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Nordic Cycling | Final Farewell
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 19-07-2013 13:23
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Ian: Very much so. Even though Rund um Köln ended up quite boring as the Bøchman proved stronger than the CT-teams 
sutty: And they should: It's part of how I like to race!
Jakstar: In deed. It replaced the default Red Bull jersey when adding the UCPCL-jerseys and I saw no reason to change this for the CT-team sponsored by Red Bull in this save 
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 19-07-2013 13:46
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 Amstel Gold Race 
As the first of the Ardennes classics this will be the first big test for Matzen, who for the first time will race these as captain.
When that is said the bookies haven’t even bothered setting odds for him. We just hope he will make the team look less embarrassing in the Ardennes than previous years…
Bøchman was very active in showing our presence in the early part of the race.
Not that these early breaks have any bearing on the race, when Commonwealth Bank and Nissan have agreed no one is to go away…
Later on both Chris Anker and Fuglsang tries to get in one of the strong breaks, but it wasn’t until we stopped participating that Santambrogio, Westra and Tiernan-Locke were allowed to get away.
Gilbert attacked right before the 20 km mark and Brian decided to go after him.
It didn’t last, but at least Matzen were in the front group when the “peloton” cracked the first time leaving 24 riders in front.
In the end he found himself fighting with guys like Andy Schleck, Valverde and Visconti for a top 20.
In the meantime Cunego rewards his team for all their hard work.
Matzen showed good spirit beating Horner and Bakelandts in the sprint for 17th place.
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 19-07-2013 13:51
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 19-07-2013 14:23
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I definitely don't dislike it enough to be bothered with changing it
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 19-07-2013 16:19
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A strong performance from Brian
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 19-07-2013 16:48
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sutty: It was. Nice to finally have a decent Nordic puncheur 
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| The Rider |
Posted on 19-07-2013 16:57
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A great result for the team at Amstel Gold but no doubt humbling after the recent success of the team.
Also how could you send 'the Bochman' to the Rund um Koln! That should have been a race where all the inexperienced riders came out to ride, still a nice win.
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 19-07-2013 17:33
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The Rider: I know, and that was the plan. Bøchman went there to build some form for later goals and the "smaller names" chased the break with all they had - they just couldn't get away and when they were completely empty Lasse was given the go and he never looked back...
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 19-07-2013 18:34
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 La Flèche Wallonne 
The early part of the race went on pretty much as Amstel.
Only today a two-rider break consisting of Cobo and Elissonde actually seems to stand a chance. With 18 km to go they still have 2’20’’ on the favourites.
It looks like the win will go to the break as they still have more than a minute going in to the last km.
Behind Fuglsang is doing great to place Matzen in front for the final climb.
Brian thanks for the effort and takes part of the sprint right in the front of the group. This is without a doubt the closest the team has ever been to an Ardennes top 10!
He does it! Finishing just ahead of Mollema and 7th in the favourites sprint!!
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| welker3257 |
Posted on 19-07-2013 18:36
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Great ride for Matzen .
I breakaway staying away and winning a classic
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Posted on 19-07-2013 20:06
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welker: A great result in deed - and very weird to see the break survive. It's like 1/10 times I don't send a guy in the break. Why didn't I do that today 
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Posted on 19-07-2013 21:14
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 19-07-2013 23:37
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Brian did well today
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 19-07-2013 23:45
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9th. Strong performance 
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 20-07-2013 07:28
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The Rider: I doubt it will be total domination. I had a fairly high evolution the first couple of seasons, but have lowered it now that the homegrown talents start to show themselves. Yet the ambition was to make an all-Nordic team top the rankings at the end of a season.
sutty: The best Ardennes result in the teams history is in deed very well done!
Jakstar: Very strong in deed. And stronger than expected - guess it was the fewer hills/shorter distance made the difference today
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 20-07-2013 08:23
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Liège – Bastogne – Liège 
With 100 km to go 8 riders have been out front for about 100 km. at this point they have a gap of just under eight minutes and the peloton is chasing them hard.
