Actually to be fair, the Doctor did reject him as his assistant, so they're no more interracial than before

racist or sexist?
theres never been a man

or homophobic?

Stage 2

Stage 2 and already were into the mountains. Rodriguez, Pliuschin and Nocentini are the 3-Star favourites - an unusual top 3 tips for a ProTour mountain stage!


The early part is all about attrittion and we see that Savoldelli will not be a threat. Nocentini crashed very early on but although his Ag2r teammates did not drop back to help him, he made it back and looked fine.

Igor Anton had a badly timed pucnture when the pack seemed to be going faster, but he brought himself back very well.


As we reached the final mountain of the day there was a flurry of attacks from pretty much everyone - both Pliuschin and Perez made an attempt.


But the pack kept a high pace and noone was able to get away. Zaugg and Vila did have an advantage but a few riders stuck at the front of the peleton and did a tremendous job, particularly Charly Wegelius.


With no one clear, it was just about descending and sprinting it out. With 67 sprint, Pliuschin can do well and is right at the front as the sprint begins.


He leads into the final kilometre but Rodriguez is closing


And the Caisse rider comes through to take the stage


Pliuschin is 2nd, and Nocentini edges out Vicioso for 3rd. Unbelievably the Cyanide bookmakers actually got the top 3 absolutely spot on when listing the 3-star favourites! They even got it in the right order!

2nd place is not at all bad for Pliuschin. It gives him 2 ProTour points and means he is the new race leader!

A large 39-man group was led in by Alessandro Pettacchi 35 minutes down. The group had been led by T-Mobile for much of the stage, after all - every single T-Mobile rider is in there! Cavendish must be in awesome form for them to be so keen to look after him.

Manan was even further behind this group but still inside the time limit.

