Tour de l'Avenir 2012

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

The highlight of every U23 racing season well deserves an own thread.

Prologue Dole 3,5 km

Stage 1: Dole - Belleville-sur-Saône (172.4 km)

Stage 2: Parc des Oiseaux - Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne (139.8 km)

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Stage 3: Pont-d'Ain > Annemasse - 152 km

Stage 4: Seyssel - Valloire - 155 km

Stage 5: Valloire-Galibier - Les Saisies 130 km

Stage 6: Beaufort - Le Grand Bornand - 83 km

Startlist:

FRANCE
1 BARGUIL Warren
2 GUERIN Alexis
3 LAVIEU Antoine
4 TEGUEL Erwan
5 TULIK Angelo
6 VIMPERE Théo

BELGIQUE
11 WELLENS Tim
12 SMEYERS Floris
13 SPRENGERS Thomas
14 STUYVEN Jasper
15 TEUNS Dylan
16 VAN DYCK Niels

ITALIE
21 CATTANEO Mattia
22 BARDIN Enrico
23 FEDI Andrea
24 PENESA Pierre Paolo
25 VILLELLA Davide
26 ZILIOLI Gianfranco

SLOVÉNIE
31 TRATNIK Jan
32 BOSTNER Jaka
33 MIKELJ Tim
34 PIBERNIK Luka
35 POLANC Jan
36 STIMULAK Klemen

NORVEGE
41 BREEN Vegard
42 BLIKRA Haavard
43 BYSTROM Sven Erik
44 EIDSHIEM Filip
45 GALTA STRAND Fredriks
46 JENSEN August

KAZAKHSTAN
51 FOMINYKH Daniil
52 GORBUNOV Vladislav
53 ISHANOV Abdraimzhan
54 KAMYSHEV Arman
55 LUTSENKO Alexey
56 UMERBEKOV Nikita

AUSTRALIE
61 MCCARTHY Jay
62 AITKEN Nick
63 FREIBERG Michael
64 LANE Patrick
65 PHELAN Adam
66 SPOKES Samuel

LETTONIE
71 SKUJINS Toms
72 DAKTERIS Janis
73 FLAKSIS Andzs
74 PUJATS Artis
75 SMIRNOVS Andris
76 VOSEKALNS Andris

LUXEMBOURG
81 JUNGELS Bob
82 FEIEREISEN Kevin
83 KIRSCH Alex
84 KOHLVELTER Kevin
85 SCHLECHTER Pit
86 THILL Tom

DANEMARK
91 HANSEN Jesper
92 ANDERSEN KRAGH Asbjorn
93 CLAUSEN Patrick
94 HANSEN Lasse Norman
95 KAMP EGESTED Alexander
96 NIELSEN Magnus Cort

SUEDE
101 LUDVIGSSON Tobias
102 AHLSTRAND Jonas
103 ANDERSSON Mats
104 LINDAU Philip
105 MAGNUSSON Kim
106 PÖLDER Robert

PAYS-BAS
111 OLIVIER Daan
112 HOFLAND Moreno
113 KOUWENHOVEN Sjoerd
114 SCHOONBROODT Bob
115 VAN POPPEL Danny
116 WIPPERT Wouter

SUISSE
121 DILLIER Silvan
122 ADDY Raphael
123 AREGGER Marcel
124 CHENAUX Adrien
125 ERDIN Peter
126 FUCHS Dominik

ALLEMAGNE
131 ARNDT Nikias
132 KOCH Michael
133 STEIGMILLER Jakob
134 SÜTTERLIN Jasha
135 VOGT Mario
136 ZEPUNTKE Ruben

RUSSIE
141 CHERNETSKI Sergey
142 FOLIFOROV Alexander
143 FROLOV Igor
144 POMOSHNIKOV Sergey
145 TATARINOV Gennady
146 YATSEVICH Kirill

AUTRICHE
151 KONRAD Patrick
152 GAUGL Florian
153 LANG Paul
154 PÖSTLBERGER Lukas
155 SOKOL Jan
156 WOHRER David

ÉTATS-UNIS
161 WARBASSE Lawrence
162 BOSWELL Ian
163 BROWN Nathan
164 BUSH Robert
165 HUFMANN Evan
166 WILSON Nate

ERYTHREE
171 BERHANE Natnael
172 AFEWERKI Elyas
173 AMANUEL Meron
174 DEBESAY Mekseb
175 OKBAMARIAM Tesfom
176 TESHOME Meron

ESPAGNE
181 VERONA QUINTANILLA Carlos
182 EZQUERRA MUELA Jésus
183 FERNANDEZ ANDUJAR Ruben
184 MARTIN HERNANDEZ Victor
185 ORBE URRUTIA Haritz
186 SALAS ZORROZUA Ibai

