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| Tamijo |
Posted on 27-03-2017 08:00
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WOW what a season opening !
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 27-03-2017 09:44
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| Ripley |
Posted on 28-03-2017 09:06
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Nice salary and pretty impressive stats already (do others really progress even faster?). I'm sure Lotto will be glad to have you. |
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 28-03-2017 12:29
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Ripley wrote:
Nice salary and pretty impressive stats already (do others really progress even faster?). I'm sure Lotto will be glad to have you.
Yeah they've reached these stats by the first or second season!
I hope they will be 
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 29-03-2017 22:15
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A win is always welcomed. IIRC, your only two pro wins have been in Spanish roads?
Which races will you take part in the upcoming months?
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 30-03-2017 05:27
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Aquarius97 wrote:
A win is always welcomed. IIRC, your only two pro wins have been in Spanish roads?
Which races will you take part in the upcoming months?
Yes, the first came on Andalucia Stage 5 last year. Details here.
As far as other races are concerned, I'm sticking to Spain for February with Murcia and Andalucia. I wanted to stick to my strengths for the start of my World Tour journey. Following that I'll be in Paris-Nice and one of Catalunya or Pais Vasco. I will also start in atleast two of the three races in the Ardennes week, with LBL a surety for now. Beyond that, the plans are still being made.
Thanks for the questions
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 31-03-2017 16:55
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Still in Spain for two races in February. Murcia and the six stage Andalucia up ahead. If last year is anything to go by, this should be another good month for me. Did I continue my good start for Lotto? Let's find out...
I was picked for a free role by the team and yet the bookies put me among the favourites for a race win. I couldn't help but beam at the progress I've made in three years being a pro. This isn't so difficult, is it now 
The race saw Jelle Wallays join the breakaway for us as I stayed in the pack looking for opportunities later. The break was caught before the last climb of the race. At that stage, there were around 50 riders left at the front. I was around the middle of the pack when the climb started, a bad position to be in. I tried to go up through the sides as I heard news about riders starting to attack from the front. I was of no use as I kept getting bunched in. A group of 5 leapt away from the bunch and contested the sprint for the win. Ruben Fernandez took the win, edging out Sebastien Henao and Eddie Dunbar. I had to be content with 21st.
| 1 | Rubén Fernández | Tinkoff-Saxo | 4h17'44 | | 2 | Sebastian Henao | Colombia | s.t. | | 3 | Eddie Dunbar | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 4 | Eduard Beltran | Colombia | s.t. | | 5 | Kenny Elissonde | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 6 | Fabio Duarte | Colombia | + 37 | | 7 | Robert Power | Team Sky | + 45 | | 8 | Joshua Edmondson | Team Sky | s.t. | | 9 | Ian Boswell | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | s.t. | | 10 | Larry Warbasse | Team Sky | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | Juan Chamorro | Colombia | s.t. | | 12 | Matvei Mamykin | Tinkoff-Saxo | s.t. | | 13 | Evgeny Shalunov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 14 | Simone Petilli | Team Cannondale - Garmin | s.t. | | 15 | Alexandre Geniez | ESPN | s.t. | | 16 | Emanuel Buchmann | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | s.t. | | 17 | Arvid Melchiot | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | s.t. | | 18 | Julian Arredondo | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 19 | Winner Anacona | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | s.t. | | 20 | Pello Bilbao | Tinkoff-Saxo | s.t. | | 21 | Abhishek Sinha | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 22 | Joseph Dombrowski | ESPN | s.t. | | 23 | Alejandro Valverde | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 24 | Steff Cras | ESPN | s.t. | | 25 | Edward Ravasi | Team Cannondale - Garmin | s.t. | | 26 | Jay McCarthy | Team Sky | s.t. | | 27 | Jasper Ockeloen | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | s.t. | | 28 | Diego Ulissi | Tinkoff-Saxo | s.t. | | 29 | Jean-Christophe Peraud | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 30 | Alfredo Balloni | Team Cannondale - Garmin | s.t. | | 31 | Alberto Gallego | Iberdrola | s.t. | | 32 | Daniel Felipe Martinez | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | s.t. | | 33 | Jan Polanc | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 34 | José Herrada | TEAM Cepsa | s.t. | | 35 | Jan Hirt | Bora - Argon 18 | s.t. | | 36 | Arnaud Duteil | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 37 | Óscar González | TEAM Cepsa | s.t. | | 38 | David De la Cruz | Tinkoff-Saxo | s.t. | | 39 | Jackson Rodríguez | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 40 | Victor Lafay | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 41 | Tao Geoghegan Hart | Team Sky | s.t. | | 42 | Peter Stetina | Team Cannondale - Garmin | s.t. | | 43 | Tom Slagter | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | s.t. | | 44 | Daniele Dall'Oste | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 45 | Sérgio Pardilla | Tinkoff-Saxo | s.t. | | 46 | Rafael Valls | TEAM Cepsa | s.t. | | 47 | Nicolas Edet | Cyanide | s.t. | | 48 | Mikel Bizkarra | Kaiku | s.t. | | 49 | Eros Capecchi | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 1'59 | | 50 | Fabio Tuzi | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 51 | Martijn Keizer | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 2'09 | | 52 | Patrick Facchini | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 2'22 | | 53 | Jelle Wallays | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 54 | Diego Ochoa | Colombia | s.t. | | 55 | Floris Gerts | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | s.t. | | 56 | Daniel Jaramillo | Colombia | s.t. | | 57 | Jean Küpper | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 58 | Frederico Figueiredo | Iberdrola | s.t. | | 59 | Ángel Madrazo | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 60 | Patrick Konrad | Bora - Argon 18 | s.t. | | 61 | Aurélien Paret-Peintre | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 62 | Lachlan Morton | Team Cannondale - Garmin | s.t. | | 63 | Stefano Pirazzi | ESPN | s.t. | | 64 | Hugo Houle | TEAM Cepsa | s.t. | | 65 | Marcos García | TEAM Cepsa | s.t. | | 66 | Nelson Oliveira | Tinkoff-Saxo | s.t. | | 67 | Mikaël