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Smowz' Saxobank story - 2010 Season complete!
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| Smowz |
Posted on 16-01-2011 17:05
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National Champions
| Nation | Time Trial | Road | | Italy | Nibali | Pozzato | | France | Ladagnous | Pineau | | Spain | Contador | JJ Rojas | | Germany | Martin | M Fothen | | Belgium | Devolder | Van Summeran | | Holland | Clement | Maaskant | | Australia | Haussler | Cooke | | USA | Vandevelde | Vandevelde | | Denmark | Bak | M Christenson | | Switzerland | Cancellara | Cancellara | | Russia | Menchov | Galimzyanov | | Portugal | Machado | Machado | | Crezh Rep | Kreuzinger | Hackeky | | Ukraine | Grivko | Popovich | | Norway | Boessen Hagan | Boessen Hagan | | Slovenia | Brajkovic | Spilak |
Note: We screwed up the Danish championship with Breschel, but then again he was not on form 
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Posted on 16-01-2011 21:07
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Tour preparations 1 - In Switzerland
Let's start by introducing our Tour squad, you know by now of course that Andy Schleck will be leading the team. He has won a Grand Tour now and the Tour de Suisse maybe chance to get the Andy cannot stop being pistol whipped by El Pistolero thing out of the way.
The others well the presence of cobbles and lack of time bonuses makes it a nice one for Fabian Cancellara to lord it over everyone, though we are a bit concerned about that young German fella. Stuey O'Grady is good to have around and Jacob Fuglsang proved more than welcome in the Giro. Chris Anker Sorenson is our other pet project and we better throw him in there to ramp up the pressure on the climbs. We will give JJ Haedo a shot though he probably has no hope of landing a sprint. We decide to fill the rest of the team up with riders that can climb a bit Lund, Didier and Jorgenson fit the bill.
Anyway like a lot of others we avoid Dauphine and head over to the nuetral country for final preparations. The parcours for the Tour of Switzerland:
... are hilly, hilly and more hilly with a sprinkling of Time Trial and a mountain stage that will probably not even drop that old Radioshack team leader.
Stage one
It doesn't change the fact that this is a nice race to win, so you can imagine that we were most pleased the results from the opening stage.
Cancellara probably was not that shocking to kick everyones butt...
.... but for Schleck to go above and beyond by a Cancellara factor was really amazing.
(Hey it has a hill in and ones like that AI seems to screw up - I will not complain too loudly if you don't!)
Stage 1 results
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | 12'02 | | 2 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | + 14 | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Astana | + 22 | | 4 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 5 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | s.t. | | 6 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 25 | | 7 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 26 | | 8 | Sergueï Ivanov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 9 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 29 | | 10 | Stuart O'Grady | Team Saxo Bank | + 30 | | 11 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 13 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | + 32 | | 14 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | s.t. | | 15 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Colnago - CSF Inox | + 33 | | 16 | Laurent Didier | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 17 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 18 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 34 | | 19 | Óscar Pereiro | Astana | s.t. | | 23 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 35 | | 24 | Juan José Haedo | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 29 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 36 | | 34 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 37 | | 35 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 37 | Domenik Klemme | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 38 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 41 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | + 38 | | 42 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | s.t. | | 110 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 47 | | 176 | Rodrigo García | Xacobeo - Galicia | + 1'00 |
Stage two
Almost forgot to post a startlist:
Spoiler Astana
1. A.Contador
2. M.Gourov
3. J.Jufré
4. B.Noval
5. Ó.Pereiro
6. M.Selvaggi
7. A.Vinokourov
8. A.Zeits
Saxo Bank
11. A.Schleck
12. F.Cancellara
13. L.Didier
14. J.J.Haedo
15. D.Klemme
16. A.Lund
17. S.O'Grady
18. C.A.Sørensen
Rabobank
21. D.Menchov
22. L.Boom
23. Ó.Freire
24. R.Gesink
25. J.M.Gárate
26. P.Martens
27. G.Niermann
28. N.Nuyens
The Shack
31. A.Klöden
32. L.Armstrong
33. F.Beppu
34. J.McCartney
35. Y.Popovych
36. B.Selander
37. G.Steegmans
38. H.Zubeldia
Liquigas
41. R.Kreuziger
42. F.Bellotti
43. F.Chicchi
44. R.Kiserlovski
45. M.Quinziato
46. P.Sagan
47. S.Szmyd
48. O.Zaugg
Garmin
51. C.Vande Velde
52. K.Carlsen
54. F.Kessiakoff
55. M.Kreder
56. M.Maaskant
57. D.Pate
58. T.Peterson
Euskaltel
61. I.Antón
62. J.Castroviejo
63. K.Fernández
65. G.Izagirre
66. E.Martínez
67. A.Pérez
68. R.Sicard
Caisse d'Epargne
71. L.L.Sánchez
72. A.Amador
73. A.Coyot
74. P.Lastras
75. A.Losada
76. L.Pasamontes
77. M.Perget
78. J.J.Rojas
Katusha
81. J.Rodríguez
82. S.Ivanov
83. M.Khalilov
84. A.Kolobnev
85. T.Kritskiy
86. R.McEwen
87. A.Ovechkin
88. F.Pozzato
HTC - Columbia
91. T.Martin
92. M.Cavendish
93. B.Eisel
94. M.Goss
95. A.Greipel
96. M.Monfort
97. M.Renshaw
98. M.Rogers
AG2R
101. N.Roche
102. M.Bouet
103. D.Champion
104. V.Efimkin
105. M.Elmiger
106. R.Nocentini
108. G.Smukulis
Sky
111. T.Löfkvist
112. J.Augustyn
113. E.Boasson Hagen
114. S.Calzati
115. K.Carlström
116. R.Downing
117. L.P.Nordhaug
118. G.Thomas
Cervélo
121. T.Hushovd
122. Í.Cuesta
123. P.Deignan
124. R.Hammond
125. H.Haussler
126. B.Lancaster
127. J.Novoa
128. M.Wyss
Lampre
131. S.Spilak
132. V.Buts
133. D.Loosli
134. M.Marzano
135. S.Ponzi
136. D.Righi
137. M.Sapa
138. D.Ulissi
Vacansoleil
141. R.Riccò
142. B.Božic
143. S.Lagutin
144. W.Mol
145. W.Poels
146. A.Van Groen
147. F.Veuchelen
148. L.Westra
Xacobeo
151. E.Mosquera
152. G.Domínguez
153. R.García
154. M.García
158. G.Rodríguez
Quick·Step
161. K.De Weert
162. D.Cataldo
163. S.Chavanel
164. A.Engels
165. J.Pineau
166. F.Reda
167. M.Tosatto
168. W.Weylandt
Saur - Sojasun
171. S.Joly
173. J.Galland
174. G.Levarlet
175. J.Marino
177. S.Poulhiès
178. Y.Talabardon
Colnago - CSF
181. D.Pozzovivo
182. M.Belletti
183. A.Bisolti
184. F.Canuti
185. M.Gaia
186. S.Modolo
187. M.Pavarin
188. F.Savini
Bouygues Télécom
191. P.Fédrigo
192. W.Bonnet
193. S.Chainel
195. L.Lefèvre
196. P.Rolland
197. J.Tschopp
198. S.Turgot
Footon - Servetto
201. A.Durán
202. M.Cardoso
203. G.Cheula
204. M.Eibegger
206. E.Mata
207. I.Mayoz
208. M.Pedersen
Omega Pharma
211. S.Scheirlinckx
212. A.Blythe
214. G.D'Hollander
215. M.Delage
216. L.Hoste
217. J.Roelandts
218. G.Van Avermaet
The headlines is that it is Contador vs Schleck part 2 - not yet judgement day. Armstrong and his merry band are here and it is one of those prep races for Denis Menchov. Some people will get excited about Igor Anton and the wild cards look interesting with Ricco, Mosquera and Pozzovivo about.