1 Joaquim Rodríguez CAISSE D'EPARGNE 5h08'45
2 Aleksandr Pliuschin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
3 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
4 �ngel Vicioso TEAM MILRAM s.t.
5 Josep Jufré PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
6 Jérôme Pineau AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
7 Fran Pérez DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
8 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
9 Jaume Rovira TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
10 Tadej Valjavec LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
11 John-Lee Augustyn DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
12 Alexandr Kolobnev TEAM CSC s.t.
13 David Arroyo CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
14 Thomas Lövkvist TEAM MILRAM s.t.
15 Charles Wegelius LIQUIGAS s.t.
16 Julián Rodas TEAM ASTANA s.t.
17 Xavier Zandio CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
18 Rigoberto Urán DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
19 Mauricio Ortega SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
20 Freddy Piamonte QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
21 Guido Trentin SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
22 Iñigo Landaluze EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
23 Christophe Moreau CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
24 Sébastien Joly FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
25 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC s.t.
26 Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
27 Saul Raisin FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
28 Dioni Galparsoro EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
29 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS s.t.
30 Andrea Tonti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
31 Matthew Lloyd PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
32 Mikel Astarloza QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
33 Carlos Barredo RABOBANK s.t.
34 Wim Van Huffel DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
35 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
36 Antonio García González SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
37 Ricardo Mestre LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
38 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER s.t.
39 Paolo Tiralongo LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
40 Stefano Barberi QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
41 Oliver Zaugg GEROLSTEINER s.t.
42 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC s.t.
43 Cyril Dessel AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
44 Peter Velits TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
45 Patrice Halgand CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
46 Constantino Zaballa CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
47 Zdenek Stybar AGRITUBEL + 2'10
48 Steve Morabito TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
49 Xavi Tondo TEAM ASTANA s.t.
50 Sylvain Chavanel COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
51 Patxi Vila LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
52 Samuel Plouhinec AGRITUBEL s.t.
53 Philip Deignan DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
54 Alexandr Dyachenko UNIBET.COM + 3'27
55 Eduardo Gonzalo AGRITUBEL s.t.
56 Massimiliano Gentili QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
57 Sergio Ghisalberti TEAM MILRAM + 4'19
58 Alberto Losada CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 5'20
59 Pablo Lastras CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
60 Bingen Fernández COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 7'12
61 Mickael Buffaz COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
62 Joan Horrach CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
63 Tomislav Danculović DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
64 Pieter Weening RABOBANK + 8'01
65 David George DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
66 Julien Mazet TEAM ASTANA s.t.
67 Malcolm Lange UNIBET.COM + 9'51
68 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
69 Jairo Hernández AGRITUBEL s.t.
70 Blake Caldwell LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
71 Daniele Righi LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
72 Ondrej Sosenka UNIBET.COM s.t.
73 Sergei Kolesnikov UNIBET.COM s.t.
74 Cyrille Monnerais FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
75 Alberto Martínez AGRITUBEL s.t.
76 Ivan Santaromita QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
77 Francis Mourey FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
78 Alexander Khatuntsev UNIBET.COM s.t.
79 Christophe Le Mével CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
80 Serafín Martínez RABOBANK s.t.
81 Michael Schär TEAM ASTANA s.t.
82 Matej Mugerli LIQUIGAS s.t.
83 Iban Mayoz EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 11'18
84 Carl Naïbo AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
85 Paolo Savoldelli EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
86 Benoit Poilvet CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 12'12
87 Ignas Konovalovas DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
88 Anthony Charteau CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 12'48
89 Tim Klinger GEROLSTEINER s.t.
90 Staf Scheirlinckx LIQUIGAS + 13'30
91 Markus Zberg GEROLSTEINER + 14'22
92 Ronny Scholz GEROLSTEINER + 14'50
93 Preben Van Hecke PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
94 Fabio Gilioli UNIBET.COM + 15'54
95 David Lelay CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
96 Benoit Salmon AGRITUBEL + 16'42
97 Iosu Uribarrena SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
98 Eduard Vorganov EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 17'10
99 Rik Verbrugghe COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
100 Javier Mejías SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
101 Rubens Bertogliati SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
102 Tom Stamsnijder GEROLSTEINER s.t.
103 Massimilliano Mori LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
104 Kevin De Weert COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 18'14
105 Christian Leben TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 18'46
106 Nicolas Roche CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
107 Tim Gudsell FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
108 Steve Zampieri COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
109 Paolo Bossoni LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 19'38
110 Mikhail Timochine LIQUIGAS + 21'06
111 Nicolas Portal CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
112 Stefan Schaefer TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
113 Lucas De Visscher RABOBANK s.t.
114 Luke Roberts TEAM CSC + 21'42
115 Adam Blythe DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
116 Bradley Wiggins COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 27'40
117 Roberto Petito LIQUIGAS s.t.
118 Martin Mortensen LIQUIGAS s.t.
119 Koldo Fernández de Larrea EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
120 Joseba Zubeldia EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
121 Błażej Janiaczyk PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
122 Benny Dinkel TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
123 Torsten Schmidt TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
124 Rick Flens RABOBANK s.t.
125 Guennadi Mikhailov TEAM ASTANA s.t.
126 Sebastian Langeveld RABOBANK s.t.
127 Piotr Mazur SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
128 Patrick Calcagni LIQUIGAS + 28'34
129 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 30'13
130 Anders Lund TEAM CSC + 31'44
131 Robert Förster GEROLSTEINER s.t.
132 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM + 35'05
133 Sebastian Lang GEROLSTEINER s.t.
134 Matthew Hayman RABOBANK s.t.
135 Benoît Vaugrenard T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
136 Nico Keinath T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
137 Marco Pinotti T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
138 Maarten Tjallingii T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
139 Scott Davis T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
140 Óscar Freire RABOBANK s.t.
141 Erik Zabel PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
142 Martin Elmiger AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
143 Alessandro Proni QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
144 Gorik Gardeyn UNIBET.COM s.t.
145 Mark Cavendish T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
146 Antonio Quadranti UNIBET.COM s.t.
147 Thierry Marichal FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
148 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC s.t.
149 Alexandre Usov AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
150 Matthew Goss TEAM CSC s.t.
151 Andoni Lafuente EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
152 Tom Veelers COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
153 Hans Dekkers PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
154 Kam-Po Wong AGRITUBEL s.t.
155 Bert Roesems PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
156 Sebastian Siedler TEAM MILRAM s.t.
157 Javier Benítez TEAM MILRAM s.t.
158 Dirk Müller AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
159 Antonio Aldegani QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
160 Grégory Rast TEAM ASTANA s.t.
161 Igor Abakoumov TEAM ASTANA s.t.
162 Sébastien Chavanel FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
163 Thomas Ziegler T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
164 Alan Suchoparek DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
165 Alberto Loddo TEAM MILRAM s.t.
166 Lilian Jégou FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
167 Jakob Fiedler T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
168 Maxim Gourov TEAM ASTANA s.t.
169 Jonathan Balbuena AGRITUBEL s.t.
170 Uros Murn DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
171 William Bonnet CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 38'53
172 Anuar Manan DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 39'17
173 Gregory Baugé TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 40'05
174 Fuyu Li DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 42'37
175 Maarten De Jonge AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
176 Marcel Sieberg PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.

