Tour of Pologne 2015(2.UWT) 2-8.08

[yaco]

Fully expect Ewan to win of the spring stages in the first three days - A seriously talented sprinter who could reach the top level.

 

[Brullnux]

Not as talented as Bonifazio, though, but I guess they are two different riders. Bonifazio will lose to Ewan in a sprint after a completely flat 150k stage. Bonifazio will win anything harder,

 

[Hugo Koblet]

No Majka?

 

[Gigs_98]

This route is so ... meh

 

[jens_attacks]

Re: Re:

very proud to announce that zakarin preached the massacre to come on twitter, responding to me

any resistance is futile



el zaka is coming.

Zakarin will invade Poland?

1939 pales in comparison

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Re:

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.

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.

 

[Sasquatch]

If Ulissi is in form he'll win because he'll pick up bonus seconds and hold on in the TT.

But my pick is Lutsenko to upstage everyone.

 

[markene2]

Lutsenko to be the best of the Astana guys, course is tailormade for him. Think he will end up on the podium.

 

[Kazistuta]

This race is Kwiatkowskis to lose. By far the biggest favorite on this course. Should pick up both bonus seconds and win the TT ( + Home turf advantage).

 

[Eyeballs Out]

It's going to be very hot this week - like racing in the Vuelta

 

[Ludwig's Olaf]

Re:

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

Nice place this Zakopane. Ski jumping today got cancelled because the hill collapsed or something, so let them have at least a small event. The Poland Tour is odd. Either circuits trough some of the most awful cities in Europe with those silly big commercial balloons all around, and then the most beautiful landscape in the south, greener than Ireland, sparsely populated, the densest forests and rugged peaks above them. Should cross over to Slovakia though, there are mean climbs on their side.

 

[Jagartrott]

Re:

Lutsenko to be the best of the Astana guys, course is tailormade for him. Think he will end up on the podium.

If he's as strong as in Switzerland, he has a good chance for the overall.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

This race is all about if Betancur turns up on the start of stage 1 nothing more


awful parcours btw

No surprise.

 

[Tank Engine]

Re:

Fully expect Ewan to win of the spring stages in the first three days - A seriously talented sprinter who could reach the top level.

I seem to have overlooked Ewan. He certainly will do well.

As for the season, it's definitely summer . I went out for a ride very early today. It's hot out there (in Warsaw too and the forecast says it's going to last).

 

[ILovecycling]

Re:

This race is all about if Betancur turns up on the start of stage 1 nothing more


awful parcours btw

No surprise.

ohhhh god

 

[Carols]

And we have pictures beIN connect is live and it comes on TV in 40 minutes. Right now they are just showing the team rosters.

 

[Banana_Joe]

Re: Re:

This race is all about if Betancur turns up on the start of stage 1 nothing more


awful parcours btw

No surprise.

ohhhh god

What does this pic mean? Is he not there? Or on the left and we can't see him?

 

[ILovecycling]

Re: Re:

This race is all about if Betancur turns up on the start of stage 1 nothing more


awful parcours btw

No surprise.

ohhhh god

What does this pic mean? Is he not there? Or on the left and we can't see him?

nahh he is in a such a shape that you cant see him behind the guy in white nike trainers

 

[dpm1991]

Another year with yet another same route. I'm glad that guys finally get Gubałówka to play with. Pity, that there's no Murzasichle side to Głodówka like a couple of years ago. If i remember correctly it was a prety nasty little climb with some nice percentages. The regular Głodówka is just a big ring uphill drag like Aprica or Petit-Saint-Bernard.

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.

 

[Tank Engine]

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.

 

[dpm1991]

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.

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.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Wow, this finish looks like crash city. About five corners in the last 800m including one less than 100m from the line in a stage liable to be a sprint. Could get messy.

 

[Irondan]

It's going to get messy for sure I'm afraid.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Nice KOM - one of those spiral flyovers

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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