June calendar


And some transfer news:
Riders that for sure will change the teams for 2010 season as they won't have a renewal contract: Sieberg, Hincapie, Greipel, Reynes, Karpets, Joaquim Rodriguez, David Lopez, Pereiro Sio, Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Nocentini, Sentjens, Vanendert
Riders that got a contract renewal so far: Hansen, Eisel, Wiggins, Lewis, Rabon, Devinde, Siutsou, Kirchen, Gerdemann, Burghardt, Pinotti, Rogers, Martin, Lovkvist, Gilbert, Bettini, Contador, Menchov, Pozzato, Cunego, Valverde, Pellizotti, Samuel Sanchez
Riders that had an offer to renewal their contracts but weren't very happy with the new agrement and they are still thinking about it: Boonen, Freire, Sastre, Cobo, Rebellin

GP Triberg Schwarzwald


Devine was in the breakaway.


But the escapes had no chance when the big names came


Still good news for Columbia as no one can keep at Kirchen's pace


Very easy win for Kim today


Results
1. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia 4h03'54
2. Martin Mareš PSK Whirlpool - Author + 1'28
3. Iñigo Cuesta Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 1'58
4. Patrick Gretsch Thüringer Energie Team s.t.
5. Lars Bak Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 3'10
6. Lucas Schädlich Thüringer Energie Team s.t.
7. Sergei Rudaskov Cycle Collstrop s.t.
8. Christophe Brandt Silence - Lotto s.t.
9. Danilo Hondo Gerolsteiner s.t.
10. Stefan Schreck Gerolsteiner s.t.

boonen seems to be the only decent cobbled rider available. I´d suggest him if u have the money, which I don´t think you have

maybe cobo. you´ll have someone for the gp al pais vasco and vuelta espana.
or rebellin, but then he´ll be a contender to kirchen in the classics.

I would place my money on rebellin, and make kirchen focus only about the tour! just let kirchen ride paris nice . gp al pais vasco, amstel, fleche wallonne then dauphine.
that´s how I do with contador in my team. then you can concentrate rebellin on the classics, and kirchen can assist him there
I don´t know rebellins hilly stats though.

I have the money. Don't forget that Hincapie is leavind, plus I already have more than 100,000 on my salary cap left. Boonen could be good for cobbles and sprint (cobbled races and classics + one GT the one that had more hills, the other 2 for Cav as he is not so good on hills).
About Cobo and Rebellin no. No way I will sign those 2. I don't like Cobo, so Karpets would be a better choice for some one week races and Vuelta. About Rebellin is getting really old and I won't sign riders that already are more than 30 years old, plus I think that he stats are already decreasing from the start of the carrer.

any good youth guy coming through

from the scouters no. But it could be Visconti, Breschel or even Dekker who could sign for us

Dauphine Libere Stage 1


Cancellara came with a great time from the early beggining


All our stars Rogers, Hincapie, Martin, Hagen, Wiggins, Grabsch, Lovkvist tried to beat him but they have no chance


Evans is the big favourite this year in Dauphine but he isn't even close to win the prologue


Kloden is the main opponent for Evans and he starts the race with a good performance in the prologue, second behind Cancellara.


Results
1. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank 2'59
2. Andreas Klöden Agritubel + 2
3. Manuel Quinziato Liquigas + 7
4. Kevyn Ista Agritubel s.t.
5. Juanjo Cobo Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
6. Brett Lancaster Team Milram + 8
7. Bradley Wiggins Team Columbia s.t.
8. Andy Schleck Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
9. Yoann Offredo Française des Jeux + 9
10. George Hincapie Team Columbia + 10

I'd have expected more from Wiggins but hey a prologue means nothing!

Go Team Columbia

I hate this kind of races, the leght of this prologue wasn't 8km like it's showed on the stage profile. It wasn't even close to 8km, there were only 2km so it's hard to get a top speed in just 2km

Rebellin is a horrible investment. He can't ride more than 2(max. 3) seasons and his stats will decrease every moment of that time.

However Juan José Cobo Acebo, as you also mentioned, sounds interesting

But Cobo isn't as good as Karpets on TT, Rec, Sta or Res

And Cobo stil could renew his contract

How expensive is he then?

Maybe Antón? That'd add a pure, talented climber to your squad

if I don't want to sign him as a free agent for sure I won't do that when he has already a contract and I will have to spend more money.

And I'm not lookin for climbers, I'm looking for stage racers that can do very well in TT

Ok.

LL Sánchez

he just signed for AG2R last year. I don't think they will let him go

Dauphine Libere Stage 2


The breakaway. There was a big name, Ballan, but he didn't fight for anything, he didn't even looked interested for the KoM jersey. This probably was just a training for him as maybe he wants a Tour de France stage win.


Hincapie, Hagen and Eisel are heading to the front. This could be our train for the Tour as well


Hincapie isn't in top form so he can't help Eisel too much and the Austrian champion has now only Hagen near to help him


But Hagen can't help him too much either and Eisel gets in the slipstream of the Rabo guys


Accelerations at the same time by Eisel and Barbosa...


And again the Portuguesse guy beats us.


Stage
1. Cândido Barbosa Rabobank 3h10'38
2. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia s.t.
3. Gabriele Balducci Crédit Agricole s.t.
4. Borut Božic Cycle Collstrop s.t.
5. Gert Steegmans Quick·Step s.t.
6. Lloyd Mondory AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
7. Matthew Goss Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
8. Daniele Pietropolli LPR Brakes - Ballan s.t.
9. Timofey Kritskiy Gerolsteiner s.t.
10. Danilo Hondo Gerolsteiner s.t.

