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| mpardo |
Posted on 04-01-2012 09:08
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Stage 4: Naleczow – Rzeszow
Stage 4 is flat again, just in case you hadn’t had enough of it. If Tyler Farrar keeps wining, he’s going to have so many bonus seconds that he may win the GC at the end of the week.
A group of eight riders had an advantage of 8’ 50’’ on the main group with 120 kilometres to go, including: Daniele Bennati (Quickstep), Vasili Kiryenka (Liquigas), Luis León Sánchez (Euskaltel) and John Degenkolb (Leopard).
The peloton was very strong once again and reeled the break back in with 28 kilometres to go. It was a matter of who was the fastest to the line now.
The main sprinters were better positioned today, with Tyler Farrar, Alexandre Vinokourov, Jakob Fuglsang and Peter Sagan really close
Jakob Fuglsang wins in Rzeszow! The Danish rider beats Tyler Farrar to grab his first win of the season. A good win for a much needed Leopard team that hasn’t found its way yet this season.
Meanwhile, Farrar keeps increasing his lead in the GC, now up to 32 seconds on most of the favourites. The sprinter will probably suffer on the next stages, but the hills are not that hard and maybe he can keep up.
Today's Winner
Stage Results
| 1 | Jakob Fuglsang | LEOPARD TREK | 5h57'40 | | 2 | Tyler Farrar | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | s.t. | | 3 | Peter Sagan | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | s.t. | | 4 | Alexandre Vinokourov | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 5 | Simone Ponzi | QUICKSTEP | s.t. | | 6 | Francisco Ventoso | LAMPRE - ISD | s.t. | | 7 | Peter Kennaugh | SKY PROCYCLING | s.t. | | 8 | André Greipel | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 9 | Simon Gerrans | QUICKSTEP | s.t. | | 10 | Lloyd Mondory | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | Tyler Farrar | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | 18h27'10 | | 2 | Jakob Fuglsang | LEOPARD TREK | + 22 | | 3 | Alexandre Vinokourov | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 4 | Francisco Ventoso | LAMPRE - ISD | + 26 | | 5 | André Greipel | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 6 | Peter Sagan | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | + 28 | | 7 | Tony Martin | HTC - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 8 | Levi Leipheimer | TEAM RADIOSHACK | s.t. | | 9 | Marco Pinotti | LEOPARD TREK | + 29 | | 10 | Steven Kruijswijk | RABOBANK | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Tyler Farrar | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | 90 | | 2 | Alexandre Vinokourov | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 54 | | 3 | Jakob Fuglsang | LEOPARD TREK | 53 | | 4 | Peter Sagan | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | 49 | | 5 | Francisco Ventoso | LAMPRE - ISD | 42 |
Mountain
| 1 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | 6 | | 2 | Fabian Cancellara | LEOPARD TREK | 4 | | 3 | Tom Danielson | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | 2 | | 4 | Yoann Offredo | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 1 |
Young
| 1 | Tejay Van Garderen | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 18h27'42 | | 2 | Giovanni Visconti | LAMPRE - ISD | s.t. | | 3 | Alexander Kristoff | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 4 | Denis Menchov | HTC - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 5 | Rui Da Costa | TEAM RADIOSHACK | s.t. |
Teams
| 1 | BMC RACING TEAM | 55h23'06 | | 2 | SKY PROCYCLING | s.t. | | 3 | QUICKSTEP | s.t. | | 4 | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | s.t. | | 5 | RABOBANK | s.t. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 04-01-2012 10:16
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Nice sprinting from Fuglsang |
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| mpardo |
Posted on 06-01-2012 18:54
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Stage 5: Strzyzow - Krynica-Zdroj
The fifth is the first stage for the riders that want to fight for the overall win. The stage has two very different parts. The first half is really flat again, but the riders will have to face 9 hills in the last 70 kilometres. The last part is a circuit with 2 hills that will be gone through almost four times.
The four riders in today’s break were 5’ 35’’ ahead of the pack at the start of the first climb. They were Alessandro Petacchi (BMC), Damiano Cunego (Lampre), Jose Rujano (Rabobank) and Bradley Wiggins (Sky).
