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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 12-07-2016 12:56
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 Tour du Poitou-Charentes (2.1) Meanwhile in France, we had a quite succesfull race. We started with a second place for  Manuel MartÃnez at the first (flat) stage. Stage 2 ended in a bunch sprint of a heavily reduced pack with Armindo Fonseca outsprinting the others. Ion Izagirre survived the hills. Stage 3 again ended with a small group sprinting for the victory. Ion performed a superb lead out for Martinez and Manuel took his very first pro win. Our Basque leader disappointed in the 22 km long time trial, won by Paillot and couldn't make up for the lost time in the last stage, which went to the breakaway. | 1 |  | Rohan Dennis | Team Sky | | | 2 | | Arnaud Gérard | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:04 | | 3 |  | William Barta | Team Sky | +00:16 | | 4 |  | Peter Kennaugh | Team Sky | +00:23 | | 5 | | Ion Izagirre | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | +00:38 | | 6 | | Yoann Paillot | FDJ | +00:38 | | 7 | | Romain Combaud | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | +00:48 | | 8 |  | Erik Baska | Direct Énergie | +00:49 | | 9 | | Enrique Sanz | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | +00:57 | | 10 |  | Philip Lavery | Skydive Dubai Pro Team | +00:59 |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 12-07-2016 22:26
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Stage 7 was not too hard, but still. All GC contenders would have to pay attention in the bumpy finale, spiced up with several short climbs.
 Diego Ochoa made his move early on, with two climbs left. He passed the last survivors of the breakway, but his move had come a bit too early, as Rubén Fernández came back in the last descent.He came, flew by, and won the stage, in front of Diego, as our leader  Ruben Guerreiro lost some more time in the overall standings. Stage 8 was a new chance for whoever came to win the green jersey. At the end Carlos Barbero was glued to the wheel of  Danny Van Poppel, sitting behind the sovereign Etixx train. Nacer Bouhanni won the stage and extended his lead in the points classfications, as Carlos earned our team another nice second place. Next up was a chance for the mountain goats at stage 9. We were curious how good our Portuguese leader Ruben Guerreiro would do. Finally Eder Chávarri had managed to join the breakaway, together with some strong climbers such as  Valerio Agnoli , former mountain jersey winner Nicolas Edet and Clement Chevrier. Agnoli, Chevrier and Chávarri were the strongest and started the final climb together. Their goal was to be able to raise the hand atop the Rassos de Peguera. It's Chevrier who cracked first. Agnoli tried to shake off Chávarri too, but he came back every time and the Italian seemed to crack now... It came down to a close call, but the stage win was ours, and Eder's of course! Nairo Quintana was the best of the favourites but the red leader jersey still did not move onto the shoulders of the Colombian. Overall standings after stage 9  | | Adam Yates | Team Sky | | | 2 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha | +00:48 | | 3 | | Julian Alaphilippe | Etixx - Quick-step | +01:26 | | 4 |  | Louis Meintjes | Team Sky | +02:10 | | 5 | | Eder Chávarri | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | +02:14 | | 6 | | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +02:24 | | 7 | | Rubén Fernández | Movistar Team | +02:33 | | 8 | | Sérgio Henao | IAM Cycling | +03:27 | | 9 | | Daniel Martin | Astana Pro Team | +03:54 | | 10 |  | Merhawi Kudus | Team Dimension Data | +04:12 |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 13-07-2016 06:32
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Brilliant stage win !, how far back is Guerreiro ?
Good top 5 in France.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 13-07-2016 12:19
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Eder in a great position on the GC ready to make his move  |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 13-07-2016 16:37
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Tamijo wrote:
Brilliant stage win !, how far back is Guerreiro ?
Good top 5 in France.
A top 5 is nice but I'm happier with the stage we won Guerreiro is currently 17th, 8'03" down on Yates.
