sutty68 wrote:
Third place in Malaysia is another good result for the team

MothBones wrote:
Good start to the season. Pais Vasco coming up?

1		Christophe Laporte	Team Europcar	4h45'19
2		Carlos Barbero	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	s.t.
3		Anthony Roux	Team Europcar	s.t.
4		José Joaquín Rojas	Movistar Team	s.t.
5		Luke Durbridge	Team Cannondale - Garmin	s.t.
6		Alexander Kamp	CULT Energy Pro Cycling	s.t.
7		Tim Declercq	CULT Energy Pro Cycling	s.t.
8		Damien Gaudin	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	+ 39
9		Lieuwe Westra	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
10		Christopher Juul-Jensen	Veranclassic - Ekoi	+ 1'19

1		Michael Matthews	Orica-GreenEDGE	3h15'34
2		Pello Bilbao	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	s.t.
3		Nacer Bouhanni	Etixx - Quick-step	s.t.
4		Danny Van Poppel	Team LottoNL - Jumbo	s.t.
5		Wilco Kelderman	Team Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
6		John Darwin Atapuma	Tinkoff-Saxo	s.t.
7		Rafał Majka	Tinkoff-Saxo	s.t.
8		Mikel Landa	Tinkoff-Saxo	s.t.
9		Geraint Thomas	Team Sky	s.t.
10		Dries Van Gestel	Lotto Soudal	s.t.

1		Carlos Barbero	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	3h41'12
2		Edoardo Zardini	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	s.t.
3		Nacer Bouhanni	Etixx - Quick-step	s.t.
4		Michael Matthews	Orica-GreenEDGE	s.t.
5		Danny Van Poppel	Team LottoNL - Jumbo	s.t.
6		Dries Van Gestel	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
7		Geraint Thomas	Team Sky	s.t.
8		Wilco Kelderman	Team Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
9		Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	s.t.
10		Sacha Modolo	Team Katusha	s.t.

1		Michael Matthews	Orica-GreenEDGE	6h56'36
2		Nacer Bouhanni	Etixx - Quick-step	+ 2
3		Pello Bilbao	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	s.t.
4		Danny Van Poppel	Team LottoNL - Jumbo	+ 10
5		Wilco Kelderman	Team Giant-Alpecin	s.t.
6		Geraint Thomas	Team Sky	s.t.
7		Dries Van Gestel	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
8		Rafał Majka	Tinkoff-Saxo	s.t.
9		Nicolas Roche	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
10		Alberto Contador	Team Katusha	s.t.
…	…	………………………	………………………	…
32		Beñat Intxausti	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	+ 1'35

sutty68 wrote:
The team are putting in some good rides in Spain

1		Alberto Contador	Team Katusha	28h41'24
2		Mikel Landa	Tinkoff-Saxo	+ 13
3		Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	+ 41
4		Fabio Aru	Astana Pro Team	+ 1'05
5		Rafał Majka	Tinkoff-Saxo	+ 1'28
6		Geraint Thomas	Team Sky	+ 2'04
7		Beñat Intxausti	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	+ 2'08
8		Roman Kreuziger	Etixx - Quick-step	+ 3'37
9		Esteban Chaves	Team LottoNL - Jumbo	+ 4'55
10		Bauke Mollema	Team Katusha	+ 4'56

While some of our riders were giving their best in Catalonia, 7 others took a trip to the beautiful island of Corsica, former host of Le Grand Départ.

This race consists of a pan-flat sprinter stage, a TT and a summit finish at the Col de l'Ospedale. After winning the time trial, former British champion Pete Kennaugh was in a very good position for the GC. Vandenborre also put in a great performance, finishing in 4th.



Off to the hills of southern Corsica for the traditional queen stage. As expected, everything is decided on the final climb. Maxime Bouet is the first to attack and nobody is able to follow him. He takes both the stage and the GC win. Our Belgian-Portuguese leader duo Vandenborre - Guerreiro fights its way up and manage to keep several better climbers behind them in the GC, thanks to their strong TT performance.



No stage win here, but after a last look at the marvellous Ospedale Reservoir, we go back to Spain with a podium and another top 10 GC spot and the white jersey for Guerreiro bagged.

The Basque town of Estella hosts this race in honour of Spain's five-time Tour de France winner Indurain. After a variety of different loops around the area, the riders will climb up to Basilica del Puy for a short but steep uphill finale.



As expected, the real battle for the win is fought on the steep ramps of the short climb towards the city's basilica.
Zardini maintains a blistering pace and was just in a different league today. He drops every single one of his opponents and grabs his second win of the season after winning the Gran Premio di Lugano earlier.