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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 10-05-2013 05:20
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Great win. Very nice job
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| Selwink |
Posted on 10-05-2013 08:02
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Great win!
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 10-05-2013 09:05
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Haussler, excellent! |
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| PCM rulezz |
Posted on 10-05-2013 09:06
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Brilliant start for the team 
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
It's difficult not to be happy when you're surrounded by Belgians. - Mark Cavendish
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| Areolys |
Posted on 10-05-2013 10:13
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That was the closest victory I've ever seen in pcm. Ventoso was litteraly in front up until the last few feet... I already thought I didn't make it  |
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| Areolys |
Posted on 10-05-2013 12:14
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 TOUR DE SAN LUIS 2013
Stage 03: La Punta - Mirador del Potrero 
Welcome back in Argentina. Today we will be heading into the mountains for the fisrt time. The climb today will be nice and steady, not too hard. After a tricky downhill the riders will face an uphill finish. Let's see if Haussler can make a triple today or if some else will steal the show.
And off they go.
Early on a group of 6 get away containing Taborre (VIN), Boivin (CAN), Nowak (CCC), Baez (EPM), Chiarini (AND) and Capecchi (MOV).
They quickly gained time, as the peloton sat back.
The first sprint of the day
Spoiler 1st Boivin (CAN)
2nd Taborre (VIN)
3rd Baez (EPM)
On the first KOM it was Nowak (CCC) who attacked first to get a couple meters between him and the others. But his attack was just too early.
Spoiler 1st Capecchi (MOV)
2nd Chiarini (AND)
3rd Boivin (CAN)
Half way trough the race the peloton upped their speed to wheel the breakaway back in. With several teams doing the work their gap melted away quickly.
At the summit the breakaway still fought strong.
Spoiler 1st Chiarini (AND)
2nd Capecchi (MOV)
3rd Taborre (VIN)
And now on the descent they had some time to recover.
at the bottom of the descent they had already lost half their lead. Nevertheless they sprinted out the final intermediate sprint of the day.
Spoiler 1st Chiarini (AND)
2nd Baez (EPM)
3rd Taborre (VIN)
Just 50 kms to go the first rider struggled to keep up the high pace of the peloton. Including yesterdays second Ventoso (MOV). They would lose over 12 Minutes in the end.
With the peloton quickly closing in some riders from the breakaway got nervous. Nowak (CCC) and Baez (EPM) tried their luck to lose the others and pick it up a notch to make it as a duo.
But with just 3 km to go their dream was over.
With just a couple km to go Löfkvist was looking good, trying to get away slowly but steadily... And with just a little more than 1 km to go he took his chances, attacking early on preventing a sprint on the line.
Velits (OPQ) followed his attack. looks like on of them will win it... But there comes Chavez and Amador. Löfkvist on his limit here.
Victory for Velits (OPQ)!
Just in front of Paulinho (TST) who came from way back in the last moment. Chavez (COL) comes in third. Right in front of Löfkvist. His attack was just not powerful enough to create a big enough gap.
Good news for Haussler though. He will be keeping his orange jersey yet another day.
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| PCM rulezz |
Posted on 10-05-2013 12:19
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Not a bad result from Löfkvist
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
It's difficult not to be happy when you're surrounded by Belgians. - Mark Cavendish
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| Selwink |
Posted on 10-05-2013 12:20
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Decent result
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| krisa |
Posted on 10-05-2013 12:30
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Also not bad from Andrey
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-05-2013 12:40
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Nice to see getting so close to the win |
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| Areolys |
Posted on 10-05-2013 12:48
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As I'm still struggling with hills and mountains I'm happy with the result. Hope I'll get some more experience this year (and a couple of wins) so I can up the difficulty to hard next season in WT |
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| Areolys |
Posted on 10-05-2013 23:26
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No Tirreno-Adriatico this year. (26.01.2013)
Even tho IAM Cycling currently got a couple very good results their wildcard for Tirreno-Adriatico got rejected. The Organizators decided to give the only wildcard to Vini Fantini - Selle Italia. Maybe IAM Cycling will have more luck next year. |
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 10-05-2013 23:36
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Bad news with the wildcard, but 2/3 wins so far in San Luis, that's great!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-05-2013 23:53
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Italian favouritism  |
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| Areolys |
Posted on 11-05-2013 00:58
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TOUR DE SAN LUIS 2013
Stage 04: San Luis - San Luis 
Today's stage will be the Time Trial. We spoke with Heinrich Haussler this morning. Let's hear what he had to say about the race today:
"Well, it's no secret I'm not the best at time trials. I probably will wear the leader jersey for the last day today. With todays time trial and two mountain stages to come our team will most likely shift towards another leader for the rest of the tour. I'm happy that the team worked so hard for me the last couple days. I still will try my very best today. You never know what'll happen!"
And with that it's time to start the race!
