how is contador not there?

Contador's fitness is 11/80

Super Win for Anton, you dominated there! Good luck at the world championships!

Im gunning for one of your Brit achievements. Win the world championships with a Brit is one of them I believe.

Great Vuelta!

Go Millar

Time Trial

With no Cancellara, and no Zabriskie (Infact, no USA team at all), this race is wide open. Reigning champion Botero is also missing.


Stefan Schumacher starts first in his first race since the Tour of California (No injuries, he just hasnt raced) but he is nearly caught by Jose Ivan Gutierrez who sets the first benchmark.


Vladimir Gusev beat Gutierrez by 13 seconds after the likes of Schar, Quinziato, Vaugrenard and Posthuma had failed to keep up with their good starts.


David Millar on the other hand was imrpoving the further into the time trial he went and smashed Gusev's time by 47 seconds


But Brajkovic was soon to finish, having led at both check points. But he was 10 seconds slower than Millar


Cornu took 3rd, 12 seconds behind Millar


But theres a new lead time at the 2nd checkpoint, faster than anyone - its Bradley Wiggins! Wiggins even passes Popovych with 2km to go


Would he beat Millar? Does it matter - whatever happens, DFL will have the World TT champion next season.



1 Bradley Wiggins COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 1h04'14
2 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 5
3 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 16
4 Dominique Cornu PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 18
5 Luis León Sánchez CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 42
6 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 50
7 Vladimir Karpets RABOBANK + 53
8 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK + 59
9 José Iván Gutiérrez CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 1'06
10 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
11 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 1'08
12 Dmytro Grabovskyy QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
13 Julián Rodas TEAM ASTANA + 1'11
14 Michiel Elijzen COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 1'17
15 Joost Posthuma RABOBANK + 1'18
16 Manuel Quinziato LIQUIGAS s.t.
17 Benoît Vaugrenard T-MOBILE TEAM + 1'21
18 Martin Mortensen LIQUIGAS s.t.
19 Michael Schär TEAM ASTANA + 1'23
20 Peter Velits TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 1'29
21 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
22 Haimar Zubeldia RABOBANK + 1'30
23 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 1'31
24 Sébastien Minard TEAM TENAX - MENIKINI + 1'40
25 Vincenzo Nibali T-MOBILE TEAM + 1'41
26 Bert Roesems PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1'43
27 Luke Roberts TEAM CSC + 1'45
28 Manuel Lloret DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1'46
29 Sergio Paulinho DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1'47
30 Benoît Joachim TEAM ASTANA + 1'54
31 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC + 1'56
32 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
33 Jérôme Coppel AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 1'57
34 Bernhard Kohl TEAM ASTANA + 2'01
35 Sisto Artoni SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI - SELLE ITALIA + 2'07
36 Bert Grabsch T-MOBILE TEAM + 2'12
37 André Steensen TEAM CSC + 2'13
38 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA + 2'19
39 Jurgen Van den Broeck PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 2'23
40 Stefan Schumacher TEAM SLIPSTREAM + 2'28
41 Rubens Bertogliati SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 2'30
42 Andreas Klöden LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 2'35
43 Mark Jamieson LA - MSS - MILANEZA + 2'38
44 José Azevedo LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 2'49
45 Thomas Frei TEAM ASTANA s.t.

great job getting the ITT Rainbows next year, now for the RR Rainbow (just don't get it with Hammond)

Maybe a stupid question but here it is: Why isn't Fabien Cancellara participating ? This should be one of his goals for the season

WAHT! Epic! Great stuff, does this mean i need to do a world champ jersey? Or shall i just make a new DFL

Try looking in your Jersey topic. I requested a whole load of jerseys earlier - rjc's made some (Including Wolrd ITT) but theres plenty left

Great win with Wiggins!

For some strange reason he normally doesn't ride it...................Blame Dankan

no USA....boycott???....I think it is a British conspiracy

Road Race

Spain
1. A.Valverde
2. J.Flecha
3. J.I.Gutiérrez
4. O.Pereiro
5. J.Rodríguez
6. J.J.Rojas
7. L.L.Sánchez
8. S.Sánchez
9. C.Zaballa

Italy
11. D.Di Luca
12. A.Ballan
13. L.Bertagnolli
14. P.Bettini
15. D.Cunego
16. R.Nocentini
17. F.Pellizotti
18. F.Pozzato
19. G.Visconti

