Tour de Pologne 2014 (2.WT), 03.08 - 09.08

[Dazed and Confused]

Official website: http://tourdepologne.pl/

Teams and key riders:
1. Orica GreenEDGE (Matthews, Weening)
2. Omega Pharma - Quick-Step (Poels, Maes)
3. Tinkoff-Saxo (Majka, Sutherland)
4. Team Sky (Swift, Boasson Hagen)
5. Astana Pro Team (Aru, Gasparotto)
6. Garmin Sharp (Farrar, Hesjedal)
7. Lampre-Merida (Modolo, Cunego)
8. BMC Racing Team (Hushovd, Sánchez)
9. Trek Factory Racing (Arredondo, Vandewalle)
10. Cannondale (Caruso, Formolo)
11. Team Katusha (Chernetckii, Caruso)
12. Belkin-Pro Cycling Team (Gesink, Bos)
13. Movistar Team (Intxausti, Izagirre)
14. Team Giant-Shimano (Mezgec, Barguil)
15. Lotto Belisol (Monfort, Dehaes)
16. AG2R La Mondiale (Hutarovich, Riblon)
17. FDJ.fr (Geniez, Le Bon)
18. Team Europcar (Tulik, Malacarne)
19. Poland (Gradek, Bernas)
20. CCC Polsat Polkowice (Rebellin, Paterski)
21. RusVelo (Zakarin, Lagutin)

Complete startlist: http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Tour_de_Pologne_2014-Startlist

 

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[Dazed and Confused]

This is live on Eurosport international.

 

[ILovecycling]

Climber or timetrialist?

 

[BigMac]

What is this? Where are the climbs?

Stage 6 looks good.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The climbs are in Slovakia

Looking at it though, the big Slovakian stage isn't quite as great as it looks. The circuit climb is, according to the profile, 6,7km at bang on 4%, with a final 1,5km extension on to that on the third ascent at just over 6%.

25km of ITT should still be decisive given this.

The Karpacz stage needs to return.

 

[Hugo87]

I'm disappointed with this race design, at least last year we had 2 proper MTF stages.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Biggish issues I have with this edition:

8 men teams. Last year the race operated with 6. This parcous will benefit from having less team strength and control. Why go back to 8?

Three long flat stages. 226km, 226km and 236km. In august? I Polen? Waste of road and time imo.

The first stage is live at 17:00 (local) and ends around 19:00, but the following stages returns to 15:15 and therefore doesn't conflict much with other races.

 

[Ryongsyong]

"Mummy look I drawed a pickture!!"

"Put the crayon away, Sarah."

 

[MBotero]

Race profile is not so encouraging,but this man thinks he can do it

“I am not here just to race, but to win."

 

[manafana]

that stage looks super weird, they need to go for a better setting on stage design, looks like hill repeats getting dropped will be no fun on day like that, being in the group key.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Race in progress, but nothing will happen for a few hours.

Break of five with 13 minutes:

M.Krizek, A. Vorobyev, J.Engoulvent, K.Gradek, M.Paterski.

From twicker: https://twitter.com/Tour_de_Pologne

 

[Ricco']

What do you think of Jungels to challenge the GC?

He is improving steadily in the medium mountain and has the advantage in the TT. Given that the Bukovina stage usually don't make more than 15/20 seconds of loss I think he can be in the mix.

 

[Berlin Cyclingblog]

Climber or timetrialist?

Definetly timetrialist. Stage 5 in Slovakia is not as difficult as it looks and stage 6 is not selective enough.
Hope Mezgec can show some of his catalunya style sprints. From polish side today only national champion Matysiak and my personal tip Dabkowski have potrntial to Top 10 the next 4 stages.

What do you think of Jungels to challenge the GC?

He is improving steadily in the medium mountain and has the advantage in the TT. Given that the Bukovina stage usually don't make more than 15/20 seconds of loss I think he can be in the mix.

Possible Top 5, but I think Trek will take the Arredondo option for the stages before the TT. If Jungels not loses more than a minute on both stages he can do really well here.

 

[Gloin22]

Jungels was hit by a car a week ago or so. So his form is bit unknown.

 

[ILovecycling]

I wonder how are the goals for julian and henao marin,I hope both are going for gc.I want to see julian test his legs at medium tt

 

[ILovecycling]

I wanna ask polish guys here (who are btw the best thing happened to this forum last years) ,any tips for penultimate stage where to stand etc? (and is it worth the long journey)

 

[TourOfSardinia]

isn't -80km with break at 8mins a bit leaving it late?

feed:
http://www.frombar.com/20140731/vv53da92f6e62e71.91003891-859793.html
(not English, maybe Polish)

 

[Dazed and Confused]

isn't -80km with break at 8mins a bit leaving it late?

feed:
http://www.frombar.com/20140731/vv53da92f6e62e71.91003891-859793.html
(not English, maybe Polish)

It would be great if the peloton fuccs things up.

36 km/h avg.

 

[roundabout]

Ha, the lack of cooperation behind is pretty great

GPS timing doesn't seem super reliable though

 

[whittashau]

I hope Paterski wins the stage. Still don't know why Cannondale let him go. He's far better than most of their riders.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

I hope Paterski wins the stage. Still don't know why Cannondale let him go. He's far better than most of their riders.

what's good about paterski? and I'm sure he left because ccc would pay him more.

 

[Berlin Cyclingblog]

Paterski is good in TT and not so bad in hilly stages, as tour of norway shown for example.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Here comes the rain, on the break

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Wow, biblical conditions