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was about to say the same thing. Italian vs Italian is gonna be insane.

 

I think i did see that Chaves is riding. Rolland isn't leading the Giro for Cannondale... they're going there in support of Davide Formolo, the super young Italian guy.

 

while Cannondale-Drapac's jersey is a bit disappointing, I'm really liking the jersey of their development team.... Drapac-Cannondale, that will ride smaller races around the world and move guys up to the pro team when they're ready.

 

Tom Doumoulin and Wilco Keldermann are both skipping the Tour for the Giro as well... good jesus its gonna be great.

 

Tour Down Under starts on Friday and runs through Sunday, Jan 22nd. Here's the startlist (bolded names are my favorites for the overall GC):

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Orica-Scott (Aus)
1. GERRANS, Simon (AUS)
2. CHAVES, Esteban (COL)
3. IMPEY, Daryl (RSA)
4. KLUGE, Roger (GER)
5. DURBRIDGE, Luke (AUS)
6. EWAN, Caleb (AUS)
7. HOWSON, Damien (AUS)

Bora-Hansgrohe (GER)
11. SAGAN, Peter (SVK)
12. BENNETT, Sam (IRL)
13. MUHLBERGER, Gregor (AUT)
14. SELIG, Rudiger (GER)
15. KOLAR, Michael (SVK)
16. McCARTHY, Jay (AUS)
17. POSTLEBERGER, Lukas (AUT)

BMC Racing Team (USA)
21. DENNIS, Rohan (AUS)
22. WYSS, Danilo (SUI)
23. PORTE, Richie (AUS)
24. MOINARD, Amael (FRA)
25. VENTOSO, Francisco (ESP)
26. SCOTSON, Miles (AUS)
27. CARUSO, Damiano (ITA)

Team Sunweb (GER)
31. KELDERMANN, Wilco (NED)
32. FROHLINGER, Johannes (GER)
33. HAMILTON, Christopher (AUS)
34. GESCHKE, Simon (GER)
35. HOFSTEDE, Lennard (NED)
36. ARNDT, Nikias (GER)
37. BAUHAUS, Phil (GER)

Team Sky (GBR)
41. THOMAS, Geraint (GBR)
42. HENAO, Sebastian (COL)
43. HENAO, Sergio (COL)
44. DOULL, Owain (GBR)
45. ROWE, Luke (GBR)
46. STANNARD, Ian (GBR)
47. VAN POPPEL, Danny (NED)

Dimension Data (RSA)
51. RENSHAW, Mark (AUS)
52. HAAS, Nathan (AUS)
53. MORTON, Lachlan (AUS)
54. O’CONNOR, Ben (AUS)
55. VAN RENSBURN, Reinardt (RSA)
56. FARRAR, Tyler (USA)
57. VAN RENSBURG, Jacques (RSA)

Lotto-Soudal (BEL)
61. DE GENDT, Thomas (BEL)
62. BAK, Lars (DEN)
63. SHAW, James (GB)
64. ARMEE, Sander (BEL)
65. VALLS, Rafael (ESP)
66. DE BIE, Sean (BEL)
67. HANSEN, Adam (AUS)

Cannondale-Drapac (USA)
71. SLAGTER, Tom-Jelte (NED)
72. BEVIN, Patrick (NZL)
73. VAN ASBROECK, Tom (BEL)
74. CANTY, Brendan (AUS)
75. WOODS, Michael (CAN)
76. CLARKE, Will (AUS)
77. HOWES, Alex (USA)

Bahrain-Merida (BHR)
81. VISCONTI, Giovanni (ITA)
82. GRMAY, Tsgabu (ETH)
83. ARASHIRO, Yukiya (JPN)
84. BONIFAZIO, Niccolo (ITA)
85. FENG, Chun-Kai (TPE)
86. CINK, Ondrej (CZE)
87. BRAJKOVIC, Janez (SLO)