There was some fight in the peloton for the mountain jersey, but the four men in front were taking so many points that had the top positions guaranteed. Meanwhile, the pack was having a hard time closing the gap to the break and in the fifth hill (35 km to go) the gap was 1’ 45’’.
Bradley Wiggins lost contact with the break in the following lap. The British was losing 55 seconds and the peloton was 1’ 30’’ back.
Some teams weren’t keen on the break succeeding and pulled hard on the last lap. By the time they crowned the last hill, some attacking men from the peloton were about to make contact with them. Among those were Dries Devenyns, Oscar Freire and José JoaquÃn Rojas.
Rojas was the strongest attacker and he entered the last kilometre with a few metres on his fellow Spaniard Oscar Freire. They had a gap big enough to fight for the win.
José JoaquÃn Rojas wins in Krynica-Zdroj! First win of the season for the Spaniard who had to sprint hard to beat a charging Freire. The two of them arrived with an advantage of 35 seconds on the pack, which means that Rojas is now the leader, 4 seconds ahead of Freire and 13 seconds ahead of Farrar.
The men of the break had a good day even though they couldn’t make it to the finish. As a reward, Petacchi is the mountain leader and Rujano is the best youngster thanks to 1 bonus second. Tomorrow’s stage is a continuous up and down of hills, so we should have an entertaining stage.
Today's Winner
Stage Results
| 1 | José Joaquin Rojas | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | 4h24'27 | | 2 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 3 | Grégory Rast | TEAM RADIOSHACK | + 35 | | 4 | Tom Danielson | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | s.t. | | 5 | Rein Taaramae | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 6 | Tyler Farrar | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | s.t. | | 7 | Lloyd Mondory | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | s.t. | | 8 | Mikel Nieve | BMC RACING TEAM | s.t. | | 9 | Oliver Zaugg | BMC RACING TEAM | s.t. | | 10 | Xavier Tondo | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | José Joaquin Rojas | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | 22h51'59 | | 2 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | + 4 | | 3 | Tyler Farrar | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | + 13 | | 4 | Jakob Fuglsang | LEOPARD TREK | + 35 | | 5 | Alexandre Vinokourov | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 6 | Francisco Ventoso | LAMPRE - ISD | + 39 | | 7 | André Greipel | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 8 | Peter Sagan | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | + 41 | | 9 | Levi Leipheimer | TEAM RADIOSHACK | s.t. | | 10 | Tony Martin | HTC - HIGH ROAD | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Tyler Farrar | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | 100 | | 2 | Alexandre Vinokourov | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 54 | | 3 | Jakob Fuglsang | LEOPARD TREK | 53 | | 4 | Peter Sagan | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | 49 | | 5 | Francisco Ventoso | LAMPRE - ISD | 44 |
Mountain
| 1 | Alessandro Petacchi | BMC RACING TEAM | 100 | | 2 | Damiano Cunego | LAMPRE - ISD | 93 | | 3 | Jose Rujano | RABOBANK | 73 | | 4 | Bradley Wiggins | SKY PROCYCLING | 53 | | 5 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | 32 |
Young
| 1 | Jose Rujano | RABOBANK | 22h52'43 | | 2 | Tejay Van Garderen | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 1 | | 3 | Alexander Kristoff | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 4 | Giovanni Visconti | LAMPRE - ISD | s.t. | | 5 | Denis Menchov | HTC - HIGH ROAD | s.t. |
Teams
| 1 | RABOBANK | 68h37'37 | | 2 | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 3 | BMC RACING TEAM | + 35 | | 4 | SKY PROCYCLING | s.t. | | 5 | QUICKSTEP | s.t. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 06-01-2012 23:54
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Nice win for Rojas |
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Posted on 07-01-2012 00:15
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One of the more intresting stories i have ever read and it's quite fun to see how the racing is unfolding  |
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Posted on 09-01-2012 13:43
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jt1109 wrote:
One of the more intresting stories i have ever read and it's quite fun to see how the racing is unfolding
Thanks for the support!