Stage two then big mountain in the middle but big sprint at the end, it is possible some of those lardy sprinters didn't much previously mentioned mound and we had Footon grab one of their few glory moments in the season.
Stage three
It looks like someone is searching for some form here, either that or he doesn't like being domestique in the peleton. Vino is enjoying himself in the breakaways.
At the end it feels like the Tirrano Adriatico all over again as Kolobnev attacks the front runners.
But we get a bit more to the recent past as Andy Schleck reels in the Russian overtakes and takes a very nice stage win gapping those fools behind.
Looking at the stage results:
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | 5h24'55 | | 2 | Alexandr Kolobnev | Team Katusha | + 34 | | 3 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | s.t. | | 4 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 5 | Francesco Bellotti | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 6 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 7 | Sergueï Ivanov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 8 | Óscar Pereiro | Astana | s.t. | | 9 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 10 | Fredrik Kessiakoff | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 11 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 12 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 13 | Alberto Contador | Astana | s.t. | | 18 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 25 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 27 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 29 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 31 | Filippo Pozzato | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 32 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Colnago - CSF Inox | s.t. | | 34 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 39 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 43 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 47 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | s.t. | | 55 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | + 1'46 | | 56 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 69 | Ezequiel Mosquera | Xacobeo - Galicia | + 2'22 | | 72 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | + 2'34 | | 75 | Riccardo Riccò | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 2'54 | | 81 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 97 | Stuart O'Grady | Team Saxo Bank | + 5'30 | | 98 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 5'38 | | 110 | Domenik Klemme | Team Saxo Bank | + 7'46 | | 119 | Laurent Didier | Team Saxo Bank | + 8'26 | | 154 | Juan José Haedo | Team Saxo Bank | + 24'18 | | 165 | Brett Lancaster | Cervélo Test Team | + 35'54 |
Andy did well to get away - still it is looking very rosy on GC.
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | 10h03'57 | | 2 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | + 52 | | 3 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | + 1'02 | | 4 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas - Doimo | + 1'06 | | 5 | Alberto Contador | Astana | s.t. | | 6 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 1'09 | | 9 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 1'13 | | 10 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'14 | | 12 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | + 1'16 | | 13 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | s.t. | | 14 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'17 | | 15 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Colnago - CSF Inox | s.t. | | 17 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 1'18 | | 19 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 1'19 | | 25 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 1'21 | | 52 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | + 2'34 | | 69 | Ezequiel Mosquera | Xacobeo - Galicia | + 3'16 | | 71 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | + 3'19 | | 73 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo Bank | + 3'41 | | 77 | Riccardo Riccò | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 3'48 | | 94 | Stuart O'Grady | Team Saxo Bank | + 6'10 | | 100 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 6'35 | | 120 | Laurent Didier | Team Saxo Bank | + 12'31 | | 121 | Domenik Klemme | Team Saxo Bank | + 13'31 | | 154 | Juan José Haedo | Team Saxo Bank | + 27'30 | | 165 | Wouter Weylandt | Quick·Step | + 44'37 |
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| janne_837 |
Posted on 16-01-2011 21:11
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Smowz wrote:
... are hilly, hilly and more hilly with a sprinkling of Time Trial and a mountain stage that will probably not even drop that old Radioshack team leader.
Love your jokes about RadioShack  Good luck in Switzerland, stage 1 was already a good start. |
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Posted on 16-01-2011 21:16
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Domination in Switzerland too, so far. I really like your style of reporting.
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Posted on 16-01-2011 21:20
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Schleck is dominating again.
Andy beats Cancellara in a timetrial is close to ridiculous  |
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Posted on 18-01-2011 21:27
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Tour preparations 2 - Holding form in Switzerland
Okay Andy has a handy lead, though it is a long route through to the final TT - most expecting fireworks on La Punt.
Stage four
Nice and easy day for the Saxobank boys, what was really fab was well Fab wins a sprint!
Stage five
Four stages and three wins, the knives are really out for the selfish Saxobank boys - a number of teams realise they have no chance of retribution on La Punt so they attack here. It is tactical - by that I mean I refuse to wast Saxobank whipping boys chasing down everything as Khailov takes the win on this hilly one.
Stage six
Saxo decide to do what Euskatel did at the Dauphine we are not fooling for the old you attack first and we counter trick (especially with Schleck's gearing) so we allow Oliver Zuagg some freedom. We do show some strength at the end but not enough quite to catch Zaugg who takes a nice win for him.
No-one really gets dropped here... the lack of attacks no doubt frustrating the organisors of this tour.
Stage:
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Oliver Zaugg | Liquigas - Doimo | 6h31'09 | | 2 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 3 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 4 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 5 | Alberto Contador | Astana | s.t. | | 6 | Fredrik Kessiakoff | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 7 | Dario Cataldo | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 8 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | s.t. | | 9 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 10 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 11 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 12 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 13 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | s.t. | | 14 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 15 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 16 | Ezequiel Mosquera | Xacobeo - Galicia | s.t. | | 17 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 18 | Haimar Zubeldia | Team RadioShack | + 59 | | 19 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | + 1'42 | | 20 | Sylwester Szmyd | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 21 | Robert Kiserlovski | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 22 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 23 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 2'29 | | 24 | Marcel Wyss | Cervélo Test Team | s.t. | | 25 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Colnago - CSF Inox | s.t. | | 26 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 3'17 | | 27 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 28 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 29 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 37 | Óscar Pereiro | Astana | + 4'33 | | 45 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 6'33 | | 46 | Riccardo Riccò | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 47 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 51 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | + 8'45 | | 60 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo Bank | + 9'13 | | 61 | Laurent Didier | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 74 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | + 13'21 | | 108 | Stuart O'Grady | Team Saxo Bank | + 27'05 | | 125 | Domenik Klemme | Team Saxo Bank | + 38'17 | | 150 | Kirk Carlsen | Garmin - Transitions | + 55'45 |
The presence of Tony Martin in this front group getting the press started on Ullrich comparisons.
