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it's ashame they never do the climb from the other site. that one is even more insane because they startr from basically 0 meters
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Garmin Barracuda rider ‘not freaking out’ about climbs on today’s stage
Dave Zabriskie is making headlines this week as the leader of the Tour de Langkawi but at the race itself, he’s also gaining considerable attention for his offbeat sense of humour and at-times peculiar logic.
He’s also come across as very relaxed about the race, professing yesterday not to know the parcours for today’s lumpy190 kilometre race from Air Keroh to Pandan Indah. Asked how he felt about a stage which was tougher than those which came before, he admitted that he didn’t know the details and asked a media person recording the outdoor press conference to give some information.
Acting translator and conference host Jeff Quenet stepped in, telling him that it featured second category climbs plus a third category ramp ten kilometres from the end.
“Interesting….” he said, digesting the details. “It would be nice to get a hill in the race. We’ll just take that when it comes tomorrow, as with everything else.”
Then, after a pause: “I’m not freaking out, I guess.”
Zabriskie then asked how the Genting Highlands climb was ranked, saying that he presumed it was category 1. Hearing that it was a hors category ascent, he looked shocked.
He had previously said that he wasn’t ruling out being able to keep the jersey on its slopes.
Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/1...kawi-race-leader-Zabriskie.aspx#ixzz1ng6CsBsx
:LOLCRY: what an idiot
Dave Zabriskie is making headlines this week as the leader of the Tour de Langkawi but at the race itself, he’s also gaining considerable attention for his offbeat sense of humour and at-times peculiar logic.
He’s also come across as very relaxed about the race, professing yesterday not to know the parcours for today’s lumpy190 kilometre race from Air Keroh to Pandan Indah. Asked how he felt about a stage which was tougher than those which came before, he admitted that he didn’t know the details and asked a media person recording the outdoor press conference to give some information.
Acting translator and conference host Jeff Quenet stepped in, telling him that it featured second category climbs plus a third category ramp ten kilometres from the end.
“Interesting….” he said, digesting the details. “It would be nice to get a hill in the race. We’ll just take that when it comes tomorrow, as with everything else.”
Then, after a pause: “I’m not freaking out, I guess.”
Zabriskie then asked how the Genting Highlands climb was ranked, saying that he presumed it was category 1. Hearing that it was a hors category ascent, he looked shocked.
He had previously said that he wasn’t ruling out being able to keep the jersey on its slopes.
Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/1...kawi-race-leader-Zabriskie.aspx#ixzz1ng6CsBsx
:LOLCRY: what an idiot
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As he outsprinted new race leader Darren Lapthorne at the end of stage 5 in the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Pandan Indah, José Serpa (Androni-Venezuela) remembered that his first victory at Le Tour de Langkawi also happened on a flat stage finish in Kuala Selangor only a few days after signing his first professional contract with Gianni Savio. “The day after, I won again but in totally different conditions at the top of Genting Highlands,” the 32-year-old Colombian recalled. “I hope to do it again tomorrow.”
“I was in a chasing group and I saw the opportunity to jump on to the lone leader [Lapthorne],” Serpa explained. “It makes me very happy because it’s my first victory since I became a father of two last year. People know me as a climber but many forget that my background is actually the one of a track rider. That’s why I can be quite fast on such a flat finish. This is my seventh win in Malaysia.”
Of these seven wins, three were collected at the top of Genting Highlands, where he is unbeaten so far (he won in 2006, 2007 and 2009 but the gruelling climb wasn’t on the route of the 2008 edition), three on the flat, as he also won solo with one kilometer to go from a breakaway group in stage 6 to Kuala Rompin on the East Coast in 2008. The seventh win is his overall title in 2009. He hadn’t returned to Le Tour de Langkawi since and he only did so this year because the Italian races where he performed last year (2nd in the Giro di Sardegna and winner of the Giro del Friuli) were cancelled, so his race program changed.
