I will post a new one as I saw some improvements at one of the team's stars

Saw them now. Nice!

still someone improved since then:

Tour Down Under Stage 2


Big breakaway group. Still no chance for them to win today


We are again the fastest train there. Greipel is again behind Eisel, this time Chavanel is there too


After a great job made by Ignatiev now it's time to see Maaskant in front. This looks like yesterday's stage and maybe Eisel can do it again


Difficult corner right when we enter the final kilometre. Maaskant, Freire, Eisel and Chavanel are in front. Greipel, O'Grady, Ignatiev and Goss are still there somehow


Acceleration by Freire and it's seems that is going to be between him and Eisel


And Freire gets his first win for Saunier Duval. Eisel is second and he keeps the orange jersey


Stage
1. Óscar Freire Saunier Duval - Scott 3h31'52
2. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia s.t.
3. André Greipel Crédit Agricole s.t.
4. Stuart O'Grady LPR Brakes - Ballan s.t.
5. Martijn Maaskant Team Columbia s.t.
6. Sébastien Chavanel AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
7. Matthew Goss Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
8. Alessandro Ballan Lampre s.t.
9. Luca Paolini Quick·Step s.t.
10. Alessandro Petacchi Gerolsteiner s.t.

Overall
1. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia 6h34'33
2. André Greipel Crédit Agricole + 3
3. Óscar Freire Saunier Duval - Scott + 4
4. Lloyd Mondory AG2R La Mondiale + 5
5. Luca Paolini Quick·Step + 6
6. Allan Davis Liquigas + 7
7. Nicolas Crosbie Agritubel s.t.
8. Alessandro Mazzi Liquigas + 8
9. Janek Tombak Lampre s.t.
10. Wouter Weylandt Crédit Agricole s.t.

Points
1. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia 47
2. André Greipel Crédit Agricole 43
3. Óscar Freire Saunier Duval - Scott 38

Mountain
1. Nicolas Portal Caisse d'Epargne 4
2. Hervé Duclos-Lassalle Liquigas 4
3. Evaldas Siskevicius Garmin - Chipotle powered by H30 2

Tour Down Under Stage 3


The escapes.


We are ready for the sprint and this time no one managed to get in our slipstream


Ignatiev is really fast today. Nobody can keep it up with us which are great news for Eisel


Maaskant's lead-out let only one man with chances to win today except Eisel, Allan Davis


But Davis doesn't seems to have enough power to win today


Second stage win for Eisel, now in the orange jersey. Maaskant was celebrating Eisel's win and that almost cost him a place on the podium


Stage
1. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia 3h07'17
2. Allan Davis Liquigas s.t.
3. Martijn Maaskant Team Columbia s.t.
4. Sébastien Chavanel AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
5. René Weissinger Team Volksbank s.t.
6. André Greipel Crédit Agricole s.t.
7. Óscar Freire Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
8. Timofey Kritskiy Gerolsteiner s.t.
9. Alessandro Petacchi Gerolsteiner s.t.
10. Stuart O'Grady LPR Brakes - Ballan s.t.

Overall
1. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia 9h41'44
2. Allan Davis Liquigas + 9
3. André Greipel Crédit Agricole s.t.
4. Óscar Freire Saunier Duval - Scott + 10
5. Lloyd Mondory AG2R La Mondiale + 11
6. Cameron Wurf Team Volksbank s.t.
7. Luca Paolini Quick·Step + 12
8. Antonio Cruz Liquigas + 13
9. Koen De Kort Astana Cycling Team s.t.
10. Nicolas Crosbie Agritubel s.t.

Points
1. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia 72
2. André Greipel Crédit Agricole 58
3. Martijn Maaskant Team Columbia 54

Mountain
1. Nicolas Portal Caisse d'Epargne 4
2. Hervé Duclos-Lassalle Liquigas 4
3. Alessandro Cortinovis BMC Racing Team 4

Really great tour from Eisel Just continue like this.

you dominate them! 3 sprint, two podium! 4 races, a 3rd places, a 2th and two great win! What a way to open a new year!

Maaskant has been a great man for the leadouts!