GC:
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | 25h23'16 | | 2 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | + 1'04 | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Astana | + 1'12 | | 4 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 1'15 | | 5 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 1'16 | | 6 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 1'19 | | 7 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'20 | | 8 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 9 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 10 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | + 1'22 | | 11 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | s.t. | | 12 | Fredrik Kessiakoff | Garmin - Transitions | + 1'25 | | 13 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 1'30 | | 14 | Dario Cataldo | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 15 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 3'07 | | 16 | Sylwester Szmyd | Liquigas - Doimo | + 3'13 | | 17 | Robert Kiserlovski | Liquigas - Doimo | + 3'16 | | 18 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 19 | Ezequiel Mosquera | Xacobeo - Galicia | + 3'22 | | 20 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Colnago - CSF Inox | + 3'52 | | 22 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 3'56 | | 23 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 4'40 | | 24 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 4'41 | | 29 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 5'56 | | 30 | Óscar Pereiro | Astana | + 5'57 | | 38 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | + 9'13 | | 48 | Riccardo Riccò | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 11'41 | | 52 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 13'13 | | 56 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | + 13'24 | | 58 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | + 14'09 | | 59 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo Bank | + 14'14 | | 92 | Laurent Didier | Team Saxo Bank | + 29'10 | | 98 | Stuart O'Grady | Team Saxo Bank | + 34'35 | | 113 | Domenik Klemme | Team Saxo Bank | + 53'08 |
Stage seven
So La Punt sucked from a spectators point of view, but suited us down to the ground. Even better when this stage that looked tricky on our race maps but another tame one saw Matty Goss show that his pedigree.
Stage eight
Tony Martin gave a press conference explaining his nickname was not Der Kaiser II and that he would just be happy with a stage win. Schleck calmly responds with saying Martin is seen as his major competitor in the TT. Contador points to the direction of France, whilst Lance Armstring is seen giving a briefcase to some UCI officials as a 'gift' whilst riding a helicopter.
Back in the real world Footon Serveto win another stage... hmm I thought we were back in the real world!
Stage nine
Time Trial time, it is quite a long one a good test I suppose for that horribly long one at the Tour.
Cancellara set the benchmark at 36 minutes and 14 seconds, Sparticus kinda phoned this one in though (daily form was not the bext neither was the 'direacteur sportif' .
Still it was still eight second quicker than well known GC Time Trial Giro-Vuelta former winner Denis Menchov 36.22 for blink and you miss him Russian.
Lance Armstrong shows that he clearly doesn't have 'it' anymore finishing 36 seconds slower than Menchov and 44 seconds behind Cancellara. The race of truth has found the Texan out. He mutters something about hammers and nails or something and everyone thinks what a tool!
Contador claims that he did not attack on La Punt to prove he could smoke 'everyone' (read his only real rival Schleck) in the time trial. This while happily gobbling up some specially prepared steak delivered from China by the Astana team chef. The bugger proves himself right with a formidable effort 27 seconds faster than Cancellara.
You may thing this would have given Berti a chance to do his pistol salute but not today - first Tony Martin has already gone faster. Berti you should have cracked Der Kaiser mark II - oops sorry Tony - on the one mountain the Swiss race allowed us.
Tony Martin sets 35.28, that is well 46 seconds faster than Cancellara in his home tour ... ouch. It also means that Andy Schleck has to finish in a time of 36.47 to win the Tour de Suisse. Thats the time that Lance Armstrong did - fortunately Andy Schleck even on a day when he is not feeling great manages to set a time of 36.18 and wins the Tour de Suisse.
Stage:
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | 35'28 | | 2 | Alberto Contador | Astana | + 19 | | 3 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | + 46 | | 4 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 51 | | 5 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 53 | | 6 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | + 54 | | 7 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 56 | | 8 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 1'01 | | 9 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 1'03 | | 10 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'09 | | 11 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'15 | | 12 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 1'18 | | 13 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'21 | | 14 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'26 | | 15 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | + 1'30 | | 21 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | + 1'54 | | 33 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 2'24 | | 36 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | + 2'25 | | 39 | Óscar Pereiro | Astana | + 2'30 | | 47 | Ezequiel Mosquera | Xacobeo - Galicia | + 2'43 | | 56 | Stuart O'Grady | Team Saxo Bank | + 2'54 | | 66 | Riccardo Riccò | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 3'02 | | 71 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Colnago - CSF Inox | + 3'05 | | 72 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 74 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 3'06 | | 82 | Domenik Klemme | Team Saxo Bank | + 3'20 | | 91 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo Bank | + 3'25 | | 103 | Laurent Didier | Team Saxo Bank | + 3'41 | | 149 | Joaquín Novoa | Cervélo Test Team | + 4'42 |
So Andy Schleck manages to beat Alberto Contador on the eve of the Tour - lets celebrate a little and then try again!
GC:
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | 35h46'09 | | 2 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 29 | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Astana | + 40 | | 4 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 1'17 | | 5 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 1'24 | | 6 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | + 1'25 | | 7 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'38 | | 8 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | + 2'01 | | 9 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 2'02 | | 10 | Fredrik Kessiakoff | Garmin - Transitions | + 2'34 | | 11 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 2'37 | | 12 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 2'53 | | 13 | Dario Cataldo | Quick·Step | + 3'00 | | 14 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 3'34 | | 15 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 4'06 | | 16 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | + 4'11 | | 17 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | + 4'22 | | 18 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 4'53 | | 19 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 5'04 | | 20 | Ezequiel Mosquera | Xacobeo - Galicia | + 5'14 | | 24 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Colnago - CSF Inox | + 6'06 | | 25 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 6'26 | | 39 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | + 11'27 | | 46 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | + 14'04 | | 51 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 15'28 | | 52 | Riccardo Riccò | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 16'07 | | 68 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo Bank | + 23'11 | | 100 | Laurent Didier | Team Saxo Bank | + 48'21 | | 106 | Stuart O'Grady | Team Saxo Bank | + 55'27 | | 115 | Domenik Klemme | Team Saxo Bank | + 1h04'15 | | 149 | Wouter Mol | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 2h34'48 |
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Posted on 18-01-2011 21:31
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I think Andy is way too good in timetrial
But hey, it`s PCM.
But good luck beating Contador in the mountains.