GC
1 Aleksandr Pliuschin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 5h14'04
2 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS + 4
3 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC + 5
4 Rigoberto Urán DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 11
5 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 13
6 Christophe Moreau CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 14
7 Joaquim Rodríguez CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 15
8 Fran Pérez DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
9 Xavier Zandio CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
10 Jérôme Pineau AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 19
11 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 21
12 Oliver Zaugg GEROLSTEINER + 22
13 John-Lee Augustyn DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 23
14 Peter Velits TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
15 Josep Jufré PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 25
16 �ngel Vicioso TEAM MILRAM + 26
17 Saul Raisin FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 27
18 Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 29
19 Alexandr Kolobnev TEAM CSC + 30
20 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 31

God damn it Sn. Now the world is going to end

Stage 3

Its the only flat stage of the race, but Manan still wont make it with the peleton to the finish, this race is more about building race form for the Giro, not actually grabbing a result. Stevic will be our sprinter today.


With the sprint in full flow, its clear that Cavendish is not as good as T-Mobile hoped, he and Freire are on the wrong side of the road and not strong enough. Zabel seems to have forgotten that he isnt a Milram rider anymore as he leads out Petacchi and Stevic.


But its the riders besides the 2 elite sprinters who are stronger: Sacchi and Rovira


Wiesenhof havent scored any ProTour points yet this season, can Rovira not only get them off the mark but also take a win? He can!!


Anton managed to crash within the final kilometre but he is okay and did not lose any time


1 Jaume Rovira TEAM WIESENHOF FELT 4h21'10
2 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
3 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
4 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
5 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
6 Erik Zabel PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
7 Martin Elmiger AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
8 Zdenek Stybar AGRITUBEL s.t.
9 Mickael Buffaz COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
10 Joaquim Rodríguez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
11 �ngel Vicioso TEAM MILRAM s.t.
12 Koldo Fernández de Larrea EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
13 Mark Cavendish T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
14 Jérôme Pineau AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
15 Cyril Dessel AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
16 Óscar Freire RABOBANK s.t.
17 Constantino Zaballa CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
18 Tom Stamsnijder GEROLSTEINER s.t.
19 Thomas Lövkvist TEAM MILRAM s.t.
20 Pablo Lastras CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
21 Sylvain Chavanel COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
22 Francis Mourey FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
23 Rik Verbrugghe COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
24 Dioni Galparsoro EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
25 Pieter Weening RABOBANK s.t.
26 Patrice Halgand CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
27 Iñigo Landaluze EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
28 Josep Jufré PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
29 Wim Van Huffel DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
30 Sebastian Langeveld RABOBANK s.t.
31 Maarten Tjallingii T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
32 Fabio Gilioli UNIBET.COM s.t.
33 Ondrej Sosenka UNIBET.COM s.t.
34 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
35 Matthew Lloyd PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
36 Alexander Khatuntsev UNIBET.COM s.t.
37 Malcolm Lange UNIBET.COM s.t.
38 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER s.t.
39 Carlos Barredo RABOBANK s.t.
40 Patrick Calcagni LIQUIGAS s.t.
41 Tomislav Danculović DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
42 Tom Veelers COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
43 Alexandr Dyachenko UNIBET.COM s.t.
44 Patxi Vila LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
45 Fran Pérez DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
46 Rigoberto Urán DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
47 Alexandr Kolobnev TEAM CSC s.t.
48 Ignas Konovalovas DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
49 Xavier Zandio CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
50 Aleksandr Pliuschin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
111 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
141 Adam Blythe DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 3'35
164 Anuar Manan DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 13'36


