Showing posts with label roster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roster. Show all posts
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Saturday, 21 January 2012
Vuelta a Andalucia Starters
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| The universally popular Jens Voigt will be racing (image credit: Kuebi CC BY-SA 3.0) |
RadioShack-Nissan-Trek
1 IRIZAR ARANBURU, Markel
2 BENNATI, Daniele
3 GERDEMANN, Linus
4 MONFORT, Maxime
5 SCHLECK, Frank
6 VOIGT, Jens
7 ZUBELDIA AGIRRE, Haimar
Rabobank
11 MOLLEMA, Bauke
12 KRUIJSWIJK, Steven
13 MATTHEWS, Michael
14 GARATE, Juan Manuel
15 LLAMAZALES Barredo, Carlos
16 NIERMANN, Grischa
17 KELDERMAN, Wilco
Vacansoleil-DCM
21 HUMMEL, Kenny Van
22 RUIJGH, Rob
23 POELS, Wout
24 LIGTHART, Pim
25 MARCATO, Marco
26 CARRARA, Matteo
27 SELVAGGI, Mirko
Katusha
31 FRIERE, Oscar
32 MORENO FERNANDEZ, Daniel
33 HORRACH RIPPOLL, Joan
34 FLORENCIO, Xavier
35 ISAYCHEV, Vladimir
36 TROFIMOV, Yuri
37 VORGANOV, Eduard
38 MENCHOV, Denis
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| Jurgen van de Walle (image credit: Thomas Ducroquet CC BY-SA 3.0) |
41 VANENDERT, Dennis
42 VANENDERT, Jelle
43 WALLE, Jurgen van de
44 LEIJEN, Joost van
45 WILLEMS, Frederick
Movistar
61 VALVERDE, Alejandro
Team NetApp
71 KONIG, Leopold
72 HUZARSKI, Bartosz
73 BRANDL, Matthias
74 BARTA, Jan
75 SCHORN, Daniel
76 HOLLENSTEIN, Reto
77 DIETZIKER, Andreas
Spider Tech Powered by C10
81 ANDERSON, Ryan
82 BOIVIN, Guillaume
83 HOULE, Hugo
84 GILBERT, Martin
85 LACOMBE, Keven
86 PARISIEN, Francois
87 SELANDER, Bjorn
Cofidis
91 MATE MARDONES, Luis Angel
92 DEMARET, Jean-Eudes
93 BUFFAZ, Mickael
94 DUMOULIN, Samuel
95 DUQUE, Leonardo Fabio
96 MONIER, Damien
97 VALENTIN, Tristan
Monday, 17 October 2011
Team GB Track cyclists announced
Team GB has announced the fifteen riders who will represent the nation at the European Track Cycling Championships which begin this coming Friday, with no surprises among the names.
The Women's Sprint may be one of the last in which Victoria Pendleton competes as a professional, having stopped just short on a number of occasions from stating that she will retire after the London Olympic Games. Chris Hoy will be looking to get his international reputation back up to the same standard as that among British cycling fans following an embarrassing race during last year's Championships when he was soundly beaten by Irishman Felix English, an amateur rider - a selection of good results earned since, including three golds at the Nationals this summer, suggests he's been working to prevent it happening again. Other riders, keen to demonstrate excellent form now we're well into the final year before the Olympics, will also be striving to perform at high level at the event to be held in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
Women’s Sprint: Victoria Pendleton, Jess Varnish.
Women’s Endurance: Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell, Dani King, Sarah Storey.
Men’s Sprint: Sir Chris Hoy, Jason Queally, Matt Crampton, Jason Kenny.
Men’s Endurance: Geraint Thomas, Peter Kennaugh, Steven Burke, Ed Clancy, Andy Tennant.
The Women's Sprint may be one of the last in which Victoria Pendleton competes as a professional, having stopped just short on a number of occasions from stating that she will retire after the London Olympic Games. Chris Hoy will be looking to get his international reputation back up to the same standard as that among British cycling fans following an embarrassing race during last year's Championships when he was soundly beaten by Irishman Felix English, an amateur rider - a selection of good results earned since, including three golds at the Nationals this summer, suggests he's been working to prevent it happening again. Other riders, keen to demonstrate excellent form now we're well into the final year before the Olympics, will also be striving to perform at high level at the event to be held in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
Women’s Sprint: Victoria Pendleton, Jess Varnish.
