Vuelta 2011 preview

victorponf

I´m gonna write here all the news around Vuelta a Espana 2001

The Stages:

http://www.lavuelta.com/11pr/en/recorrido/vuelta.html

avoidingmyphd

thanks victor. there are a lot of mountain stages, but the site doesn't have the info yet about the climbs. how hard are the 6 summit finishes?

RichN95.

victorponf wrote:

I´m gonna write here all the news around Vuelta a Espana 2001

I think Angel Casero is going to win.

victorponf

Sierra Nevada long and no very hard, La Covatilla long and hard, Farrapona lond and hard, Angliru everybody news, Cabarga short but really steep.

Anyway my fauvorite stage is not with final climb (stage 13)

All profiles in (sorry in spanish):

http://plataformarecorridosciclistas.or ... s-puertos/

freniq

victorponf wrote:

I´m gonna write here all the news around Vuelta a Espana 2001

The Stages:

http://www.lavuelta.com/11pr/en/recorrido/vuelta.html

Any idea when/where I can find specific route details? Hoping to catch the Team TT in Benidorm, but the 'Route' tab on official site is disabled, so can't work out best place to watch

victorponf

Unipublic had said before the end of July

avoidingmyphd

freniq wrote:

Any idea when/where I can find specific route details? Hoping to catch the Team TT in Benidorm, but the 'Route' tab on official site is disabled, so can't work out best place to watch

there is already quite a lot of detail under the "route details" tab - more than the route tab will contain when it goes live as it will just be a vague map. (compare the "route" and "time schedule" tabs on the tour de france website and you'll see what I mean). in french/spanish that tab is called map, not route.
for the TTT, it's here http://www.lavuelta.com/11pr/en/recorri ... x.html?e=1

FJS

The Vuelta seems definitely to have rediscovered Galicia last couple of years

victorponf

Galicia, Leon and Asturias are the equivalent to the Alps or Dolomitas in Spain.

Hope this year just is a warm up in this area, becaouse is full o big climbs

victorponf

Conterders, at the moment

-Wiggins

- Cavendish

- Scarponi

- Nibali

- Purito Rodriguez

- Igor Anton

- Gesink

- Menchov

- Sastre

- Frank Shelck

- Nieve


- Brajkovic

- Sagan

- Bennatti



- Candy Shelck?

-Evans?

-Basso?

- Mosquera?

- other Radiosack?

-Samuel Sanchez?

- Velits?

freniq

avoidingmyphd wrote:

freniq wrote:

Any idea when/where I can find specific route details? Hoping to catch the Team TT in Benidorm, but the 'Route' tab on official site is disabled, so can't work out best place to watch

there is already quite a lot of detail under the "route details" tab - more than the route tab will contain when it goes live as it will just be a vague map. (compare the "route" and "time schedule" tabs on the tour de france website and you'll see what I mean). in french/spanish that tab is called map, not route.
for the TTT, it's here http://www.lavuelta.com/11pr/en/recorri ... x.html?e=1

I spent quite a bit of time trying to find 'Carril con conos' in Benidorm on Googlemaps before discovering its a 'line of cones' – see the problem?

avoidingmyphd

freniq wrote:

avoidingmyphd wrote:

freniq wrote:

Any idea when/where I can find specific route details? Hoping to catch the Team TT in Benidorm, but the 'Route' tab on official site is disabled, so can't work out best place to watch

there is already quite a lot of detail under the "route details" tab - more than the route tab will contain when it goes live as it will just be a vague map. (compare the "route" and "time schedule" tabs on the tour de france website and you'll see what I mean). in french/spanish that tab is called map, not route.
for the TTT, it's here http://www.lavuelta.com/11pr/en/recorri ... x.html?e=1

I spent quite a bit of time trying to find 'Carril con conos' in Benidorm on Googlemaps before discovering its a 'line of cones' – see the problem?

Pessimist. Surely it is referring to a permanent line of cones somewhere in Benidorm.

victorponf

Anyway, Cavendish and Wiggins prefer spent a few days avoiding lines of cones ( pathetic for a GC :oops: ) that going to the Tour of Britain

RichN95.

victorponf wrote:

Anyway, Cavendish and Wiggins prefer spent a few days avoiding lines of cones ( pathetic for a GC :oops: ) that going to the Tour of Britain

We've got plenty of cones in Britain too.

victorponf

RichN95 wrote:

victorponf wrote:

Anyway, Cavendish and Wiggins prefer spent a few days avoiding lines of cones ( pathetic for a GC :oops: ) that going to the Tour of Britain

We've got plenty of cones in Britain too.

victorponf

Gesink is no coming. Honestly, I don't understand him, such a bad season for him

rick_chasey

victorponf wrote:

Gesink is no coming. Honestly, I don't understand him, such a bad season for him

He was particularly close to his father - they virtually lived out of each others pockets, and he died recently and has been finding it very difficult to deal with.

