South American race thread

[Jancouver]

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Another perfect leadout by Quickstep. This time with Boonen at the end of it. Maybe next time Richeze gets his chance

No kidding ... clearly, the steppers are having fun playing with the field and only Viviani is able to keep up

 

[Jancouver]

Re:

No DQ?

If it was Bouhanni all hell would break loose, Tommeke went from the right side of the road to the middle and blocked Viviani very clearly.

Nah, its just 2.1 race. Nobody cares. Boonen head down the whole time. You can tell he hasn't done any major sprints in a while and even lost a sprint to Hayman last year at P-R

 

[VDB44]

Maybe Boonen didn't want to hit the idiot with the flag on the finish-line and end his season today.

 

[Jancouver]

Tomorrow 12km ITT

all stage profiles and maps are here http://www.vueltaasanjuan.org/recorrido

 

[42x16ss]

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The parcours for this race is pretty lame.

It's January. The WT riders don't need to be hammering through mountain ranges yet.

 

[Jancouver]

Re: Re:

The parcours for this race is pretty lame.

It's January. The WT riders don't need to be hammering through mountain ranges yet.

The stage 5. finish is at 2565m. (start at 632m) Just FYI

 

[42x16ss]

Yeah it's a nice climb, but the stage is all flat leading up (from memory) and the overall gradient is fairly shallow.

It's not like a 3 x HC pass Giro special

 

[StryderHells]

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Yeah it's a nice climb, but the stage is all flat leading up (from memory) and the overall gradient is fairly shallow.

It's not like a 3 x HC pass Giro special

The stage profile is in Jancouvers post, it's a fairly shallow MTF but I guess finishing at that altitude at this time of year will play it's part. Falls Creek looks like a similar MTF just without the altitude.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

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Tomorrow 12km ITT

all stage profiles and maps are here http://www.vueltaasanjuan.org/recorrido

Looks like a perfect one for young riders like Ganna, Reis and Cavagna.

 

[barmaher]

Re: Re:

The parcours for this race is pretty lame.

It's January. The WT riders don't need to be hammering through mountain ranges yet.

I am well aware of that. You don't need tough mountain-top finishes to make a good parcours.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Hmmm? The peloton was pretty small last stage. Sepúlveda for instance lost 1:07, does anybody know why?

 

[Ruudz0r]

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Hmmm? The peloton was pretty small last stage. Sepúlveda for instance lost 1:07, does anybody know why?

There were some crashes near the finish, i dont know exactly who was involved and who were held up by it though, but guess Sepulveda was one of them.

 

[May0maniac]

I don't know a lot about the young Bolivians that are riding for Equipo Bolivia, how good are those guys?
Piter Campero could surprise people, form what I've heard he's a pretty good rider.

 

[yaco]

Not much competition in the sprints - Few riders can stay with the Etix lead out.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

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I don't know a lot about the young Bolivians that are riding for Equipo Bolivia, how good are those guys?
Piter Campero could surprise people, form what I've heard he's a pretty good rider.

I like that guy.

viewtopic.php?p=1000307#p1000307

He is the only current cyclist, who knows the real value of UCI.

 

[orbifold]

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In the old Tour de San Luis there were plenty of nice climbs, including a couple of 1st Cat climbs and one HC. San Juan also has a few of other nice roads but for some reason they decided not to include them in this race.

The parcours for this race is pretty lame.

It's January. The WT riders don't need to be hammering through mountain ranges yet.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Re: Re:

The parcours for this race is pretty lame.

It's January. The WT riders don't need to be hammering through mountain ranges yet.

I am well aware of that. You don't need tough mountain-top finishes to make a good parcours.

Agree!
Having 5 completely flat stages and one flat ITT balanced out by only one mountain stage is pretty bad. Im not really an expert en geography in Argentina, but I assume there were plenty of opportunities to get some tougher finishes going on a couple of stages considering the terrain they utilise on stage 5.

 

[Guybrush]

Re: Re:

The parcours for this race is pretty lame.

It's January. The WT riders don't need to be hammering through mountain ranges yet.

I am well aware of that. You don't need tough mountain-top finishes to make a good parcours.

Agree!
Having 5 completely flat stages and one flat ITT balanced out by only one mountain stage is pretty bad. Im not really an expert en geography in Argentina, but I assume there were plenty of opportunities to get some tougher finishes going on a couple of stages considering the terrain they utilise on stage 5.

kind of...

the problem is the only city in the province with enough hotel rooms is San Juan

 

[jens_attacks]

Those gradients make challenge colorado climbs look like zoncolan

 

[Alexandre B.]

First win for Bahrain-Merida, neo-pro Cavagna very impressive

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

People seem to forget that the Vuelta a San Juan has a lot of tradition; it's the biggest and most important race in Argentina (far more important for the locals then San Luis has ever been). The stages themselves are repeated year after year and pay tribute to local race classics (e.g. the Doble Difunta Correa, whose course is more or less identical with stage 6), just because it's now UCI-sanctioned they don't have to and shouldn't change the character of the race. And by the way, there are races far more unbalanced in Argentina. There were editions of the Doble Bragado where Laureano Rosas won 9 out of 10 stages.

 

[May0maniac]

Apparently the early starters had to deal with strong wind, later on the wind slowed down, so those who started later had favourable conditions.

 

[DNP-Old]

Finally, at last, they've made the profiles for the nationals in Bogotá next month. The elites will do 15 laps of the circuit, making it around 240 kilometers in total. The second pic is the time trial.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Did anyone else see that guy from Italy just ride into the fields, how did he manage that? The only thing I can tthink of is that his stem must have broken.

 

[barmaher]

Gaviria beat Viviani again.