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Stage 6: Kroscienko nad Dunajcem - Zakopane
The sixth is the most decisive stage in the Tour of Poland. It is another circuit with two consecutive climbs that suits the riders who do well in the hills. The GC is very packed, so there are a lot of riders with chances to progress.
Today’s break was made of 7 riders; among them were Andres Kloden (Radioshack), Alessandro Ballan (Liquigas), Simone Ponzi (Quickstep) and Daniel Martin (Garmin). In the second climb, with 110 km to go, they were 4 minutes ahead of the peloton.
In the fourth climb two important riders broke away from the peloton: David López and Thor Hushovd. At the top of that climb they were 1’ 40’’ behind the first group and 50’’ ahead of the pack.
The break of the duo didn’t last more than a lap to the circuit, as they were too dangerous. At the top of the eighth climb, with 33 km to go, the gap of the front group was down to 1’ 25’’.
At the start of the last climb Daniel Martin, Andreas Kloden and Tiago Machado have 40’’ on a fast approaching peloton.
The peloton caught the break in the climb, but as soon as that happened Thor Hushovd and Dries Devenyns launched a hard attack. They were able to crown the hill with 20 seconds on the pack.
Hushovd and Devenyns were able to maintain a small lead and were able to fight for the stage victory and maybe for the yellow jersey.
Thor Hushovd wins in Zakopane! The Norwegian was feeling really strong today, as he was the rider that tried to break the race earlier. He easily outsprinted Devenyns, who never seemed able to overtake in the sprint.
The peloton crossed the line 29 seconds behind, and that means that Jose Joaquin Rojas keeps the yellow ahead of the last stage. Hushovd climbs to third 6 seconds behind and Devenyns to fourth 10 seconds back. This means that the bonus seconds could play a role in the last stage, with 3 sprints and the finish.
Today's Winner
Stage Results
| 1 | Thor Hushovd | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 5h00'18 | | 2 | Dries Devenyns | QUICKSTEP | s.t. | | 3 | Jelle Vanendert | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | + 29 | | 4 | Wout Poels | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 5 | Alberto Contador | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | s.t. | | 6 | Janez Brajkovic | TEAM RADIOSHACK | s.t. | | 7 | José Joaquin Rojas | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 8 | Rein Taaramae | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 9 | Hubert Dupont | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | s.t. | | 10 | Alexandre Vinokourov | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | José Joaquin Rojas | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | 27h52'46 | | 2 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | + 4 | | 3 | Thor Hushovd | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 6 | | 4 | Dries Devenyns | QUICKSTEP | + 10 | | 5 | Tyler Farrar | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | + 13 | | 6 | Alexandre Vinokourov | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 35 | | 7 | Jakob Fuglsang | LEOPARD TREK | s.t. | | 8 | Francisco Ventoso | LAMPRE - ISD | + 39 | | 9 | André Greipel | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 10 | Grégory Rast | TEAM RADIOSHACK | + 41 |
Points
| 1 | Tyler Farrar | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | 100 | | 2 | Alexandre Vinokourov | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 60 | | 3 | Jakob Fuglsang | LEOPARD TREK | 53 | | 4 | Peter Sagan | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | 49 | | 5 | Francisco Ventoso | LAMPRE - ISD | 44 |
Mountain
| 1 | Alessandro Petacchi | BMC RACING TEAM | 106 | | 2 | Daniel Martin | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 97 | | 3 | Damiano Cunego | LAMPRE - ISD | 95 | | 4 | Simone Ponzi | QUICKSTEP | 91 | | 5 | Tiago Machado | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | 88 |
Young
| 1 | Jose Rujano | RABOBANK | 27h53'30 | | 2 | Rob Ruijgh | RABOBANK | + 1 | | 3 | Denis Menchov | HTC - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 4 | Giovanni Visconti | LAMPRE - ISD | s.t. | | 5 | Tejay Van Garderen | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. |
Teams
| 1 | RABOBANK | 83h39'58 | | 2 | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 3 | QUICKSTEP | + 6 | | 4 | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 5 | SKY PROCYCLING | + 35 |
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| mpardo |
Posted on 09-01-2012 17:00
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Stage 7: Rabka Zdroj – Krakow
What could have been a walk in the park for the leader of the Tour de Pologne becomes a difficult fight for bonus seconds in the last stage in Poland. The stage has no thrests but the three sprints and the finish, so Omega Pharma Lotto should let a break go through the sprints.
