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| Tamijo |
Posted on 11-10-2015 06:14
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sutty68: yes very bad luck.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 11-10-2015 06:53
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18/3-24/3 Tour of Taiwan (cat.2.1)
Rasmussen: The Team is in Taiwan, for the Tour of Taiwan, we do not bring the strongest squad, Sondre Holst Enger is here but it is his first ride of the season, so he is a bit out of form.
18/3 Kaohsiung City: 143.1 km
Today’s stage is a circuit around Dapeng Bay, we don’t belive a break will hold on a short first stage, so we stay in the peloton, at hope for a good mass sprint.
Kaohsiung City:
Roster:
Marc Hester
Angelo Furlan
Anton Grøn
Lasse Christiansen
Martin Pedersen
Sebastian Balck
Simon Bigum
Sondre Holst Enger
The Morning break was Hugh Carthy (Rapha Condor) Stan Godrie (Rabobank DT) Julian Hellmann (Quantec)
The Peloton was slow, so we decided to lead the chase, not to risk a break away win.
Team IG-Sigma Sport’s top sprinter Scott Thwaites crash, they send 5 riders back to help, but they lost 6 minutes anyway.
The break was reeled in and we set up a train, and got close to the front, did not get a perfect sprint Holst Enger lost contact with Hester last moment, but it turned out ok.
We got Marc Hester (8) and Sondre Holst Enger (9), The stage winner was Danilo Wyss (IAM Cycling)
Stage:
| 1 | Danilo Wyss | IAM Cycling | 2h58'28 | | 2 | Mattia Gavazzi | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 3 | Dominique Rollin | Bontrager Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Ramunas Navardauskas | RusVelo | s.t. | | 5 | Sheldon Deeny | Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 6 | Kenneth Vanbilsen | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | 7 | Rick Zabel | Rabobank Development Team | s.t. | | 8 | Marc Hester | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 9 | Sondre Holst Enger | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 10 | Jeffry Romero | Colombia | s.t. |
GC:
| 1 | Danilo Wyss | IAM Cycling | 2h58'08 | | 2 | Stan Godrie | Rabobank Development Team | + 4 | | 3 | Mattia Gavazzi | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 8 | | 4 | Hugh Carthy | Rapha Condor - JLT | + 10 | | 5 | Julian Hellmann | Team Quantec - Indeland | s.t. | | 6 | Dominique Rollin | Bontrager Cycling Team | + 12 | | 7 | Ramunas Navardauskas | RusVelo | + 20 | | 8 | Sheldon Deeny | Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 9 | Kenneth Vanbilsen | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | 10 | Rick Zabel | Rabobank Development Team | s.t. |
Points:
| 1 | Danilo Wyss | IAM Cycling | 25 | 25 | | 2 | Mattia Gavazzi | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | 20 | 20 | | 3 | Stan Godrie | Rabobank Development Team | 16 | 16 |
Team : Christina Watches - Onfone
Young: Kenneth Vanbilsen (Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise)
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 11-10-2015 12:23
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18/3-24/3 Tour of Taiwan (cat.2.1)
19/3 Tainan City: 127.1 km
Tainan City Flag:
The peloton have moved 50 km north from Kaohsiung City to Tainan, both huge city’s with more than a million people.
The stage start in the city center near the Taijiang National Park, form Lin Mo-Niang Memorial Park, moves north to Shanhua District,then west to Beimen District, and then back east to Baihe District, for at climb up to the finish near CingYa Hot Spring.
Pre-race strategy: Now we got a more hilly stage, with an uphill finish, so today we may try to attack. Either with Furlan, Balck or Pedersen.
Profile:
Furlan and Balck, tries to get into a series of attacks, but they are all caught, in the end it is Sebastian Balck who gets away in a group of 5.
They get up to a little more than 3 minutes, but they get reeled in about 8 km from the finish. Sebastian Balck about to be swallowed by the bunch:
Now it up to Martin Pedersen & Sondre Holst Enger, Martin hasn’t got the power in his legs today, to stay close to the front. Sondre Holst Enger on the other hand, moves to 2nd position and start his sprint from there.