Chérel | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 68 | Serge Beaufort | Cyanide | s.t. | | 69 | Rudy Molard | Cyanide | s.t. | | 70 | Simon Raffin | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 71 | Alexis Guerin | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 72 | Alexis Dulin | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 73 | Thomas Degand | Iberdrola | s.t. | | 74 | Daniel Moreno | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 75 | Jérémy Maison | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 76 | Gregor Mühlberger | Bora - Argon 18 | s.t. | | 77 | François Bidard | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 3'21 | | 78 | Michael Vink | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 79 | Alvaro Cuadros | Team Katusha | + 3'41 | | 80 | Andres Pereyra | Adega Mayor | s.t. | | 81 | Jan Barta | ESPN | s.t. | | 82 | Arnau Sole | Burgos - BH | s.t. | | 83 | Mike Teunissen | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | s.t. | | 84 | Christopher Juul-Jensen | Kaiku | + 4'12 | | 85 | Sander Armee | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | s.t. | | 86 | Hector Saez | Iberdrola | s.t. | | 87 | Simon Clarke | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 88 | Michele Scarponi | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 89 | David Belda | TEAM Cepsa | s.t. | | 90 | Johan Le Bon | ESPN | s.t. | | 91 | Ricardo García | Team Sky | s.t. | | 92 | Yoann Bagot | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 93 | Sebastian Trillini | ActiveJet Team | s.t. | | 94 | Michael Woods | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 95 | Anthony Vandrepotte | Cyanide | s.t. | | 96 | Edoardo Zardini | Team Cannondale - Garmin | s.t. | | 97 | Simon Geschke | Bora - Argon 18 | s.t. | | 98 | Jesús Del Pino | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | s.t. | | 99 | Thomas Lebas | Burgos - BH | s.t. | | 100 | Jordi Simón | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 101 | Delio Fernández | Burgos - BH | s.t. | | 102 | Dusan Rajovic | Colombia | s.t. | | 103 | Rein Taaramäe | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 104 | Miguel Angel Benito | TEAM Cepsa | s.t. | | 105 | Dries Van Gestel | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 106 | Victor Valinho | Adega Mayor | s.t. | | 107 | Davide Cimolai | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 108 | Igor Merino | Burgos - BH | s.t. | | 109 | Gorka Ceballos | Iberdrola | s.t. | | 110 | Ben Swift | Team Sky | s.t. | | 111 | Dimitry Kozontchuk | Tinkoff-Saxo | s.t. | | 112 | Hugo Pigeon | Cyanide | + 5'35 | | 113 | Unai Intziarte | Kaiku | + 7'08 | | 114 | Jesús Herrero | Kaiku | s.t. | | 115 | Jesús Ezquerra | Burgos - BH | s.t. | | 116 | Jasper Bovenhuis | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | s.t. | | 117 | Marc Soler | ActiveJet Team | s.t. | | 118 | Corrado Lampa | Bora - Argon 18 | s.t. | | 119 | Anthony Maldonado | Cyanide | s.t. | | 120 | Fredrik Ludvigsson | ActiveJet Team | s.t. | | 121 | Nacer Bouhanni | Cyanide | s.t. | | 122 | Vitaliy Buts | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 123 | Adam Stachowiak | ActiveJet Team | s.t. | | 124 | Jan Ghyselinck | ESPN | s.t. | | 125 | Pablo Lechuga | Kaiku | s.t. | | 126 | Andrés Vigil | Burgos - BH | s.t. | | 127 | Marco Tizza | Colombia | s.t. | | 128 | Maurits Lammertink | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | s.t. | | 129 | Aner Echegaray | ActiveJet Team | + 7'43 | | 130 | Lukas Spengler | ESPN | s.t. | | 131 | Diego Rubio | Iberdrola | s.t. | | 132 | Taylor Phinney | Team Sky | s.t. | | 133 | Bernard Thiel | Bora - Argon 18 | s.t. | | 134 | Mario González | Burgos - BH | s.t. | | 135 | Jelle Vanendert | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 136 | Roman Kubik | ActiveJet Team | s.t. | | 137 | Andriy Grivko | Iberdrola | + 9'18 | | 138 | Igor Romero | ActiveJet Team | + 10'20 | | 139 | Michael Hümbert | Bora - Argon 18 | + 10'47 | | 140 | Erick Rowsell | Iberdrola | s.t. | | 141 | Ricardo Mestre | Adega Mayor | s.t. | | 142 | Sebastian Schönberger | Cyanide | + 13'59 | | 143 | Daniel Mestre | Adega Mayor | s.t. | | 144 | Lucas Liss | Bora - Argon 18 | s.t. | | 145 | Domen Novak | Kaiku | s.t. | | 146 | Laureano Ponce | Adega Mayor | s.t. | | 147 | Riccardo Chiarini | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 148 | Unai Iparragirre | Kaiku | s.t. | | 149 | Leonid Krasnov | Adega Mayor | s.t. | | 150 | Berden De Vries | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | s.t. | | 151 | Joaquín Cacho | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 152 | Jon Andoni Martínez Ruiz | ActiveJet Team | s.t. | | 153 | Joeri Stallaert | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 154 | Serse Tatti | Adega Mayor | + 17'22 | | 155 | Tom Stamsnijder | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | + 18'41 | | 156 | Giacomo Nizzolo | TEAM Cepsa | s.t. | | 157 | William Guzman | Burgos - BH | + 20'38 | | 158 | Leonildo Pais | Adega Mayor | + 22'12 |
Well, it isn't that easy either!
I was riding the race which saw me win my first ever stage last year. Once again, I would be riding the same stage on my birthday. This was a good opportunity to put the slight disappointment of Murcia behind me. I was once again picked in a free role and that suited me perfectly.
Stage 1 was a short time trial and was being touted as among the favourites for the win again. It started off well enough. When I finished, I was 6th, 19 seconds off the best time. I finished up 22nd, 28 seconds off. Not the best day, but not a lot of time lost.
Stage 2 had an uphill finish and I was targeting that from the time I saw the race route for the first time. The plan was to be safe throughout the stage and I did that. The next part of the plan was to attack at the start of the short uphill to the finish. That didn't exactly work out with Pinot outgunning everyone to the line, with a time gap. I was in the second group at the finish, picking up a decent 5th place. The real good was that I was up into 2nd place in the GC! Pinot was ahead by just less than a minute.
| 1 | Thibaut Pinot | Ag2r La Mondiale | 4h54'08 | | 2 | Eduard Beltran | Colombia | + 53 | | 3 | Mikel Landa | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 4 | Carlos Verona | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 5 | Abhishek Sinha | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 6 | Lilian Calmejane | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 7 | Petr Vakoc | Iberdrola | s.t. | | 8 | Rudy Molard | Cyanide | s.t. | | 9 | Igor Antón | TEAM Cepsa | s.t. | | 10 | Tom Slagter | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 1'37 |
Stage 3 saw me start with the white jersey over my shoulders. I was again one of the favourites. Van Gestel joined the break for us. But that's about all that went our way here. I struggled at the end to keep pace with the final attacks losing more than a minute to stage winner Eduard Beltran, and slipping down to 9th in the GC.
