TDU race thread

[just some guy]

TDU 2012 - The new Season starts

I know we had a thread already but now teams are being announced thought a race thread might be the go.

Stage 1
Date: Tuesday 17 January 2012

Stage 2

Wednesday 18 January 2012

Stage 3

Stage 4

Teams

SKY

Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR), Geraint Thomas (GBR), Christopher Sutton (AUS), Alex Dowsett (GBR), Michael Rogers (AUS), Danny Pate (USA) and Mathew Hayman (AUS).

Rabo

Luis Leon Sanchez (ESP), Michael Matthews (AUS), Tom Leezer (NED), Mark Renshaw (AUS), Jos Van Emden (NED), Graeme Brown (AUS) and Wilco Kelderman.

BMC

Alessandro Ballan (ITA), Adam Blythe (GBR), Marcus Burghardt (GER), Martin Kohler (SUI), Manuel Quinziato (ITA), Tim Roe (AUS) and Greg Van Avermaet (BEL). Roe out Frank in


Garmin

Heinrich Haussler Robbie Hunter Jack Bauer . Ryder Hesjedal Nathan Haas, Martijn Maaskant Andreas Klier."

Katusha

: Maxim Belkov (Rus), Giampaolo Caruso (Ita), Xavier Florencio (Spa), Oscar Freire (Spa), Luca Paolini (Ita), Gatis Smukulis (Lat) and Eduard Vorganov (Rus)

Vacansoleil-DCM

Kenny van Hummel, Romain Feillu, Thomas De Gendt, Marcello Pavarin, Mirko Selvaggi, Wouter Mol and Sergey Lagutin.

RadioShack Nissan Trek

: Daniele Bennati (ITA), Linus Gerdemann (GER), Ben Hermans (BEL), Tiago Machado (POR), Hayden Roulston (NZL) Jesse Sergent (NZL), Jens Voigt (GER).

Lampre

: Alessandro Petacchi (ITA), Grega Bole (SLO), Danilo Hondo (GER), Davide Cimolai (ITA), Massimo Graziato (ITA), Davide Viganò (ITA) and Matthew Lloyd (AUS).

Astana

: Dmitriy Muravyev (KAZ), Borut Bozic (SLO), Jacopo Guarnieri (ITA), Francesco Masciarelli (ITA), Assan Bazayev (KAZ), Valentin Iglinskiy (KAZ), Dmitriy Gruzdev (KAZ).

Liquigas-Cannondale

: Stefano Agostini (ITA), Alan Marangoni (ITA), Federico Canuti (ITA), Kristijan Koren (SLO), Daniele Ratto (ITA), Mauro Da Dalto (ITA), Fabio Sabatini (ITA).

Lotto Belisol

: André Greipel, Adam Hansen, Greg Henderson, Olivier Kaisen, Vicente Reynes, Jürgen Roelandts and Marcel Sieberg.

Euskaltel-Euskadi

: Romain Sicard, Gorka Izagirre, Victor Cabedo, Pablo Urtasun, Ruben Perez, Adrián Sáez de Arregui and Ricardo Garcia.

Omega Pharma Quick-Step

: Gerald Ciolek, Matthew Brammeier, Serge Pauwels, Andrew Fenn, Gert Steegmans, Matteo Trentin and Julien Vermote.

GreenEdge

Cameron Meyer , Matt Goss, Stuart O’Grady, Simon Gerrans, Jack Bobridge, Leigh Howard and Robbie McEwen

Saxo Bank :

Sergio Paulinho, Anders Lund, Luke Roberts, Jaroslaw Marycz, Jonas Jorgensen, Jonathan Cantwell, Takashi Miyazawa

FDJ-Big Mat :

Sandy Casar, William Bonnet, Arnaud Courteille, Frederic Guesdon, Yauheni Hutarovich, Jeremy Roy, Jussi Veikkanen



UniSA – Australia team: Steele Van Hoff (VIC), Jay McCarthy (QLD), Rohan Dennis (SA), Lachlan Norris (WA) and Tom Palmer (NSW).

The final two riders for the UniSA – Australia team will be selected after the 2012 Mars Cycling Australia National Road Championships (5 – 10 January 2012 in Ballarat, Victoria).

Movistar :

Alejandro Valverde (Spa), Imanol Erviti (Spa), Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa), David Lopez (Spa), Angel Madrazo (Spa), Javier Moreno (Spa), Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa).

 

[just some guy]

Jayco Stage 5
Date: Saturday 21 January 2012

Stage 6
Date: Sunday 22 January 2012

 

[Ferminal]

Stage 4 should have finished in Angaston, would have been quite hard for some of the sprinters to make it.

