Three days of de Panne - 29th to 31st March

[madvoodoo]

Sagan is not going to start tomorrow, liquigas leaders want him to save some energy and to be 100% ready on Sunday...

 

[cyclingrookie]

Terpstra takes both the ITT and GC.

 

[born65]

I hope for an top 10 result for Drucker.
He isn't bad in TT.

Last year in TDL prologue he was 9th before Klöden.

1 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 0:03:41.990
2 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 0:00:08.140
3 Grégory Rast (Swi) Team Radioshack 0:00:08.230
4 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 0:00:09.410
5 Lance Armstrong (USA) Team Radioshack 0:00:09.110
6 Daryl Impey (RSA) Team Radioshack 0:00:10.490
7 Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:00:10.680
8 Aitor Galdos (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 0:00:10.810
9 Jempy Drucker (Lux) CT Differdange 0:00:12.380
10 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team Radioshack

 

[Anonymous]

Photo gallery from today (primeraly sky) gone up
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[Damiano]

Sagan is not going to start tomorrow, liquigas leaders want him to save some energy and to be 100% ready on Sunday...

Oh, that's nice! You've got a link?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Oh, that's nice! You've got a link?

Wow...I think Liquigas has gone ***

Sagan can possible win De Panne (his short ITT is not bad and boni seconds in sprint stage)...
Sagan can possibly..uhm, top 15 in RVV?? Not much more...

Weird choice

 

[Kazistuta]

I hope for an top 10 result for Drucker.
He isn't bad in TT.

Last year in TDL prologue he was 9th before Klöden.

1 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 0:03:41.990
2 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 0:00:08.140
3 Grégory Rast (Swi) Team Radioshack 0:00:08.230
4 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 0:00:09.410
5 Lance Armstrong (USA) Team Radioshack 0:00:09.110
6 Daryl Impey (RSA) Team Radioshack 0:00:10.490
7 Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:00:10.680
8 Aitor Galdos (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 0:00:10.810
9 Jempy Drucker (Lux) CT Differdange 0:00:12.380
10 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team Radioshack

Sorry, but he won't.... Galdos and Casper aren't exactly great TT'ers either, so wouldn't put to much in the above result.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Some real RECENT ITT references

Tirreno, closing ITT
1. CANCELLARA Fabian 10m33
4. FLENS Rick +20s
5. GRABSCH Bert +22s
7. ROSSELER Sébastien +24s
13. BODNAR Maciej +31s
20. MURAVYEV Dmitriy +35s

Algarve, closing ITT (17km)
1. MARTIN Tony 20m53
2. WESTRA Lieuwe +5s
8. ROSSELER Sébastien +31s
10. CHAVANEL Sylvain +42s
11. GRABSCH Bert +42s

Grabsch, Rosseler and Chavanel fail in comparison to Westra
Hell, even Flens looks good for podium.

 

[theyoungest]

I hope for an top 10 result for Drucker.
He isn't bad in TT.

Last year in TDL prologue he was 9th before Klöden.

1 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 0:03:41.990
2 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 0:00:08.140
3 Grégory Rast (Swi) Team Radioshack 0:00:08.230
4 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 0:00:09.410
5 Lance Armstrong (USA) Team Radioshack 0:00:09.110
6 Daryl Impey (RSA) Team Radioshack 0:00:10.490
7 Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:00:10.680
8 Aitor Galdos (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 0:00:10.810
9 Jempy Drucker (Lux) CT Differdange 0:00:12.380
10 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team Radioshack

Lol, that was a 2.7 km (!) prologue with a climb in it.

 

[roundabout]

Anything can happen. Tirreno was 2 weeks and Algarve over a month ago. Westra would still be the favorite though even without bonifications.

 

[Ryaguas]

Uh? You must have dreamed that up.

I was refering to UCI and CN...

Nice ride for sure, but it's GENGHIS (Khan)

nah.... that nickname sux... and BIG TIME...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Anything can happen. Tirreno was 2 weeks away and Algarve was over a month ago. Westra would still be the favorite though even without bonifications.

Westra looks at least as good as a month ago, wouldn't you think?

And Tirreno is indeed barely 2 weeks ago, wouldn't you think that says something about guys like Flens and Rosseler, racers specifically geared towards this race?

 

[roundabout]

Westra looks at least as good as a month ago, wouldn't you think?

And Tirreno is indeed barely 2 weeks ago, wouldn't you think that says something about guys like Flens and Rosseler, racers specifically geared towards this race?

They are very likely to make up the podium.

Thing is Chavanel and Grabsch imo seem to have improved their form recently.

 

[Kazistuta]

I'd say there's a lot of above-decent level TT'ers in this race within reach of overall victory. Anyone of the aforementioned guys could win tomorrow, but who's the odd guy out for a surprise???

These are my potential winners:
Westra, Rosseler, Terpstra, Chavanel & Flens

And potential top10 candidates:
Sagan, Muravyev, Gusev, Trussov, Renshaw, Degenkolb, Lemoine, Vaitkus, Grivko, Rast, Kwiatkowski, Quinziato, Bodnar & Scheirlinckx.

If I were to pick a surprise winner from the top10 candidates, I'd go for Kwiatkowski.

 

[roundabout]

Sagan since he won't be riding.

 

[El Pistolero]

Wow...I think Liquigas has gone ***

Sagan can possible win De Panne (his short ITT is not bad and boni seconds in sprint stage)...
Sagan can possibly..uhm, top 15 in RVV?? Not much more...

Weird choice

I'd rather do top ten in Flanders when I'm 21 years old than win the Panne. All about learning. Sure, he has no change in hell to win, he knows that, but he's here to learn from the likes of Boonen, Cancellara, Gilbert and Pozzato(how not to do it)

Flanders is not like Luik. In Luik you can be fifth and have been very close to the victory. In Flanders, if your fifth, you most likely never were even in contention for the win anyway.

 

[hrotha]

Sagan since he won't be riding.

Does anyone have a link for that?

 

[taiwan]

I had a look, and I could find one good result of Terpstra's in a TT of this length. Why is he being rated so highly?

 

[TomasC]

Oh, that's nice! You've got a link?

http://www.saganpeter.com, red notice above. It's not there in the English version.

 

[roundabout]

Does anyone have a link for that?

http://www.saganpeter.com/sk

text in red under 30/03/2011

 

[Kazistuta]

I had a look, and I could find one good result of Terpstra's in a TT of this length. Why is he being rated so highly?

For me it's based upon seing Terpstra ride lately. He's been soo strong and powerful and should be able to go all JENS! on a rather short time trial like this..

 

[taiwan]

For me it's based upon seing Terpstra ride lately. He's been soo strong and powerful and should be able to go all JENS! on a rather short time trial like this..

Fair enough, but there are quite a few within about ten seconds who this seems to suit really well. A nice opportunity for some of them: I think they'll be motivated.

Well you mentioned most of them, but I'd have terpstra further down the list.

 

[hrotha]

http://www.saganpeter.com/sk

text in red under 30/03/2011

Thank you!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Fair enough, but there are quite a few within about ten seconds who this seems to suit really well. A nice opportunity for some of them: I think they'll be motivated.

Well you mentioned most of them, but I'd have terpstra further down the list.

Me too. Might go top 10, but don't see Terpstra as an chance to win.

 

[pmcg76]

Just watched the highlights on Eurosport, without going back through the thread I will go with Roessler to continue the RadioShack streak and take De Panne.