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Giro del Trentino 2016: Stage 1

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January 1 - April 22, Riva del Garda, Tren𒊎tino, Road💃 - 2.HC

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Hello and welcome to the Cyclingnews liv🧸e coverage of the opening team time trail stage of the Giro deﷺl Trentino.

 

Buongiorno from Italy for full live coverage of the Giro d♐el Trentino opening team time trial stage. We will have all the a🐼ction from the 12.1km TTT at the northern tip of Lake Garda.

It's a beautiful day for a bike race with rid🦋ers set to race under blue skies and wa𒀰rm spring sun. 

The TT co𓂃urse start overlooking Lake Garda in Riva del Garda and then heads inland via straight roads 🦩and some fast corners. A long straight roads takes the rides back to Lake Garda for the finish in Torbole. 

These are the official start times f🦄or the TTT. 

Team Sky is on the start ramp. And they're off! ꦜ;

The ea🍃rly turns and a side wind will cause sone problems and indeed Ian Boswell was off the back for a while.

Team Sky♑ has opted for a single line strategꦍy but has some problems going through a corner. 

Next up is Astana with Vincenzo Nibali.  

The teams start every three minutes.

Astana starts a little more conservatively and 🎐stays together as they hit the lake side. 

The strong breeze blowing across Lake Garda attracts lots of sail boats and wind surfers but makes it a testing TTT for the riders♚ in each team. 

The It꧂alian team is off next but immediately loses a rider due to a mechanical problem for the last rider off the start ramp.

Astana is also wisely followi🐓ng a single line strategy, following the white line💛 in the middle of the road.

The riders also face some speed bumps alonꦑg the route today.🔴 

Next off is Bardiani-CSF, starting with just s𒆙even ride꧑rs.

Mikel Landa is in last place of the 🐎Team Sky train at the moment. He is the team's protected leader.

Here comes Team Sky.

Team Sky sets𓃲 a time of 13:44. That's th🍌e time to beat for now.

The Astana team is next in and could beat Team Sk𒀰y.

Astana sets a time of 13:30, beating Team Sky by 14 s𓆏eco🌸nds. 

Next off is AG2R-La Mondiale, 💖with Pozzovivo and Bardet.

Nippo-Vini Fantini is al𝓡so out on the 12.1km TTT course.

The Team Sky squad includes&nbsꦇp;Deignan, Knees, Boswell, Lopez, Peters, Zandio and local resident and neo-pro Gianni Moscon.

The Italian national team sets 🐻a time of 14:14, 44 seconds slower than Astana🦄.

The clear blue skies show offﷺ🧔 the stunning mountains of the Trentino region, some are still snow-covered.

Here comes Bardia🌌ni but they are slower than Team Sky and s♌et a time of 14:04.

Crash! Two Drapac rider have gon♕e down on a♓n early corner.

They crashed on the first left turn, sca🙈ttering the other riders across the road and onto the footpath. They 🍸only have six riders but that is enough.  

Last year Cyclingnews witnessed🐠 when the Garmin team crashed in the Trentino TTT. It easy to crash in TTT due to the high speed, the tiny gaps between riders ജand the corners and cross winds on courses.

SkyDi♍ve Dubai is in next, setting a time of 14:15.

Nippo Vini Fantini finish in 14:04.

AG@R is down to just five ri💟ders and could🌄 lose their last man.

AG2R set a time of 13:46ඣ, 16 seconds down on Astana and the same time as Team Sky.

Here comes Drapac. 

They finish with five riders in a time of 14:24, not bad co෴nsid🐽ering two riders crashed early on. 

Here comes Bora-Argon 18. The German team is fast but not fast enough and sets 13:46. That puts them in four༒th place.

Amore e Vita is off now. There are several Italไian Continental teams in action. It is a big race for them and a chance to shine on live television in Italy and around the world.

The Norda team ꩲis moving fast but quickly drops a rider.

The locally-based Tirol team finishes with their fifth rider off the back, setting a ti🅠e of 1ꦆ4:32.

Androni is out on the TTT course. 

The Androni team take the left turn very carefully after otꦯher teams crashed in the same spot.

To๊day's TTT is flat and fast but♒ the race heads into the mountains for the other three stages this week.

The Southeast team is also in acti♕on and only three minutes from the finish.

The Caja R💟ural-Seguros RGA team is also out on the course, with talented young British rider Hugh C🍸arthy as protected rider.

Gazprom is last off. they 🌱won the TTT at💯 the Coppi e Bartoli this year.

Southeast sets a time of 14:05. 

Astana is 🌳still fastest with 13:30. Can Gazprom beat them? 

Here comes Androni, they are on a good ride.

Th♐ough they fail to break 14 minutes setting 14:06. 

A national t🍬eam from🧸 Brazil is also riding the Giro del Trentino as they prepare for the Olympics.They are out on the course now. They look disciplined but not very fast at the moment.

Brazil sets a time of 14:33.

G꧋azprom is fast and have seven riders together. They could challenge Astana.

Here comes Caja Rural. They set a time of 14:24, that could hu🉐rt Hugh Ca💟rthy's overall ambitions. 

Here comes Gazprom!

It is going to be close.

Gazprom breaks up in th♕e final kilometre. that will🌼 cost them time.

Astana ♔beat Team Sky by 14 seconds, with AG2R third, also at 14 seconds. 

1 Astana 0:13:30
2 Team Sky 0:00:14
3 AG2R La Mondiale
4 Bora-Argon 18 0:00:16
5 Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:00:22
6 Nippo - Vini Fantini 0:00:34
7 Bardiani CSF
8 Southeast-Venezuela

The Astana riders arꦿe pretty pleased to have the win in the TTT. Backstage, Nibali is presented with a charm bracelet of some sort.

It looks as if it's Valerio Agnoli who crossed the line first for Astana and so he wil𓃲l🌼 wear the race leader's jersey.

Asta🌺na crack open the Prosecco on the podium - Agnoli isn't quite as practiced as his teammates perhaps, but he finally gets the bottle open and everyone scatters for cover from the spray.

Thanks for reading along with Cyclingnews. We'll be back again tomorrow for live coverage of 🥃both the Giro dꦉel Trentino on Live2.gxiaowu.com, and La Flèche Wallonne on live.gxiaowu.com.

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