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  • February 20, 2012 at 7:06 am #15152
    nickobec

    So it is two weeks away, but you can do some preliminary research seeing no Omloop Het Volk/Nieuwsblad & Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne (campaigning for them to included in 2013 season).

    Offical website with parcours: http://www.letour.fr/2012/PNC/COURSE/us/le_parcours.html

    Partial starting list:http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html?detp=view&_ap=startlijst&editie_idd=MjI4OTk=

    Stage 1 9km ITT (prologue) includes cat 3 1.1km @ 6.6 climb after 500m

    Stage 2 flat sprinters stage.

    Stage 3 Finishes on a Cat 3 climb 5.2km @ 2.9%

    Stage 4 lumpy day 2 Cat 2 & 3 Cat 3 last 500m @ 8% 2 km before line, last km is at 4%

    Stage 5 even lumpier 3 cat 1, cat 2 & 2 * cat 3, finish is cat 1 3km @ 10%

    Stage 6 less lumpy cat 2, 5 * cat 3, last 20km before finish

    Stage 7 lumpy cat 1, 2 * cat 2, cat 3, 20km downhill after cat 1, the 20km flat

    Stage 8 ITT Col d’Èze 9.6km @ 4.7%

    Start with solid ITT riders, then roulers and escape artists and finish with good ITTs

    Likely starters

    AG2R LA MONDIALE

    PERAUD Jean Christophe France
    ROCHE Nicholas Ireland

    ASTANA PRO TEAM

    BRAJKOVIC Janez Slovenia
    SEELDRAYERS Kevin Belgium

    BMC RACING TEAM

    HUSHOVD Thor Norway
    MOINARD Amaël France
    PHINNEY Taylor United States
    VAN GARDEREN Tejay United States

    COFIDIS LE CREDIT EN LIGNE

    DI GREGORIO Rémy France
    DUMOULIN Samuel France
    MONCOUTIE David France
    TAARAMAE Rein Estonia

    EQUIPE CYCLISTE FDJ-BIGMAT

    FEDRIGO Pierrick France
    JEANNESSON Arnold France
    ROY Jérémy France

    EUSKALTEL – EUSKADI

    ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor Spain
    ASTARLOZA CHAURREAU Mikel Spain
    SICARD Romain France

    GARMIN – BARRACUDA

    FERNANDEZ DE LARREA Koldo Spain
    HAUSSLER Heinrich Australia
    LE MEVEL Christophe France
    MILLAR David United Kingdom
    RASMUSSEN Alex Denmark

    GREENEDGE CYCLING TEAM

    DAVIS Allan Australia
    GERRANS Simon Australia

    KATUSHA TEAM

    GALIMZYANOV Denis Russia
    MENCHOV Denis Russia

    LAMPRE – ISD

    BOLE Grega Slovenia
    CUNEGO Damiano Italy
    ULISSI Diego Italy

    LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE

    BASSO Ivan Italy
    SZMYD Sylvester Poland
    VIVIANI Elia Italy

    LOTTO – BELISOL TEAM

    BAK Lars Ytting Denmark
    HENDERSON Gregory New Zealand

    MOVISTAR TEAM

    ARROYO DURAN David Spain
    CASTROVIEJO NICOLAS Jonathan Spain
    ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin Spain
    VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro Spain

    OMEGA PHARMA – QUICKSTEP CYCLING TEAM

    BOONEN Tom Belgium
    CHAVANEL Sylvain France
    LEIPHEIMER Levi United States
    MARTIN Tony Germany
    PROJECT 1T4I

    DEGENKOLB John Germany
    KITTEL Marcel Germany

    RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM

    MOLLEMA Bauke Netherlands
    RENSHAW Mark Australia
    SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon Spain

    RADIOSHACK – NISSAN

    DIDIER Laurent Luxembourg
    HORNER Christopher United States
    IRIZAR ARANBURU Markel Spain
    KLÖDEN Andreas Germany
    MONFORT Maxime Belgium
    SCHLECK Andy Luxembourg
    SCHLECK Frank Luxembourg

    SAUR – SOJASUN

    COPPEL Jerome France
    FEILLU Brice France
    GALLAND Jérémie France
    HIVERT Jonathan France

    SKY PROCYCLING

    FROOME Christopher United Kingdom
    PORTE Richie Australia
    THOMAS Geraint United Kingdom
    WIGGINS Bradley United Kingdom

    TEAM EUROPCAR

    GAUDIN Damien France
    ROLLAND Pierre France
    VOECKLER Thomas France

    TEAM SAXO BANK

    AAEN JORGENSEN Jonas Denmark
    KROON Karsten Netherlands
    MORKOV Michael Denmark
    NAVARRO GARCIA Daniel Spain
    NUYENS Nick Belgium
    TOSATTO Matteo Italy

    VACANSOLEIL – DCM PRO CYCLING TEAM

    DE GENDT Thomas Belgium
    FEILLU Romain France
    LEUKEMANS Björn Belgium
    LIGTHART Pim Netherlands
    MORTENSEN Martin Denmark

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  • March 2, 2012 at 10:49 am #666641
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    Gkam84

    ray silvester wrote:Surprised

    ray silvester wrote:
    Surprised no-ones talking about Luis Leon Sanchez for Paris-Nice?

    Shhhhhhhhhhhhhht 😉 😉

    March 2, 2012 at 7:55 am #666639
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    ray silvester

    Surprised no-ones talking
    Surprised no-ones talking about Luis Leon Sanchez for Paris-Nice?

