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Vuelta 2011

Post by Rockstar Inc » Wed Dec 29, 2010 4:07 am

Full route to be revealed on January 12

The 2011 Vuelta a España is set to begin with a team time trial in Benidorm. The announcement was made on Monday by Gema Amor, the director general of the Costa Blanca Tourism Board.

more: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/2011-vu ... time-trial
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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Rockstar Inc » Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:00 pm

Vuelta a Espana 2011 route unveiled in Benidorm


http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vuelta- ... n-benidorm

the 66th edition of the Vuelta avoids the Catalunya region and the Pyrenees but includes six mountain finishes, two of which have never been climbed before. These are to Estacion de Montaña Manzaneda in Galicia on stage 11 and La Farrapona in the Asturias region on stage 14.
"I'm an old-school sprinter. I can't climb a mountain but if I am in front with 200 metres to go then there's nobody who can beat me.” Mark Cavendish, at the 2007 Eneco Tour

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by iBanesto » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:48 pm

No comments here?

Parcours is imho ok, not great, not bad.

Positive:
- Early mountains, Sierra Nevada + Jaen
- Basque country. Beautiful.
- TT before the last mountains. Always like it better that way.
- Ponferrada. Untypical Vuelta stage, typical TdF stage (2011: Lourdes, St-Flour). Big mountains in the center, we'll see what happens.

Negative:
- Basque country. The stages (plus Noja) are difficult, but could end up without any GC shift or excitement.
- Lack of "real" mountain stages. By that I mean: several climbs, no big flat stretches between them. Lagos de Somiedo is the only one of these and it's placed the day before the Angliru, dumb.
- UCI calendar. One less week between Tour and Vuelta this year. Tour-Vuelta double more difficult, stages in the south even hotter,...

Generally the parcours favors climbers, so I hope many good climbers consider the Giro-Vuelta double this year like Sastre, Rodriguez, Ricco,...

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by auxilium torino » Tue May 31, 2011 7:25 pm

this are the teams:

Omega Pharma-Lotto (Bel)
Quickstep Cycling Team (Bel)
Saxo Bank Sungard (Den)
Euskaltel-Euskadi (Spa)
Movistar Team (Spa)
Ag2R La Mondiale (Fra)
Sky Procycling (Gbr)
Lampre - ISD (Ita)
Liquigas-Cannondale (Ita)
Pro Team Astana (Kaz)
Team Leopard - Trek (Lux)
Rabobank Cycling Team (Ned)
Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team (Ned)
Katusha Team (Rus)
BMC Racing Team (USA)
HTC-Highroad (USA)
Team Garmin-Cervelo (USA)
Team Radioshack (USA)

Geox-TMC
Skil-Shimano
Andalucia Caja Granada
Cofidis

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Pirkio » Tue May 31, 2011 9:53 pm

no androni?
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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by iBanesto » Tue May 31, 2011 10:33 pm

auxilium torino wrote: Omega Pharma-Lotto (Bel) Bakelandts!
Quickstep Cycling Team (Bel) Dunno...
Saxo Bank Sungard (Den) Contador³ or the Anker
Euskaltel-Euskadi (Spa) Anton!
Movistar Team (Spa) Lots of people...
Ag2R La Mondiale (Fra) Gadret!
Sky Procycling (Gbr) Dunno...
Lampre - ISD (Ita) Cunego!
Liquigas-Cannondale (Ita) Nibali!
Pro Team Astana (Kaz) Kreuziger!
Team Leopard - Trek (Lux) It's not the Tour so who cares...
Rabobank Cycling Team (Ned) LLS!
Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team (Ned) Mosquera :D
Katusha Team (Rus) Rodriguez!
BMC Racing Team (USA) Evans!
HTC-Highroad (USA) Siutsou!
Team Garmin-Cervelo (USA) Lots of people...
Team Radioshack (USA) Lots of people...

Geox-TMC Menchov!
Skil-Shimano Geniez!
Andalucia Caja Granada Seriously?
Cofidis Moncoutie!

reserve:Caja Rural

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by auxilium torino » Tue May 31, 2011 10:39 pm

iBanesto wrote:
auxilium torino wrote: Omega Pharma-Lotto (Bel) Bakelandts!
Quickstep Cycling Team (Bel) Dunno...
Saxo Bank Sungard (Den) Contador³ or the Anker
Euskaltel-Euskadi (Spa) Anton!
Movistar Team (Spa) Lots of people...
Ag2R La Mondiale (Fra) Gadret!
Sky Procycling (Gbr) Dunno...
Lampre - ISD (Ita) Cunego!
Liquigas-Cannondale (Ita) Nibali!No, Basso
Pro Team Astana (Kaz) Kreuziger!
Team Leopard - Trek (Lux) It's not the Tour so who cares...
Rabobank Cycling Team (Ned) LLS!
Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team (Ned) Mosquera :D
Katusha Team (Rus) Rodriguez!
BMC Racing Team (USA) Evans!
HTC-Highroad (USA) Siutsou!
Team Garmin-Cervelo (USA) Lots of people...
Team Radioshack (USA) Lots of people...