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Very good Tour de Suisse, I hope Andy will be that good in the Tour too.
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Posted on 19-01-2011 17:29
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Great TdS, looks like an easy victory for Schleck in Tour  |
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Posted on 26-01-2011 19:05
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How looks stats of Andy Schleck now? :-)
Thank you Andy for everything!
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Roturn/HuDCC: Andy has MO 85, HI 82 and TT 75 by the time of the tour, trouble is though he is beginning to look a bit tired. It'll be tricky by the time of the tour... speaking of which after a busy time (real life stuff + Man Game reporting) I will be bringing it to you.
Pelli, Alak: Yes it is was an nice race the Tour de Suisse - trying to put Tony Martin into difficulties and also beating Contador was a confidence boost ahead of the Tour.
So quick preview of the big race next post then...
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Vikling's Tour de France account
25th July 2010 Paris, France:
I smile wryly as I see the winners podium - arrogant buggers the lot of them I say. Andy's father has just informed me of the project - that bald turncoat Nygard is involved too. That's it the lot of 'em, they are all going to go and after all I have done for them. Fabian has the cobbled triple crown to his name, Frankie Paris Nice and Fleche Wallonie. As for Andy well if after this anyone has any doubt that he is the best stage racer in the world and indeed the best mountain climber well we see.
For me I don't know whether I will even be in Saxobank anymore - Riis has texted in saying don't panic we have Contador... no way I am in the mood to direct the guy I have just tried to torture over the last three weeks!
I need to tell my story though so lets rewind back to Holland as we all had gathered for the big showdown... I recall then it was all smiles.
2nd July 2010: Rotterdam, Holland
Has Andy got it in his legs for three more weeks? I have just got off the phone with his father.. he thinks we have overdone it and he thinks my plans for next year are barmy. Some people just hate the romance of cycling. I agree though that this race the Tour is the most important, the world is watching and I have just seen a TV broadcast somehow writing off Andy's achievements this year.
He is the 'King' of Italy and Switzerland as I see it having beating the Italians in the Giro and beaten Contador and Oldstrong at Suisse. Here is our squad.
Saxo Bank
1. A.Schleck
2. F.Cancellara
3. L.Didier
4. J.Fuglsang
5. J.J.Haedo
6. J.A.Jørgensen
7. A.Lund
8. S.O'Grady
9. C.A.Sørensen
Cance and O Grady will try to make the first week hard. JJ is a bit of a wild card for the sprints, we have the excellent in the Giro Fuglsang and Chris Anker for the mountain support. Jorgenson, Didier and Lund should held as minor mountain helpers too.
We are going to have to make the mountains count and given Andy's season so far we have to try in the Alps and the Pyrenees to animate the race.
Big rival... you know his name and for some reason he gave his press conference with some mean looking bald guy in the background.
What the hell is Riis doing there? Anyway Contador will not be 60% here, he will be 100%, he has been building nicely for this and has not been inconvenienced by giving the Italians a good spanking in their home tour. Answering questions coolly about the recent Suisse disappointment - he says that was for training. Jerk. Seriously though he has politics to deal with in his own team strong as they are on paper.
Astana
11. A.Contador
12. A.Davis
13. D.De la Fuente
14. A.Dyachenko
15. A.Grivko
16. M.Iglinskiy
17. D.Navarro
18. G.Stangelj
19. A.Vinokourov
Navarro, Vino, De la Fuente and Grivko should give Berti the help he needs and lets not forget he just won the Spanish TT championship so he will know he has a bit of time on Andy already.
That's it really then, surely it is Conta vs Andy... ah but what about these two wheelsuckers?
Actually thats a bit cruel on Sanchez, who has just won the Dauphine in fine style. Punchaer turned GT rider, he is like Andy much improved against the clock and given those punchy abilities could well be a threat kicking away at finishes. But one thinks that Vuelta style bonuses are required for riders like him to win a Tour. He has a usual crew of unpronouncable Basque men
Euskaltel
21. S.Sánchez
22. F.J.Aramendia
23. A.Galdos
24. A.Hernández
25. R.Pérez
26. R.Sicard
27. A.Txurruka
28. P.Urtasun
29. G.Verdugo
Menchov on the other hand is a wheel sucker through and through. He will suck and suck mainly on teammate Gesinks wheel and then he will hope to keep Andy, Berti and Sammy close and blitz em in the TT. You could call him the Russian Indurain, but Denis has shown in the past a really fine last kilometer of mountain stage kick. One weakness, he tends to fall off and is a bit downhill. Rabo, have stupidly wasted a place on Brown, but Gesink, Moleema and Ardila are here:
Rabobank
31. D.Menchov
32. M.Ardila
33. L.Boom
34. G.Brown
35. Ó.Freire
36. R.Gesink
37. S.Langeveld
38. B.Mollema
39. N.Nuyens
Lets also mention Armstrong - I prefer like cyalogic to picture his superior teammates though... I give you the waterboys
Nice strong team from Radioshack, unfortunately they lack a strong leader who has any chance of winning at all. Due respect though Armstrong managed to win this thing seven times - you have to be motivated to put your body, through all the training and whatever else you have to do to win this thing that many times!
The Shack
41. L.Leipheimer
42. L.Armstrong
43. J.Brajkovic
44. C.Horner
45. A.Klöden
46. S.Paulinho
47. Y.Popovych
48. G.Steegmans
49. H.Zubeldia
I was asked by representives of the British newspapers what I though of track Olympic champ Wiggins.
Seen here with Baldy Brialsford - the Dauphine was an expose of why Wiggins cannot win the Tour. He cannot live with the best on the climbs... his squad are not much help.