Stage 4 was a flat stage and there was nothing much I could do to improve my situation in the GC. I finished in the bunch and saw Cimolai grab a top 10 for us. Fabien Schmidt picked up the win.
Stage 5 on my birthday again. I was determined to have a repeat of last year. There was a scary moment as a 22 rider crash slowed down the peloton near the halfway mark. Me along with three teammates were involved in the crash. Luckily, all of us recovered from it, but it more or less put paid to my strength of being able to get away at the end. The stage came down to a reduced bunch sprint of around 30 riders. Nacer Bouhanni won the sprint with Cimolai taking 2nd place for us. I finished 11th.
Stage 6 was not one where time gains could be made. There was good news for our team though as Cimolai picked up the stage win! Eduard Beltran suffered a crash in the closing kilometres, losing more than four minutes and I moved up one place in the GC.
| 1 | Thibaut Pinot | Ag2r La Mondiale | 19h57'36 | | 2 | Carlos Verona | Team Katusha | + 14 | | 3 | Mikel Landa | Team Katusha | + 27 | | 4 | Tom Slagter | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 55 | | 5 | Rafael Valls | TEAM Cepsa | s.t. | | 6 | Igor Antón | TEAM Cepsa | + 1'08 | | 7 | Lilian Calmejane | Team Europcar | + 1'09 | | 8 | Abhishek Sinha | Lotto Soudal | + 1'14 | | 9 | Petr Vakoc | Iberdrola | + 1'39 | | 10 | Rudy Molard | Cyanide | + 2'15 |
Spoiler | 11 | Alberto Gallego | Iberdrola | + 2'31 | | 12 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | + 2'46 | | 13 | Nicolas Edet | Cyanide | + 2'49 | | 14 | Juan José Lobato | TEAM Cepsa | + 2'57 | | 15 | Simone Petilli | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 3'28 | | 16 | Serge Beaufort | Cyanide | + 3'52 | | 17 | Eduard Beltran | Colombia | + 4'36 | | 18 | Marc Soler | ActiveJet Team | + 4'41 | | 19 | Jesús Del Pino | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | + 4'52 | | 20 | Javier Moreno | TEAM Cepsa | + 5'14 | | 21 | Sander Armee | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | + 5'42 | | 22 | Davide Cimolai | Lotto Soudal | + 6'22 | | 23 | Pello Bilbao | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 6'27 | | 24 | Sebastian Trillini | ActiveJet Team | + 7'07 | | 25 | Jonathan Castroviejo | TEAM Cepsa | + 7'42 | | 26 | Daniel Felipe Martinez | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | + 8'33 | | 27 | Matvei Mamykin | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 8'59 | | 28 | Jesper Asselman | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 9'23 | | 29 | Jordi Simón | Team Katusha | + 9'33 | | 30 | Simon Clarke | Lotto Soudal | + 9'45 | | 31 | Sérgio Pardilla | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 10'47 | | 32 | Diego Ulissi | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 11'07 | | 33 | Eros Capecchi | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 11'09 | | 34 | Daryl Impey | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 11'34 | | 35 | Ángel Madrazo | Team Katusha | + 11'40 | | 36 | William Guzman | Burgos - BH | + 11'59 | | 37 | Jonas Gregaard | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 12'02 | | 38 | Louis Meintjes | Lotto Soudal | + 12'06 | | 39 | Diego Ochoa | Colombia | + 12'33 | | 40 | Romain Hardy | Cyanide | + 12'41 | | 41 | Dries Van Gestel | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 42 | Dylan Groenewegen | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 12'49 | | 43 | Jasper Bovenhuis | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | + 12'54 | | 44 | Nelson Oliveira | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 13'00 | | 45 | Mike Teunissen | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 13'07 | | 46 | Nacer Bouhanni | Cyanide | + 13'08 | | 47 | Erick Rowsell | Iberdrola | + 15'18 | | 48 | José Joaquín Rojas | Team Katusha | + 16'22 | | 49 | Thomas Damuseau | Alcatel | + 16'45 | | 50 | Beñat Txoperena | Team Katusha | + 16'48 | | 51 | Matteo Rabottini | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 17'34 | | 52 | Mads Würtz Schmidt | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 18'33 | | 53 | Albert Timmer | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 18'48 | | 54 | Giacomo Nizzolo | TEAM Cepsa | + 18'58 | | 55 | Thomas Lebas | Burgos - BH | + 19'06 | | 56 | Francisco José Ventoso | Team Katusha | + 19'08 | | 57 | Jon Larrinaga | Burgos - BH | + 19'42 | | 58 | Igor Merino | Burgos - BH | + 21'04 | | 59 | Boy Van Poppel | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 21'44 | | 60 | Lucas Destang | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 21'46 | | 61 | Aleksejs Saramotins | TEAM Cepsa | + 21'58 | | 62 | Nicolas Baldo | Cyanide | + 22'03 | | 63 | Bob Schoonbroodt | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | + 22'10 | | 64 | Badu Obasanjo | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 22'12 | | 65 | Alexandre Pliuschin | Kaiku | + 22'29 | | 66 | Marc Sarreau | Team Europcar | + 22'42 | | 67 | Aser Estévez | Iberdrola | + 22'44 | | 68 | Jean-Lou Paiani | Team Europcar | + 23'35 | | 69 | Enrique Sanz | Iberdrola | + 23'48 | | 70 | Carlos Quintero | Colombia | + 24'00 | | 71 | Adam Stachowiak | ActiveJet Team | + 24'39 | | 72 | Mario González | Burgos - BH | + 25'00 | | 73 | Flavien Dassonville | Cyanide | + 25'04 | | 74 | Sidio Mezzini | NIPPO - Vini Fantini | + 25'25 | | 75 | Romain Le Roux | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 27'22 | | 76 | Jonas Van Genechten | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 28'12 | | 77 | Gianluca Vecchio | NIPPO - Vini Fantini | + 28'21 | | 78 | Mateusz Nowaczek | Burgos - BH | + 28'30 | | 79 | Jon Remigio Díaz de Olarte | Iberdrola | + 28'39 | | 80 | Omar Lombardi | NIPPO - Vini Fantini | + 28'44 | | 81 | Yannis Yssaad | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 28'47 | | 82 | Egoitz García | Kaiku | + 29'06 | | 83 | Pio Scarpato | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 29'14 | | 84 | Antoine Duchesne | Team Europcar | + 29'29 | | 85 | Unai Iparragirre | Kaiku | + 29'52 | | 86 | Nikita Zharoven | Alcatel | + 30'08 | | 87 | Etienne Tortelier | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 30'29 | | 88 | Przemyslaw Kasperkiewicz | ActiveJet Team | + 30'30 | | 89 | Marco Tizza | Colombia | s.t. | | 90 | Cheng Ji | Kaiku | + 32'00 | | 91 | Alexandre Pichot | Team Europcar | + 33'27 | | 92 | Vadim Galeyev | Kaiku | + 33'52 | | 93 | Rafael Infantino | Colombia | + 35'29 | | 94 | Rémy Rochas | Alcatel | + 36'12 | | 95 | Vicente Reynès | Burgos - BH | + 36'35 | | 96 | Floris Gerts | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | + 37'49 | | 97 | Stef Clement | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 38'23 | | 98 | Jesús Herrero | Kaiku | + 39'37 | | 99 | Charles Herbert | Team Europcar | + 40'30 | | 100 | Manuel Todaro | NIPPO - Vini Fantini | + 40'31 | | 101 | Jimmy Duquennoy | Lotto Soudal | + 40'41 | | 102 | Georgios Bouglas | Iberdrola | + 43'27 | | 103 | Joaquím Durant | Alcatel | + 43'33 | | 104 | Steve Chainel | Team Europcar | + 44'23 | | 105 | Hossein Nateghi | NIPPO - Vini Fantini | + 44'32 | | 106 | Vicente García de Mateos | NIPPO - Vini Fantini | + 46'24 | | 107 | Luka Grubic | ActiveJet Team | + 47'28 | | 108 | Juan Sebastian Molano | Colombia | + 48'48 | | 109 | Mattia Gavazzi | Colombia | + 49'29 | | 110 | Dylan Van Zijl | Team Roompot-Oranje Peloton | + 54'34 | | 111 | Fabien Schmidt | Alcatel | + 55'47 | | 112 | Aner Echegaray | ActiveJet Team | + 1h25'05 | | 113 | Clément Saint-Martin | Alcatel | + 1h33'37 |
| 1 | Nacer Bouhanni | Cyanide | 65 | | 2 | Davide Cimolai | Lotto Soudal | 51 | | 3 | Thibaut Pinot | Ag2r La Mondiale | 47 | | 4 | Eduard Beltran | Colombia | 45 | | 5 | Giacomo Nizzolo | TEAM Cepsa | 44 |
| 1 | Jonas Gregaard | Team Cannondale - Garmin | 28 | | 2 | Thomas Damuseau | Alcatel | 17 | | 3 | Nelson Oliveira | Tinkoff-Saxo | 14 | | 4 | Eduard Beltran | Colombia | 12 | | 5 | Alexandre Pliuschin | Kaiku | 12 |
Young Rider Classification
| 1 | Abhishek Sinha | Lotto Soudal | 19h58'50 | | 2 | Simone Petilli | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 2'14 | | 3 | Serge Beaufort | Cyanide | + 2'38 | | 4 | Marc Soler | ActiveJet Team | + 3'27 | | 5 | Sebastian Trillini | ActiveJet Team | + 5'53 |
| 1 | TEAM Cepsa | 59h55'12 | | 2 | Lotto Soudal | + 4'12 | | 3 | Team Katusha | + 4'46 | | 4 | Cyanide | + 6'14 | | 5 | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 6'42 |
A better GC position and the U25 jersey but no repeat of last year's stage win. Instead, an overall much better team showing, unsurprising since I am in a better team. A good race for teammate Cimolai too. February wasn't spectacular in terms of personal performances, but I think I've made progress. Till next time...
Edited by AbhishekLFC on 06-04-2017 13:54
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 31-03-2017 19:52
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Some top climbers in Vuelta a Murcia to beat, getting in top 10 was a fine outcome.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 31-03-2017 19:53
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Some top climbers in Vuelta a Murcia to beat, getting in top 10 was a fine outcome.
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 31-03-2017 23:18
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OMG, I see what Cyanide is trying to do. Don't ever sign with them, they will troll you from the inside
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 01-04-2017 08:29
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Tamijo wrote:
Some top climbers in Vuelta a Murcia to beat, getting in top 10 was a fine outcome.
Yes quite happy with the improvement in the final standings. Can't win a stage here every year.
Aquarius97 wrote:
OMG, I see what Cyanide is trying to do. Don't ever sign with them, they will troll you from the inside
I'll keep that in mind . Btw, Cyanide is erstwhile Cofidis.
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The third month of the year is upon us and time sure is flying! This month, I'm in France for both races. Firstly, I go to Paris-Nice for my first taste of a World Tour race after joining Lotto. This will be my first start in this race too. Following this, I will start the three day mixed race of Criterium International at the end of the month.
A first start at this famous race for me. Most of the big names, i.e. GT contenders, were incidentally absent from this race this year. Froome was present, but his decline has already begun. Besides him, the likes of Kelderman, Kwiatkowski, Dumoulin, Barguil And Betancur were favoured to challenge for the win. I didn't have a lot of hopes for a top GC placing, again looking out for the stage win.
Stage 1 was a short ITT. I crossed the line 28 seconds on the then leader but eventually finished up 48 seconds behind stage winner Dumoulin.
Stage 2 and a surprise awaited me. By virtue of being place the highest amongst my teammates, I was given leadership duties for this race. This was a moment to remember. However, this meant that my stage hunting dreams were put on the back-burner for the moment.
This stage was one for the sprinters and rising star Gaviria picked up the win.
Stage 3 was pretty much a carbon copy of the previous one. Only this time, Carlos Barbero edged out Gaviria in the bunch sprint.
