Wow impressive story .. Really like it .. Keep going
And it's an impressive team you've build up..

Since being re-introduced, no British rider has won the Tour of Britain. But David Millar looks set to change that having taken 2 stage wins and shown a determination to keep the yellow jersey.

Theres 18 KoM points available today so when Adam Blythe sees Piet Rooijakers attack, he responds - the Dutchman is just 10 points behind Blythe. And by winning the first KoM climb in front of Tadel Kangert and Hu Wu, Blythe secures the jersey.


After that, Blythe just sat at the back of the group but the gap still got strong so McCann, Coyot, Oliphant and Haynes tried to reduce it


But with 25km to go, the gap is still 6 minutes and the lead rider in the GC of the break is Andreas Klier at 2'08. With 20 seconds also available on the line for time bonuses, and Klier having already picked up 10 seconds time bonuses from the intermediate sprints it is getting a bit desperate. Theres only one thing to do.

Millar attacks!


And its a green moment too! Millar rides as fast as possible towards the break.


If it werent for the Millar situation, Blythe would have gone for the stage win by attacking from his companions, but he is willing to sacrifice that and does his best to slow the break. It works - with 3km to go, Millar is less than a minute behind!


Blythe still halts it a little before starting to sprint at 2km to go. Barbero behind him is a strong sprinter - but he doesnt respond


Blythe actually pulls away! How is this possible?


I guess not relaying for much of the stage has kept him fresh. Blythe takes a big win - not only is it his first win - it's also his first top 10 result at all in his 2 seasons at DFL!


Millar comes in 8th, losing no time on the breakaway - he wins the Tour of Britain.


Its a good thing that Millar did attack - if he had stayed in the peleton, Klier would have won the GC.

1 Adam Blythe DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 3h11'23
2 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
3 Benoit Sinner AGRITUBEL s.t.
4 Piet Rooijakkers SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
5 Tanel Kangert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
6 Hu Wu LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER s.t.
7 Jaime Ramón Barbero FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM s.t.
8 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
9 Sven Renders CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
10 Gerald Ciolek T-MOBILE TEAM + 2'03
11 Matthew Goss TEAM CSC s.t.
12 Jos Van Emden RABOBANK CONTINENTAL s.t.
13 Nicolas Sanderson SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS s.t.
14 Aitor Galdos FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM s.t.
15 Robert Hunter BARLOWORLD s.t.
16 Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
17 Wes Sulzberger SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS s.t.
18 Kenny Van Hummel SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
19 Steve Schets CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
20 Steven Caethoven CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
21 Alexei Zaitsev FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM s.t.
22 Benny De Schrooder CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
23 Geoffroy Lequatre DUJA - TAVIRA s.t.
24 Kevin Pauwels FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM s.t.
25 Volodymyr Zagorodny SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS s.t.

GC
1 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 22h15'28
2 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM + 1'46
3 Jaime Ramón Barbero FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM + 2'09
4 Benoit Sinner AGRITUBEL + 2'14
5 Sven Renders CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
6 Wes Sulzberger SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS + 3'35
7 Steve Schets CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN + 3'37
8 Gerald Ciolek T-MOBILE TEAM + 3'40
9 David McCann DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 3'43
10 Bert Grabsch T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
11 Mikhail Ignatiev TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 3'44
12 Robert Hunter BARLOWORLD + 3'45
13 Bram Deprez LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER s.t.
14 Pedro Nicacio BARLOWORLD s.t.
15 Shaun Higgerson SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS + 3'47
16 Lars Boom RABOBANK CONTINENTAL + 3'48
17 Jos Van Emden RABOBANK CONTINENTAL + 3'50
18 Zdenek Stybar AGRITUBEL + 3'52
19 Kim Kirchen T-MOBILE TEAM + 3'53
20 Ben Day NAVIGATORS INSURANCE + 3'54
21 Oleg Chuzhda FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM + 3'57
22 Baoqing Song DUJA - TAVIRA s.t.
23 Andy Cappelle LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER + 3'58
24 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 4'00
25 Tom Leezer RABOBANK CONTINENTAL + 4'01
63 Hamish Haynes DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 7'47
71 Adam Blythe DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 11'42
85 Evan Oliphant DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 21'08
90 Arnaud Coyot DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 48'18

Points
1 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 94
2 Gerald Ciolek T-MOBILE TEAM 77
3 Steve Schets CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN 61
4 Robert Hunter BARLOWORLD 48
5 Kenny Van Hummel SKIL - SHIMANO 47
6 Matthew Goss TEAM CSC 44
7 Jos Van Emden RABOBANK CONTINENTAL 40
8 Wes Sulzberger SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS 36
9 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM 34
10 Stephen Wooldridge SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS 34
11 Adam Blythe DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 29
20 David McCann DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 20
29 Evan Oliphant DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 15

KoM
1 Adam Blythe DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 32
2 Piet Rooijakkers SKIL - SHIMANO 16
3 Jan Kuyckx LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER 14
4 Tanel Kangert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 12
5 Sifiso Holomisa TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 10
6 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 10
7 Efrem Salvi TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 8
8 Wes Sulzberger SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS 8
9 Stephen Wooldridge SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS 6
10 Emilien-Benoît Bergès AGRITUBEL 6
14 Evan Oliphant DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 4

smart move

great job by Millar

Super win by Blythe there, DFL dominated at their home tour. Well done SN, the Sponser will be happy. I wonder if they can fulfil the required money next year

I dont understand what you mean by 'fulfil the required money'?

