Tirreno-Adriatico 2011 9th - 15th March

[Ferminal]

Route is announced today, anyone heard any rumours?

 

[Ryaguas]

not yet... I'm searching!

 

[joy118118]

Giro will tweet it when it is available.

Daniel87Oss

On the road to presentation of Tirreno-Adriatico!
2 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone

not begin yet

 

[roundabout]

a TTT on stage 1

 

[TeoSheva]

a TTT on stage 1

not the best for me..

 

[Lupetto]

Route is announced today, anyone heard any rumours?

1a TAPPA: MARINA DI CARRARA (cronometro a squadre)
2a TAPPA: CARRARA - INDICATORE (Arezzo)
3a TAPPA: TERRANUOVA BRACCIOLINI - PERUGIA
4a TAPPA: NARNI - CHIETI
5a TAPPA: CHIETI - CASTELRAIMONDO
6a TAPPA: ???
7a TAPPA: ??? - SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRONTO

 

[Lupetto]

And now the official course.

1a tappa / Marina di Carrara (cronometro a squadre) / 16,8 km
2a tappa / Carrara - Indicatore (Arezzo) / 202 km
3a tappa / Terranuova Bracciolini - Perugia / 189 km
4a tappa / Narni - Chieti / 240 km
5a tappa / Chieti - Castelraimondo / 240 km
6a tappa / Ussita - Macerata / 178 km
7a tappa / San Benedetto del Tronto (cronometro individuale) / 9,3 km

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Ah, the return of the classic San Benedetto closing timetrial Nostalgia...

Looks like a good classics prep. once again, especially with the two 240km stages in there.
Does seem a bit easy this year though. Nothing for the climbers this year

 

[TeoSheva]

they can already update the palmares:

2011 CANCELLARA Fabian
2010 GARZELLI Stefano
2009 SCARPONI Michele
2008 CANCELLARA Fabian
2007 KLÖDEN Andreas

 

[jaylew]

Ugh. Crappy parcours - ToC's will actually be better this year.

 

[ttrider]

that is really poor actually for a parcours
bring back the climb only rodriguez could win on!
Its just a waste of time even the tt is basically a prologue plus a bit

 

[maltiv]

From the profiles I think it will be between EBH and Cancellara, obviously depending on what kind of team they bring for the TTT.

 

[theyoungest]

Ah, the return of the classic San Benedetto closing timetrial Nostalgia...

Looks like a good classics prep. once again, especially with the two 240km stages in there.
Does seem a bit easy this year though. Nothing for the climbers this year

That finish in Macerata is where Ignatiev won last year, that's certainly one for the climbers (except when you win from an early break, like Ignatiev did)

The course seems to be designed for a rider on a team that does well at team time trials, who can time trial quite well himself, and climb a bit... hmm, now who could that be? An Italian clad in green, maybe?

 

[Kvinto]

I like it: 2 short tts (ttt and itt) on the first and final day (Giro style ), 2 stages for sprinters and 3 stages in a row for hilly classic specialists. I do not think tts will be decisive.

 

[jaylew]

I think the TT miles will be much more decisive than than the 2 (I don't really see 3) hilly classics days.

That finish in Macerata is where Ignatiev won last year, that's certainly one for the climbers (except when you win from an early break, like Ignatiev did)

The course seems to be designed for a rider on a team that does well at team time trials, who can time trial quite well himself, and climb a bit... hmm, now who could that be? An Italian clad in green, maybe?

I could certainly see that.

 

[Moondance]

Hmmm... Reasonable parcours, but nothing really exciting. Stage 6 looks like something might happen, but for the rest... Pretty boring.

 

[Kvinto]

Well, all depends on the way you look at it. tts are important in every week-long race and I think that all of us understand that Nibali has much better chances for general classification than J.Rodriguez, but imo with this parcours he (Nibali) has also better chances than Cancellara. TTT is very specific type of race where all depends on a team and 16km is too short to gain much. 9km itt... i think pure time trialist can gain 1:00...1:30 as the route is straight and flat. Then the hills: stages # 4,5 and 6. There's no cruel mountains but the route is up n down at the final part of every of those stages. 4th and 5th stage is 240km long, 4th and 6th - with uphill finishes. I think something can happen there. I do not expect some huge gaps, the only thing I expect of Tirreno is interesting and unpredictable race

 

[Ryaguas]

I was expecting something better... =(

 

[Mellow Velo]

It seems that the RCS have finally found a solution for the Cipressa/Poggio not being hard enough to force a M-SR selection.

 

[luckyboy]

Disappointing. Macerata looks ok though.

 

[ingsve]

Well, at least T-A and P-N are top races where TTers can do quite well as opposed to GTs these days that are all about high MTFs. Even TDS has gone hte route of catering to the pure climbers with 4 MTFs in a week.

 

[roundabout]

3 mtfs which is ok considering the last couple of editions

 

[Anonymous]

 

[taiwan]

Evans. Anyone else?

 

[Ferminal]

I actually think it's OK...

It's not much dissimilar to last year, but with some TTs.

Stage 5 is hard but not sure it will result in anything due to no real climbing in the last 20km.

Evans will be favourite.