Asia/Africa/Australasia - [2.2] Tour of Japan, 20-27 May

DinZ · « **Reply #60 on:** May 20, 2012, 06:57 »

I think Ryoma Nonaka has done 3.29 but could be completely wrong with that. is like trying to do a crossword

DinZ · « **Reply #61 on:** May 20, 2012, 06:59 »

and the leader at the moment may, or may not be, our old friend Shinichi Fukushima from TSG with 3 minutes 12 seconds. only time will tell

DinZ · « **Reply #62 on:** May 20, 2012, 07:10 »

I give up. will have to wait for official results

I think one of Cameron Wurf or Will Clarke from CSS won the stage but not really sure

DinZ · « **Reply #63 on:** May 20, 2012, 08:12 »

OK confirmation coming in that it was Will Clarke 1st and Cameron Wurf second
apparently Flakemore, Giacoppo and Earle are all in top ten

no news on Jono's time yet

Jono L. · « **Reply #64 on:** May 20, 2012, 08:13 »

Will Clarke won with ~3:19
Wurfy second
Not sure 3rd
Shinichi up there maybe 4th
AJ, Earle and Flakemore all around 3:25, maybe all three in the top 15?
MYself and Shawry around 3:30
Marwood around 3:35-

Course was all won or lost in the corners.

Whoever had the biggest balls won. 5 tight turns in 2.7k, no rythm, just stop start sprint.

People everywhere though, you get the feel this Tour is a big big deal to the Japanese.

DinZ · « **Reply #65 on:** May 20, 2012, 08:14 »

Bizarrely even though only 2.65 km's done there is a rest day tomorrow. Assume they need to move riders around

DinZ · « **Reply #66 on:** May 20, 2012, 08:21 »

Ah ok, from the horses mouth Jono got 3.30 because his balls are not big enough. ;D

CSS in charge so far, but given both Clarke and Wurf were riding world tour last year it is not a massive surprise. Both guys can climb as well so will be interesting to see what the other teams like Genesys decide to do about it.

DinZ · « **Reply #67 on:** May 20, 2012, 08:23 »

Quote from: ram on May 12, 2012, 13:36

Speed channel, apparently dedicated to bike racing, seem to be the telecast partners for this race. Just some random info.

saw that and tried to do some digging but could not even find any coverage in their programme guide let alone figure out whether there will be highlights on line anywhere

unfortunately there is another speed channel, dedicated to Nascar, which swamps any searches you try

Not sure if tokyobybike knows of any coverage we can find

DinZ · « **Reply #68 on:** May 20, 2012, 08:36 »

Quote from: Jono L. on May 20, 2012, 08:13

Will Clarke won with ~3:19
Wurfy second
Not sure 3rd
Shinichi up there maybe 4th
AJ, Earle and Flakemore all around 3:25, maybe all three in the top 15?
MYself and Shawry around 3:30
Marwood around 3:35-

Course was all won or lost in the corners.

Whoever had the biggest balls won. 5 tight turns in 2.7k, no rythm, just stop start sprint.

People everywhere though, you get the feel this Tour is a big big deal to the Japanese.

great to hear the crowds are good. having seen the lack of crowds in China on TV nice to know someone is making a big deal of their race.
assume it is not nearly as hot there as it has been in some of the other races. Course looks pretty flat for most stages, assume AJ is going to be team sprinter?

DinZ · « **Reply #69 on:** May 20, 2012, 08:43 »

From Genesys Twitter feed

Tour of Japan Stage 1 Results

Nathan Earle 7th
Anthony Giacoppo 8th
Campbell Flakemore 8th
Pat Shaw 23rd
Kyle Marwood 45th
Jono 58th

DinZ · « **Reply #70 on:** May 20, 2012, 09:17 »

Full results list (and photo) from Cycling IQ

http://cyclingiq.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/2012-tour-of-japan-stage-1-results.pdf

1 CLARKE William CSS - CHN 3'19".31 0".00
2 WURF Cameron CSS - CHN 3'20".90 1".59
3 CHEUNG King Lok HKG - HKG 3'21".65 2".34
4 NIsh*tANI Taiji AIS - JPN 3'21".67 2".36
5 RICHEZE Mauro Abel PPO - JPN 3'23".29 3".98
6 RICHEZE Maximiliano Ariel PPO - JPN 3'24".61 5".30
7 EARLE Nathan GEN - AUS 3'25".86 6".55
8 GIACOPPO Anthony GEN - AUS 3'25".89 6".58
9 FLAKEMORE Campbell GEN - AUS 3'25".94 6".63
10 BALIANI Fortunato PPO - JPN 3'28".13 8".82
11 FUKUSHIMA Shinichi TSG - MAS 3'29".10 9".79
12 OTHMAN Muhamad Adiq CSS - CHN 3'29".18 9".87

Jono L. · « **Reply #71 on:** May 20, 2012, 10:06 »

Quote from: DinZ on May 20, 2012, 08:36

great to hear the crowds are good. having seen the lack of crowds in China on TV nice to know someone is making a big deal of their race.
assume it is not nearly as hot there as it has been in some of the other races. Course looks pretty flat for most stages, assume AJ is going to be team sprinter?

Yeh. AJ= sprinter always. He's got tonsilitis, on antibioics and looks like sh*t. But still rides a decent prologue! Given the rest day tomorrow hopefully he comes good.

