Danileson!

Stats of Rodas?

Is the story DOA08?
(Dead on arrival of PCM08) ;-)

What? Because I havent posted anything in 4 days?

Give SN a Chance, PCM 08 has arrived so that doesnt mean that its over

Sorry I jumped to conclusions SN - I'll give you a break

Have you given thought to some sort of attempt at porting your DB over to 08 SN?
It'd be way cool if you could switch it over to PCM08 somehow

Not gonna happen. It will stay on PCM07

Stat boost for Deignan!

great boost, he'll be a great helper in the mountains this year

Sponsor Goal: Top 3, GC

Team Leader: Igor Anton

Other team members:
Cadel Evans
Edvald Boasson Hagen
Frederik Nolf
Justo Tenorio
Fran Perez
Saul Raisin
David de la Fuente

Stage 1

Igor Anton is just looking to limit his losses in the opening, short, prologue

Rodas is great !

Deignan is really good now too.

that's a pretty sweet team. i can see you've basically stopped writing this one. Busy with pcm08?

Some stages I played a while back but never got round to posting:



Stage 2

A flat stage with some tough hills in there. Not at his peak yet, Hagen hauled himself over and went for the sprint despite having nearly 2 red bars


It was obvious that he lacked the strength needed to challenge so he stopped sprinting before the end as Spanish champ Herrero took victory.




Stage 3

So, into the mountains we go


On the decisive climb, Heras of Astana went first but Anton was amongst the counterattackers


Heras was just too strong though. Bheind Heras, those who attacked ended up getting caught and a huge group of 24 formed, they couldnt catch the Doper though


Frustrating day for Anton, despite finishing 2nd


Things are looking good for July though. Cadel Evans is only just thinking about starting his Tour de France build up and is currently out of form, yet he was able to keep with the chase group until the final kilometre.


Raisin, de la Fuente, Perez, Tenorio and Hagen all finished in the next group across the line.

1 Roberto Heras TEAM ASTANA 5h14'01
2 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 48
3 Manuel Lloret DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
4 Alberto Losada CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
5 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK s.t.
6 Óscar Pereiro UNIBET.COM s.t.
7 Tiago Machado CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
8 Vincenzo Nibali T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
9 Jaume Rovira AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
10 Theo Eltink SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
11 Pedro Nicacio BARLOWORLD s.t.
12 Haimar Zubeldia SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
13 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC s.t.
14 Mikel Astarloza QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
15 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
16 Carlos Barredo RABOBANK s.t.
17 Juanma Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
18 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS s.t.
19 Sylvain Chavanel COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
20 Maxim Belkov BARLOWORLD s.t.
21 Giovanny Báez ANDALUC�A - CAJASUR s.t.
22 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA s.t.
23 Alexis Castro DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
24 Cadel Evans DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 1'41
25 Constantino Zaballa CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
26 Santos González KARPIN GALICIA + 3'13
27 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC s.t.
28 Iván Parra COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
29 Xavi Tondo TEAM ASTANA s.t.
30 Ugaitz Artola KARPIN GALICIA s.t.
31 Ezequiel Mosquera KARPIN GALICIA s.t.
32 Luis León Sánchez DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
33 Bernhard Kohl TEAM ASTANA s.t.
34 Vladimir Karpets RABOBANK s.t.
35 Sébastien Joly TEAM CSC s.t.
36 Bauke Mollema SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
37 David Herrero KARPIN GALICIA s.t.
38 Blaise Sonnery AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
39 Saul Raisin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
40 Alessandro Vanotti LIQUIGAS s.t.
41 David De la Fuente DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
42 Justo Tenorio DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
43 Fran Pérez DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
44 Edvald Boasson Hagen DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
45 Jai Crawford ANDALUC�A - CAJASUR s.t.
46 David Cañada SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
47 Oliver Zaugg GEROLSTEINER s.t.
48 Fränk Schleck TEAM CSC s.t.
49 Gustavo Domínguez KARPIN GALICIA s.t.
50 Isidro Nozal KARPIN GALICIA s.t.

GC
1 Roberto Heras TEAM ASTANA 9h24'58
2 Manuel Lloret DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 17
3 Pedro Nicacio BARLOWORLD + 18
4 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
5 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS s.t.
6 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK + 21
7 Sylvain Chavanel COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 22
8 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC + 23
9 Vincenzo Nibali T-MOBILE TEAM + 25
10 Alberto Losada CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 26
11 Juanma Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 27
12 Haimar Zubeldia SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 28
13 Mikel Astarloza QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
14 Carlos Barredo RABOBANK s.t.
15 Alexis Castro DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
16 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA + 29
17 Maxim Belkov BARLOWORLD + 30
18 Theo Eltink SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 31
19 Óscar Pereiro UNIBET.COM + 32
20 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
21 Giovanny Báez ANDALUC�A - CAJASUR + 38
22 Tiago Machado CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 48
23 Jaume Rovira AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 1'10
24 Cadel Evans DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 1'19
25 Constantino Zaballa CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 1'24

Is it back?

Stage 10

Bradley Wiggins abandoned the race today (tour is his main aim). Unibet's Danish Duo of Pedersen and Rasmussen led off the sprint, but could not hold off the strength of Eros Capecchi


It was a surprisingly attritional day for the team. 112 of the 191 strong peleton finished in the lead peleton - but of DFL, only Contador was in there.

