Looks like the team really wanted to impress in Sweden

Rider of the month: Alberto Contador, Saxo – Tinkoff. For the second month in a row he showed complete and utter domination. 4 stages, a mountain jersey and the GC in Tour de France is hard to compete with.

Nordic rider of the month: Thor Hushovd, Volvo – STARK. Well two stages and a green jersey in Tour de France should say it all, but it just gets more impressive when it is the second year in a row the big Norwegian fights his way to green after a lot of commentators deemed him out of top racing. He might not be the fastest, but he is still one of the strongest riders in the peloton!

Special Mention: Roger Kluge, Argos – Shimano. The German won 6 out of the 9 stages in Tour of Qinghai Lake with his 3rd place in stage 9 his worst. That not only gave him the GC and the points jersey but also rocketed his team into contention for promotion to the World Tour after an otherwise disappointing season for Argos - Shimano.

Atlantius, Manager of Volvo - STARK

As something else we will this month be talking to the manager of Volvo – STARK instead of the Nordic Rider of the month.

Your team was surprisingly strong in the Tour de France. How did you see the race from the team car?

You have put together a strong team for next year with especially a lot of new Norwegians, does these strong newcomers mean that the team budget for next year is all used up?

I’m intrigued. You can’t say something like that without giving us a little something…

But what about the riders then?

1	Alberto Contador	Team Saxo – Tinkoff	675
2	Tom Boonen	RadioShack – Nissan	399
3	Vincenzo Nibali	Liquigas – Cannondale	394
9	Thor Hushovd	Volvo – STARK	246
16	Jakob Fuglsang	Volvo – STARK	157
74	Thomas Löfkvist	Volvo – STARK	48
167	Jussi Veikkanen	Volvo – STARK	4

1	RadioShack – Nissan	1348
2	Rabobank Cycling Team	799
3	Euskaltel – Euskadi	741
5	Team Saxo – Tinkoff	709
6	Volvo – STARK	687
28	Joker Merida	41

Relegation spots: Gazprom & Omega Pharma - QuickStep

1	Roger Kluge	Argos – Shimano	555
2	Rory Sutherland	Christina Watches – Onfone	387
3	Eric Baumann	Differdange – Magic-Sportfood.de	378
60	Niki Østergaard	Glud & Marstrand – LRØ	147
82	Fredrik Wilmann	Christina Watches – Onfone	115
152	Sebastian Balck	Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland	59

1	Cofidis, le credit en ligne	1415
2	FDJ – BigMat	1366
3	Team Argos Shimano	1349
5	Christina Watches – Onfone	1101
20	Team Øster Hus – Ridley	554
22	Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland	515
26	Joker Merida	440
32	Glud & Marstrand – LRØ	323
42	Ikea Cykling	215
48	Blue Water Cycling	149
61	Jardar Sykling	43

Promotion spots: Cofidis & Colnago – CSF Inox


Bradley Wiggins will be hoping to revive his career alongside Enrico Gasparotto at


23-year old CT-profile Nacer Bouhanni have decided to drop the chance for World Tour racing at FDJ and have instead signed a contract with


After a classics season without beating his team-mate Boonen, Cancellara have decided to leave RadioShack – Nissan to chase classics success at


Cunego have had a decent season this far currently placed 10th in the WT-rankings. So he has had plenty of offers an in the end signed with


Cavendish will be joining his old leadout man at

Bauke Mollema rode a brilliant Tour de France for Rabobank, but will now be leaving the Dutch team for

Looking at who finished in front of him and behind him, Lasse had a great time

A good finish for Bochman.

Bochman did the jersey proud

And Wiggins to Liquigas was a shock

Cancellara to Rabobank
Mollema to Caja Rujal ... wait whut?

Yeh. This happens all the time

I never had that (to be fair I never reached April)

haha. Didn't think you had

Weird transfers are just part of this game,i had many of them!

TTspecialist: They are. I have actually grown kind of fond of them. I see it as the games way of simulating rides not reaching their potential

Anyone, who thought that Contador’s achievements this season doesn’t seem quite human might turn out to be right.



Rumours has it that Contador has given a blood sample, containing “Adverse Analytical Findings�. The blood sample got mixed up on the lab with a research project looking at erythrocytes of marine mammals capable of maintaining an oxygen reserve for a long time under water.
The project had made several interesting findings on a cellular level when they ran a group of randomly selected human blood samples for reference. One of these samples showed a greatly increased density of haemoglobin in the erythrocytes and as a result a much enlarged oxygen-carrying capacity without an increased haematocrit.



It is suspected to be due to a gene variation not earlier described in humans, but the scientists have been able to splice it in to the genome of other animals earlier.
How this has happened to Alberto Contadors blood is yet to be discovered as is it uncertain whether or not it technically is against the current anti-doping regulations.

Contador has been suspended by his team while the investigations continue.
WADA has promised that the case will be run within the month as they can’t be bothered to run it by the Spanish cycling federation.

Contador’s defence lawyers claim the changes in Alberto’s genome to be caused by a this far unknown virus he must have picked up on a training camp in Basque Country and challenge UCI and Wada to prove that such a virus cannot exist.

long story short: Contador is an alian

Contador

No steak's? Oh, wait it's a virus. Call Cadel, he will help him get a good excuse for a virus.

No steak's? Oh, wait it's a virus. Call Cadel, he will help him get a good excuse for a virus.

Contador even cheats in a cycling game