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UCI WorldTour: Races / Paris - Nice 2012

« on: February 22, 2012, 03:58:44 PM »

The 2012 edition of the Race to the Sun marks the debut of this brand new World Tour Fantasy League.

The route seems to favor the puncheurs, with the 5th and the last stage looking to be decisive for the final outcome of the general classification. Speaking of the last stage, it's going to be a special one - an individual time-trial on Paris-Nice' classic climb - the Col d'Eze.

Tony Martin won the race last year and he's back in France to defend his title in 2012. Even though the route doesn't seem to suit him like it did last year, he still could grab a nice amount of points for OP-QuickStep and tonymcf.

Martin is not the only performer from 2011 to return to the race in 2012, the entire podium from last year is back in France actually. RenoDelft and Bos would like for sure to see Kloden and Wiggins repeating last year's performances and bring their teams to the top of the rankings, but the competition will be tough. Six other riders from last year's top 10 will return this year, Samuel Sanchez, 5th in 2011, being the only one to skip the race this March.

A few other names that we should keep an eye on are Cunego, Menchov, Voeckler, Igor Anton, Coppel, Rolland, Chavanel, the Schleck brothers and Alejandro Valverde, who will make his return to the World's biggest cycling races after his 2 year ban.

Official StartList

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AG2R LA MONDIALE
   BOUET Maxime
   CHEREL Mickaël
   DUPONT Hubert
   KADRI Biel
   MINARD Sébastien
   PERAUD Jean Christophe
   RAVARD Anthony
   ROCHE Nicholas

   ASTANA PRO TEAM
   BRAJKOVIC Janez
   FOFONOV Dmitriy
   GAVAZZI Francesco
   GUARNIERI Jacopo
   KANGERT Tanel
   KISERLOVSKI Robert
   PETROV Evgeni
   SEELDRAYERS Kevin

   BMC RACING TEAM
   BOOKWALTER Brent
   BURGHARDT Marcus
   CUMMINGS Steven
   HUSHOVD Thor
   LODEWYCK Klaas
   MOINARD Amaël
   PHINNEY Taylor
   VAN GARDEREN Tejay

   COFIDIS LE CREDIT EN LIGNE
   BAGOT Yohan
   BUFFAZ Mickaël
   DI GREGORIO Rémy
   DUMOULIN Samuel
   MATE MARDONES Luis Angel
   MONCOUTIE David
   SARAMOTINS Aleksejs
   TAARAMAE Rein

   EQUIPE CYCLISTE FDJ-BIGMAT
   BONNET William
   CASAR Sandy
   FEDRIGO Pierrick
   GESLIN Anthony
   HUTAROVICH Yauheni
   JEANNESSON Arnold
   PAURIOL Rémi
   ROY Jérémy

   EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI
   ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor
   ASTARLOZA CHAURREAU Mikel
   BILBAO Pello
   CAZAUX Pierre
   IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka
   SAEZ Adrian
   SICARD Romain
   VERDUGO MARCOTEGUI Gorka

   GARMIN - BARRACUDA
   FERNANDEZ DE LARREA Koldo
   HAUSSLER Heinrich
   LE MEVEL Christophe
   MILLAR David
   NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas
   RASMUSSEN Alex
   TALANSKY Andrew
   VANMARCKE Sep

   GREENEDGE CYCLING TEAM
   ALBASINI Michael
   DAVIS Allan
   GERRANS Simon
   HOWARD Leigh
   KRUOPIS Aidis
   MEYER Cameron
   SULZBERGER Wesley
   WILSON Matthew

   KATUSHA TEAM
   FLORENCIO CABRE Xavier
   GALIMZYANOV Denis
   ISAYCHEV Vladimir
   KRISTOFF Alexander
   MENCHOV Denis
   SMUKULIS Gatis
   SPILAK Simon
   VICIOSO ARCOS Angel

   LAMPRE - ISD
   BERTAGNOLLI Leonardo
   BOLE Grega
   BONO Matteo
   CUNEGO Damiano
   LLOYD Matthew
   PIETROPOLLI Daniele
   RIGHI Daniele
   ULISSI Diego

   LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE
   BASSO Ivan
   BODNAR Maciek
   DALL'ANTONIA Tiziano
   KING Edward
   NERZ Dominique
   SABATINI Fabio
   SZMYD Sylvester
   VIVIANI Elia

   LOTTO - BELISOL TEAM
   BAK Lars Ytting
   DE CLERCQ Bart
   HANSEN Adam
   HENDERSON Gregory
   KAISEN Olivier
   MEERSMAN Gianni
   NEYENS Maarten
   VAN LEIJEN Joost

   MOVISTAR TEAM
   ARROYO DURAN David
   ERVITI Imanol
   GUTIERREZ PALACIOS José Ivan
   KONOVALOVAS Ignatas
   LOPEZ GARCIA David
   MORENO BAZAN Javier
   ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin
   VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro

   OMEGA PHARMA - QUICKSTEP CYCLING TEAM
   BOONEN Tom
   CHAVANEL Sylvain
   DE WEERT Kevin
   DEVENYNS Dries
   LEIPHEIMER Levi
   MAES Nikolas
   MARTIN Tony
   VANDENBERGH Stijn

   PROJECT 1T4I
   CURVERS Roy
   DE KORT Koen
   DEGENKOLB John
   GESCHKE Simon
   GRETSCH Patrick
   HUGUET Yann
   KITTEL Marcel
   VEELERS Tom

   RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM
   BARREDO LLAMAZALES Carlos
   MOLLEMA Bauke
   NIERMANN Grischa
   RENSHAW Mark
   SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon
   TEN DAM Laurens
   VAN WINDEN Dennis
   WYNANTS Maarten

   RADIOSHACK - NISSAN
   BAKELANTS Jan
   GERDEMANN Linus
   IRIZAR ARANBURU Markel
   KLÖDEN Andreas
   MONFORT Maxime
   SCHLECK Andy
   SCHLECK Frank
   VOIGT Jens

   SAUR - SOJASUN
   COPPEL Jerome
   DELAPLACE Anthony
   ENGOULVENT Jimmy
   GALLAND Jérémie
   HIVERT Jonathan
   LELAY David
   SIMON Julien
   TALABARDON Yannick

   SKY PROCYCLING
   FROOME Christopher
   KNEES Christian
   PATE Danny
   PORTE Richie
   SIUTSOU Kanstantsin
   THOMAS Geraint
   URAN Rigoberto
   WIGGINS Bradley

   TEAM EUROPCAR
   ARASHIRO Yukiya
   BERNAUDEAU Giovanni
   CHAVANEL Sébastien
   GAUDIN Damien
   MALACARNE Davide
   PICHOT Alexandre
   ROLLAND Pierre
   VOECKLER Thomas

   TEAM SAXO BANK
   AAEN JORGENSEN Jonas
   HAEDO Juan José
   KLOSTERGAARD LARSEN Kasper
   KROON Karsten
   MARYCZ Jaroslaw
   MORKOV Michael
   NAVARRO GARCIA Daniel
   NUYENS Nick

   VACANSOLEIL - DCM PRO CYCLING TEAM
   DE GENDT Thomas
   FEILLU Romain
   LAGUTIN Sergey
   LARSSON Gustav Erik
   LEUKEMANS Björn
   LIGTHART Pim
   VEUCHELEN Frederik
   WESTRA Lieuwe