The course is nothing but flat! The flat stages are flat But the ones that appear even slightly rolling are pretty damn hard we're being told. Circuits are always hard anyway.

Interestingly enough, my Garmin and our DS both got my time as 3:29something or other, but the transponder said 3:37. I am a bit peeed, a possible top 15 in prologue! That would be unheard of for me. I'm not usually the best over something so short :

Looking forward to 4 hours on a bus tomorrow. Not too bad really. Just lucky they didn't chuck it in straight after the stage. I am surprised really.

And the weather's beautiful too. Low to mid twenties. no wind. perfect.

DinZ · « **Reply #72 on:** May 20, 2012, 10:20 »

Quote from: Jono L. on May 20, 2012, 10:06

Yeh. AJ= sprinter always. He's got tonsilitis, on antibioics and looks like sh*t. But still rides a decent prologue! Given the rest day tomorrow hopefully he comes good.

The course is nothing but flat! The flat stages are flat But the ones that appear even slightly rolling are pretty damn hard we're being told. Circuits are always hard anyway.

Interestingly enough, my Garmin and our DS both got my time as 3:29something or other, but the transponder said 3:37. I am a bit peeed, a possible top 15 in prologue! That would be unheard of for me. I'm not usually the best over something so short :

Looking forward to 4 hours on a bus tomorrow. Not too bad really. Just lucky they didn't chuck it in straight after the stage. I am surprised really.

And the weather's beautiful too. Low to mid twenties. no wind. perfect.

thats sh*t. how can it be 8 seconds out. must have gone wrong on the start somehow. thought you were further back on official results than you said earlier.

Good luck on Tuesday lets hope AJ has recovered enough to get up for the sprint.

really difficult to tell from the profiles as they are pretty small. looking at videos from 2010 there was a steep climb on one of the earlier stages, and like you say they seemed to be going over it a lot of times. hopefully there will be something you can use to get away. I hear the Japanese like the long attacks so should be plenty of friends to go along if you are allowed to have a dig.

ram · « **Reply #73 on:** May 20, 2012, 10:56 »

When is the criterium Jono? 8" difference, bad luck. How the flip?

Jono L. · « **Reply #74 on:** May 20, 2012, 11:13 »

Quote from: ram on May 20, 2012, 10:56

When is the criterium Jono? 8" difference, bad luck. How the flip?

They ran the crit in the mornign before the prologue in the end.

I was alright, fairly fast. I just sat at the back myself. Can't remember who won. I think it was a Nippo rider but don't hold me to it.

IT was a good warm up for the prologue really./

ram · « **Reply #75 on:** May 20, 2012, 11:19 »

Cheers, is it just sh*tting around tomorrow? Apart from the travel, of course.

Jono L. · « **Reply #76 on:** May 20, 2012, 11:44 »

Yep.

Breafkast

Travel.

Lunch

Go for a spin.

Eat Dinner.

Bed.

ram · « **Reply #77 on:** May 20, 2012, 12:06 »

Good man.

DinZ · « **Reply #78 on:** May 20, 2012, 12:14 »

The glamour. now i see why they put up with all that suffering.....

ram · « **Reply #79 on:** May 20, 2012, 12:20 »

Of course, there's almost an android girl factory there.

Just have to quote frankie boyle for the sake of it-
If you live their life for five minutes, you'd sh*t your brains out of your eyes.

DinZ · « **Reply #80 on:** May 20, 2012, 23:28 »

Some photos from Champion Systems

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.391995977509391.79450.177473658961625&type=1

DinZ · « **Reply #81 on:** May 21, 2012, 00:31 »

Full report from TT and Crit race (it was the Nippo riders that won, I am assuming the Richeze brothers at the front) from Cycling IQ including some great photos

http://cyclingiq.com/2012/05/20/2012-tour-of-japan-stage-1-sakai-itt/

DinZ · « **Reply #82 on:** May 21, 2012, 00:45 »

And even better. Video highlights

Particularly attractive close up about 20 seconds in

Dim · « **Reply #83 on:** May 21, 2012, 01:31 »

yeay for highlights.

ram · « **Reply #84 on:** May 21, 2012, 08:54 »

Nice one, bloody Astro arena.

benotti69 · « **Reply #85 on:** May 21, 2012, 10:42 »

great to riders TTing on standard bikes 8)

DinZ · « **Reply #86 on:** May 22, 2012, 00:49 »

bad news for Genesys team, Anthony Giacoppo is confirmed as out of the race with Tonsillitis. appears the rest day was not enough.

DinZ · « **Reply #87 on:** May 22, 2012, 01:10 »

there is a live stream

http://www.roadracelive.net/mino/

:-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

DinZ · « **Reply #88 on:** May 22, 2012, 02:15 »

Group seems to be altogether still. looks like they just went through the first sprint. Genesys rider in 3rd

DinZ · « **Reply #89 on:** May 22, 2012, 02:29 »

Results of the first sprint

1.M.Richeze
2. Patrick Shaw
3. H.R.Kwok

means Richeze is starting to look to be the sprinter to beat and has moved up to second overall. Appears i under sold Shaw who was actually second for Genesys. Presume he is now the sprinter of choice with AJ gone

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