The bad form of Holst Enger shows in the sprint, he loses 11 positions on the last km, gets in at 13. The winner was Marcel Aregger (IAM Cycling)
Missed the exported results, so here a reduced overview :
Stage:
| 1 | Marcel Aregger | IAM Cycling | | 2 | Luca Pierfelici | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | | 3 | Miguel Rubiano | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | | 4 | Julian Arredondo | Team Nippo - De Rosa | | 5 | Oliver Zaugg | Champion System Pro Cycling Team |
GC:
| 1 | Marcel Aregger | IAM Cycling | | 2 | Danilo Wyss | IAM Cycling | | 3 | Luca Pierfelici | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | | 4 | Miguel Rubiano | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | | 5 | Julian Arredondo | Team Nippo - De Rosa |
Points:
| 1 | Danilo Wyss | IAM Cycling | | 2 | Marcel Aregger | IAM Cycling | | 3 | Miguel Rubiano | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela |
Mountain:
| 1 | Marcel Aregger | IAM Cycling | | 2 | Luca Pierfelici | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | | 3 | Miguel Rubiano | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela |
Team: IAM Cycling
Young: Marcel Aregger (IAM Cycling)
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 11-10-2015 15:10
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18/3-24/3 Tour of Taiwan (cat.2.1)
20/3 : Changhua County - Changhua County 144.2 km
“symbolic statue” along the road to Fen Yuan:
The peloton have moved 134 km north to Changhua County, on the south side of Dadu River near Taichung City.
The route starts with a climb to Fen Yuan, then back to Changhua city, from there down along the coast to Fangyuan Township, east to Tianzhong Township, and then back up to a cobblestone uphill finish in Changhua city, close to where it began.
Baguashan Budda, close to the finish line:
Pre-race strategy: Another hilly stage, with an uphill finish, so we will try to attack, this time with stronger riders, Holst Enger or Martin Pedersen.
Profile:
A break of 7 riders gets established before the climb, amongst them Martin Pedersen and a strong Coen Vermeltfoort (De Rijke – Shanks), they get a gab of almost 6 minutes. Pedersen takes the only mountain sprint (cat.2)
The peloton speeds up, but the break works well, especially Vermeltfoort and Pedersen gives a lot to the break. They still got almost a minute with just 6 km to go. Then Coen Vermeltfoort decides to attack and Petersen follows, leaving the other behind.
Petersen leads the way on the uphill cobblestone section, it seems clear now, that it is between the two of them.
When Petersen starts the sprint, Vermeltfoort is done he can’t follow, Petersen takes the stage and the GC too. Sondre Holst Enger is 13 in the GC 1'25 behind.
Rasmussen: After some bad days for the team, Petersen places himself in the center of attention, very well executed race by him.
Stage:
| 1 | Martin Pedersen | Christina Watches - Onfone | 3h14'01 | | 2 | Coen Vermeltfoort | Cyclingteam De Rijke - Shanks | + 8 | | 3 | Steven Lampier | Node 4 - Giordana Racing | + 32 | | 4 | Nick Van der Lijke | Rabobank Development Team | + 35 | | 5 | Aleksejs Saramotins | IAM Cycling | + 43 | | 6 | Łukasz Owsian | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | s.t. | | 7 | Tyler Wren | Jamis - Hagens Berman | + 56 | | 8 | Will Stephenson | Rapha Condor - JLT | + 1'00 | | 9 | Pieter Jacobs | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | 10 | Sander Helven | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | + 1'04 |
GC:
| 1 | Martin Pedersen | Christina Watches - Onfone | 9h00'38 | | 2 | Coen Vermeltfoort | Cyclingteam De Rijke - Shanks | + 14 | | 3 | Marcel Aregger | IAM Cycling | + 53 | | 4 | Nick Van der Lijke | Rabobank Development Team | + 59 | | 5 | Aleksejs Saramotins | IAM Cycling | + 1'07 | | 6 | Luca Pierfelici | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 1'20 | | 7 | Julian Arredondo | Team Nippo - De Rosa | + 1'21 | | 8 | Esteban Chaves | Colombia | + 1'22 | | 9 | Silvio Herklotz | Nutrixxion - Abus | s.t. | | 10 | Thomas Löfkvist | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
Points:
| 1 | Martin Pedersen | Christina Watches - Onfone | 29 | 29 | | 2 | Danilo Wyss | IAM Cycling | 0 | 27 | | 3 | Marcel Aregger | IAM Cycling | 1 | 26 |
Mountain:
| 1 | Martin Pedersen | Christina Watches - Onfone | 16 | 16 | | 2 | Coen Vermeltfoort | Cyclingteam De Rijke - Shanks | 12 | 12 | | 3 | Marcel Aregger | IAM Cycling | 0 | 10 |
Team: IAM Cycling
Young: Marcel Aregger (IAM Cycling)
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| OZrocker |
Posted on 12-10-2015 04:47
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Yes! That's exactly what the team needed. Fantastic from Pedersen, now we wait to see if he can hold the race lead 
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 12-10-2015 06:16
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OZrocker: Two stages of harder mountains comming up, so i guess this was just brief moment of succes. Havent got any climber i this squad.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 12-10-2015 09:50
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Just a short question to the readers following:
Do you miss an list of all stage profiles, at the start of a stage race, to better be able to predict what is coming.
