PTP - Tirreno-Adriatico

afx237vi
afx237vi Posts: 12,630
edited March 2009 in Pro race
Starts Wednesday. 7 stages in total, including a steep (but relatively short) uphill finish on stage 4, and a 30km TT on stage 5.

Previews / startlists etc:

http://www.gazzetta.it/grandeciclismo/t ... home.shtml (confusing website, but the "Miss Tirreno-Adriatico" section looks... er, interesting)

http://www.steephill.tv/tirreno-adriatico/

http://startlist.cyclingfever.com/start ... t&id=19135

http://cyclingnews.com/road/2009/mar09/tirreno09/

Startlists are still quite sketchy atm.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    GC: GERDEMANN Linus (hope he doesn't crash this time - touch wood)
    1:POZZATO Filippo
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Looking again, the "steep (but relatively short) uphill finish" is the same one they used last year when Joaquim Rodriguez won the stage... it's really steep:

    http://www.dailymotion.com/user/burnie8 ... 2008_sport
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    afx237vi wrote:
    Looking again, the "steep (but relatively short) uphill finish" is the same one they used last year when Joaquim Rodriguez won the stage... it's really steep:

    http://www.dailymotion.com/user/burnie8 ... 2008_sport

    One of the mags think it may have been pro cycling had a suberb photo of that hill last year , riders scattered all over the road and it did indeed look very steep.

    MG
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    afx237vi wrote:
    Looking again, the "steep (but relatively short) uphill finish" is the same one they used last year when Joaquim Rodriguez won the stage... it's really steep:

    http://www.dailymotion.com/user/burnie8 ... 2008_sport

    here is an idication of how steep it is.http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2008/ ... 553_1_full

    how do you get an imagine into a post btw had a look at faq and pasted it before img but it didnt work :-(

    MG
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    MG, you need the actual file name, so the link above doesn't work but http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2008/ ... 1_full.jpg does. Put in side the .gif etc. Here's another that suggests how hard it is, some pros are forced to walk and those on their bikes are in agony. I hope the mechanics fit some low gears this time...bettiniphoto_0024544_1_full.jpg
  • NicFrance
    NicFrance Posts: 256
    GC: Linus Gerdemann
    1, Oscar Freire
    2. Fabian Wegmann
    3. Mark Cavendish
    4. Steward O‘Grady
    5. Linus Gerdemann
    6. Andy Schleck
    7. Gerald Ciolek
  • Cheshire_Cat
    Cheshire_Cat Posts: 464
    edited March 2009
    Hi,

    GC: Ivan Basso

    Stage 1: Alessandro Pettachi

    Stage 2: Alessandro Pettachi

    Stage 3: Daniele Bennati

    Stage 4: Ivan Basso

    Stage 5: Fabian Cancellara

    Stage 6: Stefano Garzelli

    Stage 7: Daniele Bennati

    Thanks
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Overall: Janez Brajkovic
    Stage 1: Daniele Benatti
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  • dimspace
    dimspace Posts: 53
    GC - Andy Schleck
    1 - Cavendish
    2 - Cavendish
    3 - Cavendish
    4 - Schleck A
    5 - Cancellara
    6 - Basso
    7 - O'Grady
  • winoneday
    winoneday Posts: 253
    I'll go for Andy Schleck for the GC but I think I'll try to wait for some better details on the startlists before predicting stage winners.
  • sicrow
    sicrow Posts: 791
    GC Andy Schleck
    Stage 1 Mark Cavendish
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  • chaz_27
    chaz_27 Posts: 28
    GC: Basso
    Stage 1: Freire
  • CyclingBantam
    CyclingBantam Posts: 1,299
    Overall - Schleck
    Stage 1 - Friere
    Stage 2 - Cav
    Stage 3 - Cav
  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    GC: gederman

    Stage1: mr cavendish

    Stage2: mr cavendish

    Stage3: mr cavendish

    cheers
  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    GC: gederman

    Stage1: mr cavendish

    Stage2: mr cavendish

    Stage3: mr cavendish

    cheers
  • SCR Pedro
    SCR Pedro Posts: 912
    GC: DI LUCA Danilo
    Stage 1: PETACCHI Alessandro
    Stage 2: PETACCHI Alessandro
    Stage 3: BOONEN Tom
    Stage 4: SCHLECK Andy
    Stage 5: BRUSEGHIN Marzio
    Stage 6: GERDEMANN Linus
    Stage 7: GUTIERREZ PALACIOS José Ivan

    Cheers
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  • richard wants a baum
    richard wants a baum Posts: 744
    GC: Allan Davis

    stage 1: CAVENDISH Mark

    stage 2: MCEWEN Robbie

    stage 3: CAVENDISH Mark

    stage 4: Allan Davis

    stage 5: Fabian Cancellara

    stage 6: Allan Davis

    stage 7: Stuey OGrady
    Take care of the luxuries and the necessites will take care of themselves.
  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    GC: Gerdemann

    stage 1: Bennati

    stage 2: Bennati

    stage 3: CAVENDISH Mark

    stage 4: Pellizoti

    stage 5: Fabian Cancellara

    stage 6: Garzelli

    stage 7: CAVENDISH Mark
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  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    Stage4: shcleck

    Stage5: sparticus(fabian cancellara)

    Stage6: gederman

    Stage7: mr cavendish
  • alanmcn1
    alanmcn1 Posts: 531
    GC: Devolder
    Stage 1: Cavendish
    Stage 2: Pettachi
    Robert Millar for knighthood
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    GC: Lovkvist

    Stage 1: Cavendish
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    GC Lovkvist

    stage 1 -Pettachi

    Stage 2-Cavendish
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  • GroupOfOne MkII
    GroupOfOne MkII Posts: 1,289
    GC: Gerdemann
    St1: Cav
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    GC Lokvist
    Stage 1 Cav
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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    Overall: Thomas Lovkvist
    St. 1: Mark Cavendish
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  • RichardB101
    RichardB101 Posts: 77
    GC : Di luca

    Stage 1 : Bennati
  • Van_Heerden
    Van_Heerden Posts: 128
    GC: A Schleck
    Stage 1: A Pettachi
    "The grass is always greener on the other side - unless Jens Voigt has been riding on the other side in which case it's white with the salty, dried tears of all the riders whose souls he has crushed."
  • campagchris
    campagchris Posts: 773
    Overall Vincenzo Nibali
    stage 1 Bennati thanks
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    GC - José Ivan Gutierrez
    1 - Mark Cavendish
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    afx237vi wrote:
    GC - José Ivan Gutierrez
    1 - Mark Cavendish


    Fecker was supposed to win me the Paris-Nice prologue. Then decides to do this one instead. Pah!
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

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