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| welker3257 |
Posted on 10-11-2013 00:52
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Good effort from Kangert
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| 547984 |
Posted on 10-11-2013 04:45
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Still got the team classification. 
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 10-11-2013 09:38
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 Vuelta a Andalucía
February 17th-20th, 2014
In contrast to the unpredictable Oman parcours, it's pretty clear what type of riders will dominate here in Andalucía!
The short prologue will likely not have much impact on the overall, given how much climbing the other stages offer. The final stage looks like the best bet for serious gaps, but a majority of the starters will probably already have been blown out of the water before then.
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On paper, there are two clear favourites in Rodríguez and Quintana,
but a dim performance on Mallorca last week has puts a questionmark next to their names.
Mallorca overall winner Contador might therefore be the biggest favourite. Assisted by an almost ridiculously strong Saxo Bank-team, the aging Spaniard should at least not have to worry about isolation. It remains to be seen who the Danish team's leader will be though, since Kreuziger and Roche were also among the strongest riders on Mallorca.
Scarponi, Hesjedal and Gesink are others who are coming off Mallorca with good form. Kangert will also try to go for a high placing, but might be a little tired from taking the redeye from Oman together with Cazaux, Chevrier, Jules, Martinez and Taaramae. Siskevicius joins them after a short break from racing.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 10-11-2013 10:19
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How do you pictures look so good? Great job on them, whatever you do! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-11-2013 10:53
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Lets hope the team have a good performance in Andalucía |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 10-11-2013 10:56
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Let's hope that Kangert upsets.  |
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 10-11-2013 18:36
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Miguel98 wrote:
Let's hope that Kangert upsets.
So you want Kangert to be disappointing?   |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 10-11-2013 18:39
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Ian Butler wrote:
How do you pictures look so good? Great job on them, whatever you do!
I'd like to know the secrets as well
Hopefully Andalucia can go well for the team, but Saxo will be hard to beat. Especially Contador on home turf. |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 10-11-2013 20:46
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All I do is add a bit of sharpness to the pictures. The key is to get the right angles from the start, however. Adding effects isn't going to help if the original screen is crappy!
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Vuelta a Andalucía: Stage 1
February 17th, 2014
A quick prologue to get the race started. Really not that interesting to read about, so I'll just give you a very brief summary.
The stage win went to late starter Rohan Dennis. Lieuwe Westra led the race for most of the day, but was eventually 3 seconds short of victory.
Among the overall contenders, Contador was the fastest. Quintana is really the only one who ended up with a notable deficit, though.
| 1 | Rohan Dennis | Garmin - Sharp | 7'06 | | 2 | Lieuwe Westra | Astana Pro Team | + 3 | | 3 | Andrey Amador | Movistar Team | + 5 | | 4 | Dario Cataldo | Sky Procycling | + 6 | | 5 | Luis León Sánchez | Movistar Team | + 8 | | 6 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo Bank | + 9 | | 7 | Vasil Kiryienka | Sky Procycling | + 11 | | 8 | Roman Kreuziger | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 9 | Michael Rogers | Team Saxo Bank | + 14 | | 10 | Vladimir Isaychev | Katusha Team | s.t. | | ... | | 13 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Katusha Team | + 17 | | 16 | Tanel Kangert | La Pomme Marseille | + 18 | | 17 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 20 | Nicolas Roche | Team Saxo Bank | + 19 | | 26 | Robert Gesink | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | + 20 | | 27 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 58 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | + 29 |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 10-11-2013 20:48
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Not the worst TT by Kangert, but either Rodriguez has a high Prologue stat or his form his already good. |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 10-11-2013 20:52
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Miguel98 wrote:
Not the worst TT by Kangert, but either Rodriguez has a high Prologue stat or his form his already good.
72 (same as Quintana, believe it or not)
Prologues do tend to have very random results at times
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-11-2013 22:51
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18s lost on the TT is not too bad when you look at the talent that finished in front of him |
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| rogvi97 |
Posted on 12-11-2013 09:47
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Good luck!
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 12-11-2013 16:39
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Had a busy afternoon and no time to report yesterday. I'll try to get two stages up tonight instead, but no promises
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Vuelta a Andalucía: Stage 2
February 18th, 2014
Into the hills we go, with a stage that includes a lot of ups and downs. The most challenging part will be the relatively long Puerto de las Palomas, which the riders will crest around 30 km from the finish.
Aside from a failed long breakaway from three riders, literally nothing happens until the point where Contador decides to make Katusha work by attacking a couple of kilometers from the summit of Palomas.
