Team: Nolf, Coyot, Hammond, Thomas, Hagen, Bodrogi, Stannard, Oliphant

There were no attacks at all on any of the Kemmelberg climbs, which is a surprise. Instead a factor should be the high winds.


But as the Lampre and Predictor riders slowed, Breschel was left with a slight gap. Coyot quickly spotted the danger and rode across to him.


The duo joined together and started to work hard. With the head winds, getting a gap is hard - but it would also be hard for the gap to be lowered again.


In their furious chase of the leading duo, Ballan, Hoste and Gilbert break clear of everyone else.


But they seem unable to claw back the 2 leaders, and Coyot leads out the sprint.


Breschel is obviously the better sprinter, and the young Dane comes through to take victory! Coyot clings on for a great 2nd place


1 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC 5h40'57
2 Arnaud Coyot DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
3 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
4 Philippe Gilbert FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
5 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
6 Steffen Wesemann TEAM MILRAM + 45
7 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS s.t.
8 Marcus Burghardt T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
9 Kevin Van Impe RABOBANK s.t.
10 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
11 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
12 Frederik Nolf DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
13 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC + 1'45
14 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
15 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
16 Sébastien Rosseler QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
17 Nick Nuyens COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
18 Staf Scheirlinckx LIQUIGAS s.t.
19 Juan Antonio Flecha RABOBANK s.t.
20 Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
21 Roberto Petito LIQUIGAS s.t.
22 Enrico Franzoï LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
23 Erik Zabel PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
24 Luca Paolini LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
25 David Kopp GEROLSTEINER s.t.
26 Geraint Thomas DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
27 Dimitri Muravyev TEAM ASTANA s.t.
28 Jesús Del Nero SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
29 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
30 Wim De Vocht PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
31 Roger Hammond DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
32 Stijn Devolder EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
33 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 3'24
34 Evert Verbist CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
35 Geert Steurs PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 4'36
36 Wouter Weylandt QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
37 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
38 Max Van Heeswijk COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
39 André Greipel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
40 Bert Roesems PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
41 Enrico Gasparotto LIQUIGAS s.t.
42 Gorik Gardeyn UNIBET.COM s.t.
43 Matthew Hayman RABOBANK s.t.
44 Bobbie Traksel DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
45 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
46 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
47 Fabio Baldato COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
48 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER s.t.
49 Edvald Boasson Hagen DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
50 Fran Ventoso SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
51 Markus Eichler UNIBET.COM s.t.
52 Sergei Ivanov TEAM ASTANA s.t.
53 Wilfried Cretskens QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
54 Yuri Trofimov QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
55 Manuel Quinziato LIQUIGAS s.t.
56 Kevin Hulsmans QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
57 Servais Knaven T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
58 Gil Suray TEAM CSC s.t.
59 Gianni Meersman DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
60 Anders Lund TEAM CSC s.t.
61 Fumiyuki Beppu DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
62 Damien Gaudin LIQUIGAS s.t.
63 Bert De Waele TEAM CSC s.t.
64 Cédric Vasseur LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
65 Laszló Bodrogi DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
66 Alberto Ongarato LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
67 Allan Johansen TEAM CSC s.t.
68 Sébastien Chavanel FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 6'34
69 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
70 Björn Leukemans PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
71 Olivier Kaisen PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
72 Gerben Löwik RABOBANK s.t.
73 Sebastian Siedler TEAM MILRAM s.t.
74 Thomas Ziegler T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
75 Óscar Freire RABOBANK s.t.
76 Elia Rigotto TEAM MILRAM s.t.
77 Jimmy Casper UNIBET.COM s.t.
78 Rik Verbrugghe COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
79 Mikhail Timochine LIQUIGAS s.t.
80 Imanol Erviti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
81 Martin Elmiger AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
82 Raivis Belohvosciks SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
83 Markus Zberg GEROLSTEINER s.t.
84 Ludovic Auger FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
85 Kevin Neirynck LIQUIGAS s.t.
86 Wim Van Huffel DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
