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Welcome to my second effort at story writing, in which I take the place of a control team and report from the season's action. I hope you enjoy reading about the story and feel free to comment. 
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2009 Season
After spending weekends planning and editing various databases for my second shot at story writing, I ended up opting for a simple database. Most of the edits are just personal alterations whilst the stats and rosters are almost the exact same as the original database.
Originally I had planned to make full reports from every ProTour race. However I've since changed my mind and after Paris-Nice you will find that only the Grand Tours will have these "full reports" although the other races won't be forgotten. 
2009 Team Presentation
It should be noted that in April I edited some of the top rider's stats a little so the stats bellow could be a little inaccurate.
AG2R La Mondiale
Nation: France
Leaders: Nocentini, Clerc, Valjavec
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Astana
Nation: Kazakhstan
Leaders: Contador, Leipheimer, Vinokourov
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*Jesus Hernandez is also riding for Astana but due to a mix up he is listed on Saxo Bank's presentation instead.
BBOX Bouyges Telecom
Nation: France
Leaders: Fedrigo, Trofimov, Bonnet
Caisse d'Epargne
Nation: Spain
Leaders: Valverde, Rodriguez, Pereiro
Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne
Nation: France
Leaders: Usov, Moncoutié, Duque
Team Columbia - High Road
Nation: USA
Leaders: Cavendish, Kirchen, Hincapie
Euskaltel - Euskadi
Nation: Spain
Leaders: Sanchez, Astarloza, Fernandez
Francaise des Jeux
Nation: France
Leaders: Casar, Geusdon, Vaugrenard
Fuji - Servetto
Nation: Spain
Leaders: Cobo, Capecchi, Serrano
Garmin - Slipstream
Nation: USA
Leaders: Maaskant, Vande Velde, Zabriskie
Team Katusha
Nation: Russia
Leaders: Pozzato, McEwen, Napolitano
Lampre - N.G.C
Nation: Italy
Leaders: Cunego, Ballan, Bruseghin
Liquigas
Nation: Italy
Leaders: Basso, Bennati, Pellizotti
Team Milram
Nation: Germany
Leaders: Ciolek, Gerdemann, Forster
Quick Step
Nation: Belgium
Leaders: Devolder, Boonen, Davis
Rabobank
Nation: Netherlands
Leaders: Freire, Menchov, Flecha
Team Saxo Bank
Nation: Denmark
Leaders: F.Schleck, Cancellara, A.Schleck
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*Jesus Hernandez is listed here due to a mix-up and is infact riding for Astana
Silence-Lotto
Nation: Belgium
Leaders: Evans, Hoste, Gilbert
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2009 Calendar
January
 Tour Down Under
February
 Tour of Luxembourg
March
 Paris - Nice
 Tirreno - Adriatico
Milan - San Remo
 Volta a Catalunya
April
 Gent - Wevelgem
Tour of the Basque Country
Tour of Flanders
Paris - Roubaix
 Amstel Gold Race
La Fleche Wallone
Liege - Bastogne - Liege
May
 Tour de Romandie
Giro d'Italia
June
Dauphine Libre
Tour de Suisse
July
Tour de France
August
Clasica de San Sebastian
 Tour de Pologne
GP Ouest-France
Eneco Tour
 Vattenfall Cyclassics
September
Vuelta a Espana
World Championships
October
Giro di Lombardia
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National Championships
 British Time Trial Champion: Bradley Wiggins
British Road Race Champion: Charles Wegelius
I know they aren't held in the middle of the winter but I wanted to have something interesting to start the season off with (as a Brit).
 Australian Time Trial Champion: Michael Rogers
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We head to Australia for the first World Tour event of the season. It is hard to predict the favourites as it is so early in the season but the biggest names here include Oscar Freire, world champion Allessandro Ballan and Fabian Cancellara.