Ag2r-La Mondiale (FRA)
91. BAKELANTS, Jan (BEL)
92. BERARD, Julien (FRA)
93. BIDARD, Francois (FRA)
94. GASTAUER, Ben (LUX)
95. CHEVRIER, Clement (FRA)
96. MONTAGUTI, Matteo (ITA)
97. POZZOVIVO, Domenico (ITA)

Astana Pro Team (KAZ)
101. SANCHEZ GIL, Luis Leon (ESP)
102. TIRALONGO, Paolo (ITA)
103. GATTO, Oscar (ITA)
104. VALGREN, Michael (DNK)
105. BRESCHEL, Matti (DNK)
106. ZAKHAROV, Artyom (KAZ)
107. DE VREESE, Laurens (BEL)

Katusha-Alpecin (SUI)
111. MACHADO, Tiago (POR)
112. VICIOSO, Angel (ESP)
113. GONCALVES, Jose (POR)
114. LAMMERTINK, Maurits (NED)
115. PLANCKAERT, Baptiste (BEL)
116. BYSTROM, Sven (NOR)
117. RESTREPO, Jhonatan (COL)

FDJ (FRA)
COURTEILLE, Arnaud (FRA)
EIKING, Odd Christian (NOR)
LADAGNOUS, Matthieu (FRA)
LE BON, Johan (FRA)
MAISON, Jérémy (FRA)
MANZIN, Lorrenzo (FRA)
ROUX, Anthony (FRA)

Movistar (ESP)
131. SUTTERLIN, Jasha (GER)
132. HERRADA, Jose (ESP)
133. HERRADA, Jesus (ESP)
134. BARBERO, Carlos (ESP)
135. IZAGIRRE, Gorka (ESP)
136. DE LA PARTE, Victor (ESP)
137. BETANCUR, Carlos (COL)

Quick-Step Floors (BEL)
141. VELITS, Martin (SVK)
142. DEVENYNS, Dries (BEL)
143. VAKOC, Petr (CZE)
144. BAUER, Jack (NZL)
145. MAS NICOLAU, Enric (ESP)
146. CAPECCHI, Eros (ITA)
147. BRAMBILLA, Gianluca (ITA)

LottoNL-Jumbo (NED)
151. GESINK, Robert (NED)
152. BOUWMAN, Koen (NED)
153. MARTENS, Paul (GER)
154. LINDEMAN, Bert-Jan (NED)
155. BATTAGLIN, Enrico (ITA)
156. WAGNER, Robert (GER)
157. VERMEULEN, Alexey (USA)

UAE Abu Dhabi (UAE)
161. SWIFT, Ben (GBR)
162. MARCATO, Marco (ITA)
163. KUMP, Marko (SLO)
164. LAENGEN, Vegard (NOR)
165. MEINTJES, Louis (RSA)
166. MORI, Manuele (ITA)
167. ULISSI, Diego (ITA)

Trek-Segafredo (USA)
171. DIDIER, Laurent (LUX)
172. DE KORT, Koen (NED)
173. THEUNS, Edward (BEL)
174. GUERREIRO, Ruben (POR)
175. PANTANO, Jarlinson (COL)
176. STETINA, Peter (USA)
177. PEDERSEN, Mads (DEN)

UniSA-Australia (AUS)
181. MEYER, Cameron (AUS)
182. SCOTSON, Callum (AUS)
183. HAMILTON, Lucas (AUS)
184. STORER, Michael (AUS)
185. HINDLEY, Jai (AUS)
186. JENNER, Samuel (AUS)
187. EARLE, Nathan (AUS)

 

Been meaning to do this for a while. As you all know, team names and kits change pretty much every year. The purpose of this post is to be a reference guide of new kit design and new team names...