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Eder in a great position on the GC ready to make his move
Don't think Eder will go for the GC though, as he will most likely lose tons of time at the long time trial coming later. We'll probably let him go for stage wins 
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 16-07-2016 10:25
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Stage 10 brought a new opportunity for the KoM jersey contenders. We sent Beñat Intxausti out there, and apart from the Hors Catégorie climb, where he came second, he gathered a maximum of points at the first three climbs. But then his move was over. At the last climb, Nairo Quintana and Adam Yates showed there's no doubt they're the best climbers this year. Meanwhile Ruben Guerreiro tried to stay in the second group, which also contained Froome, Louis Meintjes and Merhawi Kudus. In the end the Quintana won after a thrilling sprint, as Guerreiro came home in 8th place, which allowed him to jump from 17th to 13th place in the general classification. Yates kept the red jersey though. A chance for the punchers at stage 11, but not before Intxausti had once again bagged lots of vital points for the blue polka-dot jersey. We worked for Carlos Barbero, but good old Alejandro Valverde decided differently. El Imbatido took over a minute on the pack, where Carlos Barbero sprinted to another second place. Stage 12 to the city of Logroño could have meant the end for Eder Chávarri's GC ambitions. He didn't survive the echelons and would drop way down in the overall standings, from place 8 to place 20. Caleb Ewan won the bunch sprint as he pack caught the breakaway at the line. Barbero suffered, got boxed in and finished in eleventh. Overall standings after stage 12 | | Adam Yates | Team Sky | | | 2 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha | +00:44 | | 3 | | Louis Meintjes | Team Sky | +05:17 | | 4 | | Rubén Fernández | Movistar Team | +05:44 | | 5 | | Merhawi Kudus | Team Dimension Data | +07:19 | | 6 | | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +08:06 | | 7 | | Chris Froome | Team Sky | +08:21 | | 8 | | Julian Alaphilippe | Etixx - Quick-step | +08:54 | | 9 | | JoaquÃm RodrÃguez | Tinkoff | +09:31 | | 10 | | Tom Slagter | Team Giant-Alpecin | +10:57 |
KoM jersey standings after stage 12  | | Beñat Intxausti | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | 71 | | 2 | | Valerio Agnoli | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 27 | | 3 |  | Thomas Degand | FDJ | 27 | | 4 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha | 21 | | 5 |  | Clément Chevrier | BMC Racing Team | 19 |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 16-07-2016 17:28
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Benat got a good advantage in the Mountains Classification |
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Posted on 16-07-2016 20:58
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Stage 13 was another chance for Nairo Quintana to catch up with Adam Yates, but the breakaway could have a chance too.
Eder Chávarri aimed for his second stage win, as he just feels more comfortable riding out front. At the first climb already he brought down the amount of riders in the breakaway from 16 to about half that much.
Valerio Agnoli who had bridged from the pack at that first climb, conserved his energy a tad better than Eder did. Our Basque breakaway specialist had to be happy with a solid second place. The Italian winner also revived the battle for the KoM jersey.
Behind Guerreiro had a very, very good day as he only lost time to the new red jersey wearer Nairo Quintana himself. Ruben entered the top 10 as he jumped to 9th.
The sprinters missed out on on of their last chances as the breakaway survived at stage 14, due to the late reaction of the sprinter teams.
