Gabon seems to of been a bit of a blip as both teams in Down Under and San Luis are getting good results so far, keep it up guys!

I hope so, too.

Strade? since I got no wildcard, I would be perfect to do this!(+high graphics as fuck) Please let me do it. It's one of my favourite races in the calender.

Since Silvio and Cycleman both have a goal there, I'll happily pass it on to you (if Ollfradh is ok with this?)

Sure

And I can agree converting for 1 PCM11 reporter is a bit stupid

Thank you very much. Do I have to do a preview first?(I guess so ) And since Strade has almost the same course through the years, can I take the variant with the best graphics?

Yes and you can moan about how much Kwiatek and La Bestia would have dominated
Nothing wrong with the standard one, route is more important than graphics.

Welcome back to the highlights of day two here in Qatar. Will it be another stage for Demare, can Cavendish get his leadout right or will the breakaway steal the show? Today, the break was made up of Brändle (IAM), Förster (UHC), Roulston (AND) and Pomoshnikov (RVL).



With 90km to go, the gap was at nearly 10 minutes, but the peleton continued to take it easy...



...but the peleton started working shortly after, and looked like catching them.



But with 3000 metres left, Roulston was still the solo leader. The crosswinds made it too hard to catch him! He had a gap of roughly a minute on the severely decimated pack, with Förster and Pomoshnikov somewhere inbetween, whilst Brändle had been caught.



In an unbelievably chaotic sprint, the same guys who were at the front yesterday eventually managed to catch Pomoshnikov and Förster...



...but Roulston, too tired to even celebrate, had already taken the win. Fantastic effort from him! Cavendish and Demare also make the podium, but will there be a time gap? There won't, say the officials. It didn't really matter anyway, since Roulston had lost too much time yesterday already. Demare stays in yellow, whilst he and Cavendish are now tied for points.

1	Hayden Roulston	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	3h35'22
2	Mark Cavendish	Sky Procycling	s.t.
3	Arnaud Demare	FDJ.fr	s.t.
4	Matthew Goss	Orica - GreenEdge	s.t.
5	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Sky Procycling	s.t.
6	Leigh Howard	Orica - GreenEdge	s.t.
7	Fabian Brookes	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
8	Bernhard Eisel	Sky Procycling	s.t.
9	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
10	Gerald Ciolek	MTN - Qhubeka	s.t.

1	Arnaud Demare	FDJ.fr	6h38'44
2	Mark Cavendish	Sky Procycling	+ 2
3	Matthew Goss	Orica - GreenEdge	+ 10
4	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Sky Procycling	+ 14
5	Fabian Brookes	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
6	Leigh Howard	Orica - GreenEdge	s.t.
7	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
8	Ryu Kawasaki	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
9	Gerald Ciolek	MTN - Qhubeka	s.t.
10	Bernhard Eisel	Sky Procycling	s.t.

Points

1	Arnaud Demare	FDJ.fr	24
2	Mark Cavendish	Sky Procycling	24
3	Hayden Roulston	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	20
4	Matthew Goss	Orica - GreenEdge	16
5	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Sky Procycling	13

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Team Champion System

19h56'54

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Arnaud Demare

FDJ.fr

6h38'44

Grawunder still in the field and Cav can not win. Great

Once again not really any coverage of the sprint. Pretty sure only LLS cares about Roulston and there was no real mention of how well the sprint was going for anybody. Not trying to put you down, just some constructive criticism

3rd, 5 in the Top25 and 6 in the Top26 We are certainly having a strong race so far in Qatar and i'm loving it. Also a fan of the short reports, the style works well. But on a close stage like that a bit more info would have been hugely boosting the quality

I am geniunely surprised anyone gives a single flying fuck for Qatar.
But yeah, criticism noted. Played most stages already, but will try and do so on the remaining stages.

Well it's a race and it's worth points. Not to mention we're a sprinters' team. So yeah, obviously I care

Good to see Brändle in the break, but another no-show from Pelucchi isn't good

Voltali Feunard in 21st finishing best of the team looks good, but most importantly Grawunder is up there.

Oh and Team Classification is also nice

Oops!

I meant both because I haven't seen your reports before, sorry if you were offended. Great report nonetheless

Now if only Drapac would do something in Qatar. It's dead flat which should suit us and yet everyone got dropped. Grieve-Johnson needs to redeem himself in the time-trial after finishing behind all of every team except An Post, while Anderson and Kerby also need to shine or else they'll find it tough getting race days later in the year.

A great stage win for Roulston making it number 2 for the team. Don't mind Kawasaki's performance considering we won the stage.

No problem and thanks for the compliment, I only did 3 1 day races last year, so you probably just didn't see it.

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