2009 Vuelta a España Stage 1: Assen - Assen (ITT) 4.8 km

steve said:

Assen - Assen (ITT) 4.8 km

The course for the first individual time trial is fast and completely flat. The stage is one lap of TT Circuit Assen, a famous motorcycle course.

If anyone can challenge Cancellara on this circuit it's Rabon

Grater said:

If anyone can challenge Cancellara on this circuit it's Rabon

Cancellara for the win

seems fabian is specialising in winning opening prologues/time trials, grabbing the leader's sweater in california, france and this one. am i missing some others?

slovakguy said:

seems fabian is specialising in winning opening prologues/time trials, grabbing the leader's sweater in california, france and this one. am i missing some others?

Switzerland.

Evans, Valverde and Basso within one second of each other 🙂

Stage 1 Results

1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Saxo Bank 0:05:20
2 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 0:00:09
3 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin-Slipstream 0:00:12
4 Jens Mouris (Ned) Vacansoleil 0:00:14
5 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 0:00:16
6 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 0:00:17
7 Alexander Vinokourov (Kaz) Astana 0:00:18
8 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas
9 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
10 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 0:00:19
11 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Columbia-HTC
12 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto
13 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Milram
14 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 0:00:21
15 David Millar (GBr) Garmin-Slipstream
16 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
17 David Herrero (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 0:00:22
18 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Cervélo TestTeam
19 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Caisse d'Epargne
20 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas

Cancellara destroyed the field... 9 seconds gained on Boonen in second place and next top 19 within 13 seconds... Significant difference.
Sanchez and Schlecks lost a bit of time on other GC contenders, but it's good to see tight battle among other GC candidates.

Andrija said:

Cancellara destroyed the field... 9 seconds gained on Boonen in second place and next top 19 within 13 seconds... Significant difference.
Sanchez and Schlecks lost a bit of time on other GC contenders, but it's good to see tight battle among other GC candidates.

The thing with the schlecks is that they seem to be able to make that up comfortably in the mountains, there team is so strong

Vino looks to have got bigger since he last raced

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