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Peter Sagan: The Quest For History
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| CartofCubic |
Posted on 07-08-2012 13:05
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Mresuperstar wrote:
CartofCubic wrote:
I think you'll have to replay a lot the last stages to get it, Cav seems to be strong. Good luck!
I don't replay stages, it's all or nothing. 
I know you don't, anyway your stories are amazing, keep up the good work :-bd |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 07-08-2012 13:27
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Great job with Peter so far, now he has to jump into the breaks and gain advantage on Cav and Bennati. Good luck for the rest of the Tour
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 09-08-2012 14:28
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Tour de France - Stage 9

Stage 8:
The first mountain stage of the 99th Tour was anything but dull.
The day started with Peter Sagan rolling the dice and getting into the morning breakaway, as many would have predicted since he started to slip down the points standings the last few days. And his efforts were enough to take 2nd at the sprint point (beat by a breakaway rider because he was caught off guard) and the rest of the sprinters were also caught off guard as they didn't sprint back in the peloton. Which means Sagan reels back 17 points and is just 6 points behind Cavendish for the green jersey.
In terms of how the GC race went lets just say it all went down on the final climb and Westra had to give up his yellow jersey for the first time.
Plenty of attacks and counters gave the win and race lead to ...

| 1 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | 4h57'31 | | 2 | Joaquin Rodriguez | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 3 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 9 | | 4 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | s.t. | | 5 | Fränk Schleck | Radioshack Nissan Trek | s.t. |
GC:
| 1 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | 34h08'10 | | 2 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | + 8 | | 3 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 11 | | 4 | Joaquin Rodriguez | Katusha Team | + 26 | | 5 | Fränk Schleck | Radioshack Nissan Trek | + 34 |
Points:
| 1 | Mark Cavendish | Sky Pro Cycling | 0 | 181 | | 2 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | 17 | 175 | | 3 | Daniele Bennati | Radioshack Nissan Trek | 0 | 168 | | 4 | Tyler Farrar | Team Garmin-Barracuda | 0 | 128 | | 5 | Matthew Goss | Orica-GreenEDGE | 0 | 112 |
The climbers and puncheurs will be out today with it
being the last stage to take some time back before the ITT.
After what seemed forever the peloton finally allowed
Arnold Jeannesson, Alexandre Vinokourov, and Nick Nuyens to breakaway.
Good day for them as there are plenty of KoM points available.
About 10kms later Sylvain Chavanel and Simon Gerrans try to bridge the gap.
Most of the sprinters are dropped 75kms into the stage,
including the green jersey of Mark Cavendish.
Thus leaving the door open for Sagan to steal the jersey back today!
So with that we fast forward to the sprint point where
the morning breakaway of 3 and then the two chasers come through. Leaving the peloton to sprint for 6th and 10 points.
In fact there is no sprint, Sagan just jumps to the front and takes the points.
Giving him 185 points and the virtually green jersey!
And with that we jump to the final climb where the action
is just getting started as Valverde makes the first move.
Nibali, Voeckler, and Frank Schleck all counter the move.
Very surprising news at the back as Cadel Evans
has missed the split and is struggling to rejoin!
Word is also coming in that Wiggins is near the back as well.
And as it turns out Valverde's move is the only attack on the climb.
Sanchez is forced to chase with no teammates left on the downhill.
Sagan survives the climb and is in the yellow jersey group as well.
Evans, Wiggins, and now reports of Ryder Hesjedal have been dropped.
This stage was built for Nibali as he uses his downhill ability
to attack away from Valverde and F. Schleck.
8kms to go and the helicopter gets a great shot of the race.
Nibali in the lead being chased by Chavanel with Frank Schleck, Valverde, Alexandre Vinokourov, and Arnold Jeannesson next on the road.
Then the yellow jersey group trying to pull everyone back.
Now with 5kms to go Sanchez pulls back Valverde's group nearly by himself!
As the sprint opens up Sagan unleashes!
