Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali 2015 (2.1), 26-29/3

[Dazed and Confused]

26.03. Stage 1a: Gatteo - Gatteo (99,5 km)
26.03. Stage 1b: (TTT): Gatteo a mare - Gatteo (13,3 km)
27.03. Stage 2: Cesenatico - Sogliano al Rubicone (156,2 km / 67,8 km + 4x 22,1 km)
28.03. Stage 3: Calderara di Reno - Crevalcore (173,8 km / 55,0 km + 9x 13,2 km)
29.03. Stage 4: Pavullo - Roccapelago (152,6 km)

Stage 1a

Stage 1b

So two stages today (Marts 26).

Startlist: http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html ... d=MjY0Mjg=

Website (and ticker during race): http://www.gsemilia.it/

Live video? I hope so.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Stage 2

Stage 3

I have lifted the pictures of http://06.live-radsport.ch/

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Stage 4

Where is the defending champ, Kennaugh?

 

[staubsauger]

Any live streams available later on?

 

[May0maniac]

Nice, this year we have an interesting startlist, Henao finally returns and the colombian Movistar team, we finally get to see Oscar Soliz racing in europe, even if I have prefered to see him in a more climbing heavy race at altitude. They also have Freddy Montaña and Diego Ochoa could be an interesting prospect. If CCC don't loose too much time in the TTT Rebellin could be one of the favourites.

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

Any live streams available later on?

As far as I know Raisport 2 will only show a one hour recap from 6:00 to 7:00pm.

 

[Wallenquist]

Cummings is the man to beat but Sky will desperatly try to drop him.

Glad to see Henao back.

Also wonder how top Italian u23 climbers will race, Ciccone and Moscon are both in good shape and should try to stay as long as possible with the best in mounatins. Top 10 is possible.

 

[SafeBet]

Belletti wins first mid stage.

 

[May0maniac]

Belletti wins the sprint and takes stage 1a
1) Manuel Belletti (Team SouthEast)
2) Grega Bole (CCC Sprandi)
3) Patrick Clausen (Trefor Blue Water)
4) Asbjorn Kragh Andersen (Trefor Blue Water)
5) Ben Swift (Sky)
6) Edwin Avila (Colombia)
7) Francesco Gavazzi (Team SouthEast)
8) Davide Viganò (Team Idea)
9) Daniele Colli (Nippo Fantini)
10) Simone Ponzi (Team SouthEast)
Apparently there was a crash with 500m to go.
stage 1b, the short TTT will start at 14:00 CET

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Looks like half the field lost more than 4 minutes on the first "little" stage.

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

Looks like half the field lost more than 4 minutes on the first "little" stage.

Well Sky set a pretty high tempo.
The other thing is that I'm pretty sure that most doms were told to take it easy once they'd get drop so that they'd still be fresh for the TTT on the same day. So I'm pretty sure that most guys didn't even try to get pack into the main field once they got dropped on one of the climbs.

 

[TMP402]

Re:

Belletti wins the sprint and takes stage 1a
1) Manuel Belletti (Team SouthEast)
2) Grega Bole (CCC Sprandi)
3) Patrick Clausen (Trefor Blue Water)
4) Asbjorn Kragh Andersen (Trefor Blue Water)
5) Ben Swift (Sky)
6) Edwin Avila (Colombia)
7) Francesco Gavazzi (Team SouthEast)
8) Davide Viganò (Team Idea)
9) Daniele Colli (Nippo Fantini)
10) Simone Ponzi (Team SouthEast)
Apparently there was a crash with 500m to go.
stage 1b, the short TTT will start at 14:00 CET

Haha Ben Swift never gets a break.

 

[May0maniac]

Just like i thought, Sky rode stage 1a way to hard and payed the price in the TTT, 16'34" last right now, 1'20" behind SOuthEast. Sky only had 3 riders at the finish line.

 

[luckyboy]

Re: Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali 2015 (2.1), 26-

woah Bardiani beat Sky by almost a minute in the TTT
15:36 to 16:34

 

[May0maniac]

Re: Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali 2015 (2.1), 26-

woah Bardiani beat Sky by almost a minute in the TTT
15:36 to 16:34

I just realized that every team will start twice with 2 teams composed of 4 different riders.

 

[SafeBet]

Yeah same format as last year.

 

[luckyboy]

Rebellin takes the race lead lol

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

Rebellin takes the race lead lol

Nice
1° CCC-Sprandi (101 REBELLIN, 103 KIENDYS, 106 KUREK, 107 MARYCZ) 14'49''
2° Sky (1 SWIFT, 2 DEIGNAN, 5 SIUTSOU, 6 BOSWELL) 14'50''
3° Mtn-Qhubeka (91 MEINTJES, 92 VENTER, 94 JANSE VAN RENSBURG, 98 CUMMINGS) 14'53''
4° Androni Giocattoli (31 PELLIZOTTI, 35 STORTONI, 36 FRAPPORTI, 37 TVETCOV ) 14'57''
5° Colombia ( 71 AVILA, 73 DUARTE, 75 RAMIREZ, 77 QUINTERO) 14'58''

Colombia being 5th and only 9 seconds back in a TTT is another surprise, Henao was on the wrong team and lost 1'45" to Rebellin.

 

[luckyboy]

Weird decision

 

[roundabout]

He is just coming back, so it's no surprise that he was on the B team

 

[luckyboy]

I mixed up my Henaos

 

[TMP402]

Does anyone else think of Hank Kingsley when they see "Henao"?

 

[JRanton]

Swift wins the 2nd stage solo. Turning into a climber.

 

[TMP402]

Looks like Ben Swift won from a climb-inspired three man break, held off the peloton for about 15km, and then Swift went away in the final 1km.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Impressive stuff. Hopefully we will get a bit of video of the race action.