GC
1 Aleksandr Pliuschin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 9h35'14
2 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS + 4
3 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC + 5
4 Rigoberto Urán DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 11
5 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 13
6 Christophe Moreau CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 14
7 Joaquim Rodríguez CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 15
8 Fran Pérez DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
9 Xavier Zandio CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
10 Jérôme Pineau AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 19
11 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 21
12 Oliver Zaugg GEROLSTEINER + 22
13 John-Lee Augustyn DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 23
14 Peter Velits TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
15 Josep Jufré PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 25
16 Jaume Rovira TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 26
17 �ngel Vicioso TEAM MILRAM s.t.
18 Saul Raisin FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 27
19 Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 29
20 Alexandr Kolobnev TEAM CSC + 30
21 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 31

Rigoberto Uran has really excelled since coming to DFL. Last year his best ProTour results was the King of the Mountains jersey in Romandie, but this year he is currently placed 4th overall there and has also had 10th place in Amstel Gold and Fleche Wallone. He came to us at level 2 experience and has just now progressed to level 4.

Stage 4



Konovalovas went with the break that included Alessandro Petacchi


Konovalovas was the strongest of the breakaway, since he was the last to run out of energy - at 19km to go


Carlos Barredo kicked off the action as the decisive climb began. Uran, Perez and Pliuschin all tried to follow the moves


Barredo got a clear gap, but it didnt look like anyone else did


But infact, Voigt, Kreuziger, Moreau and Gil did hold a slight advantage. They joined forces with Barredo as Perez gave everything to try to catch them in


But Perez couldnt keep going forever and as he pulled off the front, the gap grew


Voigt piled on the pressure as the finish approached


And produces a gap, how does he do it???


Kreuziger and Gil pegged him back a little but it wasnt enough, Voigt takes the stage!


A fading Moreau clings on for 4th


Pliuschin hit the red in the final few hundred metres and was unable to do anything as the group split in 2


1 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC 4h06'29
2 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS + 8
3 Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
4 Christophe Moreau CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 48
5 Joaquim Rodríguez CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 1'10
6 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
7 Jaume Rovira TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
8 Josep Jufré PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
9 Wim Van Huffel DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
10 Oliver Zaugg GEROLSTEINER s.t.
11 Julián Rodas TEAM ASTANA s.t.
12 Tadej Valjavec LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 1'40
13 Carlos Barredo RABOBANK s.t.
14 Fran Pérez DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
15 �ngel Vicioso TEAM MILRAM s.t.
16 Aleksandr Pliuschin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
17 Xavier Zandio CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
18 Peter Velits TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 2'03
19 John-Lee Augustyn DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 2'16
20 Andrea Tonti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 2'36
21 Ricardo Mestre LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 2'50
22 Saul Raisin FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 3'07
23 Mikel Astarloza QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 3'23
24 Constantino Zaballa CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
25 Patrice Halgand CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 3'37
26 Pieter Weening RABOBANK + 3'48
27 Maarten Tjallingii T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
28 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC s.t.
29 Steve Morabito TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 4'04
30 Cyril Dessel AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 4'28
31 Jérôme Pineau AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
32 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER s.t.
33 Mauricio Ortega SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 4'36
34 Rigoberto Urán DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 4'44
35 Sébastien Joly FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 4'52
36 Dioni Galparsoro EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 5'00
37 Stefano Barberi QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
38 Iñigo Landaluze EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 5'08
39 Zdenek Stybar AGRITUBEL + 5'16
40 Philip Deignan DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
41 Thomas Lövkvist TEAM MILRAM + 5'24
42 Matthew Lloyd PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
43 Marco Pinotti T-MOBILE TEAM + 5'32
44 Charles Wegelius LIQUIGAS s.t.
45 Xavi Tondo TEAM ASTANA + 5'40
46 Julien Mazet TEAM ASTANA + 5'48
47 Pablo Lastras CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
48 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 5'56
49 Benoit Salmon AGRITUBEL s.t.
50 Sergio Ghisalberti TEAM MILRAM + 6'04
92 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 11'50
111 Ignas Konovalovas DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 15'26
112 Adam Blythe DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
117 Anuar Manan DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 15'58
173 Andoni Lafuente EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 28'22