Lampre's Eugenio Alafaci secured the most prestigious win of his career so far, while Carlos Barbero sprinted to the 10th place. The 52 km long time trial at stage 15 would change the GC top 10 drastically. As Ryan Mullen won it, Ruben Guerreiro put in the best time of all the other guys and jumped to sixth place, close to current white jersey wearer Kudus. Quintana extended his lead and him winning this Vuelta seems just a matter of time now. Overall standings after stage 15 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha | | | 2 | | Adam Yates | Team Sky | +02:04 | | 3 | | Louis Meintjes | Team Sky | +07:32 | | 4 | | Chris Froome | Team Sky | +08:47 | | 5 | | Merhawi Kudus | Team Dimension Data | +10:29 | | 6 | | Ruben Guerreiro | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | +10:44 | | 7 | | Rubén Fernández | Movistar Team | +12:30 | | 8 | | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +12:41 | | 9 | | Daniel Martin | Astana Pro Team | +14:16 | | 10 | | JoaquÃm RodrÃguez | Tinkoff | +14:50 |
Mountain jersey standings after stage 15 | | Beñat Intxausti | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | 71 | | 2 | | Valerio Agnoli | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 48 | | 3 | | Eder Chávarri | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | 29 | | 4 | | Thomas Degand | FDJ | 27 | | 5 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha | 25 |
Meanwhile in France, we attented the annual 1.HC race in and around Fourmies. The race was won by Damien Gaudin, whose last minute attack made it to the line. Our top finisher was lead sprinter Manuel MartÃnez, coming home in 4th place. | 1 | | Damien Gaudin | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | | | 2 |  | Alexey Tsatevitch | Tinkoff | +00:00 | | 3 | | Nicola Ruffoni | Movistar Team | +00:00 | | 4 | | Manuel MartÃnez | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | +00:00 | | 5 |  | Eduard-Michael Grosu | Bora - Argon 18 | +00:00 | | 6 | | Mark Christian | Team Sky | +00:00 | | 7 | | Jonathan Dibben | Team Sky | +00:00 | | 8 | | Romain Guyot | Direct Énergie | +00:00 | | 9 | | Sonny Colbrelli | Orica-GreenEDGE | +00:00 | | 10 | | Matthew Goss | CULT Energy Pro Cycling | +00:00 |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 16-07-2016 21:01
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sutty68 wrote:
Benat got a good advantage in the Mountains Classification
Nothing has been decided so far though
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 16-07-2016 23:25
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Great Vuelta so far 6th GC and the KoM
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 18-07-2016 11:40
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Great ride from the boys so far indeed. A top 5 finish, the white and the KoM jersey should still be possible
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 20-07-2016 21:39
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Starting with stage 16, three consecutive summit finishes would decide whoever was going to take the red jersey and this Vuelta title home. Beñat Intxausti joined the breakaway, but soon already it became clear they wouldn't stand a chance. Ruben Guerreiro didn't handle the diversified final climb well, and lost two minutes to some of the others top 10 riders. Red jersey Quintana had to give it several tries, but ultimately he managed to drop Adam Yates and won the stage. Intxausti kept up with the second group and finished in fourth, grabbing some extremely valuable points for the blue polka dot jersey. Stage 17 and once again it was breakaway time for Intxausti. But at the first climb already he had to let the others go for the KoM points. That allowed Valerio Agnoli to bring the gap down to less than 15 points. Luckily, he did not win the stage from the breakaway. As fellow escapee Fabio Duarte did, Agnoli and Intxausti came home in third and fourth respectively. Guerreiro only lost time to leader Nairo Quintana, the then second Adam Yates and Alejandro Valverde. At stage 18, Intxausti immediately made up for the lost advantage by winning the first two KoM sprints. Sadly enough, he had to let the other breakaway guys go at the longer, but unsteep first category climb. 
Beñat Intxausti winning the first KoM sprint at stage 18At the final climb, Guerreiro didn't survive the assortment and he had to limit the damage, finally losing 1'18" to stage winner Adam Yates. Classifications with 3 stages left
| 1 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha | | | 2 | | Adam Yates | Team Sky | +02:01 | | 3 | | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +15:23 | | 4 | | Chris Froome | Team Sky | +15:32 | | 5 | | Merhawi Kudus | Team Dimension Data | +15:34 | | 6 | | Louis Meintjes | Team Sky | +16:07 | | 7 | | Ruben Guerreiro | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | +18:25 | | 8 | | Rubén Fernández | Movistar Team | +20:36 | | 9 | | Daniel Martin | Astana Pro Team | +20:52 | | 10 | | JoaquÃm RodrÃguez | Tinkoff | +20:56 |
| 1 | | Beñat Intxausti | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | 94 | | 2 | | Valerio Agnoli | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 79 | | 3 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha | 35 |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 21-07-2016 17:52
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Omar Fraile joined the bound breakaway, but soon it became clear that him nor one his breakaway companions would win. Eventually Omar and Dimension Data's veteran Dani Navarro let Katusha's Sacha Modolo fight the losing battle on his own as they both dropped back.
In the end Ion Izagirre reeled in Modolo himself in the penultimate lap. He tried to hold on to his small advantage in the descent. He didn't succeed, and neither did a short-lived attack of the Polish former world champion Michał Kwiatkowski just over the last but one climb last.
