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Peter Sagan: The Quest For History
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| alex valceanu |
Posted on 27-07-2012 09:26
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hope u get your first points in Seraing . Its a difficult stage though. Good luck! |
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| TomC |
Posted on 27-07-2012 09:41
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Great ride in Italy, hope you can do even better in France  for me the most interesting will be Vuelta. How many race days will he has at the beginnig of Vuelta?
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 27-07-2012 13:46
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TomC wrote:
How many race days will he has at the beginnig of Vuelta?
42, He only rides the GT.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 27-07-2012 15:28
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Tour de France - Stage 2
Many are hinting at Sagan victory as the profile is built perfect for him,
well everyone expect for the odds makers who list him at 9:1.
Place your bets now that's a great deal!
A 6 man breakaway gets things started today.
And as they survive through the sprint,
the peloton gears up for a sprint for 7th and 9 points.
Well in fact it is no sprint at all!
Sagan just pokes his head out and takes the points.
The other sprinters were caught sleeping at the back of the peloton.
Sylvain Chavanel and Simon Gerrans try an attack with 25kms to go as the breakaway has started infighting but only are a minute up the road.
10kms to go and Vacansoleil does their job and brings everyone back together.
As the climb hits Liquigas is in a perfect position.
Nibali has Sagan on his back wheel and is hammering up the climb!
Nibali is on another level, the other climbers don't have enough time to put in an attack. And even Sagan is struggling to keep up with Vincenzo.
It's a 1-2 double for Liquigas! Nibali 1st and Sagan 2nd!
They just hit the final climb hard and nobody had time to challenge them.
And Peter Sagan slips on green,
now he just has to hold it for 19 more stages.
Stage
| 1 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | 4h41'13 | | 2 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | s.t. | | 3 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | s.t. | | 4 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 5 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 6 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 7 | Joaquin Rodriguez | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 8 | Igor Anton | Euskaltel Euskadi | s.t. | | 9 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 10 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | s.t. |
GC
| 1 | Lieuwe Westra | Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 4h49'01 | | 2 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | + 1 | | 3 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | + 12 | | 4 | Anthony Roux | FDJ-BigMat | + 13 | | 5 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 14 | | 6 | Luis León Sánchez | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 7 | Thor Hushovd | BMC Racing Team | + 15 | | 8 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | + 16 | | 9 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | + 17 | | 10 | Tiago Machado | Radioshack Nissan Trek | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | 34 | 34 | | 2 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | 30 | 30 | | 3 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | 22 | 29 | | 4 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | 7 | 24 | | 5 | Lieuwe Westra | Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 0 | 20 | | 6 | Maxime Bouet | Ag2r La Mondiale | 20 | 20 | | 7 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | 19 | 19 | | 8 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Lotto Belisol | 17 | 17 | | 9 | Jonathan Hivert | Saur - Sojasun | 17 | 17 | | 10 | Fabian Cancellara | Radioshack Nissan Trek | 0 | 15 |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 27-07-2012 15:35
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Liquigas at Mresuperstar hand: only one word to describe it - CLASS!!!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 27-07-2012 18:05
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What a great stage for both Sagan and the Liquigas team
Already Peter in the Green Jersey
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| alex valceanu |
Posted on 27-07-2012 18:07
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Hope u do the same at stage 4 ! |
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| ruben |
Posted on 27-07-2012 18:31
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Good going!
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 28-07-2012 10:50
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Been updating with this story. Congrats on taking the points jersey in the Giro, now let's do it again in the Tour.
Rest in Peace Wouter Weylandt and Xavi Tondo 
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 31-07-2012 16:53
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Tour de France - Stage 3
After a brilliant 2nd yesterday, Sagan will try to match that result
as he goes up against the pure sprinters today.
Looking good green, hopefully he can keep it all the way to Paris.
It's Orica-GreenEdge and Team Sky doing to pace making
as a 8 man morning breakaway slips away.
Looks like Cavendish and Goss are feeling up for the challenge.
The sprint point offers 7 points after the breakaway rides through.
Sagan grabs Goss' wheel but gets boxed in hard core.
As Goss manages to find a gap, he still can't beat
Cavendish who comes out of nowhere to take the 7 points.
Sagan gets no points as he was trapped in the peloton.
Sky does most of the work to bring the breakaway back with 11kms to go.
As the sprint trains line up Sagan has problems finding his train,
he then decides to go over to the Orica-GreenEdge train.
Cavendish has a prefect leadout as Sagan is struggling
after using a lot of energy getting over to follow Goss.
They hit the final turn, Cavendish hits his turbo.
Sagan is slipping down the field.
Mark Cavendish with an easy victory, on his standards.
Sagan finishes 16th and hands over the green jersey to Cavendish.
Not good, but he has a chance for revenge tomorrow on stage 4.
