March 20-24: Settimana Ciclista Internazionale Coppi e Bartali (2.1)

[TeoSheva]

with ponzi and battaglin there i suspect the sprint wasn't exactly uphill?

why not? they are good in that kind of sprint...

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

ORDINE D'ARRIVO UFFICIOSO: 1 Diego Ulissi (Lampre Isd) km 151 in 3h43'04" a 40,616 km/h. 2 Rory Sutherland (Unitedhealthcare), 3 Danilo Di Luca (Acqua e Sapone), 4 Simone Ponzi (Astana), 5 Enrico Battaglin (Colnago Csf), 6 Moreno Moser (Liquigas Cannondale), 7 Bartosz Huzarski (Team NetApp), 8 Julian David Arredondo (Team Nippo) a 2", 9 Paul Voss (Endura Racing), 10 Gianluca Brambilla (Colnago Csf)

nice arredondo, his first race as a "pro" with team nippo. he was one of the big generation of antioquia in the team of uran and henao. they had a superteam then. although arredondo was one year younger than them

edit: this was their team then

Aguardiente Antioqueño-Lotería de Medellín
Director Deportivo: Héctor Manuel Castaño Betancourth
1. Rigoberto Urán Urán (Urrao)
2. Nicolás Castro Laverde (Col)
3. Julián David Arredondo (Ciudad Bolívar)
4. Sergio Luis Henao (Ríonegro)
5. Diego Esteban Pemberty Tamayo (Yarumal)
6. Juan Pablo Villegas Cardona (Col)
7. Mauricio Pérez González (Medellín)
8. John Alejandro Alcaraz Gil (Medellín)

they dominated hard

 

[theyoungest]

ORDINE D'ARRIVO UFFICIOSO: 1 Diego Ulissi (Lampre Isd) km 151 in 3h43'04" a 40,616 km/h. 2 Rory Sutherland (Unitedhealthcare), 3 Danilo Di Luca (Acqua e Sapone), 4 Simone Ponzi (Astana), 5 Enrico Battaglin (Colnago Csf)

with ponzi and battaglin there i suspect the sprint wasn't exactly uphill?

With Sutherland in 2nd I assume it was some kind of false flat.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

sutherland is very good in flat sprints. he won even massprints in usa.

 

[roundabout]

350m false flat, 250m downhill with a hairpin, 200m at 9 percent, left turn and final 200m at 6 percent

looks like a finish where positioning also counts

although the final 3km profile shows an easier finish with the last 200m rising only 3 meters

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

that's why there are some small time gaps in the top 10.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

ORDINE D'ARRIVO UFFICIOSO: 1 Diego Ulissi (Lampre Isd) km 151 in 3h43'04" a 40,616 km/h. 2 Rory Sutherland (Unitedhealthcare), 3 Danilo Di Luca (Acqua e Sapone), 4 Simone Ponzi (Astana), 5 Enrico Battaglin (Colnago Csf)

with ponzi and battaglin there i suspect the sprint wasn't exactly uphill?

???

Why not. Ponzi and Battaglin are excellint uphill sprinters. You seriously think Battaglin and Ponzi are just sprinters for the flat then you missed a lot

 

[jens_attacks]

because i expected di luca to smoke them?
let me suffer now lol

 

[hrotha]

Any news on Brändle? He's been decent this month and with the time he got on the TTT I was hoping he could get a lucky top 10 or more reasonably a top 15 in the final GC.

 

[roundabout]

It wasn't a super difficult stage but he lost his jersey to Ulissi.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Any news on Brändle? He's been decent this month and with the time he got on the TTT I was hoping he could get a lucky top 10 or more reasonably a top 15 in the final GC.

he lost time today as he isn't in top 10 gc. "only" 3 riders of netapp were in the group today

 

[hrotha]

It wasn't a super difficult stage but he lost his jersey to Ulissi.

he lost time today as he isn't in top 10 gc. "only" 3 riders of netapp were in the group today

Awwww, I see. Thank you guys.

 

[roundabout]

Lost 35 seconds

http://ciclismo.ficr.it/tab_results.asp?p_Anno=2012&p_Codice=201&p_Gara=12&p_Tappa=4

 

[Frosty]

Tiernan Locke +2.15

 

[jens_attacks]

Tiernan Locke +2.15

crash or mechanical?

i hope androni and acqua e sapone will make the race hard tomorrow

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Tiernan Locke +2.15

his form peak is over probably. tomorrow the hardest stage and also the itt?

 

[nvpacchi]

Tomorrow shold be real fun


Top 30:

1 BENEDETTI CESARE TEAM NETAPP 9:37'07
2 HUZARSKI BARTOSZ TEAM NETAPP 4
3 BARTA JAN TEAM NETAPP 6
4 CAMANO ORTUZAR IKER ENDURA RACING 14
5 VOSS PAUL ENDURA RACING 14
6 DI LUCA DANILO ACQUA & SAPONE 16
7 ULISSI DIEGO LAMPRE - ISD 21
8 FELLINE FABIO ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI VENEZUELA 21
9 SERPA PEREZ JOSE RODOLFO ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI VENEZUELA 21
10 RUBIANO CHAVEZ MIGUEL ANGEL ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI VENEZUELA 21
11 RUJANO GUILLEN JOSÉ ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI VENEZUELA 21
12 DE MARCHI ALESSANDRO ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI VENEZUELA 21
13 OCHOA CARLOS JOSÉ ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI VENEZUELA 21
14 REDA FRANCESCO ACQUA & SAPONE 22
15 GARZELLI STEFANO ACQUA & SAPONE 22
16 CODOL MASSIMO ACQUA & SAPONE 22
17 BETANCUR GOMEZ CARLOS ALBERTO ACQUA & SAPONE 22
18 MOSER MORENO LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE 28
19 BATTAGLIN ENRICO COLNAGO - CSF INOX 29
20 CARUSO DAMIANO LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE 30
21 PONZI SIMONE ASTANA PRO TEAM 31
22 BAILETTI PAOLO UTENSILNORD NAMED 31
23 VILA ERRANDONEA PATXI JAVIER UTENSILNORD NAMED 31
24 BRAMBILLA GIANLUCA COLNAGO - CSF INOX 33
25 POZZOVIVO DOMENICO COLNAGO - CSF INOX 33
26 MALORI ADRIANO LAMPRE - ISD 33
27 KANGERT TANEL ASTANA PRO TEAM 33
28 ZAKARIN ILNUR ITERA - KATUSHA 35
29 KOCHETKOV PAVEL ITERA - KATUSHA 35
30 COMINELLI CRISTIAN TEAM IDEA 39

 

[TourOfSardinia]

my RaiSp2 recording failed at 19.00 - I'll try & catch the 23:10 ...
but if anyone post before I'd be happy.

 

[classicomano]

his form peak is over probably. tomorrow the hardest stage and also the itt?

Quintana crushed his soul.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

maybe there was too much headwind or downhilling :L

 

[greenedge]

Congrats to Diego.

sad for JTL.

 

[roundabout]

He doesn't have the form now. He was struggling to follow the peloton in Paris-Troyes so it's no surprise that he wasn't among the leaders today.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Tappa 3 last 15 mins

Tappa 3 last 15 mins

http://youtu.be/qq07Qj1BKn4

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

incredible androni. and how great to see rujano again _O_

 

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

Big day today. I expect fireworks on the climb. I expect Androni to really attack it. De Luca should go well. If Voss or Camano for Endura can keep within 30 seconds then they have a great chance with the ITT tomorrow.

Looking forward to this one