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Posted on 18-11-2010 10:19
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Tirreno - Adriatico
Stage 1
We'll be protecting Lorenzetto and Bole today, they should feature prominently in the sprint.
Bernucci got in the break, a fairly large one. His aim was to survive until the only categorised climb of the day near the end of the stage and take maximum points.
He did just that, fighting on top ahead of a chasing peleton, and will find himself in a new jersey tomorrow.
Bole survived the climb and found himself in a nice position ahead of the sprint. Many sprinters were struggling to keep up at this point, obviously weakened by the climb.
Bole opens his sprint under the one km to go banner, Giovanni Visconti on his outside.
Visconti is obviously in better condition, he comes right paased him and takes the opening stage of the 2010 Tirreno - Adriatico.
Stage Standings
| 1 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | 3h30'15 | | 2 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 3 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | 3h30'05 | | 2 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 4 | | 3 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | + 6 |
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Posted on 18-11-2010 22:35
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Paris - Nice
Stage 5
The steepest mountain top finish of the race, will this be the most decisive stage of the race?
The peleton was reduced to just a small group as the race approached the final climb.
With attacks being made left, right and centre eventually Spilak decided it was time to make a move...
Ahead of Spilak, Tony Martin was racing ahead, looking for his second victory of the race. Behind Martin Cadel Evans was doing everything possible to catch him.
But nobody could match Tony Martin today, the promising young German takes victory on stage 5 to go with his victory on stage 1. Evans came home second.
Spilak rode a great race to round out the podium positions in third place.
Stage Standings
| 1 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | 4h40'34 | | 2 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 15 | | 3 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 49 | | 4 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 53 | | 5 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 6 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 1'04 | | 7 | Fränk Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 8 | Vladimir Efimkin | AG2R La Mondiale | + 1'24 | | 9 | John Gadret | AG2R La Mondiale | + 1'29 | | 10 | Brice Feillu | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 1'33 | | 11 | Kevin Seeldraeyers | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 12 | Romain Sicard | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 13 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 14 | Daniele Pietropolli | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 15 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | 19h33'48 | | 2 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 47 | | 3 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 52 | | 4 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 1'07 | | 5 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 1'14 | | 6 | Leonardo Duque | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 1'18 | | 7 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 1'46 | | 8 | Fränk Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 1'56 | | 9 | Brice Feillu | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 1'59 | | 10 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 2'12 | | 11 | Christophe Kern | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 2'23 | | 12 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana | + 2'25 | | 13 | Daniele Pietropolli | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 2'31 | | 14 | Kevin Seeldraeyers | Quick·Step | + 2'44 | | 15 | Vladimir Efimkin | AG2R La Mondiale | + 2'53 |
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Posted on 18-11-2010 23:01
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unlucky with the t-a result. so close.
well done with top10 on gc so far with spilak
...c'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe qui...
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Posted on 19-11-2010 01:14
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Tirreno - Adriatico
Stage 2
After coming so close to victory yesterday, will the better sprinter prevail today?
With the break caught the stage would come down to a sprint. We set up nicely, with Lorezetto leading out Bole.
A few riders started their sprint very early hoping to suprise us. But Lorenzetto held them off without even sprinting to put Bole in a fantastic position.
Only four men could now claim victory, Bole, Lorezetto, Visconti (ISD) or Breschel (SAX). Bole opened his sprint and came up alongside Breschel.
As they rounded the turn the finish line was now in their sights, but the two riders couldn't be split. Throwing everything they had at theline, both men wanted this victory badly.
VICTORY! Grega Bole wins by the narrowest of margins. Neither rider was convinced they'd won as they crossed the line, but replays afterwards showed Bole had edged his opponent out. Lorenzetto caped off a wondeful stage by taking 4th place.
Our first PT victory of the season. To make things even sweeter the victory gives Bole the overall lead.
