Tour of Medatarian

I've started using https://twitter.com/pelotonwatch if you want sporadic updates in English.

rein in my purist team
should have never trusted him always something
could be a real good rider if he would not have
al these problems

Live ticker for those interested (in French) (already listed in Stage 1 thread)

http://direct.directvelo.com/live-course/1526/tour-mediterraneen-1ere-et...

True, but I'm sat at my desk at work watching nothing so it's an improvement!

This looks like a final start list, Pichot and Malacarne are riding for Europcar

http://www.directvelo.com/actualite/24233-tour-mediterraneen-les-partant...

Oh dear, there'll be some annoyed people over Taaramae, any idea why he's not riding?

#TourMed Non-partants : Rein Taaramäe (Cofidis) et Leonardo Duque (Colombia)

Pick Pichot or not pick Pichot that is the question?

Official start list from 3rd Feb has Gaudin/Cousin but it also lists Julien Berard for AG2R who's currently in Qatar riding the ToQ so I doubt it's the most up to date. The official one is also missing the changes to BMCs roster amongst others.

its like they say nothing changes as match as a woman's
mood except for a cycling start list:)

its a message from 2 hours ago
but i don't know both cycling fever and procycling stats have pichot and malacarne listed

Cousin and Gaudin were in the initial list but were replaced when the latest list came out last night with Pichot and Malacarne. When was the Europcar facebook last updated?

no pichot and malacarne says the europcar facebook page
cousin and gaudin instead

Well I haven't even looked at stage 1 sprinters because the first half of the stage will drop some of the sprinters just there to test their legs

Im curious about the Volta too, looks like they may not be updating the website

Yeah, my standard team won't have many transfers made except before/after the ITT. Won't be over thinking it though, just picking on instinct.

I'm also not looking forward to scoring this, given the ToQ is an ASO race and results are patchy I can only imagine how long it'll take me to do these.

I've chucked in a few riders to each team, will be running them both as purist as I am doing Qatar, getting Oman ready to open......plus details of the Med are sketchy to see the least

Done the full update and there's some fairly hefty changes. I was expecting a few but now there's no Renshaw, no Voigt, no Bak or Henderson, Millar, Bobridge, Vanmarcke and Astraloza to name a few of the big names.

Plus most of the smaller teams have decided to rework their teams too.

I checked the lists a couple of hours ago and they weren't on, plan was to do a full check tonight to pick up late changes and Vaconsoleil's replacement for Hoogerland so the list will be updated again before the race starts.

They also say Vichot is riding?

Pinotti and Lodewyck shown in BMC team on pro cycling stats and cycling fever but not on start list? Also Sep van Marck just finished in Mallorca......

Many thanks to gkam84. You can see all the profiles on one page now If you go to look, have a browse round his blog as well. Well worth reading/watching.

At the request of Simon F, I've hosted them

http://gkam84.tk/tour-med/