1 Eros Capecchi LIQUIGAS 4h00'43
2 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
3 Alex Rasmussen UNIBET.COM s.t.
4 José Joaquín Rojas CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
5 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC s.t.
6 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
7 Assan Bazayev CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
8 Christopher Sutton UNIBET.COM s.t.
9 Tyler Farrar GEROLSTEINER s.t.
10 Martin Pedersen UNIBET.COM s.t.
11 Leonardo Duque CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
12 Carlos Eduardo Alzate EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
13 William Bonnet TEAM MILRAM s.t.
14 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
15 Allan Davis TEAM MILRAM s.t.


Stage 11

Heading back into the mountains with Contador holsding a 2 minute advantage over Rodas


In a headwind, the peleton split with Rodas, Di Luca, Soler and Gesink all getting an advantage - but it was soon back together again.

As expected the attacks came on the final climb - but unexpectedly it is Valverde who is the strongest, just ahead of Ricco and then Contador. Crucially, Rodas is further back


Contador was looking to catch the two riders in white infront of him (Valverde the ProTour leader, Ricco the best young rider) in the hope that they could work together


Gomez Marchante, Ortega, Rodas, Soler, Danielson and Di Luca are the chaseing group


The front 3 did eventually come together but with 2 red bars, Contador didnt want to push himself too hard and it seemed Ricco and Valverde were in the same situation so Rodas' group was able to catch the trio.

The good news was that the tough pace was too much for Danielson and Di Luca who were 4th and 3rd overall respectively.


Rodas has enough left in the tank to take the stage win, Contador taking 2nd. Rodas therefore gains 5 seconds in time bonuses.


1 Julián Rodas TEAM ASTANA 5h24'39
2 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
3 Mauricio Soler RABOBANK s.t.
4 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
5 Mauricio Ortega SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 23
6 Riccardo Riccò BARLOWORLD s.t.
7 Danilo Di Luca T-MOBILE TEAM + 1'13
8 Tom Danielson DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
9 José Angel Gómez Marchante TEAM CSC s.t.
10 Paolo Savoldelli LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 2'43
11 Matija Kvasina UNIBET.COM s.t.
12 Robert Gesink RABOBANK + 3'17
13 Damiano Cunego TEAM ASTANA s.t.
14 Samuel Sánchez TEAM ASTANA s.t.
15 Daniele Pietropolli CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
16 Sandy Casar FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
17 Andreas Klöden LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
18 Vladimir Efimkin PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
19 John-Lee Augustyn DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
20 Levi Leipheimer RABOBANK s.t.
21 Edwin Orozco BARLOWORLD s.t.
22 Matthias Ruß GEROLSTEINER + 4'15
23 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
24 Juan Carlos López EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
25 Amets Txurruka EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
26 Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQUIGAS s.t.
27 Leonardo Piepoli SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
28 Michael Rasmussen CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
29 Santiago Botero TEAM ASTANA s.t.
30 Manuel Medina CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
31 Francesco Bellotti BARLOWORLD s.t.
32 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS + 4'49
33 Eros Capecchi LIQUIGAS + 5'13
34 Philip Deignan DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 5'21
35 José Rujano DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
36 Alexander Efimkin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 5'55
37 Luca Mazzanti EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 6'12
38 Enrico Gasparotto LIQUIGAS + 6'27
39 Marco Marzano LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
40 Mauricio Ardila CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
41 Steve Zampieri COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
42 David Blanco CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
43 Leonardo Duque CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
44 Matthew Lloyd RABOBANK s.t.
45 Daniel Rincón DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
46 Pietro Caucchioli BARLOWORLD s.t.
47 José Joaquín Rojas CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
48 Giampaolo Cheula SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
49 Pierrick Fédrigo CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 7'04
50 �ngel Vicioso PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 7'28

GC
1 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 40h20'05
2 Julián Rodas TEAM ASTANA + 1'55
3 Mauricio Soler RABOBANK + 4'09
4 Danilo Di Luca T-MOBILE TEAM + 4'25
5 Riccardo Riccò BARLOWORLD + 4'31
6 Tom Danielson DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 4'46
7 Mauricio Ortega SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 5'02
8 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 6'59
9 Matija Kvasina UNIBET.COM + 9'08
10 Robert Gesink RABOBANK + 9'33
11 José Angel Gómez Marchante TEAM CSC + 10'05
12 Santiago Botero TEAM ASTANA + 10'10
13 Levi Leipheimer RABOBANK + 11'20
14 Paolo Savoldelli LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 11'34
15 Damiano Cunego TEAM ASTANA + 12'04
16 Edwin Orozco BARLOWORLD + 12'45
17 Juan Carlos López EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 13'09
18 Sandy Casar FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 13'17
19 John-Lee Augustyn DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 13'26
20 Eros Capecchi LIQUIGAS + 13'40
21 Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQUIGAS + 14'03
22 Andreas Klöden LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 14'06
23 Matthias Ruß GEROLSTEINER + 14'24
24 Daniele Pietropolli CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 14'28
25 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 14'44

Yay its back

can you upload david millars dfl champs jersey please?


looking good in the giro

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