 

[just some guy]

Stage 4 should have finished in Angaston, would have been quite hard for some of the sprinters to make it.

Good point....

SKY and Rabo look strong EBH must be an early fav - No snow in the dark North at the moment plus 2 camps he should start the year with a bang.

Also get more of a look at Wilco which is cool

 

[Kwibus]

Stage 5 will be epic! woooo!

It's the first race of they year so I'm allready looking forward to it. The course is the best ever so far, allthough that wasn't very hard.
It's still nothing special, but since it's the first race of the year we shouldn't expect more I guess.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Kelderman ftw

 

[theyoungest]

In EBH, I think we have a winner of this race.

 

[Dancing On The Pedals]

Bit surprised that there is no Cav on Sky's provisional list. Would have thought that he would want to get as many miles in the legs as possible if he is targeting MSR, and Sky would want an early outing of their new world champion.
EBH for the overall looks like a decent shout - if Wilunga is raced hard, can't see Goss making it.

 

[Tuarts]

Awesome, start of the season

 

[Anonymous]

Bit surprised that there is no Cav on Sky's provisional list. Would have thought that he would want to get as many miles in the legs as possible if he is targeting MSR, and Sky would want an early outing of their new world champion.

qatar/oman? or possibly mallorca/oman

 

[theyoungest]

Bit surprised that there is no Cav on Sky's provisional list. Would have thought that he would want to get as many miles in the legs as possible if he is targeting MSR, and Sky would want an early outing of their new world champion.

He didn't race the TDU when he won Milan-San Remo... Qatar-Oman-Tirreno should be enough.

 

[just some guy]

You would think Cav would start a bit later as July will be huge - Also give EBH leadership and earlier start riding for himself before the Classics - Good move imo

 

[theyoungest]

You would think Cav would start a bit later as July will be huge - Also give EBH leadership and earlier start riding for himself before the Classics - Good move imo

And I don't think his last TDU campaign brought him anything but pain.

 

[maltiv]

That's one hell of a leadout for EBH with Hayman,G and Sutton. Honestly though I hope he won't be in good enough shape to win the GC...

 

[auscyclefan94]

If 'Puppy cheeks' comes with some form he could do well for gc honours at the TDU.

For BMC; Roe, Burghardt, Quinziato & Frank are confirmed as starters.

 

[maltiv]

If 'Puppy cheeks' comes with some form he could do well for gc honours at the TDU.

For BMC; Roe, Burghardt, Quinziato & Frank are confirmed as starters.

Who is that?

 

[auscyclefan94]

Who is that?

Edvald Boasson Hagen. A friend on twitter came up with that name and I found it quite amusing because he really does have puppy cheeks. I think it is quite funny.

 

[theyoungest]

Edvald Boasson Hagen. A friend on twitter came up with that name and I found it quite amusing because he really does have puppy cheeks. I think it is quite funny.

That´s part of his race tactic... put on a babyface so no one takes you seriously.

 

[Kwibus]

Awesome, start of the season

Hold on.. still 2 months to go

 

[just some guy]

That´s part of his race tactic... put on a babyface so no one takes you seriously.

The Baby Faced Assassin - EBH the BFA

 

[maltiv]

Sean Yates says EBH will not go for the GC. He won't even be going for the sprints and will primarily lead out Sutton. Makes me wonder why on earth he even wants to go here when it's evidently not even good training. But knowing Edvald, he usually starts the season in surprisingly good shape (see Oman this year), so who knows. One thing's for sure...Rogers won't win the GC.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

http://www.tour-sanluis.com.ar/

 

[theyoungest]

Sean Yates says EBH will not go for the GC. He won't even be going for the sprints and will primarily lead out Sutton. Makes me wonder why on earth he even wants to go here when it's evidently not even good training. But knowing Edvald, he usually starts the season in surprisingly good shape (see Oman this year), so who knows. One thing's for sure...Rogers won't win the GC.

What the hell... this race is almost tailor made for EBH, could do with a short time trial but otherwise it's perfect. And indeed, it's not really suited to Rogers.

I don't agree about this race being bad training... do you remember who won MSR last year? Not to mention Luis Leon, who kicked off his stellar 2010 in Australia. Plus his stellar 2009.

 

[El Pistolero]

What the hell... this race is almost tailor made for EBH, could do with a short time trial but otherwise it's perfect. And indeed, it's not really suited to Rogers.

I don't agree about this race being bad training... do you remember who won MSR last year? Not to mention Luis Leon, who kicked off his stellar 2010 in Australia. Plus his stellar 2009.

What has Goss done after Milan-San Remo?

 

[The Hitch]

Hold on.. still 2 months to go

4 months to go. Till the start of the season that is