Int. Österreich-Rundfahrt-Tour of Austria - June 30 to 8th

[Dazed and Confused]

After the climb two riders find themselves ahead.

85km done, about 60s

Kratochvila
Ignatiev

That first name...


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[roundabout]

Hushovd ahead of Oss.

That's how it's done.

Oh, and Meersman 3rd.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

This race.

 

[Kazistuta]

The race of the rejects of TDF

 

[kanari]

Man, I wish he was in France...

 

[Afrank]

Anyone else racing here that was rejected from being on the Tour team? I'm thinking I might put some money on them for the coming stages.

 

[trevim]

CAS has been ill during spring for a long time.
Lately also during Dauphine, which he left after stage one or two.
This was the reason he was not ready (and therefore not selected) for the Tour.
Regarding Majka: As far as I know, the ToA is a first build-up race after his post-Giro break.

But you are right: if you think of TST, one could expect more.

Obviously I wasn't criticizing Majka considering he's back from the Giro; also he's probably riding to get some good WT points in Poland (specially because of the Trentino stages).

About CAS, I didn't realize he's having such a bad year. Hopefully he can build some shape now to do well in Poland, Vuelta and perhaps Worlds.

 

[trevim]

Lately my favourite riders are winning a lot: Bakelandts, Hushovd, Seeldrayers. Velasco, you're next

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Stage 3 result:

1 Thor Hushovd (Nor) BMC Racing Team 2:53:31
2 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team
3 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quick Step
4 Simone Ponzi (Ita) Astana Pro Team
5 Fabio Felline (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
6 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Belisol
7 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team
8 Daniele Ratto (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling
9 Jan Ghyselinck (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
10 Jonathan Cantwell (Aus) Team Saxo-Tinkoff

GC:
1 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Astana Pro Team 11:16:28
2 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:00:43
3 Riccardo Zoidl (AUT) Team Gourmetfein Simplon 0:00:59
4 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:01:10
5 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:01:29
6 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:02:03
7 Petr Ignatenko (Rus) Katusha 0:02:10
8 Matthew Busche (USA) RadioShack Leopard 0:02:15
9 Sergei Chernetski (Rus) Katusha 0:02:24
10 Stefan Denifl (AUT) IAM Cycling 0:03:05

Zoidl still in a good position, but can he move up to 2nd by beating Dyachenko in the TT later in the week? Not sure.


Anyway stage 4 is a typical Prudhomme design:

Hochtor gotta be raced wildly to get anything going, otherwise GvA FTW.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Breakaway to hold on ftw.

 

[search]

Zoidl still in a good position, but can he move up to 2nd by beating Dyachenko in the TT later in the week? Not sure.

I don't really know how strong Zoidl is timetrialling as well, but isn't it more Seeldraeyers who has got to fear Dyachenko?! Not sure if he can take 43 seconds but I would definitely rate him higher than Seeldraeyers

 

[roundabout]

Would have been a good stage for Zoidl to steal some seconds with the bonifications, but apart from Kvasina his team sucks.

 

[roundabout]

I don't really know how strong Zoidl is timetrialling as well, but isn't it more Seeldraeyers who has got to fear Dyachenko?! Not sure if he can take 43 seconds but I would definitely rate him higher than Seeldraeyers

Zoidl was 14th in the worlds last year and is fully, ahem, prepared for this race.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Breakaway to hold on ftw.

Another solo ride by Ignatyev?
Christ it would be embarrassing.

 

[roundabout]

Hochtor is 50+ minutes of climbing. At normal rate Ignatyev would be 10 minutes behind at the top

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Zoidl was 14th in the worlds last year and is fully, ahem, prepared for this race.

Interestingly, from last year's TT (stage 7, 24km) we have the following result:

1 PINOTTI Marco BMC Racing Team 20 30 27:42 52.202
2 VANDEWALLE Kristof Omega Pharma - Quick-Step 14 18 0:33 51.186
3 RABON Frantisek Omega Pharma - Quick-Step 8 12 0:53 50.589
4 BRUTT Pavel Katusha Team 7 7 0:54 50.559
5 BARTA Jan Team Netapp 6 4 ,, ,,
6 KING Benjamin RadioShack - Nissan 5 3 0:58 50.442
7 BODROGI Laszlo Team Type 1 - SANOFI 4 2 ,, ,,
8 IRIZAR ARANBURU Markel RadioShack - Nissan 2 1 1:00 50.383
9 VISCONTI Giovanni Movistar Team 1:02 50.325
10 VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume Omega Pharma - Quick-Step 1:10 50.092
11 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan Movistar Team ,, ,,
12 FUGLSANG Jakob RadioShack - Nissan 1:16 49.919
13 DYACHENKO Alexandr Astana Pro Team ,, ,,
14 ZOIDL Riccardo Team Gourmetfein - Wels 1:17 49.891

Looks like the podium might be wide open still.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Hochtor is 50+ minutes of climbing. At normal rate Ignatyev would be 10 minutes behind at the top

yea, it was more a joke since nobody wanted to go with the guy on today's stage.

 

[roundabout]

Yeah, it should be close between Zoidl and Dyachenko. But maybe Zoidl can grab a few seconds tomorrow (unlikely as the last climb is too easy) and on Sonntagberg

 

[roundabout]

yea, it was more a joke since nobody wanted to go with the guy on today's stage.

I know. I also hope that it will be a more significant break. Doubt that anyone can do a Fuglsang this year though.

 

[karrotten]

Man, I wish he was in France...

...............and after this result and the BMC performance in the TTT in Nice today, I bet BMC management might be wishing he was in France too. How many Tour TTTs has Hushovd been in the winning team?

 

[Afrank]

...............and after this result and the BMC performance in the TTT in Nice today, I bet BMC management might be wishing he was in France too. How many Tour TTTs has Hushovd been in the winning team?

2, 2001 and 2011.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

 

[Tugboat]

That's a contender for photo of the year right there!

 

[Ferminal]

Astana should just set a fierce tempo on Grossglockner and then their top3 can just TTT off into the sunset. More likely to attack each other though

 

[spalco]

[Photo]

Hahaha, awesome!