still some hope to win the general of vuelta!

yeah hope... I hope for a top 5 there.

Tour de Pologne Stage 5


The breakaway.


Crash in the pack with 30km to go. Zabriskie and Ten Dam are down


Attack by Gerdemann at the end of the last real climb of the day


And he got away. 49 seconds advantage over the pack when the final uphill starts


Valverde is sprinting very fast behind to get back the time lost


But he can't stop Gerdemann. Stage win and yellow jersey for Linus!


Stage
1. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia 5h18'35
2. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne + 21
3. Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole s.t.
4. Stijn Devolder Quick·Step s.t.
5. Alexandr Kolobnev Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
6. Mirko Lorenzetto Lampre s.t.
7. Alessandro Ballan Lampre s.t.
8. Filippo Pozzato Liquigas s.t.
9. Thomas Voeckler Bouygues Télécom s.t.
10. Volodymyr Gustov Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.

Overall
1. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia 22h45'22
2. Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole + 13
3. Graeme Brown Rabobank + 17
4. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia s.t.
5. Filippo Pozzato Liquigas + 19
6. Heinrich Haussler Gerolsteiner s.t.
7. Max Richeze Euskaltel - Euskadi + 21
8. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne + 25
9. Jimmy Casper Agritubel + 27
10. Eddy Serri Miche - Silver Cross + 29

Points
1. Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole 73
2. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia 70
3. Filippo Pozzato Liquigas 68

Mountain
1. Maarten Tjallingii Silence - Lotto 6
2. Bert De Waele Team CSC - Saxo Bank 6
3. Paul Martens Rabobank 4

Well done!
fantastic win by Linus

That a boy!

Excellent win. You have a great story.

An d all it on hard level. Your very good. Better then me

Another brilliant win alex congrats

thank you guys

Great victory for Linus!

I still cannot master your incredible sprints. How do you set up the trains and when like what kilometre?

one flat rider, one sprinter, one star sprinter.

With between 7-8 km to go I put my riders in line and folowing with the first rider one of the guys that are setting the pace in the pack(the flat rider is someting like 80% effort and the 2 sprinters somewhere at 65-70%). With 4.5-5 km left I put the flat rider on 99% and I stop folowing anyone, make my own way with the 'dot'(effort cursor as it is named in the game) button. The sprint starts with 3 km to go, if I still can go with the flat rider I sprint as fast as I can, then I sprint with the medium sprinter and when he gets tired or I feel that's the moment I start sprinting with the main sprinter.

Hope I could help you with this.

Vuelta a Espana Stage 17


A big breakaway group. The largest I've seen this Vuelta


We are preparing for the sprint Ciolek really close to Burghardt, with Cavendish coming too


But sudenly Ciolek lost Burghardt's wheel, now he and Cavendish are behind


Without us there, Barloworld had a new rival, Lampre


Again Hunter proved to be a great lead-out for Cooke


Cooke takes the stage. Now we have no chance to finish with the red jersey in Madrid, though that looked imposible not to happen after the first 3 stages


Stage
1. Baden Cooke Barloworld 4h59'10
2. Tom Boonen Quick·Step s.t.
3. Sergio Marinangeli LPR Brakes - Ballan s.t.
4. Robert Förster Gerolsteiner s.t.
5. Fran Ventoso Andalucía - Cajasur s.t.
6. Daniele Bennati Liquigas s.t.
7. Paolo Bettini Team Milram s.t.
8. Assan Bazayev Astana Cycling Team s.t.
9. Robert Hunter Barloworld s.t.
10. Sébastien Chavanel Française des Jeux s.t.

Overall
1. Vladimir Karpets Caisse d'Epargne 67h57'20
2. Mauricio Soler Barloworld + 2'03
3. Thomas Lövkvist Team Columbia s.t.
4. Damiano Cunego Lampre + 2'31
5. Samuel Sánchez Euskaltel - Euskadi + 2'43
6. Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale + 3'58
7. Pieter Weening Rabobank + 5'43
8. Carlos Barredo Quick·Step + 6'29
9. Toni Colom Astana Cycling Team + 6'33
10. Franco Pellizotti Liquigas + 6'40

Points
1. Baden Cooke Barloworld 137
2. Damiano Cunego Lampre 104
3. Mark Cavendish Team Columbia 97

Mountain
1. John Devine Team Columbia 96
2. Damiano Cunego Lampre 84
3. Samuel Sánchez Euskaltel - Euskadi 80

Young: Thomas Lövkvist Team Columbia
Teams: Caisse d'Epargne

thanks for the help finally winning and placing on the podium. Huge fan, keep it up

Lövkvist can win young classement, and make a podium for the overall.

Too bad with the point jersey but very happy about Lövkvist.
What will he go for next year

I'm not sure yet, but he could do both Le Tour and Vuelta or only Le Tour. If he will do the Vuelta, he won't be the leader anymore as Karpets is better than him, but if he does a very good performance this year I think I will come with him next year too.

It is a good idea.

Tour de Pologne Stage 6


The breakaway, that also included Martin, was caught pretty soon by the pack


So a new breakaway was made by Hincapie, Van de Walle and Bertogliati. But they couldn't take a big advantage over the pack either and they are caught


That means that we have a bunch packed on the last climb. Valverde makes the first strong move


All the others, including Gerdemann, went after him


But Valverde's attack was just too strong and nobody can take his wheel


Gerdemann is in the second group beind in danger to lost his yellow jersey


Valverde wins the stage and has a pretty good chance to take the yellow jersey as well


Gerdemann lost the jersey, but he has a great chance to get it back in the final TT.


Stage
1. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 4h01'48
2. Alessandro Ballan Lampre + 34
3. Stijn Devolder Quick·Step s.t.
4. Alexandr Kolobnev Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
5. Johan Vansummeren Silence - Lotto s.t.
6. Przemyslaw Niemiec Miche - Silver Cross s.t.
7. Bauke Mollema Rabobank s.t.
8. Gilberto Simoni Astana Cycling Team s.t.
9. Eros Capecchi Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
10. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia s.t.

Overall
1. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 26h47'25
2. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia + 19
3. Alessandro Ballan Lampre + 44
4. Stijn Devolder Quick·Step + 46
5. Johan Vansummeren Silence - Lotto + 50
6. Bauke Mollema Rabobank s.t.
7. Alexandr Kolobnev Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
8. Przemyslaw Niemiec Miche - Silver Cross s.t.
9. Eros Capecchi Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
10. Gilberto Simoni Astana Cycling Team s.t.

Points
1. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 79
2. Filippo Pozzato Liquigas 78
3. Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole 76

Mountain
1. Alessandro Ballan Lampre 29
2. George Hincapie Team Columbia 24
3. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 15

you will win! only a chance for linus, and a bit hope for valverde and devolder