Women’s Endurance: Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell, Dani King, Sarah Storey.
Men’s Sprint: Sir Chris Hoy, Jason Queally, Matt Crampton, Jason Kenny.
Men’s Endurance: Geraint Thomas, Peter Kennaugh, Steven Burke, Ed Clancy, Andy Tennant.
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| Victoria Pendleton and Chris Hoy will pull out all the stops in an attempt to repeat their 2008 success - in Pendleton's case so as to end her career at a highpoint and in Hoy's to leave the world in no doubt that his is not yet over. (both images © johnthescone CC-BY-2.0) |
Friday, 14 October 2011
Giro di Lombardia - another season ends
Race map, profiles, climb details etc. can be downloaded here.
It's mid-October already - honestly, where did 2011 go? - and that means it's time for the last big race of the road cycling season, the Giro di Lombardia or Race of the Falling Leaves.
Established in 1905, two years after the Tour de France, the race is being run for the 106th time. It was last one by a Briton - the tragic Tommy Simpson - right back in 1965, the same year he won the World Championships. Unfortunately for Mark Cavendish, the first British World Champion since, this is a hilly course - hence his decision not to take part, despite his inclusion on the HTC-Highroad roster. Highroad's directeur sportif Valerio Piva explains: "He said it wasn’t a good thing for his image or for that of the organiser, s ... we decided together that it wouldn’t have brought anything to the race just to start and then pull out." Having been such an important and successful part of the team for so long, Highroad will undoubtedly miss him in what is due to be their last World Tour race after sponsorship problems forced owner Bob Stapleton to announce their final season.
Thus, responsibilities for Britain's Hope fall to Team Sky, and in response they've assembled a crack squad able to push the pace throughout the route. Steve Cummings, due to move on to pastures new at BMC next season, is team leader and, as the man who beat no less than Alberto Contador whilst climbing the Serra da Estrela in this year's Volta ao Algarve, he seems a more likely candidate for success than Cav. If he can't do it, the likes of Rigoberto Uran - that rare beast, a time trial and climbing specialist - and Lars Petter Nordhaug, an ex-Danich XC MTB champ and winner of the Mountains Classification at the Rhône-Alpes Isère, should be able to bring a not inconsiderable amount of glory Sky's way. They won't be unopposed, however - the 17 other Pro Teams and 7 wildcards don't intend to give anyone an easy time of it and with riders in the calibre of Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale), Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana), Thomas de Gendt (Vacansoleil-DCM), Sammy Sanchez (Euskaltel Euskadi), Danilo Di Luca (Katusha), Jakob Fuglsang (Leopard Trek) and bookie's favourite Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) they're not going to be breaking out the china to hand over wins on a plate.
The Giro's route has changed many times over the years, but Milan has been a part of it almost every year - in fact, for the first 55 years it both began and ended there. Riders taking part following the Second World War probably found it almost unrecognisable, the city suffered such heavy bombing by British and American forces that many irreplaceable features of the ancient city were lost forever; even though a history beginning when it was founded by the Insubres, a Celtic tribe, in 400BCE had led to a city full of architectural treasures by the 1930s. It was here that the bodies of Mussolini and his Fascist henchman were brought by Resistance fighters in 1945 and hanged upside down in the street in order that the populace could be certain that they were truly dead.
It has remained a highly politicised city, due in no small part to the traditionally left-wing ideals of the many Milanese employed in the creative industries. Some of them, shortly after the War, became involved with the Bricha - a programme facilitating the illegal movement of Holocaust survivors, many of them finding themselves without any surviving family members, to a new home in what would become Israel - and as such Milan became the site of a large Jewish refugee camp that at its height was home to 1100 people and supported both a secular school and a yeshiva. Those same anti-Fascist sentiments became stronger in the years immediately after the war, transforming and manifesting themselves during the 1960s as armed Marxist struggle - the Communist Red Brigades were highly active in the region and the city was frequently brought to a standstill by large-scale protests, an out-pouring of dissent that would turn into violence at the turn of the decade: in 1969, a bomb planted in a bank killed 17 people and injured almost a hundred more.