The first rider from IAM Cycling was Larsson. He's most likely the best againt the clock from their team.
But on the first intermediate time it didn't look good for him. Being 46' behing Stannard (SKY), who led the field for a long time up until then. But it's never over until the finish line. He made up a lot of thime in the last 10 Km, finishing just 3'' as 3rd behind Malori (LAM) and Stannard (SKY).
Bandiera and Pliuschin couldn't compete with the best, falling behind.
Then came the man everybody from IAM were waiting for: Thomas Löfkvist. The hopes were high for the Swede. But if he wanted to get a shot at the GC he'd have to finish strong today. He was a little behind in the intermediate time, but he still had the chance to finish strong, just as Larsson did. And he did! Löfkvist finishes as strong 6th. With just 13'' behind.
But there were still 15 riders to come...
Next in line from IAM was Pelucchi. However, it wasn't his day as he crossed the line as 80th. Wiht 1'32 behind.
Just 10 riders left...
But up until the last 4 riders there was noone who would be of any serious competition. It was Paulinho (TST) who was just 6'' behind on the intermediate.
Short after Velits (OPQ) arrived at the intermediate with a new time to beat, just 3'' faster than Stannard (SKY).
Haussler started last. In the intermediate time he was already behind and it was up to damage control on how much time he'll lose today.
Paulinho (TST) on the finish line... 6th with 9'' behind!
With just Velits (OPQ) and Haussler left on the track all was looking good for Löfkvist.
And Velits (OPQ) was next to finish with a new best time. Gaining 19'' on Löfkvist.
With Haussler coming in as 17th with 39'' behind we have a new leader. Velits (OPQ) is the new man to beat.
General Classification Spoiler | 1 | Peter Velits | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 13h05'38 | | 2 | Heinrich Haussler | IAM Cycling | + 19 | | 3 | Sérgio Paulinho | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 24 | | 4 | Adriano Malori | Lampre - Merida | + 26 | | 5 | Gustav Erik Larsson | IAM Cycling | + 30 | | 6 | Julien Vermote | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 34 | | 7 | Thomas Löfkvist | IAM Cycling | + 40 | | 8 | Vladimir Karpets | Movistar Team | + 53 | | 9 | Andrey Amador | Movistar Team | + 55 | | 10 | Jérémy Roy | FDJ | s.t. | | 11 | Olivier Kaisen | Lotto Belisol | + 56 | | 12 | William Bonnet | FDJ | + 57 | | 13 | Iván Gutiérrez | Movistar Team | + 59 | | 14 | Zdenek Stybar | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 1'00 | | 15 | Michael Mørkøv | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 1'06 | | 16 | Alexandre Pliuschin | IAM Cycling | + 1'08 | | 17 | Esteban Chaves | Colombia | s.t. | | 18 | Peter Kennaugh | Sky Procycling | + 1'09 | | 19 | Ian Boswell | Sky Procycling | + 1'10 | | 20 | Joseph Dombrowski | Sky Procycling | + 1'16 | | 21 | Riccardo Chiarini | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 1'20 | | 22 | Dirk Bellemakers | Lotto Belisol | + 1'21 | | 23 | Russell Downing | Team NetApp - Endura | + 1'22 | | 24 | Julien Simon | Sojasun | + 1'25 | | 25 | Alexandre Geniez | FDJ | s.t. | | 26 | Jesús Hernández | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 1'26 | | 27 | Tomasz Kiendyś | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | + 1'29 | | 28 | Elia Favilli | Lampre - Merida | + 1'34 | | 29 | Andrea Palini | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 30 | Jonathan Hivert | Sojasun | s.t. | | 31 | Christophe Laborie | Sojasun | s.t. | | 32 | Brice Feillu | Sojasun | + 1'35 | | 33 | Jarlinson Pantano | Colombia | s.t. | | 34 | Luca Wackermann | Lampre - Merida | + 1'36 | | 35 | Alessandro Proni | Vini Fantini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 36 | Davide Rebellin | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | + 1'37 | | 37 | Francesco Reda | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 1'38 | | 38 | Francesco Lasca | Caja Rural | + 1'40 | | 39 | Jonathan Monsalve | Vini Fantini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 40 | Xabier Zandio | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 41 | Marco Frapporti | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 1'41 | | 42 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 1'43 | | 43 | Marek Rutkiewicz | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | + 1'45 | | 44 | Emanuele Sella | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 1'46 | | 45 | Fabio Taborre | Vini Fantini - Selle Italia | + 1'47 | | 46 | Julien El Fares | Sojasun | s.t. | | 47 | Eros Capecchi | Movistar Team | + 1'51 | | 48 | Pierpaolo De Negri | Vini Fantini - Selle Italia | + 1'53 | | 49 | Vicente Reynès | Lotto Belisol | + 1'54 | | 50 | Mickaël Delage | FDJ | + 1'58 | | 51 | Matteo Pelucchi | IAM Cycling | + 1'59 | | 52 | Antonio Piedra | Caja Rural | + 2'01 | | 53 | Matteo Bono | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 54 | Marco Bandiera | IAM Cycling | + 2'15 | | 55 | Maciej Bodnar | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 2'48 | | 56 | Tiziano Dall'Antonia | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 2'58 | | 57 | Fabio Felline | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 3'42 | | 58 | Dries Devenyns | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 3'43 | | 59 | Tomás Gil | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 3'53 | | 60 | Stijn Vandenbergh | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 3'57 | | 61 | David Arroyo | Caja Rural | + 4'01 | | 62 | Manuele Boaro | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 4'03 | | 63 | Óscar Sevilla | EPM - UNE | s.t. | | 64 | Maxime Daniel | Sojasun | + 4'06 | | 65 | Jaime Castañeda | EPM - UNE | + 4'15 | | 66 | Piotr Gawroński | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | + 4'18 | | 67 | Jonas Aaen Jørgensen | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 4'26 | | 68 | Weimar Roldan | EPM - UNE | + 4'28 | | 69 | Brian Bulgac | Lotto Belisol | + 4'42 | | 70 | Juan Esteban Arango | Colombia | + 4'48 | | 71 | Edwin Ávila | Colombia | + 5'00 | | 72 | Giovanny Baez | EPM - UNE | + 5'08 | | 73 | Duber Quintero | Colombia | + 5'14 | | 74 | Guillaume Boivin | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 5'21 | | 75 | Yelko Gomez | Caja Rural | + 5'29 | | 76 | Michele Merlo | Vini Fantini - Selle Italia | + 6'40 | | 77 | David López | Sky Procycling | + 6'53 | | 78 | Mateusz Nowak | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | + 7'23 | | 79 | Junya Sano | Vini Fantini - Selle Italia | + 7'49 | | 80 | Jussi Veikkanen | FDJ | + 10'32 | | 81 | Ian Stannard | Sky Procycling | + 12'02 | | 82 | Alex Dowsett | Movistar Team | + 12'44 | | 83 | Roger Kluge | Team NetApp - Endura | + 12'51 | | 84 | Ariel Maximiliano Richeze | Lampre - Merida | + 13'22 | | 85 | Frederique Robert | Lotto Belisol | + 13'23 | | 86 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | + 13'24 | | 87 | Fabio Sabatini | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 13'31 | | 88 | Andrew Fenn | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 13'34 | | 89 | Kenny Dehaes | Lotto Belisol | + 13'42 | | 90 | Fabricio Ferrari | Caja Rural | + 13'45 | | 91 | Juraj Sagan | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 13'48 | | 92 | Eduard Beltran | EPM - UNE | + 13'50 | | 93 | Jorge Castiblanco | EPM - UNE | + 13'55 | | 94 | Manuel Cardoso | Caja Rural | + 13'57 | | 95 | Elia Viviani | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 14'06 | | 96 | Sylwester Janiszewski | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | + 14'13 | | 97 | José Mendes | Team NetApp - Endura | + 15'11 | | 98 | Alexander Wetterhall | Team NetApp - Endura | + 15'28 | | 99 | Marco Corti | Colombia | + 15'59 | | 100 | Andreas Schillinger | Team NetApp - Endura | + 16'02 | | 101 | Jonathon McEvoy | Team NetApp - Endura | + 16'31 | | 102 | Dominique Rollin | FDJ | + 17'45 |
Edited by Areolys on 11-05-2013 01:37
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 11-05-2013 00:59
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Another fourth place |
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 11-05-2013 01:00
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Please post the GC as well, it makes it easier to follow
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 11-05-2013 01:01
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Bringing strongest squad on this type of race isn't so good. Again,it's on you.
Story has potential,try to be shorter with reports.
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| Areolys |
Posted on 11-05-2013 01:32
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sutty68: Yeah 2 times 1st and 2 times 4th. Wonder what's going to be next...
fcancellara: The GC is always updated on the tour main post: here. But I will post the current GC at the end of each stage as well in the future.
admirschleck: I'm currently ranked as Continental team wich makes it hard for me to plan the season. With all the wildcards I don't expect to get many if any. My main goal is to get as many points in as little races as possible for this season.
It's also a trial and error season as I'm just starting to play again after my winter break
I will try and keep the reports shorter tho. (but I always tend to ramble, just like now...) |
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| PCM rulezz |
Posted on 11-05-2013 09:14
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Velits seems strong at the moment, hopefully one of your riders can beat him in the next stages
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
It's difficult not to be happy when you're surrounded by Belgians. - Mark Cavendish
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Peter Velits
Sérgio Paulinho
Esteban Chaves
Thomas Löfkvist
Andrey Amador
Adriano Malori
Ian Stannard
Maciej Bodnar