Startlist
Spoiler RABOBANK
1. O.Freire
2. B.De Groot
3. M.Hayman
4. P.Horrillo
5. S.Langeveld
6. T.Leezer
7. M.Tjallingii
C.EPARGNE
11. L.Sánchez
12. A.Charteau
13. J.Gutierrez
14. V.Kiryienka
15. P.Lastras
16. L.Pasamontes
17. M.Perez
KATUSHA
21. A.Colom
22. L.Bodrogi
23. K.Dehaes
24. G.Mikhailov
25. D.Napolitano
26. F.Pozzato
27. M.Vantomme
CERVELO
31. S.Gerrans
32. R.Hammond
33. J.Hunt
34. A.Klier
35. I.Konovalovas
36. B.Lancaster
37. S.Pauwels
ASTANA
41. C.Horner
42. A.Bazayev
43. A.Dyachenko
44. M.Iglinskiy
45. B.Kupeshov
46. D.Muravyev
47. B.Noval
BBOX
51. T.Voeckler
52. F.Bouyer
53. M.Claude
54. P.Fédrigo
55. D.Gaudin
56. R.Martias
57. A.Pichot
LAMPRE
61. A.Ballan
62. M.Bandiera
63. E.Gasparotto
64. F.Gavazzi
65. M.Mori
66. M.Mori
67. S.Spilak
COLUMBIA
71. E.Boasson Hagen
72. M.Barry
73. B.Grabsch
74. A.Hansen
75. G.Henderson
76. T.Martin
77. M.Renshaw
VACANSOLEIL
81. M.Carrara
82. B.Bozic
83. B.Cooke
84. W.De Vocht
85. R.Honig
86. J.Hoogerland
87. M.Marcato
SAXO BANK
91. F.Cancellara
92. M.Goss
93. F.Hoj
94. D.Klemme
95. M.Ljungqvist
96. M.Mørkøv
97. N.Sørensen
QUICK STEP
101. J.Pineau
102. A.Engels
103. K.Hulsmans
104. D.Malacarne
105. M.Tosatto
106. J.Van De Walle
107. M.Wynants
AG2R
111. N.Roche
112. M.Elmiger
113. S.Hinault
114. Y.Krivtsov
115. L.Mondory
116. S.Poulhies
117. G.Smukulis
MILRAM
121. C.Knees
122. L.Barla
123. G.Ciolek
124. T.Fothen
125. R.Förster
126. W.Stroetinga
127. N.Terpstra
SILENCE
131. G.Van Avermaet
132. S.Lang
133. M.Lloyd
134. J.Roelandts
135. S.Scheirlinckx
136. R.Sentjens
137. J.Vansummeren
SERRAMENTI
141. A.Bertolini
142. M.Belletti
143. R.Bertogliati
144. M.Gavazzi
145. A.Loddo
146. L.Mate
147. E.Rigotto
EUSKALTEL
151. A.Txurruka
152. A.Hernández
153. M.Irizar
154. I.Isasi
155. I.Landaluze
156. A.Pérez
157. P.Urtasun
COFIDIS
161. L.Duque
162. A.Blain
163. F.Brard
164. M.Buffaz
165. S.Dumoulin
166. C.Kern
167. T.Valentin
FUJI
171. J.Jufre
172. H.Clarke
173. J.Del Nero
174. I.Dominguez
175. A.Durán
176. A.Gómez
177. B.Shpilevsky
LPR
181. D.Pietropolli
182. L.Bernucci
183. C.Cucinotta
184. G.Ermeti
185. S.Marinangeli
186. A.Ongarato
187. A.Spezialetti
F.D. JEUX
191. M.Ladagnous
192. S.Chavanel
193. A.Gérard
194. Y.Hutarovich
195. G.Meersman
196. Y.Offredo
197. W.Sulzberger
GARMIN
201. M.Maaskant
202. S.Cozza
203. H.Dekkers
204. M.Friedman
205. C.Meyer
206. C.Sutton
207. B.Wiggins
LIQUIGAS
211. M.Fischer
212. F.Chicchi
213. C.Corioni
214. E.Franzoi
215. A.Kuschynski
216. F.Sabatini
217. B.Vandborg
ROUBAIX
221. S.Sullivan
222. F.Dressler
223. P.Moucheraud
224. J.Mouris
225. A.Olsen
226. J.Steichen
227. S.Tronet
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Stage 1
Norwood - Mawson Lakes : 140km
The first escapees of the year are Sulzberger, Tosato, Elmiger, Dumoulin, Sentjens.
With 11km to go Terptra goes down right at the front of the pack and takes down a sea of riders with him! Fallen riders include Freire, Gerrans and Ciolek whilst Van Avermaet, Hunt, Brard and Pauwels all have to abandon with their injuries.
Dumoulin is last caught at 7km left and as the sprint begins Roelandts is swarmed by 3 Vacansoleil riders at the front...
Cooke and Marcato pull away and Pozzato is coming up fast behind...
And it is Pozzato who pulls through and takes the win ahead of Milram's Forster.
