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ProTour Eindhoven Team Time Trial, Netherlands
19 June, 51K
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So far the new UCI ProTour has played host to mainly one day and stage races. June 19th marks the beginning of the innovative UCI ProTour Eindhoven Team Time Trial held in Holland. Joining the 20 ProTour teams will be 5 wildcard teams to include: Team Wiesenhof (Ger), Shimano-Memory Corp (Ned), Chocolade Jacques-T Interim (Bel), Intel-Action (Pol) and MrBookmaker-Sports Tech (Bel).
The race is set to cover 51 kilometers, which is 15 kilometers shorter than the team time trial that the riders will do 2 weeks later in the Tour de France. But the idea is the same - go eyeballs out and hone the team's precision. The original idea was to have 8 or 9 riders per team, but after objections from the teams, the UCI conceded and agreed on 6 riders per team.
The last team time trial this year was held at the Volta a Catalunya last month, and if history repeats itself, the Swiss Phonak squad will triumph. They have several TT aces up their sleeve in the form of 2002 world TT champ Santiago Botero and fast Floyd Landis. Of course, Team Discovery will be firing on all pistons, as will Liberty Seguros-Würth. Both teams have historically strong TTT squads and both have won the Tour de France TTT. T-Mobile will be guaranteed to bring a strong squad as well.
The staff at BiciRace.com has been deliberating long and hard on the outcome of this race, but we think that the victor will emerge from one of these four teams. Check out our course map and start list for more race details. Stay tuned for complete race coverage on June 19th at BiciRace.com.
- Paco
Start order:
14.00 Intel-Action
14:04 Team Wiesenhof
14:08 MrBookmaker-Sports Tech
14:12 Chocolade Jacques-T Interim
14:16 Shimano-Memory Corp
14:20 Euskaltel-Euskadi
14:24 Domina Vacanze
14:28 Française des Jeux
14:32 Bouygues Telecom
14:36 Illes Balears
14:40 Lampre-Caffita
14:44 Gerolsteiner
14:48 Quick-Step
14:52 Liquigas-Bianchi
14:56 Cofidis
15:00 T-Mobile
15:04 Discovery Channel
15:08 Liberty Seguros-Würth
15:12 Crédit Agricole
15:16 Saunier Duval-Prodir
15:20 Fassa Bortolo
15:24 Team CSC
15:28 Phonak
15:32 Rabobank
15:36 Davitamon-Lotto
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