G.P. Città di Lugano 02.03.2014 (1.1)

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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:

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Parcours:

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Downhill to the line:

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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.
 
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Dazed and Confused said:
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 :confused:

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