A break did get away that took out all the bonus seconds on the first three sprints. They were John Gadret (Sky), Cameron Meyer (Quickstep), Michael Albasini (BMC) and Laurens Ten Dam (Euskaltel). They had a maximum gap of 5 minutes on the first sprint.
The break ends with 22 km to go. Rojas seems more or less safe with the seconds he has in hand, but Farrar could make a push for second overall if he is able to win the third stage in Poland.
Beñat Intxausti ahead of Farrar, Vinokourov and Thor Hushovd in the final sprint. The Norwegian wants to win the Tour of Poland on the bonus seconds!
Tyler Farrar wins in Krakow! The American shows who’s the best sprinter and grabs his sixth win of the season. He cannot jump to second overall though, as Thor Hushovd comes third and takes the second overall with Farrar third and Freire fourth. Rojas is the overall winner in Poland, making good the few seconds that he got in a break alongside Freire in the fifth stage.
Tyler Farrar is closing in Vinokourov in the UCI World Tour rankings, as both sprinters are only 20 points apart. Meanwhile, Devenyns has improved to 3rd, Hushovd to 5th and Rojas to 8th.
Today's Winner
Stage Results
| 1 | Tyler Farrar | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | 3h41'59 | | 2 | Alexandre Vinokourov | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 3 | Thor Hushovd | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 4 | Francisco Ventoso | LAMPRE - ISD | s.t. | | 5 | Simon Gerrans | QUICKSTEP | s.t. | | 6 | Beñat Intxausti | TEAM RADIOSHACK | s.t. | | 7 | Peter Kennaugh | SKY PROCYCLING | s.t. | | 8 | Peter Sagan | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | s.t. | | 9 | Jakob Fuglsang | LEOPARD TREK | s.t. | | 10 | Tony Martin | HTC - HIGH ROAD | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | José Joaquin Rojas | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | 31h34'45 | | 2 | Thor Hushovd | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 2 | | 3 | Tyler Farrar | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | + 3 | | 4 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | + 4 | | 5 | Dries Devenyns | QUICKSTEP | + 10 | | 6 | Alexandre Vinokourov | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 29 | | 7 | Jakob Fuglsang | LEOPARD TREK | + 35 | | 8 | Francisco Ventoso | LAMPRE - ISD | + 39 | | 9 | André Greipel | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 10 | Grégory Rast | TEAM RADIOSHACK | + 41 |
Points
| 1 | Tyler Farrar | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | 125 | | 2 | Alexandre Vinokourov | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 80 | | 3 | Jakob Fuglsang | LEOPARD TREK | 60 | | 4 | Francisco Ventoso | LAMPRE - ISD | 58 | | 5 | Peter Sagan | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | 57 |
Mountain
| 1 | Alessandro Petacchi | BMC RACING TEAM | 106 | | 2 | Daniel Martin | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 97 | | 3 | Damiano Cunego | LAMPRE - ISD | 95 | | 4 | Simone Ponzi | QUICKSTEP | 91 | | 5 | Tiago Machado | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | 88 |
Young
| 1 | Jose Rujano | RABOBANK | 31h35'29 | | 2 | Rob Ruijgh | RABOBANK | + 1 | | 3 | Oliver Zaugg | BMC RACING TEAM | s.t. | | 4 | Denis Menchov | HTC - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 5 | Giovanni Visconti | LAMPRE - ISD | s.t. |
Teams
| 1 | RABOBANK | 94h45'55 | | 2 | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 3 | QUICKSTEP | + 6 | | 4 | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 5 | SKY PROCYCLING | + 35 |
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| mpardo |
Posted on 10-01-2012 10:09
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UCI World Tour rankings riders (after Tour de Pologne)
