thanks

I just started to read your story today, it seems like a great one, i will catch up fast certainly.Good luck with Rui, he is awesome talent.

oh! almost two months now? I should better do something with it.
If I have time tommorow I will restart this story again.
Hope you are still interested in Rui

Very interested

Glad to hear that the story will continue

Banana for the story continuing

Continue! I miss reading this story

Hey guys I don´t have time to do the report now. It will be up probably in two hours but I have teaser for you It was probably best stage of my life.



But don´t think that you know how it ended now

seeya
Rui

Costa won?

Hi it was only a day but it felt like two months I wasn´t writing to you guys
Today was really important stage. I´m leading GC and also Points Clasification.
This was the profile:



Squad:



It was tough to get to a breakaway but after a 30km rather large group created a BOD. Amongs them was a real threat for GC Teyaj Van Garderen. Who was only 27 seconds behind me.



I was enjoying every second of this great jersey.



But with jersey also coming responsibility. We had to do the pace.



We never let them make more than 4 minute gap to us.
With 50kms to go big guns attacked.
Hesjedal,Kreuziger,Mollema and Roche.



They soon caugth the original BOD and created a big group.





I quickly sent Bruseghin and Garcia to front.



Gap grown to 3 minutes. After a while only
Hesjedal,Kreuziger,Mollema Roche and Albasini were up front but with 20kms to go and still 2,30mins ahead of us.



Quintana went to front.
He briged the gap to 1 minute but he was empty.



With 10kms to go I couldn´t wait any longer. I said Alejandro that we have to attack. He simply said you are the boss here. And attacked. I nearly lost touch with him.
We soon caught what left from breakaway. But we couldn´t stayed with them we had to go.



Samy Sanchez was chasing so hard he got away from the pack with 3 riders sucked on his wheel.



Alejandro said he is empty but he was able to keep up with me.
We were 30 seconds in front. But still 3 kms to go. And it was all uphill



I was riding MTT of my life
Under 1km banner I was giving everything I got.

Scarponi was sprinting and gap was melting away. 700 meters we had 20 seconds.





400 meters- 15 seconds
Can I make it tripple?





For sure I can!!!
Another hard fought win. Only mountain stage and hilly TT. I´m sure that with such a great team-mates I can win my second one week stage race of the season.


Stage:

1	Rui Alberto Faria Costa	Movistar Team	3h51'05
2	Alejandro Valverde Belmonte	Movistar Team	s.t.
3	Michele Scarponi	Lampre - ISD	+ 11
4	Samuel Sánchez González	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
5	Bradley Wiggins	Sky ProCycling	+ 21
6	Luis León Sánchez Gil	Rabobank Cycling Team	s.t.
7	Maxime Monfort	RadioShack-Nissan	s.t.
8	Haimar Zubeldia Agirre	RadioShack-Nissan	s.t.
9	Peter Velits	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	s.t.
10	Andreas Klöden	RadioShack-Nissan	s.t.

GC:

1	Rui Alberto Faria Costa	Movistar Team	12h30'39
2	Alejandro Valverde Belmonte	Movistar Team	+ 23
3	Geraint Howell Thomas	Sky ProCycling	+ 32
4	Luis León Sánchez Gil	Rabobank Cycling Team	+ 34
5	Michele Scarponi	Lampre - ISD	+ 42
6	Samuel Sánchez González	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 43
7	Gustav Erik Larsson	Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
8	Tony Martin	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	+ 44
9	Bradley Wiggins	Sky ProCycling	s.t.
10	Maxime Monfort	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 45

Points:

1	Rui Alberto Faria Costa	Movistar Team	15	66
2	Luis León Sánchez Gil	Rabobank Cycling Team	7	48
3	Alejandro Valverde Belmonte	Movistar Team	12	41
4	Geraint Howell Thomas	Sky ProCycling	2	38
5	Karsten Kroon	Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank	0	29

KOM:

1	Bram Tankink	Rabobank Cycling Team	0	15
2	Pierrick Fédrigo	FDJ-Big Mat	0	14
3	Morris Possoni	Lampre - ISD	0	13
4	Mikhail Borisovich Ignatiev	Katusha Team	0	12
5	Steven Kruijswijk	Rabobank Cycling Team	0	12

Team:

1	RadioShack-Nissan	11h34'18	+ 19 (2)
2	Sky ProCycling	s.t.	37h34'07 (1)
3	Movistar Team	s.t.	+ 31 (3)

Young:

1	Wout Poels	Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team	3h51'26	12h31'40 (1)
2	Andrew Talansky	Garmin - Sharp	+ 42	+ 37 (4)
3	Rigoberto Urán Urán	Sky ProCycling	s.t.	+ 3'04 (6)
4	Fabio Felline	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.	+ 37 (3)
5	Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas	Movistar Team	s.t.	+ 44 (5)

Tommorow is Mountian stage. Good for me it´s not with mountain finish.

Seeya soon

Rui

Brilliance

City over here.

Totally dominant all round performance from Mr Costa

Thanks for support Mr. Costa is really enjoying every second of his life after three stage wins in a row. He looks like a sprinter

Long may it continue then

Awesome!!! And here comes banana #20!

That deserves to sing the national anthem like this:

Totally love seeing the Portuguese team singing their Hearts out

Perfect video thanks. Also thanks for bannana number 20