Stage Standings
| 1 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 4h08'43 | | 2 | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 3 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | s.t. | | 4 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 5 | Daniele Bennati | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 6 | Manuel Cardoso | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 7 | André Greipel | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 8 | Francesco Bellotti | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 9 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | s.t. | | 10 | Jürgen Roelandts | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 7h38'42 | | 2 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | + 2 | | 3 | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | + 10 | | 4 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | + 12 | | 5 | Reinier Honig | Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci | + 13 | | 6 | Francisco Javier Aramendia | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 7 | Carlo Scognamiglio | ISD - Neri | + 14 | | 8 | Jonas Aaen Jørgensen | Team Saxo Bank | + 15 | | 9 | Daniele Bennati | Liquigas - Doimo | + 16 | | 10 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 22 | | 2 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | 20 | | 3 | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | 16 |
Mountain| 1 | Lorenzo Bernucci | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 7 | | 2 | Markel Irizar | Team RadioShack | 5 | | 3 | Sergueï Ivanov | Team Katusha | 5 |
With Lerenzo Bernucci holding onto the monutain jersey we now hold all four jerseys as Bole also lead the U25 classification. A dominant day for Lampre.
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Posted on 19-11-2010 01:28
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the_hoyle wrote:
unlucky with the t-a result. so close.
well done with top10 on gc so far with spilak
Thanks.
Yeah I hope for a top 10 overall with Spilak. The race doesn't really have a big mountain top finish though, where I think he could do quite well, so it won't be easy. Many of the favourites don't attack on the slopes, but on the flat so it's just a mattar of picking the right move to counter.
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Posted on 22-11-2010 09:04
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Paris - Nice
Stage 6
Flatish stage, but that doesn't neccessarily mean a mass sprint finish. Maybe a chance for a GC contender to win back time on his rivals?
A group of 5 formed at the front and were given a lot of leeway by the peleton, no Lampre riders present.
Behind them a group of favourites attcked and formed a chasing group, again no Lampre rider present. This is shaping as a bad day for the Italian squad.
Whilst this was going on the breakaway continued to maintain a large advantage.
They held off the chase group all the way to the line, Marco Marcato escaped near the end of the stage to take victory for Vaconsoleil, deserved Wild Card recievers. Spilak and Pietropolli finish in the peleton, a minute behind the favourites group.
Stage Standings
| 1 | Marco Marcato | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | 3h56'45 | | 2 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin - Transitions | + 46 | | 3 | Stéphane Augé | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 59 | | 4 | José Luis Arrieta | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 5 | Philippe Gilbert | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 6 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 1'47 | | 7 | Thomas Rohregger | Team Milram | s.t. | | 8 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 2'05 | | 9 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 10 | Romain Sicard | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 11 | Vladimir Efimkin | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 12 | Bram Tankink | Rabobank | s.t. | | 13 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana | s.t. | | 14 | Brice Feillu | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 15 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 16 | Leonardo Duque | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 17 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 3'01 | | 18 | Daniele Pietropolli | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 19 | Mauro Finetto | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 20 | Tejay Van Garderen | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | 23h32'38 | | 2 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 52 | | 3 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 1'07 | | 4 | Leonardo Duque | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 1'18 | | 5 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'43 | | 6 | Brice Feillu | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 1'59 | | 7 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 2'10 | | 8 | Philippe Gilbert | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 2'22 | | 9 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana | + 2'25 | | 10 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 2'42 | | 11 | Fränk Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 2'52 | | 12 | Vladimir Efimkin | AG2R La Mondiale | + 2'53 | | 13 | Romain Sicard | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 2'58 | | 14 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 3'08 | | 15 | Bram Tankink | Rabobank | + 3'16 | | 16 | Christophe Kern | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 3'19 | | 17 | Daniele Pietropolli | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 3'27 | | 18 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 3'28 | | 19 | Kevin Seeldraeyers | Quick·Step | + 3'40 | | 20 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin - Transitions | + 3'51 |
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Posted on 22-11-2010 09:59
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Tirreno - Adriatico
Stage 3
Two in a row for Bole?
