And there's the South European temper /stereotype.

Relax, man, it was a joke. No reason to get upset about it.

Philippe Gilbert takes Coppa Sabatini today, his fourth win of the season...

Has any of you stream for Paris-Bourges?

No, there is a live ticker though.

You'll be pleased to know it looks like Hoogerland has found his limits and hit the wall. He was in the break today and had to let go as first one because he was 'dead tired'.

Although the cynical ones will probably say his testosteron has run out

meh, hoogerland's testosterone's ran out.

And where?

Sorry, I realize that now. I spent the entire day yesterday running around in the rain because of stupid meetings and pretty much everything went wrong. Then I spent the night on the train and haven't gotten any sleep yet.

Apologies for the grouchiness

Chihuaha 4:


1º 13 MORENO, Daniel ESP CAISSE D`EPARGNE 4:17:32
2º 26 RASMUNSSEN, Michael DEN TECOS TREK a 02
3º 8 SEVILLA, Oscar ESP ROCK RACING a 19
4º 34 KREDER, Michael NED RABOBANK a 19
5º 1 MANCEBO, Francisco ESP ROCK RACING a 22
6º 64 DEL NERO, Jesus ESP FUJI-SERVETTO a 22
7º 61 COBO, Juan Jose ESP FUJI-SERVETTO a 22
8º 21 LADINO, Gregorio COL TECOS TREK a 22
9º 117 MOSQUERA, Ezequiel ESP XACOBEO GALICIA a 24
10º 35 KRUIJSWIJK, Steven NED RABOBANK a 24

I can't help but say, nice results by Kreder and Kruijswijk

And Busche completely blew up.

Oh and thank god Kreder is going to Garmin, Rabo would probably fuck him up anyway

Is Oscar Sevilla really that old? I still remember him looking like he's a child of sorts. He's the eternal 24 year old...

*cough* 12 *cough*

Kreder is indeed showing some very good form lately. I hope he'll develop into a good rider at garmin.

Yea I don't know what happened with Busche, welcome to the big leagues?

I'm also not sure how many "Stage Races" he's really done too so he could be getting used to longer races. I saw him win the Tour of America's Dairyland but it'd be a stretch to call that a stage race that would challenge a rider like him, There were two (Pretty tough, actually one was the proposed road race course if Chicago got the Olympics) road races that he did very well in but otherwise he mostly just sat in for crits and maybe mixed it up in the sprint.

So it could be that he's not really used to doing stage races (Tour of Utah is the only one I can remember him doing) or maybe he won't be that big of a talent, but because he's a good guy and has made some big gains this year I'm hoping for the best for him.

Oh yeah,

Lol @ Vuelta Chihuahua being "Big Leagues"

haha yes, I saw that after the fact But hey, they have the chicken, baby face, ladino and crew

With 2 laps to go in Emilia:
Quattro uomini al comando: Fuglsang, Lovkist, Gesink e Vinokourov

Lead group with Fuglsang, Lövkvist, Gesink and Vinokourov. Fugslang jumped away, Lövkvist and Gesink quickly joined, Vinokourov was further behind but joined in the descent.

Basso and Cunego could not follow and where 35 seconds behind on the top. Still 2 times to climb the San Luca

16 seconds for Lovkvist, Gesink, Fuglsang and Vino with 1 lap to go.

It's going to be a close one in Emilia

The chasers are Cunego, Kolobnev, Sorensen, Kessiakof, Fernandez, Pozzovivo, Soler and Bertagnolli @ 16 seconds

Link?