Tour of Turkey *Spoiler*

Benjamin Hall

I anyone cares, Andrea Guardini won a great sprint in stage one today. He looked low and fast! Alan Davis started the sprint way to early!


The Farnesse Vini bikes are very sexy too.

frenchfighter

That boy has some serious speed.

I agree those bikes are kickass. The one Visconti rides is unreal.

Why is the stage finishing so early? I know they are 2hrs ahead.

Tusher

Guardini was tipped as the best young sprinter coming up- fantastic win for him, I'm sure it'll be the first of many.

Anyone got a link to what happened in the final metre? A punch-up?

frenchfighter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZ3MRX-h9Q

patchy

Looks like the fdj rider - bouhini? - tried to force his way where there's no space and petacchi had to sit up. Same guy nearly put farrar in the barriers about 3 secs before. Scrappy.

Interesting that guardini gets so low - Learning from Cav? Could be a fun head to head at the giro...

blazing_saddles

Guardini reminds me a lot of Cav, right down to the distance he puts into Farrar, in the final 50 metres.......................without the use of the world's greatest train.
The lad is seriously quick.

He's not down to ride the Giro, btw.

patchy

yet. apparently he'll get a start if he wins another stage at Turkey... I'd say that's relatively likely if he carries on like that!

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/guardini-half-way-into-his-giro-ditalia-job

blazing_saddles

patchy wrote:

yet. apparently he'll get a start if he wins another stage at Turkey... I'd say that's relatively likely if he carries on like that!

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/guardini-half-way-into-his-giro-ditalia-job

I just read that, too. Clearly the provisional start list is just that.
Not sure what LS means with this quote, though.

"Except [for] Cavendish, the five best sprinters in the world will be present!"

StefanP

I hope he does make the cut - looks like a great sprinter in the making!

blazing_saddles

"Lightning" Guardini not only looks like Cav in the sprints, he looks like him on the climbs, too. :oops:

frenchfighter

Result stage 2
1. Valentin Iglinkskiy (Kaz) Astana
2. Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-ISD
3. Elia Favilli (Ita) Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli
4. Juan Pablo Forero (Col) Colombia es Pasion-Cafe de Colombia
5. Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Verandas Willems-Accent
6. Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin-Cervélo
7. Jaroslav Marycz (Pol) Saxo Bank-SunGard
8. Muhammet Eyüp Karagöbek (Tur) Konya-Torku Seker Spor-Vivelo
9. Giorgio Brambilla (Ita) De Rosa-Ceramica Flaminia
10. Andrea Grendene (Ita) Team Type 1-Sanofi Aventis

Standings after stage 2
1. Valentin Iglinkskiy (Kaz) Astana
2. Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin-Cervélo @ 4s
3. Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano @ 6s
4. Elia Favilli (Ita) Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli
5. Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Verandas Willems-Accent @ 10s

Last 5km
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... KPzYWvl3qc

Guardini 4mins back

Nice work Iglinkskiy to come round Petacchi!

afx237vi

Great win by Petacchi in the tough uphill sprint on stage 4. Gilbert would have been happy with that one.

blazing_saddles

Puncheur Petacchi. (both meanings!)
Hard finish to take. Looking good for the Giro ciclamino jersey.

cal_stewart

+1 good win, hard last km. The Net App rider didn't look happy with himself

inkyfingers

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Hard finish to take. Looking good for the Giro ciclamino jersey.

I hate sounding like a pedant, but it's red now isn't it? Or have they changed it back?

blazing_saddles

inkyfingers wrote:

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Hard finish to take. Looking good for the Giro ciclamino jersey.

I hate sounding like a pedant, but it's red now isn't it? Or have they changed it back?

No idea.
I just like the old purple.
Maglia Rosa and maglia rosso?
Confusing.

