2014 La Vuelta Ciclista a España

[jcza]

Astana sign LL Sanchez, Lars Boom, Diego Rosa and David Malacarne

['Dale]

I take it Bero would not have recovered..?

That would have been a showdown..Berto, Quantana and Froom..

 

Bring it

Yeah, he will be fit to race; won't be fit to contend for nr 1

[jcza]

AG2R LA MONDIALE

Domenico POZZOVIVO (ITA)

Maxime BOUET (FRA)

Mickael CHEREL (FRA)

Hubert DUPONT (FRA)

Damien GAUDIN (FRA)

Patrick GRETSCH (GER)

Lloyd MONDORY (FRA)

Rinaldo NOCENTINI (ITA)

Sebastien TURGOT (FRA)

 

R Carlos BETANCUR (COL)

R Yahueni HUTAROVICH (BLR)

R Hugo HOULE (CAN)

R Maxime DANIEL (FRA)

Edited August 5, 2014 by jcza

[jcza]

ASTANA PRO TEAM

Fabio ARU (ITA)

Mikel LANDA (ESP)

Tanel KANGERT (EST)

Danii FOMINYCH (KAZ)

Francesco GAVAZZI (ITA)

Jacopo GUARNIERI (ITA)

Alexey LUTSENKO (KAZ)

Paolo TIRALONGO (ITA)

Andrey ZEITS (KAZ)

 

R Borut BOZIC (SLO)

R Janez BRAJKOVIC (SLO)

R Frederik KESSIAKOFF (SWE)

R Andrea GUARDINI (ITA)

[jcza]

BELKIN PRO CYCLING

Stef CLEMENT (NED)

Laurens TEN DAM (NED)

Robert GESINK (NED)

Moreno HOFLAND (NED)

Wilco KELDERMAN (NED)

Paul MARTENS (GER)

Lars Petter NORDHAUG (NED)

Maarten TJALLINGI (NED)

Robert WAGNER (GER)

 

R Lars BOOM (NED)

R Jos VAN EMDEN (NED)

R Martijn KEIZER (NED)

R Bauke MOLLEMA (NED)

[jcza]

BMC RACING TEAM

Samuel SANCHEZ (ESP)

Cadel EVANS (AUS)

Philippe GILBERT (BEL)

Steve MORABITO (SUI)

Dominik NERZ (GER)

Manuel QUINZIATO (ITA)

Rohan DENNIS (AUS)

Lawrence WARBASSE (USA)

Danilo WYSS (SUI)

 

R Steven CUMMINGS (GBR)

R Yannick EIJSSEN (BEL)

R Klaas LODEWYCK (BEL)

R Sebastian Lander (DEN)

R Martin KOHLER (SUI)

[jcza]

CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA

David ARROYO (ESP)

Antonio PIEDRA (ESP)

Amest TXURRUKA (ESP)

Pello BILBIAO (ESP)

Francesco LASCA (ITA)

Javier ARAMENDIA (ESP)

Karol DOMAGALSKI (POL)

Luis MAS (ESP)

 

R Davide VIGANO (ITA)

R Angel MADRAZO (ESP)

R Fabricio FERRARI (URU)

R Omar FRAILE (ESP)

['Dale]

Thanx jcza!

 

This is gonna rock.

 

[jcza]

%^&%$$& lost the rest..........Provisional start list but it will be interesting. Froome, Quintana, Purito etc. Horner defending but I can't see him even getting on the podium. Can't wait.

[jcza]

Meintjes and Reinie will be there for SA.

['Dale]

Meintjes and Reinie will be there for SA.

 

Ooh I hope they get podiums or maybe a win here and there!!

[jcza]

Ooh I hope they get podiums or maybe a win here and there!!

Might be asking too much with such a strong field. Betancur, Aru, Evans, Froome, Gesink, De Marchi, Talansky, Horner, Purito, van den Broeck, Uran. And of course the youngsters Kudos, Bargiul, Arredondo, Ellissonde. PS: Don't forget Dan Craven.

['Dale]

Might be asking too much with such a strong field. Betancur, Aru, Evans, Froome, Gesink, De Marchi, Talansky, Horner, Purito, van den Broeck, Uran. And of course the youngsters Kudos, Bargiul, Arredondo, Ellissonde. PS: Don't forget Dan Craven.

Yeah, I know...Still hoping... Really like Argos's Barguil - future star... I see Sagan is also noted to be there

['Dale]

Froome Dawg will have the edge here in his ability to TT

['Dale]

THE ROUTE 2014

Running from Saturday August 23rd to Sunday September 14th 2014, the Vuelta will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3181,5 kilometres (before ratification).

5 flat stages

13 hill and mountain stages

1 team time trial stage

2 individual time trial stages

Distinctive aspects of the race

12,6 kilometres team time trial stage

44,5 individual time trial stages

40 summits

[Bonus]

From Cycling News:

 

After finishing third during Thursday's stage four summit finish at the Tour of Utah, Lampre-Merida's Chris Horner said he saw positive signs he is recovering from a chest infection that he picked up before the Tour de France.

The 2013 Vuelta a Espana winner said he believes he's on schedule to be in peak form for his Vuelta defense, which will start on August 23.