Paris-Nice 2016 **SPOILERS**

imatfaal
imatfaal Posts: 2,716
edited March 2016 in Pro race
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
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It is vaguely uphill - but not so much you would really notice
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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
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,712
    Let the games commence :)
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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    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)

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    and the profile

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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,002
    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.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,612
    Not on Eurosport yet...
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,002
    Ah - I was watching a good French feed.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,612
    Yeah they were busy showing the madison world champs.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,612
    A lot of my men in this race....
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,612
    Matthews wins the prologue?

    Ominous....
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,612
    My men in 2,15,31, 52, 89, 106, 173...
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  • onyourright
    onyourright Posts: 509
    Impressive showing by Richie Porte, given what he looked like a few weeks ago.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,612
    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."
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    Some one tell Teijs Benoot to give Boonen and Cancellara a slap...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    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 TTer
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,612
    First race of the season for him!
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    I'm surprised he didn't do the Tour down under!
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    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'"

    @gietvangent
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,558
    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.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,558
    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?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    Yeah, i ve been worried about that too....to paraphrase a popular christmas film "Can lightning sprint on gravel?"
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    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.
    Ah, fair enough.

    Yeah, just how unsurfaced is unsurfaced? Are we talking Strade Bianche unsurfaced or British B road unsurfaced where it's just bad tarmac
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,310
    Off work sick today, so I can watch live.

    Oh, it's a sprint stage.... Back to bed then.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    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!
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  • gregster04
    gregster04 Posts: 1,680
    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)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    what time/where does it go live? thx
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    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)

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  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    OK - Done a bit of google-fu. Here are the two non-paved sections and they look pretty sketchy

    Part 1 Chemin de Torteline
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    Part 2 Chemin de Tertre de la Motte
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    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 end
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,712
    Roads like these all over where I live. Send them to the fens.
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    The likes of Thomas, Rowe & co should enjoy this
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,310
    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.
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Man-fl...

    No, it's too easy

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