Bole shows off his jersey to the cameras. He'll be hoping to keep it today.
Lorenzetto seemed better than Bole as the riders entered the final km. Lorenzetto passed the pace setter, Bellotti of Liquigas and took the lead.
But Oscar Freire of Rabobank came around the outside to take victory.
Lorenzetto edged out Bennati to claim second. Three top 2's in as many days for Lampre, a promising start to the season. 8th for Bole, he keeps the leaders jersey by 2 seconds ahead of Freire
Stage Standings
| 1 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | 3h53'31 | | 2 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 3 | Daniele Bennati | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 4 | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 5 | Danilo Napolitano | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 6 | Manuel Cardoso | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 7 | André Greipel | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 8 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 9 | Francesco Bellotti | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 10 | Jürgen Roelandts | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 11h32'13 | | 2 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | + 2 | | 3 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | s.t. | | 4 | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | + 10 | | 5 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. |
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Posted on 22-11-2010 22:29
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Paris - Nice
Stage 7
The 'Queen Stage' of the race. We climb the biggest climb in this year's race, before a mountain top finish.
Hoping to catch out his rivals, Frank Schleck was the first to attack.
Shortly after a favourites group formed at the front of the race, containing six riders including the Yellow Jersey and Green Jersey. No Lampre riders present.
Spilak was still sitting back in the peleton, quickly running out of energy. He tried an attack to join the leading group but didn't have the strength. It soon became clear that the winner of the day's stage would come from the front group.
The Yellow Jersey wanted the victory, LL Sanchez decided to go alone.
And he takes the win, victory for Luis Leon Sanchez. He is definately the strongest man in the race. The small peleton of 37 riders including Spilak rolled in nearly 2 minutes later. A top 10 finish seemed to be slipping away from our leader.
Stage Standings
| 1 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | 5h29'09 | | 2 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 16 | | 3 | Fränk Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 31 | | 4 | Vasil Kiryienka | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 5 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 1'11 | | 6 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 7 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 8 | Vladimir Efimkin | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 9 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana | s.t. | | 10 | Leonardo Duque | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 11 | Florian Stalder | BMC Racing Team | + 1'27 | | 12 | Romain Sicard | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 13 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 1'44 | | 14 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 15 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | 29h01'37 | | 2 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 2'13 | | 3 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 2'30 | | 4 | Leonardo Duque | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 2'39 | | 5 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 3'01 | | 6 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 3'04 | | 7 | Fränk Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 3'28 | | 8 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana | + 3'46 | | 9 | Brice Feillu | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 3'53 | | 10 | Vladimir Efimkin | AG2R La Mondiale | + 4'14 | | 11 | Romain Sicard | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 4'35 | | 12 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 4'36 | | 13 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 5'02 | | 14 | Vasil Kiryienka | Caisse d'Epargne | + 5'08 | | 15 | Bram Tankink | Rabobank | + 5'10 |
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Posted on 23-11-2010 00:26
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Tirreno - Adriatico
Stage 4
Today we will finish atop the feared Montelupone climb. Only the strongest riders will make it to the finish at the front. Positioning at the start of the final ascent will be crucial. We have four men we believe are cpable of a good result today, Simoni, Bole, Lorenzetto and Gavazzi. We'll have to see how they're going before deciding on our leaders.
The break built up a good lead and stayed away for most of the day, near the finsh Wegmann decided to go alone.
Over the 10km before the finish line, atacks were coming from all directions. Wegmann was soon caught.
Inside the final km and Visconti was in the lead. At this stage Bole and Simoni looked our best hopes. Gavazzi was working hard for the two.
Just metres from the line and the peleton were breathing down Visconti's neck.
But Visconti had the legs to hold them off, taking his second victory of the race. Bole raced well into 5th place.