Bora Hansgrohe (Sagan's team, formerly Bora-Argon)

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Team Sunweb (formerly Giant-Alpecin)

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LottoNL-Jumbo

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Quick-Step Floors (formerly Etixx - Quick-Step)

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BMC

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Orica-Scott (formerly Orica-GreenEdge and Orica-Bike Exchange)

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Katusha-Alpecin (formerly Katusha)

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Bahrain-Merida (new team of Nibali)

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Dimension Data

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Their national champion's jerseys are bad-ass

Astana

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Sky

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Lotto Soudal (minor jersey changes... probably my favorite in the peloton)

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Movistar (I think they made the 'M' bigger?)

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Cannondale - Drapac (formerly Cannondale)

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UAE Abu Dhabi (formerly Lampre-Merida)

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FDJ and Ag2r... no significant changes.
Trek's new jersey to be released later this week.

 

They have a super fun team. Aside from Sagan and Majka, not too many big names, but a ton of guys who are capable of winning a stage or classic by surprise.

My only issue with the kit is it might be hard to pick them apart from Sky from the heli shots.

 

New Trek kit...

 

So the Tour Down Under was dominated by two guys... Richie Porte (BMC) won two stages and the overall, and Caleb Ewan (Orica) who won the other 4 sprint stages.

Ewan is a really interesting young sprinter to watch. He sprints lin a position similar to Cavendish... look at the picture below and look how low his chin is compared to other sprinters.



Ewan beat Sagan 3 times in sprints in the TDU. Granted, his team is all aboard for this race because they are an Australian based team, but Sagan is typically always on point.

 

completely agree in Ewan being the next Cav. The great thing about him is the team he is in. Other than Esteban Chaves, they are a team that can just focus on sprinting and rack up tons of wins like Cav used to do at HTC-Highroad.

 

The Vuelta San Juan is currently going on in Argentina... it used to be called the Tour of San Luis. Quick-Step has dominated the first two stages with Gaviria and Boonen winning easily, but the overall will likely go to someone like Nibali, or Sepulveda.

Upcoming Races:
Dubai Tour (1/31 - 2/04) - boring ass sprint fest.
Vuelta a Andalucia (2/15 - 2/19) - a great early race for climbing specialists.
Volta ao Algarve (2/15 - 2/19) - another great climbing race... one of my favorite races of the year.
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2/25) - COBBLED CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lots of other smaller races in between those.

 

Kittel got punched by an Astana rider today in the Dubai Tour.



Kittel has won 2 of the first 3 stages. Degenkolb won todays stage.

 

Great article about Taylor Phinney and his decision to ride for Cannondale

http://news.pocsports.com/2017/02/02/the-contradiction/

 

don't watch this at work unless you want to have a boner all day like me..

 

boner is even more enraged...they added more cobbles. 29 sectors in this years race.

 

Great Velonews article about Andrew Talansky

http://www.velonews.com/2017/02/from-the-mag/taming-talansky-pit-bull-finds-new-composure_430571

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Taming Talansky: ‘Pit Bull’ finds new composure

By Caley Fretz Published Feb. 14, 2017

“Broadcast error reportedly spurs Talansky tirade,” read the VeloNews.com headline, and the story beneath was just as bad as it sounds.

After stage 5 of the 2013 USA Pro Cycling Challenge, a 16.5-kilometer time trial up Vail Pass, NBC Sports posted a major error, albeit briefly, in its broadcasted results. Andrew Talansky was listed as the winner; the actual results soon changed to indicate BMC’s Tejay van Garderen had won by four seconds.

It was a bitter pill to swallow. Talansky was the champion, publicly, and then suddenly the runner-up. A bit of pouting was probably justified. But Talansky didn’t pout. He stormed off his team bus, walked over to BMC’s bus, and unleashed a profanity-laced tirade directed at BMC team staff.

There’s a reason Talansky was nicknamed “Pit Bull.”

When he cooled down, he apologized. “Look, I was frustrated that the timing had been reported wrong,” he told reporters after the outburst. “Losing a bike race doesn’t bother me.” The evidence spoke to the contrary — losing really did bother him.

