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Chasing Legends |> Europcar TDF 2011
TheManxMissile
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Introduction


Welcome to the first Chasing Legends Challenge.
DB; PCMDaily2011
Real Startlist
Race Difficulty Hard to begin with


The Challange

With Europcar;
Podium in the GC
2+ Stage Wins
Young Rider win

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Team Europcar


Squad

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Voeckler


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Thomas Voeckler leads the team. A classic fighter with 2 stage wins over the last 2 Tours. This year Thomas aims again for stage wins and many breaks.

Rolland


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Pierre Rolland is one of Frances beast climbing talents. He will tackle the mountains hard, hoping to keep with the favorites as long as possible.
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Tour de France 2011


The Route


www.letour.fr/2011/TDF/img/lacarte.jpg

The key points of the year are the finishes up to Luz-Ardiden, Palteau de Beille, Col du Calibier and Alpe d'Huez. The short amount of time trialing will help the pure climbers even more.

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The Favorites


Spoiler:
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Good Luck Wink
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Can't wait for this although i think Rolland will out perform Voekler in the end. Good luck going for the podium you'll need it.
 
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good luck with this
 
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Sounds like a hard job, getting a podium place. Good luck with it!


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Good luck Grin
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Stage 1


Preview


www.letour.fr/PHOTOS/TDF/2011/100/PROFIL.gif

191.5km from Passage Du Gois off the coast, inland to the top of the Mont des Alouettes.
The final climb is 2.2km at 4.7% avg.
A day for the punchers or a strong sprinter.

Favorites; Gilbert, Hushovd and Cavendish

Europcar; Our plan for the day is to get a either Gene or Quemenur in the break. We dont have a rider who can contest the finish so it will mostly be about saving energy for the three weeks ahead.

The Stage


Km 1 The first attack of the Tour. Seiberg, Gene, Gutierez, Bodnar and Terpstra try to build a gap.
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Seiberg attack the peloton

Km 3 Bonnet, R.Perez, Bazayev, Tjallingi, Hondo and Engoulvent bridge across.

Km 7 Seiberg and Bodnar go clear together.

Km 9 The BMC lead peloton brings it all back together

Km 10 More attacks as Leukemans, Ignatiev, Gallopin, Bonnet, Steegmans, Buffaz, Bodnar and Gene try it again

Km 13 Tjallingi, R.Perez and Irizar bridge the gap

Km 22 Vaitkus, Reolandts, Malori, Coyot, Minard and Gutierez latch onto the leaders

Km 30 F.Schleck suffers a puncture but remains with the peloton

Km 32 Saxobank, BMC and Garmin bring back the breakaway

Km 39 Vaitkus, Steegmans, Buffaz, Irizar, Boom, Ivanov, Leukemans and Quemeneur grab a minutes lead
Gallopin, R.Perez, Coyot, Gutierez, Minard, Bonnet and Roelandts form a second group

Km 45 The second group is caught, and the first group is let clear quickly gaining 2minutes

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The Break in the Vendee countryside

Km 80 This years first IS. Ivanov takes it easily. Steegmans is 2nd and Quemenur 3rd
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Ivanov wins the Intermediate Sprint

Km 90 The gap starts to decrease from a maximum of 6:36

Km 161 With 30km to go the gap is 2:00

Km 167 Leukemans, Boom, Ivanov, Quemenur, Irizar and Vaitkus attack

Km 171 With 20km to go the gap is 1:12, and Cancellara attacks

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Spartacus launches one

Km 176 The days break is caught, but Cancellara is still 30" up the road

Km 180 Cancellara is caught by the bunch

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The peloton swallows Cancellara

Km 189 Europcar are trying to move forward to mix it up, but get blocked out, and attention shifts to the front of the race.

900m to go Rojas is the first to go down the left of the road
600m to go Boasson-Hagen bursts down the centre of the road, Feillu is trying to stay with him
200m to go Feillu goes round Hagen to the left
100m to go Rolland suddenly appears on the far left and lunges for the line

Finish
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Feillu holds on to take his first Tour victory. Rolland shocks in 2nd as Hagen fades to 3rd.

Full Stage and GC

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Points

Spoiler:


King of the Mountains

Spoiler:


Young

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Team

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Comment

We started well. Quemenur got in the break and took 3rd at the IS, a perfect start. The team got boxed in towards the finish and somehow weaved through to the front right at the end. Rolland was desperately close to a win, and is showing great form.
In fact Rolland will wear the Points jersey for the TTT tomorrow and stage 3 as well.
Europcar lead the team standings so at least we cant be overtaken tomorrow.
An amazing start but we wont be able to keep this up.

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Edited by TheManxMissile on 04-06-2012 01:06
 
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thats the first stage done and up
let me know what you think of the style etc.

i know theres a lot of europcar quys up there
i was boxed out with 2km to go, so just watched the front of the race
then suddenly 3 of them appeared, dont know how
this was played on medium just to get a feel, i will switch up to hard for a bit
 
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Three in the first five, thats a Great start for the team Smile
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Good that Rolland picks up some bonification seconds so early (or are you playing without them?)


