yeah it could be both of them but Gesink is better at the moment than Kreuziger and better in the future

So it's Gesink?

I just said that he is better than Kreuziger not that it's him

Andy Schleck?

damn.

LOL

July calendar


and team stats just before The Tour

Now it's time to get back in the past for Le Tour de France 2008:


Rankings:
Levi Leipheimer Astana
2. Denis Menchov Rabobank
3. Samuel Sanchez Euskaltel
4. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto
5. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia
6. Danilo Di Luca LPR
7. Damiano Cunego Lampre
8. Carlos Sastre CSC Saxo Bank
9. Vladimir Karpets Caisse d'Epargne
10. Andreas Kloden Astana
11. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia
12. Stijn Devolder Quick Step
13. Thomas Dekker Rabobank
14. Christophe Moreau Agritubel
15. Michael Rogers Team Columbia
16. Maxime Monfort Cofidis
17. Alberto Contador Astana
18. Andy Schleck CSC Saxo Bank
19. Janez Brajkovic Astana
20. Mikel Astarloza Euskaltel

Kim Kirchen Team Columbia
Thomas Lovkvist Team Columbia
Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia

Most wins: Kim Kirchen - 4
Most days in yellow: Levi Leipheimer - 11
Riders that wore the yellow jersey:
13 - Levi Leipheimer
2 - Denis Menchov
1 - Bernhard Eisel
1 - Kim Kirchen
1 - Heinrich Haussler
1 - Fabian Cancellara
1 - Michael Rogers

Stage wins for Team Columbia:
4 - Kim Kirchen
3 - Bernhard Eisel
1 - Linus Gerdemann

Good luck for the Tour. Not that you need it.

with Kirchen's performance in Suisse I think I will need it

Team Columbia for 2010 Tour de France: Kirchen, Eisel, Gerdemann, Lovkvist, Rogers, Hincapie, Hagen, Wiggins, Martin

favourites: Evans, Contador, Menchov, Dekker, Valverde, Kloden, Kirchen, Popovych, Di Luca, Sastre, A.Schleck, F.Schleck, Karpets, Pereiro, Sam. Sanchez, L.L. Sanchez, Fothen, Gesink
favourites: Kirchen, Eisel, Hagen, Hincapie, Pozzato, Haussler, Valverde, Breschel,
favourites: Lovkvist, Pereiro, Popovych, Ardila, Sastre, F.Schleck, Evans, Contador, Gomez Marchante, Perez Cuapio, Casar, Valjavec, Moreau, Moncoutie, Sam. Sanchez, Gesink
favourites: Thomas Dekker, Kreuziger, A.Schleck, Spilak, Mollema, L.L. Sanchez, Gesink

Complete startlist:
Silence - Lotto
1. C.Evans
2. P.Halgand
3. L.Hoste
4. O.Kaisen
5. Y.Popovych
6. J.Roelandts
7. G.Steurs
8. W.Van Huffel
9. J.Van den Broeck

Astana
11. A.Contador
12. S.Boggia
13. J.Brajkovic
14. J.Mazet
15. A.Mizourov
16. M.Schär
17. Ó.Sevilla
18. G.Simoni
19. A.Zeits

Rabobank
21. D.Menchov
22. M.Ardila
23. T.Dekker
24. R.Flens
25. R.Gesink
26. G.Löwik
27. B.Mollema
28. B.Salmon
29. B.Tankink

CSC - Saxo Bank
31. D.Di Luca
32. L.Bak
33. M.Breschel
34. F.Cancellara
35. P.Caucchioli
36. V.Gustov
37. G.Larsson
38. F.Schleck
39. A.Schleck

Agritubel
41. A.Klöden
42. E.Bergès
43. F.Bichot
44. M.Bouet
45. G.Galli
46. M.Gaztañaga
47. K.Ista
48. N.Jalabert
49. N.Vogondy

LPR - Ballan
51. C.Sastre
52. L.Celli
53. G.Ermeti
54. J.Golcer
55. S.Laganà
56. A.Malori
57. A.Moos
58. D.Rebellin
59. C.Salerno

Caisse d'Epargne
61. A.Valverde
62. D.Arroyo
63. A.Charteau
64. A.Coyot
65. M.Drujon
66. V.Karpets
67. Ó.Pereiro
68. M.Perget
69. R.Urán

Team Columbia
71. K.Kirchen
72. B.Eisel
73. L.Gerdemann
74. E.Hagen
75. G.Hincapie
76. T.Lövkvist
77. T.Martin
78. M.Rogers
79. B.Wiggins

Euskaltel
81. S.Sánchez
82. I.Antón
83. M.Astarloza
84. A.Galdos
85. E.Martínez
86. R.Pérez
87. A.Txurruka
88. G.Verdugo
89. H.Zubeldia

AG2R
91. L.Sánchez
92. H.Dupont
93. V.Efimkin
94. L.Mangel
95. J.Nazon
96. R.Nocentini
97. C.Pineau
98. N.Rousseau
99. B.Sonnery

