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... Jakob Fuglsang


Jakob Fuglsang is our third new sign for the 2010 season. He is promised as one of the great stage racers in the World in future. His potential on climbs and time-trial is just amazing. Plus he can win races on the downhill (sometimes you need those to make the difference) or he can get back in a group if he hasn't a great day and loses times on the climb. The fact that he was a mountain-biker really helps him on the downhills.


He came to Team Columbia as he wants to ride in the biggest races of the World. Still his main goals for the 2010 season could be the Danish National Championships and The Tour de Langkawi. If he performances in the next season will be good he can ride the Vuelta at the end of the season, where he can support the team-leader or even he could be the team-leader.

Le Tour de France Stage 18


Gerdemann is in the breakaway. He won on Col de la Madeleine, Col de la Croix de Fer, Col du Telegraphe, then cracked on Col du Galibier and he was caught by the pack. Still the points won today keep the polka dot for Team Columbia, after Lovkvist won it last year.


Disaster for Team Columbia! The green jersey, Bernhard Eisel crashed on the descent of Col de la Madeleine.


Wiggins wait for him. But it looks hard to avoid the elimination today as they are already more than half an hour behind the pack


Luis Leon Sanchez made the first attack this year on Alpe d'Huez


Sastre went there too as he wants to save his Tour with a victory in the hardest stage of it.


Valverde, Samuel Sanchez and Andy Schleck went together


Menchov attacks. He's the only one who could take the yellow jersey from Evans


Contador attacks too. He also has a chance to get in yellow but he has to wi lot of time today


Cadel Evans is coming, to defend his jersey


A little bit later Kloden attacks


Kirchen goes after him, to keep his overall rank


Menchov and Contador are trying everything they can to get rid of Evans, but it looks imposible


Finaly the both decide to attack Cadel


But Evans is coming


Evans is even leading the final kilometre now


Sastre got back in the first group


Contador is now leading, in the last corner. New guy in the front group: Di Luca.


Contador wins on Alpe d'Huez!


Evans is second and keeps the yellow jersey. He has now 90% chances to win the Tour


Kirchen lost some seconds to Kloden today. Now they have the same time in the overall rankings.


Stage
1. Alberto Contador Astana Cycling Team 6h54'18
2. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto s.t.
3. Carlos Sastre LPR Brakes - Ballan s.t.
4. Danilo Di Luca Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
5. Denis Menchov Rabobank s.t.
6. Andreas Klöden Agritubel + 48
7. Óscar Pereiro Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
8. Mikel Astarloza Euskaltel - Euskadi + 1'04
9. Yaroslav Popovych Silence - Lotto s.t.
10. Samuel Sánchez Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.

Overall
1. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto 75h31'26
2. Denis Menchov Rabobank + 42
3. Alberto Contador Astana Cycling Team + 2'32
4. Samuel Sánchez Euskaltel - Euskadi + 3'58
5. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne + 4'30
6. Andy Schleck Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 5'37
7. Andreas Klöden Agritubel + 6'10
8. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia s.t.
9. Óscar Pereiro Caisse d'Epargne + 7'28
10. Yaroslav Popovych Silence - Lotto + 7'54

Points
1. Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Columbia 196
2. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 186
3. George Hincapie Team Columbia 178

Mountain
1. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia 165
2. Carlos Sastre LPR Brakes - Ballan 126
3. Alberto Contador Astana Cycling Team 119

Young: Andy Schleck Team CSC - Saxo Bank
Teams: Rabobank

Did Eisel make it in time

look at the points rankings. He obvious didn't

Oh, stupid me. But now its Edvald who have it, thats even better

not really. Valverde is just 10 points behind. 3 stages left: one for sprinters (where Valverde can do something), one mountain TT and one mountain stage ended in a downhill. Not so sure Hagen can keep it.

It is really not good, Eisel had an amazing Tour

go in a breakaway with hagen to win intermediate sprints and maybe they will make it

maybe but the penultimate stage starts with a hard climb. So it's hard for Hagen to get away there. And a breakaway will get him tired for the last stage. I think I will put all my money on the last stage. Maybe a win for Hagen there and Valverde not involved in the sprint.