Tour Down Under Stage 4


For the first time the breakaway was a real threat


But the fast pace set up behind by Rabon and Devine stop them


There's some strong wind and that doesn't seem to help us there as we are a little bit behind


Freire was put in a perfect position there by Saunier Duval


Now Eisel has to get his wheel if he still wants to win today. Ignatiev, Mondory, Paolini and Maaskant are pretty close too


Oscar Freire wins, with Eisel again behind him. In his first 4 race days Eisel has 2 wins and 2 second places!


Stage
1. Óscar Freire Saunier Duval - Scott 3h01'01
2. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia s.t.
3. Mikhail Ignatiev Team Columbia s.t.
4. Luca Paolini Quick·Step s.t.
5. Lloyd Mondory AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
6. José Joaquín Rojas Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
7. Martijn Maaskant Team Columbia s.t.
8. Allan Davis Liquigas s.t.
9. Alessandro Ballan Lampre s.t.
10. René Weissinger Team Volksbank s.t.

Overall
1. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia 12h42'41
2. Óscar Freire Saunier Duval - Scott + 8
3. Allan Davis Liquigas + 13
4. André Greipel Crédit Agricole s.t.
5. Lloyd Mondory AG2R La Mondiale + 15
6. Cameron Wurf Team Volksbank s.t.
7. Luca Paolini Quick·Step + 16
8. Antonio Cruz Liquigas + 17
9. Koen De Kort Astana Cycling Team s.t.
10. Nicolas Crosbie Agritubel s.t.

Points
1. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia 94
2. Óscar Freire Saunier Duval - Scott 77
3. Martijn Maaskant Team Columbia 68

Mountain
1. Nicolas Portal Caisse d'Epargne 4
2. Hervé Duclos-Lassalle Liquigas 4
3. Alessandro Cortinovis BMC Racing Team 4

Next race:


2008 Results:
1. Mark Cavendish Team Columbia
2. Marcel Sieberg Team Columbia
3. Lars Boom Team Columbia
4. Samuel Dumoulin Cofidis
5. Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Columbia
6. Bradley Wiggins Team Columbia
7. Yauheni Hutarovich Francaise des Jeux
8. Sebastien Portal Cofidis
9. Mickael Delage Francaise des Jeux
10. Said Haddou Bouygues Telecom

2009 Results:
1. George Hincapie Team Columbia
2. Olaf Pollack Lampre
3. Daniele Contrini Tinkoff
4. Candido Barbosa Rabobank
5. Mark Cavendish Team Columbia
6. Yauheni Hutarovich Francaise des Jeux
7. Carlos Torrent Bouygues Telecom
8. Sebastien Turgot Bouygues Telecom
9. Bram de Groot Rabobank
10. Rick Flens Rabobank


Mark Cavendish
Lars Boom
Bradley Wiggins
David Zabriskie
Edvald Boasson Hagen
Tony Martin
Taylor Phinney
Dominique Cornu

Tour of Qatar Stage 1


Today Zabriskie rode for the first time in his new rainbow jersey. With the best time - trial team in this race we had no problems winning today. Tony Martin was the first rider to cross the line which means that he will wear the leader jersey tomorrow.


Results
1. Team Columbia 15'05
2. Agritubel + 6
3. Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
4. Rabobank + 16
5. Bouygues Télécom s.t.
6. Gerolsteiner + 28
7. Silence - Lotto s.t.
8. Liquigas s.t.
9. Mitsubishi - Jartazi - Protech + 38
10. LPR Brakes - Ballan + 43
11. AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
12. Lampre + 52

nice tt

And the winning strike continues

lets see how much it will continue

Tour Down Under Stage 5


Meersman is in the breakaway


But it seems that Saunier Duval and Liquigas just don't want to see the brekaway winning today


Though that they were caught Meersman managed to be first on Willunga Hill


After Willunga Hill there was made a group with many interesting names. Van Avermaet, O'Grady, Cancellara, Vansummeren, Maaskant, Ardila, Devolder, Terpstra, Pineau, Chavanel, Gilbert and Ginanni are there.