They will need to give you a lot of money, if you are signing better riders, a lot of your riders are getting better so they will demand better salaries. understand now?

Yeh

Looks like you might have to bring on board another sponsor.

Ive already filled my 3 secondary sponsor slots

Stage 8

Its the final stages and possibly the decisive stage, due to its hilly nature. But with 3km to go, the peleton is still large and having drank 2 drinks in a raw (One to fill the green bar, one to fill the blue), Efimkin attacks


Bettini is too strong though


Efimkin can only watch as stronger riders pass him


Stage win for Bettini!


But Breschel wins the tour!

1 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 4h20'12
2 Andriy Grivko FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
3 Nick Nuyens COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
4 Laurens Ten Dam UNIBET.COM s.t.
5 John-Lee Augustyn DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 18
6 Alexander Efimkin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
7 Fabian Wegmann GEROLSTEINER s.t.
8 Samuel Sánchez TEAM ASTANA s.t.
9 Vincenzo Nibali T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
10 Manuel Lloret DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
11 Juanjo Cobo CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 32
12 Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
13 Steffen Wesemann TEAM MILRAM s.t.
14 Bernard Sulzberger DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
15 Ian Stannard DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
16 Sandy Casar FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
17 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC s.t.
18 Karsten Kroon LIQUIGAS s.t.
19 Fränk Schleck TEAM CSC s.t.
20 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER s.t.
21 Juan Antonio Flecha RABOBANK s.t.
22 Giampaolo Cheula SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
23 Björn Leukemans PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
24 Eros Capecchi LIQUIGAS + 1'13
25 Tadej Valjavec LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
26 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC s.t.
27 Gianni Meersman DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
28 Michael Schär TEAM ASTANA s.t.
29 Alexandr Kolobnev TEAM CSC s.t.
30 Giorgio Brambilla LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
31 Philip Deignan DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
32 Julien Mazet TEAM ASTANA s.t.
33 Santiago Botero SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
34 Uros Murn DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
35 Grischa Niermann RABOBANK s.t.
36 Graziano Gasparre AMORE E VITA - MCDONALD'S s.t.
37 Jesús Del Nero SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
38 Kevin Seeldraeyers QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
39 David Moncoutié COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
40 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC s.t.
41 Andrea Palini LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
42 Andrea Tonti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
43 Simone Ponzi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
44 Rick Flens RABOBANK s.t.
45 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC s.t.
46 Stéphane Augé COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
47 Joost Posthuma RABOBANK s.t.
48 Freddy Piamonte QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
49 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
50 Mark Cavendish T-MOBILE TEAM + 2'05

GC
1 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC 30h50'11
2 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER + 12
3 Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 18
4 Laurens Ten Dam UNIBET.COM + 22
5 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 27
6 Andriy Grivko FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 39
7 Nick Nuyens COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 40
8 Vincenzo Nibali T-MOBILE TEAM + 46
9 John-Lee Augustyn DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 48
10 Manuel Lloret DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
11 Samuel Sánchez TEAM ASTANA + 49
12 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 51
13 Alexander Efimkin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 56
14 Fabian Wegmann GEROLSTEINER + 57
15 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 58
16 Juanjo Cobo CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 59
17 Fränk Schleck TEAM CSC s.t.
18 Eros Capecchi LIQUIGAS + 1'00
19 Juan Antonio Flecha RABOBANK + 1'01
20 Giampaolo Cheula SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 1'02
21 Steffen Wesemann TEAM MILRAM + 1'04
22 Karsten Kroon LIQUIGAS + 1'08
23 Ian Stannard DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 1'10
24 Björn Leukemans PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1'13
25 Sandy Casar FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 1'17
26 William Bonnet CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 1'19
27 Mark Cavendish T-MOBILE TEAM + 1'36
28 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC + 1'40
29 Alexandr Kolobnev TEAM CSC s.t.
30 Graziano Gasparre AMORE E VITA - MCDONALD'S s.t.
56 Ben Swift DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 3'07
100 Bernard Sulzberger DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 12'33
104 Geraint Thomas DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 13'09
116 Rhys Pollock DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 17'33
161 Chris Hoy DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 39'37
162 Mickey Smith DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 39'41

Great win with Millar!

And Blythe

Bad luck for Efimkin

Danm Bettini
great riding with millar though

Stage 14

This is the first of 2 consecutive mountain stages - the only 2 remaining mountain stages. But the route looks more hilly than mountainy, ending up the Jaizkibel.