Sky
51. B.Wiggins
52. K.Arvesen
53. E.Boasson Hagen
54. S.Calzati
55. R.Downing
56. J.A.Flecha
57. G.Henderson
58. T.Löfkvist
59. B.Swift
Boasson Hagen may get some stage wins though, he will have to beat on the flat Cavendish, Farrar, Petacchi and Boonan. Here are the rest of the riders:
Spoiler Liquigas
61. R.Kreuziger
62. D.Bennati
63. M.Finetto
64. R.Kiserlovski
65. A.Kuschynski
66. M.Quinziato
67. S.Szmyd
68. F.Willems
69. O.Zaugg
Garmin
71. C.Vande Velde
72. T.Farrar
73. M.Fischer
74. R.Hesjedal
75. M.Maaskant
76. D.Martin
77. D.Millar
78. J.Van Summeren
79. D.Zabriskie
Omega Pharma
81. J.Van den Broeck
82. F.De Greef
83. M.Delage
84. P.Gilbert
85. J.Peraud
86. J.Roelandts
87. S.Scheirlinckx
88. G.Van Avermaet
89. C.Wegelius
Lampre
91. S.Spilak
92. L.Bernucci
94. A.Furlan
95. D.Hondo
96. M.Lorenzetto
97. Man.Mori
98. A.Petacchi
99. G.Simoni
Katusha
101. K.Kirchen
102. A.Botcharov
103. P.Brutt
104. V.Karpets
105. A.Kolobnev
106. R.McEwen
107. D.Napolitano
108. F.Pozzato
109. J.Rodríguez
AG2R
111. N.Roche
112. G.Bonnafond
113. M.Bouet
114. D.Champion
115. C.Dessel
116. H.Dupont
117. M.Elmiger
118. R.Nocentini
119. C.Riblon
HTC - Columbia
121. M.Rogers
122. L.Bak
123. M.Cavendish
124. B.Eisel
125. M.Goss
126. T.Martin
127. M.Monfort
128. M.Pinotti
129. H.Roulston
Caisse d'Epargne
131. L.L.Sánchez
132. A.Jeanneson
133. V.Kiryienka
134. P.Lastras
135. D.López
136. C.Moreau
137. J.M.Soler
138. R.Urán
139. X.Zandio
Quick·Step
141. K.De Weert
142. C.Barredo
143. T.Boonen
144. D.Cataldo
145. S.Chavanel
146. S.Devolder
147. J.Pineau
148. K.Van Impe
149. W.Weylandt
Française des Jeux
151. C.Le Mével
152. S.Casar
153. R.Di Gregorio
154. A.Geslin
155. F.Guesdon
156. T.Pinot
157. J.Roy
158. B.Vaugrenard
159. J.Veikkanen
Cofidis
161. R.Taaramäe
162. R.Cusin
163. S.Dumoulin
164. J.El Fares
165. C.Kern
166. A.Moinard
167. D.Moncoutié
168. D.Monier
169. R.Pauriol
Bouygues Télécom
171. Y.Trofimov
172. W.Bonnet
173. P.Fédrigo
174. C.Gautier
175. L.Lefèvre
176. P.Rolland
177. M.Sprick
178. T.Voeckler
179. N.Vogondy
Team Milram
181. L.Gerdemann
182. G.Ciolek
183. M.Fothen
184. R.Förster
185. C.Knees
186. T.Rohregger
187. N.Terpstra
188. F.Wegmann
189. P.Wrolich
Footon - Servetto
191. R.Valls
192. E.Capecchi
193. M.Cardoso
194. M.Corti
195. A.Durán
196. M.Eibegger
197. T.Faiers
198. D.Gutiérrez Palacios
199. E.Mata
Btw the parcours are the 2010 route ... cobbles are present on that roubaix one.
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Posted on 26-02-2011 11:16
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Nice presentation. Like how strong the teams are
But where is Voigte? |
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Posted on 26-02-2011 11:31
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roturn wrote:
Nice presentation. Like how strong the teams are
But where is Voigte?
Unfortunately you may recall Voigt was on hand to help Frank in the early season stage races + Ardennes and helping Andy to the Giro win. He is saved back for the post Tour races like San Sebastian (helping Andy), GP Plouey, Lombardy and races like that. Le Tour was bit too much for him.
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Posted on 26-02-2011 11:43
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Really great presenatation to read, good luck
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Posted on 26-02-2011 12:40
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July 6 2010: Cambrei, France
We have a bittersweet feel in the camp right now. The opening prologue started it all as Sparticus won the great duel with Tony Martin in Rotterdam.
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | 11'00 | | 2 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Astana | + 5 | | 4 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 10 | | 5 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 13 | | 6 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 17 | | 7 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | + 19 | | 8 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 21 | | 9 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | + 22 | | 10 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 23 | | 11 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 12 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 24 | | 13 | Sylvain Chavanel | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 14 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Transitions | + 25 | | 15 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 31 |
It was great to see Fabian in yellow there, but behind the scenes Saxobank strategists were disappointed as Andy had lost a lot of time in this one. Looking at it from a GC favourites point of view...
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | 11'00 | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Astana | + 5 | | 4 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 10 | | 5 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 13 | | 6 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 17 | | 7 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | + 19 | | 8 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 21 | | 9 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | + 22 | | 18 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 32 | | 20 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | + 33 | | 50 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 48 | | 51 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 49 | | 81 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 58 | | 85 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | + 59 | | 112 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin - Transitions | + 1'09 |
It was Contador that was smiling the most in Holland.
After stage one went to the sprinters, with Boassen Hagen taking one for the Sky lot.
I put the boys to work on the hilly one - it wasn't enough to force the kind of selection I was looking for as Pozzato took a tight group sprint ahead of a clearly on fire Contador.
The only real headline was Van den Broeck having to withdraw which disappointed a lot of Belgians of course. Hammer and nail man Armstrong lost a minute or so, as did Der Kaiser mark II Tony Martin but that was it.
The cobbles on todays stage three did cause some problems, such as LL Sanchez crashing.
But once again in terms of causing a big selection we could not, everytime it looked as though Fabian was pulling away Andy looked weak so he had to pull back. It meant a sprint won by decent cobbler for a sprinter Tyler Farrar.
So after trying to pull this thing to bits for the last few stages we have possesion of the yellow jersey, but we still have Schleck well down on GC. We have to wait for the Alps, but at the moment Contador is looking very good indeed. Him and Vino were right there at all times on the cobbles.
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | 14h54'47 | | 2 | Alberto Contador | Astana | + 5 | | 3 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 10 | | 4 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 13 | | 5 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 17 | | 6 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 21 | | 7 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | + 22 | | 8 | Sylvain Chavanel | Quick·Step | + 24 | | 9 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 10 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 32 | | 11 | Lars Boom | Rabobank | + 33 | | 12 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | s.t. | | 13 | Stijn Devolder | Quick·Step | + 39 | | 14 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 15 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 42 | | 16 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | + 44 | | 17 | Kevin De Weert | Quick·Step | + 45 | | 18 | Chris Horner | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 19 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 46 | | 20 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 49 | | 21 | Filippo Pozzato | Team Katusha | + 52 | | 22 | Johan Van Summeren | Garmin - Transitions | + 53 | | 23 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | s.t. | | 24 | Philippe Gilbert | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 57 | | 25 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 58 | | 26 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 59 | | 27 | Yury Trofimov | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 1'05 | | 28 | Christophe Kern | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 1'07 | | 29 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 1'09 | | 30 | Anthony Geslin | Française des Jeux | + 1'20 | | 31 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | + 1'30 | | 32 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'34 | | 33 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'42 | | 34 | Jean-Christophe Peraud | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 1'48 | | 35 | Andriy Grivko | Astana | + 1'49 |
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12th July, 2010: Morzine, France
JJ Haedo really is useless - when it comes to high quality sprints, he just hasn't the necessary energy or skills. He proudly informed me this morning he has a good contract with HTC Columbia for next season, well good for him and good riddence.
