UCI Road World Cup 2011

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Preview Sweden World Cup 2011

Preview TTT

The Open de Suede, Vårgåda kicks off later this week with the 42,5km team time trial. It is in the World Cup for the six time (fourth consecutive) year. The "Open de Suède Vårgårda" is the only World Cup with a TTT. The winners in 2010, 2009 were Cervelo Test Team, known in 2008 as Raleigh Lifeforce.In 2006, the Danish round of the competition was a TTT, dubbed the "Ladies Golden Hour", it was the first time a team time trial had been included and was won by Univega (the team which became known as Raleigh Lifeforce in 2007/8) by just 2 seconds from Buitenpoort-Flexpoint. 

This year however, there are only two remaining member of the 2010 successful Cervelo team. Now Garmin -Cervelo Emma Pooley and Iris Slappendel will be joined based on the provisional list and Italian Champion Noemi Cantele. They also had the talented British riders, Lizzie Armitstead and Sharon Laws. They are also missing both Alex Rhodes and Lucy Martin who are both recovering from surgery and injury. Jessie Daams may step in ahead of Trine Schmidt. 

Cervelo Test Team - have never been defeated in World Cup TTT

Sarah Duester who was the only former member of the Garmin-Cervelo team to have ridden and won all of the World Cup TTT's, moved this season to Nederland Bloeit. This will be invaluable for Marianne Vos, the leader in the World Cup series. The course is the same as 2010 and Duester will be of great assistance to the team. Nederland Bloeit finished third in 2010 over 2 minutes behind the winners. Vos will also have Annemiek van Vleuten in the squad. She has been resting since the Giro Donne. Loes Gunnewijk, Janneke Kanis, Patricia Schwager (formerly Cervelo Test Team) are the anticipated riders. (See below for others)

HTC Highroad have continued to missed out on the TTT title. This year they have one of the strongest teams heading to Sweden. Their line up includes National champions current and former (Arndt, Fahlin, Stevens and former World ITT champion Neben. They have in their line up strong riders to select, Ellen van Dijk, Charlotte Becker, Katie Colclough and Adrie Visser. 

Hitec Products UCK will want to ride well with Emma Johansson, who sits second in the world cup standings. A good TTT result will give Johansson valuable extra points to close the gap on Vos ahead of the road race. 

The Australian team are improving their team time trail performances. They have Oceania Champion Shara Gillow in the team expect them to show early on and in the top 8. 

AA Drink are strong and should ride well. They have Kirsten Wild, Linda Villumsen and Trixi Worrack lined up to start. They should finish top 6

SC MCIPOLLINI GIAMBENINI have Nicole Cooke, Tatiana Guderzo and Marta Bastianelli in their line up. They should finish top 10.

Other teams in the start list are:

TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-RIDLEY 2012

LOTTO HONDA TEAM

DOLMANS LANDSCAPING TEAM

TOP GIRLS FASSA BORTOLO

JUVEDERM - SPECIALIZED

UKRAINE

RUSSIA

VAIANO SOLARISTECH

ALRIKSSON GO:GREEN

VIENNE FURUROSCOPE

SWEDEN

GERMANY

DENMARK

NETHERLANDS

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Points available for team time trial event

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Provisional Team Lists for TTT

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World Cup Standings 2011

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