Stage Standings
| 1 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | 4h24'42 | | 2 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | + 8 | | 3 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 4 | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 5 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 6 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 7 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 9 | Juan Mauricio Soler | Caisse d'Epargne | + 22 | | 10 | Fabian Wegmann | Team Milram | + 29 |
Overall
| 1 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | 15h56'47 | | 2 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 16 | | 3 | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | + 26 | | 4 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | s.t. | | 5 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | + 28 |
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Posted on 23-11-2010 08:57
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Paris - Nice
Stage 8
The final stage of this year's 'Race to the Sun'. While the overall victory looks secured by Luis Leon Sanchez, the other minor places are up in the air. Our goal coming into the race was a top 10 overall, Spilak is currently sitting in 12th place and will need a great ride today to reach our goal.
With the break almost caught, many favourites started attacking, this played into the hands of the escapee's as they were soon joined by the fresh legs of these favourites. A lead group of four formed, consisting of C. Evans (BMC), J. Coppel (SAU), D. De la Fuente (AST), S. Szmyd (LIQ).
Behind a larger chasing group had formed, again consisting of a mix of favourites and breakaway riders.
Evans was clearly the strongest in the lead group and powered away to victory, maybe slight compensation for missing out on overall victory. Luis Leon Sanchez came home not long after to seal victory in the 2010 Paris - Nice.
Simon Spilak came home in the peleton to finish the race a disapointing 12th overall.
Stage Standings
| 1 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | 3h11'28 | | 2 | David De la Fuente | Astana | s.t. | | 3 | Sylwester Szmyd | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 4 | Jérôme Coppel | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 5 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 6 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 39 | | 7 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 8 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 9 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 10 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 11 | Pierre Rolland | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 12 | Anthony Charteau | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 13 | Daniel Martin | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 14 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 1'38 | | 15 | Florian Stalder | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 16 | Stijn Devolder | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 17 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 18 | Steve Morabito | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 19 | Johann Tschopp | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 20 | Joost Posthuma | Rabobank | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | 32h13'05 | | 2 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 2'18 | | 3 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 2'52 | | 4 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 3'40 | | 5 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 3'43 | | 6 | Leonardo Duque | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 4'17 | | 7 | Fränk Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 5'06 | | 8 | Paolo Tiralongo | Astana | + 5'24 | | 9 | Brice Feillu | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 5'31 | | 10 | Vladimir Efimkin | AG2R La Mondiale | + 5'52 | | 11 | Romain Sicard | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 6'13 | | 12 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 6'14 | | 13 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin - Transitions | + 6'24 | | 14 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 6'27 | | 15 | Sylwester Szmyd | Liquigas - Doimo | + 6'36 |
Points
| 1 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | 99 | | 2 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | 93 | | 3 | Leonardo Duque | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | 88 |
Mountain
| 1 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | 26 | | 2 | Guillaume Bonnafond | AG2R La Mondiale | 25 | | 3 | Kjell Carlström | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 20 |
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Posted on 23-11-2010 10:09
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Tirreno - Adriatico
Stage 5
One word... Cancellara. Could anybody defeat Spartacus? Maybe the hilly terain could help some riders, but Fabian just looks to good on paper.
One of the early started Malori, set the a time that wouldn't be beaten for a while. Hopefully in a few years he'll be able to compete for the victory in TT's.
Frantisek Rabon rode well to take the lead from our man Malori. The Czech rider couldn't hold onto the lead though, 8th place + 1'51 for Rabon.
Last year's runner up Stefano Garzelli had a poor start to this year's edition, he was looking to turn it around in the TT. Unfortunately for his Italian fans he couldn't do that, 29th place for the veteran.
A nice ride by Millar gave him second place + 47.
A dissapointing performance by Nibali today, 17th + 2'15.
Vinokourov strated the race as a serious overall contender. He did his chances no harm today, 3rd place + 1'07.
