Well I think alex has improved that aspect this season. Seeying 1-2 with Columbia isn't bizarre at all to me.

With the developing of the story you aknowledge that the results aren't as you say. In some flat stage races (or similar) alex is able to dominate widely but that doesn't happen all the time as you say

i think it could improve if you entered some weaker teams for races like pais vasco ie. no kirchen

that prooves that he didn't read the whole story and he is talking about some things that he doesn't know.

And wacko I will think abou that.

Now let me make the report for the next stage

cheers

and dw too much this is still a good story

I haven't followed the story for a very long time, and no, I never said a 1-2 with f.ex. Cav and Greipel are weird, it's just, from everything that I've seen he is always playing for, and mostly also achieving, the win. I've never seen one of his riders in a major crisis, f.ex. losing his lead by getting a beat in the mountains.

That sort of thing is normally what spice up the experience for me, so I know it's not just a piece of cake all of it - and the last part is what I'm seeing in a quite large degree atm

I'm just saying it now so this story won't evolve into an uninteresting win-orgie

and Cavendish became better on downhills and flat which helps him recovery from some of the hills. He is also better in STA, RES and REC now

This is a story with a strong PT team not a shity CT team to fight for top10 small races

I'm fine with all that, and it's natural he takes almost every flat stage he drives, I'm just warning you of the spoilers that comes with winning all the time

So you're saying Kirchen is likely to dominate most of the PT stageraces he participate in?

Btw, you seem a little angry?

Giro d'Italia Stage 7


Both Kroon and Masciarelli went in the breakaway for the KoM jersey thought that it's obvious that the stage winner will get it


Ricco, Schleck, Soler and Dekker made the first attacks on the last climb of the day


Right after that Rogers and some other riders cracked and lost the contact with the main pack


After a few more kilometres in front are Soler, Garzelli, Dekker, Schleck, Ricco and Simoni


But they are caught by the pack after a fast pace set up by Nibali. He is probably working for Pellizotti


An attack by Sella and only the motos can keep it up with him first


Though Pellizotti, Soler and Dekker have the power to go after him and even catch him


But again the attackers are caught. This time Cunego was the main pace-man


Sella attacks again in the last kilometre


Only Gesink and Cunego can stop him from winning the stage today


But they don't and Sella gets the win


Cunego is second and grabs the pink jersey


Rogers performed well and he is now 11th overall, 1 minute behind Pozzovivo though


Van Emden, the purple jersey wearer finished in a group with Cavendish and Wiggins, 3 minutes before the last grupetto which are good news not to be disqualifed in the next mountain stages


Stage
1. Emanuele Sella CSF Group - Navigare 5h28'19
2. Damiano Cunego Lampre + 8
3. Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott + 20
4. Robert Gesink Rabobank s.t.
5. Mauricio Soler Barloworld + 48
6. Gilberto Simoni Astana Cycling Team + 1'06
7. Leonardo Piepoli Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
8. Domenico Pozzovivo CSF Group - Navigare s.t.
9. Franco Pellizotti Liquigas s.t.
10. Thomas Dekker Rabobank s.t.

Overall
1. Damiano Cunego Lampre 27h16'39
2. Emanuele Sella CSF Group - Navigare + 26
3. Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott + 30
4. Robert Gesink Rabobank + 46
5. Thomas Dekker Rabobank + 56
6. Fränk Schleck Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 1'26
7. Mauricio Soler Barloworld + 1'33
8. Franco Pellizotti Liquigas + 1'39
9. Gilberto Simoni Astana Cycling Team + 1'52
10. Domenico Pozzovivo CSF Group - Navigare s.t.

Points
1. Jos Van Emden Team Columbia 74
2. Mark Cavendish Team Columbia 66
3. Thomas Dekker Rabobank 59

Mountain
1. Emanuele Sella CSF Group - Navigare 15
2. Damiano Cunego Lampre 13
3. Karsten Kroon Gerolsteiner 10

Young: Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott
Teams: Saunier Duval - Scott

well if a doper has to win at least it wasn't Riccò!

F.ex. that's great for a change!

Although, I don't hope my comment had any effect on this update.

alex don´t look at this stupid things from silence.
your story is very good and i know exactly that you are not playing on easy but on hard because on easy you will win every sprint race with cav or greipel.
so go on and don´t think about stupid things like that

ok let me just tell you then:

this is the gazilionth time this happens

Flat terrain --> alex will do great
Mountainous terrain --> alex may have a chance. he might do great he might do terrible...

yes it didn't. I would never could do something on a stage like that with Rogers and I never did the in the whole story that

Giro d'Italia Stage 8


The breakaway is looking better. They might have a chance to win today, who knows.


And there were some crashes in the pack. 2 big names went down, one is Pozzovivo


The other one is Schleck


Only the 2 riders from Agritubel were caught, the other escapes are still in front. Boom is the first lead-out man today as he is a speed demon on downhills


The escapes were caught too late so they fight for the stage win who finally went to Pineau


Cavendish, Ignatiev and Van Emden were the firsts riders in the pack


Stage
1. Jérôme Pineau Bouygues Télécom 3h45'48
2. Carlo Scognamiglio Barloworld s.t.
3. Fabio Sabatini Team Milram s.t.
4. Federico Canuti CSF Group - Navigare s.t.
5. Juan José Oroz Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
6. Mark Cavendish Team Columbia s.t.
7. Mikhail Ignatiev Team Columbia s.t.
8. Jos Van Emden Team Columbia s.t.
9. Sébastien Joly Française des Jeux s.t.
10. Lars Boom Team Columbia s.t.

