PTP - Eneco Tour

afx237vi
afx237vi Posts: 12,630
edited August 2009 in Pro race
Starts Tuesday with a prologue, followed by 7 stages (ends with a TT).

Luckily the website is a bit more easy to navigate than the Vattenfall one:

http://www.enecotour.com/

Stage info and profiles:

http://www.sport.be/enecotour/2009/fr/parcours/

I'm guessing that stages 3 and 6 are so flat the graphics people couldn't be bothered to open Photoshop and draw a straight, horizontal line across the page. But check out stage 4's mountaintop finish! :D

Provisional start list:

http://www.sport.be/enecotour/2009/fr/n ... _ID=382767

Past winners:

2008 GUTIERREZ PALACIOS José Ivan
2007 GUTIERREZ PALACIOS José Ivan
2006 SCHUMACHER Stefan
2005 JULICH Bobby (USA )
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    *cough*

    Ahem.

    *tumbleweeds rolls past*

    Cyclingnews preview: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/eneco-t ... e-and-more
  • AndyRubio
    AndyRubio Posts: 880
    Not on telly by the looks of it. I like this race - it's like the Tour of Flanders before the cobbles and hills. It's the real Benelux. Love that street furniture.
    My hour on the plinth
  • ms_tree
    ms_tree Posts: 1,405
    Here goes!
    Overall Sylv Chavanel
    Prologue T Martin
    St 1 Hoj
    St 2 Hoste
    St 3 Flecha
    St 4 Nibali
    St 5 Chavanel
    St 6Hutarovich
    St 7 Wiggins

    That's nil points for me!
    Thanks afx
    'Google can bring back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.'
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    AndyRubio wrote:
    Not on telly by the looks of it. I like this race - it's like the Tour of Flanders before the cobbles and hills. It's the real Benelux. Love that street furniture.

    Did you see the finish of Vattenfall today? Traffic islands, central reservations, cones in the middle of the road for no apparent reason, barriers with feet sticking out... I thought I was already watching some Dutch racing :shock:
  • richard wants a baum
    richard wants a baum Posts: 744
    GC: Gutierrez Palacios, José Ivan

    Prologue:Gutierrez Palacios, José Ivan
    Stage 1:Renshaw, Mark
    Stage 2:Farrar, Tyler
    Stage 3:Farrar, Tyler
    Stage 4:Van Avermaet, Greg
    Stage 5:Renshaw, Mark
    Stage 6:Farrar, Tyler
    Stage 7:Gutierrez Palacios, José Ivan

    Play it safe. :roll:
    Take care of the luxuries and the necessites will take care of themselves.
  • Cheshire_Cat
    Cheshire_Cat Posts: 464
    Hi,

    GC : Jose Ivan Gutierrez

    Prologue: Jose Ivan Gutierrez

    Stage 1:Tom Boonen

    Stage 2: Tyler Farrar

    Stage 3: Tom Boonen

    Stage 4: Sylvain Chavanel

    Stage 5: Tyler Farrar

    Stage 6: Tom Boonen

    Stage 7: Jose Ivan Gutierrez

    Thanks! :D
  • alanmcn1
    alanmcn1 Posts: 531
    Woohoooooooooo..............................................(that was sarcasm BTW)

    GC: Martin
    Prologue: Wiggins
    Robert Millar for knighthood
  • Greggyr
    Greggyr Posts: 1,075
    GC - F Willems

    Pro - Wiggins
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    afx237vi wrote:
    AndyRubio wrote:
    Not on telly by the looks of it. I like this race - it's like the Tour of Flanders before the cobbles and hills. It's the real Benelux. Love that street furniture.

    Did you see the finish of Vattenfall today? Traffic islands, central reservations, cones in the middle of the road for no apparent reason, barriers with feet sticking out... I thought I was already watching some Dutch racing :shock:

    Considering its always a sprint it was a horrendous finish straight... those barriers were killers

    Overall: EBH
    prologue: Wiggo
    Stg 1: Renshaw
    Stg 2: Bennati
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,812
    GC: EBH
    Stage 1:EBH
  • NicFrance
    NicFrance Posts: 256
    GC: Jurgen Vandenbroeck
    Prologue: Toni Martin
    Stage 1: Daniel Bennati
    Stage 2: Robbie McEwen
    Stage 3: Robbie McEwen
    Stage 4: Sylvain Chavanel
    Stage 5: José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios
    Stage 6: Tom Boonen
    Stage 7: Andreas Klöden
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    edited August 2009
    GC: Mick rogers, assuming he doesn't get sick again
    Prologue : T Martin
    Stage 1: Tom Boonen ( a triumph of hope over experience)
    Stage 2: T Farrar
    Stage 3: T Farrar
    Stage 4: Flecha
    Stage 5: Edwald Boassons Hagen
    Stage 6: Hagen
    stage 7: Mick Rogers

