Worlds Course in Florence revealed

frenchfighter

Like the sound of this course for champions.

3000 metres of climbing over 272.5km

“It’ll be one of the hardest circuits in recent years,” Angelo Zomegnan, head of the organisation said.

http://www.toscana2013.it/?page=1



Circuit is 16.5km long x10
-Côte de Fiesole (4,3 km à 5,2 %)
-next incline is 600m long and 10% average

lostboysaint

I think you'll find they've all been the courses of champions. Hence why the rainbow jersey is handed out at the end!

RichN95.

frenchfighter wrote:

“It’ll be one of the hardest circuits in recent years,” Angelo Zomegnan

This should be no surprise. I'm just shocked he hasn't included a cliff and a ploughed field on the route.

greasedscotsman

lostboysaint wrote:

I think you'll find they've all been the courses of champions. Hence why the rainbow jersey is handed out at the end!

The Worlds in Copenhagen wasn't, Cavendish only raced the last 200m.

lostboysaint

Oh yeah, silly me. He jumped out of the Team GB van and just strolled to the title.

tailwindhome

frenchfighter wrote:

Like the sound of this course for champions.

3000 metres of climbing over 272.5km

“It’ll be one of the hardest circuits in recent years,” Angelo Zomegnan, head of the organisation said.

http://www.toscana2013.it/?page=1



Circuit is 16.5km long x10
-Côte de Fiesole (4,3 km à 5,2 %)
-next incline is 600m long and 10% average

Sorry, I'm being stupid I know, but I can't find it on the website

Is there a profile for the other 100k?

Paul 8v

I still can't get over the official mascot, what the heck were they thinking?! That looks like a tough old course, should be good.

dgstewart

Paul 8v wrote:

I still can't get over the official mascot, what the heck were they thinking?! That looks like a tough old course, should be good.

Inrng explained the background to it here: http://inrng.com/2012/10/sunday-shorts-10/

Paul 8v

That's fair enough for Italians but for the rest of the world he's a puppet that tells lies! Bit of a delicate time for cycling at the moment , possibly gives out the wrong message. I certainly thought it was a joke at first, the timing for the reveal was awful, might as well have put it in a US postal jersey...

Paul 8v

But thanks for the link, at least I know what the thought behind it is now.

DeadCalm

TailWindHome wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Like the sound of this course for champions.

3000 metres of climbing over 272.5km

“It’ll be one of the hardest circuits in recent years,” Angelo Zomegnan, head of the organisation said.

Circuit is 16.5km long x10
-Côte de Fiesole (4,3 km à 5,2 %)
-next incline is 600m long and 10% average

Sorry, I'm being stupid I know, but I can't find it on the website

Is there a profile for the other 100k?

\If those figures are right, by my reckoning they'll be climbing just over 2,800 metres during the 10 laps of the circuit so, with a total of 3000 metres of climbing I'd guess it'd look something like this:

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frenchfighter

Haha, yeah more or less.

Their webiste is rubbish - I couldnt find the rest of the official profile.

LeicesterLad

Full profile:

Richmond Racer

Nice one LL, thanks

inkyfingers

Designed for Nibali?

Richmond Racer

inkyfingers wrote:

Designed for Nibali?

di sicuro

ms_tree

Paul 8v wrote:

I still can't get over the official mascot, what the heck were they thinking?! That looks like a tough old course, should be good.

The mascot it Pinnocchio! We stayed at Montecatini Terme last year and they had figures in a cabinet in the hotel. I seem to remember that the author, Collodi, lived near there.
Which reminds me, the road next to the hotel - if I recall, called Via Verdi - has these little brass plates with names of famous people who have visited the town and there is a section of cyclists who have won stages there - Bettini, Cipo, Anquetil, Bartoli etc.

richa

With this parcours who is likely to be the best placed or protected Brit?

Froome? JTL?

inkyfingers

RichA wrote:

With this parcours who is likely to be the best placed or protected Brit?

Froome? JTL?

JTL probably the best bet if he can find the form he had last year.

Neither have any pedigree in one day races though.

tailwindhome

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news ... ce-champs/

6 riders would be a long shot but would be great to see, though I'm not sure that the lower men would be up to the task. Course mind suit Martin

Dan Martin
Nico Roche
Matt Brammier (sp?)
Philip Deignan

+???

knedlicky

LeicesterLad wrote:

Full profile:

On the way from Lucca to Florence, the route intentionally passes through Casalguidi (see at the down side of the San Baronto climb at 58 km) so that riders will ride by the town's cemetery, in honour of Franco Ballerini who is buried there.

ms_tree

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/gallery ... th-bettini

Bettini still looking fit on a bike.

Mad_Malx

Is the TT known - or is it always pretty predicable - ie not too technical or lumpy?

Probably the first year I have actually been interested.