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| Batista15 |
Posted on 12-05-2012 22:21
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Thanks for your support  Let´s continue with Paris - Nice!
For sure, we did not send our strongest squad to France for this Pro Tour Race. Anyway, it´s still a nice team choice to get some good results. Our sprint hope is Ben Swift with Sutton and Eisel on his side. For the overall, we took Bradley Wiggins. He still has to improve his shape with some race days. Surely, he will be able to do some nice stages for our team. Mike Rogers and Knees will try to support him in the mountains.
Our main opponents for the overall might be Valverde, Anton, Van den Broeck, Leipheimer, Kreuziger, Gesink, Menchov and guys like Albasini, Roche or even Fabian Cancellara.
The best sprinters over there are Hushovd, Swift and Mark Renshaw |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 12-05-2012 22:44
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Good Luck with the Race to the Sun 
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| PCM rulezz |
Posted on 13-05-2012 10:46
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good luck, I hope to see Bradley on the podium in Nice |
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| Zoom123 |
Posted on 13-05-2012 11:37
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PCM rulezz wrote:
good luck, I hope to see Bradley on the podium in Nice
+1 Hopefully Brad finishes high!
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 13-05-2012 13:14
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You have a very good chance of winning it, as usual you're biggest contender at PN will be Roman, but Sky can do it. Good luck
Edited by Alakagom on 13-05-2012 13:15
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 13-05-2012 13:27
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GL for PN go Wiggo 
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 16-05-2012 13:56
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Thanks a lot for the support. Hope you guys are right and Wiggins goes for a great result
First stage in France is quite flat, so the sprinters might be the happy guys at the end of today´s finish. Ben Swift is our man for the bunch sprints here. Let´s hope for a nice start.
Today´s break included a lot of nice sprinters. The group was also quite big, which wasn´t an advantage for our team in the pack. Tosatto and Vermeltfoort looked like the biggest danger, when it comes to a sprint in this breakaway.
Team Sky made the pace back in the peloton. Even Bradley Wiggins started his work, bringing our sprinters to the front. The break was still in front by one minute. This is going to be very close!
The sprint begins at the front, the pack is still too far away with 30 seconds. That means today´s stage winner is coming out of this 11-men group.
It´s a Rabobank guy, taking the stage win. Coen Vermeltfoort beats Haller and Gaudin on the final metres. Ben Swift finished in the pack with 23 seconds after that group. Pity, that no other team helped us with the pace today.
| 1 | Coen Vermeltfoort | Rabobank Cycling Team | 3h30'24 | | 2 | Marco Haller | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 3 | Damien Gaudin | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 4 | Matteo Tosatto | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 5 | Jack Bobridge | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | | 6 | Anthony Geslin | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 7 | David Le Lay | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 8 | Ruggero Marzoli | Acqua & Sapone | s.t. | | 9 | Sander Cordeel | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 10 | Martijn Keizer | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 11 | Dimitriy Muravyev | Astana Pro Team | + 23 | | 12 | Gert Steegmans | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 13 | Luca Paolini | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 14 | Samuel Dumoulin | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 15 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | s.t. |
| 1 | Coen Vermeltfoort | Rabobank Cycling Team | 3h30'13 | | 2 | Marco Haller | Katusha Team | + 7 | | 3 | Damien Gaudin | Team Europcar | + 8 | | 4 | Matteo Tosatto | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 5 | Ruggero Marzoli | Acqua & Sapone | s.t. | | 6 | Jack Bobridge | GreenEdge Cycling Team | + 11 | | 7 | Anthony Geslin | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 8 | David Le Lay | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 9 | Sander Cordeel | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 10 | Martijn Keizer | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 11 | Dimitriy Muravyev | Astana Pro Team | + 34 | | 12 | Gert Steegmans | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 13 | Luca Paolini | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 14 | Samuel Dumoulin | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 15 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | s.t. |
| 1 | Coen Vermeltfoort | Rabobank Cycling Team | 30 | | 2 | Marco Haller | Katusha Team | 22 | | 3 | Damien Gaudin | Team Europcar | 21 |
| 1 | Matteo Tosatto | Team Saxo Bank | 4 | | 2 | Marco Haller | Katusha Team | 2 | | 3 | David Le Lay | Saur - Sojasun | 1 |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 16-05-2012 13:59
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A steady start for the team 
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| andy222c |
Posted on 17-05-2012 12:15
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What a shame that nobody wanted to help the team doing the pace - Hopefully next stage will be better for Sky |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 19-05-2012 11:26
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andy222c wrote:
What a shame that nobody wanted to help the team doing the pace - Hopefully next stage will be better for Sky
You´re right! It´s really annoying to do all the work everytime. Hope to see some other teams at the front in the upcoming stages. |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 23-05-2012 16:32
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Hey guys, I would really like to continue with this story but I´ve got a big problem right now. Something is wrong with my PCM. I can´t open the game. There´s an error message but I really don´t know what it is actually. Will try to fix it  |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 23-05-2012 16:42
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Have you tried posting the error message in the Technical Forum, there's bound to be someone who could help you
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 23-05-2012 16:51
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sutty68 wrote:
Have you tried posting the error message in the Technical Forum, there's bound to be someone who could help you
No didn´t do that. I will try to take a screen of it. Hope there is someone, who can help me there. |
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 23-05-2012 17:20
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Hope you can solve your problem. Would be a pity to see this end earlier than expected.
Rest in Peace Wouter Weylandt and Xavi Tondo
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 23-05-2012 17:33
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Batista15 wrote:
sutty68 wrote:
Have you tried posting the error message in the Technical Forum, there's bound to be someone who could help you
No didn´t do that. I will try to take a screen of it. Hope there is someone, who can help me there.
Good Luck with the screen and hope someone helps
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 12-06-2012 22:28
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A very flat stage is waiting for us. This is a nice chance for the sprinters to get another win these days, before we continue with some harder stages.
Unfortunately no screen was taken by this stage, although I though I took some but anyway the second part of Paris-Nice wasn´t really exciting. A smaller group got the race lead very early before the pack controlled the race. The sprint teams were in front for many kilometres and when the final metres were reached, Team Sky lost the connection to the leading sprint trains. Dumoulin was the lucky one in the end. He was faster than all the favourites like Hushovd, Boasson Hagen, Cavendish and many more.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 12-06-2012 23:53
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Nice finish for Eisel
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| EdvaldBoassonHagen |
Posted on 13-06-2012 22:19
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I dedicate you my first post. Good Luck |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 15-06-2012 12:33
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EdvaldBoassonHagen wrote:
I dedicate you my first post. Good Luck
Good to see that Thanks a lot! |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 15-06-2012 12:42
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The first part of today´s stage might be very easy for the riders but with 25 kilometres to go, there´s a first test for the overall favourites with a nice climb. For sure there won´t be any decision but it´s still a nice chance to get some information about the opponents.
A quite big group was in front today with some interesting riders in it. Keizer, Marzoli and Haller were all in the overall Top 10. Haller was even second but the pack let them go. Our team squad had a very calm day.
Finally it was up to 4 riders to get that stage win. The pack was not interested in that stage. Marzoli was the new overall leader by this stage while Tjallingii took the stage in front of Muravyev and Ghyselinck.
Bernhard Eisel came in as 9th with Thor Hushovd winning the sprint of the pack. Everything is still possible for Bradley Wiggins. We´re looking forward to the upcoming days with a lot of action.
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