From the time he rolled down the start ramp to the time he crossed the finish line, Graga Bole never looked like putting in a good ride. A 64th place + 3'40 puts an end to his GC aspirations. He can now concentrate solely on the final stage and winning the points jersey.
Visconti rode the TT of his life today, he recorded the 10th quickest time, + 2'02. The Italian looks to be in ominous form.
Nobody could get close to Fabian Cancellara today, the World ITT Champion demolished his rivals and might have set himself up for an overall victory.
Stage Standings
| 1 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | 48'00 | | 2 | David Millar | Garmin - Transitions | + 47 | | 3 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | + 1'07 | | 4 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Transitions | + 1'30 | | 5 | Stef Clement | Rabobank | + 1'33 | | 6 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'39 | | 7 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 1'45 | | 8 | Frantisek Rabon | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'51 | | 9 | Rui Costa | Caisse d'Epargne | + 2'02 | | 10 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | s.t. | | 11 | Marco Pinotti | Team HTC - Columbia | + 2'05 | | 12 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 13 | Maarten Tjallingii | Rabobank | + 2'08 | | 14 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | + 2'09 | | 15 | Christian Knees | Team Milram | s.t. | | ... | | 40 | Gilberto Simoni | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 3'12 | | | 46 | Adriano Malori | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 3'20 | | | 64 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | | 158 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 4'58 |
Overall
| 1 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | 16h45'19 | | 2 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | + 1'01 | | 3 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | + 1'30 | | 4 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'39 | | 5 | David Millar | Garmin - Transitions | + 1'44 | | 6 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | + 2'11 | | 7 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 8 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 2'24 | | 9 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 2'26 | | 10 | Stef Clement | Rabobank | + 2'30 | | 11 | Grischa Niermann | Rabobank | + 2'58 | | 12 | David Le Lay | AG2R La Mondiale | + 2'59 | | 13 | Rui Costa | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 14 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | + 3'02 | | 15 | Maarten Tjallingii | Rabobank | + 3'05 | | 16 | Christian Knees | Team Milram | + 3'06 | | 17 | Tiago Machado | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 18 | Markus Fothen | Team Milram | + 3'10 | | 19 | Filippo Pozzato | Team Katusha | + 3'15 | | 20 | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | + 3'24 | | 21 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 22 | Jan Bakelandts | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 3'34 | | 23 | Juan Mauricio Soler | Caisse d'Epargne | + 3'37 | | 24 | Gilberto Simoni | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 3'38 | | 25 | José Iván Gutiérrez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 3'56 | | 26 | Daryl Impey | Team RadioShack | + 3'57 | | 27 | Johan Van Summeren | Garmin - Transitions | + 4'11 | | 28 | Maxim Iglinskiy | Astana | + 4'14 | | 29 | Ivan Basso | Liquigas - Doimo | + 4'16 | | 30 | Michele Scarponi | Androni Giocattoli - Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni | + 4'20 |
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Tirreno - Adriatico
Stage 6
We leave the small hills behind today and head into the mountains for the 'Queen Stage' of this years race. Gilberto Simoni will be our leader today,
Bernucci went out on the attack early, hoping to stengthen his lead in the KoM competition. He succeded taking maximum points over the first climb, virtually securing his jersey.
Up the main climb of the day and the peleton was shedding riders fast.
Down the other side and the peleton had been reduced to just 30 odd riders. Simoni was sitting comfortably in there, his excellent downhill skills helped him recuperate a bit on the way down.
At the bottom, Simoni attacked! He brought Soler with him.
The two of them joined up with Thomas Lovkvist out in front of the peleton. Back in the peleton Cancellara hadn't made a move, had he cracked?
No he hadn't, suddenly launching out of the peleton.
Before long he'd caught our man. Lovkvist couldn't keep up with the group and dropped back. At this point it became apparent that the winner would come from this group of three.
