G.P. Città di Lugano 02.03.2014 (1.1)

[Dazed and Confused]

G.P. Città di Lugano 02.03.2014 (1.1)

A one day race in Switzerland, in fact the only one so it needs a little support methinks. Ze name gives away details of where we are, but just in case:

Parcours:

Downhill to the line:

There are several reasons why the Italians likes the race. Winners list:

2012 | CAPECCHI Eros
2011 | BASSO Ivan
2010 | FERRARI Roberto
2009 | PAURIOL Rémi
2008 | NOCENTINI Rinaldo
2007 | MAZZANTI Luca
2006 | BETTINI Paolo
2005 | VERBRUGGHE Rik
2004 | BESSY Frédéric
2003 | MONCOUTIé David

The weather wiped out the '13 race.

Teams and key riders in this edition of the race:
1. Cannondale (Basso, Ratto)
2. Lampre - Merida (Ulissi, Cunego)
3. Orica GreenEDGE (Meyer, Clarke)
4. AG2R La Mondiale (Dumoulin, Bouet)
5. Team Colombia (Rubiano, Paredes)
6. IAM Cycling (Frank, Wyss)
7. Bardiani - CSF (Bongiorno, Colbrelli)
8. Neri sottoli.it - Yellow Fluo (Ponzi, Finetto)
9. MTN - Qhubeka (Pardilla, Teklehaimanot)
10. RusVelo (Lagutin, Zakarin)
11. Vini-Fantini-Nippo (Malaguti, De Negri)
12. Meridiana Kamen Team (Mucelli, Santoro)
13. Radenska (Pibernik, Pavlic)
14. Adria Mobil (Rogina, Mugerli)
15. Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels (Kvasina, Golcer)
16. Itera - Katusha (Razumov, Nikolaev)
17. Team Idea (Collodel, Tedeschi)
18. Leopard Development Team (Baffi, Kirsch)
19. Area Zero Pro Team (Leonardi, Chinello)
20. MG Kvis - Trevigiani (Nechita, Aldegheri)
21. Team Vorarlberg (Janorschke, Baldo)
22. Marchiol Emisfero (Sedaboni, Vaccher)

Full startlist: http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/GP_Citta_di_Lugano_2014-Startlist

Official race site: http://www.veloclublugano.ch/

Start: 11:20, approx end: 15:45 (CET)

There are some rumors of RAI stepping in with broadcast production, but I'm not buying it.

No doubt Frank will be brutal in this race.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Start: 11:20, approx end: 15:45 (CET)

There are some rumors of RAI stepping in with broadcast production, but I'm not buying it.

RaiSport2 have scheduled:

14:10 Ciclismo: GP Internazionale Città di Lugano
15:15 Ciclismo: Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne

so that doesn't look promising for catching the final kms

then after midnight they have an hour rebroadcast:
02:40 Ciclismo: GP Internazionale Città di Lugano

 

[Ferminal]

Startlist seems nicer than previous years. Would like to see Ivan take it out again but thinking that it's too early to be conspicuous for him to have a chance in May.

 

[manafana]

Nice seee Italian tv covering it, should start 2hours before kbk so they can finish then switch over for last 1-2 of kbk would be best idea for races on same day with good fields

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Ticker: http://www.tuttobiciweb.it/?page=news&cod=65751&tp=n

Hopefully with the pics along the way.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Far and away the most scenic race on PCM: don't think I've ever seen coverage that lives up to the programmers' imagination.

 

[Roderick]

Lampre to take 1 and 2 with Ulissi and Cunego

 

[Roude Leiw]

Will be interesting to see what the young guns will do (Mohoric, Villela, Yates x2,...)

 

[TourOfSardinia]

It's live now on RAIsport2 georestricted

 

[Michele]

Will the escape group arrive at the end?
Still all of them collaborating.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Very choppy stream.

http://alfatv.webs.com/

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Lampre pulling back the break of 6 - now just 1m40s

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Last lap just started
-25kms
break still above 1 min

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Yates & Canola go off the front on the climb for the GPM
but now at 30s

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Peleton is still v.big 60 or so riders.

gap upto 48s

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Wow, that's probably the worst stream I've ever seen.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

-10km
gap 26s
clast climb to begin.
Cunego,Ulisse,Basso all still in the group.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Wow, that's probably the worst stream I've ever seen.

its rubbish on the RAI stream here in Italy too - recent change over from
Silverlight to Flash

Rabottini & Cunego up there

Yates & Co caught

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Attack Ulisse!
20meters

-5km

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Ulisse caught

now 12 at the front (cunego included)

 

[TourOfSardinia]

last km coming up group of 20

 

[Arredondo]

Did Ulissi won?

Edit: Finetto did!

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

1. Finetto, 2. Colbrelli, 3. Ulissi
?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

1. Finetto
2. Colbrelli (spelling?)
3. Ulisse
4. Cunego