The guys at Rabo are slowly coming to around to the idea that it's affected his performance.

You hear the interviews he's been giving since the death and it doesn't have the ring of a sportsman who has his head in the right place. Quite negative, etc etc.

victorponf

Rick Chasey wrote:

victorponf wrote:

Gesink is no coming. Honestly, I don't understand him, such a bad season for him

He was particularly close to his father - they virtually lived out of each others pockets, and he died recently and has been finding it very difficult to deal with.

The guys at Rabo are slowly coming to around to the idea that it's affected his performance.

You hear the interviews he's been giving since the death and it doesn't have the ring of a sportsman who has his head in the right place. Quite negative, etc etc.

What a pity, i didn't know this

Thanks Rick

jamlala

Are ITV4 showing it this year?

victorponf

Van den Broeck in la Vuelta 2011:

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/no ... p?id=41296

sing_for_absolution

RichN95 wrote:

victorponf wrote:

Anyway, Cavendish and Wiggins prefer spent a few days avoiding lines of cones ( pathetic for a GC :oops: ) that going to the Tour of Britain

We've got plenty of cones in Britain too.

And you're not just referring to the traffic furniture!

Did somebody already ask where the detailed stage profiles are?

victorponf

The hidden "coloso" de la Vuelta 2011, Sierra Morela - Ancares, the spanish Telegraphe -Galibier

http://www.altimetrias.net/aspbk/verPuerto.asp?id=297

victorponf

Main Spaniards: Joaquín Rodríguez, Igor Antón, Carlos Sastre, Luis León Sánchez, Mikel Nieve, Rafa Valls, Oscar Freire, José Joaquín Rojas, Haimar Zubeldia, Ezequiel Mosquera (????), Samuel Sánchez (????)

Main International guys: Vincenzo Nibali, Michele Scarponi, Andreas Kloden, Janez Brajkovic, Bradley Wiggins, Peter Velits, Damiano Cunego,Tom Danielson, Denis Menchov, Van Der Broeck, Chavanel, Cavendish, Rogers, Roche, Ivan Basso (?????), Andy (????), Frank (????), Evans (????), Leipheimer (????).

victorponf

Provisional team of Radiogaga

Janez Brajkovic

Andreas Kloden

Haimar Zubeldia

Markel Irizar

Tiago Machado

Sergio Paulinho

Nelson Oliveira

durhamwasp

any sites taking bets on this yet? can't find any personally.

sagalout

Yay, I get to watch stage 5 I'll be on holiday in Alcala la Real and the tour is coming right through the town again. Might make an effort to drive to the finish further up the road

pat1cp

Cavendish confirmed on the radio this morning that he will be riding his 3rd GT of the year.

inkyfingers

pat1cp wrote:

Cavendish confirmed on the radio this morning that he will be riding his 3rd GT of the year.

Technically he's only ridden 1.5 GT's so far this year...

I wonder if he'll go the distance this year, last year he did but then said he was too tired by the WC's (though I think that was probably a convenient excuse for getting dropped). I suppose it depends if he ends up in green again, makes it more difficult to quietly abandon...the forum would go wild with Cav hate if he did.

FJS

inkyfingers wrote:

pat1cp wrote:

Cavendish confirmed on the radio this morning that he will be riding his 3rd GT of the year.

Technically he's only ridden 1.5 GT's so far this year...

I wonder if he'll go the distance this year, last year he did but then said he was too tired by the WC's (though I think that was probably a convenient excuse for getting dropped). I suppose it depends if he ends up in green again, makes it more difficult to quietly abandon...the forum would go wild with Cav hate if he did.

Nah, the forum will know that Cav, like all the main sprinters of the pro peloton, will ride the Vuelta for one main reason: Copenhagen.

Pross

inkyfingers wrote:

pat1cp wrote:

Cavendish confirmed on the radio this morning that he will be riding his 3rd GT of the year.

Technically he's only ridden 1.5 GT's so far this year...

I wonder if he'll go the distance this year, last year he did but then said he was too tired by the WC's (though I think that was probably a convenient excuse for getting dropped). I suppose it depends if he ends up in green again, makes it more difficult to quietly abandon...the forum would go wild with Cav hate if he did.

I think the travelling for the World's last year on top of a 3 week GT was more of an issue.

victorponf

Movistar preseletion (12 riders):

Marzio Bruseghin, Imanol Erviti, Chente García Acosta, Beñat Intxausti, Vasil Kiryienka, Ignatas Konovalovas, Pablo Lastras, David López, Ángel Madrazo, Sergio Pardilla, Rubén Plaza y Branislau Samoilau.