Great Vuelta and well done with Zabriskie.

Great TT
How did Wegelius get 10th? Can we see his stats?

thanks.

wow...he drove well then!

well Voigt and Verbrugghe are the only better TTers that he beat there

I would have picked that one as a picture for the World Championships



In Germany, you would have some troubles because there is a nazi flag

oh sorry now I see... but I though it will look cooler but now with that nazi it doesn't flag, I think I will change it

World Championships


As always at the Worlds there were some unkown escapes


With more than 80km to go we have the first move from the favourites. Kloden tried a knock-out but the chances to win are small, if non-existing


30km... with Kloden almost caught, Evans makes his move


Popovych, Nocentini and even Joaquim Rodriguez are after him


Kloden looks tired and it will be very hard for him to continue the race with Evans


And now we have a Silence - Lotto duo at front, with Evans and Popovych


Valverde, the big favourite today attacks from the pack. Brajkovic and Gadret are around too


Dekker and Pfannberger staying close as well


While in front Popovych seems stronger than Evans


But after a few kilometres Valverde caught the leaders


Popovych isn't very happy about that and he tries to get away


Not with Valverde there, who brough the Ukrainian back and now Popocyvh seems to be in a little trouble


Finaly Valverde attacks... neither Evans or Popocyvh have the power to came after him


5km to go and it seems that he can't lose today


No treat from behind as now in the second position is Joaquim Rodriguez, Valverde's team-mate and compatriot


And Valverde will wear the rainbow jersey next year, taking it from Hincapie


Talking about Hincapie, he was very fast in the last kilometres and got an incredible 6th place


Results
1. Alejandro Valverde 8h11'22
2. Joaquím Rodríguez + 1'15
3. Thomas Dekker + 2'14
4. Christian Pfannberger + 2'42
5. Cadel Evans s.t.
6. George Hincapie + 3'40
7. John Gadret s.t.
8. Rinaldo Nocentini s.t.
9. Yaroslav Popovych + 4'44
10. Jelle Vanendert s.t.
11. Denis Menchov s.t.
12. Tadej Valjavec s.t.
13. Andreas Klöden s.t.
14. Philippe Gilbert + 5'28
15. Janez Brajkovic + 5'58
16. Stuart O'Grady s.t.
17. Dimitri Muravyev s.t.
18. Maarten Tjallingii s.t.
19. Chris Horner s.t.
20. Jens Voigt + 7'24

...

27. Tony Martin + 7'24
31. Linus Gerdemann s.t.
39. Michael Rogers s.t.
41. Bernhard Eisel s.t.

...

52. Mikhail Ignatiev + 10'46

...

76. Adam Hansen + 15'22

...

85. Bert Grabsch + 17'24

...

100. John Devine + 20'10

...

112. Mark Cavendish + 23'26

...

121. Bradley Wiggins + 30'02
125. Taylor Phinney s.t.

...

127. Jonathan Bellis + 31'42

Wegelius is a little overated then. but who cares, he's british.

Good job with hincapie, that's a great result for him

yep that was his last race this season. I think he signed for Bouygues next season.

sign valverde as new team-leader for next year??
he's pretty good in stage-race's AND hill-classics
your new 'kirchen'

no. I don't like him and I won't sign riders that have problems in RL.

Any transfer news?

than there aren't a lot of riders to chose from nowadays...
too bad!

for Columbia no, as we already have 30 riders for the next season and no big new transfers for the other teams either.

at least it is realistic!

We will ride only the final 3 Pro Tour races in October.

Next race:


2008 Results:
1. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia
2. Paolo Bettini Quick Step
3. Thomas Dekker Rabobank
4. Frank Schleck CSC Saxo Bank
5. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne
6. Carlos Barredo Quick Step
7. Damiano Cunego Lampre
8. Davide Rebellin Gerolsteiner
9. Benoit Vaugrenard La Francaise des Jeux
10. Sergui Ivanov Astana


Kim Kirchen
Linus Gerdemann
Edvald Boasson Hagen
Mikhail Ignatiev
Marcus Burghardt
Bernhard Eisel
Tony Martin
Bert Grabsch

great season m8! lots of sprint wins. I´ll look forward to next season, if you are going to do any. you have my support!

of course I'm going to do an another one