Garmin brass deflected questions about the outburst. “Everybody knows that Andrew’s got sort of a strong character,” said director Charly Wegelius. Team owner Jonathan Vaughters echoed the sentiments, explaining that his star’s outburst was due to his winning drive. “Andrew exhibits — more than any other rider I’ve seen in my lifetime — the true fire of a champion,” he said. “Perhaps he needs a little maturity, and a few lessons like this one, to temper that.”

The message from Garmin was simple: Boys will be boys. It was the odd sort of compliment, or defense, we tend to apply only to athletes and young children.

But Talansky’s outburst that day was hardly an isolated incident. A year prior, most of his Garmin – Sharp team crashed in the opening team time trial of the Vuelta a España. After the race, a reporter saw Talansky throw his helmet at the team bus. Then, at the 2014 Tour de France, Talansky’s fury reached a boiling point. Just minutes after crashing hard at the finish of stage 7, he was seen screaming at Simon Gerrans, with whom he had touched wheels. A year later, VeloNews saw Talansky again standing at his team bus at the Tour de France, yelling at no one in particular.

When VeloNews met with Talansky at the Cannondale – Drapac team camp in December, the Pit Bull seen in those previous episodes was gone. Though he was fresh off a fifth-place finish at the Vuelta, where he rode consistently during one of the most topsy-turvy grand tours in recent history, the pressures and expectations of race day felt distant. The Spanish beachside hotel that hosted the team was off-season quiet. He walked in from his room and sat down in the lobby with a smile and a handshake, as relaxed as the grey team-issue sweats that hung off his shoulders. His answers were thoughtful and mature.

His mood was consistent with reports from his friends and teammates who said that, at age 28, Andrew Talansky has become a mellower, toned-down version of his fiery old self. The man who stormed off the bus in Vail four years ago is gone. The outbursts have stopped. Talansky himself confirmed this shift.

“You get to a point when you fully recognize that emotion,” he says. “You realize it’s not working. It’s not something you can channel and race off of. It’s not beneficial to me, to my team, to my racing, to my training. I’ve never got a good result riding off of anger. Anger is just a fleeting emotion.” Getting married changed him. A family tragedy in early 2016 changed him. Age and experience changed him, as they do everyone.

More than anything, he gained perspective. What wasn’t clear, at the time, was that his prodigious Vuelta ride and the rise of Talansky 2.0 were so closely intertwined. It wasn’t clear, then, that his personal renovation might be the key to unlocking his talent in the future.

ANDREW TALANSKY HAS SPENT his career chasing perfection. It’s his overriding personality trait, for better and worse. It’s also a job requirement. In order to beat the world’s best, Talansky needs to be perfect. He doesn’t have the talent to overcome mistakes, the way Chris Froome, Nairo Quintana, or even Alberto Contador can. Vaughters understands the limitations of his star. Everything has to go right when the engine is just a bit smaller than the best.

“Fundamentally, he’s very perfectionistic about every detail,” Vaughters says. “He has to be, because he is not the 95 VO2max rider. He’s not this massive, world-beating physical talent. In the races that he’s won, or done really well in, he’s been able to optimize every last little detail. So when he’s in a race environment and one little thing goes wrong, he tends not to be tolerant of that at all. Because he knows that he can’t afford to be.”

Talansky knows what perfect looks like: his win at the 2014 Critérium du Dauphiné. The race should have been a clash between Froome and Contador. Yet neither grand tour winner stood atop the podium at the end of eight stages.

Talansky had perfect legs that week, and a bit of luck. He kept himself within spitting distance of the lead through six tricky days. On stage 7, as Contador and Froome attacked each other, teammate Ryder Hesjedal dropped back from the breakaway and escorted Talansky to the front. The teamwork led to Talansky finishing ahead of Froome. He entered the final stage on the podium, a comfortable third.