Luxembourg
21. F.Schleck
22. B.Joachim
23. K.Kirchen
24. C.Poos
25. A.Schleck

Germany
31. S.Schumacher
32. M.Burghardt
33. L.Gerdemann
34. A.Klier
35. A.Klöden
36. C.Knees
37. P.Martens
38. B.Papstein
39. J.Voigt

Netherlands
41. T.Dekker
42. R.Gesink
43. K.Kroon
44. J.Posthuma
45. L.Ten Dam
46. M.Tjallingii
47. P.Weening

Colombia
51. R.Urán
52. L.Duque
53. J.Rodas

Ukraine
61. A.Grivko
62. D.Grabovskyy
63. V.Gustov
64. A.Kvachuk
65. Y.Popovych

Switzerland
71. S.Morabito
72. M.Albasini
73. F.Cancellara
74. M.Elmiger
75. M.Schär
76. S.Wesemann
77. S.Zampieri

Belgium
81. P.Gilbert
82. M.Aerts
83. T.Boonen
84. L.Hoste
85. B.Leukemans
86. N.Nuyens
87. G.Van Avermaet
88. J.Vansummeren
89. R.Verbrugghe

Russia
91. I.Rovny
92. A.Efimkin
93. M.Ignatiev
94. V.Karpets
95. Y.Trofimov

Lithuania
101. I.Konovalovas
102. D.Kairelis
103. T.Vaitkus

France
111. S.Joly
112. Sy.Chavanel
113. J.Gadret
114. Y.Huguet
115. D.Moncoutié
116. J.Pineau
117. B.Salmon

Norway
121. E.Boasson Hagen
122. K.Arvesen
123. T.Hushovd

Australia
131. S.O'Grady
132. A.Davis
133. M.Lloyd
134. M.Rogers
135. B.Sulzberger
136. W.Sulzberger
137. C.Sutton

Denmark
141. M.Breschel
142. M.Mortensen
143. M.Rasmussen
144. A.Steensen
145. N.Sörensen

Portugal
151. V.Rodrigues
152. J.Azevedo
153. C.Barbosa
154. R.Mestre
155. S.Paulinho

Austria
161. B.Kohl
162. S.Denifl
163. B.Eisel

Slovenia
171. J.Brajkovic
172. M.Mugerli
173. U.Murn
174. T.Valjavec
175. P.Velits

Great Britain
181. D.Millar
182. A.Blythe
183. M.Cavendish
184. D.Lloyd
185. I.Stannard
186. C.Wegelius

Alex Efimkin was the only DFL member of the 10 man breakaway

M. Lloyd, Kohl, Moncoutie, Steensen, Kloden, Mestre, Duque, Tjalingii and Gustov are also there.

Cavendish and Dan Lloyd are dropped from the peleton with over 100km to go - Stannard too, just ahead of them



Wegelius and Blythe let go with 45km to go, leaving just Millar in the peleton when the break is caught.

As the break is caught, Morabito attacks - countered by Uran and Konovalovas!


Ballan also attacks and goes past the trio


Uran and Konovalovas cant seem to catch Ballan, despite dropping Morabito


And Uran eventually drops Konovalovas but it wont be enough


Ballan is the new world champion!


A great result for Uran to take 2nd - looking good ahead of Lombardia.


An equally impressive result for Konovalovas in 3rd.


Who else takes 4th but Edvald Boasson Hagen! Its a DFL 2-3-4. (If I had been controlling them it would have been 1-2-3 ).


David Millar was happy to settle for 30th.