He quickly goes by Chavanel, just leaving teammate Nibali up the road.
But Vincenzo Nibali holds on! His second stage win and he is proving to be a contender for the yellow jersey after a disappointing Giro.
Make it a Liquigas double as Peter Sagan takes 2nd ahead of Sanchez!
The only bad news is Nibali isn't given a time gap,
which would have given him the yellow jersey.
In fact the whole yellow jersey group is given the same time as Nibali.
Except for Cadel Evans and ...
Bradley Wiggins and Ryder Hesjedal who all lose 1'04" today!
I know we all are focusing on the points, where Sagan takes green back,
but the GC battle is looking really interesting now with a critical ITT tomorrow.
Stage
| 1 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | 4h03'59 | | 2 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | s.t. | | 3 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | s.t. | | 4 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 5 | Joaquin Rodriguez | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 6 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 7 | Andy Schleck | Radioshack Nissan Trek | s.t. | | 8 | Igor Anton | Euskaltel Euskadi | s.t. | | 9 | Fränk Schleck | Radioshack Nissan Trek | s.t. | | 10 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | s.t. |
GC
| 1 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | 38h12'09 | | 2 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | + 8 | | 3 | Joaquin Rodriguez | Katusha Team | + 26 | | 4 | Fränk Schleck | Radioshack Nissan Trek | + 34 | | 5 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 48 | | 6 | Andy Schleck | Radioshack Nissan Trek | + 50 | | 7 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Lotto Belisol | + 51 | | 8 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | + 54 | | 9 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | + 59 | | 10 | Igor Anton | Euskaltel Euskadi | + 1'01 |
Points
| 1 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | 35 | 210 | | 2 | Mark Cavendish | Sky Pro Cycling | 0 | 181 | | 3 | Daniele Bennati | Radioshack Nissan Trek | 0 | 168 | | 4 | Tyler Farrar | Team Garmin-Barracuda | 0 | 128 | | 5 | Matthew Goss | Orica-GreenEDGE | 0 | 112 | | 6 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | 30 | 98 | | 7 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | 22 | 93 | | 8 | Romain Feillu | Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 0 | 92 | | 9 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | 0 | 83 | | 10 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Pro Cycling | 0 | 80 |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 09-08-2012 14:33
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Wow, this is nothing like in real life. Except for Sagan, of course.

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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 09-08-2012 14:33
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great stage for both nibbles and peter
keep it going! |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 09-08-2012 14:54
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True that the GC battle is very exciting!
Great stage for Sagan, though
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 09-08-2012 14:58
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What a totally awesome display from the Liquigas boys 
1-2 on the stage with Nibali claiming another win 
And Peter into the green jersey
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| Geezar10 |
Posted on 09-08-2012 15:09
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Keep it up, I hope their is a dramatic battle for green and that it is decided fully in Paris |
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| TomC |
Posted on 09-08-2012 15:13
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I think battle for green will be decided early, because Sagan is doing really great in hilly stages
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 09-08-2012 15:15
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TomC wrote:
I think battle for green will be decided early, because Sagan is doing really great in hilly stages 
Except the fact that was the last hilly stage
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| ricotero_uy |
Posted on 09-08-2012 15:41
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Excellent comeback from Peter to recover the green jersey!
And 1-2 for the team!!!  
Nice to see also Samu at the top! |
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| TomC |
Posted on 09-08-2012 15:56
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Mresuperstar wrote:
TomC wrote:
I think battle for green will be decided early, because Sagan is doing really great in hilly stages 
Except the fact that was the last hilly stage 
Well, there is one more, Stage 12
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 09-08-2012 16:18
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TomC wrote:
Mresuperstar wrote:
TomC wrote:
I think battle for green will be decided early, because Sagan is doing really great in hilly stages 
Except the fact that was the last hilly stage 
Well, there is one more, Stage 12 
My game classifies it as flat ... 