Like in Liquigas story..Contador keep on winning hard stages..one after another ..but never gonna win any tour GC

in my story he never made a gap or a huge one. Last year he worked for Leipheimer in both Vuelta and Tour.

In my career he is has won 4 GT's in 3 years

well he will probably develop in the next season it TT and hills and could have a better chance.

You have to give him the supremely best AVG in the team, else it's rather random which rider the team will pick for the GT's

He newer get to be captain in my careers either

but this year he was the captain. No Leipheimer or Kloden at Astana. Let's what he can do in Vuelta, if he rides it

Le Tour de France Stage 19


Good time for the young Dutch hope, Robert Gesink.


Really nice time for Sastre. This will help him to get a top 10 place.


Di Luca, was the CSC leader at the start of the Tour, but he was beaten by Andy Schleck. Today he was better than Andy.


Poor, very poor time for Kirchen today. He almost lost his top 10 place


Kirchen's bad time means that Kloden won the battle for the 7th place


No one can take Andy Schleck's white jersey.


Valverde was pretty good today. Still not good enough to take some points for the green jersey. So still 10 points behind Hagen, which means that we have a good chance now the make our sponsor goal.


Like always Sanchez is not shining, but he is there.


Contador is really the best climber in the World at the moment. And today was just an another proof to that


Can Menchov at least beat Evans today and take some more seconds?


No, Evans keeps the yellow jersey, even he wins some seconds to the Russian.


Stage
1. Alberto Contador Astana Cycling Team 48'01
2. Carlos Sastre LPR Brakes - Ballan + 16
3. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto + 40
4. Denis Menchov Rabobank + 44
5. Danilo Di Luca Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 50
6. Andreas Klöden Agritubel + 1'22
7. Samuel Sánchez Euskaltel - Euskadi + 1'40
8. Haimar Zubeldia Euskaltel - Euskadi + 1'44
9. Mikel Astarloza Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
10. Andy Schleck Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
11. Robert Gesink Rabobank + 1'46
12. Óscar Pereiro Caisse d'Epargne + 1'50
13. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne + 1'52
14. Yaroslav Popovych Silence - Lotto + 2'08
15. Tadej Valjavec Quick·Step + 2'16
16. Thomas Dekker Rabobank s.t.
17. Vladimir Karpets Caisse d'Epargne + 2'20
18. Gilberto Simoni Astana Cycling Team s.t.
19. Jurgen Van den Broeck Silence - Lotto + 2'22
20. Julio Alberto Pérez Cuapio CSF Group - Navigare + 2'26

Overall
1. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto 76h20'07
2. Denis Menchov Rabobank + 46
3. Alberto Contador Astana Cycling Team + 1'52
4. Samuel Sánchez Euskaltel - Euskadi + 4'58
5. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne + 5'42
6. Andy Schleck Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 6'41
7. Andreas Klöden Agritubel + 6'52
8. Danilo Di Luca Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 8'13
9. Carlos Sastre LPR Brakes - Ballan + 8'20
10. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia + 8'34
11. Óscar Pereiro Caisse d'Epargne + 8'38
12. Yaroslav Popovych Silence - Lotto + 9'22
13. Mikel Astarloza Euskaltel - Euskadi + 9'33
14. Robert Gesink Rabobank + 10'05
15. Haimar Zubeldia Euskaltel - Euskadi + 11'09
16. Thomas Dekker Rabobank + 11'53
17. Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale + 12'09
18. Vladimir Karpets Caisse d'Epargne + 13'54
19. Markus Fothen Gerolsteiner + 14'43
20. Carlos Barredo Quick·Step + 15'03

i can´t understand why contador isn´t win the tour.=)
he is the best but he doesn´t win=)
very strange.
but of course evans is a fantastic rider,too.
kirchen is 10th
i think that´s ok for him.
but what surprising me is that samuel sanchez takes the fourth place.

No you got to keep Pereiro behind you, maybe use Kirchen in the train

olabj
14-04-2009 20:13
No you got to keep Pereiro behind you, maybe use Kirchen in the train

yes olabj you´re right.
try to win the last stage with kim or get second.
maybe you can get some seconds=)