Quick·Step
101. C.Barredo
102. K.Hulsmans
103. D.Moncoutié
104. C.Moreau
105. K.Seeldraeyers
106. T.Valjavec
107. D.Viganò
108. G.Visconti
109. J.Voigt

Gerolsteiner
111. M.Fothen
112. O.Gatto
113. H.Haussler
114. C.Horner
115. S.Ivanov
116. T.Kritskiy
117. K.Kroon
118. A.Moletta
119. S.Schreck

Saunier Duval
121. J.Gómez Marchante
122. I.Astarloa
123. J.Del Nero
124. D.Flahaut
125. A.Gómez
126. B.Intxausti
127. J.Jufré
128. L.Pagliarini
129. A.Passeron

Liquigas
131. R.Kreuziger
132. M.Bodnar
133. A.Kuschynski
134. P.Lastras
135. A.Mazzi
136. R.Petito
137. F.Pozzato
138. M.Quinziato
139. C.Wegelius

Française des Jeux
141. S.Casar
142. M.Chérel
143. R.Di Gregorio
144. A.Gérard
145. F.Mourey
146. Y.Offredo
147. A.Roux
148. J.Roy
149. J.Veikkanen

Lampre
151. S.Spilak
152. A.Ballan
153. E.Bindi
154. G.Di Camillo
155. D.Loosli
156. L.Pelánek
157. O.Pollack
158. D.Righi
159. P.Tiralongo

CSF - Navigare
161. J.Pérez Cuapio
162. R.Bongiorno
163. T.Dall'Antonia
164. M.Insignito
165. A.Pagoto
166. M.Richeze
167. A.Storelli
168. I.Tomasi
169. F.Tomei

Bouygues Télécom
171. J.Tschopp
172. D.Champion
173. M.Claude
174. P.Fédrigo
175. L.Lefèvre
176. E.Sokolov
177. M.Sprick
178. Y.Trofimov
179. S.Turgot

Crédit Agricole
181. P.Rolland
182. E.Berthou
183. W.Bonnet
184. C.Kern
185. C.Lemoine
186. J.Marino
187. M.Méderel
188. R.Pauriol
189. Y.Talabardon

Cofidis
191. J.El Fares
192. L.Duque
193. N.Hartmann
194. A.Moinard
195. D.Monier
196. N.Nuyens
197. R.Taaramäe
198. T.Valentin
199. S.Zampieri

Team Milram
201. A.Grivko
202. V.Dyudya
203. M.Eichler
204. M.Jurco
205. C.Kux
206. B.Lancaster
207. A.Ongarato
208. E.Rigotto
209. S.Schwager

Topsport Vlaanderen
211. P.Vanspeybroeck
212. K.Dehaes
213. K.Goddaert
214. N.Ingels
215. N.Maes
216. M.Neyens
217. S.Schets
218. J.Soetens
219. K.Vandewalle

Le Tour de France Stage 1


Karpets was the first man on the road in Le Tour 2009 and he came with a pretty good time


Hagen was the first rider to start from Team Columbia. Not a great time though


Right after Hagen, came Cancellara with a fantastic time. It's going to he hard to beat that time


Lovkvist had a good time, but he's goal isn't the general classment. He wants to keep is polka dot jersey won last year


Quinziato is the Italian champion but he didn't looked too interested to win today


Rogers is in top form after the good performance in Dauphine and he has a good time, not bad


Kirchen, our leader, got a good time and tomorro it's going to be a day for riders like him so he has a chance to get the yellow prise.


Larrson couldn't beat his team-mate


Kloden is one of the Tour's favourite and he did well today, in the prologue, promising start


Hincapie's performances are far away from what he did last year. The news that he will leave the team seem to really affect him


Evans recived no.1 for this Tour and many people see him like the big favourite, he's the winner of Vuelta 2008


From the favourites Menchov was cleary the best today, he was the closest to beat Cancellara


Gerdemann is the white jersey last year, but thise year he can't compete in that classment anymore


Luis Leon Sanchez is AG2R's big hope but he was kinda dissapoiting today


Thomas Dekker doesn't seem to be in a great form at the moment. He lost the both national titles and doesn't have a fantastic time today


Martin showed a good form in the German Championships, but the Tour seems to be too hard for him


Contador is maybe the big favourite and today he showed that he can do well in TTs


Popovych will be Evans' team-mate and the time-trials are the only place where he can show his power


Wiggins was the last man that could beat Cancellara today but he was far away.


Results
1. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank 9'15
2. Denis Menchov Rabobank + 12
3. Markus Fothen Gerolsteiner + 13
4. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto + 14
5. Vladimir Karpets Caisse d'Epargne + 15
6. Gustav Larsson Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
7. Alberto Contador Astana Cycling Team + 16
8. Andreas Klöden Agritubel s.t.
9. Yaroslav Popovych Silence - Lotto s.t.
10. Leif Hoste Silence - Lotto s.t.
11. Kevyn Ista Agritubel s.t.
12. Haimar Zubeldia Euskaltel - Euskadi + 19
13. Thomas Lövkvist Team Columbia s.t.
14. Michael Rogers Team Columbia + 20
15. Bradley Wiggins Team Columbia s.t.
16. Jurgen Van den Broeck Silence - Lotto + 21
17. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia s.t.
18. George Hincapie Team Columbia s.t.
19. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia + 22
20. Thomas Dekker Rabobank s.t.

