Hope you can be faster than Purito.

You can do it, mate!

Oooh! Cliffhanger!! I'm scared !! Come on Costa

I know this Time-Trials aren´t much interesting so let´s jump to me .
I was off against one of the best riders in peloton:




Team-mates told me that I shouldn´t start too fast. I listened to them and on the first checkpoint I was only one second faster than Rodriguez.



GM told me that I need to go faster or I will end 3rd as De Gendt was provisonaly in top 10 on first checkpoint.
I put pedal to the metal. I was thinking about everything on the earth. How I would kill that fucking race director who didn´t give time gaps on stage 2.
After a while I was in finish. GM told me that I was flying and that I ended 5th.



Than I could only wait. Just like at MTT at Paris-Nice. It took only couple of minutes but for me it was longest few minutes in my life.
Joaqium came to finish.



And the winner is:






























































Stage:

1	Tony Martin	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	26'04
2	Bradley Wiggins	Sky ProCycling	+ 22
3	Chris Froome	Sky ProCycling	+ 25
4	Michael Rogers	Sky ProCycling	s.t.
5	Rui Alberto Faria Costa	Movistar Team	+ 36
6	Jean-Christophe Péraud	Ag2r La Mondiale	+ 46
7	David Zabriskie	Garmin - Sharp	+ 47
8	Christopher Horner	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 48
9	Peter Velits	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	+ 51
10	Maxime Monfort	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 52

GC:

1	Rui Alberto Faria Costa	Movistar Team	21h40'01
2	Joaquím Rodríguez Oliver	Katusha Team	+ 1
3	Thomas De Gendt	Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 49
4	Tony Martin	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	+ 55
5	Andy Schleck	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 1'37
6	Maxime Monfort	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 2'14
7	Andreas Klöden	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 2'22
8	Cadel Evans	BMC Racing Team	+ 2'43
9	Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
10	Nicolas Roche	Ag2r La Mondiale	+ 2'44

Points:


´´Rodriguez won Points but as you can see he is angry. Probably on him self..´´

1	Joaquím Rodríguez Oliver	Katusha Team	0	91
2	Tony Martin	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	15	83
3	Rui Alberto Faria Costa	Movistar Team	6	68

KOM:

1	Sébastien Minard	Ag2r La Mondiale	0	30
2	David Zabriskie	Garmin - Sharp	0	24
3	Joaquím Rodríguez Oliver	Katusha Team	0	23

Team:

3	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 1'27	65h05'43 (1)
4	Movistar Team	+ 1'52	+ 38 (2)
8	Katusha Team	+ 2'53	+ 3'52 (3)

U23:



Nairo came only 10 seconds behind Vichot,but he is happy for me .


So that´s it hope you liked it as much as I did.
Now we are going to restaurant coach invite us so I will order something really expensive .

Next report will be from Amstel where I will do everything for Alejandro.

See ya.

Rui.

FUCK YEAH!!!!!

Close, exciting! COngrats with winning the GC!

Brilliant, simply Brilliant!
(btw Costa will be my leader for Tour de France in Roberto story for 2014 )

Daggen:
dienblad: thanks a lot!
Ian: achievment unlocked: get first career bannana
Great to hear that hope you will post some review of Tour de France

What a Brilliant victory for Rui and by just one second, Well Done indeed

Amstel Gold Race

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Race:
6 riders created BOD.



A lot of teams worked hard to chase them so we just stayed in the pack.
I had a nice chat with Quintana.



30kms before finish first attacks occured. Jelle Vanendert was the one who couldn´t wait any longer.



Phillipe Gilbert tried hard to get away but when he got away every team in the pack started to chase him. And he never created significant gap.



With 15 kms to go I went to the front as Rodriguez got away.



I kept the gap between him and first chasing group under 30 seconds. Than I was tired I came to Alejandro wished him good luck and let the pack go. My day was over. Now it was up to Visconti and Alejandro.




Rodriguez was still up front and with only 5km to go Visconti gave Alejandro perfect lead-out.




Than Valverde started his killing acceleration.






Yes! We are all very happy. Especialy Alejandro himself. He said that he will help me and Visconti to win one of the races too that he really apreciate work we done for him. I was really happy to hear such kind words.


Stage:

1	Alejandro Valverde Belmonte	Movistar Team	7h22'01
2	Joaquím Rodríguez Oliver	Katusha Team	+ 41
3	Philippe Gilbert	BMC Racing Team	+ 55
4	Luis León Sánchez Gil	Rabobank Cycling Team	s.t.
5	Sylvain Chavanel	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	s.t.
6	Simon Gerrans	Orica GreenEDGE	s.t.
7	Maxim Iglinskiy	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
8	Bradley Wiggins	Sky ProCycling	s.t.
9	Andy Schleck	RadioShack-Nissan	s.t.
10	Peter Sagan	Liquigas-Cannondale	s.t.

Next report will be after La Flèche Wallonne. Hope Alejandro can win that too.
btw: Tom Boonen won also Paris-Roubaix and thus won all 4 cobble classics.
I want to congratule him even this way. Maybe he is reading my blog .

Seeya.

Rui.

Boonen winning all 4, great

And I think much praise is in place here for Costa, without whom Valverde couldn't have done this.
He's already proved to be a team player, but this was excellent work.

Ian: thanks, I want make it realistic that he can´t always be the last guy who is doing lead-out. This time it was Visconti. In Fleche it will maybe be Rui.

great win! Nice teamwork and lead out from Rui and Visconti!

Great riding from Valverde resulting in a Brilliant victory

La Flèche Wallonne

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Today we wanted to do it same as in Amstel.
So we let 5 riders create a BOD.



When they had 7 minutes on the peloton we and few other teams started to do the pace.
With 50 kms to go Samy Sanchez with few others attacked. We let them go but we had them under lock.



They soon caught BOD guys and created quite a big group.



With only 15kms to go only 4 riders were in front.



On penultimate slope of the day big guns attacked. Rodriguez, Gilbert, Vanendert and Shleck.



We send Quintana to front and he caught them on downhill. He gave all and couldn´t even follow the pace.
1km later Kroon was alone in front while Gilbert was trying to close the gap to him.



I gave great leadout to Visconti and Alejandro.



When the final climb started they were in perfect position.



Visconti was going that fast that only Alejandro and Monfort could follow.



Alejandro didn´t wanted to steal away victory from him. Not after what he said yesterday. Visconti was so happy that Alejandro and Monfort just flought by him after the finishing line. He nearly fall of the bike he was that happy.




He for sure deserved this win as he had to be only a lead out man for Valverde but he was so strong that he could lead the pack through the whole climb.




Sorry I couldn´t found results anywhere on the net. You can check them on Visconti´s podium photo . I ended 19th.

Next stop: Liege Bastogne Liege

Rui.

What a nice present from Valverde, hope he does it for Rui, too, someday

Rui did his job again, without hesitating. Great man!

Thanks a lot Ian I really apreciate all your comments

Rui.

Amazing wins with Rui and both Valverde and Visconti!

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