Geox-TMC Menchov!
Skil-Shimano Geniez!
Andalucia Caja Granada Seriously?
Cofidis Moncoutie!

reserve:Caja Rural
Allenatore Italia - Manager Dainese OG 10 bronzo TTT
Manager SantiNelli WC 10/10 argento TT
Manager SantiNelli WC 3/11 6/11Oro TT
Allenatore Italia WC 9/11 Oro RR
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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Luna » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:04 am

auxilium torino wrote:
iBanesto wrote:
auxilium torino wrote: Omega Pharma-Lotto (Bel) Bakelandts!
Quickstep Cycling Team (Bel) Dunno...
Saxo Bank Sungard (Den) Contador³ or the Anker
Euskaltel-Euskadi (Spa) Anton!
Movistar Team (Spa) Lots of people... Plaza!
Ag2R La Mondiale (Fra) Gadret!
Sky Procycling (Gbr) Dunno...
Lampre - ISD (Ita) Cunego!
Liquigas-Cannondale (Ita) Nibali!No, Basso
Pro Team Astana (Kaz) Kreuziger!
Team Leopard - Trek (Lux) It's not the Tour so who cares...
Rabobank Cycling Team (Ned) LLS!
Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team (Ned) Mosquera :D
Katusha Team (Rus) Rodriguez!
BMC Racing Team (USA) Evans!
HTC-Highroad (USA) Siutsou!
Team Garmin-Cervelo (USA) Lots of people...
Team Radioshack (USA) Lots of people...

Geox-TMC Menchov!
Skil-Shimano Geniez!
Andalucia Caja Granada Seriously?
Cofidis Moncoutie!

reserve:Caja Rural

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by auxilium torino » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:42 am

i don't believe that Basso ride the Vuelta, but Nibali this year is a Zombie :?
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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Pirkio » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:21 pm

maybe basso and nibali togeder.. for true.. liquigas can't win tour.. liquigas have to win 1 of 3 big races so let's go for the vuelta
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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by NoPikouze » Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:22 pm

48. DAN Chris Anker SORENSEN Saxo Bank-Sungard + 3'06"
53. NED Steven KRUIJSWIJK Rabobank m.t.
57. COL Fabio Andres DUARTE AREVALO Geox - TMC m.t.
87. SUE Thomas LÖVKVIST Sky Pro Cycling m.t.
90. KAZ Andrey KASHECHKIN Pro Team Astana m.t.
91. CRO Robert KISERLOVSKI Pro Team Astana m.t.
97. RUS Denis MENCHOV Geox - TMC m.t.
98. RUS Vladimir KARPETS Katusha Team m.t.
118. SVK Peter SAGAN Liquigas - Cannondale + 7'28"
158. ALL Andreas KLODEN Team RadioShack + 12'19"
164. ITA Matteo CARRARA Vacansoleil - DCM m.t.
177. ALL Tony MARTIN HTC-Highroad + 12'50"
197. FRA Alexandre GENIEZ Skil - Shimano + 23'16"

Ouch.
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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Rockstar Inc » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:44 pm

Wiggo!!!!
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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by NoPikouze » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:51 pm

Bauke!!
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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Team Lidwinia » Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:07 pm

Wout!!

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Radunion » Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:37 pm

Seems as Sky was riding for the wrong rider the last few days. I was critical about the profile with no "major challenge" in the 3. week. But now we can expect some interesting racing.

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Team Lidwinia » Sun Sep 04, 2011 10:12 pm

I'm not sure if they wil stop riding for wiggins, even now. problem is that they will have to decide who's king now. I don't think they're unhappy to have a rest day now. Time to think... By the way, apart from Wiggins and Froome, Sky disappoint me. Where are Lövkvist, Cioni and Zandio all the time?

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by NoPikouze » Sun Sep 04, 2011 10:30 pm

When there is no TT left, and your mountain helper who is stronger than your leader has the same ranking as him, yes it's a bit silly to kill the mountain rider for the TT guy...
Anyway, Mollema :cry: :cry:

This vuelta is a "bit" suspicious though...
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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by iBanesto » Sun Sep 04, 2011 10:53 pm

Quote of the day from good old Koos Moerenhout:

Man met balonkuiten wint op de Angliru.

Fat legged man wins on the Angliru. So much for your "suspicious".

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Radunion » Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:07 pm

After checking the remaining stages I reconsider my previous post. There is a neat little mountain top finish on Wednesday. The hill is less then 600 m, but 545 m ascend on 6.1 km with a short flat section in the middle. Cobo should be stronger there again, but certainly a chance for the 2 Brits - and 20 sec for the stage winner.

And Mollema is still forth. Cannot remember a Dutch rider in the top 5 of a grand tour. Good to see some Dutch climbers again.

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by iBanesto » Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:12 pm

Pena Cabarga. Already done in the Vuelta last year, check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWeiX2lkA4

And the Dutch still have Gesink. ;)

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Rockstar Inc » Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:14 pm

the next echolon will come....at least i'll pray for it :cry:
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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by iBanesto » Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:16 pm

Dear Franco, better not check the weather forecast for northern Spain...

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Rockstar Inc » Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:37 pm

grrr stop being realistic...don't destroy my faith in Mr. Froometastic
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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Radunion » Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:28 am

In yesterdays stage Matteo Montaguti was not very popular in the front group as he was not contributing to the group and just sprinting for the mountain points. This sounds somehow familiar to me.

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Re: Vuelta 2011

Post by Rockstar Inc » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:26 am

it wasn't just Montaguti who was sucking wheels :lol: ask about sijmens or especially the stage winner...my new hero...my new pippo p..... :lol:
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