It's a very strong attack that initially creates a 45 second-gap for the former Tour winner, but he is eventually worn down and caught on the tough up-and-down section following the climb.
Katusha's lifted pace has in the meantime brought the number of riders in the group down to a mere 27, with names such as Hesjedal, Scarponi and even Contador's own luxury team mate Kreuziger, missing. Along with them, also 2nd and 3rd from the prologue: Westra and Amador
With eight kilometers of somewhat dangerous descending looming ahead, Kangert tries a little attack on the last remaining little bit of uphill - bringing impressive race leader Rohan Dennis with him.
Dennis sits up behind Purito's Katusha-train shortly afterwards, but Kangert pushes on through the technical bends. He can't quite pull out more than 10-15 seconds, but still a little headstart for the tough uphill sprint.
A good enough headstart, as it turns out! Purito relied on his team mates for too long, and couldn't even save the day for them with a patented 1 km-rush.
Henao was also very strong and really challenged Rodríguez all the way to the finish. He came up just short and had to settle for 3rd, however.
15 seconds lost for the group makes Kangert the new race leader! We'll try our best to defend it, but I reckon it'll be hard to control Purito.
| 1 | Tanel Kangert | La Pomme Marseille | 4h11'53 | | 2 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Katusha Team | + 15 | | 3 | Sergio Henao | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 4 | Rafal Majka | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 5 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 6 | Dario Cataldo | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 7 | Tom Jelte Slagter | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 8 | Nicolas Roche | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 9 | Diego Rosa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 10 | Gianfranco Zilioli | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 12 | Rohan Dennis | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 13 | Javier Moreno | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 14 | Pierre Rolland | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 15 | José Serpa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 16 | Robert Gesink | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 17 | Luis León Sánchez | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 18 | Mikel Nieve | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 19 | Stefano Pirazzi | Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox | s.t. | | 20 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 21 | Alexandr Kolobnev | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 22 | Bart De Clercq | Lotto-Belisol | s.t. | | 23 | Egor Silin | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 24 | Alex Howes | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 25 | Rein Taaramäe | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 26 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 27 | Luis Ángel Maté | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 57 | | 28 | Roman Kreuziger | Team Saxo Bank | + 1'47 | | 29 | Daniel Navarro | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 2'10 | | 30 | Beñat Intxausti | Movistar Team | s.t. |
GC
| 1 | Tanel Kangert | La Pomme Marseille | 4h18'57 | | 2 | Rohan Dennis | Garmin - Sharp | + 17 | | 3 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Katusha Team | + 22 | | 4 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 5 | Dario Cataldo | Sky Procycling | + 23 | | 6 | Luis León Sánchez | Movistar Team | + 25 | | 7 | Sergio Henao | Sky Procycling | + 31 | | 8 | Javier Moreno | Movistar Team | + 35 | | 9 | Tom Jelte Slagter | Garmin - Sharp | + 36 | | 10 | Nicolas Roche | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Rohan Dennis | Garmin - Sharp | 29 | | 2 | Tanel Kangert | La Pomme Marseille | 25 | | 3 | Dario Cataldo | Sky Procycling | 24 |
Mountain
| 1 | Luis Ángel Maté | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | 28 | | 2 | Sander Armee | Lotto-Belisol | 20 | | 3 | Vincent Jérôme | Team Europcar | 14 |
U25
| 1 | Rohan Dennis | Garmin - Sharp | 4h19'14 (1) | | 2 | Tom Jelte Slagter | Garmin - Sharp | + 19 (2) | | 3 | Diego Rosa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 20 (3) |
Team
| 1 | Movistar Team | 12h58'13 (1) | | 2 | Team Saxo Bank | + 3 (2) | | 3 | Garmin - Sharp | + 6 (3) |
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 12-11-2013 18:30
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That was really good, now hold on to that lead! |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 12-11-2013 18:32
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 for the win. You can't handle Kangert.  |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 12-11-2013 20:35
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Kangert has been on fire for you lately! That was a good move too! I still feel like its a bit of a problem with the gameplay in the game that somehow, if the leader gets X gap in the final 10km~ of the stage, they basically just give up or they do chase, but somehow cant lower the gap down. Seems weird that a group that large cant atleast slowly bring the gap down of one rider like that.
But anway, it was a good win! Timed the attack perfectly.
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| 547984 |
Posted on 12-11-2013 22:09
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Nice start for the team.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 12-11-2013 22:33
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Great little effort from Tangert to get the stage win
And now he has the GC lead to try and defend |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 12-11-2013 22:36
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Anther great result from Tanel
The attack was timed perfectly, you're just too good Pelli. |
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