You haven't accidentally knocked the difficulty down to easy have you? Good work SN, keep it up!

Well it is quite easy to win races with a rider in good form and no strong enough opposition The difficulty is definately not on easy though.



Stage 2

Same story as Stage 1 really. Swift gave Stevic perfect positioning, Stevic began his sprint with over 2km to go, Stevic won.


1 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 5h08'12
2 Erik Zabel PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
3 Saïd Haddou CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
4 Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
5 Maurizio Biondo TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
6 Jacob Moe Rasmussen TEAM GLS s.t.
7 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
8 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t.
9 Marcus Burghardt T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
10 Kurt Hovelynck CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
11 Marco Zanotti ELK HAUS - SIMPLON s.t.
12 Murilo Fischer LIQUIGAS s.t.
13 Thomas Oredsson TEAM GLS s.t.
14 Aart Vierhouten SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
15 Stefano Zanini PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
16 Gerrit Glomser TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI s.t.
17 Jonas Hoberg ACTION - UNIQA s.t.
18 Daniel Foder TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
19 Ben Swift DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
20 Piet Rooijakkers SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.

Stage 3

Swift was not as strong today so Stevic kept close to the front before repeating the previous tactic of sprinting early.


He wins again!


1 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 5h01'57
2 Saïd Haddou CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
3 Maurizio Biondo TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
4 Erik Zabel PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
5 Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
6 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t.
7 Aart Vierhouten SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
8 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
9 Marcus Burghardt T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
10 Murilo Fischer LIQUIGAS s.t.
11 Jonas Hoberg ACTION - UNIQA s.t.
12 Daniel Foder TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
13 Marco Zanotti ELK HAUS - SIMPLON s.t.
14 Kasper Jebjerg TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
15 Kurt Hovelynck CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
16 Thomas Oredsson TEAM GLS s.t.
17 Jacob Moe Rasmussen TEAM GLS s.t.
18 Linas Balciunas LIQUIGAS s.t.
19 Fabien Bacquet SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
20 Fredrik Johansson TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
21 Piet Rooijakkers SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
22 Gerrit Glomser TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI s.t.
23 Jesper Odgaard Nielsen TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
24 Allan Johansen TEAM CSC s.t.
25 Ben Swift DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.

oh hat-trick!


great riding

Wow great hat trick! he must be in stomping form, great riding!

His form is slowly deteriorating. It is currently 69/78 and 13/13.

Stats boost for Swift:

Great stuff, already makes a great lead out man, he will be even better next year

Swifty's gonna be good

Nice! Which button is the celebrating button with one hand in the air?

I think it C isnt it?

Both C and V have that style of celebration

I like Q thats always a good one B)

Yeh, I used that for Stage 1 in Denmark

I love that screen he isnt fully up, but just raising his arms

Actually, he's lowering them I agree that its a good screenshot though

Lol, the animation is reversed on the way down anyway, so only you would have known

Looks like he's trying to hug someone

I dont blame him, i would if i had just won a race

Ive finished racing San Sebastien but Im going to wait until this topic reaches Page 50 before posting it

i help you to reach the 50th page ...

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