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I doubt there are any bonification seconds just the prize of pride.
 
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Well, at least he has that, then Pfft at least almost.


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no bonus seconds unfortunately
great showing for the team in the home region

2nd stage will be up later this evening, im not great at TTT's so prepare for that
 
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Keep the good start going TMM Wink
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Stage 2


Preview


www.letour.fr/PHOTOS/TDF/2011/200/PROFIL.gif

The Team Time Trial returns after a years hiatus. The 23km route is as flat as possible and the specialists will shine.

Favorites; Leopard-Trek, HTC-Highroad, Garmin-Cervelo

Europcar; With no real time trial skills in the team we will just be looking to save energy and do what we can.

The Stage


Saur-Sojasun opened the day. They looked good to begin with, but fell down to last by the finish.

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Saur-Sojasun negotiate a roundabout

FDJ set out to try and not lose too much time. They came in just ahead of Saur

Liquigas they had a disappointing opening and look to keep Basso near the front. They struggled losing 1'32

Saxo Bank Contador will looking to stay neat the other favorites. The team came in 1'38 down in 20th

Euskatel another weak tt team and again struggled. Sanchez lost 1'31

Katusha the Russian train initially looked strong but faded to 9th

BMC one of the days outside favorites and looking after Evans. BMC set a good benchmark early on, holding on to 4th.

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BMC race by the fans

Rabobank one of the days surprises, setting very confident intermediate times and the first under 30'00. They finished the day in 2nd

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Rabobank powering to 2nd

Radioshack the shack looked good and rode fast, taking a solid 3rd place

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Radioshack flick past a roundabout

Omega-Pharma the Belgians laboured home in 19th

Movistar another weak tt team, finishing 11th beating expectations

AG2R outperformed themselves being best of the french in 7th

Cofidis just getting through the day in 15th

Lampre the Italians came in 12th after a solid ride

Garmin outsiders for the stage started fast but couldn't hold it together, ending up 5th

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The sun shines over Garmin

Quick.Step another surprise ride into 8th

Vacansoleil the yellow jersey tried hard to hold on, but fell to 10th by the finish

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Feillu glowing in yellow

Sky Wiggins felt good about the GC, and still can with a 6th place

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Sky seeing the finish

Astana they floundered and ended up back in 17th

HTC could Cav's grab yellow, no. HTC fell apart crawling home in 14th

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A disappointing HTC-Highroad

Leopard the favorites delivered, as Cancellara guided them home 1st in 29'31

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Cancellara monstered the course

Europcar valiantly dug deep. Last at both checks on the road the guys rallied to finish 13th

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Europcar cross the line

Stage

1 Leopard Trek 29'31
2 Rabobank Cycling Team + 10
3 Team RadioShack + 41
Spoiler:


GC

1 Fabian Cancellara Leopard Trek 5h11'31
2 Fränk Schleck Leopard Trek s.t.
3 Jakob Fuglsang Leopard Trek s.t.
4 Joost Posthuma Leopard Trek s.t.
5 Jens Voigt Leopard Trek s.t.
6 Linus Gerdemann Leopard Trek + 3
7 Andy Schleck Leopard Trek + 6
8 Maxime Monfort Leopard Trek + 8
9 Robert Gesink Rabobank Cycling Team + 10
10 Luis León Sánchez Rabobank Cycling Team s.t.
Spoiler:


Points

1 Romain Feillu Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team 26
2 Sergueï Ivanov Katusha Team 20
3 Edvald Boasson Hagen Sky ProCycling 18
4 Pierre Rolland Team Europcar 17
5 Gert Steegmans Quick·Step Cycling Team 17
Spoiler:


King of the Mountains

1 Romain Feillu Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team 1

Young

1 Robert Gesink Rabobank Cycling Team 5h11'41 (1)
2 Bauke Mollema Rabobank Cycling Team + 19 (2)
3 Michael Schär BMC Racing Team + 44 (3)
4 Rigoberto Urán Sky ProCycling + 48 (6)
5 Geraint Thomas Sky ProCycling + 48 (5)
Spoiler:


Team

1 Leopard Trek 29'31
2 Rabobank Cycling Team + 10
3 Team RadioShack + 41
Spoiler:


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A solid, surprisingly good ride from the squad.
We minimized our losses and are in a good position to get in the breaks over the next week.
Edited by TheManxMissile on 04-06-2012 19:28
 
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Not bad at all, for Europcar.


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I like the way you highlight your rider's names in green, suits Europcar, of course Grin
About the TTT, it's very nice that you commented on every team, it makes people much more interested in the story, I think. It makes it a little more realistic, you almost feel like you're a real reporter, in a way.
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