Colombia - Coldeportes

[ILovecycling]

they said if they do both giro and tour they will get some extra riders. imo they should go for it and save duarte and suarez for tour or something and atapuma and chaves for giro. the tour is way more important in colombia and can really mean a lot historically

And if they won't ride the Tour?I think in this case they should go all-out with their roster in Giro ,dont you think?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

There has to be a big question mark over Suarez after last year. The other 3 showed something in spite of their poor pre-season, whereas he was consistently terrible. Atapuma was only in Colombia one week longer than the others - check his twitter from last January.

11 days then. 31st january unstead of 20. anyway it clealry mattered a lot as atapuma was the only one to get through a bit. also until their meeting in bogota each rider trained for himself. so it was very different per rider. now they took all riders together in colombia.

this year they are going to europe early as well, so I hold my breath for a very weak winter(so far so good)

about suarez, true but has has proven before in europe and is the rider most suited no doubt with osorio for europe. keep in mind all of them sucked last year except duarte(who has amazing talent and did all his results on sheer class and not in form), atapuma(trained longer in colombia) and chaves, who is very talented and very young

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

And if they won't ride the Tour?I think in this case they should go all-out with their roster in Giro ,dont you think?

tour wildcards will be what? february? so they could always fit them in in case no tour

 

[ILovecycling]

tour wildcards will be what? february? so they could always fit them in in case no tour

March,but still it is pretty comfortable for them.

 

[staubsauger]

you can't learn the tour in the giro. you have to do the tour to learn the tour

Of course!

But my point was more that Coldeportes could better skip the Tour this year and head to la Vuelta with that much uphill and that less time trail miles. After the've already earned some grant tour experience at il giro.

Let's wait for the Tour until 2014. I would rate their chances to collect results higher in Spain this year.

But you should know more about them and their abilities to shine in a grand tour than me

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

I don't think the 2013 tour has many itt km in it and they can do all 3 if they add some riders and the giro riders can be good at the vuelta again

 

[staubsauger]

What's their most promising rider then for you? Chaves, Atapuma or Duarte?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

What's their most promising rider then for you? Chaves, Atapuma or Duarte?

duarte by far. he's the biggest talent in colombia with quintana and ospina. in pure talent and class also better than guys like henao and uran. even in horrendous shape during some of his good days he showed that class, like fleche brabanconne last year.

 

[Angliru]

Do they have any aspirations to eventually become a world tour team or are they satisfied with their position as pro-continental?

 

[Ruudz0r]

What do you think about Edwin Avila comming from the track?

Do you think he will have a decent road career? And do you think he can adapt to the road quickly and have a good first year?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

What do you think about Edwin Avila comming from the track?

Do you think he will have a decent road career? And do you think he can adapt to the road quickly and have a good first year?

avila will adapt the easiest as he was a very big rider in colombia on the road as a junior. also a very good climber. he gained a lot of weight in track of course but he's so small anyway. he and arango will do very well. arango is good itt and allround. basically a colombian that is great in itt, flat, steering is a major force in europe, as every colombian can climb, look at duque for instance, who was a bad climber in colombia

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Do they have any aspirations to eventually become a world tour team or are they satisfied with their position as pro-continental?

I don't know. their aspiration si doing the tour and other gt;s. they don't care for classics or any other races outside dauphinee in colombia. so I doubt they want to be wt as they also want to ride vuelta colombia and possibly other races.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

duarte said he wants to go for gc in giro and chaves wants a stage

 

[Eshnar]

duarte said he wants to go for gc in giro and chaves wants a stage

so any guess of what the Giro lineup will be?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

will depend on if they get to the tour. no atapuma though for sure if they are invited to the tour

tour has no ttt right? so I guess most of the track guys for giro then: duque, arango, avila, perhaps suarez

 

[Afrank]

will depend on if they get to the tour. no atapuma though for sure if they are invited to the tour

tour has no ttt right? so I guess most of the track guys for giro then: duque, arango, avila, perhaps suarez

It has a 25 km TTT.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Osorio out , I actually thought he was racing fit again, so this is a bummer.

http://www.colombiacyclingpro.com/team-colombia-and-frank-osorio-part-ways/

 

[Angliru]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Jarlinson Pantano. He had a strong showing at Strade Bianchi until he seemed to run out of gas and eventually finished an impressive 12th.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Osorio out , I actually thought he was racing fit again, so this is a bummer.

http://www.colombiacyclingpro.com/team-colombia-and-frank-osorio-part-ways/

hope they replace him as their team is already ridiculously small

 

[gustavoduncan]

hope they replace him as their team is already ridiculously small

hope they hire alex cano

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

They "hired" Marco Corti instead.

With this quality staff of 15 riders doing a GT? Ridiculous. And where's Duarte? Atapuma?

 

[Cykelbloggar]

hope they replace him as their team is already ridiculously small

They have 18 riders, which is very common in the Pro Continetal teams.
I can´t see anything ridiculous about that.

/fritz

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

The point is that this team does not have nine riders for a GT.

In the best case they have:

Atapuma
Chalapud
Chaves
Duarte
Duque
Pantano
Romero
Suarez
Valencia

While these are some nice names I barely can see only half of them finish a GT.

 

[jens_attacks]

The point is that this team does not have nine riders for a GT.

In the best case they have:

Atapuma
Chalapud
Chaves
Duarte
Duque
Pantano
Romero
Suarez
Valencia

While these are some nice names I barely can see only half of them finish a GT.

c'mon, for one gt is ok. they just have to deliver action in the hilly/mountain stages. they don't have gc ambitions or anything like that. i've seen thousands of teams weaker than coldeportes in il giro.remember the french ones?yep me neither

i just wish they will arrive in good form. i've heard that they will begin the season training in hottish trentino?what kind of idea is that?
seems like they didn't learn a thing from last year....ever heard of tenerife or i don't know...colombia?

 

[trevim]

BMC probably had a worse team in the Giro 2010 with the exception of Evans