Ezeefreak wrote:

Will be interesting to see which direction you move forward too. There is now a lot possible ways, lets see what you come up with.
For our team thats not so bad news just means potentially less competition for japanese riders

Hofstetter joined the break. Rossi was a part of a long range attack but none of these were fruitful. Owen was dropped from the lead group with around 30 km to go. The results were once again disappointing.

33	Diego Rossi	Sony - Force India	+ 5'20
52	Logan Owen	Sony - Force India	+ 9'26
68	Daan Hoole	Sony - Force India	+ 10'28
84	Hugo Hofstetter	Sony - Force India	+ 15'17
85	Piet Allegaert	Sony - Force India	+ 16'06
97	Jo Kogstad Ringheim	Sony - Force India	+ 17'26
124	Tim Van Dijke	Sony - Force India	+ 26'58
137	Mick Van Dijke	Sony - Force India	+ 33'34

Holm Jorgensen was a part of a few breakaways.

Hofstetter finished 5th on Stage 2.

Van Dijke finished 5th on Stage 5. He led the U25s at this point. He lost it on the next stage.

Van Dijke finished 3rd on Stage 7.

Van Dijke did the same on Stage 8 and reclaimed the White Jersey.

Elissonde joined the break on Stage 9 but was dropped in the closing kilometers.

Roson finished 10th from a reduced bunch sprint behind the break on Stage Stage 13.

Van Dijke was 8th on Stage 14, in another reduced bunch sprint behind the break.

Elissonde and Roson joined the break on Stage 17. Neither would survive till the end.

Roson joined the break on Stage 18 as well. He finished 3rd on the stage. Van Dijke finished 6th from the pack.

Van Dijke joined the break on Stage 20. He couldn't hang on over the hard climbs.

63	Jaime Roson	Sony - Force India	+ 3h20'31
65	Mick Van Dijke	Sony - Force India	+ 3h22'01
77	Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev	Sony - Force India	+ 4h09'18
93	Bryan Raul Obando	Sony - Force India	+ 4h31'06
104	Mikel Agirrebeitia	Sony - Force India	+ 4h53'02
106	Kenny Elissonde	Sony - Force India	+ 5h00'34
137	Hugo Hofstetter	Sony - Force India	+ 6h02'45

Alben finished 2nd on Stage 1. Haig and a couple of others lost more than 4 minutes.

We lost 33 seconds in the TTT on Stage 2.

Zmorka couldn't survive the hills on Stage 4 and our GC hopes were gone!

Zmorka finished a poor 14th in the ITT.

16	Jack Haig	Sony - Force India	+ 8'03
28	Marlen Zmorka	Sony - Force India	+ 9'37
44	Tim Van Dijke	Sony - Force India	+ 11'30
52	Daan Hoole	Sony - Force India	+ 13'20
67	Leo Hayter	Sony - Force India	+ 15'40
89	Naveen John	Sony - Force India	+ 24'03
135	Sergio Arias Villanueva	Sony - Force India	+ 30'43
151	Esow Alben	Sony - Force India	+ 36'14

Tim Van Dijke finished 5th in the U25s with Hayter in 7th.

Allegaert joined the break but he can't really climb, so it didn't go anywhere. Leemreize can climb, but apparently not these mountains!

69	Gijs Leemreize	Sony - Force India	+ 27'22
90	Lennard Hofstede	Sony - Force India	+ 38'04
91	Ricardo Broxham	Sony - Force India	s.t.
131	Sergio Arias Villanueva	Sony - Force India	+ 51'50
144	Piet Allegaert	Sony - Force India	+ 54'51
145	Diego Rossi	Sony - Force India	s.t.
149	Hayden McCormick	Sony - Force India	+ 58'41
169	Esow Alben	Sony - Force India	+ 1h13'31

Arias Villanueva joined the break but he was caught a long way from the line. Kulikovskiy finished a decent 11th. Cherkasov picked up minor points in 41st.

11	Alexandr Kulikovskiy	Sony - Force India	+ 43
41	Nicolay Cherkasov	Sony - Force India	s.t.
51	Diego Rossi	Sony - Force India	s.t.
70	Hayden McCormick	Sony - Force India	s.t.
80	Esow Alben	Sony - Force India	s.t.
89	Tim Van Dijke	Sony - Force India	s.t.
105	Sergio Arias Villanueva	Sony - Force India	s.t.
108	Piet Allegaert	Sony - Force India	s.t.

Obando joined the break. Van Dijke attacked with 41 km to go, and then again a few kilometers later. He wasn't strong enough to stay at the front.

61	Mick Van Dijke	Sony - Force India	+ 5'03
80	Nicolay Cherkasov	Sony - Force India	+ 6'07
110	Lennard Hofstede	Sony - Force India	s.t.
147	Hayden McCormick	Sony - Force India	+ 8'40
150	Ricardo Broxham	Sony - Force India	+ 9'54
155	Bryan Raul Obando	Sony - Force India	+ 10'39
161	Sergio Arias Villanueva	Sony - Force India	s.t.
173	Kenny Elissonde	Sony - Force India	+ 12'33