Cancellara doesn't know how to lose from a position like this, he ousprinted his companions to take his second win in as many days. With this victory pretty much secured overall victory. Simoni took second place to sqeeze into 10th place overall.
Stage Standings
| 1 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | 6h21'29 | | 2 | Gilberto Simoni | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 7 | | 3 | Juan Mauricio Soler | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 4 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 37 | | 5 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | s.t. | | 6 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 1'02 | | 7 | Christian Knees | Team Milram | s.t. | | 8 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 9 | Markus Fothen | Team Milram | s.t. | | 10 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 11 | Rui Costa | Caisse d'Epargne | + 1'24 | | 12 | Tiago Machado | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 13 | Francesco Masciarelli | Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci | s.t. | | 14 | Kurt-Asle Arvesen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 15 | Maarten Tjallingii | Rabobank | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | 23h06'38 | | 2 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | + 1'48 | | 3 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | + 3'04 | | 4 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 3'11 | | 5 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 3'13 | | 6 | David Millar | Garmin - Transitions | + 3'18 | | 7 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | + 3'23 | | 8 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 3'38 | | 9 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Transitions | + 3'45 | | 10 | Gilberto Simoni | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 3'49 | | 11 | Juan Mauricio Soler | Caisse d'Epargne | + 3'50 | | 12 | Christian Knees | Team Milram | + 4'18 | | 13 | Markus Fothen | Team Milram | + 4'22 | | 14 | Grischa Niermann | Rabobank | + 4'32 | | 15 | Rui Costa | Caisse d'Epargne | + 4'33 |
Points
| 1 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | 33 | | 2 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 31 | | 3 | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | 30 |
Mountain
| 1 | Lorenzo Bernucci | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 12 | | 2 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | 8 | | 3 | Eduard Vorganov | Team Katusha | 8 |
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Posted on 24-11-2010 06:53
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Well performance by Simoni! At least, he reached the Top 10 in the pverall now  |
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Posted on 24-11-2010 07:45
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Great ride by Gibo, I wasn't expecting that.
And congrats for the story... Lampre is my favourite team and I hope you can restore their former glory |
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Posted on 24-11-2010 21:34
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^ Thanks for the encouraging comments.
Tirreno - Adriatico
Stage 7
The final stage of this years race, coming into the race our sponsors wanted victory in the Points Jersey classification, with just one stage to go Bole is sitting second in that category just 2 points behind Visconti. We will be doing everythig we can today to get him the jersey.
Our sprint train didn't quite work out and Lorenzetto (right) and Bole (left) ended up in different trains.
It seemed to have worked out however as Bole took the lead more than 1km out, had he gone too early?
It seems he had, swamped to the line as Bennati took the win. Lorenzetto was our best placed rider in 4th. But we didn't really care about that result, as Grega Bole had finished 6th, enough to win him the Points Classification! Objective completed!
It has been a very successfull race for us with 4 top3 three stage finishes, 10th overall with Simoni, the KoM jersey with Burnucci and of couse the Points Jersey with Bole. Now we just can't wait to get to Milan - Sanremo and give it everything we've got.