Stage 4 was the first of the hilly stages. Lotto put van Hoecke into the break and I could just concentrate on the end of the stage. While the hills did not effectively break up the peloton the upward finish did allo some punchers to get into the mix. Bonifazio did take the win for the sprinters but I managed to get 9th on this stage. We had four riders finishing inside the top 15.
Stage 5 was the first where time gaps popped up. Boonen, and later van Hoecke, were a part of the breakaway for us. I managed to stay with the group of leaders throughout the race as more and more riders kept getting dropped. The break was caught and it came down to a bunch sprint of a select group of riders. I finished 9th again and pushed myself up to 10th in the GC! I also took the lead of the U25 competition
Stage 6 was a change from the normal as the early breakaway managed to stay away and win by more than four minutes. However, one of them managed to trouble the top of the GC, having lost too much time in previous stages.
(Me with the white jersey on Stage 6
Stage 7 saw the break being caught early, before the last climb. At this stage, with 30 km to go, and 4 km from the summit of the last climb, I made my move to escape from the leading group. I was ahead for a while but was caught before the summit and fell back to the third group on the road. A group of four riders, Sagan, Alaphilippe, Kwiatkowski and Kelderman, put a gap to the rest and fought it out for the win, finishing in the order mentioned. I finished 12th, losing almost three minutes to the leading group and also lost a place in the GC. My teammates struggled horribly on this stage.
Stage 8 and the race ended like it started, with an ITT. Having started off towards the end, I finished 37 secinds off the pace when I crossed the line. That's where I ended up too with none of the higher place GC riders being able to beat Geraint Thomas's time. I stayed put at 11th in the GC. I did hold on to my White Jersey too.
| 1 | Michał Kwiatkowski | Team Cannondale - Garmin | 26h55'15 | | 2 | Wilco Kelderman | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 1'06 | | 3 | Peter Sagan | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 1'19 | | 4 | Julian Alaphilippe | Stella Artois | + 1'34 | | 5 | Pierre Rolland | Team Sky | + 2'39 | | 6 | Warren Barguil | Stella Artois | + 3'27 | | 7 | Carlos Betancur | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 3'45 | | 8 | Robert Gesink | MTN-Qhubeka | + 4'30 | | 9 | Ion Izagirre | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 4'34 | | 10 | Geraint Thomas | Astana Pro Team | + 4'44 |
Spoiler | 11 | Abhishek Sinha | Lotto Soudal | + 4'51 | | 12 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 5'25 | | 13 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 5'32 | | 14 | Anastasio Ania | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 5'33 | | 15 | Ilnur Zakarin | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 5'44 | | 16 | Diego Ulissi | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 5'57 | | 17 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | + 6'05 | | 18 | Andrew Talansky | Team Sky | + 6'10 | | 19 | Gorka Izagirre | IAM Cycling | + 6'22 | | 20 | Alexandre Geniez | ESPN | + 7'06 | | 21 | Ever Rivera | Astana Pro Team | + 7'11 | | 22 | Domenico Pozzovivo | TEAM Pirelli | + 7'28 | | 23 | Eros Capecchi | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 9'07 | | 24 | Peter Kennaugh | MTN-Qhubeka | + 10'20 | | 25 | Jesús Herrada | TEAM Cepsa | + 10'29 | | 26 | Scott Ambrose | IAM Cycling | + 10'56 | | 27 | Edward Ravasi | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 11'00 | | 28 | Carlos Barbero | TEAM Cepsa | + 11'16 | | 29 | Ben Swift | Team Sky | + 11'48 | | 30 | Simon Spilak | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 12'38 | | 31 | Adriano Malori | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 12'42 | | 32 | Valerio Conti | Astana Pro Team | + 13'13 | | 33 | Cyril Gautier | Alcatel | s.t. | | 34 | Arthur Vichot | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 13'26 | | 35 | Giovanni Visconti | Astana Pro Team | + 13'53 | | 36 | Sébastien Reichenbach | IAM Cycling | + 14'10 | | 37 | Yury Trofimov | Alcatel | + 14'49 | | 38 | Janier Acevedo | IAM Cycling | + 15'51 | | 39 | Mischa Van der Heijden | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 16'37 | | 40 | Alexis Gougeard | Astana Pro Team | + 16'40 | | 41 | Geoffrey Duteil | Stella Artois | + 16'53 | | 42 | Anthony Roux | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 17'53 | | 43 | Mattia Cattaneo | TEAM Cepsa | + 17'56 | | 44 | François Bidard | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 18'04 | | 45 | Luka Mezgec | MTN-Qhubeka | + 18'16 | | 46 | Matteo Trentin | Team Sky | + 18'56 | | 47 | Lars Boom | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 19'03 | | 48 | Danny Van Poppel | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 19'12 | | 49 | Jérôme Coppel | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 19'36 | | 50 | Johan Le Bon | ESPN | + 19'47 | | 51 | Serghei Tvetcov | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 19'49 | | 52 | John Degenkolb | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 20'09 | | 53 | Loïc Bouchereau | Alcatel | + 20'11 | | 54 | Nacer Bouhanni | Cyanide | + 20'24 | | 55 | Kristian Sbaragli | TEAM Pirelli | + 20'30 | | 56 | José Herrada | TEAM Cepsa | + 20'39 | | 57 | Larry Warbasse | Team Sky | + 21'07 | | 58 | Mads Pedersen | ESPN | + 21'13 | | 59 | Arnaud Demare | Cyanide | + 21'52 | | 60 | Patrick Schelling | IAM Cycling | + 22'03 | | 61 | André Greipel | Stella Artois | + 22'17 | | 62 | Anthony Maldonado | Cyanide | + 22'21 | | 63 | Oscar Gatto | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 22'25 | | 64 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | MTN-Qhubeka | + 22'30 | | 65 | Dennis Vanendert | ESPN | s.t. | | 66 | Carlos Ribeiro | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 22'56 | | 67 | Aidan van Niekerk | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 23'04 | | 68 | Niccolo Bonifazio | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 23'07 | | 69 | Matteo Busato | TEAM Pirelli | + 23'28 | | 70 | Jonathan Hivert | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 23'48 | | 71 | Thomas Damuseau | Alcatel | + 23'52 | | 72 | Luca Sterbini | TEAM Pirelli | + 24'02 | | 73 | Fernando Gaviria | MTN-Qhubeka | + 24'13 | | 74 | Jesper Asselman | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 