    March 1, 2012 at 5:53 pm #666637
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    nick_rearden

    Simon_MacMichael

    Simon_MacMichael wrote:
    Cuissards = bibshorts

    Don’t let anyone tell you road.cc isn’t educational…and that the French don’t have a sense of humour. I’ll never be able to look at my bibshorts again without thinking of waders.

    March 1, 2012 at 4:58 pm #666635
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    Simon_MacMichael

    Cuissards = bibshorts –
    Cuissards = bibshorts – thought I’d give it some added relevance 😉

    March 1, 2012 at 4:50 pm #666633
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    msw

    nick_rearden wrote:I agree.

    nick_rearden wrote:
    I agree. Inconceivable not to have Europcar, Voeckler and their lovely traditional French bikes. No, wait….

    Anyway, sans-cuissards? I thought they were sans-culottes or is that something else? Google Translate says ‘sans-cuissards’ means ‘without waders.’ WTF!

    Sans-culottes, soixante-huitards, “sans-cuissards”… *bof*.

    March 1, 2012 at 4:30 pm #666631
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    nick_rearden

    Simon_MacMichael

    Simon_MacMichael wrote:
    There’s certainly been nothing official.

    Not much surprises me in this sport any more but I’d be gobsmacked if Europcar weren’t at the Tour.

    The sans-cuissards would probably re-erect the guillotine in Place de la Concorde and I reckon Christian Prudhomme would be first up ;)

    I agree. Inconceivable not to have Europcar, Voeckler and their lovely traditional French bikes. No, wait….

    Anyway, sans-cuissards? I thought they were sans-culottes or is that something else? Google Translate says ‘sans-cuissards’ means ‘without waders.’ WTF!

    March 1, 2012 at 3:46 pm #666629
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    Simon_MacMichael

    There’s certainly been
    There’s certainly been nothing official.

    Not much surprises me in this sport any more but I’d be gobsmacked if Europcar weren’t at the Tour.

    The sans-cuissards would probably re-erect the guillotine in Place de la Concorde and I reckon Christian Prudhomme would be first up 😉

    March 1, 2012 at 3:20 pm #666627
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    Gkam84

    It may have just been the
    It may have just been the rumour mill, so dont listen to me, but I understood the same as MSW that Europcar didn’t have a place on the Tour this year either 😕

    March 1, 2012 at 3:14 pm #666625
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    Simon_MacMichael

    Heh! Well, the UCI’s constant
    Heh! Well, the UCI’s constant changing of things serves to confuse! As things stand, all WorldTour teams aka ProTeams have the right to an automatic invite to WorldTour races, as well as an obligation to compete in them.

    The rules were introduced ahead of 2011 season – in 2010, for example, RadioShack chose not to race the Giro to focus on the Tour of California instead and they weren’t invited to the Vuelta.

    So one of the highest profile teams in the sport missed two of the three Grand Tours…

    Thank heavens it all went well for them in the TDF 😕 😉

    March 1, 2012 at 2:34 pm #666623
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    msw

    Simon_MacMichael wrote:
    MSW –

    Simon_MacMichael wrote:

    MSW – not sure where your information Europcar hasn’t got a Tour invite comes from, the list of teams hasn’t been published yet?

    With Voeckler and Rolland’s performances last year and it being a French team it would be a major surprise if they were not invited.

    Are you confusing it with the Giro? They’re not taking part in that – because they didn’t apply for a wild card in the first place.

    Whoops. Actually I half-remembered that they didn’t have ProTour status so didn’t have a 100% guaranteed Tour spot. And now I’m can’t remember if ProTour status does guarantee that any more, anyway, or if it’s still called that. Excellent work all round from me.

    March 1, 2012 at 1:45 pm #666621
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    Simon_MacMichael

    Rolland is out with a knee
    Rolland is out with a knee injury, that’s confirmed.

    List of riders for the game is based on the provisional start list and as usual will be updated before the race begins once the final start list is published.

    MSW – not sure where your information Europcar hasn’t got a Tour invite comes from, the list of teams hasn’t been published yet?

    With Voeckler and Rolland’s performances last year and it being a French team it would be a major surprise if they were not invited.

    Are you confusing it with the Giro? They’re not taking part in that – because they didn’t apply for a wild card in the first place.

    March 1, 2012 at 1:36 pm #666619
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    msw

    …although he’s not on that
    …although he’s not on that ASO start list but is in the game list for the next stage.

    March 1, 2012 at 1:34 pm #666617
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    msw

    How is Pierre Rolland’s time
    How is Pierre Rolland’s time trialling? I’m thinking that Europcar might be taking this kind of race more seriously since they didn’t get a Tour invite…

    February 29, 2012 at 9:57 am #666615
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    lucas

    nickobec wrote: Alex

    nickobec wrote:
    Alex Rasmussen (GRM)
    DS Value: 10.1 TT & prologue specialist

    Nice pick, but I don’t see him on the official race start list (http://www.letour.fr/2012/PNC/RIDERS/us/engages.html) but as a substitue.

    He does appear on the game (!) start list, though… Hmmm… Which list is right?… 😕

    By the way, thanks for the research! Mighty helpful! 🙂

    February 25, 2012 at 2:22 pm #666613
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    Gkam84

    I can only get from 2004-2011
    I can only get from 2004-2011 but it seems Jörg Jaksche did it in 2004, the only other result is from 1933 when Alfons Schepers did it

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