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Leopard Trek - The End!
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| baia |
Posted on 20-02-2011 14:02
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Really lost end speed there..but still in great position.. |
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| roturn |
Posted on 20-02-2011 14:37
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Still 2s. This stage is way harder than it looks like so guys like Meyer, Cooke or Cavendish are quite surprising there.
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 20-02-2011 14:55
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baia wrote:
Really lost end speed there..but still in great position..
Yes, he was really tired in the end, but at least the absolute top sprinters like Cavendish and Bos didn't gain any time.
roturn wrote:
Still 2s. This stage is way harder than it looks like so guys like Meyer, Cooke or Cavendish are quite surprising there.
It was really much harder then I expected. I have played the 2010 version of this stage in my earlier careers, but it was not this hard.
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 20-02-2011 16:04
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Unfortunately the game crashed after the stage, but before the replay so I can just give you a short summary of the stage and a few screenshots.
Santos Tour Down Under - Stage 4 - Norwood > Strathalbyn
Another stage for the sprinters. Bennati will try to take some important bonus seconds before tomorrow's "queen stage".
The day's breakaway. Schär (BMC), Brown (Rabobank), Visconti (Farnese Vini), Traksel (Vacansoleil), Bodnar (Liquigas), Hondo (Lampre - ISD), Txurruka (Euskaltel), Bellis (SaxoBank - Sungard) and Kuschynski (Katusha). Later they was joined by Muravyev (Radioshack).
With 2 km to the finish Cavendish accelerated on the left side of the screen. Bennati did what he is used to: take Cav's wheel. On the other side Anthony Geslin of FDJ was surprisingly strong, matching Cavendish.
Bennati accelerated just after flamme rouge. Geslin was really strong and had a little advantage to Cavendish and Bennati, but Bennati was feeling good and easily passed Cavendish.
It ended up being really tight between Bennati and Geslin. Bennati just edged out the frenchman to take his second stage win in the TdU this year. Geslin finished on an amazing second place ahead of Cavendish. Davide Viganò once again finished in the top 10, another nice result for him.
Sorry, but I have no screenshot of Bennati celebrating his win. From now, I will take all screenshots during the race to avoid this.
No complete results either but I can give you a screen.
Overall
Bennati back in the ochre jersey, just in time for tomorrow's challenging stage. I hope he can keep it a bit longer this time.
Edited by Pellizotti2 on 20-02-2011 16:06
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| sobota |
Posted on 20-02-2011 16:07
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Great result 
Congrats 
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Posted on 20-02-2011 16:22
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You're doing great in Australia, congrats =)
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Posted on 20-02-2011 16:54
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sobota wrote:
Great result
Congrats
Thanks! 
lluuiiggii wrote:
You're doing great in Australia, congrats =)
Thank you!
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Posted on 20-02-2011 18:36
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Santos Tour Down Under - Stage 5 - McLaren Vale > Willunga
If this race has a queen stage then it is this one. This is the only stage in this race where it is not sure that a sprinter will take the win. Some riders might try to attack on Willunga Hill to get a solo win. We will certainly see some action on this stage.
The start in McLaren Vale earlier today.
The riders in todays breakaway were Kristoff (BMC), Krivtsov (AG2R), Löwik (Omega Pharma), Vaitkus (Astana) and Lequatre (Radioshack). They got a maximum advantage of 7 minutes.
At the foot of the first climb of Willunga Hill the gap was 4 minutes to the breakaway.
Kristoff took the mountain sprint ahead of Vaitkus and Lequatre. The peloton climbed the hill very fast and at the top the gap to the break was just 2' 30. The pace was so high that Bennati suffered quite a lot, but he had no problem staying in the group.
On the second climb of Willunga Hill Bennati started falling back. Anders Lund did a fantastic job helping him all the time, but the italian was really tired and had to fight to not lose contact with the group. Fuglsang was really strong, though, and was sitting in front of the peloton without any problems.
Up front Kristoff was losing contact with the other breakaway riders. The peloton was just 30 seconds back, though, so they were all caught just after the top.
The break held just over the top, Löwik won the mountain sprint ahead of Vaitkus and Lequatre. Vaitkus took enough KoM points today to take over the KoM jersey from Simon Clarke.
After fantastic work from Anders Lund, Bennati was back in front with 5 km left. He was a bit tired, but at least he would not lose any time today, except bonus seconds.
Lund felt great today (+3) so with 3 km left he hit the front with Fuglsang and Bennati on his wheel. This was a perfect lead-out, the only problem was that Bennati was getting more and more tired. Dumoulin was sitting on Bennati's wheel.
Under the 1 km to go banner Dumoulin launched with Marcato on his wheel. Bennati followed their slipstream. He was really tired, but he had a little energy left. Gerald Ciolek was side by side with Bennati.
Dumoulin takes the stage win ahead of Marcato. Bennati tried to pass the Vacansoleil rider, but he was a bit to tired. Bennati finished third, but the game decided to give the third place to Ciolek instead  . Anyway, I'm happy that Bennati did this well. I had expected attacks on Willunga Hill, but no one even tried.
