ENECO Tour August 17 - 24

[Ferminal]

Prologue starts today, coverage on Eurosport.

They only have profiles for a few stages listed... does that mean the rest are dead flat? What about the wind?

Stage 3 seems like the most selective, at least in terms of hills:

http://www.sport.be/enecotour/2010/downloads/parcours/profiel/rit03.pdf

EBH again?

 

[Ferminal]

Tony Martin should win the prologue though.

Startlist:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/eneco-tour-start-list

 

[joy118118]

Tony Martin will peak in Worlds.

Boom FTW!!

 

[Ryaguas]

Tony Martin to get the prologue ALL THE WAY! He will be 25 to 40 secs ahead of EBH...

 

[PCutter]

Richie Porte after his TT in Romandie and Geraint Thomas could push Martin for the win in the prologue, but Martin is probably the favourite

 

[Scirea]

Van Emden ftw in the prologue.

 

[jaylew]

I say EBH takes the prologue. He's on good form and this one should be right up his alley.

 

[taiwan]

Lars Boom FTW in the prologue. Linus Gerdemann for the overall!

 

[NickBVK]

McEwen, Sutton and Davis to split all sprints between them

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

davis can't wint a sprint if his life depended on it. he is just a good placer

 

[Ferminal]

McEwen, Sutton and Davis to split all sprints between them

The intermediates?

 

[catmiles]

No news feeds!

Prologue starts today, coverage on Eurosport.

They only have profiles for a few stages listed... does that mean the rest are dead flat? What about the wind?

Stage 3 seems like the most selective, at least in terms of hills:

http://www.sport.be/enecotour/2010/downloads/parcours/profiel/rit03.pdf

EBH again?

I am at work and there is no way of following live news feeds online for this tour, so im relying on you guys!

Gutted that Wiggins is out. Those last few hills look repetative, lap at the end?

 

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

I fancy Tony Martin for the last ITT but am looking at the faster guys over a short distance for this. My money's on EBH but also close by will be Boom.

If Henderson has some form he can also do a decent short prologue (he's better than people give him credit for). In fact, Sky will be gutted if they don't win the prologue with riders like EBH, Henderson and Thomas.

 

[jens_attacks]

Devolder will smoke all the other contenders

 

[Frosty]

Risk of rain tomorrow during the prologue. Start times are here although there is a bit of an error as the columns dont quite match up. Either that or they are going to allow Boasson Hagen, van Emden and Roelandts to do a 3-up tt

http://www.enecotour.com/

(then press nieuws)

 

[roundabout]

I thought the prologue is today?

 

[theyoungest]

I thought the prologue is today?

It is. And yes, it's crap weather today.

 

[Frosty]

I thought the prologue is today?

oops, yes sorry that should have read today

 

[Jamsque]

This race is basically perfectly suited to the kind of riders that Team Sky has, I really hope they can at least win a stage or two.

 

[Kwibus]

It is. And yes, it's crap weather today.

Looking at http://www.buienradar.nl (rain radar) it's looking good for the prologue.
Good = rain for some drama

 

[Cobblestoned]

Really bad weather right now.
Hope everyone gets safe through this Prolog and hopefully all riders have same "bad" conditions.

I will perhaps go and see the stage to Roermond or Sittard, but for sure the final TT.

 

[Ferminal]

heure Nom

14:06 Rabon, Frantisek
14:19 Gerdemann, Linus
14:30 Rasmussen, Alex
14:33 Boom, Lars
15:09 Grabsch, Bert
15:56 Van den Broeck, Jurgen
15:58 Thomas, Geraint
16:19 Henderson, Gregory
16:28 Tuft, Svein
16:32 Klöden, Andreas
16:33 Martin, Tony
16:34 Oss, Daniel
16:35 Ignatiev, Mikhail
16:36 Porte, Richie
16:37 Gasparotto, Enrico
16:38 Roelandts, Jurgen
16:39 Van Emden, Jos
16:40 Boasson Hagen, Edvald

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

horrible weather here I will just go to the start tomorrow.

is there a stream of this?? dutch tv isn't broadcasting it anymore it seems

 

[Ferminal]

Live times:

http://www.sport.be/live/fr/cyclisme/enecotour/?Stage_ID=786&Competition_ID=1068 Haven't updated past the first three though...

Eurosport starts in ~30mins

 

[joy118118]

horrible weather here I will just go to the start tomorrow.

is there a stream of this?? dutch tv isn't broadcasting it anymore it seems

until 15:00