TOB Start List

sonny73

Nice to see Soler in there...

Agritubel
1 Lequatre, Geoffroy (FRA)
2 Berges, Emilien (FRA)
3 Bouet, Maxime (FRA)
4 Laurent, Christophe (FRA)
5 Ravard, Anthony (FRA)
6 Vogondy, Nicolas (FRA)

Barloworld
11 Cummings, Stephen (GBR)
12 Froome, Christopher (GBR)
13 Hunter, Robert (RSA)
14 Impey, Daryl (RSA)
15 Soler, Mauricio (COL)
16 Thomas, Geraint (GBR)

Team Columbia-HTC
21 Boasson Hagen, Edvald (NOR)
22 Lovkvist, Thomas (SWE)
23 Martin, Tony (GER)
24 Renshaw, Mark (AUS)
25 Rogers, Michael (AUS)
26 Siutsou, Kanstantsin (BLR)

Rapha Condor
31 Greenwood, Ben (GBR)
32 House, Kristian GBR)
33 Lapthorne, Darren (GBR)
34 Newton, Christopher (GBR)
35 Richardson, Simon (GBR)
36 Southam, Tom (GBR)

Candi-TV-Marshalls Pasta
41 Appleby, Dale (GBR)
42 Briggs, Graham (GBR)
43 Elliott, Malcolm (GBR)
44 Downing, Russell (GBR)
45 Sampson, James (GBR)
46 Williams, Peter (GBR)

Ag2r La Mondiale
51 Roche, Nicolas (IRE)
52 Dion, Renaud (FRA)
53 Goubert, Stephane (FRA)
54 Krivtsov, Yuriy (UKR)
55 Mondory, Lloyd (FRA)
56 Sonnery, Blaise (FRA)

Rabobank
61 Stamsnijder, Tom (NED)
62 Brown, Graeme (AUS)
63 Clement, Stef (NED)
64 Ten Dams, Laurens (NED)
65 Niermann, Grischa (GER)
66 Posthuma, Joost (NED)

CSF Navigare
71 Finetto, Mauro (ITA)
72 Frapporti, Marco (ITA)
73 Canuti, Frederico (ITA)
74 Pozzovivo, Domenico (ITA)
75 Savini, Filippo (ITA)
76 Zen, Enrico (ITA)

Joker-Bianchi
81 Kristoff, Alexander (NOR)
82 Willmann, Frederik (NOR)
83 Remme, Stian (NOR)
84 Sortveit, Sondre (NOR)
85 Nordhaug, Lars Petter (NOR)
86 Stake Laengen, Vegard (NOR)

Garmin-Slipstream
91 Wiggins, Bradley (GBR)
92 Duijn, Huub (NED)
93 Lowe, Trent (AUS)
94 Peterson, Tom (USA)
95 Sutton, Chris (AUS)
96 Van Der Velde, Ricardo (NED)

Topsport Vlaanderen
101 De Ketele, Kenny (BEL)
102 Criel, Tom (BEL)
103 De Gendt, Thomas (BEL)
104 Vandewalle, Kristof (BEL)
105 Vanheule, Bart (BEL)
106 Vanspeybrouck, Pieter (BEL)

Cervelo Test Team
111 Appollonio, Davide (ITA)
112 Deignan, Philip (IRE)
113 Fleeman, Dan (GBR)
114 Hammond, Roger (GBR)
115 Hunt, Jeremy (GBR)
116 Reimer, Martin (GER)

Katusha
121 Swift, Ben (GBR)
122 Karpets, Vladimir (RUS)
123 Napolitano, Danilo (ITA)
124 Pozzato, Filippo (ITA)
125 Petrov, Evgueni (RUS)

Halfords Bikehut
131 Clancy, Edward (GBR)
132 Hayles, Robert (GBR)
133 McNally, Mark (GBR)
134 Partridge, Robert (GBR)
135 Tennant, Andrew (GBR)
136 Wilkinson, Ian (GBR)

Euskatel-Euskadi
141 Aramendia, Javier (ESP)
142 Fdez de Larrea, Koldo (ESP)
143 Velasco, Ivan (ESP)
144 De Lis, Sergio (ESP)
145 Agirre, Josu (ESP)
146 Azanza, Jorge (ESP)

Vaconsoleil
151 Ruijgh, Rob (NED)
152 Berkhout, Thomas (NED)
153 Cooke, Baden (AUS)
154 Honig, Reinier (NED)
155 Mol, Wouter (NED)
156 Mortensen, Martin (DEN)

ISD-Neri
161 Huzarsky, Bartozs (POL)
162 Clarke, Simon (AUS)
163 Pidgornyy, Ruslan (UKR)
164 Kvachuk, Oleksandr (UKR)
165 Kostyuk, Denys (UKR)
166 Kondrut, Vitaliy (UKR)[/url]

blazing_saddles

Can't be right.
Half of the Cervelo team is riding the Vuelta......

FJS

Six riders per team just isn't enough; look at Columbia dn Katusha, only leaders, no helpers. Without domestiques to do the dirty work in the early miles and keep the peloton in tow it'll be like the last couple of years:a random break-away and some coincidental relatively unknown rider taking the overall.

