Giro Evening 21h

[Chense]

Team Trojer Vellau is going to attend for the 21 o clock Giro

The presumed Lineup:

Augustin Falterhöcker - The man for the stages ... he wants stages - he wants green - he goes for it
Steve Borden - The GC Contender and Augustins best helper - He is going to finish the mountainriders for Augustin and he is going for a gc Top 10
Stefan Falterhöcker - Mister Universum - He is beautiful - He is Good in Mountains, He is Good in Flat, He is good in sprint - And he regenerates fast - Our Girl for Everything
Francis Kaner - Everybody needs some beer - With his great values he is bringing it fast also in hard terrain
Franz Flötzinger - Mister Germany - He wants to help the 3 designated captains as good as he can and with his reg he will ride and ride and ride ... So he is our Käfer
Josef Erl - Also someone that is going to ride for the captains ... not as strong as Franz but he has this special talent ... and he could go for some breakouts
Markus Opatz - The Hero ... The last remaining rider of the cableway generation in our Team oh yes and he is going to give it to you
Ludwig Erl - Not as talented as his brother ... BUT he knows where he has to get the water

The 9th starting place is going to be decided soon between:
Leonhard Kuchlbauer - The smart Flatguy from upper bavaria
Roland Reif - The sneaky pseudo 60-80

Wish you all a nice tour guys

[sylvainmeteo]

Will start here I think (not sure, will depend of a lot of factors)

Lineup hum...

Mayardos leader probably
Batagelj
Zalagkitis
Krasivoulos
Ernestovskis
Kallay
Hnik
???
Gidis

1 spot unsure atm, maybe Kwaniewski, but as long as I've no GC ambitions... will be useless ; In contention : Carbel Svengaard, Sakalauskas, Manninen, Sonik, Myogy and Gylling ; I think Sakalauskas have the best chances to be in

EDIT : over 530k, hum it's expensive with the only goal to get stages...

Chense, with such a team, you can even play GC, as long as climbers won't be able to follow Augustin everytime ^^

EDIT 2 : finally Krasivoulos out, Gylling in

[sylvainmeteo]

After 15 stages :

4 wins for SM Team (4 different riders) and Radunion (Krein x3), 2 for Trojer (Falterhoecker x2) and Praraon, and 1 win for lesossies, Maurice, Preyz ze Rekt

GC :
Leblanc has the lead
Akhenaton +1m49
Martinez +2m09
Fincher +2m21
Glushko +2m32
Batagelj +2m36
De Cardoso +2m49
Falterhoecker +3m03
Pontremolesi +3m05
Borden +3m34
This is the top 10, the 11th rider is over 4 min
Lorient is in a good position now, but still need to take 2 min to Leblanc, and not losing too much to Falterhoecker, Reyes can have a decisive role in the last week of this tour
It will be too hard for Leblanc, and to me Riding stars is in the fight but he doesn't seem very concerned by this...

Mountain jersey :

Looks like Riding wants it instead of GC, Kassandros has a big lead

Points jersey :

With 2 sprints stages remaining, Krein is in a very good position to win this, Gidis doesn't even get a stage win, and that's a big disappointement for me at the moment...
Zalagkitis and Mayardos and Falterhoecker will fight for the 2nd spot probably, unless stage 17 doesn't finish with a sprint...

Young rider jersey :

Looks open, but Leblanc is here in good position to win this jersey, but Akhenaton and De Cardoso aren't that far, everything still possible

[sylvainmeteo]

Congrats Lorient for the victory !

Happy with 6 stages wins