GC
1 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC 13h41'38
2 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS + 11
3 Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 38
4 Christophe Moreau CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 1'07
5 Joaquim Rodríguez CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 1'30
6 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 1'36
7 Oliver Zaugg GEROLSTEINER + 1'37
8 Josep Jufré PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1'40
9 Jaume Rovira TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 1'41
10 Aleksandr Pliuschin DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 1'45
11 Fran Pérez DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 2'00
12 Xavier Zandio CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
13 Wim Van Huffel DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 2'01
14 Julián Rodas TEAM ASTANA + 2'04
15 �ngel Vicioso TEAM MILRAM + 2'11
16 Carlos Barredo RABOBANK + 2'26
17 Peter Velits TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 2'31
18 Tadej Valjavec LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 2'41
19 John-Lee Augustyn DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 2'44
20 Andrea Tonti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 3'38
29 Rigoberto Urán DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 5'00
38 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 6'32
82 Ignas Konovalovas DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 28'05
109 Adam Blythe DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 41'23
112 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 42'35
162 Anuar Manan DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 1h09'32
173 Fuyu Li DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1h22'09

Well Pliushkin in still in it. He still can come back.






Well I think having Martha disproves the racist part of it.

Yup, so long as he doesnt lose any more ground, the time trial will suit him.

How long is the time trial?

pheew ... now I'm up-to-date with this story...

Great job.
Very interesting as I play the PCM Spain as well and manage Team GLS. (Small danish team)
I also signed Pliushkin ... a good sign, I see :-)

Keep up the good work...

20k. Its the one which starts on a downhill and ends going up a hill. Tends to suit the climbers more than pure tters, so perfect for Pliuschin who can do both.

then sexist or homophobic

i'd be interested to see david tennant in those awkward romantic moments with a man

GP Herning

Although Nolf, Coyot and Hammond have tuned down their training and are not as strong as they were 3 weeks ago, they are expected to do well here in the final cobbled race of the spring. Im particularly keen to win since Mattan and Nolf had to settle for 2nd and 3rd here last year when Gorik Gardeyn outsprinted the pair

While I could do the destroy-all technique that worked in the Tro Bro Leon, it really isnt that interesting. So instead, Nolf and Coyot will race each other.

Coyot made his move first, attacking for a short bust to get a gap before riding away, with 90km to go.


With 66km to go, its Nolf's turn. He has a 3-minute deficit to overturn


Slowly but surely, Nolf closes in on Coyot and is nearly there on the last cobbled section, at 17km to go


Nolf does catch Coyot and looks the best bet for victory now


And this proves the case as Coyot cannot hang on and runs out of energy, he wont get 2nd place either since Casper and Grabsch are too close


Nolf celebrates win #2 of the season. Next stop: Giro.


Casper finishes 2nd, Grabsch 3rd and Coyot in 4th.


Geraint Thomas finishes a strong 6th, just behind Kurt-Asle Arvesen, while Roger Hammond rides in in 7th.