Stage Results
| 1 | Filippo Pozzato | TEAM KATUSHA | 3h38'13 | | 2 | Robert Förster | TEAM MILRAM | s.t. | | 3 | Marco Marcato | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 4 | Danilo Napolitano | TEAM KATUSHA | s.t. | | 5 | Francesco Gavazzi | LAMPRE - N.G.C | s.t. | | 6 | Baden Cooke | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 7 | Enrico Gasparotto | LAMPRE - N.G.C | s.t. | | 8 | Pedro Horrillo | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 9 | Tony Martin | TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 10 | Mickael Buffaz | COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE | s.t. |
 General Classification
| 1 | Filippo Pozzato | TEAM KATUSHA | 3h38'07 | | 2 | Robert Förster | TEAM MILRAM | + 2 | | 3 | Marco Marcato | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | + 4 | | 4 | Claudio Corioni | LIQUIGAS | + 5 | | 5 | Samuel Dumoulin | COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE | s.t. | | 6 | Danilo Napolitano | TEAM KATUSHA | + 6 | | 7 | Francesco Gavazzi | LAMPRE - N.G.C | s.t. | | 8 | Baden Cooke | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 9 | Enrico Gasparotto | LAMPRE - N.G.C | s.t. | | 10 | Pedro Horrillo | RABOBANK | s.t. |
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Very nice looking so far, keep it up!
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thanks cunego
Stage 2
Hahndorf - Stirling : 148km
On the descent before the finishing climb, Gutierrez, Sanchez, Pozzato, Freire, Ballan and Duque all begin to pull away from the pack...
The peleton almost succeed in bringing them back but as the sprint begins they seem to pull away again. Freire looks well positioned on Sanchez's wheel...
But Sanchez miracoulosly holds Freire off to beat him to the line using his 59 sprint! Meanwhile Pozzato maintains his race lead and the front group are accredited with a time gap to the peleton.
Stage Results
| 1 | Luis León Sánchez | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | 4h04'52 | | 2 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 3 | Alessandro Ballan | LAMPRE - N.G.C | s.t. | | 4 | Filippo Pozzato | TEAM KATUSHA | s.t. | | 5 | Leonardo Duque | COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE | s.t. | | 6 | Simon Gerrans | CERVELO TEST TEAM | + 19 | | 7 | Marcus Ljungqvist | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | 8 | Enrico Gasparotto | LAMPRE - N.G.C | s.t. | | 9 | Nicki Sørensen | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | 10 | Matteo Carrara | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. |
General Classication
| 1 | Filippo Pozzato | TEAM KATUSHA | 7h42'59 | | 2 | Luis León Sánchez | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | s.t. | | 3 | Alessandro Ballan | LAMPRE - N.G.C | + 4 | | 4 | Marco Marcato | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | + 23 | | 5 | Claudio Corioni | LIQUIGAS | + 24 | | 6 | Enrico Gasparotto | LAMPRE - N.G.C | + 25 | | 7 | Tony Martin | TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 8 | Chris Horner | ASTANA | s.t. | | 9 | Maxim Iglinskiy | ASTANA | s.t. | | 10 | Tristan Valentin | COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE | s.t. |
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Stage 3
Unley - Victor Harbor : 136km
Terpstra, Van De Welle, Isasi, Kuschynski, Dyachenko, Barry, Krivtsov, Bandiera all join the break. At the final mountain sprint they have a lead of 2 minutes...
And with 3km to go it looks like they will make it. Dyachenko tries to move away...
But under the banner he is passed by Barry. Krivtsov is also coming up fast on his right.
Barry holds on for a win for Columbia. There are no time gaps in the end so Pozzato retains the lead.
Stage Results
| 1 | Michael Barry | TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGH ROAD | 3h18'16 | | 2 | Yuriy Krivtsov | AG2R LA MONDIALE | s.t. | | 3 | Marco Bandiera | LAMPRE - N.G.C | s.t. | | 4 | Hilton Clarke | FUJI - SERVETTO | s.t. | | 5 | Aleksandr Kuschynski | LIQUIGAS | s.t. | | 6 | Iñaki Isasi | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | s.t. | | 7 | Niki Terpstra | TEAM MILRAM | s.t. | | 8 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 9 | Leonardo Duque | COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE | s.t. | | 10 | Borut Bozic | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | Filippo Pozzato | TEAM KATUSHA | 11h01'15 | | 2 | Luis León Sánchez | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | s.t. | | 3 | Alessandro Ballan | LAMPRE - N.G.C | + 4 | | 4 | Marco Marcato | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | + 23 | | 5 | Claudio Corioni | LIQUIGAS | + 24 | | 6 | Enrico Gasparotto | LAMPRE - N.G.C | + 25 | | 7 | Tony Martin | TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 8 | Reinier Honig | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 9 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R LA MONDIALE | s.t. | | 10 | Manuele Mori | LAMPRE - N.G.C | s.t. |
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Stage 4
Burnside Village - Angaston : 143km
Bernuci, Hulsmans, Sentjens and Sebastien Chavanel are in the break today. They are caught with 12km to go.