Wednesday’s stage 6 to Genting Highlands will surprisingly put side by side for the first time the two most successful climbers from South America nurtured by Savio in the past decade. Serpa will join forces with Le Tour de Langkawi’s hot favorite José Rujano from Venezuela on Malaysia’s gruelling climb.
“They get on very well together”, Savio said. “But they have never been in the situation to race together for the win yet. Serpa arrived in our team in 2006 just after Rujano left. When Rujano came back last year, they weren’t on form at the same time. Serpa performed in the first part of the year but not in the mountains of the Giro d’Italia where Rujano was brilliant.”
Serpa came close to the win (third) on stage 5 to Orvieto after riding on the “Strade Bianche” and he was fourth on stage 11 won by John Gadret in Castelfidardo but he didn’t have the legs to climb as well as Rujano, who won stage 13 to the Grossglockner and also finished second behind Alberto Contador on stage 9 to Etna and Vassil Kiriyenka on stage 20 to Sestriere.
Nobody would be surprised to see the South American climbers emerge hand in hand atop Genting Highlands like Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond at the 1986 Tour de France on l’Alpe d’Huez, with Serpa remaining unbeaten and Rujano taking the overall title of Le Tour de Langkawi for the second time after 2010. But Savio downplayed this kind of prediction.
“We are in a good situation with two cards to play,” the team manager of the Androni-Venezuela squad said of his two riders, who are separated by 22 seconds on GC. “But firstly, we have to attack Tom Danielson who still has the advantage of nine seconds from the time trial on day 1. We’ve been in this situation against him once before in 2003 but our climber Hernan Dario Munoz couldn’t drop him off his wheel. We won the stage but Danielson won GC. It seems like Danielson has recovered from his injury here on stage 3.”
“I was in a chasing group and I saw the opportunity to jump on to the lone leader [Lapthorne],” Serpa explained. “It makes me very happy because it’s my first victory since I became a father of two last year. People know me as a climber but many forget that my background is actually the one of a track rider. That’s why I can be quite fast on such a flat finish. This is my seventh win in Malaysia.”
Of these seven wins, three were collected at the top of Genting Highlands, where he is unbeaten so far (he won in 2006, 2007 and 2009 but the gruelling climb wasn’t on the route of the 2008 edition), three on the flat, as he also won solo with one kilometer to go from a breakaway group in stage 6 to Kuala Rompin on the East Coast in 2008. The seventh win is his overall title in 2009. He hadn’t returned to Le Tour de Langkawi since and he only did so this year because the Italian races where he performed last year (2nd in the Giro di Sardegna and winner of the Giro del Friuli) were cancelled, so his race program changed.
Wednesday’s stage 6 to Genting Highlands will surprisingly put side by side for the first time the two most successful climbers from South America nurtured by Savio in the past decade. Serpa will join forces with Le Tour de Langkawi’s hot favorite José Rujano from Venezuela on Malaysia’s gruelling climb.
“They get on very well together”, Savio said. “But they have never been in the situation to race together for the win yet. Serpa arrived in our team in 2006 just after Rujano left. When Rujano came back last year, they weren’t on form at the same time. Serpa performed in the first part of the year but not in the mountains of the Giro d’Italia where Rujano was brilliant.”
Serpa came close to the win (third) on stage 5 to Orvieto after riding on the “Strade Bianche” and he was fourth on stage 11 won by John Gadret in Castelfidardo but he didn’t have the legs to climb as well as Rujano, who won stage 13 to the Grossglockner and also finished second behind Alberto Contador on stage 9 to Etna and Vassil Kiriyenka on stage 20 to Sestriere.
Nobody would be surprised to see the South American climbers emerge hand in hand atop Genting Highlands like Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond at the 1986 Tour de France on l’Alpe d’Huez, with Serpa remaining unbeaten and Rujano taking the overall title of Le Tour de Langkawi for the second time after 2010. But Savio downplayed this kind of prediction.
“We are in a good situation with two cards to play,” the team manager of the Androni-Venezuela squad said of his two riders, who are separated by 22 seconds on GC. “But firstly, we have to attack Tom Danielson who still has the advantage of nine seconds from the time trial on day 1. We’ve been in this situation against him once before in 2003 but our climber Hernan Dario Munoz couldn’t drop him off his wheel. We won the stage but Danielson won GC. It seems like Danielson has recovered from his injury here on stage 3.”