87 Frederik Veuchelen CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
88 Benoît Vaugrenard T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
89 William Bonnet CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
90 Paolo Bossoni LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
91 Alexandre Usov AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
92 Guennadi Mikhailov TEAM ASTANA s.t.
93 Koen De Kort TEAM ASTANA s.t.
94 Yuri Krivtsov AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
95 Stefan Van Dijk TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
96 Pieter Ghyllebert CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
97 Graeme Brown RABOBANK s.t.
98 Christopher Sutton COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
99 Olaf Pollack GEROLSTEINER s.t.
100 Brett Lancaster TEAM MILRAM s.t.
101 Johan Coenen CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
102 Geert Verheyen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
103 Igor Abakoumov TEAM ASTANA s.t.
104 Alexei Kolessov TEAM ASTANA s.t.
105 Ian Stannard DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
106 Koen Barbé CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
107 Björn Schröder CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
108 Constantino Zaballa CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
109 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC s.t.
110 Stéphane Augé COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 9'23
111 Iñigo Landaluze EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
112 Mathieu Ladagnous FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
113 Sébastien Joly FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
114 Evan Oliphant DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
115 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 10'19
116 Tom Stamsnijder GEROLSTEINER s.t.
117 Alex Rasmussen UNIBET.COM s.t.
118 Francis Mourey FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
119 Marvin Van der Pluijm UNIBET.COM s.t.
120 Jakob Piil T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
121 Tyler Farrar COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
122 Bram Schmitz RABOBANK s.t.
123 Niels Scheuneman UNIBET.COM s.t.
124 Michael Schär TEAM ASTANA s.t.
125 Sebastian Schwager TEAM MILRAM s.t.
126 Nicolas Portal CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
127 Niki Terpstra TEAM MILRAM s.t.
128 René Haselbacher TEAM ASTANA + 11'31
129 Francesco Chicchi UNIBET.COM + 12'11
130 Lilian Jégou FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
131 Antonio Quadranti UNIBET.COM s.t.
132 Jean-Marc Bideau TEAM MILRAM s.t.
133 Jussi Veikkanen FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
134 Alexander Kvachuk SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
135 Rick Flens RABOBANK s.t.
136 Assan Bazayev CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
137 Pablo Lastras CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
138 Iñaki Isasi EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
139 Artur Gajek TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
140 Koldo Fernández de Larrea EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
141 Maarten Wynants GEROLSTEINER s.t.
142 Florent Brard CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
143 Rubens Bertogliati SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
144 Yannick Talabardon SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
145 Jason McCartney DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
146 Vladimir Bileka DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
147 Arkaitz Durán SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
148 Robert Retschke TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
149 Beñat Albízuri EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
150 Jelle Vanendert TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
151 Eric Berthou CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
152 Jose Segura GEROLSTEINER s.t.
153 Kenny Lisabeth CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
154 Nicolas Rousseau AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 15'31
155 Christophe Moreau CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
156 Robert Wagner TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
157 Didier Lerda AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
158 Felix Odebrecht TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
159 Alan Pérez EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
160 Iban Mayoz EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
161 Jonathan Hivert CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
162 Glenn D'Hollander CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
163 Nicolas Roche CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
164 Tim Klinger GEROLSTEINER s.t.
165 José Luis Arrieta AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
166 Martin Velits TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
167 Alberto Losada CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
168 Enrique Ferreira CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
169 Benoit Poilvet CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
170 David Navas AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
171 Carlos Zárate SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 16'59
172 Sébastien Portal CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 17'55
173 Carl Naïbo AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
174 Iban Iriondo EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
175 Sébastien Hinault CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 18'51
176 Gregory Baugé TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 19'39