COLOMBIE
191 SALAZAR CASTANEDA Hugo
192 CHAMORRO CHITAN Juan
193 JARAMILLO GALVEZ James De
194 ORJUELA GUTIERREZ COL
195 PAREDES AVELLANEDA Cesar
196 RIVERA GURRERO Ever

EQUIPE MIXTE
201 SEPULVEDA Eduardo ARG
202 CAMPERO Piter BOL
203 CASTILLO Ulises Alfredo MEX
204 CISSÉ Isiaka CIV
205 DROBISCH Till NAM
206 SIRIRONNACHAI Sarawut THA

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

The GC Favorites:

*****
---
****
Warren Barguil
Ian Boswell
Mattia Cattaneo
***
Alexey Lutsenko
Daan Olivier
Sergey Chernetskiy
**
Tim Wellens
Davide Villella
*
Natnael Berhane
Pierre Paolo Penasa
Patrick Konrad
Mario Vogt

The Sprint Favorites:

*****
Jonas Ahlstrand
Wouter Wippert
****
Arman Kamyshev
Patrick Clausen
Eduardo Sepulveda
***
Jay McCarthy
Bob Jungels
**
Danny van Poppel
Enrico Barbin
*
Michel Koch
Angelo Tulik

The ITT Favorites:

*****
Bob Jungels
****
Jasha Sütterlin
Michael Freiberg
***
Moreno Hofland
Lasse Norman Hansen
Evan Huffman
**
Danny van Poppel
Tobias Ludvigsson
Jakob Steigmiller
Alexey Lutsenko
*
Adam Phelan
Ruben Zepuntke

 

[Kwibus]

Goooooo Olivier!

I will be watching this as much as possible. Always a good indication for the future.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

by prologue favorites you forgot sepulveda

 

[SafeBet]

I fancy Lutsenko to take the overall. Kid impresses me.

 

[theyoungest]

Warren Barguil was dropped by Daan Olivier on every climb in l'Ain and Alsace... just sayin'.

Ian Boswell, if he's at his Tour of Utah level, should indeed be a favourite.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

It will be initresting if Barguil and Boswell are 1 and 2, and then their future and development as GC contenders is screwed because they'll ride for Argos

But yeah, go Olivier!

 

[The Sheep]

No Goos for the Netherlands?

 

[theyoungest]

Boswell will ride for Argos?

No, Goos hasn't been selected. I don't think he ever has been, by Vierhouten.

 

[Gloin22]

Boswell will ride for Argos?

No, Goos hasn't been selected. I don't think he ever has been, by Vierhouten.

Yeah, as a trainee from 16/08 ( so basically he's an Argos rider already )

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Barguil is overrated.

Boswell, Colombians and Cattaneo for me... then on the second row Olivier, Chernetski etc, also expect Steigmiller

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

I fancy Lutsenko to take the overall. Kid impresses me.

that's a sprinter

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Barguil is overrated.

Boswell, Colombians and Cattaneo for me... then on the second row Olivier, Chernetski etc, also expect Steigmiller

the colombians are coming with a squad so horrible they are lucky to win a stage

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

that's a sprinter

Lutsenko? Are you kidding?

 

[classicomano]

Where is Marc Goos???

 

[FF'Wilco]

My prediction: Wellens will win the whole race.

 

[SafeBet]

that's a sprinter

Fair enough. He's gonna outsprint everybody on Le Grand Bonnard

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Lutsenko? Are you kidding?

he can climb and itt well, but is mostly hilly and a sprinter. definitely not for this course

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Lutsenko? Are you kidding?

Ehhh look at his results, mostly ends up near the front in difficult/reduced sprints I think

I mean he's a very good rider, and much more than just a sprinter, but looking at his CQ results, he never competes for a GC, he's definitely not climbing wel enough to do anything for the GC here.........

 

[killswitch]

Where is Marc Goos???

Left home by Vierhouten.

 

[theyoungest]

Ehhh look at his results, mostly ends up near the front in difficult/reduced sprints I think

I mean he's a very good rider, and much more than just a sprinter, but looking at his CQ results, he never competes for a GC, he's definitely not climbing wel enough to do anything for the GC here.........

Indeed. He's a fast guy who can survive hills. But not mountains.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Marc Goos should probably be here; but he's mainly a TTer who can climb right? So the Netherlands just selected Olivier for the GC, who is a climber, because there is only a prologue for TTers, but severall difficult mountain stages.

 

[theyoungest]

Goos is the second best U23 climber in Holland, and he should have been there. It's a very climby parcours, now Olivier will be on his own pretty early in some stages.

Alas, Vierhouten preferred to take three sprinters, and two reasonable allrounders. Maybe he's their manager, who knows.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Vierhouten made a questionable selection last year as well. I don't like him. He has too many of his own interests