By the end of the 1970s, Milan looked in danger of suffering problems related to depopulation as residents relocated to satellite cities and newly-wealthy towns nearby. This, however, turned out unexpectedly to be a positive: as property rental costs fell in the city, large numbers of foreign immigrants began to move in. Cheap labour and a multicultural, cosmopolitan society led to the development of the fashion industry with the city rapidly becoming known alongside Paris, London and New York as one of the world capitals of style and couture - today, when it's home to such labels as Dolce&Gabbana, Prada, Versace and others, it's arguably the second most important city in the fashion world after Paris.
Along the way, the race will visit Cesano Maderno, a city of almost 40,000 people north-west of Milan. "Maderno" is believed to derive from "maternus," a name adopted because in ancient times the city was owned by women who passed property from mother to daughter. Its finest feature today is the Palazzo Arese Borromeo, considered one of the best examples of a palace and among the most important historical buildings in Italy. Once the race has completed a little over 60km, it reaches the foothills of the Alps and climbs Valcava to the highest point on the route, 1336m above sea level on the way to Valle Imagna, hitting a maximum gradient of 17% en route.
After a long, fast descent and a smaller climb, the riders reach Canzo; one of the longest-inhabited towns in Italy with evidence of a Mesolithic culture dating back to some 10,000 years before the present and as famous for its medieval architecture as its beautiful location surrounded by high peaks. Leaving the town behind, the riders progress towards Colma di Somarno, one of the most revered and feared climbs in cycling - while in recent years the Giro has taken an easier route with a maximum gradient of around 8% up the 1124m mountain, in times gone by it used the infamous Muro ("The Wall") which with gradients as steep as 25% remains a training ride for the fittest local club cyclists.
Another fast descent leads to a short flat section of around 15km, insufficient for tortured knees to recover before the race reaches the Colle del Ghisallo. This mountain pass has formed the centre piece of this race and frequently forms part of the Giro d'Italia - as a result, Madonna del Ghisallo, to whom the chapel near the highest point of the climb is dedicated, became revered by cyclists (or those of the Catholic persuasion at any rate) and in 1948 became the official patron saint of cyclists by papal decree, an occasion marked by the bringing of a votive flame similar to the Olympic Torch all the way from Rome. The torch was carried during the final stage by none other than Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali, the greatest among Italy's many great cyclists. Next to the chapel is a museum of cycling to which several generations of notable cyclists have donated memorabilia and bikes - the collection includes bikes upon which Coppi, Bartali and Eddy Merckx won the Tour de France.
The descent from Ghisallo is considerably less formidable than the way up with a fairly steep initial section leading to a gentler middle before a steep final part down to Valmadrera - a town that has grown up around a port on the vast Lago di Lecco, itself just one arm of the much larger Lago di Como and due to the dramatic, soaring mountains that surround the deep, fjord-like waters an undoubted contender for the title of Europe's most beautiful location. Those waters are very deep - in places, more than 400m; making it one of the deepest lakes in Europe.
Lecco, the town that hosts the finish line, can be seen across the lake and in fact a number of bridges allow easy movement between the towns - but this is cycling and cyclists don't like to do things the easy way, so the race heads south and then back up again for a final 20km section. The southernmost part of this last challenge is Villa Vergano, then the route follows the banks of the lake all the way to the most northerly of the bridges, Ponte Kennedy, leading onto the Via Leonardo da Vinci. A left and then a right carry the race onto the Lungolario Isonzo and the end of the race at 241km.
Lecco is built on a narrow alluvial deposit bounded on one side by the lake and on the other by the sheer face of the mountains and is renowned worldwide for its wealth of beautiful architecture including an astonishing 86 structures designated as major monuments. Among them are the early 20th Century, neo-medieval style Palace of the Fears (so-called as it became home to the region's tax and revenue office), 25 important churches and numerous civil sites.
