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"Ronde Van Vlaanderen": the Team Katusha's roster

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Category: Race 2011

Published on Thursday, 31 March 2011 17:57

Written by Luca Salvatelli

On April, Sunday 3rd will take place the first of the "North campaign" monument classics, the "Ronde Van Vlaanderen", a 260 kms. long race at its 95th edition. Characteristics of this race are the so-called "walls", cobbled sharp hills with very high difficult standards: the 17th and last of these, the Bosberg, is only 15 kilometres far from the finishing line, while the most difficult is Oude Kwaremont, where very often there are the most crucial moments of the race. For this edition, the track was a little changed: 5 more climbings were added to the 2010 track, and the riders will face 4 of them before Oude Kwaremont. Still uncertain is the participation to the competition of Leif Hoste, 3 times second in this race, because of the bad fallin the "Driedaagse De Panne" first stage: the Belgian rider, which suffers of a bad wound over his right eye plus a broken tooth and several abrasions all over his body, is going to train today for the first time adter his accident, and later a decision will be taken. If Hoste will take part to the competition, the Team Katusha's roster will be as follows:

Vladimir Gusev

Leif Hoste

Vladimir Isaychev

Mikhail Ignatyev

Serguey Ivanov

Aliaksandr Kuchynski

Luca Paolini

Filippo Pozzato

Sport directors: Serge Parsani, Bart Leysen