| 1 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Garmin | 321.11 | | 2 | Tyler Farrar | Saxo Bank | 301.33 | | 3 | Dries Devenyns | Quickstep | 212.55 | | 4 | Janez Brajkovic | Radioshack | 194.55 | | 5 | Thor Hushovd | Garmin | 184.11 | | 6 | Pieter Weening | HTC | 181 | | 7 | Marco Marcato | Liquigas | 173.22 | | 8 | José Joaquin Rojas | Omega | 165.77 | | 9 | Filippo Pozzato | Lampre | 162.11 | | 10 | Xavier Tondo | Euskaltel | 136.77 | | 11 | Francisco Ventoso | Lampre | 123.11 | | 12 | Peter Kennaugh | Sky | 121 | | 13 | André Greipel | Omega | 108.77 | | 14 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas | 105.22 | | 15 | Mikel Nieve | BMC | 104 |
UCI World Tour rankings teams (after Tour de Pologne)
| 1 | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 547 | | 2 | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | 516 | | 3 | LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE | 459 | | 4 | TEAM RADIOSHACK | 379 | | 5 | LAMPRE - ISD | 360 | | 6 | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | 326 | | 7 | QUICKSTEP | 277 | | 8 | BMC RACING TEAM | 241 | | 9 | LEOPARD TREK | 219 | | 10 | HTC-HIGHROAD | 217 |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-01-2012 15:02
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Farrar on fire at the moment |
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| mpardo |
Posted on 10-01-2012 16:09
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With barely any rest, the Eneco Tour starts 2 days after the end of the Tour of Poland. We will be racing in the road of Belgium and the Netherlands, so no big mountains but many small hills and cobbled sections. The race will also have two time trials, in Amersfoort and Roermond. Although they are not long, the time trialists will have a good chance, as they can have a good gap on those stages.
Favourites:
- Oscar Freire (Rabobank): The Rabobank leader has all the skills needed to win at home. He is good on hills, cobbles and in time trials. Besides, he will have all the support from the local fans.
- Rigoberto Uran (Sky): The Colombian has been very unfortunate this season, with falls in Tirreno and Poland. He is a good time trialist but will suffer in the cobbled sections.
- Samuel Sánchez (Saxo Bank): The good time trial abilities of Sanchez can help him battle for the overall win in the Netherlands. If the race gets too tough on the cobbles Saxo Bank always has the option of Alberto Contador.
- Thor Hushovd (Garmin): Garmin has good chances with both Hushovd and Bozic. We pick Hushovd, as he usually gets the leading role in the team.
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Posted on 11-01-2012 12:50
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Stage 1: Amersfoort - Amersfoort (ITT)
The Eneco Tour starts with a short prologue of 6 kilometres in the city of Amersfoort. Samuel Sánchez has been the benchmark in the time trials, as he has won both in Tirreno and Romandie.
Samuel Sánchez was indeed the first to set a refernce time: 7’ 32’’. It would be hard to beat the Spaniard.
Thor Hushovd did well in the time trial, losing only 4 seconds on Sánchez’s time.
Rigoberto Uran ends Samuel Sanchez winning streak as he improves the best time to 7’ 29’’, 3 seconds better than the Spaniard.
Tom Boonen improved a lot compared to other time trials, as he set the second best time, 3 seconds behind Uran.
Oscar Freire had a good start in Amersfoort as well. He wasn’t aiming for victory, but he got a 4th when he crossed the line, 4 seconds behind.
Jelle Vanendert was the last of the favourites to be on the track and the worst of them. He could only finish 7th, 7 seconds behind.