Team Rosters
Omega Pharma-Lotto
1 Philippe Gilbert (Bel)
2 Jan Bakelants (Bel)
3 Francis De Greef (Bel)
4 Gert Dockx (Bel)
5 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel)
6 Jelle Vanendert (Bel)
7 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin)
8 Frederik Willems (Bel)
Acqua & Sapone
11 Carlos Alberto Betancourt Gomez (Col)
12 Rafai Chtioui (Tun)
13 Claudio Corioni (Ita)
14 Alessandro Donati (Ita)
15 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita)
16 Simone Masciarelli (Ita)
17 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro)
18 Fabio Taborre (Ita)
AG2R La Mondiale
21 Nicolas Roche (Irl)
22 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra)
23 Maxime Bouet (Fra)
24 Mickaël Chérel (Fra)
25 Ben Gastauer (Lux)
26 Matteo Montaguti (Ita)
27 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita)
28 Christophe Riblon (Fra)
Androni Giocattoli
31 Emanuele Sella (Ita)
32 Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez (Col)
33 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita)
34 Riccardo Chiarini (Ita)
35 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita)
36 Giairo Ermetti (Ita)
37 Carlos José Ochoa (Ven)
38 Antonio Santoro (Ukn)
BMC Racing Team
41 Alessandro Ballan (Ita)
42 Mathias Frank (Swi)
43 Martin Kohler (Swi)
44 Steve Morabito (Swi)
45 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita)
46 Ivan Santaromita (Ita)
47 Michael Schär (Swi)
48 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel)
Colnago - CSF Inox
51 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita)
52 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita)
53 Federico Canuti (Ita)
54 Simone Stortoni (Ita)
55 Alberto Contoli (Ita)
56 Filippo Savini (Ita)
57 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita)
58 Andrea Piechele (Ita)
Team Europcar
61 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn)
62 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra)
63 Anthony Charteau (Fra)
64 Cyril Gautier (Fra)
65 Vincent Jérôme (Fra)
66 Alexandre Pichot (Fra)
67 David Veilleux (Can)
68 Thomas Voeckler (Fra)
Euskaltel Euskadi
71 Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez (Spa)
72 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa)
73 Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Spa)
74 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa)
75 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa)
76 Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Spa)
77 Romain Sicard (Fra)
78 Amets Txurruka (Spa)
Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli
81 Giovanni Visconti (Ita)
82 Oscar Gatto (Ita)
83 Luca Mazzanti (Ita)
84 Pier Paolo De Negri (Ita)
85 Diego Caccia (Ita)
86 Davide Ricci Bitti (Ita)
87 Elia Favilli (Ita)
88 Leonardo Giordani (Ita)
FDJ
91 Sandy Casar (Fra)
92 Arnaud Courteille (Fra)
93 Mickael Delage (Fra)
94 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra)
95 Rémi Pauriol (Fra)
96 Thibaut Pinot (Fra)
97 Geoffrey Soupe (Fra)
98 Arthur Vichot (Fra)
Geox-TMC
101 Matthias Brändle (Aut)
102 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa)
103 Daniele Colli (Ita)
104 David Gutierrez Gutierrez (Spa)
105 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa)
106 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo (Col)
107 Fabio Felline (Ita)
108 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa)
HTC-Highroad
111 Mark Cavendish (GBr)
112 Michael Albasini (Swi)
113 Caleb Fairly (USA)
114 Patrick Gretsch (Ger)
115 Leigh Howard (Aus)
116 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr)
117 Martin Velits (Svk)
118 Peter Velits (Svk)
Katusha Team
121 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita)
122 Danilo Di Luca (Ita)
123 Vladimir Goussev (Rus)
124 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa)
125 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa)
126 Luca Paolini (Ita)
127 Filippo Pozzato (Ita)
128 Joaquím Rodríguez Oliver (Spa)
Lampre - ISD
131 Michele Scarponi (Ita)
132 Damiano Cunego (Ita)
133 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita)
134 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita)
135 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr)
136 Marco Marzano (Ita)
137 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol)
138 Diego Ulissi (Ita)
Leopard Trek
141 Brice Feillu (Fra)
142 Stefan Denifl (Aut)
143 Jakob Fuglsang (Den)
144 Maxime Monfort (Bel)