At the 3km mark young Boassan Hagen has pulled away a little from the peleton, can he hold on?
Unfortunately not as Duque goes past.. Pozzato and Ballan are lurking...
Duque holds off the others with a powerful sprint to the line!
Stage Results
| 1 | Leonardo Duque | COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE | 3h28'05 | | 2 | Filippo Pozzato | TEAM KATUSHA | s.t. | | 3 | Alessandro Ballan | LAMPRE - N.G.C | s.t. | | 4 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 5 | Simon Gerrans | CERVELO TEST TEAM | s.t. | | 6 | Baden Cooke | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 7 | Matthew Goss | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | 8 | Marcus Ljungqvist | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | 9 | Marco Marcato | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 10 | Antonio Colom | TEAM KATUSHA | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | Filippo Pozzato | TEAM KATUSHA | 14h29'16 | | 2 | Luis León Sánchez | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | + 4 | | 3 | Alessandro Ballan | LAMPRE - N.G.C | + 6 | | 4 | Marco Marcato | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | + 27 | | 5 | Claudio Corioni | LIQUIGAS | + 28 | | 6 | Enrico Gasparotto | LAMPRE - N.G.C | + 29 | | 7 | Tony Martin | TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 8 | Reinier Honig | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 9 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R LA MONDIALE | s.t. | | 10 | Mickael Buffaz | COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE | s.t. |
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Stage 5
Snapper Point - Willunga : 148km
Today we could see attacks on the final mountain to decide the G.C... can Pozzato hold onto his race lead?
On the first climb Duran, Wiggins and Scheirlinckx make hopeful attacks. The two breakaway riders, Perez and Hammond, are 2 minutes up the road.
Simon Gerrans is the first man to attack on the last climb. The likes of Chris Horner, Roche and Voeckler counter.
Most of these attacks don't succeed. But 20km from the finish, it is Jufre, Pineau, Bertolini, Txurruka and Marcato have a little less than a minute on the Caisse-led peloton.
16km from the finish and Spartacus (29 seconds back in GC) has a dig... this could be dangerous for Pozzato.
9km from the finish, Marcato, Cancellara, Jufre and Txurruka have 40 seconds. Marcato has 2 seconds on all the others in the GC.
Langeveld makes a late attack and somehow flies across to the front group who now look certain to make it...
Cancellara powers past the others to take the victory and from the looks of it he wins the TDU in the process with just a flat criterium tommorow.
Stage Results
| 1 | Fabian Cancellara | TEAM SAXO BANK | 3h39'08 | | 2 | Amets Txurruka | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | s.t. | | 3 | Sebastian Langeveld | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 4 | Josep Jufre | FUJI - SERVETTO | s.t. | | 5 | Marco Marcato | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 6 | Luis León Sánchez | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | + 29 | | 7 | Antonio Colom | TEAM KATUSHA | + 45 | | 8 | Rubens Bertogliati | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | s.t. | | 9 | Benjamin Noval | ASTANA | s.t. | | 10 | Iñigo Landaluze | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | Fabian Cancellara | TEAM SAXO BANK | 18h08'47 | | 2 | Amets Txurruka | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | + 2 | | 3 | Marco Marcato | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | + 4 | | 4 | Sebastian Langeveld | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 5 | Josep Jufre | FUJI - SERVETTO | + 6 | | 6 | Luis León Sánchez | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | + 10 | | 7 | Filippo Pozzato | TEAM KATUSHA | + 22 | | 8 | Alessandro Ballan | LAMPRE - N.G.C | + 28 | | 9 | Claudio Corioni | LIQUIGAS | + 50 | | 10 | Tony Martin | TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGH ROAD | + 51 |
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I really thought Pozzato would make it, he won the TdU in two of my savegames so I guess it's a race that suits him... Still, good ride from the escapees.
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Stage 6
The flat criterium through Adelaide was won in a sprint by Oscar Freire after Isasi was caught within the last couple of kilometres. The win also gives Freire the sprints classification.