Overall
1. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank 3h13'37
2. Andreas Klöden Agritubel + 2
3. Kevyn Ista Agritubel + 7
4. Juanjo Cobo Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
5. Manuel Quinziato Liquigas s.t.
6. Andy Schleck Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 8
7. Bradley Wiggins Team Columbia s.t.
8. Brett Lancaster Team Milram s.t.
9. Yoann Offredo Française des Jeux + 9
10. George Hincapie Team Columbia + 10

Points
1. Cândido Barbosa Rabobank 20
2. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank 20
3. Andreas Klöden Agritubel 17

Mountain
1. Nicolas Portal Caisse d'Epargne 5
2. Dimitri Muravyev Astana Cycling Team 3
3. Daniele Righi Lampre 1

More transfer news:
An another bunch of riders got a contract renewal for the 2010 season: Kloden, Ricco, Devolder, Bennati, Arroyo, Ballan, Hoste, Flecha, Cancellara, F.Schleck, Simoni, Quinziato
While other got an offer but weren't really please with it and they are still waiting: Garate, Paolini, Pfannberger

Dauphine Libere Stage 3


The breakaway.


Some attacks on the last climb...


And five riders are in front on the downhill, 1 minute advantage over the pack. Those riders are Rogers, Sastre, Ricco, Moreau and Popovych, but the Ukrainian isn't working as his team Silence-Lotto is setting the pace in the pack for their leader, Cadel Evans.


2 riders are down in the pack. Loosli and the yellow jersey, Fabian Cancellara


An attack by Ricco, he wants the stage win


And he gets it. He even takes the yellow jersey but only for a day as tomorro we will have a long ITT


Moreau, Popovych, Rogers and Sastre were caught by an another favourites group


Stage
1. Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott 4h33'40
2. Christophe Moreau Quick·Step + 26
3. Yaroslav Popovych Silence - Lotto s.t.
4. Michael Rogers Team Columbia s.t.
5. Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
6. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto s.t.
7. Johann Tschopp Bouygues Télécom s.t.
8. Mauricio Ardila Rabobank s.t.
9. Fränk Schleck Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
10. Sébastien Joly Française des Jeux s.t.

Overall
1. Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott 7h47'18
2. Yaroslav Popovych Silence - Lotto + 37
3. Michael Rogers Team Columbia + 42
4. Fränk Schleck Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 44
5. Mauricio Ardila Rabobank + 46
6. Johann Tschopp Bouygues Télécom + 48
7. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto + 51
8. Christophe Moreau Quick·Step + 54
9. Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
10. Mikel Astarloza Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.

Points
1. Cândido Barbosa Rabobank 20
2. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank 20
3. Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott 20

Mountain
1. Björn Schröder Team Milram 26
2. Nicolas Crosbie Bouygues Télécom 21
3. Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott 20

Veenendaal - Veenendaal


Van Heerden is in the breakaway


But sudenly the strong wind puts him down and he has to retire from the race


Also because of the strong wind Burghardt couldn't go to the front of the pack


So Ciolek had to do all the job by himself


Without the team support Gerald couldn't do anything, and the battle for the win was between Van Hummel and Gasparotto


Finally the victory went to Silence Lotto and Enrico Gasparotto


Results
1. Enrico Gasparotto Silence - Lotto 4h52'05
2. Kenny Van Hummel Skil - Shimano s.t.
3. Iljo Keisse Topsport Vlaanderen s.t.
4. Gerald Ciolek Team Columbia s.t.
5. Stefan Radochla ELK Haus - Simplon s.t.
6. Kenny Dehaes Topsport Vlaanderen s.t.
7. Sergei Rudaskov Cycle Collstrop s.t.
8. Gerben Löwik Rabobank s.t.
9. Tom Veelers Skil - Shimano s.t.
10. Alex Rasmussen Team Designa Kökken s.t.

Dauphine Libere Stage 4


The terrain isn't really flat so we won't epect much from Wiggins and Grabsch


But we expect much more from Hincapie and Tony Martin


Again Cancellara comes with a fanatastic time. This could be his second TT win in Dauphine this year.


Good times for Lovkvist and Kloden. Like in the prologue Kloden is close to beat Cancellara but he is behind at the end


The Silence - Lotto duo is the most close to beat Cancellara, but neither Evans or Popovych can take the lead


Rogers cames with a good performance that keeps him in top 5 at the moment


Ricco lost today the yellow jersey but he maintains his ass on the podium as the TT was a little bit hilly and he didn't lose so much time


Stage
1. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank 38'29
2. Yaroslav Popovych Silence - Lotto + 6
3. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto + 7
4. Andreas Klöden Agritubel + 9
5. Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale + 29
6. Michael Rogers Team Columbia + 35
7. Juanjo Cobo Saunier Duval - Scott + 47
8. George Hincapie Team Columbia + 50
9. Janez Brajkovic Astana Cycling Team + 57
10. Mikel Astarloza Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.

Overall
1. Yaroslav Popovych Silence - Lotto 8h26'18
2. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto + 19
3. Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott + 39
4. Michael Rogers Team Columbia + 46
5. Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale + 52
6. Andreas Klöden Agritubel + 1'14
7. Mikel Astarloza Euskaltel - Euskadi + 1'20
8. Fränk Schleck Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 1'28
9. Sébastien Joly Française des Jeux + 1'37
10. Christophe Moreau Quick·Step + 1'48