the start in laigueglia!now that's unexpected