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jens_attacks said:
Stop your gibberish. VeloNews had another video interview up with DZ after he won the ITT. He admitted fully that the Garmin overall was for Danielson. DZ does puzzle that he is a pure ITT man, I can only ponder as to the why of his fallback into the team role and he's never made an effort to improve his climbing.
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the drapac team are in topshape because of australia season. it looks more than it is. especially in itt that was visible
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I don't see him as much of a big talent. typical italian talent of recent years that won't be a factor in colnago team like all those others. italian amateur/sub23 cycling is very bad for developping talents
locatelli was overrated a lot in italy during is sub 23 career.
he was reported testing 7.1watt/kg, an incredible data.
test does not make a champion, as many others riders' stories demonstrate.
i do not expect him to progress in his years as a pro. he probably can become a valuable mountain domestique
he was reported testing 7.1watt/kg, an incredible data.
test does not make a champion, as many others riders' stories demonstrate.
i do not expect him to progress in his years as a pro. he probably can become a valuable mountain domestique
Granted maybe there where too much hype surrounding him as a junior, with all the future Marco Pantani glosses and what not, but to totally neglect his talent would be very wrong too in my opinion!
In 2008 his first as sub/23er he broke the record ascending Pian della Mussa (A record which still stands today btw), schooling the likes of R. Ifantino and S. Pirazzi among others.
In 2009 he had Pfeiffer disease and missed 6 months of racing. 7months after having returned to racing in 2010 he won Bassano Montegrappa doing the entire Monte-Grappa accent in 1hour and 7miniuts (For sub-23 standard a fabulous time) and finally last year he did everything in his power to secure that pro-stamp.
I just thought you enjoyed all puro escaladores but maybe I was wrong on that account. Anyway I don’t think he is a new Michele Gaia or Allesandro Bisolti personally and I wish him all well.
I see no real competitions to Rujano tomorrow, but hope guys like Locatelli, Butler or Ovechkin ect can put in good showing.
Fair enough you don’t rate him though! Profff as well!
In 2008 his first as sub/23er he broke the record ascending Pian della Mussa (A record which still stands today btw), schooling the likes of R. Ifantino and S. Pirazzi among others.
In 2009 he had Pfeiffer disease and missed 6 months of racing. 7months after having returned to racing in 2010 he won Bassano Montegrappa doing the entire Monte-Grappa accent in 1hour and 7miniuts (For sub-23 standard a fabulous time) and finally last year he did everything in his power to secure that pro-stamp.
I just thought you enjoyed all puro escaladores but maybe I was wrong on that account. Anyway I don’t think he is a new Michele Gaia or Allesandro Bisolti personally and I wish him all well.
I see no real competitions to Rujano tomorrow, but hope guys like Locatelli, Butler or Ovechkin ect can put in good showing.
Fair enough you don’t rate him though! Profff as well!
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be interesting to see who goes better, rujano or serpa.
I think rujano will win, but you never know.
I think rujano will win, but you never know.
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it won't even be a match. unless they decide to go over finish together or serpa is allowed to attack early. rujnano will burn him
are there tickers or streams?
are there tickers or streams?
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twitter with regular updates
http://twitter.com/#!/myltdl
also i think there might be some live feed near the end, not sure tho.
http://twitter.com/#!/myltdl
also i think there might be some live feed near the end, not sure tho.
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Ferminal said:
indeed, serpa also mentions he's like to win the stage.
Hoping Rujano wins this tho.
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Ferminal said:
January 2002 http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=12237
January 2004 http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=988
January 2005 http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=1564
February 2005 http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=927
February 2007 http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=4899
January 2009 http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=10341 http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=10341 AND http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=10345
January 2010 http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=16796
early March 2010 http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=16961
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Dekker_Tifosi said:
lol strange for fermi to be wrong like that.
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