Colombia 2.1 (Feb 12-17)

[yaco]

EF picked a squad to get maximum advantage from the TTT - Though the team has limited climbing support.

 

[Escarabajo]

Daniel and Mick Jagger gained some good time!

 

[tobydawq]

And with that win EF just equalled Deceuninck's amount of wins for the season.

Quite astonishing.

Mitchelton are far ahead, though.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

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Movistar timetrial is horrible

Damn, they were slower than Team Medellin.

 

[Anderis]

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EF picked a squad to get maximum advantage from the TTT - Though the team has limited climbing support.

I think their squad is a good balance between TTT and climbing. Phinney is the only flat-terrain specialist in this roster.

 

[Koronin]

Impressed with EF's TTT.

Not surprised that Movistar had a bad TTT considering the roster they took. Soler can do good ITTs, but he's about the only one of the group that took to Colombia. I have a hard time seeing any of their riders gain back the TTT time lost in the mountains.

 

[proffate]

why did they give the young rider's jersey to Hodeg instead of Dani Martinez?

 

[Robert5091]

https://www.facebook.com/NeriSelleItaliaKTM/

STAGE 1 - REPORT

An average performance for the team Neri Sottoli - Selle Italia - KTM that has ended the opening time trial on the roads of Medellin setting the 17th time in 16'16", 1'10" behind the winning team, EF - Education First.

The bad news for our team right after the finish line as Liam Bertazzo and Sebastian Schonberger were both involved in a crash due to a dangerous speed dump. (bump?)

The riders were brought to the local hospital with the veneto pistard who has three broken teeth while his austrian team mate has gone under x-ray but he doesn't have any fractures.

We hope to have them set for tomorrow's second stage in La Ceja that suits the sprinters

 

[RedheadDane]

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why did they give the young rider's jersey to Hodeg instead of Dani Martinez?

I was going to ask just that!

 

[Robert5091]

For some reason Martinez is listed as Elite at http://biciciclismo.com/es/tour-colombia-21-etapas-y-participantes-12-02-2019 and not Joven.

It's an under 25 jersey (according to https://tourcolombiauci.com/lo-que-somos/) so I assume EF must have messed up. (edit - or because he's the nominated team leader they want him to concentrate on the GC?)

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

EF and CCC the unexpectedly good teams in the early season.

 

[SafeBet]

EF had the best roster for this TTT and delivered. I'm happy for Dani, he has a chance to be up there in GC if he's in good shape.

 

[del1962]

I think Sky messed up in TTT by finishing with all 6 riders

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

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I think Sky messed up in TTT by finishing with all 6 riders

If the goal was to win it, then yeah. But maybe they wanted to keep Sosa in contention for a top 10.

I doubt that Bernal really needs him.

 

[Anderis]

Procyclingstats has updated the stage and they have now Martinez as the leader of the youth classification.

 

[Dukerojo]

The escape group most likely winning the stage. Óscar Sevilla (Medellín) most likely may be the new race leader at the end of the day

 

[PeterB]

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The escape group most likely winning the stage. Óscar Sevilla (Medellín) most likely may be the new race leader at the end of the day

Why would that be likely? The latest tweet 7 minutes back says: Situación de carrera: 55’’ la fuga del pelotón #TourColombia2019. Restan 20 KM And I understand that only Simon Pellaud and Oscar Sevilla are up front.

 

[Dukerojo]

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The escape group most likely winning the stage. Óscar Sevilla (Medellín) most likely may be the new race leader at the end of the day

Why would that be likely? The latest tweet 7 minutes back says: Situación de carrera: 55’’ la fuga del pelotón #TourColombia2019. Restan 20 KM And I understand that only Simon Pellaud and Oscar Sevilla are up front.

When i posted they were up by 2 minutes, now they are going to have a sprint

 

[Dukerojo]

Quickstep winning once again

 

[tobydawq]

Awesome coverage.

Nicely played by Deceuninck - Gaviria should have gone early if he wanted the win.

Edit: Was that even Gaviria?

 

[Dukerojo]

Álvaro Hodeg the new race leader

 

[Dukerojo]

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Awesome coverage.

Nicely played by Deceuninck - Gaviria should have gone early if he wanted the win.

Gaviria arrived a minute after

 

[tobydawq]

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Awesome coverage.

Nicely played by Deceuninck - Gaviria should have gone early if he wanted the win.

Gaviria arrived a minute after

You beat me - I realised it but embarassingly late.

 

[Dukerojo]

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Awesome coverage.

Nicely played by Deceuninck - Gaviria should have gone early if he wanted the win.

Gaviria arrived a minute after

You beat me - I realised it but embarassingly late.

I think it was Molano... Bernal was a top 10

 

[Dukerojo]

Álvaro Hodeg is saying that Gaviria is sick