He could have stopped there. Third at the Dauphiné would have been a career highlight. But he needed only 39 seconds on Contador to take the race lead. The final stage saw a big, strong breakaway move clear, and Talansky made the group. This is the other side of the Pit Bull — the “true fire of a champion” part.

Chaos reigned behind and the chase fractured. Froome cracked. Contador left his own move too late. The break survived. Talansky rolled across the line in fourth. Forty seconds ticked over and Contador still hadn’t finished. Talansky, standing with his soigneurs, pulled his glasses off his face, tears in his eyes, and fell into the arms of the nearest, overwhelmed. He’d just won the Dauphiné.
That win, still Talansky’s biggest ever, was the exception that proved the rule. It proved he could be there, that he could contend, but he had to be flawless.

The thing about the pursuit of perfection is that it can drive you mad. Crazy mad. Angry mad. Frustrated mad.

For the next two years, perfection eluded Talansky at every bend. He crashed and made mistakes. He got sick, was robbed of valuable training miles, and arrived at major races with weak legs. He wanted to be perfect, but never was. So he got stressed, and then mad.

Madness in the pursuit of perfection is an explanation that diminishes the impact of Talansky’s visible anger, justifying it as an athletic necessity. But the anger wasn’t necessary, and Talansky knows it. It wasn’t even advantageous. He wasn’t using it as motivation, it was just a circumstantial reaction. Even he doesn’t excuse it, not anymore.

“For quite a long period of time, I did stress out a bit too much,” he says. “When you are stressed out, that leads to being frustrated at more things — that’s directed internally, at yourself.”

He returned at the Tour de Romandie. The prologue was just 3.95 kilometers and he lost a minute and four seconds to the winner, finishing 155th out of 160. There were 10 weeks until the Tour de France.

His previous two outings at the Tour had ended with a DNF and an 11th overall, one step back from his best finish, 10th, in 2013. He wasn’t keen to enter the race on the back foot once again, and neither was his boss. The call was made: Talansky would skip the Tour de France and focus on the Vuelta.

Weeks later, he went to the Amgen Tour of California to support Lawson Craddock and almost won the time trial. Then he went to the Tour de Suisse and finished fifth overall, showing fitness that would suggest a strong Tour de France. His form was rising more rapidly than expected. “I thought at that point that he’d want to change the plan,” Vaughters says. “But he didn’t. The funny thing is that when I came up with the whole Vuelta plan, I had in the back of my head that it would just take the pressure off and he’d be really good by the Tour. Mind games. But he wanted to stick with the plan, so we did.”

Vaughters knows the mind games that work on Talansky better than just about anyone. But why didn’t they work this time?

Few know Talansky better than retired pro Levi Leipheimer. The two train together regularly, dating back to a training camp Leipheimer invited Talansky on when he was just an amateur in 2010. Now 43, Leipheimer believes Talansky’s decision to skip the Tour showed that he’s growing personally and professionally.

“It’s by far the biggest event of the year, everyone wants to be there regardless of whether you’re riding well,” Leipheimer says. “It’s easy to say, ‘I want to be there’. For him to say, ‘You know what, I’m going to sit this one out, and work on myself,’ that takes maturity.”

The only race Talansky entered between Suisse and the Vuelta was the Tour of Utah. He was third behind a rejuvenated Lachlan Morton and ascendant U23 Adrien Costa. It was just a tune-up.

Then he went to Spain, and he found perfection again. He had form right from the start — eighth in the opening, 27-kilometer time trial—and held it all the way through, slowly climbing his way up the general classification. There were no errors. Every time there was a crosswind or a split, he was on the correct side of it. He finished ahead of Froome’s group in stage 15, the famed Formigal stage, where Quintana won the Vuelta.

At the end of three hot Spanish weeks, Talansky sat in fifth overall, just behind Contador. It was his best grand tour finish ever, against a stacked field.

