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Presidential Tour of Turkey (2.HC) April 22-29

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Fetisoff

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Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's that time of the year again. Time for the race, known for it's echelons, awesome website http://www.tourofturkey.org/2012/, impressive sprinter line-ups, extremely exaggerated stage profiles, but most importantly the race known for our very own Joe Papp winning two stages here in 2006. It's time for the Presidential Tour of Turkey

This year's squads include

WorldTour

Ag2R (Casper, Shpilevsky)
Greenedge (Goss, McEwen)
Katusha (yeah..... you know)
Lampre (Petacchi)
Lotto (Greipel, Sohrabi)
Omega Pharma (Chicchi)
Astana (V.Iglinsky, Zeits, VINO)
Rabobank (Renshar, Bos)
Saxobank (Haedo, Haedo)

Pro-Conti
Accent.jobs - Willems Verandas (Hoste)
Andalucia
Bretagne-Schuller
Caja Rural (Cardoso)
Colnago (Modolo)
Colombia-Coldeportes (Wouldn't mind if Ryo picked one out here)
Europcar (Turgot)
Farnese-Vini (Guardini)
Argos-Shimano (Kittel)
NetApp
Spidertech (Roth)
TT1 (A. Efimkin - last year's winner)
Unitedhealthcare (Forster)
Utensilord

As well as two Local teams
Konya - Torku Seker Spor (Meltushenko)
Salcano - Arnavutköy Cycling Team (Stevic)

Please feel free to add any names I would have missed

Profiles to come in the next post

Last year: GC
EFIMKIN Alexander, TT1
ZEITS Andrey, AST
PINOT Thibaut, FDJ

Best Sprinter
PETACCHI Alessandro, LAM
VAN DIJCK Stefan, VWA
FARRAR Tyler, GRM

Best Climber
LAVERDE J. Luis F., CEP
EFIMKIN Alexander, TT1
BAGOT Yohan, COF
 
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Fetisoff

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As I've mentioned before, stage profiles are quite exaggerated on the website, so don't be shocked by them.
Anyway,

Stage 1
Alanya-Alanya 135 km
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Stage 2
Alanya-Antalya 153 km
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Stage 3 (Queen stage)
Antalya-Elmali 152 km
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Stage 4
Fethiye – Marmaris 132 km
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Fetisoff

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Stage 5
Marmaris – Turgutreis 178 km
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Stage 6
Bodrum – Kusadasi 179 km
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Stage 7
Kusadasi – Izmir 124 km
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Stage 8
Istanbul Europe-Asia 121 km
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The profiles make Stage 2 just look as bad as Stage 3.. But then you see it rises 50 meters... :eek:
 
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AntonioRossi said:
Time for Rabo to mess more sprints up. But yeah, excited to see greipel v kittel v goss v petacchi though
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I would include Guardini in that mix too, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if he got dropped on those monster hills on stages 1 and 2.

Anyway, with Vino starting this race, the real question is how many minutes will he beat everyone on stage 3
 
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Its live on Eurosport in Australia, so Im looking forwrad to it also as it has several of my favourite riders. (Greipal, Goss, McEwan, Renshaw).

I would like to see Renshaw do well, think he needs to get a win or two to get started.



Hugh
 
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GE is sending a pretty powerful sprinting team, will be very interested to see;
- Where Goss is re. preparation,
- How McEwan goes in his second last race,
- Who leads Goss out. We were discussing who GE will send to TdF on the GreenEdge thread and wondering if Meyer will be part of the lead out,
- What role they give to Kroupis who doesn't seem to have raced much since Qatar or Oman...can't recall which?
- How Tekelehaimanot goes in the climbs,
- What they do with Hepburn in his first pro race (is that right?) fresh from his World Cup track meet where he won gold in the 4000 IP and silver in the team pursuit.

GE team is

Aidis Kruopis
Brett Lancaster
Cameron Meyer
Daniel Tekelehaimanot
Jens Mouris
Matt Goss
Michael Hepburn
Robbie McEwen
 
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theyoungest said:
Romain Bardet for the overall? Not a lot of climbers on the startlist.
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Tour of Turkey is kind of a strange race, but regarding the startlist, Efimkin might be able to defend his title

I'm just talking about pure abilities of course, his season is quite crappy so far, don't know about his form. Maybe Duarte is the better choice, his form looks okay.
 
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OK, so first stage tomorrow. I understand there's a much more important little race going on, but I'll still pay some attention to this one.

My prediction for stage 1
1. Greipel
2. Petacchi
3. Guardini

Something like this


Or VINO via a solo breakaway by 5 minutes :D:D
 
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I think this route would be better if they had an ITT of at least 18-30km.

Stage 3 and 5 looks like main GC stages.
I will say 5 stages end in a bunch sprint, 2 GC and 1 and one for oppurtunists.

Goss, Chicchi and Guardini i think are the only sprinters here that could win 2 stages.
I would say Greipel and Kittel as well but neither are goinbg to the Giro- so i expect those above to go better ( i do know Chicchi is not confirmed for Giro but his team is strong ).

Renshaw and JJ Haedo will hopefully be in the mix as well.
I have lost faith in Modolo outside of Italian races- for the moment.

I hope Vino can take out the win. Efimkin should be good here as well.
 
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Fetisoff

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Zam_Olyas said:
Our very own joe papp got podium in some stages here, iirc..but disqualified afterwards.
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Yep. He's won two stages in 2006, I mentioned that in my original post.

greenedge said:
I think this route would be better if they had an ITT of at least 18-30km.

Stage 3 and 5 looks like main GC stages.
I will say 5 stages end in a bunch sprint, 2 GC and 1 and one for oppurtunists.

Goss, Chicchi and Guardini i think are the only sprinters here that could win 2 stages.
I would say Greipel and Kittel as well but neither are goinbg to the Giro- so i expect those above to go better ( i do know Chicchi is not confirmed for Giro but his team is strong ).

Renshaw and JJ Haedo will hopefully be in the mix as well.
I have lost faith in Modolo outside of Italian races- for the moment.

I hope Vino can take out the win. Efimkin should be good here as well.
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Well, if this had 19-30 km of TT, IMHO it would be almost like last-year's Paris-Nice, too easy for a TT specialist. I wouldn't mind a shorted (5-10 km) prologue though, to make things more interesting.

But one thing to remember - last year everyone thought it would be a sprint fest as well, but almost every stage ended up with huge splits of the peloton into many groups...
 
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Zam_Olyas

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Yep. He's won two stages in 2006, I mentioned that in my original post.



Well, if this had 19-30 km of TT, IMHO it would be almost like last-year's Paris-Nice, too easy for a TT specialist. I wouldn't mind a shorted (5-10 km) prologue though, to make things more interesting.

But one thing to remember - last year everyone thought it would be a sprint fest as well, but almost every stage ended up with huge splits of the peloton into many groups...
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Sorry, did not read the OP.
 
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