Stage
| 1 | Mark Cavendish | Sky Pro Cycling | 5h02'55 | | 2 | Daniele Bennati | Radioshack Nissan Trek | s.t. | | 3 | Romain Feillu | Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Matthew Goss | Orica-GreenEDGE | s.t. | | 5 | Manuel Belletti | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 6 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 7 | Greg Van Avermaet | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 8 | Bernhard Eisel | Sky Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 9 | André Greipel | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 10 | Thor Hushovd | BMC Racing Team | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Mark Cavendish | Sky Pro Cycling | 52 | 52 | | 2 | Daniele Bennati | Radioshack Nissan Trek | 35 | 42 | | 3 | Matthew Goss | Orica-GreenEDGE | 32 | 38 | | 4 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | 1 | 35 | | 5 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | 0 | 30 | | 6 | Romain Feillu | Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 30 | 30 | | 7 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | 0 | 29 | | 8 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Pro Cycling | 20 | 28 | | 9 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | 0 | 24 | | 10 | Lars Boom | Rabobank Cycling Team | 10 | 23 |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 31-07-2012 16:55
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Not the most brilliant stage for Sagan.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 31-07-2012 19:08
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16th place, not the best of finishes for Peter 
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 01-08-2012 11:26
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Things will be different in the next stage, I hope.
Rest in Peace Wouter Weylandt and Xavi Tondo
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| alex valceanu |
Posted on 01-08-2012 11:44
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WTF Belleti top 5 ? Benatii 2nd ? Stupid Cyanide . Anyway good luck ! The next stage is definately for Sagan. |
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 01-08-2012 22:05
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Tour de France - Stage 4
Although most of the spectators are sensing a strong performance
from Peter Sagan on the hills, the book makers consider him as an outside favourite with climbers like Evans and Andy Schleck tipped as potential winners.
It's a 8 man breakaway, including Liquigas rider Damiano Caruso,
that leads us through the sprint point.
So the peloton gets the opportunity to battle it out for 7 points.
And it is really nice tactic, or a really cheap one depending on your opinion, as Sagan and Oss sneak away from the peloton before the sprint point
and easily ride through to get the points available.
Behind them it's Cavendish beat a surprisingly strong Bennati, and then
Romain Feillu, Oscar Freire, and Tyler Farrar take the rest of the points.
As the hills intensify André Greipel finds himself on the pavement,
it's a very hard fall and at the end of the day
finds himself just making it inside the time limit.
Attacks from Evans, Valverde, and both Schlecks
eventually brings the breakaway back with 15kms to go.
And up the final hill the Canadian Ryder Hesjedal puts in the next attack!
Hesjedal has a 30 seconds advantage over the top,
behind Sagan just gets over the climb with the help of Basso.
The race quickly turns into Ryder Vs. the rest of the field.
Westra is starting to worry about losing his yellow jersey.
But the peloton is closing the gap as Nibali is leading the charge with Sagan hooked onto his back wheel. This looks very similar to what happen on stage 2, expect this time they are chasing down Hesjedal.
The finish has a tough uphill kick to the line,
will the Canadian be caught?
No! Ryder Hesjedal shows strong form to claim his first ever TDF stage win.
Nibali comes in 13 seconds later, and then the battle for 3rd goes to Samuel Sánchez in front of croud favourite Thomas Voeckler.
Sagan just couldn't keep up with Nibali and settles for 5th,
but does take the green jersey back from rival Cavendish.
Stage
| 1 | Ryder Hesjedal | Team Garmin-Barracuda | 4h33'25 | | 2 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | + 13 | | 3 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | + 22 | | 4 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 5 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | s.t. | | 6 | Fränk Schleck | Radioshack Nissan Trek | s.t. | | 7 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 8 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 9 | Peter Velits | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 10 | Andy Schleck | Radioshack Nissan Trek | s.t. |
GC
| 1 | Lieuwe Westra | Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 14h25'43 | | 2 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | + 11 | | 3 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | + 12 | | 4 | Ryder Hesjedal | Team Garmin-Barracuda | s.t. | | 5 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 14 | | 6 | Luis León Sánchez | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 7 | Thor Hushovd | BMC Racing Team | + 15 | | 8 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | + 16 | | 9 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | + 17 | | 10 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 21 |
Points
| 1 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | 24 | 59 | | 2 | Mark Cavendish | Sky Pro Cycling | 5 | 57 | | 3 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas-Cannondale | 25 | 55 | | 4 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel Euskadi | 22 | 51 | | 5 | Daniele Bennati | Radioshack Nissan Trek | 4 | 46 | | 6 | Matthew Goss | Orica-GreenEDGE | 0 | 38 | | 7 | Jonathan Hivert | Saur - Sojasun | 17 | 34 | | 8 | Romain Feillu | Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 3 | 33 | | 9 | Ryder Hesjedal | Team Garmin-Barracuda | 30 | 30 | | 10 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Lotto Belisol | 11 | 28 |
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 01-08-2012 22:16
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I can tell already that this is gonna be a fantastic battle for that jersey
also go Ryder!!
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| franki28 |
Posted on 01-08-2012 22:32
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Fantastic ride from Ryder! 
Great stage for Sagan and Nibbles!!
Maybe Sagan for the green and Nibali for the yellow? |
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 01-08-2012 23:39
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franki28 wrote:
Maybe Sagan for the green and Nibali for the yellow?
Sagan NEEDS to get green! 
And I'm going to try my best to win with Nibali, but for some reason I struggle with the Liguigas climbers. A top 5 will probably be more realistic with Nibbles.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 01-08-2012 23:39
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Nice result for Peter
And back in the green jersey too
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| ricotero_uy |
Posted on 01-08-2012 23:43
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It's better to see Sagan in green!
Great stage! |
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