What's next in his schedule?

He will ride Milano Sanremo (report probably later today), Criterium Internazional, Vuelta al Pais Vasco, 3 ardennes classics and Tour de Romandie.

Ah what a great schedule yet to come

Looks like Rui is going to be very busy

He should do well in all those races, I hope.

Hi we just had pre-race meeting about Milan-San Remo.
Profile of the race everybody of you knows but anyway here he is:



Sponsors goal is top 3 but we would like to win it. So we come to Milano with a strong team:



There are a lot of favourites for the race. Mainly because you can win this race with many different ways. Our GM said that theese are top favourites:




We have two plans. First one that includes me is to be some kind of springboard on the last climb for Alejndro.
Second plan is simple. Visconti should make perfect lead-out just like in 6th stage of Paris-Nice for José.

Kiriyenka,Karpets,Garcia and Konovalos will help us as much they can.

Now we´re going on dinner. Hope you will watch me on a tv tommorow

Rui.

Really exciting Winning this will be hard, hope you can pull it off!
Rui: make sure you're one hell of a springboard for Valverde!

Best of luck in Milan, lets hope the team can get that win

Hi it´s 1 hour before race. Thanks for all comments.
Ian I will do my best .

Rui.

Today we were off to 293 km trip to San Remo.



Only five riders created BOD so pack could enjoy beatiful view.
Those five were Danilo Di Luca,Kiserlovski,Pasqualoni,Ricci Bitti and Laganá.



After 100 kms they created their maximum gap of 10 minutes than Liquigas and Orica started hunt.
Today we had great weather and really nice views.




Before the final climbs 3 riders tried the peloton:
Tony Martin,Greg Van Avermaet and Sylvian Chavanel.
Peloton started to chase hard and it cost me a lot of energy.
Before the first of two climbs it was all back together.
Than we all took it easy. Nobody attacked. I gain some energy back.



But after the first climb on flat between those two climbs Cobble stars attacked: Boonen,Ballan,Canncellara,Pozzato and Flecha.
Orica started to chase hard.
Just before the final climb it was again all back together.
It was my turn.



I think I did an ok job I could done better but still I split the pack on small pieces.
Valverde was alone in front but pack was chasing hard.
And he was soon joined by Canncellara Nuyens and Boonen.
Than Ballan attacked it was one hell of a speed.
He soon created a big gap and it looked really great for him with only DH to finish.


Valverde waited for rest of the pack.
He found a wheel of Canncellara.
Ballan was sure that he will win with 40 seconds gap 5 km before the finish.



Group of 20 was fighting for podium but here is picutre of winner:





Valverde ended 6th.Sagan came 2nd.






Sorry for no results. Exported results get corupted I don´t know why but you can check results on Ballan podium photo
See you in France.

Rui.

Rui was a great team-mate today, and Valverde did well with 6th place

Good racing from Rui!

Nice work from Rui! Good result from Valverde

all:thanks! a lot!

good layout dude, and a nice result too. Why didn't you try to follow Ballan with one rider. Or were all too tired/bad placed

Valverde was tired because ballan attacked right after pack brouht him back Rui was tired from leading out Valverde and Visconti had to stay with Rojas who later did not survived climb...
and thanks!

A good result for Valverde in M-SR, excellent!
Costa definitely earned his paycheck today

That was a pretty good result for Valverde

Hi it´s night before the mountain stage in Criterium International.

Squad:


Profile:


In first stage nothing much happend we sent Ollo to breakaway. He was soon joined by 4 others.
They were caught 13 km before the finish.
As I´m the fastest man of our squad here we didn´t participate in sprint.
Sprint was won by Alexandre Pichot.



Stage:

1	Alexandre Pichot	Team Europcar	1h41'18
2	Samuel Dumoulin	Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne	s.t.
3	Martin Elmiger	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
4	Matteo Montaguti	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
5	Danilo Napolitano	Acqua & Sapone	s.t.

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Today we had short ITT I was feeling great.



I started quite early.
Maybe I just overcooked the start as I was first provisionaly!!
I had to slow down a little bit.
I came 2nd provisionaly only 2 seconds behind Bookwalter.



Later Cadel Evans beat my time by 3 seconds.
As only 10 riders had to start I was thinking about podium place.
But than Jimmy Engoulvent beated my time by 7 seconds.


´´Jimmy behind the fence ´´

Stage:

1	Jimmy Engoulvent	Saur - Sojasun	10'58
2	Cadel Evans	BMC Racing Team	+ 4
3	Brent Bookwalter	BMC Racing Team	+ 5
4	Rui Alberto Faria Costa	Movistar Team	+ 7
5	David Le Lay	Saur - Sojasun	+ 8

GC:

1	Jimmy Engoulvent	Saur - Sojasun	1h52'16
2	Martin Elmiger	Ag2r La Mondiale	+ 2
3	Cadel Evans	BMC Racing Team	+ 4
4	Rui Alberto Faria Costa	Movistar Team	+ 7
5	David Le Lay	Saur - Sojasun	+ 8
6	Nicolas Vogondy	Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne	+ 10
7	Dimitri Champion	Bretagne - Schuller	+ 11
8	Michael Schär	BMC Racing Team	+ 12
9	Alexandre Pichot	Team Europcar	+ 13
10	Cyril Lemoine	Saur - Sojasun	+ 14

Tommorow I want a win but I would be happy with podium.
See ya.

Rui.

Damn that Engoulvent still 4th is great