Yes Maaskant is there but he doesn't work too much. Maybe he doesn't have enough power or he is just doing Eisel's job, who is still in the pack


The stage finishes in a small uphill. O'Grady, Cancellara and Terpstra have a little advantage over the others so it looks like it's going to be between them today for the win


Dangerous sprint threre as Cancellara and O'Grady are very close to each other


O'Grady gets the win for LPR and he also grabs the orange jersey


Maaskant was the last one in that group, but he is fourth overall because of the bonifications won in the previous stages


Ignatiev was one of the first guys in the pack but still he couldn't catch the escapes for Eisel and now the ex-Austrian Champion is 13th overall more than 1 minute behind O'Grady. That means that from Columbia only Maaskant has now chances to win the overall rankings, but only if he will get in the first 2 places tomorrow and O'Grady is not on the podium


Stage
1. Stuart O'Grady LPR Brakes - Ballan 3h21'42
2. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
3. Niki Terpstra Bouygues Télécom s.t.
4. Philippe Gilbert Crédit Agricole s.t.
5. Sylvain Chavanel Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
6. Jérôme Pineau Agritubel s.t.
7. Greg Van Avermaet Silence - Lotto s.t.
8. Francesco Ginanni Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
9. Stijn Devolder Quick·Step s.t.
10. Mauricio Ardila Agritubel s.t.

Overall
1. Stuart O'Grady LPR Brakes - Ballan 16h04'37
2. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 2
3. Niki Terpstra Bouygues Télécom + 4
4. Martijn Maaskant Team Columbia s.t.
5. Greg Van Avermaet Silence - Lotto + 6
6. Stijn Devolder Quick·Step s.t.
7. Johan Vansummeren Silence - Lotto s.t.
8. Sylvain Chavanel Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
9. Mauricio Ardila Agritubel s.t.
10. Jérôme Pineau Agritubel s.t.

Points
1. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia 94
2. Óscar Freire Saunier Duval - Scott 83
3. Martijn Maaskant Team Columbia 77

Mountain
1. Nicolas Portal Caisse d'Epargne 4
2. Hervé Duclos-Lassalle Liquigas 4
3. Alessandro Cortinovis BMC Racing Team 4

Oh you don't make another podium. Good luck for qatar.

not really. If Maaskant will finish higher than Terpstra in the final stage he will get the third place.

And Maaskant his good in sprint, no?

if you look at his stats he is pretty good.

Tour of Qatar Stage 2


Phinney tried to get in the brekaway but with was hard to do anythin with all that strong wind.


Wiggins is leading the pack in the final kilometres. Boom and Cavendish are behind him


But because of a blast he and Boom are gone. Now Cavendish has to do it all by himself


Crash in the front of the pack! Moos is down. At least nobody else crashed


This is going to be really close but Cavendish isn't really in the best position


Clarke takes the win for Mitsubishi. Cavendish was just fifth but he is the new overall leader


Stage
1. Hilton Clarke Mitsubishi - Jartazi - Protech 3h02'14
2. Peter Möhlmann Rabobank s.t.
3. Fran Ventoso AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
4. �ngel Vicioso Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
5. Mark Cavendish Team Columbia s.t.
6. Tilo Schüler LPR Brakes - Ballan s.t.
7. Igor Abakoumov Mitsubishi - Jartazi - Protech s.t.
8. Toni Colom AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
9. Michael Morkov Lampre s.t.
10. Samuel Dumoulin Mitsubishi - Jartazi - Protech s.t.

Overall
1. Mark Cavendish Team Columbia 3h17'19
2. Lars Boom Team Columbia s.t.
3. Bradley Wiggins Team Columbia s.t.
4. Dominique Cornu Team Columbia s.t.
5. Tony Martin Team Columbia s.t.
6. David Zabriskie Team Columbia s.t.
7. Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Columbia s.t.
8. Peter Möhlmann Rabobank + 4
9. �ngel Vicioso Saunier Duval - Scott + 6
10. Kevyn Ista Agritubel s.t.

Points
1. Hilton Clarke Mitsubishi - Jartazi - Protech 25
2. Peter Möhlmann Rabobank 20
3. Fran Ventoso AG2R La Mondiale 16