Results
 1 | Samuel Dumoulin | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | 3h13'25 |  2 | Marco Marcato | Vacansoleil - DCM | s.t. |  3 | Gerald Ciolek | QuickStep - Innergetic | s.t. | | 4 | Daniele Bennati | Leopard - Trek | s.t. |  5 | Juan José Haedo | SaxoBank - Sungard | s.t. | | 6 | Andrea Guardini | Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli | s.t. |  7 | Cameron Meyer | Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. |  8 | Kurt-Asle Arvesen | Sky Pro Cycling | s.t. |  9 | Grega Bole | Lampre - ISD | s.t. |  10 | Murilo Fischer | Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Daniele Bennati | Leopard - Trek | 16h07'40 | | 2 | Emanuele Vona | Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli | + 8 |  3 | Mark Cavendish | HTC - Highroad | + 10 |  4 | José Joaquín Rojas | Team Movistar | s.t. | | 5 | Anthony Geslin | FDJ | + 14 | | 6 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Astana | s.t. | | 7 | Marco Marcato | Vacansoleil - DCM | s.t. |  8 | Gerben Löwik | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 9 | Simon Clarke | Astana | + 15 | | 10 | Heinrich Haussler | Garmin - Cervélo | + 16 |
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 20-02-2011 18:39
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Great Bennati passed the Willunga hills, now overall should be secured!
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Posted on 20-02-2011 19:55
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+1 Also you gained points jersey, looks great
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Posted on 20-02-2011 20:02
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lluuiiggii wrote:
Great Bennati passed the Willunga hills, now overall should be secured!
Alakagom wrote:
+1 Also you gained points jersey, looks great
I think so too, the only thing that can stop now is a breakaway win or a crash.
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Posted on 20-02-2011 20:30
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Congrats. I failed twice with Hunter and Haussler to keep the overall when doing pace on that stage. You did it much better 
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Posted on 20-02-2011 20:39
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Thanks roturn.
Santos Tour Down Under - Stage 6 - Adelaide Circuit Race
Favourites
Daniele Bennati
Mark Cavendish
Theo Bos
My tip
If it ends up in a mass sprint, nobody should be able to match Bennati. Cavendish and Bos has been best of the other sprinters, but they have never been really close to Bennati. This will be victory number three for Bennati.
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Posted on 20-02-2011 23:36
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Well done on Willlunga, you dodged a bullet there and it came out alright. |
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Posted on 21-02-2011 06:21
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CountArach wrote:
Well done on Willlunga, you dodged a bullet there and it came out alright.
Thanks!
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Posted on 21-02-2011 06:58
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very nice TDU |
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Posted on 21-02-2011 08:03
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VladuuTs wrote:
very nice TDU
Thanks!
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| baia |
Posted on 21-02-2011 09:48
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Bennati is doing great,hope he can hold his lead... |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 21-02-2011 11:17
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baia wrote:
Bennati is doing great,hope he can hold his lead...
Thanks! I hope so too.
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Posted on 21-02-2011 16:17
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The start of today's stage, a circuit around the city of Adelaide.
The break of today was formed after some kilometers. We decided to send Jakob Fuglsang there to try and get some bonus seconds from the intermediate sprints. The other riders in the break was: Iglinskiy (Astana), Kryvtsov (Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli), Van Emden (Rabobank), Mori (Lampre - ISD), De Gendt (Vacansoleil), Hunt (Sky) and a bit surprisingly Levi Leipheimer (Radioshack).
It worked and Fuglsang easily took the first one ahead of Kryvtsov.
The peloton increased the pace and all breakaway riders were swepped up except Fuglsang, who just held on to take the second intermediate sprint and the bonus seconds.
With three kilometres left Posthuma was at the front to get Viganò and Bennati in a good position for the sprint. Fuglsang has started to get in good form and was actually sitting on Bennati's wheel.
With 2 km to the finish Viganò was in front. Just behind him was Bennati and Fuglsang. Cavendish, Bos and the other sprinters was nowhere to be seen.
Bennati accelerated with 1 km left. Still, no sign of Cavendish or Bos. On the right side of the road Dumoulin was accelerating from the back. Bozic and Renshaw was there too.
Bennati was never challenged, and took the stage win. Behind him Fuglsang managed to take second! This was a real sign of that the dane is in good form. The car tried to help Viganò to complete the podium, but Dumoulin just edged out the italian. But what a stage for Leopard!
Results
| 1 | Daniele Bennati | Leopard - Trek | 2h07'57 |  2 | Jakob Fuglsang | Leopard - Trek | s.t. | | 3 | Samuel Dumoulin | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 4 | Davide Viganò | Leopard - Trek | s.t. | | 5 | Guillaume Blot | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 6 | Borut Božic | Vacansoleil - DCM | s.t. |  7 | Aleksejs Saramotins | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. |  8 | Nico Sijmens | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 9 | Mickaël Buffaz | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 10 | Simon Clarke | Astana | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Daniele Bennati | Leopard - Trek | 18h15'24 | | 2 | Jakob Fuglsang | Leopard - Trek | + 19 | | 3 | Emanuele Vona | Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli | + 21 | | 4 | Mark Cavendish | HTC - Highroad | + 23 | | 5 | José Joaquín Rojas | Team Movistar | s.t. | | 6 | Anthony Geslin | FDJ | + 27 | | 7 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Astana | s.t. | | 8 | Marco Marcato | Vacansoleil - DCM | s.t. | | 9 | Gerben Löwik | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 10 | Simon Clarke | Astana | + 28 |
Individuals
What a great TdU this was for Leopard - Trek. Three stage wins, two jerseys and a 1-2 in both those classifications.
Edited by Pellizotti2 on 21-02-2011 16:18
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