Fully expect Ewan to win of the spring stages in the first three days - A seriously talented sprinter who could reach the top level.
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Mayomaniac said:Zakarin will invade Poland?jens_attacks said:very proud to announce that zakarin preached the massacre to come on twitter, responding to me
any resistance is futile
el zaka is coming.
It's not mine! It's Phil I am's! I was showing it as a better race than the current editions from the past few years.Tank Engine said:Here's the start list according to
http://tourdepologne.pl/ogloszenie-skladow-ekip-72-tdp-na-pge-narodowym/
It seems pretty up to date as Gesink on the list. Astana and Movistar look very strong. Also, Zakarin could be one to look out for on this course.
For tomorrow, Modolo ahead of Nizzolo.
p.s. to Lemon Cheese Cake. I like your course a lot, particularly the first stage along the Baltic coast. I like the Bukowina circuit, but I agree it would be good to go back to Sudeten mountains again.
TINKOFF-SAXO: Maciej Bodnar, Paweł Poljański, Jesper Hansen, Robert Kiserlovski, Chris Anker Sorensen, Evgeny Petrov, Ivan Rovny, Edward Beltran.
ETIXX – QUICK STEP: Michał Kwiatkowski, Michał Gołaś, Maxime Bouet, Gianluca Brambilla, David De La Cruz, Gianni Meersman, Petr Vakoc, Carlos Verona Quintanilla
ASTANA PRO TEAM: Fabio Aru, Borut Bozic, Dario Cataldo, Andrea Guardini, Alexey Lutsenko, Diego Rosa, Paolo Tiralongo, Andrey Zeits
TEAM SKY: Ian Boswell, Philip Deignan, Sergio Luis Henao Montoya, Vasil Kiryienka, David Garcia Lopez, Mikel Nieve Iturralde, Salvatore Puccio, Xabier Zandio.
LAMPRE MERIDA: Przemysław Niemiec, Niccolo Bonifazio, Mattia Cattaneo, Roberto Ferrari, Sacha Modolo, Manuele Mori, Diego Ulissi, Valerio Conti
BMC RACING TEAM: Darwin Atapuma, Marcus Burghardt, Alessandro de Marchi, Silvan Dillier, Ben Hermans, Amael Moinard, Dylan Theuns, Peter Velits
MOVISTAR: Andrey Amador, Igor Anton, Eros Capecchi, Jon Izaguirre, Juan Jose Lobato, Jasha Sutterlin, Francisco Jose Ventoso, Benat Intxausti
ORICA GREENEDGE: Caleb Ewan, Mitch Docker, Brett Lancaster, Christian Meier, Damien Howson, Simon Clarke, Mathew Hayman, Ivan Santaromita
TEAM GIANT – ALPECIN: Marcel Kittel, Lawson Craddock, Tom Stamsnijder, Bert de Backer, Johannes Frohlinger, Nikias Arndt, Caleb Fairly, Luka Mezgec
TREK FACTORY RACING: Eugenio Alafaci, Fumiyuki Beppu, Marco Coledan, Giacomo Nizzolo, Yaroslav Popovych, Jesse Sergent, Kristof Vandewalle, Riccardo Zoidl
KATUSHA: Maxim Belkov, Sven Erik Bystrom, Sergey Chernetskiy, Sergey Lagutin, Gatis Smukulis, Eduard Vorganov, Anton Vorobyev, Ilnur Zakarin
TEAM LOTTO NL JUMBO: Robert Gesink, Tom van Asbroeck, George Bennett, Rick Flens, Martijn Keizer, Bert-Jan Lindeman, Bram Tankink, Dennis van Winden
LOTTO SOUDAL: Sander Armee, Kris Boeckmans, Vegard Breen, Jasper de Buyst, Bart de Clercq, Maxime Monfort, Jurgen van den Broeck, Louis Vervaeke
CANNONDALE GARMIN: Moreno Moser, Alberto Bettiol, Davide Formolo, Lasse Norman Hansen, Alan Marangoni, Matej Mohric, Kristoffer Skjerping, Davide Villella
AG2R LA MONDIALE: Gediminas Bagdonas, Carlos Betancur, Guillaume Bonnafond, Patrick Gretsch, Rinaldo Nocentini, Sebastien Minard, Christophe Riblon, Sebastien Turgot
IAM CYCLING: Marcel Aregger, Clement Chevrier, Stefan Denifl, Jonathan Fumeaux, Roger Kluge, Matteo Pelucchi, Sebastien Reichenbach, Lawrence Warbasse
FDJ: Steve Morabito, Kenny Elissonde, Murillo Fischer, Matthieu Ladagnous, Olivier le Gac, Lorenzo Manzin, Laurent Pichon, Kevin Reza
CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE: Maciej Paterski, Grega Bole, Branislau Samoilau, Jan Hirt, Nikolay Mihaylov, Davide Rebellin, Marek Rutkiewicz, Bartłomiej Matysiak
REPREZENTACJA POLSKI: Dariusz Batek, Paweł Bernas, Marcin Białobłocki, Paweł Franczak, Kamil Gradek, Błażej Janiaczyk, Tomasz Marczyński, Kamil Zieliński.
lemon cheese cake said:The Wall of Bukowina is overused and so are places like Zakopane there are other hilly regions of Polands than the one that includes Bukowina and Zakopane. Some other hilly regions are shown in this race from the Race Design Thread
If he's as strong as in Switzerland, he has a good chance for the overall.markene2 said:Lutsenko to be the best of the Astana guys, course is tailormade for him. Think he will end up on the podium.
ILovecycling said:This race is all about if Betancur turns up on the start of stage 1 nothing more
awful parcours btw
yaco said:Fully expect Ewan to win of the spring stages in the first three days - A seriously talented sprinter who could reach the top level.
ohhhh godGeraint Too Fast said:ILovecycling said:This race is all about if Betancur turns up on the start of stage 1 nothing more
awful parcours btw
No surprise.
ILovecycling said:ohhhh godGeraint Too Fast said:ILovecycling said:This race is all about if Betancur turns up on the start of stage 1 nothing more
awful parcours btw
No surprise.
nahh he is in a such a shape that you cant see him behind the guy in white nike trainersBanana_Joe said:ILovecycling said:ohhhh godGeraint Too Fast said:ILovecycling said:This race is all about if Betancur turns up on the start of stage 1 nothing more
awful parcours btw
No surprise.
What does this pic mean? Is he not there? Or on the left and we can't see him?
dpm1991 said:Guys will ride the TdP in some nasty heat, up to 37°C (~100°F). Those temperatures will remain for around a week. Poland (like Germany) is known to have some nasty storms - especially GOP, Małopolska & region of Częstochowa. I hope this year there won't be any incidents like last year on the stage to Bydgoszcz.
Sorry 'bout that. To this day i'm not sure how to properly translate the regions of Poland, or how to translate the "województwo" word. I don't think the "province" verb is accurate enough. I've heard of the "voivodeship" word, but it sound too comical to me to be real. GOP stands for Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy. In english it would be something like "Upper Silesia Industrial District" or something like that. Sorry for the offtopic.Tank Engine said:dpm1991 said:Guys will ride the TdP in some nasty heat, up to 37°C (~100°F). Those temperatures will remain for around a week. Poland (like Germany) is known to have some nasty storms - especially GOP, Małopolska & region of Częstochowa. I hope this year there won't be any incidents like last year on the stage to Bydgoszcz.
GOP - The industrial region in Upper Silesia (don't ask for the original ). Centred around Katowice.
Malopolska - Little/lesser Poland - centred around Cracow.