Today's Winner
Stage Results
| 1 | Rigoberto Uran | SKY PROCYCLING | 7'29 | | 2 | Tom Boonen | HTC - HIGH ROAD | + 3 | | 3 | Samuel Sánchez | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | s.t. | | 4 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | + 4 | | 5 | Alessandro Petacchi | BMC RACING TEAM | + 7 | | 6 | Thor Hushovd | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 7 | Jelle Vanendert | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 8 | Laurens Ten Dam | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | s.t. | | 9 | Lars Ytting Bak | HTC - HIGH ROAD | + 8 | | 10 | Chris Froome | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Rigoberto Uran | SKY PROCYCLING | 25 | | 2 | Tom Boonen | HTC - HIGH ROAD | 20 | | 3 | Samuel Sánchez | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | 16 | | 4 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | 14 | | 5 | Alessandro Petacchi | BMC RACING TEAM | 12 |
Young
| 1 | Chris Froome | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 7'37 | | 2 | Pablo Lastras | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | + 1 | | 3 | Thomas Voeckler | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | s.t. | | 4 | Tejay Van Garderen | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 5 | Giovanni Visconti | LAMPRE - ISD | + 2 |
Teams
| 1 | SKY PROCYCLING | 22'43 | | 2 | HTC - HIGH ROAD | + 4 | | 3 | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | s.t. | | 4 | RABOBANK | + 6 | | 5 | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 8 |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 11-01-2012 13:10
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Never thought that Rigoberto Uran would ever win a TT, but there you go |
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Posted on 12-01-2012 08:23
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Stage 2: Oosterhout - Sint Willebrord
The second stage in Holland only has the threat of the wind. It is clearly a stage for the sprinters, as the route is completely flat.
4 riders were in the break of the day: Matthew Goss (BMC), Igor Anton (Euskaltel), Levi Leipheimer (Radioshack) and Vasili Kiryenka (Liquigas). They had 6’ 10’’ on the pack with 100 kilometres to go. The wind had not appeared, so the stage was really quiet.
The break wasn’t successful and ended with 30 kilometres to go. This left the group to fight for the last sprint, taken by Grega Bole. There were only 14 kilometres now to the finish.
Many favourites were having trouble at the sprint as the Saxo Bank train missed the head on the narrow road. Bjorn Leukemans was the first with 1 km to go, ahead of Ballan, Bozic and Van Garderen.
Borut Bozic wins in Sint Willebrord! And Chris Froome gets the 1-2 for Team Garmin. Bozic was the best positioned fast man and easily won the second stage in the Eneco Tour. It was quite a surprise from the Slovenian.
The bonus seconds allow the Garmin duo to move up in the GC, to the second and third positions. Froome extends his lead in the white jersey to 7 seconds and grabs the points classification.
Today's Winner
Stage Results
| 1 | Borut Bozic | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 4h33'00 | | 2 | Chris Froome | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 3 | Andreas Klöden | TEAM RADIOSHACK | s.t. | | 4 | Beñat Intxausti | TEAM RADIOSHACK | s.t. | | 5 | Björn Leukemans | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | s.t. | | 6 | Tejay Van Garderen | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 7 | Alessandro Ballan | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | s.t. | | 8 | George Hincapie | BMC RACING TEAM | s.t. | | 9 | Kanstantsin Sivtsov | HTC - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 10 | Chris Horner | TEAM RADIOSHACK | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | Rigoberto Uran | SKY PROCYCLING | 4h40'29 | | 2 | Borut Bozic | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 1 | | 3 | Chris Froome | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 2 | | 4 | Samuel Sánchez | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | + 3 | | 5 | Tom Boonen | HTC - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 6 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | + 4 | | 7 | Andreas Klöden | TEAM RADIOSHACK | + 5 | | 8 | Alessandro Petacchi | BMC RACING TEAM | + 7 | | 9 | Jelle Vanendert | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 10 | Thor Hushovd | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Chris Froome | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 26 | | 2 | Rigoberto Uran | SKY PROCYCLING | 25 | | 3 | Borut Bozic | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 25 | | 4 | Tom Boonen | HTC - HIGH ROAD | 20 | | 5 | Samuel Sánchez | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | 16 |
Young
| 1 | Chris Froome | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 4h40'31 | | 2 | Tejay Van Garderen | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 7 | | 3 | Pablo Lastras | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 4 | Thomas Voeckler | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | s.t. | | 5 | Bart De Clerq | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | + 8 |
Teams
| 1 | SKY PROCYCLING | 14h01'43 | | 2 | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | + 4 | | 3 | HTC - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 4 | RABOBANK | + 6 | | 5 | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 8 |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 12-01-2012 08:27
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A nice stage for Team Garmin |
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| mpardo |
Posted on 12-01-2012 15:16
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Stage 3: Aalter – Ardooie
The third stage in the Eneco Tour is also rather flat. There are a couple of cobbled sections at the start of the stage, but nothing relevant in the fight for the stage. The only threat to Uran’s lead should be the time bonuses.