The win seems closer and closer...

Matti!!

And nice ride by Coyot also

I knew youd like the Breschel result He is the current ProTour leader!

2nd in both the Tour of Flanders and Gent-Wevelgem, nice job

Team: Contador, Millar, Uran, Stevic, Manan, Pliuschin, Lloyd, Efimkin

Hopefully Contador (Or maybe even Millar) can get a top 10 finish in the GC.

Stage 1

Despite a flat run it to the finish, the sprint is set to start at 1.5km to go. We get our riders close to the front but it is Schleck in pole position


And Schleck wins!


1 Fränk Schleck TEAM CSC 3h51'19
2 Kim Kirchen T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
3 Carlos Barredo RABOBANK s.t.
4 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
5 Alexander Efimkin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
6 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
7 Óscar Pereiro CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
8 Riccardo Riccò SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
9 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS s.t.
10 Héctor Guerra CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
11 Cândido Barbosa EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
12 Luis León Sánchez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
13 Vincenzo Nibali T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
14 Davide Rebellin GEROLSTEINER s.t.
15 Fabian Wegmann GEROLSTEINER s.t.
16 Chris Horner PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
17 David Arroyo CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
18 Giovanni Visconti TEAM ASTANA s.t.
19 Rigoberto Urán DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
20 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
21 Pierrick Fédrigo CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
22 Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQUIGAS s.t.
23 Juanma Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
24 Andriy Grivko FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
25 Laurens Ten Dam UNIBET.COM s.t.
26 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
27 Sylvain Chavanel COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
28 Sergei Kolesnikov UNIBET.COM s.t.
29 Mickael Buffaz COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
30 Juanjo Cobo CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.

Stage 2

Contador led the attacks on the main hill of the day, but Schleck proves to be the strongest


Schleck descends with a lead over Valverde. Contador is only slightly ahead of the pack and will be caught


Schleck wins his 2nd stage in a row, Valverde takes 2nd


A good 3rd place for David Millar


1 Fränk Schleck TEAM CSC 4h13'05
2 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
3 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 32
4 Laurens Ten Dam UNIBET.COM s.t.
5 Manuele Mori FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
6 Andrea Moletta GEROLSTEINER s.t.
7 Fabian Wegmann GEROLSTEINER s.t.
8 Joost Posthuma RABOBANK s.t.
9 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
10 Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQUIGAS s.t.
11 Linus Gerdemann QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
12 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
13 Marcus Ljungqvist LIQUIGAS s.t.
14 Danilo Di Luca UNIBET.COM s.t.
15 Juanjo Cobo CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
16 Simone Masciarelli DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
17 Manuel Lloret DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
18 Aleksandr Pliuschin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
19 Davide Rebellin GEROLSTEINER s.t.
20 Pierrick Fédrigo CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
21 Rigoberto Urán DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
22 Andrea Tonti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
23 Josep Jufré PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
24 Ondrej Sosenka UNIBET.COM s.t.
25 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
26 Mikel Astarloza QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
27 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS s.t.
28 Sylvain Chavanel COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
29 Andriy Grivko FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
30 Amets Txurruka EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.

GC
1 Fränk Schleck TEAM CSC 8h04'24
2 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
3 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 32
4 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
5 Fabian Wegmann GEROLSTEINER s.t.
6 Laurens Ten Dam UNIBET.COM s.t.
7 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
8 Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQUIGAS s.t.
9 Davide Rebellin GEROLSTEINER s.t.
10 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS s.t.
11 Rigoberto Urán DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
12 Pierrick Fédrigo CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
13 Luis León Sánchez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
14 Juanjo Cobo CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
15 Manuele Mori FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.

Keep it up, good luck with Millar

2 very nice 2nd places - now win Paris-Roubaix

Yeah good results. Winning Paris-Roubaix will be a challenge for you.

You do know with that sentence, you just made this my undisputed favourite story

And about Roubaix you surely have a chance winning it with Nolf. A 78 cobbler can, with a good daily form, win Paris-Roubaix in PCM. And somehow I think you'll do it.

The main issue is the sprint stat, to win Paris-Roubaix I need to come to the finish on my own, and thats going to be really hard. I think ill have a better chance in 2009.

You never know, I got away and won alone with Gilbert, and his stats are reasonable close to those of Nolf

brilliant results ion the cobbles
i've never had a ronde van vlaanderen with 32 riders in the same group

Paris-Roubaix is more about luck than anything else - so lets hope for a mass crash just before you enter the Velodrome

Yeah, once I was playing with Lampre in a single race, and a group of 30 riders were about to enter the Velodrome together, and two of my riders, Ballan with 0, and Bennati with +5, were in the group. Still Bennati was had no blue bar, and was struggling to keep up, so their was no way he was going to beat someone like Boonen in a sprint. My best chance was for Ballan to attack. When I told Ballan to attack, he caused a mass crash, bringing down 29 riders. The only rider still up being......Bennati, so desptie running out of green bar with .5 kilometers to go, I won by a fraction over Boonen, who had got up and chased him down. But still, I won Paris-Roubaix on hard with Bennati

My laptop is messed up and I dont know whether the Hard Drive is damaged or not, but whether it is or not, I cannot access it. And since i cant access it, I have no way of continuing the story.

Hopefully, the hard drive will be fine, but if not, then thats the end of the story.

I hope it gets fixed. This is an exciting story.

Oh dear hopefully this wont be the end of a great story

it really would be a great shame to loose this story

Yeah, tough luck