Written by johny of johny2
  
  The Giro di Sicilia is division 4 sprinting Tour.
  It is a short 4 stage tour for the best sprinters in div 4. Last year winner was Herberto Orozco from Snooman. He will not defend his title this year so there will be a new sprinting king in Sicilia. 
  
  The stages.
  King stage is the prologue. Next 2 flat bunch sprints with a hard fight for boni seconds. The last stage is a hilly sprint. It is important for the main GC candidates to finish in front because of small possible time gaps. 
  
  Short version GC. 
  *** Nam-jae Heo 
  ** Gerard Cygan and Roar Brun 
  * Knud Øgendahl, Troy Hardee and Calum Abbeyhill 
  Dark horses. 
  Gerard Cygan and Yemelyan Sobachkin 
  
  Very long version. 
  
  The teams. 
  There is a strange mix of riders competing this year. Fantastic sprinters without support, 6 perfect leadouts but no captain. Other teams have greenhorn captains and some captains are old and smelly. There are even a few BA climbing teams who could ruin the sprinters GC hopes in the hilly stage. 
  
  The teams. 
   Abs stars.
   Fidel Viana, AV 47 hilly sprinter no TT. Average teamsupport for the sprints but very nice in the hills. 
  
   Team Roar Brun – ACAB. 
  Roar is one of the best active spriners in OCM. Almost a 1 man team with his current support. 
  
   Ausgo
   Rolf Lejeune, TT team but only Rolf Lejeune should do very well in prologue. 
  
   BCTeam
  Nice mix of good TTers with sprint abilities. 6 excellent guys but who is the captain? 
  
   Blues Racing, Byttingvik, TD rockets and Cyclists.
  Climbing teams to have a shot at BA victory and the hilly stage. 
  
   Carnap Kickers
  Bjarne Hall, nice hilly team and captain. No TT training tho. 
  
   CC Est
  Urmo Just or Dieter Ulmendorf. Excellent sprinting team with 2 possible captains.

Urmo for the TQ sprints and Dieter for the hilly sprint stage. Both have no TT training tho. 
  
   CosaNostra cycling and Pacharán
  TT team in for the Exp. 
  
   Cycling and kebab
  Asgeir Øien, very nice captain for the hilly stage. Balanced team and excellent XP vs Age. Dark horse. 
  
   Huagro.
  Nice high AV team. But who is the captain? Should be a very good team if they had a real captain. 
  
   johny2
  Knud Øgendahl, perfect stats for Sicilia but he is getting older. Also he is not having the best possible team support. 
  
   Lots o Huggin Bear
  Luis Sherteel, best logo in OCM does not make this Libian star race favorite but a dark horse indeed. 
  
   Mark Pro Team
  Nam-jae Heo, very good stats for the prologue and hill sprint. Also very good balenced team support. If only Brun was not........ 
  
   NSCT.
  Might suprise in a BA. 
  
   Oscar en Luna
  If only Gillis Springelkamp was here. 
  
   PVAXX
  Troy Hardee, very nice rider well suited for Sicilia. If only his fellow Bermudarians where as talented. 
  
   Red Brigade CT
  Gerard Cygan, no1 candidate for the hilly sprint stage. Excellent support. We could have a winner. 
  
   Songolooz
  Yemelyan Soberkin, excellent sprinter in TF and with a good LO train. Stage 2 and 3 fav. 
  Could suprise in the prologue(no TT center) 
  
   Suriprofs
  Calum Abbeyhill, very good sprinter moving to Avataria next season. Not the best team in support. 
  
   TJ Banik OKD
  No captain.Excellent sprinting team. Banik got very unlucky that Dican Flórián is injuried.