Tour of Alberta 2014 (2.1), 02.09 - 07.09

[Dazed and Confused]

Sept 2 | Subway Calgary Prologue | 6:05 PM – 8:25 PM (Local)
Sept 3 | ATB Financial Stage 1 Lethbridge Circuit | 3:10 PM – 6:35 PM
Sept 4 | Edmonton International Airport Stage 2 Innisfail to Red Deer | 12:10 PM – 3:45 PM
Sept 5 | Simson Maxwell Stage 3 Wetaskiwin to Edmonton Garrison | 11:40 AM – 3:40 PM
Sept 6 | Go Auto Stage 4 Edmonton Northlands to Strathcona County | 11:50 AM – 3:49 PM
Sept 7 | Pomeroy Inn & Suites Stage 5 Circuit | 12:40 PM – 3:37 PM

Teams and key riders:
1. Belkin-Pro Cycling Team (Mollema, Kruijswijk)
2. Garmin Sharp (Slagter, Navardauskas)
3. Orica GreenEDGE (Impey, Weening)
4. Cannondale (Formolo, Villella)
5. Team Giant-Shimano (Dumoulin, Geschke)
6. UnitedHealthcare (de Maar, Reijnen)
7. Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies (Young, Anderson)
8. Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis (Tvetcov, Rathe)
9. 5-hour Energy (Beyer, Sweeting)
10. Silber Pro Cycling Team (Roth, Lachance)
11. Hincapie Sportswear Development Team (Rosskopf, Skujiņš)
12. Team SmartStop (Kocjan, Britton)
13. Bissell Development Team (Oram, Daniel)
14. Canada (Houle, Mcleod)
15. Garneau - Québecor (Hadi)

Startlist: http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Tour_of_Alberta_2014-Startlist

Official site: http://tourofalberta.ca/

This will be live on Eurosport (ex prologue) in the evening (Europe time). Zero live TV conflict with other races.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Impey ftw.

 

[roundabout]

Canadian Pave?

OK, might be worth watching

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Tommy D or Impey, makes no difference.

 

[BigMac]

Where's Gesink? Would fancy a Canadian déjà vu.

 

[whittashau]

First stage is an uphill prologue which is different but interesting.

 

[MikeLopez]

Easy win for Dumoulin, I guess.

 

[Roude Leiw]

Overall a rather hilly race no? Dumoulin has an edge regarding the prologue, but there is no other TT? I would say Yates or Slagter if their are bonus seconds

 

[roundabout]

I am not really sure that those little hills are challenging enough to make a difference.

Whoever hits the jackpot in windy stages should win (if there is wind of course)

 

[SKSemtex]

Time for Formolo to shine.

 

[Rollthedice]

Time for more surprises from Serghei Tvetcov.

 

[jens_attacks]

i remember last year it was a pretty good race.

tvetcov to wipe out everyone here

 

[De Snelle Duif]

Navardauskas is gonna be great on a parcours like this, I think. Even in the prologue.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Dumoulin ftw
Slagter is a good call because he is good in prologues as well.

 

[jpljpl]

Slagter has been withdrawn from the race couple days ago, so I am quite sure he is not winning this one.

What sort of time differences should one expect in such a short prologue?

 

[classicomano]

No contest.

1. Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Shimano) in 5m59s
2. Serghei Tvetcov (Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis) op 14s
3. Thomas Danielson (Garmin-Sharp) op 17s
4. Davide Villella (Cannondale) op 17s
5. Daniel Summerhill (UnitedHealthcare) op 18s
6. Phillip Gaimon (Garmin Sharp) op 19s
7. Joey Rosskopf (Hincapie Sportswear Development Team) op 22s
8. Zach Bell (Team SmartStop) op 22s
9. Christian Meier (Orica GreenEDGE) op 22s
10. Ryan Roth (Silber Pro Cycling Team) op 22s

 

[Dazed and Confused]

yea dominant.

Stage 1 follows.

Scheduled to finish in the middle of the night, Europe time.

 

[Kwibus]

Beast win. 14 seconds on 4km!

Hope he can challenge Martin the upcoming years. Preferably them being equals instead of one dominating.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

average 1,5km/h faster than the number 2

 

[classicomano]

Thats a great picture Dazed, I love his position on the TT bike. Pure class.

 

[WillemS]

Thats a great picture Dazed, I love his position on the TT bike. Pure class.

That picture leaves me wondering how much energy he wastes for kicking his arms with his knees and if he gets bruises.

 

[maltiv]

yea dominant.

Hmm that's strange, I thought aero-bars tilting upwards like that was illegal now?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Gotta say, now that you mention it, the tilt looks pretty aggressive.

Not quite as bad as this one:

 

[Netserk]

Uran and Contador also had theirs tilting (less) upwards. I remember Malori as well in Tirreno.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Uran and Contador also had theirs tilting (less) upwards. I remember Malori as well in Tirreno.

Malori from TA:

Both most likely within the rules.