145 Bruno Pires (Por)
146 Thomas Rohregger (Aut)
147 Fabian Wegmann (Ger)
148 Oliver Zaugg (Swi)
Liquigas-Cannondale
151 Ivan Basso (Ita)
152 Eros Capecchi (Ita)
153 Damiano Caruso (Ita)
154 Dominique Nerz (Ger)
155 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita)
156 Simone Ponzi (Ita)
157 Cristiano Salerno (Ita)
158 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol)
Movistar Team
161 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita)
162 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por)
163 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa)
164 Jesus Herrada Lopez (Spa)
165 Beñat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa)
166 Javier Iriarte (Spa)
167 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu)
168 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa)
Pro Team Astana
171 Alexander Vinokourov (Kaz)
172 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita)
173 Francesco Masciarelli (Ita)
174 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita)
175 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz)
176 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe)
177 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro)
178 Alexsandr Dyachenko (Kaz)
Quickstep Cycling Team
181 Dario Cataldo (Ita)
182 Davide Malacarne (Ita)
183 Dries Devenyns (Bel)
184 Francesco Reda (Ita)
185 Kevin De Weert (Bel)
186 Matteo Trentin (Ukn)
187 Niki Terpstra (Ned)
188 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra)
Rabobank Cycling Team
191 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa)
192 Laurens ten Dam (Ned)
193 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned)
194 Bauke Mollema (Ned)
195 Grischa Niermann (Ger)
196 Tom Slagter (Ned)
197 Bram Tankink (Ned)
198 Pieter Weening (Ned)
Saxo Bank Sungard
201 Laurent Didier (Lux)
202 Brian Vandborg (Den)
203 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den)
204 Mads Christensen (Den)
205 Manuele Boaro (Ita)
206 Rafal Majka (Pol)
207 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr)
208 Matteo Tosatto (Ita)
Sky Procycling
211 Steven Cummings (GBr)
212 Simon Gerrans (Aus)
213 Christian Knees (Ger)
214 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe)
215 Lars Petter Nordhaug (Nor)
216 Michael Rogers (Aus)
217 Rigoberto Uran (Col)
218 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa)
Team Garmin-Cervelo
221 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra)
222 Daniel Lloyd (GBr)
223 Daniel Martin (Irl)
224 Thomas Peterson (USA)
225 Gabriel Rasch (Nor)
226 Peter Stetina (USA)
227 Sep Vanmarcke (Bel)
228 Johan Van Summeren (Bel)
Team RadioShack
231 Janez Brajkovic (Slo)
232 Matthew Busche (USA)
233 Philip Deignan (Irl)
234 Ben Hermans (Bel)
235 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol)
236 Tiago Machado (Por)
237 Ivan Rovny (Rus)
238 Haimar Zubeldia Aguirre (Spa)
Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
241 Matteo Carrara (Ita)
242 Thomas De Gendt (Bel)
243 Stijn Devolder (Bel)
244 Marco Marcato (Ita)
245 Marcello Pavarin (Ita)
246 Wouter Mol (Ned)
247 Wout Poels (Ned)
248 Rob Ruijgh (Ned)
It's mid-October already - honestly, where did 2011 go? - and that means it's time for the last big race of the road cycling season, the Giro di Lombardia or Race of the Falling Leaves.
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| Milan - click for full-size panoramic loveliness (© Dodo CC3.0) |
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| Could Steve Cummings become the first British rider to win the Giro di Lombardia since Tommy Simpson in 1965? He once beat Contador, so who knows? (© Michiel Jelijs CC2.0) |
The Giro's route has changed many times over the years, but Milan has been a part of it almost every year - in fact, for the first 55 years it both began and ended there. Riders taking part following the Second World War probably found it almost unrecognisable, the city suffered such heavy bombing by British and American forces that many irreplaceable features of the ancient city were lost forever; even though a history beginning when it was founded by the Insubres, a Celtic tribe, in 400BCE had led to a city full of architectural treasures by the 1930s. It was here that the bodies of Mussolini and his Fascist henchman were brought by Resistance fighters in 1945 and hanged upside down in the street in order that the populace could be certain that they were truly dead.