Edit. now called the Maglia Rosso Passione.
Or, the points porno jersey!

bearfraser

Bootifull !!!!!!!!!!!!!

frenchfighter

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/petacch ... ro-ditalia

A handful of super photos here:
http://www.steephill.tv/2011/tour-of-tu ... /stage-04/

Stage 3 are decent too:
http://www.steephill.tv/2011/tour-of-tu ... /stage-03/

frenchfighter

These stages are pretty long.

Stage 5 results:
1 Matteo Rabottini (Ita) Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli 5:51:25
2 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Team Type 1 - Sanofi Aventis
3 Enrico Magazzini (Ita) Lampre - ISD + 0:03
4 Thomas Peterson (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo
5 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ
6 Lucas Euser (USA) Team Spidertech Powered By C10
7 Cameron Wurf (Aus) Liquigas-Cannondale
8 Ronan Van Zandbeek (Ned) Skil - Shimano
9 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Pro Team Astana + 0:14
10 Eloy Ruiz Pinto (Spa) Andalucia Caja Granada + 0:25

General Classificatin after Stage 5
1 Thomas Peterson (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo 22:49:41
2 Cameron Wurf (Aus) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:00:27
3 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Team Type 1 - Sanofi Aventis 0:00:29
4 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Pro Team Astana 0:01:42
5 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ 0:02:02
6 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Team Netapp 0:11:45
7 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) FDJ 0:11:48
8 Riccardo Chiarini (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 0:11:52
9 Egoitz Garcia Echeguibel (Spa) Caja Rural
10 Jesús Del Nero Montes (Spa) Team Netapp

frenchfighter

Stage 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... yPLHJL_TVw
Stage 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... gTXYholxlA

The videoing in all these stages is pretty impressive. Nice angles, clean shots, good and interesting perspectives, clear and smooth.

frenchfighter

The peloton finished 12mins down on stage 5 btw!

Noclue

Aye just finished watching that, no radios, lost the breakaway, gave up Is this the future of cycling without radios? it's not very exciting.

Slimbods

Is that really down to the lack of radios? The peleton had a blackboard and the cars knew the distance to the break, the riders go back often enough for a bottle.

frenchfighter

Griepel takes the win (no top sprinters in top ten). No GC change.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... iYzpwOdEDU

cal_stewart

the two others lead him out nicely.

afx237vi

Noclue wrote:

Aye just finished watching that, no radios, lost the breakaway, gave up Is this the future of cycling without radios? it's not very exciting.

Probably more to do with the make-up of the teams rather than the lack of radios. The peloton in this race is a big mix of young, inexperienced riders and smaller continental teams who don't have the strength to control the race.

It happens fairly often in smaller stage-races that the breakaway gets one rider from each team and are allowed to get a huge gap. I remember it happening in the first edition of the Tour of Britain.

afx237vi

frenchfighter wrote:

The videoing in all these stages is pretty impressive. Nice angles, clean shots, good and interesting perspectives, clear and smooth.

Must admit, the TV coverage of this race has been amazing. Like you say, the stuff from the motos has been good, and the helicopter shots are absolutely stunning. It puts some of the Spanish and the Italian races to shame.

Tom BB

afx237vi wrote:

I remember it happening in the first edition of the Tour of Britain.

It happened at least twice last year!.....Stage 2 the break of 10 or so came past me with 60km to go and a four minute gap.......they had 10 minutes by the end of the day! A few days later and the police had to re open roads inbetween the break and the bunch who'd really given up at this point, and were about 35 minutes down!

Then again didn't half the peloton gain over ten minutes on the other half at the Giro last year?

Noclue

frenchfighter wrote:

Griepel takes the win (no top sprinters in top ten). No GC change.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... iYzpwOdEDU

Didn't Efemkin take over the leaders jersey from Peterson?

peterst6906

Good win in the sprint by Guardini today.

Big group finish, so no change in the order for GC.

1. GUARDINI
2. VAN HUMMEL
3. FARRAR

Snorebens

and he goes to the Giro...
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/guardin ... italia-job

should be interesting; beat Farrar comfortably twice