Stage Results
| 1 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | 2h05'33 | | 2 | Borut Bozic | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 3 | Assan Bazayev | ASTANA | s.t. | | 4 | Robert Förster | TEAM MILRAM | s.t. | | 5 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R LA MONDIALE | s.t. | | 6 | Reinier Honig | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 7 | Alberto Loddo | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | s.t. | | 8 | Danilo Napolitano | TEAM KATUSHA | s.t. | | 9 | Matthew Goss | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | 10 | Leonardo Duque | COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | Fabian Cancellara | TEAM SAXO BANK | 20h14'20 | | 2 | Amets Txurruka | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | + 2 | | 3 | Marco Marcato | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | + 4 | | 4 | Sebastian Langeveld | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 5 | Josep Jufre | FUJI - SERVETTO | + 6 | | 6 | Luis León Sánchez | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | + 10 | | 7 | Filippo Pozzato | TEAM KATUSHA | + 22 | | 8 | Alessandro Ballan | LAMPRE - N.G.C | + 28 | | 9 | Claudio Corioni | LIQUIGAS | + 50 | | 10 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R LA MONDIALE | + 51 |
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| 1 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | 79 | | 2 | Filippo Pozzato | TEAM KATUSHA | 78 | | 3 | Marco Marcato | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | 71 | | 4 | Leonardo Duque | COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE | 64 | | 5 | Alessandro Ballan | LAMPRE - N.G.C | 50 |
 Mountain
| 1 | Michael Barry | TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGH ROAD | 4 | | 2 | Claudio Corioni | LIQUIGAS | 2 | | 3 | Samuel Dumoulin | COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE | 2 | | 4 | Simon Gerrans | CERVELO TEST TEAM | 2 | | 5 | Sébastien Chavanel | FRANÇAISE DES JEUX | 2 |
 Young Riders
| 1 | Marco Marcato | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | 20h14'24 | | 2 | Sebastian Langeveld | RABOBANK | + 0 | | 3 | Tony Martin | TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGH ROAD | + 47 |
Teams
| 1 | RABOBANK | 60h44'29 | | 2 | FUJI - SERVETTO | + 19 | | 3 | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | + 19 |
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National Championships
 Luxembourg Time Trial: Kim Kirchen
Luxembourg Road Race: Benoit Joachim |
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This year the Tour of Luxembourg has been moved up to the World Tour and has been shunted back to February to link the early season to the bigger stage races... The race is somewhat hilly, starting with a prologue, although the route stays fairly low-lying throughout.
Favourites include Juan Jose Cobo, Carlos Barredo and Chris Horner.
Startlist:
Spoiler FUJI
1. J.Cobo
2. J.BenÃtez
3. E.Capecchi
4. D.De la Fuente
5. F.Piemontesi
6. R.Serrano
7. B.Shpilevsky
8. D.Vigano
QUICK STEP
11. C.Barredo
12. D.Cataldo
13. D.Cornu
14. D.Devenyns
15. K.Hovelynck
16. F.Reda
17. M.Tosatto
18. M.Velo
ASTANA
21. C.Horner
22. A.Bazayev
23. M.Iglinskiy
24. R.Kireyev
25. D.Muravyev
26. B.Noval
27. B.Raimbekov
28. M.Schär
C.EPARGNE
31. J.Gutierrez
32. R.Costa
33. A.Coyot
34. M.Drujon
35. I.Erviti
36. J.GarcÃa
37. N.Portal
38. F.Pérez
LAMPRE
41. E.Gasparotto
42. M.Bandiera
43. A.Furlan
44. F.Gavazzi
45. D.Loosli
46. M.Mori