    Edit - All changed cos of injuries
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • lucybears
    lucybears Posts: 366
    Martin Maaskant ?
    Kenny van Hummel ?
    Robbie McEwen ?
    Daniel Bennati ?
    Hoste ?

    suggest you all check the final startlist when it is available
    interview.cyclingfever.com
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    lucybears wrote:
    Martin Maaskant ?
    Kenny van Hummel ?
    Robbie McEwen ?
    Daniel Bennati ?
    Hoste ?

    suggest you all check the final startlist when it is available

    Just post your own startlist:

    http://startlist.cyclingfever.com/start ... t&id=19131

    You know you wanted to!
  • lucybears
    lucybears Posts: 366
    afx237vi wrote:
    lucybears wrote:
    Martin Maaskant ?
    Kenny van Hummel ?
    Robbie McEwen ?
    Daniel Bennati ?
    Hoste ?

    suggest you all check the final startlist when it is available

    Just post your own startlist:

    http://startlist.cyclingfever.com/start ... t&id=19131

    You know you wanted to!

    http://startlist.cyclingfever.com/start ... t&id=19131
    is not final & will not be updated until several hours after the final official startlist becomes available

    it may pay you to check
    http://cyclingstartlists.com/2009/08Aug ... ux2009.htm
    interview.cyclingfever.com
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    lucybears wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    lucybears wrote:
    Martin Maaskant ?
    Kenny van Hummel ?
    Robbie McEwen ?
    Daniel Bennati ?
    Hoste ?

    suggest you all check the final startlist when it is available

    Just post your own startlist:

    http://startlist.cyclingfever.com/start ... t&id=19131

    You know you wanted to!

    http://startlist.cyclingfever.com/start ... t&id=19131
    is not final & will not be updated until several hours after the final official startlist becomes available

    it may pay you to check
    http://cyclingstartlists.com/2009/08Aug ... ux2009.htm

    It may pay you to undergo an appraisal of your netiquette young man/lady.
    ___________________

    Strava is not Zen.
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Oh anyway;

    GC: Klodi (though I never know if he's going to be @rsed)

    Prologue: Tony Martin.
    ___________________

    Strava is not Zen.
  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    GC: EBH
    Prolg: Tony Martin
    1: Bennatti
    2: Benatti
    3: Benatti
    4: EBH
    5: EBH
    6: EBH
    7: Wiggins
    If you like Flandes, Roubaix or Eroica, you would like GP Canal de Castilla, www.gpcanaldecastilla.com
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    GC: EBH
    Stage 1:EBH

    You mean prologue, right?

    FJS's picks (he's still on holiday):

    GC: Tony Martin
    Prologue: Tony Martin

    My picks:

    GC: EBH
    Prologue: Wiggo
  • scwxx77
    scwxx77 Posts: 1,469
    GC Edvald Boasson Hagen
    Prologue Tony Martin
    Winner: PTP Vuelta 2007 :wink:
  • Noodley
    Noodley Posts: 1,725
    I'm just going to agree with the poster above me from now on for PTP, so:

    GC: EBH
    Pro: Martin
  • tforonda
    tforonda Posts: 1,193
    GC: José Ivan Gutierrez
    Prologue: José Ivan Gutierrez
  • mididoctors3
    mididoctors3 Posts: 76
    GC EBH

    prologue Martin
  • Richrd2205
    Richrd2205 Posts: 1,267
    GC: Tony Martin
    Prologue: Wiggo
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    GC: BOASSON HAGEN Edvald
    Prologue: MARTIN Tony
    @stagehopper
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    edited August 2009
    GC: Tony Martin
    Prologue: Tony Martin
    Stage 1: Boonen
    Stage 2: Renshaw
    Stage 3: Chicchi
    Stage 4: Brown
    Stage 5: Farrar
    Stage 6: Cooke
    Stage 7: Tony Martin

    (Essentially I'm picking the all the best sprinters in the order they appear in the start list)
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • GroupOfOne MkII
    GroupOfOne MkII Posts: 1,289
    GC: Boasson of the Hagen
    Prologue: Klodi
    St1: Farrar
    St2: Boasson Hagen
    St3: Farrar
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    GC: Joost Posthuma
    Prologue: Joost Posthuma
    Half man, Half bike
  • JC.152
    JC.152 Posts: 645
    gc: WIggins

    prologue:Wiggins
  • Rhods
    Rhods Posts: 400
    GC: Joes Ivan Gutierrez

    Prologue: Wiggins

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