"The greatest race of the year": 2014 Tour de San Luis, January 19th-26th

[Ryo Hazuki]

Seems the breakaway will get it... Anyone knows if one of the guys there are decent climbers?

messineo. he's also amazing itt rider

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Christian Meyer in the second group? He is one of the favourites for the GC if so...

lol. no


................

 

[theyoungest]

How far back did De Maar finish? He's an okay climber, certainly at the level of a guy like Messineo.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

How far back did De Maar finish? He's an okay climber, certainly at the level of a guy like Messineo.

who cares. de maar will lose minutes in the itt to messineo

 

[CraZyCaLL]

I don't think they won enough time anyway

 

[theyoungest]

who cares. de maar will lose minutes in the itt to messineo

Yeah, sure. It's a 19 k TT... how much is he gonna lose. He's not that bad of a TTer anyway.

 

[Wallenquist]

Doesn't matter at all, the differences aren't that big, top GC guys have three mountains stages to gain back time.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Yeah, sure. It's a 19 k TT... how much is he gonna lose. He's not that bad of a TTer anyway.

this happened last year in the itt:

1 Svein TUFT CAN OGE 36 22:14 16 0*
2 Leandro MESSINEO ARG SLS 34 +7 11 11
3 Michal KWIATKOWSKI POL OPQ 23 +11 6 0*
4 Vincenzo NIBALI ITA AST 29 +14 5 0*
5 Adriano MALORI ITA LAM 25 +19 4 0*
6 Jorge GIACINTI ARG SLS 39 +26 2 2
7 Tejay VAN GARDEREN USA BMC 25 +33
8 Eloy TERUEL ROVIRA ESP MOV 31 +34
9 Sylvain CHAVANEL FRA OPQ 34 +47
10 Jurgen VAN DEN BROECK BEL LTB 30 +52

147 Marc DE MAAR AHO UHC 29 +4:52

 

[Guybrush]

Yeah, sure. It's a 19 k TT... how much is he gonna lose. He's not that bad of a TTer anyway.

Last year ITT

1 Svein Tuft (Can) Orica GreenEdge 0:22:14
2 Leandro Messineo (Arg) San Luis Somos Todos 0:00:07
3 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:00:11
...
147 Marc De Maar (AHo) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 0:04:52

edit: too late

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

alos the crash must've been pretty bad if de maar and messineo lost so much time to gaimon and contreras

 

[theyoungest]

this happened last year in the itt:

1 Svein TUFT CAN OGE 36 22:14 16 0*
2 Leandro MESSINEO ARG SLS 34 +7 11 11
3 Michal KWIATKOWSKI POL OPQ 23 +11 6 0*
4 Vincenzo NIBALI ITA AST 29 +14 5 0*
5 Adriano MALORI ITA LAM 25 +19 4 0*
6 Jorge GIACINTI ARG SLS 39 +26 2 2
7 Tejay VAN GARDEREN USA BMC 25 +33
8 Eloy TERUEL ROVIRA ESP MOV 31 +34
9 Sylvain CHAVANEL FRA OPQ 34 +47
10 Jurgen VAN DEN BROECK BEL LTB 30 +52

147 Marc DE MAAR AHO UHC 29 +4:52

Yeah, I'm sure De Maar went full gas in that one. Shall I post the results of the Curacao championships?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Yeah, I'm sure De Maar went full gas in that one. Shall I post the results of the Curacao championships?

I know he didn't go full gaqs but stilol he;d lose ton of time to messineo in itt. also it doesn;t matter since gaimon gained a lot of time. if he does well enough itt he can win.

 

[pastronef]

of course:

RADIO POPULAR SAN L. @RADIOPOPULARSL

GAIMON PHILLIP GANADOR DE LA PRIMERA ETAPA #TourdeSanLuis

oh yesss! go Garmin.

Jonathan Vaughters ‏@Vaughters 2 h
Phuckin Phil!!!!! Yeah!!!!!

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Stage 2 "hill" at the end:

Euros might be too lazy and not bothered, but the South Americans can't let Gaimon ride into fame without a fight.

Game on.

 

[Netserk]

Stage 2 "hill" at the end:

Euros might be too lazy and not bothered, but the South Americans can't let Gaimon ride into fame without a fight.

Game on.

Last year's top-20 on the same finish:

 

[De Snelle Duif]

Does anyone know why Jelle Vanendert finished 19 minutes behind, together with teammate Sander Armee? I can see Jelle fighting for a stage win in the hillier stages.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Does anyone know why Jelle Vanendert finished 19 minutes behind, together with teammate Sander Armee? I can see Jelle fighting for a stage win in the hillier stages.

I haven't see him do anything remotely well in more than 1 year now. He did have a lot of bad luck last season though.

Probably still on the way back

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Does anyone know why Jelle Vanendert finished 19 minutes behind, together with teammate Sander Armee? I can see Jelle fighting for a stage win in the hillier stages.

He crashed. Struggling.

 

[Taxus4a]

Well, I didnt know a lot about this member of the "golden generation" (86), but he has been second in Gila:

http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=24355

by doing well in both ITT and mountain, better than his current mate in Garmin and top ten last year in San Luis, Acevedo.

That doesnt mind that he is better than his leaders Acevedo o Danielson, but he is in better position now to get a good result.. the problem is that tomorrow must pay the today effort.

 

[manafana]

so jv strikes with a new bit of talent he had interesting blog on velonews while back detailign work jv had him doing over vuelta to get him ready for his move to garmin.

Looks like those in break won't be able hold off when the mountains hit in my view

 

[De Snelle Duif]

He crashed. Struggling.

Sporza now says he has indeed crashed (and so has Armee) and injured his elbow, but nothing is broken so he will decide today if he will keep racing there.
I hope this is not a bad start to a bad year, he struggled enough last year.

 

[ItalianGigolo]

http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/138088021-Tour-de-San-Luis

Looking at the stage profile and the finish(4.8 kms at 6.7%) seems like perfect for a puncheur like Dany Moreno or Betancour... What's your opinion?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Does anyone know why Jelle Vanendert finished 19 minutes behind, together with teammate Sander Armee? I can see Jelle fighting for a stage win in the hillier stages.

ask the clinic about ibarguren

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Well, I didnt know a lot about this member of the "golden generation" (86), but he has been second in Gila:

http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=24355

by doing well in both ITT and mountain, better than his current mate in Garmin and top ten last year in San Luis, Acevedo.

That doesnt mind that he is better than his leaders Acevedo o Danielson, but he is in better position now to get a good result.. the problem is that tomorrow must pay the today effort.

acevedo last year in gila was better than anyone, but his team sucked so they destroyed him in the final stage where acevedo was alone for almost entire stage and had to chase back in all flat and climb

 

[barmaher]

This climb pitches up at the end, think Contador has won on it a few times before.

Should be a good climb for Betancur alright. Not sure what the non-Pro Tour South Americans are like and whether they're in form or not.

It will be interesting to see how Betancur rides; he really rode poorly in some races at the back end of last year, and it made me think he wanted out of AG2R.