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Tour of Qatar Discussion
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 08-05-2010 17:37
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William Ford of course tops the rankings. A part of the winning TTT, an individual stage victory, and an individual 2nd place - so a deserving leader. Their strong final stage lifted Vanderbiest, Bennati and Roelandts into the Top 5, but in 3rd was Jaime Alberto Castañeda, the sprinter of the week - with a 1st, 2nd and two 3rds. But other than the other strong sprinter Vanoverschelde, the top of the rankings is mainly dominated by those who made the decisive final stage split.
| 1 | William | Ford | AUS | Auber 93 - Look | 408 | | 2 | Romain | Vanderbiest | FRA | Pearl Adidas | 266 | | 3 | Jaime Alberto | Castañeda | COL | Café de Colombia | 184 | | 4 | Daniele | Bennati | ITA | La Gazzetta dello Sport | 179 | | 5 | Jurgen | Roelandts | BEL | Carmeuse Cyclisme | 175 | | 6 | Yoann | Offredo | FRA | Pearl Adidas | 154 | | 7 | Kobe | Vanoverschelde | BEL | Team B&O | 152 | | 8 | Rafael | RodrÃguez Segarra | ESP | La Gazzetta dello Sport | 125 | | 9 | Mathieu | Drujon | FRA | Auber 93 - Look | 114 | | 10 | Jérôme | Baugnies | BEL | Lipton Ice Tea | 95 | | 11 | Florian | Morizot | FRA | Auber 93 - Look | 87 | | 12 | Kristof | Vandewalle | BEL | La Gazzetta dello Sport | 67 | | 13 | Kai | Reus | NED | Auber 93 - Look | 66 | | 14 | Alex | Dowsett | GBR | La Gazzetta dello Sport | 59 | | 15 | Rick | Flens | NED | La Gazzetta dello Sport | 53 | | 16 | Óscar | Avelino | POR | Lipton Ice Tea | 50 | | 17 | Steven | Caethoven | BEL | Carmeuse Cyclisme | 46 | | 18 | Alexandre | Aulas | FRA | Carmeuse Cyclisme | 41 | | 19 | Jerome | Coppel | FRA | Auber 93 - Look | 38 | | 20 | Patrick | Gretsch | GER | Festina - Corona | 35 | | 21 | Aleksandr | Serebriakov | RUS | Philips - TDC | 29 | | 22 | Dmitri | Muravjev | KAZ | Sony Ericsson | 29 | | 23 | Pim | Ligthart | NED | Auber 93 - Look | 27 | | 24 | Jakub | Danacik | CZE | Sony Ericsson | 27 | | 25 | Maxime | Bouet | FRA | Auber 93 - Look | 25 |
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Auber 93 may be tipped by many to relegate, but were a major presence in this race, and duly come away with a monster tally of 790. Winning a TTT is always lucrative, particularly so when it starts a race with only flat stages. Auber covered pretty much all of the wind breaks, and with 3 riders in the Top 10 GC, and 2 more in the Top 20, theyve given themselves a great start.
Behind them, the 3 major benefactors from the final stage, Gazzetta, Pearl and Carmeuse, before the teams of 3 of the stage winners, Cafe de Colombia, B&O and Lipton.
At the bottom end, Domina Vacanze, Warner Brothers and Starbucks-Radioshack only scored points for their riders finishing the race, and so find themselves in the 3 relegation spots. Not that they need to worry much for now, a lot more races to go.
| 1 | Auber 93 - Look | 790 | | 2 | La Gazzetta dello Sport | 498 | | 3 | Pearl Adidas | 468 | | 4 | Carmeuse Cyclisme | 291 | | 5 | Café de Colombia | 219 | | 6 | Team B&O | 191 | | 7 | Lipton Ice Tea | 175 | | 8 | Sony Ericsson | 136 | | 9 | Festina - Corona | 110 | | 10 | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 71 | | 11 | Philips - TDC | 70 | | 12 | Energie-Diesel | 57 | | 13 | Jack Wolfskin | 56 | | 14 | Lafarge | 45 | | 15 | Wikipedia | 45 | | 16 | Team Nespresso | 41 | | 17 | Domina Vacanze | 40 | | 18 | Warner Brothers | 40 | | 19 | Team Starbucks-Radioshack | 35 |
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| Crommy |
Posted on 08-05-2010 17:45
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Can we stop the season now? 
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 08-05-2010 18:22
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Yeah it's about time now
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Posted on 07-12-2025 16:36
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| SotD |
Posted on 08-05-2010 18:22
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Had hoped to end this race in top 3, so obviously not satisfied with 9th, by any means...
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| niconico |
Posted on 08-05-2010 18:27
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A'rite!! 151 points above the relegation zone and our best placing ever on the ProTour 
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 08-05-2010 18:52
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We are not amused by how that final stage went.
However, we got more points from the race than I was counting on. |
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| p3druh |
Posted on 08-05-2010 18:57
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p3druh wrote:
I'd just like to remind my team that we are in fact racing in Qatar.
Glad to see they took the hint
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 08-05-2010 20:55
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We are ahead of Wikipedia!
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 08-05-2010 20:58
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Ah.
Right.
Erm, well done lads, no need to race any more for a bit!
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| dave92 |
Posted on 09-05-2010 04:48
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Levi4life wrote:
We are ahead of Wikipedia!
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