47. S.Ponzi
48. M.Sapa
CERVELO
51. S.Gerrans
52. R.Hammond
53. A.Klier
54. B.Lancaster
55. G.Rasch
56. D.Rollin
57. H.Roulston
58. M.Wyss
GARMIN
61. R.Hesjedal
62. T.Dekker
63. H.Duyn
64. M.Friedman
65. D.Martin
66. D.Pate
67. S.Tuft
68. B.Wiggins
KATUSHA
71. P.Brutt
72. K.Dehaes
73. N.Eskov
74. D.Galimzyanov
75. M.Ignatiev
76. G.Mikhailov
77. A.Serov
78. S.Vandenbergh
VACANSOLEIL
81. M.Carrara
82. B.Bozic
83. B.Cooke
84. W.De Vocht
85. R.Honig
86. J.Hoogerland
87. B.Leukemans
88. M.Marcato
SAXO BANK
91. N.Sørensen
92. L.Bak
93. J.Bellis
94. L.Bøchman
95. M.Goss
96. D.Klemme
97. J.McCartney
98. A.Rasmussen
BBOX
101. L.Lefèvre
102. Y.Arashiro
103. G.Bernaudeau
104. P.Fédrigo
105. S.Haddou
106. A.Pichot
107. M.Sprick
108. S.Turgot
AG2R
111. N.Roche
112. M.Elmiger
113. S.Hinault
114. Y.Krivtsov
115. L.Mondory
116. A.Pliuschin
117. S.Poulhies
118. C.Riblon
COLUMBIA
121. E.Boasson Hagen
122. M.Barry
123. G.Dockx
124. B.Grabsch
125. T.Martin
126. F.Rabon
127. V.Reynès
128. M.Sieberg
MILRAM
131. P.Velits
132. L.Barla
133. T.Fothen
134. C.Kux
135. B.Schröder
136. W.Stroetinga
137. N.Terpstra
138. P.Voss
EUSKALTEL
141. E.Martinez
142. I.Anton
143. J.Aramendia
144. J.Azanza
145. A.Galdós
146. I.Landaluze
147. R.Pérez
148. A.Pérez
RABOBANK
151. P.Martens
152. L.Boom
153. B.De Groot
154. M.Hayman
155. P.Horrillo
156. T.Leezer
157. B.Tankink
158. M.Tjallingii
SERRAMENTI
161. A.Bertolini
162. M.Belletti
163. R.Bertogliati
164. L.Celli
165. M.Gavazzi
166. F.Ginanni
167. A.Loddo
168. E.Rigotto
F.D. JEUX
171. G.Meersman
172. S.Chavanel
173. A.Gérard
174. Y.Hutarovich
175. M.Ladagnous
176. Y.Offredo
177. J.Roy
178. W.Sulzberger
SILENCE
181. M.Lloyd
182. W.Cretskens
183. M.Delage
184. M.Elijzen
185. P.Jacobs
186. S.Lang
187. J.Roelandts
188. R.Sentjens
LPR
191. D.Pietropolli
192. L.Bernucci
193. G.Ermeti
194. R.Ferrari
195. S.Marinangeli
196. F.Negri
197. A.Ongarato
198. A.Spezialetti
LIQUIGAS
201. W.Miholjevic
202. K.Carlström
203. C.Corioni
204. M.Fischer
205. J.Guarnieri
206. A.Kuschynski
207. F.Sabatini
208. F.Willems
COFIDIS
211. M.Buffaz
212. S.Augé
213. A.Blain
214. S.Dumoulin
215. C.Kern
216. S.Minard
217. T.Valentin
218. R.Villa
ROUBAIX
221. S.Sullivan
222. F.Dressler
223. J.López
224. T.Metcalfe
225. J.Mouris
226. A.Olsen
227. G.Rovaletti
228. S.Tronet |
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Prologue
Luxembourg : 6.5km
Tony Martin came out victorious on this short but slightly hilly prologue, fending off Svein Tuft and Bradley Wiggins for the victory and leader's jersey.
 General Classification
| 1 | Tony Martin | TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGH ROAD | 6'57 | | 2 | Svein Tuft | GARMIN - SLIPSTREAM | + 1 | | 3 | Bradley Wiggins | GARMIN - SLIPSTREAM | s.t. | | 4 | Jason McCartney | TEAM SAXO BANK | + 5 | | 5 | Danny Pate | GARMIN - SLIPSTREAM | + 7 | | 6 | Sebastian Lang | SILENCE-LOTTO | + 8 | | 7 | José Iván Gutierrez | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | s.t. | | 8 | Boris Shpilevsky | FUJI - SERVETTO | + 9 | | 9 | Michiel Elijzen | SILENCE-LOTTO | s.t. | | 10 | Ryder Hesjedal | GARMIN - SLIPSTREAM | + 10 |
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Stage 2
Luxembourg - Mondorf : 174.4km
13 riders joined the break today.
There is a massive amount of attacks in the final 20km. This included the likes of Gerrans and Horner.
Heading into the finish, there is a big group of 22 at the front. This includes Sorensen, Horner, Fedrigo, Gerrans, Gasparotto and Cobo. Martin is further back.
