RIP the oldest living TDF winner btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kübler http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/former-tour-de-france-champion-kubler-dies-at-97/
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): Spoiler 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) Spoiler Team Sunweb (formerly Giant-Alpecin) Spoiler LottoNL-Jumbo Spoiler Quick-Step Floors (formerly Etixx - Quick-Step) Spoiler BMC Spoiler Orica-Scott (formerly Orica-GreenEdge and Orica-Bike Exchange) Spoiler Katusha-Alpecin (formerly Katusha) Spoiler Bahrain-Merida (new team of Nibali) Spoiler Dimension Data Spoiler Their national champion's jerseys are bad-ass Astana Spoiler Sky Spoiler Lotto Soudal (minor jersey changes... probably my favorite in the peloton) Spoiler Movistar (I think they made the 'M' bigger?) Spoiler Cannondale - Drapac (formerly Cannondale) Spoiler UAE Abu Dhabi (formerly Lampre-Merida) Spoiler FDJ and Ag2r... no significant changes. Trek's new jersey to be released later this week.
Astana always with one of the best kits in all of sport. I hope Aru remembers to eat this year and wind everything.
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.
before the season starts: Team Cannondale-drapac Team Bora-Hansafafjbjgkn Team UAE-Abu Dahbi Team sky
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.
Ewan has the potential to be this era's Cav. Similar stature too. Sagan is not in form yet, which is a good thing IMO. He said in an interview his race "season" is 11 months long.
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.
Need to sell a few bikes, what sites would you recommend using? 2004 Litespeed Classic (DA, Ksyriums) 2013 Trek Superfly AL elite 2000 Bianchi BUSS Using bicycle blue book, I'm thinking $900 for the Litespeed, $1,200 for the Trek, and maybe $400 for the BUSS (little more difficult to evaluate that one as they don't have it listed... Paul, XTR, avid.)
I agree that Sagan didn't really care about this race, but even if Sagan was in peak form, I doubt he'd outsprint McEwan much in pure sprinters stages. That's not really his thing. He's not gonna go out there and regularly beat out Kittel, Cav, Greipel, McEwan, etc. in sprints. It'd be a pretty solid upset if he ever won on the Champs.
Any cyclists in Atlanta want to take some stuff off my hands? I have a bin of old jerseys and wind guards, tools, random 26" tires... just an accumulation of years of cycling and being a mechanic that I no longer want/need.
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/
http://www.businessinsider.com/bike...cycling-world-championships-cyclocross-2016-1 http://www.velonews.com/2017/01/news/cbs-news-12-riders-used-motorized-bikes-in-the-2015-tour_429741 60 minutes and a good piece on it on 1/29
Big crosswinds (as usual in the Dubai Tour), especially in the desert with the sand blowing, means shit gets real sketchy in the peloton and dudes lose their mind. Happens every year. Kittel claims they were fighting for position and Grivko punched him. Grivko says Kittel pushed himself and teammate and then spit on him, so he retaliated by punching him. Either way Kittel is like the last dude most of these dudes should want to fight in the Peloton (outside of Bouhanni, who is a former boxer and crazy person). He's a giant compared to those guys.
Great Velonews article about Andrew Talansky http://www.velonews.com/2017/02/from-the-mag/taming-talansky-pit-bull-finds-new-composure_430571 Spoiler 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: Spoiler 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 [\spoiler]
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.
I lost connection at 3.5kg but sagan looked dead. Glad to see he pulled through. He isn't even in form yet, going to have a great spring season
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"