Tour de San Luis 2016

[Moviestar]

Movistar has already made a selection: 2 Quintana's, Dani Moreno, Betancur, Soler, Ventoso

 

[Valv.Piti]

Insanely strong lineup for San Luis. Here's to hope that Dayer Quintana will have a better season than last year and that Betancur already in this race will show signs of 2013 shape.

 

[jens_attacks]

Dale daniel daleeeeeeee

 

[WheelofGear]

Who is the most likely to fit such early in the season?

Even a 60% Quintana can be strong.

 

[May0maniac]

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Dale daniel daleeeeeeee

+1 and I hope that he'll be able to perform well in europe.
Dani Moreno is always strong in San Luis, too bad that Funvic wasn't invited.

 

[Ruudz0r]

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Dale daniel daleeeeeeee

+1 and I hope that he'll be able to perform well in europe.
Dani Moreno is always strong in San Luis, too bad that Funvic wasn't invited.

+1 Diniz, Kleber and Cardoso could have made the race more fun!

 

[Beech Mtn]

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Insanely strong lineup for San Luis. Here's to hope that Dayer Quintana will have a better season than last year and that Betancur already in this race will show signs of 2013 shape.

From the brief glimpses on Instagram, Fat Cat appears to be slimmer so far this year. Let's hope he makes it through Christmas OK.

Isn't Nibali riding this race, or did I just imagine that?

 

[Max Rockatansky]

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Isn't Nibali riding this race, or did I just imagine that?

He will, yes.

Sagan, Majka, Acevedo, Nibali, Sepúlveda, Quintana, Moreno, Banana Joe, Torres, Diaz, Talansky, Vuillermoz, Niemiec...

 

[Max Rockatansky]

 

[jens_attacks]

the same live broadcast with the 2 guys? i hope the images will be better.

 

[Gigs_98]

Stage 6 has three categorized climbs in the last 13 kilometers Such a hilly final

I know this categorizations aren't anything new but I still find it hilarious

 

[Guybrush]

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the same live broadcast with the 2 guys? i hope the images will be better.

no, locals don't know how to do it. unless some european tv take over it will remain this way.

 

[slosada]

Inteja-MMR and Brazil national team will participate, for a total of 29 teams (a door opens for Diniz, Kleber Ramos, Prado... and probably Gaspar, Chiarello and Manarelli)

 

[Ruudz0r]

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Inteja-MMR and Brazil national team will participate, for a total of 29 teams (a door opens for Diniz, Kleber Ramos, Prado... and probably Gaspar, Chiarello and Manarelli)

Believe they said they will at least take 4 U23 riders, though I saw it a while back and I am not 100% certain. Hope the other 2 are Diniz and Ramos. From the U23 riders I hope to see Caio Godoy he had a really unlucky year in 2015 with two times a broken collarbone (basically only did some racing at the end of the year) but he is a talented rider.

 

[Ruudz0r]

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Inteja-MMR and Brazil national team will participate, for a total of 29 teams (a door opens for Diniz, Kleber Ramos, Prado... and probably Gaspar, Chiarello and Manarelli)

Believe they said they will at least take 4 U23 riders, though I saw it a while back and I am not 100% certain. Hope the other 2 are Diniz and Ramos. From the U23 riders I hope to see Caio Godoy he had a really unlucky year in 2015 with two times a broken collarbone (basically only did some racing at the end of the year) but he is a talented rider.

Kleber Ramos is selected for La Tropicale Amissa Bongo which would mean no San Luis for him

 

[MatParker1711]

Viviani's down to ride for Italy but Sky will probably want him in Mallorca, same thing happened last year.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Carapaz will ride! I am sure he wants to be good here as it might be one of the only races he can prove himself with the European pro teams there. The team only got the invite the invite for the race today though (instead of the Colombian selection) so I hope for Carapaz he has had a good winter.

 

[Anderis]

So Ben King was supposed to ride but now is out due to an injury. May hamper Cannondale in TTT depending on who his replacement is.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Dani Diaz writes this on his blog:

El problema fue en la segunda etapa, muy nerviosa con mucha gente desesperada por ir adelante y rutas en muy mal estado, tuve la mala suerte de que en un momento muy rápido de la carrera no pude esquivar un pozo profundo, saliendo despedido y raspándome el pecho, las piernas, y en especial una herida en el codo que no me permitió continuar.
Me quede con mucha bronca por no poder continuar en la vuelta porque estaba convencido de que me iba a hacer muy bien de cara al Tour de San Luis, pero siempre pienso que por algo pasan las cosas.

Does that mean he is out of the race ? Or just that he is not sure about his form anymore because of the crash.

 

[Ricco']

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Dani Diaz writes this on his blog:

El problema fue en la segunda etapa, muy nerviosa con mucha gente desesperada por ir adelante y rutas en muy mal estado, tuve la mala suerte de que en un momento muy rápido de la carrera no pude esquivar un pozo profundo, saliendo despedido y raspándome el pecho, las piernas, y en especial una herida en el codo que no me permitió continuar.
Me quede con mucha bronca por no poder continuar en la vuelta porque estaba convencido de que me iba a hacer muy bien de cara al Tour de San Luis, pero siempre pienso que por algo pasan las cosas.

Does that mean he is out of the race ? Or just that he is not sure about his form anymore because of the crash.

I understand that he said that he is disappointed to be out of the race because he thinks that this race days would do good things to his condition ahead of San Luis.

 

[Ruudz0r]

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Dani Diaz writes this on his blog:

El problema fue en la segunda etapa, muy nerviosa con mucha gente desesperada por ir adelante y rutas en muy mal estado, tuve la mala suerte de que en un momento muy rápido de la carrera no pude esquivar un pozo profundo, saliendo despedido y raspándome el pecho, las piernas, y en especial una herida en el codo que no me permitió continuar.
Me quede con mucha bronca por no poder continuar en la vuelta porque estaba convencido de que me iba a hacer muy bien de cara al Tour de San Luis, pero siempre pienso que por algo pasan las cosas.

Does that mean he is out of the race ? Or just that he is not sure about his form anymore because of the crash.

I understand that he said that he is disappointed to be out of the race because he thinks that this race days would do good things to his condition ahead of San Luis.

Ah thanks thats a lot better then what I thought it ment

 

[jens_attacks]

dropped on the flat on the first san juan stage

ready to kill nairo quintana two week later.

vamos daniiii diazzz vamos el loco guevaraaaaa

 

[Anderis]

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So Ben King was supposed to ride but now is out due to an injury. May hamper Cannondale in TTT depending on who his replacement is.

It seems it's Andre Cardoso and it actually WILL hamper them in TTT quite badly (isn't he possibly the worst TT-ist in the whole team?).

 

[Hugo Koblet]

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So Ben King was supposed to ride but now is out due to an injury. May hamper Cannondale in TTT depending on who his replacement is.

It seems it's Andre Cardoso and it actually WILL hamper them in TTT quite badly (isn't he possibly the worst TT-ist in the whole team?).

Cannondale always sucks in TTT's so I don't think it will matter much anyway. I actually didn't even know there was a TTT in San Luis.

 

[hfer07]

for the 100th time:

will we have a "decent" race broadcasting this time?