I've already played the first stage

guess wacko's rider and you can take some points, I will let you do that



yeah first race for Karpets with Columbia and thanks

Vuelta a Mallorca Stage 1


Strong wind and with 10km to go the pack is split into 2 groups. Leipheimer, the main favourite to take the overall win this year, is caught in the second group, while Gadret, an another big name is caught somewhere between the 2 groups


Burghardt, Hagen, Boom and Karpets are in the first group from Columbia


Hagen is our main sprinter and he would be lead out by Burghardt and Boom, while some CSC, Quick Step and GLS are having some fun in the left side of the road


Burghardt is leading the pack right before the start of the sprint, but...


... Boom lost his wheel and now both him and Hagen are behind


So Burghartd slowed down and Quick Step took the lead for Paolini


But with 1 km to go Freire seems to be in the best position as he also has lead-out man in front of him


Paolini takes the lead after a great acceleration


And he takes the win, Quick Step did their job today


Gadret and Posthuma lead the second pack to the finish line, 1 minute and 26 seconds lost


Results
1. Luca Paolini Quick·Step 1h53'36
2. Daniele Bennati Liquigas s.t.
3. Peter Möhlmann Rabobank s.t.
4. Jesús Del Nero Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
5. Tyler Farrar Garmin - Chipotle powered by H30 s.t.
6. Linas Balciunas Team GLS s.t.
7. Óscar Freire Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
8. Morten Reckweg Team GLS s.t.
9. Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Columbia s.t.
10. Juan José Haedo Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.

Hope for a win in the mountain stage.

Tour de Langkawi Stage 8


The breakaway.


Ignatiev attacked in the early metres of the last climb


Sanchez felt a threat and came after him


But Fuglsang and Meersman are coming too. Luis Leon could be in danger with 3 Columbia riders there


After a few kilometres we had a leading group made by Sanchez, Meersman, Cobo and Persson, who survived from the breakaway


Ignatiev, Gilbert, Fuglsang and Perez are in the second group


Persson isn't dead at all after the breakaway and he attacks from the front group


Though that Cobo or Sanchez didn't attack, Meersman had difficulties to keep it up with them


Fuglsang is coming from behind to get him back there


And it seems that it worked. Also Perez cam with Fuglsang


While Ignatiev and Gilbert are still behind


Persson is caught right before the final kilometre


But Meersman isn't really in the best position to get the yellow jersey from Sanchez. Fuglsang is somehow waiting for him there


The sprint starts with Persson, who now seems dead, Cobo and Sanchez in front


And Luis Leon Sanchez secures his yellow jersey with a second stage win


Meersman cracked in the last kilometre and lost 41 seconds, but still kept the 2nd place


Stage
1. Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale 2h57'08
2. Juanjo Cobo Bouygues Télécom s.t.
3. Lucas Persson Team Designa Kökken s.t.
4. Fran Pérez LA - MSS - Póvoa de Varzím + 19
5. Jakob Fuglsang Team Columbia s.t.
6. Gianni Meersman Team Columbia + 41
7. Philippe Gilbert Crédit Agricole + 1'04
8. Mikhail Ignatiev Team Columbia s.t.
9. Vasil Kiryienka Tinkoff Credit Systems + 1'21
10. Tomasz Kiendys CCC - Polsat - Polkowice + 1'53

Overall
1. Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale 27h39'37
2. Gianni Meersman Team Columbia + 1'09
3. Juanjo Cobo Bouygues Télécom + 1'45
4. Jakob Fuglsang Team Columbia + 2'04
5. Fran Pérez LA - MSS - Póvoa de Varzím + 2'16
6. Mikhail Ignatiev Team Columbia + 2'49
7. Philippe Gilbert Crédit Agricole s.t.
8. Tomasz Kiendys CCC - Polsat - Polkowice + 3'10
9. Vasil Kiryienka Tinkoff Credit Systems + 3'18
10. Michael Tronborg Team Designa Kökken + 3'32

Points
1. Mark Cavendish Team Columbia 91
2. Tomasz Kiendys CCC - Polsat - Polkowice 76
3. Lloyd Mondory AG2R La Mondiale 61

Mountain
1. Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale 40
2. Gianni Meersman Team Columbia 28
3. Juanjo Cobo Bouygues Télécom 18

Meersman, 2th, very good.

