63a Vuelta a Colombia 2013 - Sun, June 9 to Sun, 23 (landmark)

[Rajna31]

sevilla stating the obvious: "vuelta a colombia is harder than giro, tour or vuelta"

check the time gaps...flat stage:

119 174 MASCIARELLI,Simone ELITE UNA-UTENSILNORD-ORD 24 EU 28:0
132 173 MASCIARELLI,Amdrea ELITE UNA-UTENSILNORD-ORD 24 EU 28:06
138 162 TOPCHANYUK,Artem ELITE AMO-AMORE VITA 45:41
139 161 MARTINS SANDOVAL,Uri ELITE AMO-AMORE VITA 45:41
140 75 URAN,Carlos Alberto ELITE CO4-472 COLOMBIA 45:48
141 DNF 171 LOMBARDI,Omar ELITE UNA-UTENSILNORD-ORD 24 EU DNF
142 DNF 175 ZAMPARELLA,Marco ELITE UNA-UTENSILNORD-ORD 24 EU DNF

Don't bring up the Utensilnord guys because as I stated it's "too hot" for them to handle Anyway, our main guy in the GC sits at 92nd position so something is clearly wrong with the preparations/shapes, these results don't seem realistic.

 

[slosada]

well done babyface! a living legend _O_

Etapa 4:
1. Óscar Sevilla
2. Félix Cárdenas
3. Jair Pérez
4. Óscar Sánchez
5. Luis Largo

but no chance he wins this overall unfortunately. can that stream be recorded and uploaded somewhere?

You can find the highlights of the stage in revistamundociclistico.com (they post it in Youtube)

Today it's a flat stage. There are 5 guys ahead (the most known is Felipe Laverde) with 4:45 over the group. Around 30Km to the finish

 

[slosada]

The breakaway made it to the end. Montiel won over Martinez and Laverde (all from the same region, Antioquia, although running for different teams). The group arrived at 3:23 (as said in the broadcast).

 

[Michele]

Hahha, good one! Average temperatures from Quito to Popayán are under 20C (almost all are above 2000m over sea level)

Now, today's valley is really hot... not like ToC, but still

I think the altitude might be much more of a factor as I bet they didnt arrive many days in advance.

 

[slosada]

They are in the final climb to Manizales...

Oscar Sevilla has tried 3 times to get a lead.
Others have tried as well

 

[jens_attacks]

live stream or just the ticker?

 

[jens_attacks]

sevilla attacks non stop

 

[jens_attacks]

the absolute total beast oscar sanchez takes it!

sevilla beaten, 2nd

leader tamayo comes at 43 seconds

 

[slosada]

live stream or just the ticker?

I was listening to the radio broadcast (via tunein.com)... but I had a meeting and missed the end of the stage

 

[Michele]

Sanchez's eyes are like the ones from a guy who just took up the bike for his race after being at a disco whole night.

 

[jens_attacks]

like JTL in his glory days remember?

"comme une bombe"

 

[JRanton]

like JTL in his glory days remember?

"comme une bombe"

Those were the days.

 

[jens_attacks]

ryo must be happy with this

magnificent climber, mauricio ortega wins the stage

Etapa 7 (Top 19)

1 Mauricio Ortega (Aguardiente Antioqueño) 4:40:29
2 Alex Cano (Aguardiente Antioqueño) a 14 seg.
3 Oscar Sevilla (Epm-Une) a 14 seg.
4 Jonathan Millán (GW-Shimano) a 14 seg.
5 Ivan Parra (Epm-Une) a 18 seg.
6 Luis Largo (Indeportes Boyacá) a 18 seg.
7 Alvaro Gómez (Néctar de Cundinamarca) a 1:19
8 Diego Quintero (GW-Shimano) a 2:09
9 Rodolfo Torres (Formesán Bogotá Humana) 4:02
10 Javier Gonzales (Coltejer) MT
11 Walter Pedraza (Epm-Une) a 5:22
12 Felix Cárdenas (Formesán-Bogotá Humana) MT

gato and infantino suffered big time,huge blow for both of them

Clasificación General Individual (Top 9)