Sorensen ended up leading them all the way to the line ahead of Horner and Iglinsky - I've no idea how he managed to get into all three of those screenshots 
Stage Results
| 1 | Nicki Sørensen | TEAM SAXO BANK | 4h00'00 | | 2 | Chris Horner | ASTANA | s.t. | | 3 | Maxim Iglinskiy | ASTANA | s.t. | | 4 | Lars Ytting Bak | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | 5 | Pierrick Fédrigo | BBOX - BOUYGUES TELECOM | s.t. | | 6 | Frederik Willems | LIQUIGAS | s.t. | | 7 | Simon Gerrans | CERVELO TEST TEAM | s.t. | | 8 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R LA MONDIALE | s.t. | | 9 | Matteo Carrara | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 10 | Maarten Tjallingii | RABOBANK | s.t. |
Sorensen also takes the leader's jersey from Martin.
General Classification
| 1 | Nicki Sørensen | TEAM SAXO BANK | 4h06'59 | | 2 | Chris Horner | ASTANA | + 6 | | 3 | Lars Ytting Bak | TEAM SAXO BANK | + 11 | | 4 | Arnaud Coyot | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | s.t. | | 5 | Maarten Tjallingii | RABOBANK | + 12 | | 6 | Rubens Bertogliati | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | + 13 | | 7 | Egoi Martinez | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | s.t. | | 8 | Maxim Iglinskiy | ASTANA | s.t. | | 9 | Enrico Gasparotto | LAMPRE - N.G.C | + 15 | | 10 | Juan José Cobo | FUJI - SERVETTO | + 18 |
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Stage 3
Schifflange - Differdange :187.4km
The early attacks fail to succeed. Midway through the stage Sieberg, Capecchi, Hoogerland and Tankink escape but are caught at the 15km mark.
Boasson Hagen set Reynes up perfectly but in the end it was Pichot who took a closely contested sprint for BBOX.
Stage Results
| 1 | Alexandre Pichot | BBOX - BOUYGUES TELECOM | 4h29'37 | | 2 | Enrico Gasparotto | LAMPRE - N.G.C | s.t. | | 3 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R LA MONDIALE | s.t. | | 4 | Simon Gerrans | CERVELO TEST TEAM | s.t. | | 5 | Reinier Honig | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 6 | Vicente Reynès | TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 7 | Murilo Fischer | LIQUIGAS | s.t. | | 8 | Matthew Goss | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | 9 | Daniele Pietropolli | LPR BRAKES FARNESE VINI | s.t. | | 10 | Borut Bozic | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | Nicki Sørensen | TEAM SAXO BANK | 8h36'36 | | 2 | Chris Horner | ASTANA | + 6 | | 3 | Enrico Gasparotto | LAMPRE - N.G.C | + 9 | | 4 | Lars Ytting Bak | TEAM SAXO BANK | + 11 | | 5 | Arnaud Coyot | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | s.t. | | 6 | Maarten Tjallingii | RABOBANK | + 12 | | 7 | Maxim Iglinskiy | ASTANA | + 13 | | 8 | Egoi Martinez | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | s.t. | | 9 | Rubens Bertogliati | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | s.t. | | 10 | Juan José Cobo | FUJI - SERVETTO | + 18 |
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Stage 4
Wiltz - Diekirch : 155.4km
The penultimate stage is probably the best chance for someone to challenge Sorensen's jersey... let's see what happens.
On the penultimate climb Fedrigo and Martinez attack. The yellow jersey decides to respond. Many others counter Sorensen whilst Cobo, Roche and Barredo respond on the descent.
The peleton ends up swallowing up all of these attackers at the final mountain sprint except Capecchi. However up the road things are looking good for the day's break - Boom and Miholjevic have decided to go solo and have 2 minutes on the peleton.
On the descent, Gasparotto slips away from the peleton and makes his way up to Capecchi. He has a 30 second advantage with 9km to ride... if he holds on he could take the leader's jersey.
At the finish line, Miholjevic darts away from Boom to take the stage victory, but what is happening further down the road..?
Gasparotto comes across the line 1'40 later and it looks like he has taken over the race leadership.
But in a turn of events, it turned out whilst I was so busy concentrating on what was going on behind, the break had made enough time from the peleton: the new race leader - Wladimir Miholjevic!
