Paris-Nice 2016 **SPOILERS**
Paris-Nice 2016 - 6th - 13th March
http://www.letour.com/indexPNC_us.html
7 stages and a prologue on Sunday 6th - 3 of the stages are flat, 2 hilly and 2 mountainous.
Last years Winners
yellow jersey PORTE R. SKY
green jersey MATTHEWS M. OGE
polka-dot jersey DE GENDT T. LTS
white jersey KWIATKOWSKI M. EQS
team TEAM SKY
Official Start List
Prologue 6.1 km ITT Sunday 6th
It is vaguely uphill - but not so much you would really notice
First riders off at 11:42 lt and expected final at 14:38 lt
updated with clearer map - how a screen shot from the roadbook is better than a grab from the official website I just do not understand
http://www.letour.com/indexPNC_us.html
7 stages and a prologue on Sunday 6th - 3 of the stages are flat, 2 hilly and 2 mountainous.
Last years Winners
yellow jersey PORTE R. SKY
green jersey MATTHEWS M. OGE
polka-dot jersey DE GENDT T. LTS
white jersey KWIATKOWSKI M. EQS
team TEAM SKY
Official Start List
Prologue 6.1 km ITT Sunday 6th
It is vaguely uphill - but not so much you would really notice
First riders off at 11:42 lt and expected final at 14:38 lt
updated with clearer map - how a screen shot from the roadbook is better than a grab from the official website I just do not understand
0
Comments
-
Let the games commence0
-
And because I probably won't get around to anything over the weekend here is stage 1
Stage 1 Monday 7th March - roll out just before noon local
Condé-sur-Vesgre to Vendome 198km - flat (two cat 3s)
and the profile
0 -
It's only a prologue, people are doing other stuff, but I'm a bit surprised that no-one can even be bothered to say how much they dislike today's winner.0
-
-
Ah - I was watching a good French feed.0
-
-
-
-
-
Impressive showing by Richie Porte, given what he looked like a few weeks ago.0
-
My man Boonen moaning about the un-tarmaced finish tomorrow.
"I didn't become a cyclist to race on sand roads. If i wanted to race on sand, I'd have stayed doing cross'".
"This isn't a one day race like Strade Bianche where you chose specifically for those roads. Then you take a team who wants to ride it, with guys who are motivated."
"This is Paris-Nice, a World Tour race. [well observed Tom] Riders going for general classification will just sit. They won't want to lose any time and so that will make for a nervous race. That's a shame."0 -
For a supposedly flat stage there was some out of saddle action.
I'm both surprised and not surprised to see bling win that, it was after all a very short prologue, probably quite suited to his physique rather than a pure TTer0 -
-
-
ddraver wrote:Some one tell Teijs Benoot to give Boonen and Cancellara a slap...
I'll pass the message through my intermediary tomorrow!"In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
@gietvangent0 -
BTW what is this about an un-tarmaced finish tomorrow. Should I not be picking Kittel for PTP? What is the state of the finish?0
-
dish_dash wrote:Paul 8v wrote:I'm surprised he didn't do the Tour down under!
We discussed it then... he was getting married around that time.
Yeah, just how unsurfaced is unsurfaced? Are we talking Strade Bianche unsurfaced or British B road unsurfaced where it's just bad tarmac0 -
Off work sick today, so I can watch live.
Oh, it's a sprint stage.... Back to bed then.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0 -
No tA Doctor wrote:Off work sick today, so I can watch live.
Oh, it's a sprint stage.... Back to bed then.
get up man, there's gravel!0 -
Apparently there is snow at the start, cross winds throughout plus the gravel section with 25km to go.
It should be fun today (for us watching that is)0 -
what time/where does it go live? thx0
-
1. MATTHEWS M. OGE 07' 39''
2. DUMOULIN T. TGA 00' 01''
3. BEVIN P. CPT 00' 02''
4. HERRADA J. MOV 00' 06''
5. IZAGUIRRE I. MOV 00' 06''
6. WESTRA L. AST 00' 07''
7. THOMAS G. SKY 00' 07''
Yesterday's results and thus the overall.
This is the roadbooks itinerary/timing - the two sections (both repeated) in colour are the stretches of non-tarmac (I think)
0 -
OK - Done a bit of google-fu. Here are the two non-paved sections and they look pretty sketchy
Part 1 Chemin de Torteline
Part 2 Chemin de Tertre de la Motte
And I kid you not; that second road is used in preference to a road called Rue Risque-Tout - which I think sums up the likelihood of a flying peleton making it to the end0 -
Roads like these all over where I live. Send them to the fens.0
-
The likes of Thomas, Rowe & co should enjoy this0
-
inseine wrote:No tA Doctor wrote:Off work sick today, so I can watch live.
Oh, it's a sprint stage.... Back to bed then.
get up man, there's gravel!
*Raises head feebly and reaches for TV Guide*
Innrg says there's a muur as well.
Guess I'll have to put off dying just a little while longer after all.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0 -
Man-fl...
No, it's too easy0