Nice effort there by Meersman

Just a shame you dindt go for it with Fuglsang

pretty good that 2nd place nevertheless

Are you doing something with your pictures? Saturation or something..? They're so nice!

Also, nice results by Meersman

well Fuglsang had no chance to take more that 1 minute over Sanchez, so I just tried to help Meersman with him and hope that Meersman could take more bonification than Sanchez at the finish but it didn't happen.



no, I just convert the bmp. to .png using DDS Converter 2.

Vuelta a Mallorca Stage 2


The breakaway.


Crashes in front of the pack with less than 15km left to ride!


Pfannberger hits one of the bikes in front and he is down


Freire went down too!


And another sprinter... it's Koldo Fernandez


Columbia survived so now Burghardt, Boom and Hagen are heading to the front of the pack


Burghardt is leading the pack again and this time Boom and Hagen are after him


Capecchi seems to be the only one able to stay in Hagen's wheel at the moment


Boom is now leading what could turn into a win for Hagen


But Benitez and Capecchi are close too


Though that he is not the best sprinter there, Capecchi seems to be the strongest


And he takes the win, Hagen second.


Stage
1. Eros Capecchi Saunier Duval - Scott 3h36'46
2. Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Columbia s.t.
3. Luca Paolini Quick·Step s.t.
4. Juan José Haedo Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
5. Javier Benítez Sport Lisboa e Benfica s.t.
6. Daniele Bennati Liquigas s.t.
7. Jesús Del Nero Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
8. Peter Möhlmann Rabobank s.t.
9. Allan Davis Liquigas s.t.
10. Lars Boom Team Columbia s.t.

Overall
1. Luca Paolini Quick·Step 5h29'54
2. Eros Capecchi Saunier Duval - Scott + 8
3. Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Columbia + 16
4. Daniele Bennati Liquigas s.t.
5. Peter Möhlmann Rabobank + 20
6. Jesús Del Nero Saunier Duval - Scott + 28
7. Juan José Haedo Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
8. Tyler Farrar Garmin - Chipotle powered by H30 s.t.
9. Morten Reckweg Team GLS s.t.
10. Lars Boom Team Columbia s.t.

Points
1. Luca Paolini Quick·Step 41
2. Daniele Bennati Liquigas 30
3. Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Columbia 27

Mountain
1. Alberto Rodríguez Contentpolis - Murcia 5
2. Chris Wherry Astana Cycling Team 3
3. Pedro Horrillo Miche - Silver Cross 1

Tour de Langkawi Final Stage


This looks like going to end in a mass sprint


Pliuschin is using the wind to take a little advantage over the pack in the last kilometres


2 Designa Kokken are behind and also Meersman is there


Then is our train with Ignatiev, Van Heerden and Cavendish


The sprint starts with Pliuschin still in front but the Designa Kokken riders are close too


With Pliuschin going down Madsen takes the lead


Meersman seems to be the only one able to stop him


But he doesn't and Madsen takes the stage win


Stage
1. Jens Erik Madsen Team Designa Kökken 1h42'03
2. Gianni Meersman Team Columbia s.t.
3. Mikhail Ignatiev Team Columbia s.t.
4. Juan Van Heerden Team Columbia s.t.
5. Mark Cavendish Team Columbia s.t.
6. Philippe Gilbert Crédit Agricole s.t.
7. Pieter Ghyllebert Topsport Vlaanderen s.t.
8. Lloyd Mondory AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
9. David Herrero Karpin Galicia s.t.
10. Alexander Gottfried Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.

