TT starts

OK there are all of 39 starters @ intertvals of 1:30.
Can anyone explain why they have "waves" - adding 84 unneccesary
minutes between the first rider and last rider.
AFAIK they have no late registration.


Wave 1
13:30:00 39 Matias Medici (Argentina)
13:31:30 38 Fumiyuki Beppu (Japan)
13:33:00 37 Hossein Askari (Iran)
13:34:30 36 Svein Tuft (Canada)
13:36:00 35 Matija Kvasina (Croatia)
13:37:30 34 David George (South Africa)
13:39:00 33 Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus)
13:40:30 32 Matej Jurco (Slovakia)
13:42:00 31 Denys Kostyuk (Ukraine)
13:43:30 30 Steve Cummings (Great Britain)
13:45:00 29 Brian Vandborg (Denmark)
13:46:30 28 Raivis Belohvosciks (Latvia)
13:48:00 27 Robert Gesink (Netherlands)
Wave 2
14:30:00 26 Simon Spilak (Slovenia)
14:31:30 25 Rein Taaramae (Estonia)
14:33:00 24 Andriy Grivko (Ukraine)
14:34:30 23 Ryder Hesjedal (Canada)
14:36:00 22 Andrey Mizourov (Kazakhstan)
14:37:30 21 Przemyslaw Niemec (Poland)
14:39:00 20 Maxime Monfort (Belgium)
14:40:30 19 Vincenzo Nibali (Italy)
14:42:00 18 David Zabriskie (USA)
14:43:30 17 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hungary)
14:45:00 16 Chris Anker Sorensen (Denmark)
14:46:30 15 Bert Grabsch (Germany)
14:48:00 14 Denis Menchov (Russia)
Wave 3
15:30:00 13 Samuel Sánchez (Spain)
15:31:30 12 Santiago Botero (Colombia)
15:33:00 11 Marzio Bruseghin (Italy)
15:34:30 10 Michael Rogers (Australia)
15:36:00 9 Vladimir Karpets (Russia)
15:37:30 8 Kim Kirchen (Luxembourg)
15:39:00 7 Gustav Erik Larsson (Sweden)
15:40:30 6 Levi Leipheimer (USA)
15:42:00 5 Stef Clement (Netherlands)
15:43:30 4 Alberto Contador (Spain)
15:45:00 3 Cadel Evans (Australia)
15:46:30 2 Stefan Schumacher (Germany)
15:48:00 1 Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)

I'm pulling for Stefan Schumacher though Cancellara is probably going to
take it.

Tom Kunich wrote:
I'm pulling for Stefan Schumacher though Cancellara is probably going to
take it.

Cancellara has to be the favorite for the TT, especially in light of
his being world TT champ and his road race performance over the same
terrrain.
Which is not to say that everyone else sucks.
Leipheimer and Contador are both probably strong podium contenders for
their combined TT/climbing abilities and the nature of the course (up-
down-up-down).
Rogers fills the bill well for the same reasons as Cancellara.

DR

On Aug 13, 12:35*pm, DirtRoadie wrote:
OK there are all of 39 starters @ intertvals of 1:30.
Can anyone explain why they have "waves" *- adding 84 unneccesary
minutes between the first rider and last rider.

Commercial breaks?

phillip brown

On Aug 12, 7:35*pm, DirtRoadie wrote:
OK there are all of 39 starters @ intertvals of 1:30.
Can anyone explain why they have "waves" *- adding 84 unneccesary
minutes between the first rider and last rider.

Don't know - possibly due to limited number of
team follow cars, commissaires, moto refs.
Similarly, ever wonder exactly how a Tour team with
nine guys but two cars handles a point-to-point TT,
when several of them are on the course at once?
I assume some of the gregarios get neutral service
or just a following moto. The team fan clubs should
raffle off the chance for a superfan to bring his car
and do follow-car duty.

AFAIK they have no late registration.


Can you ride the Olympic TT on a one-day license?
And how come the promoters didn't add a Masters
category?

Ben

Can you ride the Olympic TT on a one-day license?

Ben

Only if you get one of the five candy bars with one of the gold
tickets

"DirtRoadie" wrote in message
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OK there are all of 39 starters @ intertvals of 1:30.
Can anyone explain why they have "waves" - adding 84 unneccesary
minutes between the first rider and last rider.
AFAIK they have no late registration.

The trial is two laps of the circuit. The break is to give time for the
riders to get past the start point once so we don't have riders starting on
top of other riders going past.

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:08:43 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Aug 12, 7:35*pm, DirtRoadie wrote:
OK there are all of 39 starters @ intertvals of 1:30.
Can anyone explain why they have "waves" *- adding 84 unneccesary
minutes between the first rider and last rider.

Don't know - possibly due to limited number of
team follow cars, commissaires, moto refs.
Similarly, ever wonder exactly how a Tour team with
nine guys but two cars handles a point-to-point TT,
when several of them are on the course at once?
I assume some of the gregarios get neutral service
or just a following moto. The team fan clubs should
raffle off the chance for a superfan to bring his car
and do follow-car duty.

If you're talking about the Tour of France, it's not neutral - via
fans, friends and misc team helpers every rider has a follow car with
accreditation to be there and at least two people in it.

I suspect/suppose the three waves has been implemented
to reduce the likelihood of confusion resulting from having
too many competitors on the course at the one time
unlike most TT courses this is a two lap affair

"phillip brown" wrote in message
...
On Aug 13, 12:35 pm, DirtRoadie wrote:
OK there are all of 39 starters @ intertvals of 1:30.
Can anyone explain why they have "waves" - adding 84 unneccesary
minutes between the first rider and last rider.

Commercial breaks?

phillip brown


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