Overall
1. Damiano Cunego Lampre 31h02'27
2. Emanuele Sella CSF Group - Navigare + 26
3. Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott + 30
4. Robert Gesink Rabobank + 46
5. Thomas Dekker Rabobank + 56
6. Mauricio Soler Barloworld + 1'33
7. Franco Pellizotti Liquigas + 1'39
8. Gilberto Simoni Astana Cycling Team + 1'52
9. Michael Rogers Team Columbia + 2'52
10. Peter Velits Team Milram + 2'56

Points
1. Jos Van Emden Team Columbia 82
2. Mark Cavendish Team Columbia 76
3. Thomas Dekker Rabobank 59

Mountain
1. Emanuele Sella CSF Group - Navigare 15
2. Damiano Cunego Lampre 13
3. Karsten Kroon Gerolsteiner 10

Young: Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott
Teams: Saunier Duval - Scott

Giro d'Italia Stage 9


Ignatiev is in the breakaway today.


On the last climb he is the only escape that wasn't caught but the pack is coming fast


And he is caught with just 3km to go


The uphill sprint starts with Albasini and Sella in front


An acceleretation by Garzelli... He takes the lead!


In the last corner he almost made a gap between him and the others


So nobody could catch him and he gets the stage


Stage
1. Stefano Garzelli Euskaltel - Euskadi 4h18'42
2. Michael Albasini Liquigas s.t.
3. Damiano Cunego Lampre s.t.
4. Giovanni Visconti Quick·Step s.t.
5. Xavi Florencio Bouygues Télécom s.t.
6. Josep Jufré Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
7. Jérôme Pineau Bouygues Télécom s.t.
8. Michael Rogers Team Columbia s.t.
9. Emanuele Sella CSF Group - Navigare s.t.
10. Bernhard Kohl Gerolsteiner s.t.

Overall
1. Damiano Cunego Lampre 35h21'01
2. Emanuele Sella CSF Group - Navigare + 34
3. Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott + 38
4. Robert Gesink Rabobank + 54
5. Thomas Dekker Rabobank + 1'04
6. Mauricio Soler Barloworld + 1'41
7. Franco Pellizotti Liquigas + 1'47
8. Gilberto Simoni Astana Cycling Team + 2'00
9. Stefano Garzelli Euskaltel - Euskadi + 2'58
10. Michael Rogers Team Columbia + 3'00

Points
1. Jos Van Emden Team Columbia 82
2. Mark Cavendish Team Columbia 76
3. Damiano Cunego Lampre 61

Mountain
1. Emanuele Sella CSF Group - Navigare 15
2. Damiano Cunego Lampre 14
3. Mikhail Ignatiev Team Columbia 12

Young: Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott
Teams: Saunier Duval - Scott

Volta a Catalunya Stage 1


Stage


Overall
1. Alberto Contador Astana Cycling Team 17'31
2. Sérgio Paulinho Astana Cycling Team s.t.
3. Manuel Beltrán Astana Cycling Team s.t.
4. Andrei Mizourov Astana Cycling Team s.t.
5. Toni Colom Astana Cycling Team s.t.
6. Grégory Rast Astana Cycling Team s.t.
7. Chris Wherry Astana Cycling Team s.t.
8. Óscar Sevilla Astana Cycling Team s.t.
9. Tony Martin Team Columbia + 18
10. Marcus Burghardt Team Columbia s.t.

Volta a Catalunya Stage 2


The breakaway.


A group that contained Gerdemann and 3 Caisse d'Eparge riders gained a few second on the last climb over the pack but they were caught on the downhill


Then, on the flat portion there were a lot of attacks


And this time they got away. Gerdemann, Pereiro, Cobo and Contador are in the first group!


The sprint started with Gerdemann and Pereiro in the first positions


In the last kilometre Mollema took the lead and looked like going to win


But the win went to Cobo finally.


Stage
1. Juanjo Cobo Saunier Duval - Scott 3h59'48
2. Bauke Mollema Rabobank s.t.
3. Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
4. Joaquím Rodríguez Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
5. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia s.t.
6. Alberto Contador Astana Cycling Team s.t.
7. Óscar Pereiro Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
8. Iñigo Cuesta Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
9. John Gadret AG2R La Mondiale + 41
10. Johann Tschopp Bouygues Télécom s.t.

Overall
1. Alberto Contador Astana Cycling Team 4h17'19
2. Bauke Mollema Rabobank + 11
3. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia + 18
4. Toni Colom Astana Cycling Team + 41
5. Manuel Beltrán Astana Cycling Team s.t.
6. Grégory Rast Astana Cycling Team s.t.
7. Chris Wherry Astana Cycling Team s.t.
8. Andrei Mizourov Astana Cycling Team s.t.
9. Sérgio Paulinho Astana Cycling Team s.t.
10. Óscar Sevilla Astana Cycling Team s.t.

Points
1. Juanjo Cobo Saunier Duval - Scott 20
2. Bauke Mollema Rabobank 17
3. Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale 15

Mountain
1. Bert De Waele Team CSC - Saxo Bank 23
2. Sebastian Schwager Team Milram 12
3. Gustavo Domínguez Karpin Galicia 9