Overall
1. Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale 29h21'40
2. Gianni Meersman Team Columbia + 57
3. Juanjo Cobo Bouygues Télécom + 1'45
4. Jakob Fuglsang Team Columbia + 2'04
5. Fran Pérez LA - MSS - Póvoa de Varzím + 2'16
6. Mikhail Ignatiev Team Columbia + 2'41
7. Philippe Gilbert Crédit Agricole + 2'49
8. Tomasz Kiendys CCC - Polsat - Polkowice + 3'10
9. Vasil Kiryienka Tinkoff Credit Systems + 3'18
10. Michael Tronborg Team Designa Kökken + 3'32

Points
Mark Cavendish Team Columbia
Mountain
Luis León Sánchez AG2R La Mondiale
Young
Gianni Meersman Team Columbia
Teams
Team Columbia

Vuelta a Mallorca Stage 3


Martin is in the breakaway today


After the second climb of the day Martin and Arroyo went away from the other escapes


Behind them, Jose Ivan Gutierrez attacked from the pack


This looks good for them. 20 km to and the pack isn't too close so they have a good chance to fight for the stage win


Last climb of the day is about to start and it's more clear that the pack won't caught them


But they are caught after all. Not by the whole pack, only by Gutierrez


Gutierrez seems to be very strong and Arroyo pretty much cracked as only Martin can stay in Gutierre's wheel


Last corner and he made a gap between him and Martin. Though none of them will be able to take the yellow jersey as the pack won't lose too much time and neither of them was in the first group in the first stage


Gutierrez takes thes stage. Martin second but he is the new KoM jersey wearer


Boom and Karpets looked good today as they climbed good on the last climb


Stage
1. José Iván Gutiérrez Astana Cycling Team 4h03'14
2. Tony Martin Team Columbia + 10
3. David Arroyo Caisse d'Epargne + 19
4. Christian Pfannberger Caisse d'Epargne + 33
5. John Gadret Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
6. José Serpa Garmin - Chipotle powered by H30 s.t.
7. Bram Tankink Rabobank s.t.
8. Vladimir Karpets Team Columbia s.t.
9. Lars Boom Team Columbia s.t.
10. �ngel Vicioso Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.

Overall
1. Luca Paolini Quick·Step 9h33'41
2. Eros Capecchi Saunier Duval - Scott + 8
3. Daniele Bennati Liquigas + 16
4. Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Columbia s.t.
5. Lars Boom Team Columbia + 28
6. Bram Tankink Rabobank s.t.
7. Chris Anker Sörensen Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
8. Vladimir Karpets Team Columbia s.t.
9. José Serpa Garmin - Chipotle powered by H30 s.t.
10. Andrea Tonti Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.

Points
1. Luca Paolini Quick·Step 41
2. Daniele Bennati Liquigas 30
3. Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Columbia 27

Mountain
1. Tony Martin Team Columbia 34
2. David Arroyo Caisse d'Epargne 24
3. Silvère Ackermann Agritubel 16

wow 133 pages and still going, hope you'll continue with this

yeah it will continue as I don't think I will get PCM09

Vuelta a Mallorca Stage 4


Big breakaway group and they might have a chance for the stage win


They start the last climb with a pretty good advantage and this looks like the second winning breakaway, after yersterday's one


Behind the breakaway it was made a favourites group, which included Karpets, Sastre, Tankink, Pfannberger, Gutierrez, Gadret, McGee and Serpa


Boom is in the second group whit the yellow jersey Paolini, the green jersey wearer Bennati and the white jersey, Capecchi


Crashes in the pack. Martin is also about to crash!


Bad luck for Leipheimer, after losing time in the first stage he crashed today too


Karpets is trying to catch the escapes as some of them are close in the GC and they could take the yellow jersey


Meanwhile Boom left the yellow jersey's group to join Karpets'


The escapes fought for the stage win. And Rogrigues was the winner, who also seems to be the new yellow jersey


Crash in the favourites group with just 1km left to ride! Pfannberger is down


Boom and Karpets finished in safety and they still both have chances to win the race


This is incredible! Leipheimer crashes for the second time on this downhill, not a great start for him after a breakaway of a year


Martin hit his bike and went down again too. A Miche rider was pretty close to him so he joined Martin...


