June 16-19: 2011 Tour de Slovénie (2.1)

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June 16-19: 2011 Tour de Slovénie (2.1)

18th edition of Slovenia's National Tour

Official Website

Last year's top 10:
1. NIBALI Vincenzo
2. VISCONTI Giovanni
3. SÖRENSEN Chris Anker
4. NOE Andrea
5. SARMIENTO TUNARROSA Cayetano Jose
6. LUND Anders
7. GARCIA FERNANDEZ Marcos
8. SVAB Gasper
9. BOLE Grega
10. MAHORIC Mitja

Past winners:
2010 NIBALI Vincenzo
2009 FUGLSANG Jakob
2008 GOLCER Jure
2007 NOSE Tomasz
2006 NOSE Tomasz
2005 NIEMIEC Przemyslaw
2004 MAHORIC Mitja
2003 MAHORIC Mitja
2002 PETROV Evgeni
2001 ZAKIROV Faat

Startlist: http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html?detp=view&_ap=startlijst&editie_idd=MjE4OTk=

 

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June 16th-Prologue: Ljubljana ITT, 6.8km

First time a prologue has been included in the race, giving us two stages with potential to decide the GC. Nibali will be a difficult match to dethrone as he looks to defend his crown from last year.

 

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June 17th-Stage 1: Koper-Nova Gorica, 189.6 km

June 18th- Stage 2: Tržiè-Golte, 170.6 km

 

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June 19th- Stage 3: Ptuj-Novo Mesto, 181 km

 

[craig1985]

I'm going to laugh so hard if Petacchi, Sastre, and Nibali don't clean up here. Out of interest, do Liquigas, Lampre, and Geox all have a strong presence in Slovenia?

 

[nvpacchi]

I'm thinking Petacchi will give way to Bole on the sprints, so he can shine in front of his home nation.

Sprints should be exciting with Bole, Ale-Jet, Gatto, and Kump among others.

Watch out for Blaz Furdi. 12th in the Queen stage last year, hoping to improve on his performance (only 22 yrs). Doesn't have a chrono, but shows nice promise on hills and mountains.

 

[greenedge]

I shall go Guarini, Bole and Sagan for sprints. Visconti and Nibali overall. Liquigas and Lampre definetly do as they have got 2 young talents.

 

[Lupetto]

Prologue: Ljubljana ITT, 6.8km

1 Robert Vrečer (Perutnina Ptuj) 7:48,25
2 Kristijan Koren (Liquigas-Butan plin) 7:52,04
3 Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Butan plin) 7:54,61
4 Giovanni Visconti (Farnese) 7:55,35
5 Luca Ascani (D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo) 7:57,07
6 Diego Ulissi (Lampre) 7:57,71
7 Nicki Sorensen (Saxo Bank) 7:59,13
8 Matthias Brändle (Geox) 7:59,43
9 Marcel Wyss (Geox) 8:03,25
10 Pieter Serry (Topsport) 8:05,47

 

[nvpacchi]

Disregard my comment, Lupetto has the updated info


lol nvm, live feed might be right on the site below

http://www.siol.net/sportal/kolesarstvo/po_sloveniji/v_zivo/2011/06/1_stage_ljubljana.aspx

 

[TheOkram]

I'm going to laugh so hard if Petacchi, Sastre, and Nibali don't clean up here. Out of interest, do Liquigas, Lampre, and Geox all have a strong presence in Slovenia?

See http://www.siol.net/sportal/kolesarstvo/po_sloveniji/ekipe/2011/06/ekipe_na_dirki_po_sloveniji.aspx for complete team lineups.

Otherwise, several people including Slovene national team coach Hvastja, rank today's surprise winner Vrečer as having good chances for overall win. The Saturday's Golte queen stage is apparently his backyard where he trains several days per week. This will surely draw large crowds to the final hell km of the Golte stage.

 

[TheOkram]

I'm thinking Petacchi will give way to Bole on the sprints, so he can shine in front of his home nation.

Yes, Bole said he will go for win tomorrow and expects help from Petacchi, who is said to have just returned from altitude training and is not aiming for top finishes in Slovenian Tour.

However, tomorrow's finish is in Kristjan Koren's (Liquigas) home town Nova Gorica, so he is also eager to win the stage. He was slightly disappointed with this second place today in TT, since he wanted to wear the yellow jersey tomorrow.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

vrecer is an animal in balkan cycling. he could win this

 

[nvpacchi]

Vrecer has been beasting it this year, winning pretty much everything he has entered. I would love to see him hold the jersey till the end, as it would mean so much more to him and his fellow countryman as opposed to if someone like Nibali or Visconti won.

Can't deny this elation, awesome kit too!:

 

[jens_attacks]

this is perfect for nibali i guess.i hope the monster luca ascani can beat him though,he was amazing in trentino.

 

[diorgen]

Slovenia is such a beautiful country. I watched the Giro go through Koper in 2004 but it was dissapointing because it just skirted the town, if they could ride through the old city or the harbor it would be nicer.

 

[Lupetto]

Stage 2

1° Elia Viviani (Liquigas-Butan plin)
2° Grega Bole (Lampre)
3° Giovanni Visconti (Farnese)

 

[Lupetto]

Stage 2, Koper – Nova Gorica, 190 km

1. E.Viviani (Liq) 4:54:35
2. G.Bole (Lam)
3. G.Visconti (Far)
4. K.Koren (Liq)
5. A.Petit (Cof)
6. B.Jarc (Adr)
7. M.Fedele (Dan)
8. C.Corioni (ASA)
9. J.Keukeleire (Cof)
10. R.Rogina (Lob)

Complete Result.

 

[Magnus]

It'll be interesting to se how Ulissi do in this race. He's been doing pretty good so far, this season.

 

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New Top 10:

1 VREČER Robert PER 5h02'23''
2 VISCONTI Giovanni FAR 0'03''
3 KOREN Kristijan LIQ 0'04''
4 NIBALI Vincenzo LIQ 0'06''
5 ASCANI Luca DAN 0'08''
6 ULISSI Diego LAM 0'09''
7 VIVIANI Elia LIQ 0'11''
8 SÖRENSEN Nicki SBS
9 WYSS Marcel GEO 0'15''
10 BOLE Grega LAM 0'17''

 

[jens_attacks]

hey there are the same girls as in il giro and italian races.the hot brunette on the right in the first picture is universal.

 

[TheOkram]

Ulissi (Lampre) won!
About 100 m of advantage from Croatian national champion Rogina (Loborika), followed by Špilak (Lampre) and Vrečer (Perutnina Ptuj).

 

[TheOkram]

Špilak was leading up to the final 2 kms of the final climb, followed 100 m behind by the group of Nibali, Ulissi, Rogina, Vrečer.

Nibali then dropped out and arrived to the finish much later.

In the last km or so Ulissi attacked, nobody could respond. Good show of the white jersey, now also the likely overall winner.

 

[Magnus]

Špilak was leading up to the final 2 kms of the final climb, followed 100 m behind by the group of Nibali, Ulissi, Rogina, Vrečer.

Nibali then dropped out and arrived to the finish much later.

In the last km or so Ulissi attacked, nobody could respond. Good show of the white jersey, now also the likely overall winner.

Yay! Go Ulissi!

 

[Lupetto]

Looks like there was another nasty crash with a head injury. Kohei Uchima (D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo) was hospitalized after a crash.

 

[Anonymous]

Looks like there was another nasty crash with a head injury. Kohei Uchima (D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo) was hospitalized after a crash.

very bad year in the peleton.