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[/my mother]

Le Tour De France Stage 5


The breakaway that fight almost for nothing today just the intermediate sprints


Some hills in the last half of the race and Ciolek and Cavendish are out for the sprint


Again a strange train with Gerdemann and Kirchen. Eisel could get his second win today


A mistake by the Columbia riders there! Gerdemann lost Hincapie's wheel. And Cancellara could beat them


But Kirchen solves it.


Now Kirchen takes the lead


And I'm not sure if Eisel really wants to be faster than him today


Kirchen wins and Eisel completes the double with a really nice performance by Hincapie. It seems that the last hill came in a very good moment for Kichen, the real sprinters loosing some energy there.


Stage
1. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia 5h25'04
2. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia s.t.
3. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
4. George Hincapie Team Columbia s.t.
5. Heinrich Haussler Gerolsteiner s.t.
6. Allan Davis Mitsubishi - Jartazi - Protech s.t.
7. Óscar Freire Rabobank s.t.
8. Erik Zabel Team Milram s.t.
9. Danilo Napolitano Lampre s.t.
10. Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole s.t.

Overall
1. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank 19h14'38
2. Michael Rogers Team Columbia + 1'09
3. Levi Leipheimer Astana Cycling Team + 1'13
4. George Hincapie Team Columbia + 1'18
5. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto + 1'27
6. Denis Menchov Rabobank + 1'29
7. Leif Hoste Silence - Lotto + 1'30
8. Manuel Quinziato Liquigas + 1'32
9. Vladimir Gusev Astana Cycling Team + 1'36
10. Joost Posthuma Rabobank s.t.

Points
1. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia 89
2. Heinrich Haussler Gerolsteiner 86
3. Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia 74

Mountain
1. Marlon Pérez Caisse d'Epargne 15
2. Nico Sijmens Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 12
3. Christian Murro Lampre 11

Young: Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia
Teams: Team Columbia

hahah looks too easy!! NICE

Great win with Kirchen!

Ok so you want to teach you, Halvor Get your best 2 flat riders, 2 best sprinters in that race. The flat riders will be first in the train then the sprinters. With something like 8km to go move your first man's ass after one of the riders that lead the pack (not the other trains the ones that relay). Put the rest of the train after him while he is going to the front of the race. Stay there until 4 or 5 kilometres and then use with the first man the 'dot'. If gets tired put him on maintain postion and go with the next rider using the 'dot'. With 3 km the sprint starts, start it with your first man then after a few metres sprint with one of your sprinters and then then winer could be one of your sprinters.

Thanks

*Starts PCM*

The first rider that signs with Columbia for 2009 is Taylor Phinney, an talanted american time-trialist.

MINI-PHINNEY!

Me thinks he will be a good time-trialler

Nice signing

Le Tour De France Stage 6


Lovkvist takes some others KOM points


And now the real breakaway


Kloden and Contador were seen today working in the front of the pack, and not on the last climb which probably means that Leipheimer is the leader for Astana.


Rogers attacked early on Super-Besse and with 5km to go he is in front


Kirchen makes his move in the pack


Cunego caught Rogers and even left him behind


Gerdemann attacks too


1km to go and Cunego leads the race


Rogers was caught by the favourites group


Cunego takes the win


Rogers is third and he will be in yellow tomorrow


Kirchen and Gerdemann were in the first group too. No Evans, Contador, Kloden, Gesink, Dekker, Cancellara, A.Schleck, F.Schleck, Piepoli or Pereiro Sio there


Stage
1. Damiano Cunego Lampre 4h41'45
2. Denis Menchov Rabobank s.t.
3. Michael Rogers Team Columbia s.t.
4. Carlos Sastre Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
5. Levi Leipheimer Astana Cycling Team s.t.
6. Maxime Monfort Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone s.t.
7. Danilo Di Luca LPR Brakes - Ballan s.t.
8. Vladimir Karpets Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
9. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia s.t.
10. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia s.t.

Overall
1. Michael Rogers Team Columbia 23h57'24
2. Levi Leipheimer Astana Cycling Team + 12
3. Denis Menchov Rabobank + 16
4. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia + 41
5. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 43
6. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia + 1'18
7. Samuel Sánchez Euskaltel - Euskadi + 1'20
8. Damiano Cunego Lampre + 1'51
9. George Hincapie Team Columbia + 2'01
10. Cadel Evans Silence - Lotto + 2'10

Points
1. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia 96
2. Heinrich Haussler Gerolsteiner 86
3. Óscar Freire Rabobank 76

Mountain
1. Nick Nuyens Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone 21
2. Nico Sijmens Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 20
3. Simon Gerrans Crédit Agricole 20

Young: Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia
Teams: Team Columbia

Yeah, yellow to Rogers Looking forward to the real mountain stages

Le Tour De France Stage 7


Lovkvist is in the breakaway


He is second and first in the top of the 2 climbs that we had today


Gerdemann goes after Menchov and Sastre. No other Columbia rider attacked today


Menchov and Gerdemann are in front with a small advantage for Gerdemann


After them a group with 4 riders. Monfort, Devolder, Sastre and Moreau


Cunego is almost tried something but the pack is close


Cause Astana is working hard in front


Gerdemann takes the stage


But Menchov is second and Rogers looses the yellow jersey


Stage
1. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia 3h53'26
2. Denis Menchov Rabobank s.t.
3. Stijn Devolder Quick·Step s.t.
4. Christophe Moreau Agritubel s.t.
5. Maxime Monfort Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone s.t.
6. Carlos Sastre Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
7. Damiano Cunego Lampre + 56
8. Tomas Vaitkus Astana Cycling Team + 1'10
9. Alberto Contador Astana Cycling Team s.t.
10. Janez Brajkovic Astana Cycling Team s.t.

Overall
1. Denis Menchov Rabobank 27h50'54
2. Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia + 17
3. Michael Rogers Team Columbia + 1'06
4. Levi Leipheimer Astana Cycling Team + 1'18
5. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 1'49
6. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia + 2'24
7. Samuel Sánchez Euskaltel - Euskadi + 2'26
8. Damiano Cunego Lampre + 2'43
9. George Hincapie Team Columbia + 3'07
10. Stijn Devolder Quick·Step + 3'11

Points
1. Kim Kirchen Team Columbia 107
2. Heinrich Haussler Gerolsteiner 88
3. Óscar Freire Rabobank 76

Mountain
1. Thomas Lövkvist Team Columbia 42
2. Nick Nuyens Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone 21
3. Nico Sijmens Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 20

Young: Linus Gerdemann Team Columbia
Teams: Team Columbia

Mini-Phinney!! AWESOME

why didn't you try to defend the jersey?

also, are you going for the overall with Kirchen or Gerdemann?

He don't have to use their energy up on these stages, he'll wait to the mountain stages Astana also did a very fast pace in the peloton.

well those attacks were made with 15 km or something like that. No Astana rider there and I thought that they will catch the attackers but that didn't happend. Then no othe attacks were made so I didn't wanted to attacks alone and loose energy. Kirchen will be the leader.

An another talanted young will ride for Columbia next year. It's Jos Van Emden.

OK fair enough, but I find that with Kirchen it's easiest to make up time on the hilly stages, try and steal a couple of minutes, although if Astana didn't go I can understand why you wouldn't either

Nice results in France and I think you can take back the yellow jersey soon !

Nice wins but i dont think you should sprint with Kirchen or Gerdeman on the flat stages it get to unreal that Kirchen wins a total flat stage!! :S