1 Jonathan Millán (GW-Shimano)
2 Luis Largo (Indeportes Boyacá) a 22 seg.
3 Mauricio Ortega (Aguardiente Antioqueño) a 3:01
4 Oscar Sevilla (Epm-Une) a 3:07
5 Alex Cano (Aguardiente Antioqueño) a 3:32
6 Ivan Parra (Formesán-Bogotá Humana) a 3:32
7 Alvaro Gómez (Néctar de Cundinamarca) a 4:41
8 Félix Cárdenas (Formesán-Bogotá Humana) a 5:22
9 Alejandro Ramírez (Aguardiente Antioqueño) a 5:22


looks like babyface is back in the game but ortega will be hard to beat
millan and largo seem to climb very good too who knows...

 

[jens_attacks]

cool pic, grande sevilla and infantino

 

[jens_attacks]

the man they say is half made of steel, gets the 2nd stage win:

yep, two bottles to celebrate

Etapa 8

1 Rafael Infantino (Aguardiente Antioqueño) 5:22:39

2 Jair Pérez (Indeportes Boyacá) a 52 seg.

3 Julián Rodas (Coldeportes-Claro) 59 seg.

4 Félix Cardenas (Formesán-Bogotá Humana-ETB) MT

5 Felipe Laverde (Coldeportes-Claro)

6 Oscar Sánchez (GW-Shimano)

7 Oscar Pachon (Formesán-Bogotá Humana-ETB)

8 Walter Pedraza (Epm-Une)

9 Danny Osorio (Coltejer)

10 Jonathan Millán (GW-Shimano)

Clasificación General Individual
1 Jonathan Millán (GW-Shimano) 30:38:42

2 Luis Largo (Indeportes Boyacá) a 32 seg.

3 Mauricio Ortega (Epm-Une) a 3:01

4 Oscar Sevilla (Epm-Une) a 3:07

5 Alex Cano (Aguardiente Antioqueño) a 3:32

6 Iván Parra (Epm-Une) a 3:42

7 Álvaro Gómez (Néctar de Cundinamarca) a 4:41

8 Félix Cárdenas (Formesán-Bogotá Humana) a 5:22

9 Alejandro Ramírez (Aguardiente Antioqueño) a 5:25

10 Jair Pérez (Indeportes Boyacá) a 5:39

 

[WindLessBreeze]

Infantino!

Actually, we don't know why he was let go by EPM-UNE, and not signed by Coldeportes/Claro................We are very grateful of the opportunity awarded to him by Botero's Aguardiente*Antioqueño, the top team after 8 stages. (Policía*Nacional/DR)

 

[manafana]

any more updates guys?

 

[slosada]

As it's UCI mandatory, yesterday was a rest day.
Today it's a flat stage (in the plateau where Bogotá is, that means 2600m over sea level), 173 Km, with a 4cat climb at 3Km from the end

 

[slosada]

Infantino is on the lead again in the small hill.
Attacks and counterattacks in the group from Cardenas and Sevilla.

 

[jens_attacks]

el gato wins the stage _O_

 

[slosada]

Small bunch sprint: Felix Cardenas wins

 

[manafana]

any chance one day the UCI goes to columbia to race it would get interesting

 

[Michele]

There were talks about a WT event in Colombia some time ago.

 

[jens_attacks]

the colombian version of samuel dumoulin wins the 10th stage

hope this guy doesn't have a pink smartphone too.

 

[slosada]

Well, considering that Guamá is Ecuadorian, he cannot be the Colombian Dumoulin.
And I'm not sure what color his cellphone case is

Anyway, 2 stages for Guamá, 2 for Cárdenas, 2 for Infantino.

Tomorrow we will have one cat1 and two cat3 climbs but very far from the finish. Lot's of downhill since the race will leave the plateau to come to the Magdalena valley (read as very HOT). The first long descent is a pretty wide and smooth road allowing for real high speed not very technical. The other 2 downhills are 2 lane wide but twisty.

Anyway I don't expect huge changes tomorrow unless someone in the top-10 get's in trouble before the last 50K