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| Milan Cathedral, fourth largest in the world (© chris 論 CC3.0) |
By the end of the 1970s, Milan looked in danger of suffering problems related to depopulation as residents relocated to satellite cities and newly-wealthy towns nearby. This, however, turned out unexpectedly to be a positive: as property rental costs fell in the city, large numbers of foreign immigrants began to move in. Cheap labour and a multicultural, cosmopolitan society led to the development of the fashion industry with the city rapidly becoming known alongside Paris, London and New York as one of the world capitals of style and couture - today, when it's home to such labels as Dolce&Gabbana, Prada, Versace and others, it's arguably the second most important city in the fashion world after Paris.
Along the way, the race will visit Cesano Maderno, a city of almost 40,000 people north-west of Milan. "Maderno" is believed to derive from "maternus," a name adopted because in ancient times the city was owned by women who passed property from mother to daughter. Its finest feature today is the Palazzo Arese Borromeo, considered one of the best examples of a palace and among the most important historical buildings in Italy. Once the race has completed a little over 60km, it reaches the foothills of the Alps and climbs Valcava to the highest point on the route, 1336m above sea level on the way to Valle Imagna, hitting a maximum gradient of 17% en route.
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| The road over Valcava (© Orobicon CC3.0) |
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| Monuments to Coppi and Bartali at Madonna del Ghisallo (© DeLo99 CC3.0) |
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| Lago di Lecco (© Giovanni Marinelli CC3.0) |
Lecco, the town that hosts the finish line, can be seen across the lake and in fact a number of bridges allow easy movement between the towns - but this is cycling and cyclists don't like to do things the easy way, so the race heads south and then back up again for a final 20km section. The southernmost part of this last challenge is Villa Vergano, then the route follows the banks of the lake all the way to the most northerly of the bridges, Ponte Kennedy, leading onto the Via Leonardo da Vinci. A left and then a right carry the race onto the Lungolario Isonzo and the end of the race at 241km.
Lecco is built on a narrow alluvial deposit bounded on one side by the lake and on the other by the sheer face of the mountains and is renowned worldwide for its wealth of beautiful architecture including an astonishing 86 structures designated as major monuments. Among them are the early 20th Century, neo-medieval style Palace of the Fears (so-called as it became home to the region's tax and revenue office), 25 important churches and numerous civil sites.
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| Lecco by night (© Hozinja CC2.0) |
Omega Pharma-Lotto
1 Philippe Gilbert (Bel)
2 Jan Bakelants (Bel)
3 Francis De Greef (Bel)
4 Gert Dockx (Bel)
5 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel)
6 Jelle Vanendert (Bel)
7 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin)
8 Frederik Willems (Bel)
Acqua & Sapone
11 Carlos Alberto Betancourt Gomez (Col)
12 Rafai Chtioui (Tun)
13 Claudio Corioni (Ita)
14 Alessandro Donati (Ita)
15 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita)
16 Simone Masciarelli (Ita)
17 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro)
18 Fabio Taborre (Ita)
AG2R La Mondiale
21 Nicolas Roche (Irl)
22 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra)
23 Maxime Bouet (Fra)
24 Mickaël Chérel (Fra)
25 Ben Gastauer (Lux)
26 Matteo Montaguti (Ita)
27 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita)
28 Christophe Riblon (Fra)
Androni Giocattoli
31 Emanuele Sella (Ita)
32 Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez (Col)
33 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita)
34 Riccardo Chiarini (Ita)
35 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita)
36 Giairo Ermetti (Ita)
37 Carlos José Ochoa (Ven)
38 Antonio Santoro (Ukn)
BMC Racing Team
41 Alessandro Ballan (Ita)
42 Mathias Frank (Swi)
43 Martin Kohler (Swi)
44 Steve Morabito (Swi)
45 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita)
46 Ivan Santaromita (Ita)
47 Michael Schär (Swi)
48 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel)