Anton needs 22 seconds for the race lead but more more than that to keep it to Madrid so attacks at the foot of the Jaizkibel.


Noone responds as he builds a gap


He has a minute when Brajkovic eventually does respond


But the Slovenian is passed by Pereiro


Anton will take the stage, and regains the race lead


Pereiro takes 2nd 1'07 behind while Cunego leads in Brajkovic 1'24 back.


Hagen was also active in the finale, attacking with Di Luca, and Rovira. He is now a serious threat for a Top 10 place and is looking to keep his place in it. He moves up ahead of Gusev and Luis Leon Sanchez into 8th.

1 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 5h08'40
2 Óscar Pereiro CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 1'07
3 Damiano Cunego TEAM ASTANA + 1'24
4 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
5 Riccardo Riccò SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
6 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS + 1'57
7 Haimar Zubeldia RABOBANK s.t.
8 Jaume Rovira TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 2'14
9 Danilo Di Luca UNIBET.COM s.t.
10 Edvald Boasson Hagen DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
11 Eladio Jiménez KARPIN GALICIA + 2'33
12 Matija Kvasina PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
13 Mikel Astarloza QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
14 Sylvain Chavanel COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 2'52
15 Steve Zampieri COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
16 Iván Parra COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
17 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
18 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
19 Pietro Caucchioli COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
20 Patxi Vila LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
21 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC s.t.
22 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
23 Sébastien Joly FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
24 Evgeni Petrov TEAM CSC s.t.
25 Saul Raisin FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
26 Josep Jufré PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
27 José Azevedo LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
28 Jussi Veikkanen FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
29 Julián Rodas TEAM ASTANA s.t.
30 Mario Aerts PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
31 Roberto Heras DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
32 Stijn Devolder EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
33 Toni Colom TEAM ASTANA s.t.
34 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
35 David Blanco RABOBANK s.t.
36 Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQUIGAS s.t.
37 José Joaquín Rojas CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
38 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
39 Xavi Tondo TEAM ASTANA s.t.
40 Sergio Paulinho DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
41 Carlos Barredo RABOBANK s.t.
42 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
43 Alberto Losada CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
44 Ignas Konovalovas DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
45 Thomas Lövkvist TEAM MILRAM s.t.
46 Aitor Pérez Arrieta CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
47 Ezequiel Mosquera KARPIN GALICIA s.t.
48 Massimiliano Gentili QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
49 Alexis Castro DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
50 Luis León Sánchez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
51 Juanma Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
52 Luca Paolini LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
53 José Rujano DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
54 David Herrero KARPIN GALICIA s.t.
55 Rigoberto Urán DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
56 Michael Rasmussen DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
57 Dimitri Muravyev TEAM ASTANA s.t.
58 Steve Morabito TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
59 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS s.t.
60 Jürgen Van De Walle QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
61 Giovanni Visconti TEAM ASTANA s.t.
62 Pieter Weening RABOBANK s.t.
63 Daniel Lloyd DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
64 Manuele Mori FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
65 Alberto Martínez AGRITUBEL s.t.
66 Rafaâ Chtioui DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
67 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t.
68 �ngel Vicioso TEAM MILRAM s.t.
69 Matthew Lloyd PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
70 Martin Gilbert TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
71 Charles Wegelius LIQUIGAS s.t.
72 Alberto Benítez SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
73 Patrice Halgand CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
74 Enrico Gasparotto LIQUIGAS s.t.
75 Rubén Reig KARPIN GALICIA s.t.

GC
1 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 56h29'24
2 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1'03
3 Óscar Pereiro CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 3'05
4 Haimar Zubeldia RABOBANK + 4'06
5 Stijn Devolder EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 5'49
6 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 7'49
7 Damiano Cunego TEAM ASTANA + 9'19
8 Edvald Boasson Hagen DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 11'52
9 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 11'55
10 Luis León Sánchez CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 12'15
11 Matija Kvasina PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 12'17
12 Riccardo Riccò SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 12'31
13 Mikel Astarloza QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 12'56
14 José Rujano DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 13'58
15 Julián Rodas TEAM ASTANA + 14'02
16 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 14'57
17 Toni Colom TEAM ASTANA + 15'09
18 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS + 15'20
19 Danilo Di Luca UNIBET.COM + 15'44
20 Eladio Jiménez KARPIN GALICIA + 15'46
21 Sergio Paulinho DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 16'16
22 Rigoberto Urán DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 16'23
23 David Blanco RABOBANK + 16'43
24 Roberto Heras DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 17'03
25 Jaume Rovira TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 17'07
26 Juanma Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 17'15
27 Josep Jufré PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 17'23
28 Xavi Tondo TEAM ASTANA + 18'11
29 Charles Wegelius LIQUIGAS + 18'13
30 Ezequiel Mosquera KARPIN GALICIA + 18'19

great win

great riding, go anton!!!!

If tomorows stage is harder than this one you can gain a lot of time on Brajkovic

Good job it is harder then:

Go Anton! You'll win this now!