1 Frederik Nolf DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 5h50'01
2 Jimmy Casper UNIBET.COM + 1'25
3 Ralf Grabsch TEAM SPARKASSE s.t.
4 Arnaud Coyot DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 2'04
5 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 3'27
6 Geraint Thomas DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
7 Roger Hammond DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 4'33
8 Wim Vansevenant CONTINENTAL TEAM DIFFERDANGE + 5'06
9 Kristoffer Nielsen TEAM GLS s.t.
10 Allan Johansen TEAM CSC + 6'43
11 Bert De Waele TEAM CSC + 7'03
12 Stefan Löffler TEAM SPARKASSE + 8'25
13 Laszló Bodrogi DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 9'36
14 Daniel Foder TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN + 11'19
15 Jacob Moe Rasmussen TEAM GLS s.t.
16 Sébastien Turgot CONTINENTAL TEAM DIFFERDANGE s.t.
17 Sten Stenersen TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI + 13'26
18 Pavel Padrnos ATLAS - ROMER'S HAUSBÄCKEREI s.t.
19 Petr Dlask ATLAS - ROMER'S HAUSBÄCKEREI s.t.
20 Radomir Simunek Jr. BABES ONLY - VILLAPARK LINGEMEER - FLANDERS s.t.
21 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC + 13'51
22 Michael Blanchy BABES ONLY - VILLAPARK LINGEMEER - FLANDERS s.t.
23 Coen Vermeltfoort ELK HAUS - SIMPLON s.t.
24 Chris Sørensen TEAM 3C-GRUPPE LAMONTA s.t.
25 Nicki Sörensen TEAM CSC s.t.
26 Fredrik Johansson TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
27 Evgeni Petrov TEAM CSC s.t.
28 Joachim Bohler TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI s.t.
29 Aidis Kruopis ATLAS - ROMER'S HAUSBÄCKEREI s.t.
30 Rasmus Fjordside TEAM SPARKASSE s.t.
31 Heribert Wanski TEAM SPARKASSE s.t.
32 Niki Ostergaard CONTINENTAL TEAM DIFFERDANGE s.t.
33 Janif Hecht TEAM GLS + 15'54
34 André Steensen TEAM CSC + 16'33
35 Hannes Blank CONTINENTAL TEAM DIFFERDANGE s.t.
36 Der Zolt TEAM GLS + 17'02
37 Steven Thijs BABES ONLY - VILLAPARK LINGEMEER - FLANDERS s.t.
38 Jens Peter Kyvsgaard TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI s.t.
39 René Obst TEAM 3C-GRUPPE LAMONTA s.t.
40 Jonas Holmkvist TEAM 3C-GRUPPE LAMONTA s.t.
41 Mart Van Zandbeek BABES ONLY - VILLAPARK LINGEMEER - FLANDERS s.t.
42 Andreas Frisch TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
43 Christian Knørr CONTINENTAL TEAM DIFFERDANGE s.t.
44 Martin Comploi ELK HAUS - SIMPLON s.t.
45 Ivan De Nobile TEAM CSC s.t.
46 Victor Hugo Peña ELK HAUS - SIMPLON s.t.
47 Clemens Frankhauser ELK HAUS - SIMPLON s.t.
48 Laurent Didier BABES ONLY - VILLAPARK LINGEMEER - FLANDERS s.t.
49 René Schild TEAM SPARKASSE s.t.
50 Jens Debusschere BABES ONLY - VILLAPARK LINGEMEER - FLANDERS s.t.
51 Andreas Henig ATLAS - ROMER'S HAUSBÄCKEREI s.t.
52 Sebastian Skiba ACTION - UNIQA s.t.
53 Morten Knudsen CONTINENTAL TEAM DIFFERDANGE s.t.
54 Jochen Summer ELK HAUS - SIMPLON s.t.
55 Julien Absalon ACTION - UNIQA s.t.
56 Nikola Aistrup TEAM GLS s.t.
57 Felix Schäfermeier TEAM SPARKASSE s.t.
58 Tilo Schüler TEAM SPARKASSE s.t.
59 Søren Nissen CONTINENTAL TEAM DIFFERDANGE s.t.
60 David Abal ACTION - UNIQA s.t.
61 Fernando Torres TEAM GLS s.t.
62 Hamish Haynes DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.

Unfortunately, a picture of that entered into my head when I read that, and now I think that death may be the only respite from the emotional pain I am now feeling

Shame she couldn't act. At all

This year's companion is worse, I just watched the first episode (they started here in the U.S. on friday) and she is horrible, HORRIBLE

Nice result there... I'm just guessing, but did you, ever so possibly, win the teams classification as well?

Good win. I think you can make up some of the time in the 20km tt. How good are you at tt. I used to really suck. But once I figured out how to do it I am really good now.