Where is all sprinters?

Anf ofcorse good luck..Kirchen inside top 6 or top 10?

thanks and looking at the startlist a top10 would be great and damn they don't have bonifications this year

Finally I've caught up with you in this story!
Truly a great read, and it looks like you've got something godd going! keep up the good work!

thanks stage 2 in a few minutes.

Le Tour de France Stage 2


The breakaway with riders like Nuyens and Pineau. Nuyens will be in polka dot next day.


Disaster for Columbia and Gerdemann with 30km to go. Punchture for Gerdemann


The pack is moving really fast at the moment and Gerdemann has no chance to get back in the pack. He will lose almost 7 minutes at the end of the day


Attack by Kim Kirchen on the last hill


He got away and nobody went with him


He tries to maintain his advantage on the downhill


But is hard as Astarloa is coming really fast


With Astarloa slowing down Kirchen's advantage became a little bit bigger and he has a good chance to win now that the Topsort Vlaanderen riders are in front of the pack


Kirchen wins the stage! But he couldn't win any place in the overall rankings as this year they have eliminated the bonification. At least he will wear tomorro the green jersey, which is our sponsor goal fort The Tour this year.


Stage
1. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia 4h19'44
2. Denis Flahaut Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
3. Aleksandr Kuschynski Liquigas s.t.
4. Nikolas Maes Topsport Vlaanderen s.t.
5. Anthony Charteau Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
6. Arnaud Coyot Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
7. Alessandro Ballan Lampre s.t.
8. Rein Taaramäe Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone s.t.
9. Kristof Vandewalle Topsport Vlaanderen s.t.
10. Pieter Vanspeybroeck Topsport Vlaanderen s.t.

Overall
1. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank 4h28'59
2. Denis Menchov Rabobank + 12
3. Markus Fothen Gerolsteiner + 13
4. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto + 14
5. Vladimir Karpets Caisse d'Epargne + 15
6. Gustav Larsson Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
7. Leif Hoste Silence - Lotto + 16
8. Kevyn Ista Agritubel s.t.
9. Alberto Contador Astana Cycling Team s.t.
10. Andreas Klöden Agritubel s.t.

Points
1. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia 35
2. Denis Flahaut Saunier Duval - Scott 30
3. Aleksandr Kuschynski Liquigas 26

Mountaib
1. Nick Nuyens Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone 6
2. Laurent Mangel AG2R La Mondiale 4
3. Kevin Hulsmans Quick·Step 4

what!? no bonifications?? why? that´s so weird! anyway, good luck anyway. damn you should´ve got the yellow jersey!
by the way, have you offered boonen or maaskant a contract yet?
congrats to all the natinal jerseys, you really ruled them all!

so far I offered 6 contracts but I have only 5 spots left in my team. The 6 luckys are:
- Maaskant
- Nuyens
- Dekker
- Haussler
- Andy
- Karptets

Le Tour de France Stage 3


The breakaway. Nuyens is again there, we wins some more KoM points and maintains the polka dot jersey


Hincapie, Hagen and Eisel are ready for the sprint today. Eisel and Hagen look a little bit tired after the last hill


And Big George brings them in front


The sprint starts...


Hagen does a great job but not a long one as he doesn't have a lot of energy left in his legs


Eisel knows that and he accelerates. No good sprint arround him


That was a great acceleration, the others can just look how Eisel and the stage win are going away from them


Eisel wins!!! This is already the second stage win for Team Columbia! Eisel has now 50 points in the green jersey competition as yesterday he finished 11th without a real effort as the stage winner was his team-mate, Kim Kirchen.


Stage
1. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia 3h47'45
2. William Bonnet Crédit Agricole s.t.
3. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
4. Leonardo Duque Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone s.t.
5. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
6. Olaf Pollack Lampre s.t.
7. Pieter Vanspeybroeck Topsport Vlaanderen s.t.
8. Giovanni Visconti Quick·Step s.t.
9. Karsten Kroon Gerolsteiner s.t.
10. Filippo Pozzato Liquigas s.t.

Overall
1. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank 8h16'44
2. Denis Menchov Rabobank + 12
3. Markus Fothen Gerolsteiner + 13
4. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto + 14
5. Vladimir Karpets Caisse d'Epargne + 15
6. Yaroslav Popovych Silence - Lotto + 16
7. Alberto Contador Astana Cycling Team s.t.
8. Kevyn Ista Agritubel s.t.
9. Andreas Klöden Agritubel s.t.
10. Thomas Lövkvist Team Columbia + 19

Points
1. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia 50
2. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank 45
3. Pieter Vanspeybroeck Topsport Vlaanderen 35

Mountain
1. Nick Nuyens Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone 8
2. Yoann Offredo Française des Jeux 6
3. Christophe Kern Crédit Agricole 5

Young: Kevyn Ista Agritubel
Teams: Team CSC - Saxo Bank