Or maby just a list like this (that would be a lot easier for me .):
Stage 1: Flat
Stage 2: Hilly (uphill finish)
Stage 3: ITT
Stage 4: Mountain
Or do you think that is doesn’t matter at all
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 12-10-2015 18:26
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18/3-24/3 Tour of Taiwan (cat.2.1)
21/3 Taichung City: 110.9 km
Windsor Hotel, close to the start of the stage:
The Caravan has moved just 20 km north to Taichung City. The stage starts in Xitun District not far from Tunghai Universety, west out to Wuqi District by the harbor, from there north crossing the Dajia River up to Waipu District, and south-east to the cat 1 climb in the mountains of Xinshe District, from here back to Xitun for the final climb up to Taichung Metropolitan Park.
Taichung Metropolitan Park:
Pre-race strategy: With no climber in the squad, we will lose today; but we will try to help Martin with all we have got to limit the damage.
Profile:
The morning break was Chun Feng (Champion System) Sebastian Salas (Optum) Matthias Bertling (Quantec – Indeland) and Marcin Sapa (CCC Polsat – Polkowice) they got a little more than 4 minutes, when the cat 1 started.
Today’s race was hard on many riders, all day big groups was dropped of the peloton, some came back, new rider was dropped, in the end riders was scattered all over the place, more than 60 riders lost more than 10 minutes.
Chun Feng attacked from the front group with about 20 km left, Sebastian Salas tried to follow, the others in the break resigned, Feng had a nice gap to Salas at the 10 km mark.
In the front of the Peloton, Francisco Mancebo (5-Hour Energy), Jarlinson Pantano (Colombia), and a few other riders also attack at the second last climb, making a small gap to the peloton. Julian Arredondo (Team Nippo - De Rosa) riders out in front, attacks and easily catch up.
Arredondo:
Arredondo has supreme legs today and soon attacks again, this time only Pantano can counter, they are now close to Chun Feng, Arredondo attacks again at 3 km, this time no one can follow. Arredondo takes the win.
Martin Pedersen and Sondre Holst Enger rides with the peloton to the last climb, but they are not able to follow the better climber up to the finish, they get in: Martin +4,09 (23), Sondre +5’07 (28)
Arredondo and Pantano closing in on Feng at the 5 km mark.:
Stage:
| 1 | Julian Arredondo | Team Nippo - De Rosa | 3h03'27 | | 2 | Jarlinson Pantano | 4-72 Colombia | + 43 | | 3 | Chun Feng | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | + 1'04 | | 4 | Esteban Chaves | Colombia | + 1'14 | | 5 | Francisco Mancebo | 5-Hour Energy | + 1'37 | | 6 | Emanuele Sella | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 1'51 | | 7 | Philip Deignan | An Post - Chainreaction | + 1'56 | | 8 | Christopher Butler | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | + 2'27 | | 9 | Paolo Tiralongo | Team Nippo - De Rosa | s.t. | | 10 | Oliver Zaugg | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | + 2'31 |
GC:
| 1 | Julian Arredondo | Team Nippo - De Rosa | 12h05'06 | | 2 | Jarlinson Pantano | 4-72 Colombia | + 1'30 | | 3 | Esteban Chaves | Colombia | + 1'35 | | 4 | Chun Feng | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | + 2'10 | | 5 | Emanuele Sella | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 2'20 | | 6 | Philip Deignan | An Post - Chainreaction | + 2'38 | | 7 | Francisco Mancebo | 5-Hour Energy | + 2'41 | | 8 | Oliver Zaugg | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | + 3'07 | | 9 | Martin Pedersen | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 3'08 | | 10 | Ramunas Navardauskas | RusVelo | + 3'22 |
Points:
| 1 | Julian Arredondo | Team Nippo - De Rosa | 25 | 39 | | 2 | Martin Pedersen | Christina Watches - Onfone | 0 | 29 | | 3 | Danilo Wyss | IAM Cycling | 0 | 27 |
Mountain:
| 1 | Martin Pedersen | Christina Watches - Onfone | 0 | 16 | | 2 | Sebastian Salas | Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | 16 | 16 | | 3 | Chun Feng | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | 14 | 14 |
Team: Champion System Pro Cycling Team
Young:
Esteban Chaves (Colombia)
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 12-10-2015 23:02
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Great win for Pedersen  , lets hope he can climb the GC before the end  |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 12-10-2015 23:34
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sutty68: There is another hard mountain stage coming, it's not going to be easy.
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Posted on 13-10-2015 07:37
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Some time lost, but we expected that to happen. The team did well to support Martin as well as they could.
Tamijo wrote:
Just a short question to the readers following:
Do you miss an list of all stage profiles, at the start of a stage race, to better be able to predict what is coming.