It would come down to an uphill sprint as the strong Tinkoff team made the first to groups come together. Sagan was cooked, and Bardet set the pace. Ion felt good, but got boxed in when he wanted to launch.
When he could finally made his move, he had to dig deep to catch up with Bardet. But the winner would certainly be one of these two.
And in the very end, Ion's bike throw was slightly better than the one performed by Romain Bardet. That way Ion as claimed his third World Tour win of this year and the number 10 for our team.| 1 | | Ion Izagirre | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | | | 2 | | Romain Bardet | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:00 | | 3 | | Simon Yates | Team Sky | +00:00 | | 4 | | Julian Arredondo | BMC Racing Team | +00:00 | | 5 |  | MichaÅ‚ Kwiatkowski | IAM Cycling | +00:00 | | 6 | | Mikel Landa | Tinkoff | +00:00 | | 7 | | Vincenzo Nibali | Tinkoff | +00:26 | | 8 | | Peter Sagan | Tinkoff | +00:26 | | 9 | | Bauke Mollema | Team Katusha | +00:41 | | 10 | | Fabio Aru | Tinkoff | +00:41 |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 21-07-2016 20:02
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What a great sprint and win from Ion |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 21-07-2016 21:58
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Thanks sutty, certainly a nice line to add to his palmares
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Posted on 21-07-2016 23:16
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With no mountain stages left, the flatter stages 19 and 20 offered chances for the breakaway. We had a guy in the breakaway twice... ... but both Aldo Lature ... ... and Diego Ochoa failed to win, as they finished stage 19 and 20 in eigth and fifth place respectively. And at the concluding mountain time trial at the Puerto de Guadarrama , overall winner Nairo Quintana dotted the i's one final time. Ruben Guerreiro secured his seventh place in the GC as he finished the time trial in the same spot. | 1 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha | | | 2 | | Adam Yates | Team Sky | +02:44 | | 3 | | Chris Froome | Team Sky | +16:02 | | 4 | | Merhawi Kudus | Team Dimension Data | +16:03 | | 5 | | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +16:58 | | 6 | | Louis Meintjes | Team Sky | +17:04 | | 7 | | Ruben Guerreiro | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | +19:05 | | 8 | | Daniel Martin | Astana Pro Team | +22:02 | | 9 | | JoaquÃm RodrÃguez | Tinkoff | +22:12 | | 10 | | Rubén Fernández | Movistar Team | +22:16 |
| 1 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha | 167 |
| 1 | | Beñat Intxausti | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | 94 |
| 1 | | Merhawi Kudus | Team Dimension Data | | | 2 | | Ruben Guerreiro | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | +03:02 | | 3 | | Eder Chávarri | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | +27:24 |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 21-07-2016 23:54
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Ruben did well to grab a top ten finish on the GC |
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Posted on 22-07-2016 07:42
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Great win in Québe & a good Vuelta with the KoM and a top 10
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Posted on 22-07-2016 15:18
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Tamijo wrote:
Great win in Québe & a good Vuelta with the KoM and a top 10
Thanks both, it's nice to see that our efforts have paid off
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Posted on 22-07-2016 16:57
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Only some Italian races left before the World Championships:
Coppa Bernocchi ended in a bunch sprint, as the ascents of the Piccolo Stelvio turned out to be not hard enough to cause a separation. Carlos Barbero jumped onto the back of the Orica train, but he was forced to fourth place by Bora's Kristian Sbaragli. An early launch... ... was the right move for the win, as Barbero easily outsprinted the others. The two riders at the right had been doubled at that point. The Memorial Marco Pantani had some harder climbs, but still it was not enough to cause a big separation. A bunch sprint would occur in the streets of Cesenatico after a few short and pan flat local laps.  Jonathan Klever gained an advantage after having moved at a time of hesitation and his move made it. First pro win for him here.Finally the GP Industria was the hardest race, with several steeper climbs along the route. Once again not a chance for the breakaway. Zardini attacked to force the other teams to work, as both Izagirre and Barbero could just drift along with the pack. Our Italian rider was reeled in on home soil, and Ion tried to lead out Carlos properly... ... as Carlos made it three consecutive wins out of only three tries!
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