LXI Vuelta Colombia 2011 12-6 / 26-6

[dlwssonic]

The Puerto de Letras.

that is freaking crazy it should not even be allowed! But it will add to great viewing!

 

[El Pistolero]

that is freaking crazy it should not even be allowed! But it will add to great viewing!

But that's just a rolling mountain according to Bavarianrider Perfect for Martin to put in hours on the rest

 

[Escarabajo]

teams announced so far:

...
GW-Shimano-Chec Edeq-Envia-Gatorade

Jairo Salas
Marlon Pérez
Hernán Buenahora
Camilo Gómez
Diego Quintero
Jaime Suaza
Juan Alejandro García
Frank Osorio
Didier Chaparro
Félix 'Gato' Cárdenas

LOL.

What is the average age of that GW Shimano team?

So the Bufalo is back. One of Botero's best friends.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

the team is very young, only buenahora, marlon perez and cardenas are old

 

[lucybears]

teams announced so far:

Libardo Nino
Victor Nino
Miguel Nino
Camilo Castiblanco
Mario Rojas
Jairo Pérez
José Jiménez
Luis Martínez
Jonathan Paredes
Cristian Talero

Libardo Nino = DNS

 

[craig1985]

I wish the race organisers would improve their race coverage, get the country's tourism board behind to show off the real Colombia and not the bad press that Colombia gets.

Something on cyclingtorrents, or proper highlights on youtube (with Libertine's "story of the race" suggestion).

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Libardo Nino = DNS

what happened??

 

[lucybears]

Libardo Niño no correrá la Vuelta a Colombia
http://www.ciclismodecolombia.com/2011/06/libardo-nino-no-correra-la-vuelta.html

 

[craig1985]

The Puerto de Letras.

So what odds that the Giro will somehow find away to fit the Letras in?

 

[Duartista]

They are not going up Letras this year, unfortunately. You can see the stage details at this site: http://www.ciclismodecolombia.com/ by clicking on 'Altimetrias'.

To be honest, it is a rather disappointing route.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Wow, that really IS a disappointing route. What a waste of La Linea too.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

it is indeed horrible, 3 mountainstages and no mountaintop finishes, worst route I've ever seen for this race

 

[hrotha]

Well, those profiles don't look very accurate and I suppose altitude and the way Colombians ride will make the whole thing harder, otherwise I'd be tipping Petacchi to win four or five stages.

 

[Ildabaoth]

This year's route is tailor made for Sevilla and Henao, in that order. The only exciting thing will be the battle for the 3rd place.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

henao will win for sure on this course if they let him. I pray to god sevilla won't win. it will make colombian cycling look really bad but in colombia they think he's a god or something

 

[Duartista]

What could 'save' the race for me is a good performance by Quintana. The decisive stage will probably be the mountain time trial, and he is very good at those. In general though, I agree that a Sevilla-Henao procession looks almost inevitable.

 

[profff]

henao will win for sure on this course if they let him. I pray to god sevilla won't win. it will make colombian cycling look really bad but in colombia they think he's a god or something

+1

but sevilla probably will win
in MOUNTAIN ITT in vuelta antiochia he destroyed henao
this year in vuelta it looks like itt in the mountain will be decisive.

sevilla winning the vuelta will give a bad image to colombian cycling.

 

[hrotha]

You know, you can't hype the Colombians up all year long, saying they'll dominate international cycling for decades to come, and then say Sevilla will win their most important race with ease. You just can't.

 

[profff]

in colombia ( and in south america) there are many talented readers.

betancour, youngest rider in the giro, was one of the rider i wrote about : he performed very well, at age 21, in the finestre stage of the giro
ruyano confirmed he is one fo the best climbers in the world and without ilnesses , he would have top5 in the giro, easily.

it ia s shame that other talented riders like henao, quintana and others wil be shadowed by sevilla, which has a very discussed profile-

aniway, if you look back at my post, you will realize that i was also hyping pinot months before the dauphinee: i know there is talent in many part of the words, not only among english speaking riders.

 

[hrotha]

Oh, don't worry, I didn't mean you, I was teasing Ryo (even though he didn't actually say Sevilla will win, but you have to be flexible).

 

[Ildabaoth]

You know, you can't hype the Colombians up all year long, saying they'll dominate international cycling for decades to come, and then say Sevilla will win their most important race with ease. You just can't.

While I do agree with you, to be fair most colombian best riders won't be riding the Vuelta a Colombia, others are still too young to deal with a 2 weeks stage race, Sevilla has one hell of a team and the route is more suited to him than to a pure climber.

 

[luckyboy]

Parcours does look a little disappointing.

 

[hfer07]

19 junio Stage .7: Circuito Mundialista – Duitama (96km)

God- this brings great memories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwsTV2zCsI0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfBvoBEZXvo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOtqNQJQcuU

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

today is the team presentation. I hope there will be a video of it later.

the course as said before is very weak which will probably mean war on the flats. expect teams to massively attack when one of the favorites has a flat anywhere on the flat course as happened with duarte in 2009

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

no less than 3 tv stations in colombia broadcast tomorrows prologue live!

TeleAntioquia, RTVC and Senal Colombia. let's hope for livestreams then