He managed ninth on the flat stage four won perhaps surprsingly by Cofidis's Sammy Dumoulin. We saw this guy in the Paris Nice, he was very competative there and one again here.
If JJ was poor on stage four, he was awful on the next one. Losing energy pathetically in the finale as we had to let O Grady sprint into the top 10. Edvald Boassen Hagen took his stage tally to two here. The Norwegian then showed his class by taking stage six as well - we set Fabian to sprint here and he produced an excellent second place!
So the Sky man is dominating the sprints as reflected in the points standings:
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Points | General | | 1 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 35 | 147 | | 2 | Filippo Pozzato | Team Katusha | 10 | 119 | | 3 | Alessandro Petacchi | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 16 | 119 | | 4 | Mark Cavendish | Team HTC - Columbia | 26 | 118 | | 5 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Transitions | 14 | 109 | | 6 | Tom Boonen | Quick·Step | 20 | 108 | | 7 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | 30 | 104 | | 8 | Samuel Dumoulin | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | 24 | 100 | | 9 | Daniele Bennati | Liquigas - Doimo | 22 | 94 | | 10 | Gert Steegmans | Team RadioShack | 17 | 94 | | 11 | Allan Davis | Astana | 19 | 89 | | 12 | Gerald Ciolek | Team Milram | 12 | 75 |
The alps were upon us, but we all knew that Stage sevens finish into Rousess would only weed out the ones that simply were not strong enough. Whilst there is the urge to try and get time back we decide to wait for the next day. However one favourite doesn''t and catches the last man of the break Lopez before the line.
Sammy Sanchez managed to get a gap too.
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | 4h54'26 | | 2 | David López | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 3 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | + 54 | | 4 | Bauke Mollema | Rabobank | s.t. | | 5 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 6 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 7 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 8 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 9 | Alberto Contador | Astana | s.t. | | 10 | Sérgio Paulinho | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 11 | Rinaldo Nocentini | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 12 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 13 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | s.t. | | 14 | Cyril Gautier | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 15 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 16 | Thibaut Pinot | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 17 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 18 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | s.t. | | 19 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 20 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 21 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 22 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 23 | Chris Horner | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 24 | Kevin De Weert | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 25 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 26 | Robert Kiserlovski | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 27 | Dario Cataldo | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 28 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 29 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 30 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 31 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 32 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 33 | Daniel Navarro | Astana | + 2'35 | | 34 | Christophe Kern | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 35 | Hubert Dupont | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 36 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 37 | Sylwester Szmyd | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 38 | David Moncoutié | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 39 | Thomas Voeckler | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 40 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 41 | Rémy Di Gregorio | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 42 | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 43 | Marco Pinotti | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 44 | Yury Trofimov | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 45 | Romain Sicard | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 46 | Daniel Martin | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 47 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 48 | Christophe Riblon | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 49 | Rafael Valls | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 50 | Rémi Pauriol | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 51 | Rigoberto Urán | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 52 | Sylvain Chavanel | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 53 | Dimitri Champion | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 54 | Gorka Verdugo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 55 | Pierre Rolland | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 56 | Jakob Fuglsang | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 57 | Oliver Zaugg | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 58 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 59 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 60 | Juan Mauricio Soler | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 61 | Amets Txurruka | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 62 | Fabian Wegmann | Team Milram | + 4'35 | | 63 | Jérôme Pineau | Quick·Step | + 4'59 | | 64 | Maxim Iglinskiy | Astana | s.t. | | 65 | Amaël Moinard | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 66 | Johan Van Summeren | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 67 | Cyril Dessel | AG2R La Mondiale | + 5'39 | | 68 | Andriy Grivko | Astana | s.t. | | 69 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 70 | Vasil Kiryienka | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 71 | Lars Ytting Bak | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 72 | David De la Fuente | Astana | s.t. | | 73 | Eros Capecchi | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 74 | Alexandr Kolobnev | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 75 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | s.t. |
Which means the Euskutel man takes the yellow jersey.
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | 32h51'33 | | 2 | Alberto Contador | Astana | + 27 | | 3 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 32 | | 4 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 35 | | 5 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 39 | | 6 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 43 | | 7 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | + 44 | | 8 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 46 | | 9 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | + 55 | | 10 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'01 | | 11 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 1'04 | | 12 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | + 1'06 | | 13 | Kevin De Weert | Quick·Step | + 1'07 | | 14 | Chris Horner | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 15 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 1'08 | | 16 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 1'11 | | 17 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 1'20 | | 18 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 1'31 | | 19 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | + 1'52 | | 20 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 2'04 | | 21 | Sylvain Chavanel | Quick·Step | + 2'27 | | 22 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 3'02 | | 23 | Yury Trofimov | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 3'08 | | 24 | Christophe Kern | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 3'10 | | 25 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 3'47 |
So we got to the big first real mountain stage:
Euskatel were under control and we left them too it over the top of the Ramaz... it became a little cagey on the Avoiraz climb as first Andy went and then Contador countered.
You could see Sanchez playing close order with wheelsucker men Menchov and Wiggins. It meant the break were going to take the stage to the delight of Cofidis who took stage win two with Moncoutie.
Behind we realised that Andy was not on a super strong day we had to wait of course that Conta man follows his late last 2km dash for the line. But race leader Sanchez would lose a little as would his shadows!
We get the feeling we are getting bogged down though and certainly not making the gains required. Sammy Sanchez still leads and the first mountain top finish has not garnered selective results.