But yeah I can't see the other sprinters making it to the finish.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 09-08-2012 16:35
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I think Sagan can do it now! The amount of flat stages left are beginning to run thin. That should help Sagan!
Keep it up
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 09-08-2012 17:14
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Tour de France - Stage 10

After Evans and Wiggins both lost time yesterday
they get a rare chance to pull most or even all of it back the next day
as the race turns to the battle against the clock.
The top 10 as everybody rides through the first sprint check.
Then through the 2nd checkpoint.
Tony Martin can hear that Wiggins beat him at the second check,
so that pushes him to go even faster. He sets a blazing time of 54'18.
Cancellara is riding well today but he comes 12 second short of Martin's time.
Surprise winner of the opening prologue, Lieuwe Westra shows he doesn't like the longer distance as he is over two minutes off the pace.
Sagan dislikes the long distance as well and won't be stealing any
sprint points as he finishes with a time worse then Westra.
Wiggins is on cruise control, and stops the clock with the same time as Martin.
The officials have to go to milliseconds and give the lead to Wiggins.
Evans is gunning for yellow as he stops the clock 44 seconds slower
then Bradley but puts himself in provisional yellow.
Not for long though as Nibali with a solid ride is able to
bump Evans off yellow by a mere 3 seconds!
Thus leaving the yellow jersey himself, Samuel Sanchez.
But with a time 2 seconds slower then Sagan,
Vincenzo Nibali puts on the yellow jersey!
Stage
| 1 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Pro Cycling | 54'18 | | 2 | Tony Martin | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | Fabian Cancellara | Radioshack Nissan Trek | + 12 | | 4 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 44 | | 5 | Andreas Klöden | Radioshack Nissan Trek | + 1'05 | | 6 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | + 1'13 | | 7 | Michael Rogers | Sky Pro Cycling | + 1'15 | | 8 | Jean-Christophe Péraud | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 1'21 | | 9 | Levi Leipheimer | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | + 1'22 | | 10 | Janez Brajkovic | Astana Pro Team | + 1'24 |
GC
| 1 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | 39h08'23 | | 2 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 3 | | 3 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | + 22 | | 4 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Lotto Belisol | + 56 | | 5 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Pro Cycling | + 57 | | 6 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 1'19 | | 7 | Jean-Christophe Péraud | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 1'30 | | 8 | Denis Menchov | Katusha Team | + 1'39 | | 9 | Fränk Schleck | Radioshack Nissan Trek | + 2'04 | | 10 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | + 2'05 |
Points
| 1 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | 0 | 210 | | 2 | Mark Cavendish | Sky Pro Cycling | 0 | 181 | | 3 | Daniele Bennati | Radioshack Nissan Trek | 0 | 168 | | 4 | Tyler Farrar | Team Garmin-Barracuda | 0 | 128 | | 5 | Matthew Goss | Orica-GreenEDGE | 0 | 112 | | 6 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | 1 | 99 | | 7 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | 0 | 93 | | 8 | Romain Feillu | Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 0 | 92 | | 9 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Pro Cycling | 4 | 84 | | 10 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | 0 | 83 |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 09-08-2012 18:59
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Still exciting as ever!
Only 3 seconds, that promises for the next stages!
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| pcm2009fan |
Posted on 09-08-2012 19:07
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Nibali is looking great whilst Peter is definitely on course...
I think consistency is the key from now on, but here's hoping for a repeat of real-life for Peter on stage 14, minus the carpet tacks !!
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| ricotero_uy |
Posted on 09-08-2012 19:16
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WOW! Yellow jersey for Vincenzo! That's really nice!
But the team must focus in the green one... or is it going to work for Nibali? He must increase the gap thinking in the last TT. |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 09-08-2012 19:18
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Peter in white too?
Winner of American Championship races which I can't remember since my sig was deleted :L
RIP to Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, and Monster Energy |
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 09-08-2012 19:31
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baseballlover312 wrote:
Peter in white too?
Nice find but I expect him to lose it in the next two stages.
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