Stage Standings
| 1 | Daniele Bennati | Liquigas - Doimo | 4h06'38 | | 2 | Francesco Ginanni | Androni Giocattoli - Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni | + 2 | | 3 | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | + 10 | | 4 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 12 | | 5 | Manuel Cardoso | Footon - Servetto | + 13 | | 6 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 7 | Manuel Cardoso | Footon - Servetto | + 14 | | 8 | Danilo Napolitano | Team Katusha | + 15 | | 9 | Aitor Galdos | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 16 | | 10 | Enrico Rossi | Ceramica Flaminia | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | 27h13'16 | | 2 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | + 1'48 | | 3 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | + 3'04 | | 4 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 3'11 | | 5 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 3'13 | | 6 | David Millar | Garmin - Transitions | + 3'18 | | 7 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | + 3'23 | | 8 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 3'38 | | 9 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Transitions | + 3'45 | | 10 | Gilberto Simoni | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 3'49 | | 11 | Juan Mauricio Soler | Caisse d'Epargne | + 3'50 | | 12 | Christian Knees | Team Milram | + 4'18 | | 13 | Markus Fothen | Team Milram | + 4'22 | | 14 | Grischa Niermann | Rabobank | + 4'32 | | 15 | Rui Costa | Caisse d'Epargne | + 4'33 | | 16 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | + 4'36 | | 17 | Maarten Tjallingii | Rabobank | + 4'39 | | 18 | Tiago Machado | Team RadioShack | + 4'40 | | 19 | Jan Bakelandts | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 5'08 | | 20 | José Iván Gutiérrez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 5'30 | | ... | | 36 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 6'57 | | 109 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 23'46 | | 122 | Lorenzo Bernucci | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 26'54 | | 123 | Francesco Gavazzi | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 27'13 | | 145 | Matteo Bono | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 34'01 | | 181 | Angelo Furlan | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 1h11'34 | | 182 | Adriano Malori | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 1h16'33 |
Points
| 1 | Grega Bole | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 36 | | 2 | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | 34 | | 3 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | 33 |
Mountain
| 1 | Lorenzo Bernucci | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 12 | | 2 | Giovanni Visconti | ISD - Neri | 8 | | 3 | Eduard Vorganov | Team Katusha | 8 |
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Posted on 24-11-2010 21:43
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Top 10 is always top 10.....can i have a top 5 in Sanremo?
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Posted on 24-11-2010 22:12
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Nice performance by Grega Bole, COngrats for the points jersey and the 10th in the overall. |
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Posted on 24-11-2010 22:13
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@ baia - We'll see. 
@ janne_837 - Thanks.
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Posted on 26-11-2010 23:50
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2010 Milan - Sanremo
Route
The Milan - Sanremo route gives a unique opportunity for both sprinters and attackers to take victory. Attacks are sure to come thick and fast late in the race from some of the best cyclists in the world, can the sprinters teams control them and bring the race back together for a mass sprint?
Startlist
We've set Bole and Lorenzetto for this race, both are capable of getting over the hills in good shape so we hope to feature prominently at the end of the race. We have also brought Cunego along, however Damiano only has 1 day of racing under his legs and therefore he isn't in very good shape.
HTC - Columbia has brought along a very strong sprint team consisting of last year's winner Mark Cavendish, Andre Greipel, Matthew Goss and Mark Renshaw. If the result is decided in a sprint, victory looks HTC's to lose.
Other strong sprinters who will be present at the start line of this race include Oscar Freire, Tom Boonen, Tyler Farrar, Alan Davis, Robbie McEwen, Jose Joaquin Rojas, Gerald Ciolek and Daniele Bennati and Gert Steegmans.
2008 winner Fabian Cancellara is in hot form of the back of victory in Tirreno - Adriatico. If he manages to get away in the final kilometres here he will be very hard to catch. He has a strong team for support including Jens Voigt and Matti Breschel.
Katusha looks very strong here as well, they look to have both possible outcomes (sprint or break) covered. Should the race come down to a sprint they should be able to rely on RobbieMcEwn and Daniele Napolitano to get a good result. Whilst they've brought Kim Kirchen, Joaqin Rodriquez, Alexandre Kolobnev and Pippo Pozzato to attack.
Two riders who will be dissapointed however are Thor Hushovd and Heinrich Haussler who's Cervelo team were denied a wild card entry into this race.
Should be a fascinating race.
* I'm a bit busy this afternoon, but I should hopefully get the report up by tonight (my time).
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Posted on 27-11-2010 18:33
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Good luck in MSR.
I usually don't comment, but I like following your story, keep it up.
Rest in Peace Wouter Weylandt and Xavi Tondo 
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