Stage Results
| 1 | Wladimir Miholjevic | LIQUIGAS | 3h44'35 | | 2 | Lars Boom | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 3 | Matteo Tosatto | QUICK STEP | + 58 | | 4 | Rubén Pérez | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | s.t. | | 5 | Johnny Hoogerland | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 6 | Mathieu Ladagnous | FRANÇAISE DES JEUX | s.t. | | 7 | Sergio Marinangeli | LPR BRAKES FARNESE VINI | s.t. | | 8 | Luca Celli | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | s.t. | | 9 | Enrico Gasparotto | LAMPRE - N.G.C | + 1'40 | | 10 | Mickael Delage | SILENCE-LOTTO | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | Wladimir Miholjevic | LIQUIGAS | 12h22'37 | | 2 | Nicki Sørensen | TEAM SAXO BANK | + 14 | | 3 | Chris Horner | ASTANA | + 20 | | 4 | Enrico Gasparotto | LAMPRE - N.G.C | + 23 | | 5 | Lars Ytting Bak | TEAM SAXO BANK | + 25 | | 6 | Arnaud Coyot | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | s.t. | | 7 | Maarten Tjallingii | RABOBANK | + 26 | | 8 | Egoi Martinez | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | + 27 | | 9 | Rubens Bertogliati | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | s.t. | | 10 | Maxim Iglinskiy | ASTANA | s.t. |
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Stage 5
Mersch - Luxembourg : 95.4km
Any rider wanting to steal the overall win from Miholjevic will have to attack on this final short stage although the terrain doesn't favour any attackers as much as they might like...
20km from the finish Martinez attacks and prompts a response from Tjallingi and Cobo. The leading group of escapees have over 2 minutes.
Quite a few riders attack on the final climb, unsurprisingly, such as Gutierrez and Sorensen.
Things start to get messy at the front and the yellow jersey decides to take matters into his own hands. With 5km to go it is looks like it is Kern from the break who is in the provisional lead. Liquigas may be about to get a taste of their own medicine.
Barry takes the sprint out of the 14 man break (his second WT sprint victory of the season). But is it someone from the break or someone further down the road who will claim overall victory?
A disappointed Miholjevic crosses the line with the peleton... over 3 minutes after the break! Post-race results suggest the victory has gone to Danny Pate from the break after Liquigas' shambolic chase.
Stage Results
| 1 | Michael Barry | TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGH ROAD | 2h12'48 | | 2 | Dries Devenyns | QUICK STEP | s.t. | | 3 | Paul Martens | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 4 | Daniele Pietropolli | LPR BRAKES FARNESE VINI | s.t. | | 5 | Danny Pate | GARMIN - SLIPSTREAM | s.t. | | 6 | Ricardo Serrano | FUJI - SERVETTO | s.t. | | 7 | Johnny Hoogerland | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | 8 | Massimilliano Mori | LAMPRE - N.G.C | s.t. | | 9 | Francesco Ginanni | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | s.t. | | 10 | Iñigo Landaluze | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | s.t. |
It turns out that the final top 10 ended up being compromised purely from that breakaway. Well, attackers often have a tough life but today was an example of why they should never give up.
General Classification
| 1 | Danny Pate | GARMIN - SLIPSTREAM | 14h36'47 | | 2 | Paul Martens | RABOBANK | + 4 | | 3 | Dries Devenyns | QUICK STEP | + 6 | | 4 | Michael Barry | TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGH ROAD | + 8 | | 5 | Christophe Kern | COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE | + 14 | | 6 | Elia Rigotto | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | + 17 | | 7 | Massimilliano Mori | LAMPRE - N.G.C | s.t. | | 8 | Daniele Pietropolli | LPR BRAKES FARNESE VINI | + 24 | | 9 | Iñigo Landaluze | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | + 26 | | 10 | Francesco Ginanni | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | s.t. |
 Points
| 1 | Enrico Gasparotto | LAMPRE - N.G.C | 40 | | 2 | Johnny Hoogerland | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | 35 | | 3 | Danny Pate | GARMIN - SLIPSTREAM | 32 | | 4 | Simon Gerrans | CERVELO TEST TEAM | 31 | | 5 | Nicki Sørensen | TEAM SAXO BANK | 30 |
Mountain
| 1 | Johnny Hoogerland | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | 10 | | 2 | Lars Boom | RABOBANK | 9 | | 3 | Pieter Jacobs | SILENCE-LOTTO | 8 | | 4 | Iñigo Landaluze | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | 8 | | 5 | Sergio Marinangeli | LPR BRAKES FARNESE VINI | 7 |
Young Riders
| 1 | Francesco Ginanni | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | 14h37'13 | | 2 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R LA MONDIALE | + 1'02 | | 3 | Pieter Jacobs | SILENCE-LOTTO | + 1'06 |
Teams
| 1 | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | 43h50'07 | | 2 | RABOBANK | + 52 | | 3 | SILENCE-LOTTO | + 1'41 |
The race turned out to be an interesting change to the norm but I think that as a whole next year it will probably return to the Continental tour, and I'll try to make some better calendar adjustments next season instead.
Next Race
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