Tirreno-Adriatico 2020 - 7th - 14th September

[Anderis]

Interesting route.
Stage 1- Cort
Stage 2- Cort
Stage 3- Clarke
Stage 4- Guerreiro
Stage 5- Caicedo
Stage 6- Cort
Stage 7- Woods
Stage 8- Craddock
GC:

1. Kangert
2. Woods
3. Caicedo
4. Guerreiro
5. Craddock
6. Clarke
7. Cort
8. Fuglsang
9. S. Yates
10. Vlasov

 

[hayneplane]

Awful course. Was it always going to be this route or did they find out about the Tour clash and just decide not to bother with an epic parcours.

Astana to win with Fuglsang and Vlasov deciding amongst themselves who will get to take home the trident.

 

[Laplaz]

Great route! Yatesy vs. Vlasang.

 

[postmanhat]

What a strange course. The Bincibank Tour with an MTF and prologue (epilogue?) chucked in. Going to be a lot of fun

 

[Koronin]

Yates and Fulsang are my favorites for this race.

Funny thing with Movistar is Soler was supposed to be leading their team at this race, but got moved to the Tour instead. They have fairly young and inexperienced team at this race. They could pull off a surprise stage win, but shouldn't factor into the GC.

 

[tobydawq]

Matthews to win at a canter.

 

[RedheadDane]

What a strange course. The Bincibank Tour with an MTF and prologue (epilogue?) chucked in. Going to be a lot of fun

I think the technical term for an ITT at the end of the stage race is an ITT. Besides, even if it was at the beginning, it would still be termed an ITT; it's too long to be a prologue.

 

[Krokro]

Sunweb with an almost better squad than the Tour one here..

I fail to see how Fuglsang can't win this, but a few questions:
-How are Thomas and Froome?
-Is Nibali going to do a decent prep race for once?
-Why not Woods ? Still unsure about his form though?
-How can MVDP be a factor here?
-Is Majka going to shadow top5 without taking wind once? (except for the ITT)

 

[Laplaz]

96 km to go, 2:30 for the break.

Break:

1		24	PELLAUD Simon	+0:00
2		56	SAVINI Daniel	+0:00
3		83	HAAS Nathan	+0:00
4		112	CANOLA Marco	+0:00
5		192	MARTENS Paul	+0:00
6		215	SIMON Julien	+0:00
7		244	STOJNIĆ Veljko	+0:00

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

This is actual entertainment

 

[gregrowlerson]

Pretty cool that this is starting on the first Tour rest day. We are spoiled.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Stage 6 is syphilitic. Putting a totally flat stage at that point in the race is a complete waste of the additional day. The rest of this looks pretty good.

You have a thing for stage 6's, admit it.

 

[RedheadDane]

Pretty cool that this is starting on the first Tour rest day. We are spoiled.

Indeed. Great planning by RCS and ASO!

 

[SafeBet]

GC Favorites

* Fuglsang
**** Vlasov, Yates
*** Nibali, Thomas, Teuns
** Kelderman, Majka, Rui Costa, Haig
* Froome, Hagen, Dunbar, TGH, MvdP, Woods

Breakout candidate: Hanninen

 

[RedheadDane]

Fuglsang getting the cool one star rating. Much better than the un-cool one star rating!

Why doesn't the forum allow for five stars in a row? That's weird!

 

[SafeBet]

Fuglsang getting the cool one star rating. Much better than the un-cool one star rating!

Why doesn't the forum allow for five stars in a row? That's weird!

Possibly to force us being creative in our star ratings?

 

[Rollthedice]

Meintjes spotted!

 

[WKA311]

Hopefully Ackermann times it better today. He needs to stop going too early. Cost him too many wins already.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Looks like Cort is actually doing a bunch sprint.... I wonder if EF has managed to teach him how to do it.

Edit, they are up front waaaaaay too soon

 

[Pricey_sky]

Big crash, bunch split in two.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Gaviria goes too soon and gets done at the line by Ackermann

Amazing sprint as he threaded his way between 3 riders on the fence.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Terrible EF lead out, they ran out of people with 800 meters to go.

Great win by Ackermann, coming from far back.

 

[SafeBet]

What an incredible sprint from Ackermann. It was very chatoci in the last 2 km.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Cort went way too soon, which prompted Gaviria to go way too soon, and they both ran out of gas.
Ackermann proved he is the smarter sprinter, by keeping his cool (and this time there was no Mads Pedersen doing an insane 300 meter sprint ).

Chapeau Ackermann!

 

[Red Rick]

Props to Gav for actually just holding his line