Or maby just a list like this (that would be a lot easier for me .):
Stage 1: Flat
Stage 2: Hilly (uphill finish)
Stage 3: ITT
Stage 4: Mountain
Or do you think that is doesn’t matter at all
I don't mind, the reports are very good but if you want to put something else in that's ok too
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 13-10-2015 07:45
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OZrocker: If nobody is missing the overveiw, i wont make any.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 13-10-2015 12:58
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One little change i would like is to mention what stage is being ridden (ie - stage 1 or 5 etc etc) thats all |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 13-10-2015 13:07
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sutty68: Ok, i will (hopefully) remember that from now on, especially now, where "we" will be riding more that one tour at the same time ( eq. I will report stage 1 of Critérium International today,while we are still only in the middle of the Taiwan tour)
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 13-10-2015 13:11
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Tamijo wrote:
sutty68: Ok, i will (hopefully) remember that from now on, especially now, where "we" will be riding more that one tour at the same time ( eq. I will report stage 1 of Critérium International today,while we are still only in the middle of the Taiwan tour)
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 13-10-2015 13:22
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I am the one to thank you both, allways great with some helpful feedback. 
We need a thombs up smily 
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 13-10-2015 16:27
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22/3-24/3 Critérium International (2 HC)
Stage 1/3: Porte-Vecchio - Porto-Vecchio 72,3 km
Christina: While Rasmussen is still in Taiwan, with another squad, I’m here in Porto-Vecchio, Corsica with the “A” team. The city was originally founded by the romans, abandoned and refunded in 1539 by the Genoese.
We are here for the Critérium International, one of the few traditional high profile races of our season, it is important that we get something from this race, hopefully a stage win but as always any good result will do.
The stage starts in the city right outside Hôtel Aiglon Bylitis, from there south for the climb to Piccovaggia, from there north to Sainte-Lucie, and then back to the finish line in the westen part of Porto-Vecchio.
Porto-Vecchio:
Pre-race strategy: We expect a mass sprint this is a very short stage, but we would also like to get in a break away, looking for points at the mountain sprint.
Profile:
Roster:
Daniele Aldegheri
Francisco José Pacheco
Kenny Elissonde
Lasse Bøchman
Mitchell Lovelock-Fay
Philip Nielsen
Stefan Schumacher
Yves Lampaert
Stefan Schumacher places himself in a position near the front, and counters the first possible attack. The group of 5 gets away easily just 8-10 km before the mountain sprint. Schumacher claims the points without any real competition. He is by far the stronger rider in this break.
The same for the point sprint, Schumacher outsprint the group without even a drop of sweat, but the Peloton is full of hungry sprinters and the break is kept in a short strings, it is brought back in due time for a mass sprint.
Schumacher at the points sprint:
We set up a train of: Yves Lampaert- Philip Nielsen- Francisco José Pacheco, they are in a good position when the sprint starts:
Francisco José Pacheco crosses the line 2nd, right behind Yauheni Hutarovich (AG2R) in a very exciting close finish.
Mitchell Lovelock-Fay for some obscure reason loses 2’11, I don’t know if he was just tried or of the bike for a pee.
Christina: Perfect !
Stage:
| 1 | Yauheni Hutarovich | AG2R La Mondiale | 1h30'21 | | 2 | Francisco José Pacheco | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 3 | Manuel Belletti | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 4 | Rubén Pérez | Liberty Seguros - Würth | s.t. | | 5 | Benjamin Giraud | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 6 | Yannick Martinez | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 7 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 8 | Chris Froome | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 9 | Aurélien Passeron | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 10 | Stéphane Poulhiès | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. |
GC:
| 1 | Yauheni Hutarovich | AG2R La Mondiale | 1h30'01 | | 2 | Francisco José Pacheco | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 8 | | 3 | Manuel Belletti | AG2R La Mondiale | + 12 | | 4 | Stefan Schumacher | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 14 | | 5 | Rubén Pérez | Liberty Seguros - Würth | + 20 | | 6 | Benjamin Giraud | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 7 | Yannick Martinez | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 8 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 9 | Chris Froome | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 10 | Aurélien Passeron | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. |
Points:
| 1 | Yauheni Hutarovich | AG2R La Mondiale | 25 | | 2 | Francisco José Pacheco | Christina Watches - Onfone | 20 | | 3 | Manuel Belletti | AG2R La Mondiale | 16 |
Mountain:
| 1 | Stefan Schumacher | Christina Watches - Onfone | 6 | | 2 | Fabricio Ferrari | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | 4 | | 3 | Jay Thomson | MTN - Qhubeka | 2 |
Team: AG2R La Mondiale
Young: Evgeniy Kovalev (RusVelo)
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| mpardo |
Posted on 13-10-2015 20:26
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Well done by Pacheco.
BTW, what is Froome doing in Movistar??? Do they also keep Valverde?
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 13-10-2015 20:45
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I don't know about Valverde, but they still have Quintana. Sky got Kittel
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 13-10-2015 22:00
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Great start for the team |
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