After a very quiet start of the stage, a group of four riders jumped after the first sprint: Alessandro Ballan (Liquigas), Pablo Lastras (Omega), Kanstantsin Sivtsov (HTC) and Eros Capecchi (Lampre). They were 5 minutes ahead of the peloton with 95 kilometres to go.
The break was doing a good job and with 15 kilometres to go they still held a lead of 1’ 05’’ on the peloton. However, the pack was closing in very fast.
The break was finally caught with 5 km to go, but Beñat Intxausti attacks immediately, followed by Bole and Kittel. There is no reaction from the peloton and the three of them could be ahead enough to fight for the stage win.
The three of them opened a gap big enough to sprint without worrying for the peloton. Grega Bole started the sprint ahead of Intxausti.
Beñat Intxausti wins in Ardooie! He could outsprint Grega Bole in the last meters of the stage to take his first win of the season. Better than that, the judges decided to award a time gap between the three of them and the peloton, so the Spaniard will take the yellow jersey and Marcel Kittel the white one.
The gap was only 25 seconds over a pack lead by Tyler Farrar, who is looking to add to his count of victories for the season, but hasn’t had luck. Tomorrow will be a day for men stronger in the hills and cobbles, as the route has several hills.
Today's Winner
Stage Results
| 1 | Beñat Intxausti | TEAM RADIOSHACK | 4h44'48 | | 2 | Grega Bole | LAMPRE - ISD | s.t. | | 3 | Marcel Kittel | HTC - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 4 | Tyler Farrar | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | + 25 | | 5 | Carlos Barredo | RABOBANK | s.t. | | 6 | Simon Gerrans | QUICKSTEP | s.t. | | 7 | André Greipel | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 8 | Rigoberto Uran | SKY PROCYCLING | s.t. | | 9 | Christopher Sutton | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | s.t. | | 10 | Joost Van Leijen | RABOBANK | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | Beñat Intxausti | TEAM RADIOSHACK | 9h25'18 | | 2 | Grega Bole | LAMPRE - ISD | + 2 | | 3 | Marcel Kittel | HTC - HIGH ROAD | + 6 | | 4 | Rigoberto Uran | SKY PROCYCLING | + 24 | | 5 | Borut Bozic | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 25 | | 6 | Chris Froome | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 26 | | 7 | Pablo Lastras | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 8 | Samuel Sánchez | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | + 27 | | 9 | Tom Boonen | HTC - HIGH ROAD | s.t. | | 10 | Oscar Freire | RABOBANK | + 28 |
Points
| 1 | Beñat Intxausti | TEAM RADIOSHACK | 39 | | 2 | Rigoberto Uran | SKY PROCYCLING | 33 | | 3 | Borut Bozic | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 27 | | 4 | Chris Froome | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 26 | | 5 | Grega Bole | LAMPRE - ISD | 24 |
Young
| 1 | Marcel Kittel | HTC - HIGH ROAD | 9h25'24 | | 2 | Chris Froome | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 20 | | 3 | Pablo Lastras | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 4 | Tejay Van Garderen | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 27 | | 5 | Thomas Voeckler | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | s.t. |
Teams
| 1 | HTC - HIGH ROAD | 28h17'01 | | 2 | TEAM RADIOSHACK | + 7 | | 3 | LAMPRE - ISD | + 11 | | 4 | SKY PROCYCLING | + 21 | | 5 | SAXO BANK SUNGARD | + 25 |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 12-01-2012 16:48
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A shock sprint win for Intxausti |
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| mpardo |
Posted on 13-01-2012 12:04
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Stage 4: Heers - Andenne
The fourth stage could be the most decisive of the race along with the time trials. The route is full of hills, including the murs of Huy and Amay. Besides, there is a part of cobbles at 45 kilometres from the end that will and fatigue to the riders. The best riders on the hills should have an advantage today.
