Lotto-Belisol last off in Tirreno-Adriatico team time trial
Start times for 18.5km opener in Tuscany
Lotto-Belisol will be the final team to take the start on the opening stage of the 2014 edition of Tirreno-Adriatico, an 18.5km team time trial from Donoratico to San Vincenzo.
The teams set off at three-minute intervals in Tuscany, with MTN-Qhubeka getting the action underway at 14:40 local time. Orica-GreenEdge, who won the equivalent stage two years, set out at 15:04, while Team Sky – with late addition Richie Porte – set out at 15:16.
Fabian Cancellara’s Trek outfit are in action at 15:19, while the favourites for stage victory, Omega Pharma-QuickStep, are the penultimate squad to tackle the course, at 15:40. The QuickStep line-up features Mark Cavendish, Rigoberto Uran, Alessandro Petacchi, Mark Renshaw and the on-form Michal Kwiatkowski, the impressive winner of Saturday's Strade Bianche.
With little or no wind and temperatures a pleasant 18 degrees Celsius, a fast time is expected on a course that features just one technical section – a narrow stretch between kilometres 2.2 and 3 – and one short climb at Castagneto Carudcci. After the intermediate time check at 11.3km, there is a long, straight run-in towards the finish in San Vincenzo.
Start times for stage 1 of Tirreno-Adriatico
1 | MTN-Qhubeka | 14:40:00 |
2 | IAM Cycling | 14:43:00 |
3 | Astana | 14:46:00 |
4 | Bardiani-CSF | 14:49:00 |
5 | BMC | 14:52:00 |
6 | Europcar | 14:55:00 |
7 | Lampre-Merida | 14:58:00 |
8 | Cannondale | 15:01:00 |
9 | Orica-GreenEdge | 15:04:00 |
10 | Giant-Shimano | 15:07:00 |
11 | Ag2r-La Mondiale | 15:10:00 |
12 | Garmin-Sharp | 15:13:00 |
13 | Sky | 15:16:00 |
14 | Trek Factory Racing | 15:19:00 |
15 | NetApp-Endura | 15:22:00 |
16 | Tinkoff-Saxo | 15:25:00 |
17 | Katusha | 15:28:00 |
18 | Belkin | 15:31:00 |
19 | Movistar | 15:34:00 |
20 | FDJ.fr | 15:37:00 |
21 | Omega Pharma-QuickStep | 15:40:00 |
22 | Lotto-Belisol | 15:43:00 |

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