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Ruudz0r

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burgyv said:
Italian selection:
Giulio Ciccone (Team Colpack)
Simone Consonni (Team Colpack)
Gianni Moscon (Zalf Euromobil Désirée Fior)
Simone Petilli (Unieuro Wilier Trevigiani)
Edward Ravasi (Team Colpack)
Oliviero Troia (Team Colpack)

I am really impressed by the strength of the Colombian team and I am even wondered if Henao would be their team leader? Of course he already impressed in the Giro of last year, but there is not yet a excellent climbing performance in a one week race on my mind and I did not have a clue about his current shape. Anyone? (Denmark and Langkawi were pretty decent, but those captured only shorter climbs)
I don't expect Contreras will be the better climber, but Martinez, Reyes and Chavez already showed this season some great performances. Who of them will be the last man for Henao? Or might even become team leader?
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Great Italian squad, who will lead Petilli or Ciccone? Ciccone disappointed me a little early in the year but he has been really strong recently, but Petilli had the better season in general I guess. Ravasi should be able to help them very till the deep finale, would have preferred Ravanelli over Troia but for the rest a perfect squad.
 
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Valv.Piti said:
ciranda said:
Ruudz0r said:
If you have any additions to the startlist post them here, I will update the OP. If you can help me fix the 1200 pixels thingie also let me know so I can edit the profiles in.
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Danish team have four guys who will be selected:

Søren Kragh Andersen
Alexander Kamp
Mads Würtz Schmidt
Mads Pedersen

Martin Grøn is probably there too, for the last place I don't know, maybe Almindsø.
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Very talented group of young danish riders there, Wurtz surprisingly smashed everyone in the TT in Post DK, Mads Pedersen is a huge talent, and Søren Kragh has been a genious so far this season. Curious to see what Kamp can do, he was flying up Kiddesvej the other day.
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Indeed som very talented riders.

Kamp has been great this season as well and he is the best climber of the team. However, he is not a rider for the long climbs but rather for the punchy stuff. He has a good engine though and nice style on the bike too :)
 
42x16ss

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Any word on who is in the Aus team? Haig will lead without Power there, Linfield should also get a place. Who else is looking good for a spot?

With the new ruling, they should take Ewan and Flakemore back, just for laughs and to show the UCI how ludicrous it is.
 
Bye Bye Bicycle

Bye Bye Bicycle

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42x16ss said:
Any word on who is in the Aus team? Haig will lead without Power there, Linfield should also get a place. Who else is looking good for a spot?

With the new ruling, they should take Ewan and Flakemore back, just for laughs and to show the UCI how ludicrous it is.
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Flakemore is no U23 rider anymore.
 
BigMac

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For Portugal, a friend with insight predicted Rui Carvalho, Luis Gomes, Cesar Martingil, Gaspar Gonçalves, Nuno Bico and Ruben Guerreiro. Later the UVP-FPC named those and a few others in the pre-selection. I think that will be our team. Like he said, the strongest ever.
 
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42x16ss

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Bye Bye Bicycle said:
42x16ss said:
Any word on who is in the Aus team? Haig will lead without Power there, Linfield should also get a place. Who else is looking good for a spot?

With the new ruling, they should take Ewan and Flakemore back, just for laughs and to show the UCI how ludicrous it is.
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Flakemore is no U23 rider anymore.
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He was born in 92 and only turned 23 very recently. Under the UCI's stupid new rules he's eligible to shark the prologue once again :rolleyes:
 
ciranda

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u23s are from 19 to 22, oldest u23s for this year are then born in 1993. So he can't race if he was born in '92.

Bushman said:
Indeed som very talented riders.

Kamp has been great this season as well and he is the best climber of the team. However, he is not a rider for the long climbs but rather for the punchy stuff. He has a good engine though and nice style on the bike too :)
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No, Kragh Andersen is best for the mountains. Maybe not a contender for GC but should be good on at least one mountain stage. A puncture put him out of contention in PDR at the start of the hill where Boom dropped and he was still better than Boom at the top. Pedersen is also good on longer climbs. Neither have done a lot of mountains in races though so IDK. Agree with the description of Kamp, real prospect for the one day races.
 
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Does anyone already knows something about the GreatBrittain selection? I assume that Peters and Geoghegan will ride somewhere else as Sky stagiaires? Than possibly the team will look a lot like their national team at the Ride London Classic? With Scott Davies as their team leader..?
 
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burgyv said:
Does anyone already knows something about the GreatBrittain selection? I assume that Peters and Geoghegan will ride somewhere else as Sky stagiaires? Than possibly the team will look a lot like their national team at the Ride London Classic? With Scott Davies as their team leader..?
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Tao Hart will race Colorado.
 
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ciranda said:
u23s are from 19 to 22, oldest u23s for this year are then born in 1993. So he can't race if he was born in '92.

Bushman said:
Indeed som very talented riders.

Kamp has been great this season as well and he is the best climber of the team. However, he is not a rider for the long climbs but rather for the punchy stuff. He has a good engine though and nice style on the bike too :)
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No, Kragh Andersen is best for the mountains. Maybe not a contender for GC but should be good on at least one mountain stage. A puncture put him out of contention in PDR at the start of the hill where Boom dropped and he was still better than Boom at the top. Pedersen is also good on longer climbs. Neither have done a lot of mountains in races though so IDK. Agree with the description of Kamp, real prospect for the one day races.
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I don't see Kragh doing something in the mountains. He is good in tough terrain but the high mountains is something different.

In juniors Mads Pedersen was quite a good climber yes and he probably could do well in mountainous terrain if he focused on it considering he isn't too heavy. However, he seems to be going down the classics path which is the right thing to do for him IMO.

One thing is certain though, the Danes shouldn't ( and hopefully won't) worry about gc, it's all about stage wins.
 
staubsauger

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Maaaaaaaarten said:
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Anyone knows Netherlands team?

I think that's unlikely but there is some possibility of Van der Poel taking part?

EDIT: Just saw here that he is taking part in L'Avenir! Great news!

http://www.cxstats.com/2015/08/01/mathieu-van-der-poel-present-au-crossvegas/
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Nice! :)

Van Der Poel and Oomen will be a pretty strong combination.
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Basically these two are the great future of Dutch cycling like Gesink was some years ago. Ain't they? :)
 
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