1 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL 7h08'46
2 Rigoberto Urán DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 57
3 Ignas Konovalovas DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 1'51
4 Edvald Boasson Hagen DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 2'43
5 Damiano Cunego TEAM ASTANA s.t.
6 Stefan Schumacher TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
7 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
8 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
9 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC s.t.
10 Philippe Gilbert FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
11 José Joaquín Rojas CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
12 Constantino Zaballa CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
13 Fränk Schleck TEAM CSC s.t.
14 Steve Morabito TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
15 Óscar Pereiro CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
16 José Iván Gutiérrez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
17 Björn Leukemans PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
18 Joaquim Rodríguez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
19 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
20 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t.
21 Laurens Ten Dam UNIBET.COM s.t.
22 Mario Aerts PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
23 Robert Gesink RABOBANK s.t.
24 Ivan Rovny LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
25 Rik Verbrugghe COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
26 Samuel Sánchez TEAM ASTANA s.t.
27 Christian Knees ELK HAUS - SIMPLON s.t.
28 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC s.t.
29 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA s.t.
30 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
31 Michael Rasmussen DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
32 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK s.t.
33 Yuri Trofimov QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
34 Vladimir Karpets RABOBANK s.t.
35 Tadej Valjavec LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
36 Andriy Grivko FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
37 Nicki Sörensen TEAM CSC s.t.
38 Luis León Sánchez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
39 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS + 4'31
40 Danilo Di Luca UNIBET.COM s.t.
41 Pieter Weening RABOBANK + 5'24
42 Sébastien Joly FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
43 Jérôme Pineau AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
44 John Gadret AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
45 Paul Martens SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
46 Uros Murn DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
47 Kim Kirchen T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
48 Dainius Kairelis BARLOWORLD s.t.
49 Sylvain Chavanel COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
50 Mikhail Ignatiev TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
51 Sergio Paulinho DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
52 Nick Nuyens COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
53 Benoit Salmon AGRITUBEL s.t.
54 Yann Huguet COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
55 Michael Albasini LIQUIGAS s.t.
56 Vitor Rodrigues LIBERTY SEGUROS s.t.
57 Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQUIGAS s.t.
58 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
59 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC s.t.
60 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
61 Julián Rodas TEAM ASTANA s.t.
62 Peter Velits TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
63 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
64 Joost Posthuma RABOBANK s.t.
65 Steffen Wesemann TEAM MILRAM s.t.
66 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
67 Dmytro Grabovskyy QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
68 Michael Schär TEAM ASTANA s.t.
69 Karsten Kroon LIQUIGAS s.t.
70 Linus Gerdemann QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
71 Steve Zampieri COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
72 Matej Mugerli LIQUIGAS s.t.
73 Giovanni Visconti TEAM ASTANA s.t.
74 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
75 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
76 José Azevedo LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 7'01
77 Cândido Barbosa EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
78 Ricardo Mestre LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
79 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 7'39
80 Alexander Efimkin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 8'26
81 Andreas Klöden LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 9'08
82 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS + 9'31
83 Adam Blythe DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
84 Charles Wegelius LIQUIGAS s.t.
85 Bernhard Kohl TEAM ASTANA s.t.
86 Maarten Tjallingii T-MOBILE TEAM + 10'34
87 Volodymyr Gustov VITÓRIA - ASC + 11'06
88 Alexander Kvachuk SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 11'58
89 Bernard Sulzberger DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
90 Stefan Denifl ELK HAUS - SIMPLON s.t.
91 Matthew Lloyd PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 12'44
92 Juan Antonio Flecha RABOBANK s.t.
93 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 14'04
94 Martin Elmiger AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
95 Johan Vansummeren QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 15'24
96 Björn Papstein TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 16'09
97 André Steensen TEAM CSC s.t.
98 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 16'32
99 Martin Mortensen LIQUIGAS + 19'03
100 Marcus Burghardt T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
101 Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
102 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM + 20'23
103 Allan Davis TEAM MILRAM s.t.
104 Mark Cavendish T-MOBILE TEAM + 20'47
105 Christian Poos DUJA - TAVIRA s.t.
106 Christopher Sutton COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
107 Daniel Lloyd DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 23'19
108 Benoît Joachim TEAM ASTANA s.t.
109 Ian Stannard DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
110 Wes Sulzberger SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS + 27'19
111 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM + 28'39
112 David Moncoutié COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 32'07

2-3-4 are the worst places you could get rigth?
anyway, it's still a great result when you look at the fact they where AI controlled. it means your riders are way too good

2-3-4 is still a great result though, I wasnt sure what to expect beforehand.

I dont actually think the AI target the World Championships at the form peak. I was in Hannes changing some World Championships settings for the Road Race (Getting Britain more riders, replacing Poland with Lithuania, and putting DFL riders in some of the lineup they deserved to be in) and none of the big names are really in much form - and theyve all raced too much so their race day form is poor.

Im very optimistic with Uran for Lombardia though - he wasnt quite peaked at the Worlds so will still get stronger, and its a race that was won by Matteo Carrarra last year So im hoping for no competition and an easy win

The first picture is wrong, AND how much do you get for having a cycling-manager.it comercial in the picture with Uran and Konovalovas, just betwenn Schumacher and Valverde's names?

Aww unlucky, but i think 1 world champion is by far good enough! Well done, great season

Like I said no USA, I think it is a British conspiracy

The problem with USA is that they take part in the transfers and buy players (American or not) which triggers some setting somewhere making them unable to take part in the Worlds.