“A lot of people say, ‘Oh, it was your best season when you won Dauphiné,’ and in my opinion, it wasn’t,” Talansky says. “It was last year, starting with Tour of California. I was top-five in every race I did. I was consistent, and capped it off with what I think was the best ride I’ve ever had in my life.” He refers, of course, to the Vuelta.

In an ironic twist, Talansky’s best season was one that began with a personal trial that altered his world.
THERE ARE MULTIPLE FACTORS that led to Talansky’s best grand tour. He realized he doesn’t need much racing to stay on top form. The space provided by his light schedule turned out to be a good thing. “He’s so intense at a race that he’s burning the candle at both ends,” Vaughters says. The mellow schedule is something they’ll replicate in 2017, as he refocuses on the Tour de France.

But there was something more. Talansky’s pursuit of the perfection his physiology requires has often proven detrimental. The Gerrans incident in 2014 is a perfect example. “He was so wrapped up in being the next American hero, ‘I just won the Dauphiné,’ he’s sprinting for a stage that he really shouldn’t have been sprinting for,” Vaughters says. And it ended his Tour de France.

When asked about what has changed, Talansky pauses before delivering his answer. “Perspective,” he says. “Perspective is the best thing in the world. You’re very consumed by this bubble, everything is about the bike — I have to do this, that, or the other—but there are moments in life when things are more important than training and racing. It makes you very thankful for the moments when training and racing are the most important things you have going. It’s very simple. It makes you thankful for those simple times.”

Dropping the Tour from his schedule did more than just rest Talansky physically; it allowed him the space to reset, to take his head out of bike racing and mature. In his time off the bike, and during his relaxed, pressure-free return to racing, he realized that talent doesn’t go away, that hard work is still just as effective after a setback.

“The most detrimental thing you can do is get overly consumed by it,” he says, after another pause. He then references the family tragedy. “Something like that, it completely shakes you out of your bubble.”

Talansky was always a pit bull on the bike and a puppy away from it. Friends confirm this. Leipheimer confirms it. “Off the bike, he’s very polite, extremely attentive, thoughtful of others,” Leipheimer says. “If you knew him there, you’d be like, ‘Wow, that’s a super nice guy, he’s not this killer.’”

The new challenge, Talansky says, is continuing to channel challenges into forward momentum.

“Everybody can train and race,” he says. “It’s not hard to be good when everything is perfect. It’s about taking those obstacles and finding ways to overcome them. That’s how I’ve changed.”

 

First spring classic is this Saturday... Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.

Cobbles, cobbles, cobbles. Rain and wind is in the forecast.

This race almost always comes down to a select group of 3-5 riders sprinting it out in the final KM. With that in mind, I've highlighted favorites below.

Favorites include:

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BMC
1 VAN AVERMAET, Greg (last years winner)
2 ELMIGER, Martin
3 GERTS, Floris
4 KÜNG, Stefan
5 OSS, Daniel
6 SCHAR, Michael
7 DRUCKER, Jean-Pierre
8 VENTOSO, Francisco

Bora - Hansgrohe
11 SAGAN, Peter
12 BURGHARDT, Marcus
13 KOLAR, Michael
14 PFINGSTEN, Christoph
15 PÖSTLBERGER, Lukas
16 BODNAR, Maciej
17 SARAMOTINS, Aleksejs
18 SCHILLINGER, Andreas

Quick-Step Floors
21 BOONEN, Tom
22 GILBERT, Philippe
23 KEISSE, Iljo
24 LAMPAERT, Yves
25 STYBAR, Zdenek
26 TERPSTRA, Niki
27 TRENTIN, Matteo
28 VERMOTE, Julien

Lotto Soudal
31 BENOOT, Tiesj
32 DE BUYST, Jasper
33 DEBUSSCHERE, Jens
34 FRISON, Frederik
35 MAES, Nikolas
36 ROELANDTS, Jurgen
37 SHAW, James Callum
38 WALLAYS, Jelle

Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team
41 VANMARCKE, Sep (winner in 2012)
42 VAN ASBROECK, Tom
43 LANGEVELD, Sebastian (winner in 2011) I could see him having leadership here because Sep has to be saving his gas for Roubaix and Flanders
44 PHINNEY, Taylor
45 SCULLY, Thomas
46 BEVIN, Patrick
47 VAN BAARLE, Dylan
48 KOREN, Kristijan

Astana Pro Team
51 DE VREESE, Laurens
52 BRESCHEL, Matti
53 GATTO, Oscar
54 GRIVKO, Andrei
55 KAMYSHEV, Arman
56 KORSAETH, Truls Engen
57 TLEUBAYEV, Ruslan
58 VALGREN, Michael

Bahrain Merida Pro Cycling Team
61 COLBRELLI, Sonny
62 BOZIC, Borut
63 GARCIA CORTINA, Ivan
64 INSAUSTI, Jon Ander
65 NIBALI, Antonio
66 NOVAK, Domen
67 PER, David
68 PIBERNIK, Luka

FDJ
71 DÉMARE, Arnaud
72 FOURNIER, Marc
73 GUARNIERI, Jacopo
74 HOELGAARD, Daniel
75 KONOVALOVAS, Ignatas
76 LADAGNOUS, Matthieu
77 LE GAC, Olivier
78 SARREAU, Marc

ORICA-Scott
81 KEUKELEIRE, Jens
82 DURBRIDGE, Luke
84 HAYMAN, Mathew
85 JUUL-JENSEN, Christopher
86 BEWLEY, Sam
87 CORT NIELSEN, Magnus
88 TUFT, Svein

Team Katusha - Alpecin
91 BIERMANS, Jenthe
92 PLANCKAERT, Baptiste
93 HOLLENSTEIN, Reto
94 KRISTOFF, Alexander
95 KUZNETSOV, Viacheslav
96 MARTIN, Tony
97 MØRKØV, Michael
98 BYSTRØM, Sven Erik

Team LottoNL-Jumbo
101 BOOM, Lars
102 VAN HOECKE, Gijs
103 GROENEWEGEN, Dylan
104 LEEZER, Tom
105 ROOSEN, Timo
106 TANKINK, Bram
107 VAN EMDEN, Jos
108 WYNANTS, Maarten

Team Sunweb
111 CURVERS, Roy
112 DE BACKER, Bert
113 SINKELDAM, Ramon
114 STAMSNIJDER, Tom
115 TEUNISSEN, Mike
116 WAEYTENS, Zico
117 WALSCHEID, Max
118 ANDERSEN, Søren Kragh

Trek - Segafredo
121 THEUNS, Edward
122 STUYVEN, Jasper
123 IRIZAR, Markel
124 PEDERSEN, Mads
125 RAST, Gregory
126 FELLINE, Fabio
127 BRÄNDLE, Matthias
128 COLEDAN, Marco

Team Sky
131 GOLAS, Michal
132 KNEES, Christian
133 MOSCON, Gianni
134 PUCCIO, Salvatore
135 ROWE, Luke
136 STANNARD, Ian (former two time winner in 2014 and 2015)
137 VAN POPPEL, Danny
138 WIŚNIOWSKI, Łukasz

AG2R La Mondiale
141 VANDENBERGH, Stijn
142 NAESEN, Oliver
143 DUVAL, Julien
144 GOUGEARD, Alexis
145 HOULE, Hugo
146 JAUREGUI, Quentin
147 BAGDONAS, Gediminas
148 DENZ, Nico

Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise
151 DE GENDT, Aime
152 FARAZIJN, Maxime
153 PLANCKAERT, Edward
154 DELTOMBE, Kevin
155 SPRENGERS, Thomas
156 STEELS, Stijn
157 VAN HECKE, Preben
158 VAN LERBERGHE, Bert