Stage
1. José Carlos Rodrigues Liberty Seguros 3h42'40
2. Jan Valach Karpin Galicia s.t.
3. Gonzalo Zambrano Extremadura - Ciclismo Soldario s.t.
4. Andrea Capelli Miche - Silver Cross s.t.
5. Laurent Lefèvre Garmin - Chipotle powered by H30 s.t.
6. Bingen Fernández Sport Lisboa e Benfica s.t.
7. Pascal Hungerbühler LA - MSS - Póvoa de Varzím s.t.
8. Sergio Domínguez Contentpolis - Murcia s.t.
9. Bradley McGee Team GLS + 1'39
10. John Gadret Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.

Overall
1. José Carlos Rodrigues Liberty Seguros 13h17'55
2. Gonzalo Zambrano Extremadura - Ciclismo Soldario + 12
3. Andrea Capelli Miche - Silver Cross + 14
4. Sergio Domínguez Contentpolis - Murcia + 18
5. Bingen Fernández Sport Lisboa e Benfica + 20
6. Pascal Hungerbühler LA - MSS - Póvoa de Varzím s.t.
7. Bram Tankink Rabobank + 33
8. Lars Boom Team Columbia s.t.
9. Vladimir Karpets Team Columbia s.t.
10. Bradley McGee Team GLS s.t.

Points
1. Luca Paolini Quick·Step 41
2. José Iván Gutiérrez Astana Cycling Team 30
3. Daniele Bennati Liquigas 30

Mountain
1. Tony Martin Team Columbia 34
2. David Arroyo Caisse d'Epargne 24
3. José Carlos Rodrigues Liberty Seguros 24

not so bad.

So many falls... that stage looks like Roubaix

hey a portuguese has won! time for a banana

Nothing like Paris - Roubaix

This was a dangerous downhill with a lot of tight turns. Some riders crashed in the front of the pack and I was reciving messages like 7 riders crashed, 9 riders crashed

Vuelta a Mallorca Final Stage


Martin is again in the breakaway, to secure the KoM jersey and who knows maybe the stage win


It was a 6 men breakaway but after the third climb of the day, which was also the hardest one Martin, Olmo and Salmon went away from the others 3


On the last climb the escapes are still in front and some of the important names attacked fromt the pack, even the yellow jersey Rodrigues


Karpets and Boom are going there too


With the escapes almost caught by the favourites, Martin feels that he has to attack and he does that at the end of the climb


He pretty much got away and now he has the first chance to take the stage win


Behind him, Boom is trying to do everything he can to get rid of Rodrigues


And the yellow jersey wearer doesn't look too good


Finaly Boom managed to make a gap and Karpets is trying to block the others with a fals relay behind him


Boom is about to catch Martin as he need to take some bonifications


But he let Martin take the stage win. Did Boom enough to take the yellow jersey and win the race? Well we are about to find out


Rodrigues didn't get any bonifications and his group finished 23 seconds behind the Columbia duo, which means that Boom won the overall rankings for only a few seconds!


Stage
1. Tony Martin Team Columbia 3h40'37
2. Lars Boom Team Columbia s.t.
3. Bingen Fernández Sport Lisboa e Benfica + 23
4. Luca Paolini Quick·Step s.t.
5. José Iván Gutiérrez Astana Cycling Team s.t.
6. Vladimir Karpets Team Columbia s.t.
7. José Carlos Rodrigues Liberty Seguros s.t.
8. Pablo Lastras Liquigas s.t.
9. Juan Olmo Andalucía - Cajasur s.t.
10. Bradley McGee Team GLS s.t.

Overall
1. Lars Boom Team Columbia 16h58'53
2. José Carlos Rodrigues Liberty Seguros + 2
3. Bingen Fernández Sport Lisboa e Benfica + 14
4. Gonzalo Zambrano Extremadura - Ciclismo Soldario s.t.
5. Andrea Capelli Miche - Silver Cross + 16
6. Pascal Hungerbühler LA - MSS - Póvoa de Varzím + 22
7. Vladimir Karpets Team Columbia + 35
8. Bram Tankink Rabobank s.t.
9. Bradley McGee Team GLS s.t.
10. Luca Paolini Quick·Step + 48

Points
Luca Paolini Quick·Step
Mountain
Tony Martin Team Columbia
Young
Lars Boom Team Columbia
Teams
Team Columbia

Impressive 1-2

Nice results, excellent team, great story.