Slipstream / High Road chaps from Georgia

iainf72

Are Trent Lowe and Sivtsov from their respective teams really the guys we should be watching?

Trent did ok in Paris-Nice for a while and if you can hang with Levi on a steep climb you're obviously fairly talented.

I was expecting Tommy D to be Slipstreams main man but obviously not. Know not much at all about Sivtsov either.

I know TdG isn't a mega important race but Astana were motivated so it can't have been easy.

Kléber

Siutsou had a good Tour de France, 32nd overall and 5th in the young riders classification and did it the hard way, racing and attacking a lot, rather than following wheels and being protected. Given the relative lack of opposition in Georgia, his win isn't unexpected.

andyp

Siutsou was under 23 world champion in 2004. I saw him win it in Verona and he was riding a C40 in the same colour scheme as mine.

He turned pro with, if memory serves, Fassa Bortolo in 2005. He was at Barloworld last season and finished 32nd in the Tour so obviously has talent.

The one thought I had when looking at the results in Georgia was the relative weakness of the field. I'm very surprised Leipheimer didn't win given he didn't have too many decent riders to beat.

iainf72

andyp wrote:

The one thought I had when looking at the results in Georgia was the relative weakness of the field. I'm very surprised Leipheimer didn't win given he didn't have too many decent riders to beat.

I'd put that down to no ITT. He would've trounced them against the clock.

Not so sure TdG will last much longer.

DaveyL

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Levi has obviously been getting tips from Tom Danielson's stylist. It's not a good look on anyone out of their teens (except, strangely, Michael Stipe).

squired

I thought the tv (I saw it via cycling.tv) race coverage of the mountain finish was awful. They didn't seem to realise that he had taken the jersey and as soon as he crossed the line you didn't see what happened behind. Good result for him and the team though.