La Vuelta

[Froome19]

Riders Confirmed so far:

Nicholas Roche has been confirmed to be riding by as per his interviews prior to the Tour.

Kreuziger, Gavazzi and Kessiakoff. I would make the first 2 definites from what I have read with Kessiakoff being very likely.

Uran also has confirmed his intentions to ride there alongside Froome,whilst Nordhaug and Henao should also be riding to the best of my knowledge

Degenkolb also as he missed the Tour should be a certainty and I would suspect similarly Kittel. De Kort, Geschke and Geniez are confirmed for AS which interesting as Geniez is surely leaving next season and AS need the points if they want to have a realistic chance of WT so chapeau to them for discarding all the WT rubbish unlike RANT.


Whilst Navarro will be supporting Contador as a definite even though that team can be guessed mostly looking at Contador Giro team, according to Laf (a very reliable Contador tout) Noval and Hernandez will also be racing. Michael Morkov also I believe wants to race as well and he would be a strong addition on the flats if added.

For the Vaconsoleil faliures I dont think Poels will make it but Ruijgh will.
Dont know about Westra but Romain Feillu and De Gendt who missed the Tour will be riding it seems.

And the Rabo failures all 3 of them Gesink, Mollema and Kruisjiwik will be riding in all likelihood as they seek to prepare for their home worlds, Boom is also going for Rabo so he wont be defending his TOB title.


And Cobo of course will be riding and it seems Ventoso as Spanish national champ will certainly be riding, I dont know about Valverde he has not made any comments after the Tour as far as I know backing up his half hearted assertion pre Tour. Indeed it seems as if these 5 are also confirmed whilst Valverde and a couple of others will vie for the last 2 spots: Beñat Intxausti, Pablo Lastras, Jonathan Castroviejo , Javi Moreno, Nairo Quintana

Purito will be aided as is typical by Moreno

Whilst Pinot has expressed his desire to ride and he will probably ride alongside the hugely promising, French champ and in form Nacer Bouhanni who was not picked for the Tour.

Also Philbert will be racing to make up for his season but he may just be using as preparation for the worlds as he desperately tries to regain any semblance of past form, if Thor Hushovd has recovered from his problems then he may also be racing.

Euskaltel will have Anton certainly and most likely Samu if he has recovered sufficiently by then.

Cunego after having escaped the clutches of Mantova will also be building up for a worlds/Lombardia push.

Cappechi will lead Liquigas apparently

Whilst Vanendert should be going to the Vuelta but after BBC (not all that knowledgeable about cycling) claimed VBD2 is riding the dynamics there will be interesting, Vanendert may come in better form but we will have to wait and see. Lotto also now seem to be taking Joost Van Leijen as well who has been in some promising form.


And Terpstra after deciding to miss the Tour will be lining up along with the hugely talented Zydenek Stybar for his GT debut.

Andy, Machado, Bakelants, Posthuma, Monfort with and the impressive Zubeldia will most likely feature for RANT if they have not capitulated by then. Of those Andy will most likely pull out though expect Monfort to go strong as he did last year so a top 10 may be possible for him and of course concerning the new Zubeldia anything is possible, also watch out for Bakelants in breaks.

Caja Rujal have released a 13 rider long list for the race as have Vaconsoleil and they have both been posted below.


Vaconsoleil
DE GENDT Thomas
HOOGERLAND Johnny
KEIZER Martijn
LAGUTIN Sergey
LIGTHART Pim
LINDEMAN Bertjan
MARCZYNSKI Tomasz
MOL Wouter
NOVIKOV Nikita
RUYGH Rob
VALLS FERRI Rafael
VEUCHELEN Frederik



Caja Rujal:

ANDONOV PETROV Danail
ARAMENDIA LORENTE Javier
BRAVO OIARBIDE Garikoitz
BROCO Hernani
CARDOSO Andre Fernando S. Martins
CARDOSO Manuel Antonio Leal
DE LA CRUZ MELGAREJO David
DE LA FUENTE RASILLA David
FERRARI Fabricio
GALDOS ALONSO Aitor
GARCIA FERNANDEZ Marcos
PIEDRA PEREZ Antonio
SANCHEZ PIMIENTA Julian


Quite a few Tour riders in there it seems so it will be interesting how they go after a Tour which was not all that hard.

 

[red_flanders]

Thanks, appreciated! If you want, I think LS' additions are very valuable, as he knows a lot more than I do.

Moved the most relevant post.

 

[learn to ride]

No Vuelta for Samuel Sanchez

No Vuelta for Samuel Sanchez, Anton to lead team

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/12507/No-Vuelta-for-Samuel-Sanchez-Anton-to-lead-team.aspx

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Broco and probably Petrov to be reserves for Caja Rural, they've had A Volta in mind as a goal - Broco has struggled with recovery in the Volta the last two years, running out of steam for his GC ambitions and dropping from 2nd to 5th on the start of the final weekend both times. It therefore makes more sense for him to go for that, as an 11-day race, and leave André Cardoso to fly the Portuguese flag for them at La Vuelta. Manuel Cardoso's role will be interesting - will they want him at his home race, where he has a good chance of a win or two and some attention showered on the Portuguese national champ there? But then, it's also not a stretch to say he's probably their best chance of a win in a flat or mostly flat stage, rather than Aitor Galdos, though Galdos can rack up decent placements, especially if he's still there in week 3 when most of his rivals will have gone home.

 

[killswitch]

Broco and probably Petrov to be reserves for Caja Rural,

Petrov is in on behalf of the bike supplier.

 

[therhodeo]

You're almost certainly thinking of Aia.

Bonus: video (with crappy soundtrack)

Thats definitely it. Didn't doubt you just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same one.