24'30 | | 75 | Rémy di Gregorio | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 24'39 | | 76 | Pierre-Luc Périchon | Cyanide | + 25'09 | | 77 | Allessio Bottura | TEAM Pirelli | + 25'12 | | 78 | Davide Appollonio | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 25'56 | | 79 | Daniel Eaton | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 26'14 | | 80 | Mirko Selvaggi | Astana Pro Team | + 26'57 | | 81 | Jérémy Cornu | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 26'59 | | 82 | Joeri Stallaert | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 83 | Jesse Sergent | Astana Pro Team | + 27'42 | | 84 | Andreas Schillinger | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 27'56 | | 85 | Miguel Rubiano | TEAM Cepsa | + 28'28 | | 86 | Luke Rowe | Astana Pro Team | + 28'55 | | 87 | Emilien Viennet | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 28'57 | | 88 | Christophe Laporte | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 29'13 | | 89 | Alexis Dulin | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 90 | Rayane Bouhanni | Stella Artois | + 29'20 | | 91 | Matteo Pelucchi | Team Katusha | + 29'28 | | 92 | Rick Zabel | TEAM Pirelli | + 29'30 | | 93 | Gerald Ciolek | MTN-Qhubeka | + 30'15 | | 94 | Marco Haller | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 30'20 | | 95 | Daniel Moreno | Team Katusha | + 30'30 | | 96 | Mike Teunissen | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 30'37 | | 97 | Simone Andreetta | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 30'42 | | 98 | Alton McArther | Team Sky | + 30'48 | | 99 | Marc Sarreau | Team Europcar | + 30'51 | | 100 | Juan José Lobato | TEAM Cepsa | + 31'03 | | 101 | Kris Boeckmans | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 102 | Eduard-Michael Grosu | MTN-Qhubeka | + 31'43 | | 103 | João Silva | Team Katusha | + 31'49 | | 104 | Alexis Guerin | Team Europcar | + 32'28 | | 105 | Romain Matheou | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 32'31 | | 106 | Daniel Martin | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 32'35 | | 107 | Vitaliy Buts | Team Europcar | + 32'36 | | 108 | Kenneth Van Rooy | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 32'44 | | 109 | Lukas Spengler | ESPN | + 33'02 | | 110 | Kristof Vandewalle | Stella Artois | + 33'03 | | 111 | Mieszko Bulik | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 33'12 | | 112 | Giacomo Nizzolo | TEAM Cepsa | + 33'35 | | 113 | Gijs Van Hoecke | Lotto Soudal | + 33'43 | | 114 | Onur Balkan | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 33'56 | | 115 | Bert-Jan Lindeman | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 34'08 | | 116 | Julien Bérard | Alcatel | s.t. | | 117 | Julien Vermote | Stella Artois | + 34'21 | | 118 | Anthony Turgis | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 119 | Quentin Jauregui | Team Europcar | + 34'29 | | 120 | Francesco Ginanni | Team Europcar | + 34'31 | | 121 | Arnaud Gérard | ESPN | + 34'52 | | 122 | Enzo Wouters | Lotto Soudal | + 35'04 | | 123 | Julien Duval | Cyanide | + 35'29 | | 124 | Fabio Sabatini | TEAM Pirelli | + 35'46 | | 125 | Roy Jans | Stella Artois | + 35'59 | | 126 | José Joaquín Rojas | Team Katusha | + 36'22 | | 127 | Clément Saint-Martin | Alcatel | + 36'37 | | 128 | James Shaw | TEAM Pirelli | + 37'52 | | 129 | Sébastien Turgot | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 38'01 | | 130 | Miguel Angel Benito | TEAM Cepsa | s.t. | | 131 | Sergey Firsanov | Team Katusha | + 38'08 | | 132 | Yevgeniy Gidich | Team Sky | + 38'20 | | 133 | Jérôme Cousin | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 38'31 | | 134 | Justin Jules | Alcatel | s.t. | | 135 | Jonas Gregaard | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 39'50 | | 136 | Rüdiger Selig | MTN-Qhubeka | + 40'23 | | 137 | Alexander Porsev | Team Katusha | + 40'36 | | 138 | Romain Guillemois | Alcatel | + 40'47 | | 139 | Nicolas Baldo | Cyanide | + 41'42 | | 140 | Koen De Kort | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 42'41 | | 141 | Etienne Tortelier | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 43'15 | | 142 | Steven Tronet | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 43'45 | | 143 | Stig Broeckx | Lotto Soudal | + 44'19 | | 144 | Kenny Dehaes | Lotto Soudal | + 47'09 | | 145 | Maarten Wynants | ESPN | + 48'30 | | 146 | Tom Boonen | Lotto Soudal | + 50'35 | | 147 | Jori van Steenberghen | Cyanide | + 51'05 | | 148 | Tony Hurel | IAM Cycling | + 51'19 | | 149 | Tim Kerkhof | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 51'25 | | 150 | Christopher Sutton | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 51'50 | | 151 | Kenneth Vanbilsen | ESPN | + 51'54 | | 152 | Pierre Moncorge | Cyanide | + 55'56 | | 153 | Araik Storozhuk | Team Katusha | + 56'00 | | 154 | Thierry Hupond | Team Europcar | + 1h00'46 | | 155 | Kevin Reza | Team Europcar | + 1h01'15 | | 156 | Jordan Levasseur | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 1h02'00 | | 157 | Alexis Bodiot | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 1h03'16 | | 158 | Guillaume Thevenot | IAM Cycling | + 1h06'27 | | 159 | Florian Senechal | Team Europcar | + 1h06'31 |
| 1 | Michał Kwiatkowski | Team Cannondale - Garmin | 106 | | 2 | Peter Sagan | Tinkoff-Saxo | 100 | | 3 | Niccolo Bonifazio | Orica-GreenEDGE | 79 | | 4 | Fernando Gaviria | MTN-Qhubeka | 71 | | 5 | Julian Alaphilippe | Stella Artois | 70 |
| 1 | Cyril Gautier | Alcatel | 61 | | 2 | João Silva | Team Katusha | 23 | | 3 | Vitaliy Buts | Team Europcar | 23 | | 4 | Janier Acevedo | IAM Cycling | 20 | | 5 | Romain Matheou | Ag2r La Mondiale | 19 |
Young Riders Classification
| 1 | Abhishek Sinha | Lotto Soudal | 19'25 | 27h00'06 | | 2 | Anastasio Ania | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 42 | | 3 | Scott Ambrose | IAM Cycling | + 6'05 | | 4 | Edward Ravasi | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 6'09 | | 5 | Valerio Conti | Astana Pro Team | + 8'22 |
| 1 | Tinkoff-Saxo | 57'16 | 80h53'29 | | 2 | Team Sky | + 7'03 | | 3 | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 11'39 | | 4 | IAM Cycling | + 12'43 | | 5 | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 13'36 |
Another positive result. Achieving the top 10 would've been special here but the White Jersey is something to enjoy after this race. A bad race for the team otherwise. The start of the year has been unreal and I hope that this remains only the start. More to follow hopefully. Till next time...