Colnago - CSF Inox
51 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita)
52 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita)
53 Federico Canuti (Ita)
54 Simone Stortoni (Ita)
55 Alberto Contoli (Ita)
56 Filippo Savini (Ita)
57 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita)
58 Andrea Piechele (Ita)
Team Europcar
61 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn)
62 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra)
63 Anthony Charteau (Fra)
64 Cyril Gautier (Fra)
65 Vincent Jérôme (Fra)
66 Alexandre Pichot (Fra)
67 David Veilleux (Can)
68 Thomas Voeckler (Fra)
Euskaltel Euskadi
71 Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez (Spa)
72 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa)
73 Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Spa)
74 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa)
75 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa)
76 Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Spa)
77 Romain Sicard (Fra)
78 Amets Txurruka (Spa)
Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli
81 Giovanni Visconti (Ita)
82 Oscar Gatto (Ita)
83 Luca Mazzanti (Ita)
84 Pier Paolo De Negri (Ita)
85 Diego Caccia (Ita)
86 Davide Ricci Bitti (Ita)
87 Elia Favilli (Ita)
88 Leonardo Giordani (Ita)
FDJ
91 Sandy Casar (Fra)
92 Arnaud Courteille (Fra)
93 Mickael Delage (Fra)
94 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra)
95 Rémi Pauriol (Fra)
96 Thibaut Pinot (Fra)
97 Geoffrey Soupe (Fra)
98 Arthur Vichot (Fra)
Geox-TMC
101 Matthias Brändle (Aut)
102 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa)
103 Daniele Colli (Ita)
104 David Gutierrez Gutierrez (Spa)
105 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa)
106 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo (Col)
107 Fabio Felline (Ita)
108 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa)
HTC-Highroad
111 Mark Cavendish (GBr)
112 Michael Albasini (Swi)
113 Caleb Fairly (USA)
114 Patrick Gretsch (Ger)
115 Leigh Howard (Aus)
116 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr)
117 Martin Velits (Svk)
118 Peter Velits (Svk)
Katusha Team
121 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita)
122 Danilo Di Luca (Ita)
123 Vladimir Goussev (Rus)
124 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa)
125 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa)
126 Luca Paolini (Ita)
127 Filippo Pozzato (Ita)
128 Joaquím Rodríguez Oliver (Spa)
Lampre - ISD
131 Michele Scarponi (Ita)
132 Damiano Cunego (Ita)
133 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita)
134 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita)
135 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr)
136 Marco Marzano (Ita)
137 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol)
138 Diego Ulissi (Ita)
Leopard Trek
141 Brice Feillu (Fra)
142 Stefan Denifl (Aut)
143 Jakob Fuglsang (Den)
144 Maxime Monfort (Bel)
145 Bruno Pires (Por)
146 Thomas Rohregger (Aut)
147 Fabian Wegmann (Ger)
148 Oliver Zaugg (Swi)
Liquigas-Cannondale
151 Ivan Basso (Ita)
152 Eros Capecchi (Ita)
153 Damiano Caruso (Ita)
154 Dominique Nerz (Ger)
155 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita)
156 Simone Ponzi (Ita)
157 Cristiano Salerno (Ita)
158 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol)
Movistar Team
161 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita)
162 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por)
163 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa)
164 Jesus Herrada Lopez (Spa)
165 Beñat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa)
166 Javier Iriarte (Spa)
167 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu)
168 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa)
Pro Team Astana
171 Alexander Vinokourov (Kaz)
172 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita)
173 Francesco Masciarelli (Ita)
174 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita)
175 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz)
176 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe)
177 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro)
178 Alexsandr Dyachenko (Kaz)
Quickstep Cycling Team
181 Dario Cataldo (Ita)
182 Davide Malacarne (Ita)
183 Dries Devenyns (Bel)
184 Francesco Reda (Ita)
185 Kevin De Weert (Bel)
186 Matteo Trentin (Ukn)
187 Niki Terpstra (Ned)
188 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra)
Rabobank Cycling Team