Wanty - Groupe Gobert
161 ANTONINI, Simone
162 BACKAERT, Frederik
163 KREDER, Wesley
164 OFFREDO, Yoann
165 VAN KEIRSBULCK, Guillaume
166 VAN MELSEN, Kevin
167 VANSPEYBROUCK, Pieter
168 BAUGNIES, Jerome

WB Veranclassic Aqua Protect
171 DE WINTER, Ludwig
172 STASSEN, Julien
173 ISTA, Kevyn
174 KIRSCH, Alex
175 NAESEN, Lawrence
176 PARDINI, Olivier
177 SPENGLER, Lukas
178 VANTOMME, Maxime

Vérandas Willems-Crelan
181 BILLE, Gaetan
182 CORDEEL, Sander
183 DE BONDT, Dries
184 DEVOLDER, Stijn
185 DUIJN, Huub
186 DUPONT, Timothy
187 GOOLAERTS, Michael
188 KRUOPIS, Aidis

Roompot - Nederlandse Loterij
191 ASSELMAN, Jesper
192 DE VRIES, Berden
193 LIGTHART, Pim
194 REINDERS, Elmar
195 MOURIS, Jens
195 VAN DER HOORN, Taco
197 VAN GOETHEM, Brian
198 VERMELTFOORT, Coen

Fortuneo - Vital Concept
201 BONNAMOUR, Franck
202 CORBEL, Erwann
203 DANIEL, Maxime
204 JARRIER, Benoit
205 MCLAY, Daniel
206 PERICHON, Pierre-Luc
207 VACHON, Florian
208 VALLÉE, Boris

Direct Energie
211 ANDERSON, Ryan
212 BOUDAT, Thomas
213 CARDIS, Romain
214 CHAVANEL, Sylvain
215 COQUARD, Bryan
216 DUCHESNE, Antoine
217 MORICE, Julien
218 PETIT, Adrien

Cofidis, Solutions Crédits
221 CLAEYS, Dimitri
222 HOFSTETTER, Hugo
223 LAPORTE, Christophe
224 LEMOINE, Cyril
225 SÉNÉCHAL, Florian
226 TURGIS, Anthony
227 TURGIS, Jimmy
228 VANBILSEN, Kenneth

Israel Cycling Academy
231 BOIVIN, Guillaume
232 DEMPSTER, Zakkari
233 PERRY, Ben
234 RAIM, Mihkel
235 SCHREURS, Hamish
236 VAN WINDEN, Dennis
237 WILLIAMS, Tyler
238 YECHEZKEL, Aviv

Aqua Blue Sport
241 BLYTHE, Adam
242 BRAMMEIER, Matthew
243 DUNNE, Conor
244 FENN, Andrew
245 GATE, Aaron
246 HANSEN, Lasse Norman
247 HOWARD, Leigh
248 KONING, Peter
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Last 94km of last years Omloop in HD

 

I think cyclinghub.tv isn't streaming anymore, or maybe they're waiting until the bigger races. Sad, because it was such a reliable source of HD streams.

I think this is the best link now...

http://tiz-cycling.racing/live-stream/

 

yep. he had a nasty crash in the races in the middle east and then another one yesterday. doesn't bode well for the upcoming classics.

Sagan just made up for yesterday with a win. Did you guys see his interview after Omloop? It was hilarious. I'll have to try and find the link.

 

wait until you see the finish. he fucking beasted everyone.

 

i think the most impressive thing about the Sagan ride is that he went balls out yesterday too and still had enough in the tank to fuck people up today. other riders have to be asking themselves how the fuck they're going to stop this guy from winning the rest of the classics.

 

Link to the Sagan interview after his second place finish at Omloop yeseterday. A must watch.

http://nos.nl/video/2160040-sagan-ongeschoren-en-spraakzaam-na-tweede-plaats.html

 

Sagan interview after the race today...

Media: "What is your goal for the Spring Classics"
Sagan: "You'll see"