Stage:
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | David Moncoutié | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | 4h50'19 | | 2 | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | + 28 | | 3 | Oliver Zaugg | Liquigas - Doimo | + 1'27 | | 4 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 5 | Rigoberto Urán | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 6 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 1'52 | | 7 | Cyril Dessel | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 8 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 2'19 | | 9 | Alberto Contador | Astana | s.t. | | 10 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | + 2'41 | | 11 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 12 | Kevin De Weert | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 13 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 14 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 15 | Bauke Mollema | Rabobank | s.t. | | 16 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 17 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 18 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 19 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | s.t. | | 20 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 21 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 22 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 23 | Daniel Martin | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 24 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 25 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 26 | Jean-Christophe Peraud | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 27 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 28 | Robert Kiserlovski | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 29 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 3'45 | | 30 | Daniel Navarro | Astana | s.t. | | 31 | Dario Cataldo | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 32 | Sylwester Szmyd | Liquigas - Doimo | + 3'53 | | 33 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 4'17 | | 34 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 35 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 36 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 37 | Rémy Di Gregorio | Française des Jeux | + 4'25 | | 38 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 39 | Thomas Rohregger | Team Milram | s.t. | | 40 | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | + 4'33 | | 41 | Yury Trofimov | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 42 | Hubert Dupont | AG2R La Mondiale | + 4'41 | | 43 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 44 | Jakob Fuglsang | Team Saxo Bank | + 4'49 | | 45 | Christian Knees | Team Milram | + 5'13 | | 46 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 47 | Rafael Valls | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 48 | Jérôme Pineau | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 49 | Damien Monier | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 50 | Christophe Kern | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 5'29 |
GC, following first Alps tough mountain stage:
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | 37h44'33 | | 2 | Alberto Contador | Astana | + 5 | | 3 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 32 | | 4 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 35 | | 5 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 39 | | 6 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 43 | | 7 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | + 44 | | 8 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | + 55 | | 9 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 58 | | 10 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | + 1'06 | | 11 | Kevin De Weert | Quick·Step | + 1'07 | | 12 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 1'08 | | 13 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 1'11 | | 14 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 1'31 | | 15 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | + 1'52 | | 16 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 2'04 | | 17 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 2'08 | | 18 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 2'22 | | 19 | Dario Cataldo | Quick·Step | + 4'51 | | 20 | Yury Trofimov | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 5'00 | | 21 | Bauke Mollema | Rabobank | + 5'14 | | 22 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | + 5'19 | | 23 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 5'23 | | 24 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 5'34 | | 25 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 5'56 | | 26 | Christophe Kern | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 5'58 | | 27 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | + 6'35 | | 28 | Daniel Navarro | Astana | + 6'58 | | 29 | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | + 7'14 | | 30 | Thomas Voeckler | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 7'30 | | 31 | Robert Kiserlovski | Liquigas - Doimo | + 7'41 | | 32 | Hubert Dupont | AG2R La Mondiale | + 8'09 | | 33 | Jakob Fuglsang | Team Saxo Bank | + 8'10 | | 34 | Romain Sicard | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 9'02 | | 35 | Thomas Löfkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 9'25 | | 36 | Sylvain Chavanel | Quick·Step | + 9'31 | | 37 | Christophe Riblon | AG2R La Mondiale | + 9'42 | | 38 | Johan Van Summeren | Garmin - Transitions | + 10'56 | | 39 | Rémy Di Gregorio | Française des Jeux | + 10'59 | | 40 | Jérôme Pineau | Quick·Step | + 11'03 | | 41 | David Moncoutié | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 11'16 | | 42 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | + 11'36 | | 43 | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | + 11'41 | | 44 | Jean-Christophe Peraud | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 11'44 | | 45 | Juan Mauricio Soler | Caisse d'Epargne | + 12'00 | | 46 | Gorka Verdugo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 12'40 | | 47 | Oliver Zaugg | Liquigas - Doimo | + 12'48 | | 48 | Rafael Valls | Footon - Servetto | + 12'54 | | 49 | Rigoberto Urán | Caisse d'Epargne | + 13'30 | | 50 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 13'34 | | 51 | Daniel Martin | Garmin - Transitions | + 13'45 | | 52 | David López | Caisse d'Epargne | + 13'49 | | 53 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 13'51 | | 54 | Gilberto Simoni | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 13'52 | | 55 | Damien Monier | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 13'59 | | 56 | Lars Ytting Bak | Team HTC - Columbia | + 14'17 | | 57 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | + 15'16 | | 58 | Amets Txurruka | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 15'24 | | 59 | Cyril Dessel | AG2R La Mondiale | + 15'25 | | 60 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 15'52 |
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Bastille day, 2010: Sisteron, France
The day to commerate the storming of the Bastille has proved the day, perhaps surprisingly that Andy Schleck has shown the world that Berti Contador can be beaten in this years tour.
Yesterday on the Col de la Madelaine Berti made his move on a stage we were rightly concerned about Andy's sdescending skills.
It was a tough day, but with the mountains mainly packed early it really was relatively gentle. But Contador made his attack show on the big HC climb.
Andy was right there but Berti had a gap over the top which he extended on the descent. As he reeled in the break and took a stage win a full minute clear of Andy. Sanchez, Menchov et al had also been distanced.
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Alberto Contador | Astana | 5h51'07 | | 2 | Chris Horner | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 3 | Charles Wegelius | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 4 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 58 | | 5 | Thomas Rohregger | Team Milram | s.t. | | 6 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | + 1'23 | | 7 | David Moncoutié | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 1'44 | | 8 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 9 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 10 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 11 | Kevin De Weert | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 12 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 13 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 14 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 15 | Dario Cataldo | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 16 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 17 | Rémy Di Gregorio | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 18 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 19 | Bauke Mollema | Rabobank | s.t. | | 20 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 21 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 22 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 23 | Robert Kiserlovski | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 24 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | s.t. | | 25 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 26 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 27 | Rein Taaramäe | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 28 | Daniel Martin | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 29 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 30 | Daniel Navarro | Astana | s.t. | | 31 | Rémi Pauriol | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 32 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 33 | Marco Pinotti | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 34 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 35 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 36 | Cyril Gautier | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 37 | Mauricio Ardila | Rabobank | + 3'28 | | 38 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 39 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 40 | Yury Trofimov | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 41 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 42 | Sérgio Paulinho | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 43 | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 44 | Hubert Dupont | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 45 | Eros Capecchi | Footon - Servetto | + 4'16 | | 46 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 5'20 | | 47 | Damien Monier | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 48 | Thomas Voeckler | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 49 | Christophe Kern | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 50 | Amaël Moinard | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 51 | Sylwester Szmyd | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 52 | Jakob Fuglsang | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 53 | Amets Txurruka | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 54 | Rafael Valls | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 55 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 56 | Sylvain Chavanel | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 57 | Romain Sicard | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 58 | Johan Van Summeren | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 59 | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | s.t. | | 60 | Dimitri Champion | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 61 | Cyril Dessel | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 62 | Pierre Rolland | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 63 | Christophe Riblon | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 64 | Juan Mauricio Soler | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 65 | Thibaut Pinot | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 66 | Vladimir Karpets | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 67 | Guillaume Bonnafond | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 68 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 69 | Gorka Verdugo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 70 | Alexandre Botcharov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 71 | Sylvain Calzati | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 8'00 | | 72 | Haimar Zubeldia | Team RadioShack | + 8'24 | | 73 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | s.t. | | 74 | Andriy Grivko | Astana | + 8'56 | | 75 | Maxime Bouet | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 76 | David López | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 77 | Oliver Zaugg | Liquigas - Doimo | + 9'28 | | 78 | Rigoberto Urán | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 79 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 10'00 | | 80 | Xabier Zandio | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 81 | Jérôme Pineau | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 82 | Janez Brajkovič | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 83 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 84 | Julien El Fares | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 85 | Aitor Hernández | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 86 | Arnold Jeanneson | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 87 | Alexandr Kolobnev | Team Katusha | + 11'12 | | 88 | Vasil Kiryienka | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 89 | Rinaldo Nocentini | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 90 | Maxim Iglinskiy | Astana | s.t. |
It meant that the Astana rival had the yellow jersey and the battle for the Yellow jersey was now well defined.
