mountain TT - 20km.

final stage in Madrid for sprinters.

Tour de Pologne Final Stage


This is the last apparence for Zabriskie, before his time-trial at the World Championships, but he didn't perform too good, just as his rest of team-mates.


Gutierrez was very strong today, too bad he is in the same team with Valverde and he couldn't ride for himself untill now


This just wasn't suited for our team today. Gerdemann not beat Valverde, but he even lost the final podium


Valverde finished second behind his team-mate and so he won the Tour of Poland. He also took the Pro Tour rankings lead from Kim Kirchen.


Stage
1. José Iván Gutiérrez Caisse d'Epargne 28'21
2. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne + 7
3. Stef Clement Bouygues Télécom + 16
4. Stijn Devolder Quick·Step + 17
5. Alessandro Ballan Lampre + 21
6. Filippo Pozzato Liquigas + 22
7. Stefan Schumacher Gerolsteiner + 24
8. Przemyslaw Niemiec Miche - Silver Cross + 29
9. Peter Velits Team Milram + 30
10. Joost Posthuma Rabobank + 35
11. Piotr Mazur CCC - Polsat - Polkowice + 37
12. Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole + 38
13. Giovanni Visconti Quick·Step + 46
14. Laurens Ten Dam Rabobank + 47
15. Bauke Mollema Rabobank + 53
16. Egoi Martínez Euskaltel - Euskadi + 54
17. Tomasz Kiendye; CCC - Polsat - Polkowice s.t.
18. Sébastien Joly Française des Jeux + 55
19. Kurt-Asle Arvesen Rabobank s.t.
20. Lars Boom Team Columbia s.t.

Overall
1. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 28h44'59
2. Stijn Devolder Quick·Step + 56
3. Alessandro Ballan Lampre + 58
4. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia + 1'01
5. José Iván Gutiérrez Caisse d'Epargne + 1'09
6. Przemyslaw Niemiec Miche - Silver Cross + 1'12
7. Filippo Pozzato Liquigas + 1'19
8. Stef Clement Bouygues Télécom + 1'25
9. Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole + 1'29
10. Johan Vansummeren Silence - Lotto + 1'30

Points
Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne
Mountain
Alessandro Ballan Lampre
Young
Bauke Mollema Rabobank
Teams
Caisse d'Epargne

wow....that's a bit of a shock!
too tired??

no one in my team performed too good in the TT. I think it was just me with a wrong strategy, not like the perfect strategy in Vuelta with Lovkivst in the first TT.

okey, let's say that you have to be second or worse sometimes, to make the next victory even better! (wc )

Vuelta a Espana Stage 20


Kloden was very fast, trying to make it 2 in a row. He caught Schleck, who started 2 minutes before him. And it seems that Kloden will get a place in top 10 after all.


Lovkvist was caught by Luis Leon Sanchez before the intermediate post, but he was faster on the second part of the TT, where he gained some time back. Still he lost the 6th place to Pellizotti


Samuel Sanchez's time is good, but he is too far in the overall rankings


Cunego is second behind Kloden today, but with that time he could put Karpets in truble


Soler was second at the start of the day. He will keep his place on the podium, but on the third position


Karptes is about to finish... less than 1 minute lost to Cunego. He did it, the rider that will ride for Columbia next season wins La Vuelta a Espana 2009.


Stage


Overall



Sorry but the game crashed, when loading the podiums so I couldn't export the results.

7th is still nice.
But Soler 3rd is just crazy, was it form or have his stats increased?

well he was one of the best climbers this Vuelta after Cunego, Kloden and Pellizotti.

Can you post screen of Soler stats?

only if Menchov will win the Giro.

He dont got a chance

you're lucky that I will not look at your last post.

Hehe. Thanks. Good stats

Fan of Soler?

No, I know the TT is a bit high but it's the second season almsot 3rd so he could have trained TT like crazy..

I have see this a lot of time. Also, good vuelta.

So did Lovkvist win the white jersey?

I think that he have not make enough a good TT

he hadn't the jersey in this stage. He even lost an another place today. What do you think?

That he have loose. Better luck next time.