Voltali still in the top 10

What happened to Rossetto there?
It looked like he could get a fluke stage win
As expected the stage wasn't selective at all so hopefully the "real" mountain stage is going to produce some solid gaps

On another note:
What is actually going to happen to Mondory now that he has tested positive in real life?

Unmanaged teams ftw <3

Nice to see Damuseau showing his worth in CT.

Yeah, CCC has been really unlucky this season

@Brewers

That TT was more of a prologue, and with the hill stage earlier, the game decided that it didn't suit Van Garderen, so I guess you can call that the game hating BMC.

5: Your rants are so awesome I give specific instructions to reporters (let Phinney lose the TT, make sure Van Garderen gets dropped on the first hill, etc.)

He'll be removed at the end of the year and the team will get small compensation to replace him

Llanet with the favs, good enough boy

I smell bullshit.

One of those famous ITTs that doesn't suit a good time triallist, huh? It's not the losing that hurts, it's being beaten by Shaqif.

#ownage #lol

Thanks a lot TMM.
I knew that he is going to be removed but I didn't know when, so I thought that may already be happening in the first break so perhaps my question was poorly phrased

You certainly know something went wrong when Feunard finishs among the favourites in a mountain stage

Though the point about bad AI is: As long as its in my favour, I wont complain

Well, I never really doubted making my Top10 goal here with Sinaga as leader (of course not, because we always believe in each of us), but I'll also take it if Poorseyedi shows them capitalist pigs how you make your goals without being the best on paper.

I've calmed down a bit now, funny to see Salvatore in the Top 10 aswell 79 out of our 105 points are now coming from our two french riders

Damuseau can hopefully keep a podium in the GC and I will call it proper justice, losing to a unmanaged team and having 4 second places in our ever 5 Podiums of the season and the former xD

I'm glad to see Llanet up there aswell and a Top 10 would also be good for the team Solid start, but still not getting 3 stage wins this season by millimetres is really an awful shame :c

Great reports and with this pace, I'm very excited to see the progress My reserve has been updated again, not taking that much time keeping updated

And does anyone have the time to report Nokere Koerse? It was planned for Trekbmc, but since he's still busy with San Luis, it might be best to move this one.

Happy to do anyone one day races, Ollfardh. It might just come at a random time.

Flat, flat and flat…



For once the early break has no problem getting establishes. The two cyclocrossers Pauwels and Nys start it, but is soon joined by Grabsch.

Grabsch takes the first intermediate without contention. 123 km to the finish line and 6'04 to the peloton.

100 km and 6'19
90 km and 5'45
80 km and 5'02
Pauwels takes the 2nd intermediate. Still uncontested.

70 km and 4'20
60 km and 3'36
50 km and 2'47
40 km and 2'38

30 km and 1'48
The rain have started pouring down but that is not stopping Bardiani and Colombia.
20 km and 1'28
15 km and 1'02
10 km and 45 seconds
7,5 km and 37 seconds
Now AG2R have joined in the work as well.

5 km and 27 seconds
The high pace and the rain have sapped the power from the legs of a group of riders falling off the back. Noteworthy are Walker, Zabel and most of Drapac.

The break is reeled in with 3,5 km to go.

3 km and we have three distinct trains though the French one seems a bit late.
Arndt and Drucker follows Colombia, Alinejad follows Bardiani and Sinkeldam follows Markus.

Hutarovich leads Markus on the far side of the Bardiani train.

Final km.
Brookes is moving to Markus' wheel realising that he's own leadoutman Ruffoni can't match Hutarovich.

Alinejad and Sinkeldam have some good speed in their legs towards the finish.

Closest sprint so far, but that doesn't change who wins.

1	Barry Markus	AG2R La Mondiale	3h38'09
2	Fabian Brookes	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
3	Mario Guido	Colombia	s.t.
4	Leigh Howard	Orica - GreenEdge	s.t.
5	Naveed Alinejad	Champion System Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
6	Ramon Sinkeldam	CCC Polsat - Polkowice	s.t.
7	Jempy Drucker	Wanty-Groupe Goubert	s.t.
8	Nikias Arndt	Team NetApp - Endura	s.t.
9	Yauheni Hutarovich	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
10	Maxime Vantomme	Crelan - Euphony	s.t.

1	Geoffroy Lequatre	Bretagne - Séché Environnement	13h28'57
2	Thomas Damuseau	CCC Polsat - Polkowice	+ 8
3	Mirsamad Poorseyedi	Champion System Pro Cycling Team	+ 1'15
4	Barry Markus	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 2'38
5	Julien El Fares	Sojasun	+ 3'14
6	Voltali Feunard	Champion System Pro Cycling Team	+ 3'32
7	Salvatore Puccio	CCC Polsat - Polkowice	s.t.
8	Staf Scheirlinckx	Wanty-Groupe Goubert	s.t.
9	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	MTN - Qhubeka	+ 3'38
10	Yauheni Hutarovich	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.

1	Barry Markus	AG2R La Mondiale	25	75
2	Fabian Brookes	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	20	56
3	Leigh Howard	Orica - GreenEdge	14	48
4	Mario Guido	Colombia	16	46
5	Naveed Alinejad	Champion System Pro Cycling Team	12	32

1	Geoffroy Lequatre	Bretagne - Séché Environnement	0	36
2	Gaël Malacarne	Bretagne - Séché Environnement	0	16
3	John Murphy	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	0	16
4	Jimmy Engoulvent	Sojasun	0	16
5	Thomas Damuseau	CCC Polsat - Polkowice	0	14

1	Thomas Damuseau	CCC Polsat - Polkowice	13h29'05 (1)
2	Barry Markus	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 2'30 (2)
3	Voltali Feunard	Champion System Pro Cycling Team	+ 3'24 (3)
4	Salvatore Puccio	CCC Polsat - Polkowice	+ 3'24 (4)
5	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	MTN - Qhubeka	+ 3'30 (5)

1	CCC Polsat - Polkowice	40h34'27 (1)
2	Champion System Pro Cycling Team	+ 1'03 (2)
3	Bretagne - Séché Environnement	+ 3'08 (3)
4	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 3'18 (4)
5	Colombia	+ 3'18 (5)

Brookes is doing exactly the same as last year here. No matter what he does, he can't win a stage.

Markus is flying in Langkawi!

Sinkeldam got blocked, which is a shame :/ Damuseau got 3'30 to the favorites tomorrow, gonna be exciting to see if he can keep up with them tomorrow Also crossing fingers for Lequatre being dropped early and Llanet following the big guys

Damn you AL Diego should of been up there and he wasn't, then Mario can't quite get a win although Esteban is doing ok on the GC.
Oh well I guess that racing