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 02-04-2017 11:18
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Another good day with Lotto
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 02-04-2017 12:17
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11th is a great way to appear at the WT climbing scene.
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 02-04-2017 16:30
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Was for me. Not for the team though!
Hope to remove a '1' from that '11' soon
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 06-04-2017 13:43
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The second race of March took me to the Criterium International. Although not a WT race, this was my first start here. I was selected as the GC leader for our team. Even so, I was surprised to find myself listed among the favourites for the GC. To be fair, the big names were all surprisingly missing. I strapped myself in for what could be a breakthrough race.
Stage 1 was flat and meant specifically for the sprinters. I minded my own business and stayed out of trouble on this stage. The bunch sprint at the finish saw three of our guys finish in the top 10, van Staeyen was the best with 5th.
Stage 2 featured the important but not utimately decisive ITT. I was being considered as among the favourites for this stage too! I did well enough, finishing in 9th place, 41 seconds off stage winner Adriano Malori's time. This also meant I had taken up 9th place in the GC.
Stage 3 had the big climb a couple of kilometres from the finish that would decide the fate of this race. With no major time gaps made in the IT, it would be difficult for the pure TTists to keep hold of their positions after this stage. I was again a favourite for the stage win. Our team worked very hard and were able to bring down the size of the lead group considerably while chasing the breakaway. The latter were caught before the peloton reached the business end. A very select group of 6 riders, with me in it, reached the 10 km to go mark together. A couple of kilometres later, two of them, Chevrier and le Lavandier, went away from the others and were never caught. I made my move for escape from the bunch with 5 km left. I managed to distance the other three but could not make up ground on the two early attackers. Chevrier won from le Lavandier with me coming 3rd on the stage. This is also how it finished at the top of the GC.
| 1 | Clément Chevrier | Alcatel | 6h22'30 | | 2 | Maxime Le Lavandier | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | + 2'03 | | 3 | Abhishek Sinha | Lotto Soudal | + 2'22 | | 4 | Jesús Herrada | TEAM Cepsa | + 2'34 | | 5 | Nicolas Edet | Cyanide | + 3'51 | | 6 | Arnold Jeannesson | Cyanide | + 4'00 | | 7 | Loïc Bouchereau | Alcatel | + 4'22 | | 8 | Vladislav Gorbunov | CULT Energy Pro Cycling | + 6'10 | | 9 | Adriano Malori | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 7'01 | | 10 | Óscar González | TEAM Cepsa | + 7'44 |
Spoiler | 11 | Natnael Berhane | CULT Energy Pro Cycling | + 7'49 | | 12 | Marcos García | TEAM Cepsa | + 7'59 | | 13 | David Belda | TEAM Cepsa | + 8'02 | | 14 | Miguel Rubiano | TEAM Cepsa | + 8'06 | | 15 | Romain Hardy | Cyanide | + 8'28 | | 16 | Romain Sicard | Team Europcar | + 8'42 | | 17 | Rémy di Gregorio | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 9'03 | | 18 | Matthieu Ladagnous | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 11'20 | | 19 | Björn Thurau | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 11'22 | | 20 | Bjørn Tore Nielsen Hoem | CULT Energy Pro Cycling | + 11'24 | | 21 | Marc Garby | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | + 11'49 | | 22 | Alexis Dulin | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 11'50 | | 23 | Javier Moreno | TEAM Cepsa | + 11'51 | | 24 | Kevin Ledanois | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 12'37 | | 25 | Huub Duyn | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 13'19 | | 26 | José Agustín Martínez Torrén | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 13'37 | | 27 | Dylan van Baarle | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 13'39 | | 28 | Elia Favilli | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 13'48 | | 29 | Yonas Tekeste | Colombia | + 14'20 | | 30 | Jérémy Cornu | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 14'28 | | 31 | Maxime Bouet | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | + 14'41 | | 32 | Michael Goolaerts | ESPN | + 16'01 | | 33 | Frantisek Padour | Team Europcar | + 16'04 | | 34 | Kirill Pozdnyakov | Auber 93 | + 16'07 | | 35 | Mickaël Delage | Auber 93 | + 16'20 | | 36 | Diego Ochoa | Colombia | + 16'36 | | 37 | Alexander Geuens | Lotto Soudal | + 17'00 | | 38 | Johannes Windischbauer | CULT Energy Pro Cycling | + 17'50 | | 39 | Eduardo Estrada | Auber 93 | + 17'56 | | 40 | Clément Koretzky | Equipe Cycliste de l'Armée de Terre | s.t. | | 41 | Kevin Denis | Equipe Cycliste de l'Armée de Terre | + 18'09 | | 42 | Jérôme Cousin | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 18'10 | | 43 | Fabien Schmidt | Alcatel | + 18'14 | | 44 | Maximilian Schachmann | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 18'19 | | 45 | Jenthe Biermans | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | + 18'23 | | 46 | Angelo Tulik | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 18'27 | | 47 | Nikias Arndt | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 18'34 | | 48 | Morgan Lamoisson | Equipe Cycliste de l'Armée de Terre | + 18'35 | | 49 | Erwann Corbel | Colombia | + 18'37 | | 50 | Bruno Armirail | Cyanide | + 18'39 | | 51 | Branislau Samoilau | Equipe Cycliste de l'Armée de Terre | s.t. | | 52 | Jonas Bokeloh | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 18'44 | | 53 | Mickaël Larpe | Equipe Cycliste de l'Armée de Terre | s.t. | | 54 | Matthieu Halleguen | Auber 93 | + 18'47 | | 55 | Jacques Mevel | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 18'49 | | 56 | Aleksejs Saramotins | TEAM Cepsa | + 18'50 | | 57 | Dylan Groenewegen | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 18'51 | | 58 | Jefferson Reátegui | Colombia | + 18'56 | | 59 | Davide Martinelli | ESPN | + 18'59 | | 60 | Sergey Kuzmin | Auber 93 | + 19'04 | | 61 | Jérôme Baugnies | ESPN | + 19'07 | | 62 | Jean-Lou Paiani | Team Europcar | + 19'11 | | 63 | Gilles Cazes | Equipe Cycliste de l'Armée de Terre | + 19'12 | | 64 | Tom Bohli | ESPN | + 19'18 | | 65 | Adrien Petit | Team Europcar | + 19'19 | | 66 | Joey Rosskopf | ESPN | + 19'26 | | 67 | Enzo Wouters | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 68 | Samir Jabrayilov | CULT Energy Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 69 | Matthias Plarre | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 19'57 | | 70 | Antonio Dubois | Colombia | + 20'01 | | 71 | Jimmy Duquennoy | Lotto Soudal | + 20'13 | | 72 | Liam Bertazzo | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 20'25 | | 73 | Dennis Coenen | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | + 20'40 | | 74 | Pierre Moncorge | Cyanide | + 20'47 | | 75 | Heinrich Haussler | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 20'52 | | 76 | Sebastian Schönberger | Cyanide | + 20'54 | | 77 | Joseph Perrett | CULT Energy Pro Cycling | + 20'55 | | 78 | Michael Van Staeyen | Lotto Soudal | + 20'56 | | 79 | Anthony Delaplace | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | + 21'35 | | 80 | Florian Maître | Team Europcar | + 21'44 | | 81 | Bryan Nauleau | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | + 22'25 | | 82 | Etienne Tortelier | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 22'27 | | 83 | Miguel Bryon | ESPN | + 22'46 | | 84 | Dennis Vanendert | ESPN | + 23'10 | | 85 | Arnauld Cotton | Auber 93 | + 23'28 | | 86 | Benoit Jarrier | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | + 23'34 | | 87 | Jérémy Roy | Alcatel | + 23'43 | | 88 | Grégory Rast | ESPN | + 23'45 | | 89 | Kenneth Van Rooy | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 23'57 | | 90 | Michael Carbel | CULT Energy Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 91 | Nikita Zharoven | Alcatel | + 24'01 | | 92 | Charles Herbert | Team Europcar | + 24'02 | | 93 | Justin Jules | Alcatel | + 24'08 | | 94 | Steven Tronet | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 24'10 | | 95 | Kris Boeckmans | Lotto Soudal | + 24'47 | | 96 | Jelle Vanendert | Lotto Soudal | + 25'19 | | 97 | Jonas Gregaard | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 26'25 | | 98 | David Rivière | Equipe Cycliste de l'Armée de Terre | + 26'28 | | 99 | Emil Wang | Alcatel | + 26'40 | | 100 | Mattia Gavazzi | Colombia | + 26'44 | | 101 | Daniel Klemme | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 26'49 | | 102 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 26'55 | | 103 | Matthieu Boulo | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | + 26'59 | | 104 | Roland Thalmann | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 27'00 | | 105 | Alexis Bodiot | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 27'03 | | 106 | Charly Petelin | Colombia | + 27'04 | | 107 | Julien El Fares | Alcatel | + 27'11 | | 108 | Jon Gaitán | Cyanide | + 27'45 | | 109 | Gamal Jespersen | CULT Energy Pro Cycling | + 28'42 | | 110 | Konstantin Yakimov | Auber 93 | + 29'47 | | 111 | Steve Chainel | Team Europcar | + 29'48 | | 112 | Simon Clarke | Lotto Soudal | + 30'20 | | 113 | Bryan Alaphilippe | Colombia | + 30'46 | | 114 | Fabien Canal | Auber 93 | + 32'39 | | 115 | Sieben Wouters | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 32'40 | | 116 | Loris Roca | Equipe Cycliste de l'Armée de Terre | + 34'33 | | 117 | Sebastian Mascaro | TEAM Cepsa | + 35'13 |
| 1 | Adriano Malori | Team Cannondale - Garmin | 15 | | 2 | Johannes Windischbauer | CULT Energy Pro Cycling | 15 | | 3 | Jesús Herrada | TEAM Cepsa | 15 | | 4 | Abhishek Sinha | Lotto Soudal | 15 | | 5 | Clément Chevrier | Alcatel | 15 |
| 1 | Rémy di Gregorio | Roubaix Lille Métropole | 22 | | 2 | Bjørn Tore Nielsen Hoem | CULT Energy Pro Cycling | 14 | | 3 | Clément Koretzky | Equipe Cycliste de l'Armée de Terre | 12 | | 4 | Clément Chevrier | Alcatel | 6 | | 5 | Abhishek Sinha | Lotto Soudal | 4 |
Young Riders Classification
| 1 | Abhishek Sinha | Lotto Soudal | 6h24'52 | | 2 | Loïc Bouchereau | Alcatel | + 2'00 | | 3 | Óscar González | TEAM Cepsa | + 5'22 | | 4 | Kevin Ledanois | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 10'15 | | 5 | José Agustín Martínez Torrén | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 11'15 |
| 1 | Cyanide | 19h23'31 | | 2 | TEAM Cepsa | + 1'30 | | 3 | Alcatel | + 6'09 | | 4 | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | + 8'24 | | 5 | CULT Energy Pro Cycling | + 8'43 |
Another brilliant individual performance but my teammates struggled again. Stage 3 was a giant and a giant-killer of a stage which saw huge time-gaps and nullified the ITT completely. 3rd in the GC is an excellent outcome. Winning the white jersey again shows how good I am performing now at this level. Top 5s in both other individual classifications as well an outcome of two high finishes. I'm still having the time of my life so far riding for Lotto
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 06-04-2017 14:27
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Great result !!
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 07-04-2017 10:55
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Thanks
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 07-04-2017 10:57
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Nice to see you doing very well so far this season, podium in Criterium International is fantastic
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT]  Xero Racing
5x  x5
2x  x2
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Posted on 08-04-2017 09:41
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Directeur Sportif
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Yes yes season's going very well so far . Off to my favourite country Spain again for Pais Vasco next.
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