You didnt win the young riders jersey

What is next in the month?

The Vuelta a la Communitat Valenciana where Contador will make his debut to build a little bit of form for Paris-Nice.

Nice- but if Contador doesn't podium, I may have to stop reading

His form isnt going to be that good I dont think

Still he is Contador, and i am pretty sure that race includes 3 hill stages, which he is great at.

Well there is a variant route on it and from what I remember theres definately 2 mountain stages

Even better for Contador

Team: Contador, Perez, Millar, Marzoli, Stevic, Swift, Stannard, Chtioui

Fran Perez will lead the team as he hones his form for Tirreno-Adratico. Millar is also building form for Tirreno while Contador is building towards Paris-Nice but in no real shape for overall contention.

Stage 1

A flat stae but plenty of hills, this will suit a sprinter who can handle the hills ... Ivan Stevic maybe?

With no sprint train, Millar brings Stevic to the front


Karpin's Dominguez was up there though so Stevic switched to him as Millar sat up.



Stevic dealt with Dominguez and with only Florencio to battle in the final kilometre....

... he wins


1 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 5h03'00
2 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
3 Gustavo Domínguez KARPIN GALICIA s.t.
4 Matthew Hayman RABOBANK s.t.
5 Joaquim Rodríguez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
6 Igor Abakoumov TEAM ASTANA s.t.
7 Mirko Celestino TEAM LPR s.t.
8 Yon Bru EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
9 Rodrigo García FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM s.t.
10 Aitor Pérez Arrieta CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
11 Rubén Plaza SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
12 Sebastian Langeveld RABOBANK s.t.
13 Carlos Eduardo Alzate EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
14 Danail Petrov SPORT LISBOA E BENFICA s.t.
15 Brett Lancaster TEAM MILRAM s.t.
16 René Haselbacher TEAM ASTANA s.t.
17 Iñigo Landaluze EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
18 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
19 Alberto Loddo TEAM MILRAM s.t.
20 Dioni Galparsoro EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
21 Maxim Iglinskiy TEAM ASTANA s.t.
22 Borut Bozic TEAM LPR s.t.
23 Diego Milán GRUPO NICOL�S MATEOS s.t.
24 Isidro Nozal KARPIN GALICIA s.t.
25 Alexeï Markov CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.

Nice win

im liking the team SN

Great start to the season... The team is looking pretty good...

Yes, nice win, but will you try to win with Contador if Perez has a bad race?

Good Win, good luck for the rest of the Race

Stage 2

A mountain stage today, of little action.


A break went away but noone particularly wanted to chose so they would fight for the win. Noone even seemed to fancy attacking either, apart from Perez who attacked at the foot of the final slope with 10km to go.


Joost Posthuma wins the stage and leaders jersey, Gustav Larsson is 2nd.


1 Joost Posthuma RABOBANK 3h59'55
2 Gustav Larsson RELAX - GAM + 38
3 Matteo Bono LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 1'39
4 Bert De Waele TEAM CSC + 1'48
5 Jorge Azanza EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
6 Matej Jurco TEAM MILRAM s.t.
7 Paolo Bailetti TEAM LPR s.t.
8 Diego Milán GRUPO NICOL�S MATEOS + 2'20
9 Luis Felipe Laverde CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
10 Claudio José Casas ANDALUC�A - CAJASUR s.t.
11 David García Dapena TEAM ASTANA + 3'12
12 Fran Pérez DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 3'23
13 Olivier Bonnaire BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 4'17
14 Iñigo Landaluze EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
15 Luis Pérez Romero ANDALUC�A - CAJASUR s.t.
16 Alexandr Kolobnev TEAM CSC s.t.
17 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
18 Luis León Sánchez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
19 Roberto Heras DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
20 Fortunato Baliani CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
21 Daniele Pietropolli CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
22 Patxi Vila LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
23 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
24 Rubén Plaza SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
25 Maxim Iglinskiy TEAM ASTANA s.t.
26 Alexis Castro DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
27 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC s.t.
28 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
29 Paco Lara ANDALUC�A - CAJASUR s.t.
30 Pablo Lastras CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.

GC
1 Joost Posthuma RABOBANK 9h02'52
2 Gustav Larsson RELAX - GAM + 39
3 Paolo Bailetti TEAM LPR + 1'51
4 Matej Jurco TEAM MILRAM s.t.
5 Bert De Waele TEAM CSC s.t.
6 Jorge Azanza EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
7 Diego Milán GRUPO NICOL�S MATEOS + 2'23
8 David García Dapena TEAM ASTANA + 3'15
9 Fran Pérez DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 3'26
10 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 4'10
11 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 4'14
12 Gustavo Domínguez KARPIN GALICIA + 4'16
13 Yon Bru EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 4'17
14 Iñigo Landaluze EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 4'20
15 Rubén Plaza SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
16 Maxim Iglinskiy TEAM ASTANA s.t.
17 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
18 Aitor Pérez Arrieta CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
19 Patxi Vila LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
20 Luis Pérez Romero ANDALUC�A - CAJASUR s.t.

We entered March and were very pleased to see this months awards winners:

Hold the phone - Perez attacks alone, then Posthuma suddenly wins

Anywho, nice winning of the monthly awards

Crommy, the break stayed away mate

And it stayed away because SN was supposed to chase it down as race leaders

Yeah, good ride, but you should have run it down SN

Why? Its on'y a preperation race, I dont care much about who wins the GC, it doesnt exactly give me any ProTour points.

The reason for the 'poor linkage' in the stage is that I only took about 3 screenshots.