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Toscana - Terra di Ciclismo 2012 (17.04.-21.04.)

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Stage 1, Figline Valdarno - Scarperia, 160 km
Stage 2, Figline Valdarno - Gaiole in Chianti, 130 km
Stage 3, Cavriglia - Cavriglia, 146 km
Stage 4, Terranuova Bracciolini - Cortona, 146 km
Stage 5, Greve in Chianti - Buonconvento, 167 km

http://www.girobio.com/allegati/2012_Coppa_delle_Nazioni_Guida_tecnica.pdf

Rain expected for Toscana next week. So 45k of strade bianche will be very difficult.

Nazionale Italiana

Fabio Aru (Uc Palazzago Elledent Rad Logistica) - 1990
Enrico Barbin (Uc Trevigiani Dynamon Bottoli) - 1990
Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (Team Hopplà Wega Truck Italia Valdarno) - 1990
Mattia Cattaneo (Uc Trevigiani Dynamon Bottoli) - 1990
Daniele Dall'Oste ((Uc Trevigiani Dynamon Bottoli) - 1991
Davide Formolo (Petroli Firenze Cycling Team) - 1992

Italian super team for their home race. Other teams are:

Australia
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Colombia
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
Israel
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Luxembourg
Mexico
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Russia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Switzerland
Ukraine
USA
UCI Mixed Team

Top Ten 2011

1 Georg Preidler (Aut) Austria 18:30:37
2 Fabio Aru (Ita) Italy
3 David De La Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) Spain 0:27
4 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Italy 0:28
5 Tsgabu Gebremaryam Grmay (Eth) UCI Mixed Team 0:45
6 Romain Bardet (Fra) France 0:51
7 Larry Warabasse (USA) United States of America 1:17
8 Christopher Juul-Jensen (Den) Denmark
9 Amaro Antunes (Por) Portugal 1:18
10 Philipp Ries (Ger) Germany 1:23
 
Bye Bye Bicycle

Bye Bye Bicycle

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Another_Dutch_Guy said:
Nice course, and always fun to see the new talents battling against each other.

Is this race a replacement for the GiroBio?
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No. The Baby Giro is scheduled for June (08-17) and the big battleground for the italian teams. Here in Toscana it's a Nations Cup race with just a italian national team. Which will be hard to beat.

The Frenchies are coming with Barguil and Domont, both with decent form recently. The US team (Berry, Warbasse, Durtschi, Eaton, Magner, Newbury) is quite good, too. Belarus' Stanislau Bazhkou was quite impressive in the last races in Italy, so he might be a contender, too. But I haven't found a start list, yet. :(
 
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i didn't know Amaro Antunes had gotten such a nice result last year.

the portuguese team will probably be:

Amaro Antunes (Carmim-Prio-Tavira)
Fábio Silvestre (Leopard-Trek),
Luís Afonso e Pedro Paulinho (Liberty Seguros/Feira/Specialized)
Rafael Reis (Caja Rural)
Ricardo Ferreira (UC Maia/Bicicletas Andrade)

so the Rafael Reis world domination era is about to start. . . guys we have our winner :p
 
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Bye Bye Bicycle said:
No. The Baby Giro is scheduled for June (08-17) and the big battleground for the italian teams. Here in Toscana it's a Nations Cup race with just a italian national team. Which will be hard to beat.

The Frenchies are coming with Barguil and Domont, both with decent form recently. The US team (Berry, Warbasse, Durtschi, Eaton, Magner, Newbury) is quite good, too. Belarus' Stanislau Bazhkou was quite impressive in the last races in Italy, so he might be a contender, too. But I haven't found a start list, yet. :(
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Good, never trust the Dutch wikipedia!
 
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No live ticker or twitter account available? :(
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Guerin, Watson, Reguigui, Van Zyl, Mikelj, Becis, Smeyers, Barbin, Tratnik, Postlbergery Splenger

the gap was made at km 18 and now take 58" to the peloton

follow @liveciclismo
 
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DJ Sprtsch

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These are in the break with 28km to go
Guerin (FRANCIA), Watson (AUSTRALIA), Reguigui (UCI TEAM), Mikelj (ESLOVENIA), Smeyers (BELGICA), Sosnitskyy(UCRANIA), Barbin (ITALIA), Tratnik, Postlberger (AUSTRIA), Splenger (BELGICA), Lutsenko (Kazajistán), Zubov (RUSIA)
Peloton at 2.40

Guess they will stay away, most strong teams are in
 
Bye Bye Bicycle

Bye Bye Bicycle

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TeoSheva said:
Good start by the Italian team
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With their team here they should dominate every stage. By far the best.

barbin_cn.jpg


1° Enrico Barbin (Italia) 3h53’21”
2° Alexey Lutsenko (Kazakhistan)
3° Jan Tratnik (Slovenia) a 4”
4° Youcef Reguigui (Uci Team) a 9”
5° Matvey Zubov (Russia) a 10”
6° Emils Liepins (Lettonia)
7° Jay McCarthy (Australia)
8° Oliver Hofstetter (Svizzera)
9° Jan Sokol (Austria)
10° Sergey Pomoshnikov (Russia)

Seems like only four of the breakaway made it.
 
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Bye Bye Bicycle

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stage 2:

1. Youcef Reguigui ALG
2. Sean de Bie BEL
3. Alexey Lutsenko KAZ

Finally Reguigui. Great talent, I hope he'll make it to Europe on day (Europcar!). The big guns like Jungels, Cattaneo, Barguil were on attack today, but without success.
 
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Looks like a crash happened just before the finish line:

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1 Youcef REGUIGUI ALG 3:20:23
2 Sean DE BIE BEL BEL 0
3 Alexey LUTSENKO KAZ KAZ 0
4 Jay MCCARTHY AUS AUS 0
5 Fabio SILVESTRE POR POR 0
6 Enrico BARBIN ITA ITA 0
7 Daniele DALL'OSTE ITA ITA 0
8 Amaro MANUEL ANTUNES POR POR 0
9 Jan POLANC SLO SLO 0
10 Joshua BERRY USA USA 0
11 Sven erik BYSTRØM NOR NOR 0
12 Carlos VERONA QUINTANILLA ESP ESP 0
13 Vladislav GORBUNOV KAZ KAZ 0
14 Olivier HOFSTETTER SUI SUI 0
15 Jan TRATNIK SLO SLO 0
16 Pawel POLJANSKI POL POL 0
17 Jasper HAMELINK NED NED 0
18 Axel DOMONT FRA FRA 0
19 Fredrik s GALTA NOR NOR 0
20 Lawrence WARBASSE USA USA 0

Bazhkou lost more than three minutes today, he was one of my favourites for the race.
 
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Jay McCarthy won the 4th stage. Patrick Schelling 2nd, Michael Valgren Andersen 3rd (winner of LBL u23). Fabio Aru (will be in Astana from 1st August) still leads. Carlos Verona and Fredrik Galta were almost a minute ahead at 10kms to go but there was an ascent on last few kms. Verona was caught 400meters from the finish. Aru finished 8th. Dont know what happened to Cattaneo but he DNF. Also Barguil DNF but he crashed on the sprint of stage two.


Full results:
http://www.italiaciclismo.net/allegati/2012201_001210000400004_0000300003_Ordine d'Arrivo.pdf

General:
http://www.italiaciclismo.net/allegati/2012201_001210000400004_0000100006_Classifica Generale.pdf
 
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Very late on RS 2 last night.
Nice weather!
Fred Galta rode solo at the head of affairs for well over 20kms.
Break caught with more like 250 metres to go, I'd say.

Same weather for today's strade bianche would be good.
 
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