50 km to the line and five minutes. Looks like the big teams have Kiryinka, Westra end the others within reach.
Going in to the last 30 km four riders are still out front. Since this is not our race to win we let Euskaltel and Lotto continue to do all the work while Matzen is being protected by Fuglsang.
18 km from goal things starts to get stirred up and Brian decides to test his legs against the very best.
In the end he had more than enough to do just hanging on to the favourites, but all in all another promising race from the young Dane.
Gasparotto takes the win, while a few of the breakaway guys hang on to finish in the favourites group and Brian just miss out on the top 10.
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 20-07-2013 15:02
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 Tour de Romandie
Fuglsang won last year in top shape. This year he is peaking for the Giro, but will aim for a good Romandie GC as well even though it is a very easy route without a lot of mountains.
The prologue wan’t that impressive for us, but with four guys in the top 20 nothing is lost either.
The second stage was a fairly easy uphill finish that was taken by a break, while Fuglsang managed to win a few seconds on some of the other favourites.
Stage three was another one for the break. It finished with a downhill section and some flat terrain. Not really what GC-leader Atapuma prefers so we put the pressure on him and Jakob won little more time in the GC, while Lasse picked up enough points to threat the Colombians mountain jersey as well.
The organizer had marked stage four as a day for the sprinters. I don’t know how they missed the small mountain on the profile, but we sure didn’t!
We set a hard pace all day allowing Fuglsang to pick up a total of 12 bonus seconds while Lasse picked up enough mountain points to tie with Atapuma in that competition.
Jakob tried to win some time on the descent, but the other favourites wasn’t in for it so he was caught again 5 km from the line and in the end it finished in a messy sprint.
The important hilly TT on the fifth day was a very good day for the team as we several times over the day held a provisional 1-2-3. Fuglsang rode a good TT finishing 2nd leaving him 18 seconds from the GC lead with one stage to go.
Jakob did his best on the final stage taking every possible chance, but Liquigas was just too strong to break on an easy stage like this one.
At least Van der Sande got removed from the 2nd place in the GC.
Bøchman took the mountain jersey on the first climb of the day, but lost it again on the second.
Stage Results  Herrada (Movistar) /  Grivko / Gesink
Stage 2:  Atapuma (Colombia) /  Santambrogio / Van der Sande
Stage 3: Albasini (ISD – Ferrari) / Ventoso / Van der Sande
Stage 4:  Sagan (Vodafone) /  Kittel / Ventoso
Stage 5: Westra (Rabobank) /  Fuglsang / Gasparotto
Stage 6: Moreno (Euskaltel) /  Bardet / Gasparotto
| 1 | Enrico Gasparotto | Liquigas – Cannondale | 16h41’43’’ | | 2 | Jakob Fuglsang | Volvo – SAS | + 18’’ | | 3 | Lieuwe Westra | Rabobank | + 40’’ | | 4 | Damiano Cunego | Nissan | + 45’’ | | 5 | John Darwin Atapuma | Colombia – Coldeportes | + 53’’ | | 6 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Saxo – Tinkoff | + 1’10’’ | | 7 | Kenny Elissonde | Cofidis | + 1’17’’ | | 8 | Peter Sagan | Team Vodafone | + 1’19’’ | | 9 | Michael Albasini | Team ISD – Ferrari | + 1’21’’ | | 10 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | + 1’26’’ |
Points Jersey: Enrico Gasparotto, Liquigas – Cannondale
Mountain Jersey: Daniel Moreno, Euskaltel – Euskadi
Young Rider: Kenny Elissonde, Cofidis
Team: Movistar Team
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| welker3257 |
Posted on 20-07-2013 21:40
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Good ride from Jakob in Romandie, hope he can continue this form in the Giro.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 20-07-2013 23:46
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Brian is certainly beginning to put in some Good results
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 21-07-2013 08:51
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welker: Lets hope so. There's a lot of stronger climbers, so we will have to be clever to beat them...
sutty: He really is. Gonna be great to see him next year!
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