As always, a group of riders were ahead at the stage mid point. It was a group of 9, including: Michael Matthews (BMC), John Degenkolb (Leopard), Sylvain Chavanel (Quickstep) and Bart de Clerq (Omega). They had a gap of 8 minutes while climbing the Mur d’Amay, 120 km to the finish.
The break had a good advantage of 4’ 15’’ on the last section of cobbles. There were 45 kilometres to the finish. It was the longest section of the day and when the pack reached that point the peloton was almost in a one man line.
On the second climb to the Cote Saint-Roche (17 km to go) the riders in the break already knew that they were going to make it. Taylor Phinney lost contact at the start of the climb, so it would be 8 riders for the win and the yellow jersey. Radioshack didn’t receive any help at the front of the peloton and the peloton was 4’ 30’’ behind.
Lars Ytting Bak also lost contact in the last serious hill of the day, La Flime. They only had to descend towards Andenne now.
Steven Kruijswijk was the first to start the dowhill sprint, followed by the local Bart de Clerq, Damiano Cunego and John Degenkolb.
Steven Kruijswijk wins in Andenne! The Rabobank rider was marginally faster than Bart de Clerq and grabs both the stage win and the yellow jersey.
4’ 30’’ behind the Dutch arrives the peloton, led by Filippo Pozzato. This was a huge miscalculation by the peloton, combined with the fact that Radioshack run out of strength and no other team was willing to help them chase.
This break leaves almost everyone else without chances in the GC, as there is no ground to recover that amount of time. Tomorrow’s time trial is fairly short and the differences will be really small.
Today's Winner
Stage Results
| 1 | Steven Kruijswijk | RABOBANK | 5h27'58 | | 2 | Bart De Clerq | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. | | 3 | Damiano Cunego | LAMPRE - ISD | s.t. | | 4 | John Degenkolb | LEOPARD TREK | s.t. | | 5 | Michael Matthews | BMC RACING TEAM | s.t. | | 6 | Sylvain Chavanel | QUICKSTEP | s.t. | | 7 | Björn Leukemans | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | s.t. | | 8 | Lars Ytting Bak | HTC - HIGH ROAD | + 1'42 | | 9 | Taylor Phinney | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | + 3'38 | | 10 | Filippo Pozzato | LAMPRE - ISD | + 4'34 |
General Classification
| 1 | Steven Kruijswijk | RABOBANK | 14h53'36 | | 2 | Bart De Clerq | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | + 5 | | 3 | Sylvain Chavanel | QUICKSTEP | + 10 | | 4 | Michael Matthews | BMC RACING TEAM | + 12 | | 5 | Björn Leukemans | LIQUIGAS - CANNONDALE | + 14 | | 6 | John Degenkolb | LEOPARD TREK | + 15 | | 7 | Damiano Cunego | LAMPRE - ISD | + 16 | | 8 | Lars Ytting Bak | HTC - HIGH ROAD | + 1'54 | | 9 | Taylor Phinney | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | + 3'54 | | 10 | Beñat Intxausti | TEAM RADIOSHACK | + 4'14 |
Points
| 1 | Beñat Intxausti | TEAM RADIOSHACK | 39 | | 2 | Rigoberto Uran | SKY PROCYCLING | 37 | | 3 | Steven Kruijswijk | RABOBANK | 30 | | 4 | Borut Bozic | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 27 | | 5 | Chris Froome | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | 26 |
Young
| 1 | Bart De Clerq | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | 14h53'41 | | 2 | John Degenkolb | LEOPARD TREK | + 10 | | 3 | Marcel Kittel | HTC - HIGH ROAD | + 4'15 | | 4 | Chris Froome | TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO | + 4'35 | | 5 | Pablo Lastras | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | s.t. |
Teams
| 1 | LAMPRE - ISD | 44h50'14 | | 2 | RABOBANK | + 16 | | 3 | OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO | + 20 | | 4 | BMC RACING TEAM | + 22 | | 5 | QUICKSTEP | + 23 |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 13-01-2012 12:56
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The results in this story are so weird, that's what makes it so enjoyable to read |
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 13-01-2012 14:23
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sutty68 wrote:
The results in this story are so weird, that's what makes it so enjoyable to read
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