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Alberto Contador | Astana | 43h35'45 | | 2 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 1'39 | | 3 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | + 1'51 | | 4 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 2'11 | | 5 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | + 2'13 | | 6 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 2'14 | | 7 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 2'18 | | 8 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 2'22 | | 9 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | + 2'23 | | 10 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | + 2'45 | | 11 | Kevin De Weert | Quick·Step | + 2'46 | | 12 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 2'47 | | 13 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 2'50 | | 14 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 3'10 | | 15 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | + 3'31 | | 16 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 3'43 | | 17 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 3'47 | | 18 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 4'01 | | 19 | Dario Cataldo | Quick·Step | + 6'30 | | 20 | Bauke Mollema | Rabobank | + 6'53 | | 21 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | + 6'58 | | 22 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 7'02 | | 23 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 7'35 | | 24 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | + 8'14 | | 25 | Yury Trofimov | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 8'23 |
But we had a plan to isolate Contador on stage 11:
These parcours not being dissimalar to that day that he lost the 2009 Paris Nice - it was text book stuff as we used Jacob, Fabian to full effect on the Noyer and when Andy put in the first accelleration only Sanchez, Berti and Menchov could follow.
On the last uncategorised dig, Andy managed to put in a final burst which none of the others could live with.
At this point I thought we could get the time back but I never dreamed the gap would expand as rapidly as it did. By the finish Andy had a full Two minutes and seven seconds. It was enough to put our young leader into yellow! Fantastic day we had the champers out tonight.
Stage:
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | 4h59'50 | | 2 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 2'07 | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Astana | s.t. | | 4 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | s.t. | | 5 | Bauke Mollema | Rabobank | + 3'05 | | 6 | Daniel Navarro | Astana | s.t. | | 7 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 8 | Sérgio Paulinho | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 9 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 3'42 | | 10 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 11 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 12 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 13 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 14 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 15 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 16 | Dario Cataldo | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 17 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 18 | Chris Horner | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 19 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | s.t. | | 20 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 21 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 22 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 23 | Kevin De Weert | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 24 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 25 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 26 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 27 | Gorka Verdugo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 28 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 29 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 4'35 | | 30 | Robert Kiserlovski | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 31 | Yury Trofimov | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 32 | Haimar Zubeldia | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 33 | Vladimir Karpets | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 34 | Daniel Martin | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 35 | Sylvain Chavanel | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 36 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 37 | Hubert Dupont | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 38 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 39 | Damien Monier | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 40 | David Moncoutié | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 41 | Vasil Kiryienka | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 42 | David López | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 43 | Cyril Gautier | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 44 | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 45 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 46 | Dimitri Champion | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 47 | Pierre Rolland | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 48 | Rafael Valls | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 49 | Rémy Di Gregorio | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 50 | Thibaut Pinot | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 51 | Eros Capecchi | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 52 | Christophe Kern | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 53 | Johan Van Summeren | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 54 | Thomas Voeckler | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 55 | Cyril Dessel | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 56 | Rigoberto Urán | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 57 | Amaël Moinard | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 58 | Juan Mauricio Soler | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 59 | Christophe Riblon | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 60 | Rinaldo Nocentini | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 61 | Xabier Zandio | Caisse d'Epargne | + 5'58 | | 62 | Rein Taaramäe | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 6'20 | | 63 | Pablo Lastras | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 64 | Lars Ytting Bak | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 65 | Stijn Devolder | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 66 | Nicolas Vogondy | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 67 | Jérôme Pineau | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 68 | Alexandr Kolobnev | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 69 | Gilberto Simoni | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 70 | Jérémy Roy | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 71 | Oliver Zaugg | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 72 | Andriy Grivko | Astana | s.t. | | 73 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 74 | Laurent Lefèvre | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 75 | Rémi Pauriol | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 76 | Jakob Fuglsang | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 77 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 78 | Amets Txurruka | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 79 | Maxime Bouet | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 80 | Markus Fothen | Team Milram | s.t. | | 81 | Charles Wegelius | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 8'12 | | 82 | Arnold Jeanneson | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 83 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 84 | Jean-Christophe Peraud | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 85 | Mauricio Ardila | Rabobank | s.t. | | 86 | Francis De Greef | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 87 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 88 | Philippe Gilbert | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 89 | Alexsandr Dyachenko | Astana | s.t. | | 90 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 91 | Alexandre Vinokourov | Astana | s.t. | | 92 | Alexandre Botcharov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 93 | David De la Fuente | Astana | + 9'32 | | 94 | Mathieu Sprick | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 95 | Sylwester Szmyd | Liquigas - Doimo | + 10'12 | | 96 | Marco Pinotti | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 97 | Guillaume Bonnafond | AG2R La Mondiale | + 10'44 | | 98 | Gorazd Stangelj | Astana | + 11'40 | | 99 | Julien El Fares | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 100 | Aitor Hernández | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. |
GC:
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | 48h37'26 | | 2 | Alberto Contador | Astana | + 16 | | 3 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 1'55 | | 4 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | + 2'29 | | 5 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 4'02 | | 6 | Andreas Klöden | Team RadioShack | + 4'05 | | 7 | Roman Kreuziger | Liquigas - Doimo | + 4'09 | | 8 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 4'13 | | 9 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | + 4'14 | | 10 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | + 4'36 | | 11 | Kevin De Weert | Quick·Step | + 4'37 | | 12 | Simon Spilak | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 4'38 | | 13 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 4'41 | | 14 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 5'01 | | 15 | Lance Armstrong | Team RadioShack | + 5'22 | | 16 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 5'34 | | 17 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 5'38 | | 18 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 5'52 | | 19 | Bauke Mollema | Rabobank | + 8'07 | | 20 | Dario Cataldo | Quick·Step | + 8'21 | | 21 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | + 8'49 | | 22 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 8'53 | | 23 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 9'26 | | 24 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank | + 9'28 | | 25 | Daniel Navarro | Astana | + 9'51 |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 27-02-2011 08:48
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Well done in the last stage. Pulling back 2 minutes on that stage is impressive. This looks like the real Tour last year, Contador and Schleck in their own world.
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| Alfster |
Posted on 27-02-2011 11:45
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Super nice results. Loving Saxobank.
Looking forward following the rest of the season.
Go Team Saxobank!!
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