191 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa)
192 Laurens ten Dam (Ned)
193 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned)
194 Bauke Mollema (Ned)
195 Grischa Niermann (Ger)
196 Tom Slagter (Ned)
197 Bram Tankink (Ned)
198 Pieter Weening (Ned)
Saxo Bank Sungard
201 Laurent Didier (Lux)
202 Brian Vandborg (Den)
203 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den)
204 Mads Christensen (Den)
205 Manuele Boaro (Ita)
206 Rafal Majka (Pol)
207 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr)
208 Matteo Tosatto (Ita)
Sky Procycling
211 Steven Cummings (GBr)
212 Simon Gerrans (Aus)
213 Christian Knees (Ger)
214 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe)
215 Lars Petter Nordhaug (Nor)
216 Michael Rogers (Aus)
217 Rigoberto Uran (Col)
218 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa)
Team Garmin-Cervelo
221 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra)
222 Daniel Lloyd (GBr)
223 Daniel Martin (Irl)
224 Thomas Peterson (USA)
225 Gabriel Rasch (Nor)
226 Peter Stetina (USA)
227 Sep Vanmarcke (Bel)
228 Johan Van Summeren (Bel)
Team RadioShack
231 Janez Brajkovic (Slo)
232 Matthew Busche (USA)
233 Philip Deignan (Irl)
234 Ben Hermans (Bel)
235 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol)
236 Tiago Machado (Por)
237 Ivan Rovny (Rus)
238 Haimar Zubeldia Aguirre (Spa)
Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
241 Matteo Carrara (Ita)
242 Thomas De Gendt (Bel)
243 Stijn Devolder (Bel)
244 Marco Marcato (Ita)
245 Marcello Pavarin (Ita)
246 Wouter Mol (Ned)
247 Wout Poels (Ned)
248 Rob Ruijgh (Ned)
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Tour of Beijing - The Teams
2. Astana
3. BMC
4. Euskaltel-Euskadi
5. Garmin-Cervelo
6. HTC-Highroad
7. Katusha
8. Lampre-ISD
9. Leopard Trek
10. Liquigas-Cannondale
11. Movistar
12. Omega-Pharma-Lotto
13. Quick-Step
14. Rabobank
15. RadioShack
16. Saxobank-Sungard
17. Sky
18. Vacansoleil-DCM
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| Peraud and Roche are leading a strong team to Beijing |
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| Astana are sending a strong team in the hope of having a rider for each stage - including the Iglinskiy brothers Maxim (pictured) and Valentin. (© McSmit CC3.0) |
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| BMC top dogs Moinard and Bookwalter (Moinard image public domain. Bookwalter image © Fanny SchertzerCC3.0 |
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| Sanchez is the boss of the Basques |
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| David Millar, winner of multiple "The Cyclist who Most Closely Resembles David Bowie" category at the Tour de France (© PetitBrun CC2.0) |
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| New TT champ and almost certain to be Stage 1 winner Tony Martin (public domain image) |
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| Galimzyanov will be in charge of Katusha |
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| The Little Prince becomes the big boss at Lampre |
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| Joost Posthuma, seen at this year's Dauphiné Libéré |
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| Peter Sagan will lead Liquigas (© RoxanneMK CC2.0) |
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| Experienced Pablo Lastras and respected climber Beñat Intxausti will be taking the reins at Movistar (Lastras: © YellowMonkey/Blnguyen CC3.0 Intxausti: © Petit Brun CC2.0) |
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| Van den Broeck is often on good form towards the end of the season |
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| Niki Terpstra seems the most likely choice to lead a Quick-Step team that is almost guaranteed success |
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| Boom or Bos? |
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| Janez Brajkovic is the likely leader for RadioShack |
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| Nick Nuyens, seen here in an earlier Rabobank incarnation, will be taking charge at Saxobank. |
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| Chris Froome will lead Team Sky, perhaps early indication that he'll be team captain in the future (© Rama CC2.0) |
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| Hoogerland's at the helm for Vacansoleil |
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