Anonymous

Nice to see Impey too...

lucybears

expect lots of changes

Agritubel
2 Berges, Emilien (FRA)
4 Laurent, Christophe (FRA)
are on the provisional startlist for Paris-Bruxelles September 12
http://www.paris-bruxelles.be/pdf/pb200 ... ipants.pdf

Team Columbia-HTC
25 Rogers, Michael (AUS)
26 Siutsou, Kanstantsin (BLR)
Columbia-HTC for the Tour of Missouri: Michael Rogers (Aus); Kanstantsin Sivtsov (Byl)
http://www.highroadsports.com/news/450- ... f-Missouri

Vaconsoleil
153 Cooke, Baden (AUS)
154 Honig, Reinier (NED)
155 Mol, Wouter (NED)
156 Mortensen, Martin (DEN)
are all on the provisional startlist for the GP de Fourmies / La Voix du Nord September 13
http://www.grandprixdefourmies.com/reso ... 2009-1.xls

on the AG2R calendar
http://www.cyclisme.ag2rlamondiale.fr/saison.asp
the Tour de Grande-Bretagne is no longer a clickable link, so it would not surprise if they DNS

Gazzaputt

I eat my words from a few weeks when I said it was to be a poor tour due to lack of entrants. Looks as if we have a great race on our hands.

Only down side is the London course. Up and down the embankment surely the GLA could close off some more roads maybe extend up to Hyde Park around and back via the Mall?

GroupOfOne MkII

FJS wrote:

it'll be like the last couple of years:a random break-away and some coincidental relatively unknown rider taking the overall.

Nothing of the sort last year, okay granted Lequatre was a relative unknown, but the race went right down to the final day, with I think the whole top ten separated by under a minute.

Also Lequatre's break away wasn't the sole reason for his win, remember Cummings, Fleeman, Berges and a few others all bridged the gap coming off Exmoor, and Berges actually took yellow that day, only for a puncture to move the yellow on to Lequatre in Stoke. Granted a couple of the early ToBs have been won in the way you suggest, but the last two far from it.

With regards to the rest of the entry list, bear in mind that a lot of those will be the six riders that the team put on their initial entry, so they can change it right up until 48hrs (might even be 24hrs) before the start. So the likes of Cervelo don't actually have to say that Hammond isn't riding, they can just replace his name on the start sheet during the next week whenver they fancy.

FJS

GroupOfOne MkII wrote:

FJS wrote:

it'll be like the last couple of years:a random break-away and some coincidental relatively unknown rider taking the overall.

Nothing of the sort last year, okay granted Lequatre was a relative unknown, but the race went right down to the final day, with I think the whole top ten separated by under a minute.

Also Lequatre's break away wasn't the sole reason for his win, remember Cummings, Fleeman, Berges and a few others all bridged the gap coming off Exmoor, and Berges actually took yellow that day, only for a puncture to move the yellow on to Lequatre in Stoke. Granted a couple of the early ToBs have been won in the way you suggest, but the last two far from it.

As far as I'm concerned you're confirming what I tried to say. There was a break-away that managed to make it to the finish, and after that the battle for the GC was only between those in the break-away. It went down to the final day, but only between those that just happened to be in that break-away. Cummings is a decent rider, but Lequatre, Berges, Fleeman, not exactly riders with scores of GC wins each season, right? OK, they all had to work for it, credit to them, and they were at the right place at the right time, but few people would claim they were really the strongest riders in that peoloton, or even the smartest. To a large degree they were just lucky that their break-away 'worked'. Having such small teams increases the factor of chance. It's not the only reason, the route has a large part to play too.

GroupOfOne MkII

But FJS, surely every race (bar a TT or a sprint) is won by someone breaking away at some point or other?

Fair enough that Fleeman, Cummings, Lequatre etc aren't Contador, Basso and Evans, but surely that's the beauty of cycling in that the big, famous guys don't win every race. Taking many of the stage races of the ToB's current size, and aren't they also often won by 'unknowns'.

Agree none of them were the strongest (or possibly smartest) rider in last years race, that was Di Luca, but again possibly a good thing he didn't win. I, and many others, found last year's race entertaining and the winner a worthy one, just because Wiggins (for example) is the most famous rider on the start list, doesn't mean he should, or I want him to automatically win.

On the note of small teams, often they give better racing, having just ProTour teams isn't a guarantee of a good race (just of course as having small team isn't), but again if every race was just the top 20 teams, it'd get very boring. One of, certainly in my opinion, the best things about cycling are the varied fields and that it isn't always the same people/teams winning every race.

takethehighroad

To be fair to him, Ardila's win in 2004 was pretty classy, won the queen stage into Sheffield, then on an uphill finish into Newport to seal his win.

thatkidduffy

any idea of what/where the tv coverage will be?

just checked sport on tv and they're only show the vuelta as having any coverage....

macdesigner

Evenings on ITV4 starting 7.00 for 1 hour...

- Andy

RichN95.

macdesigner wrote:

Evenings on ITV4 starting 7.00 for 1 hour...

- Andy

It's later on a couple of days 7.30/8pm

thatkidduffy

Nicely. cheers lads.

lucybears

http://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/_ns_pdf/ ... r_list.pdf