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  • May 3, 2012 at 1:33 pm #15716
    chrisdstripes

    The provisional startlists are up on Cycling Fever… Looks like the opening stages could be tricky to predict – bumpy but with flat finishing sections. Stage 5 TT will shake things up, and then stages 6 and 7 have the bigger hills to decide the GC. At first glance there are a lot of strong sprinters and TTers, and 4-5 US teams we haven’t seen much of this season so far, but maybe only a handful of riders (Horner, Liepheimer, Nibali, Van Garderen, Gesink, Lulu Sanchez) competing for the overall. But what do I know…

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  • May 3, 2012 at 4:11 pm #677351
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    Gkam84

    If you open each stage from
    If you open each stage from here
    http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/Route/stages.html

    Then scroll down and open stage log, you’ll get something like this

    http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/docroot/media/2012/12-AToC-Stage-1-Log.pdf

    Which lists the category of each climb in the red highlights đŸ˜‰

    May 3, 2012 at 3:55 pm #677349
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    TERatcliffe26

    Does anyone know the
    Does anyone know the categories of any of the climbs?
    As I have an inclining that the climbs on the first few stages arn’t as severe as they may seem on the picture of the stage

    May 3, 2012 at 2:54 pm #677347
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    frankiejay

    I imagine this race feels to
    I imagine this race feels to me (being from America) like the Tour of Britain feels to many on this site.

    This year’s profile looks fascinating, because (like the Giro) the stages are just hard to categorize. Not sure there will be any classic bunch sprints. Last year there were two stages with several smaller climbs that were won by Peter Sagan (stage 5) and Matthew Goss (stage 8… Sagan was second).

    Stages 1,3, and 4 especially resemble last year’s stage 5 in difficulty, though the climbs this year are all considerably closer to the end of the stages and that could play a significant role.

    That said, I can’t imagine not having Peter Sagan on your team for the early stages at the very least.

    As for the GC, it looks like Leipheimer will not race (still recovering from the broken leg), so Horner, Nibali and Van Garderen are certainly faves, but I would add either Danielson or Talansky from Garmin, possibly Nocentini from AG2R, and a couple of the US domestic team riders, Rory Sutherland from United Healthcare and Joseph Dombrowski from Bontrager Livestrong (who Lance Armstrong seriously jinxed yesterday by calling him the next great American climber).

    Honestly, I’m not certain about Horner’s form, but if I were to pick a favorite it is him. This race always seems to bring Americans to the top. If Garmin is riding for Talansky I would not be surprised if he were to win either.

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