Tour of Norway - **Spoilers**

dsoutar
dsoutar Posts: 1,746
edited May 2014 in Pro race
21 May - 25 May

2.HC Category

Teams:

Katusha
Tinkoff Saxo
Belkin
IAM
Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise
Wanty – Groupe Gobert
Caja Rural – Seguros
MTN Qhubeka
UnitedHealthcare
CCC Polsat
Rusvelo
Team Joker
Øster hus
Sparebanken Sør
Frøy Bianchi
Motiv 3 Pro-cycling team
Team Fixit.no
Team Ringeriks-Kraft

The last 7 teams are Norwegian Pro Conti teams

Team members:

http://www.votrecourse.com/medias/resul ... rtants.pdf

Eddie’s won the last two but obviously won’t be riding this year’s edition

5 stages:

Stages 1, 2 are lumpy, stage 3 is an MTF, stage 4 is fairly hilly and stage 5 has a hilly middle then lumpy afterwards. There is no TT

Road book here for those who want further info

http://tourofnorway.com/rittmanual/_ton ... _PROD.pdf4

Note: not to be confused with the (albeit confusing) Artic Race of Norway; An ASO organised race in August. The Tour of Norway is in the south whereas the Arctic Race of Norway is, yes, you’ve guessed, in the north

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Comments

  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Sounds like reasonably interesting racing so far. M d Maar in the hot seat at the moment which is good. Hardest day to come tomorrow.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • gpreeves
    gpreeves Posts: 454
    De Maar still in the lead, with Mollema taking the stage win today. It sounds like a very good ride from Gerald Ciolek on a hilly stage too:

    http://www.teammtnqhubeka.com/?news=ciolek-unbelievable-on-the-climbs-finishes-with-yellow-jersey-group-at-tour-of-norway
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    It was a good stage yesterday from what I saw. One of the most picturesque races on the calendar too.
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Yup - definitely some good racing. Couldn't quite work out why on stage 2 the group of 11 ere unable to bring back the two leaders. Nice win by Sep vanmarcke, his first win in a stage race it seems. He also seemed quite tickled by the fact he'd won an MTF !

    Also some great racing in stage 4 which was won by Bauke Mollema.

    Finally nice to see the local teams competing well against the pro-tour and continental teams and not just making up the numbers

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