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LA MSS - This Time Without the Dope!!!
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 06-12-2008 20:08
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Big problem now maintaining the team unit
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 07-12-2008 12:44
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yes I have many riders that last season were Absolute Leaders and now in 2009 they are only helpers for the big sharks. That pisses them of 
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2nd Stage (simmed)
1st – Sebastian Langeveld RAB
2nd – Leif Hoste SIL s.t.
3rd – Alessandro Bertolini LPR s.t.
4th – Karsten Kroon GST s.t.
5th – Benoit Vaugrenard FDJ s.t.
6th – Amets Txurruca EUS s.t.
7th – Luca Zanasca PMP s.t.
PELOTON +32’’
GC
1st – Sebastian Langeveld RAB
2nd – Leif Hoste SIL +4’’
3rd – Karsten Kroon GST +6’’
4th – Alessandro Bertolini LPR +8’’
5th – Benoit Vaugrenard FDJ +10’’
3rd Stage
1st – Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQ
2nd – Matti Breschel CSC s.t.
3rd – Rinaldo Nocentini ALM s.t.
4th – Simone Masciarelli ASA s.t.
5th – Rubens Bertogliati SDV s.t.
6th – Staf Schierlinckx COF +49’’
7th – Francesco Bellotti BAR s.t.
PELOTON +1’41’’
GC
1st – Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQ
2nd – Matti Breschel CSC +1’’
3rd – Rinaldo Nocentini ALM +2’’
4th – Rubens Bertogliati SDV +9’’
5th – Simone Masciarelli ASA +11’’
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 07-12-2008 12:48
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wow Langeveld wins. Then he lost time on the mountain, didn't he?
Edited by alexkr00 on 07-12-2008 12:49
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 07-12-2008 12:57
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well you have to stick around...
the next stages will be posted soon
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 07-12-2008 13:55
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4th Stage
With 15km to go the bunch started to climb Passo Lanciano
Entering the last 10km the big favorites attacked. Cunego was the first one then Riccò and Contador. Di Luca was a bit late and so he spent a lot of energy!
They were caught right after though. Other favorites tried their luck such as Kirchen, Menchov, Soler…
Lots of big names made their atttempt to leave the main group but the Liquigas team didn’t let anyone gain much advantage!
Eventually a front group was formed with 2km to the top as Pelizotti, Nibali and Wegelius couldn’t do more to maintain the pace. The group featured Contador, Cunego, Riccò, Menchov, Soler, Simoni, Lobato and Kirchen. Di Luca was aproaching quickly!
In the final sprint the whole group was tored apart and some gaps were created. Di Luca was still gaining terrain though.
At the front Contador beated Cunego and took the victory while Di Luca’s recovery was worth an 8th place!
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 07-12-2008 21:14
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5th Stage
1st – Leif Hoste SIL
2nd – Rubens Bertogliati SDV s.t.
3rd – Simone Masciarelli ASA s.t.
4th – Mark Cavendish THR +7’33’’
5th – André Greipel THR s.t.
GC
1st – Rubens Bertogliati SDV
2nd – Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQ +17’’
3rd – Alberto Contador AST +26’’
4th – Damiano Cunego LAM +37’’
5th – Ricardo Riccò GST +48’’
6th Stage
David Zabriskie
Fabian Cancellara
Vladimir Karpets
Vladimir Gusev
Denis Menchov
Kim Kirchen
Alberto Contador
Di Luca +2’00 - 15th 
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 07-12-2008 22:28
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Milan – San Remo
The opening of the Spring Classics was not a primary goal for us but still we wanted to perform good. O’Grady will be sent as a Free Rider and Di Luca the leader.
The breakaway included Boom, Gusev, Weylandt and Riccò!
At Pompeiana, the last hill, the peloton was all grouped as the ascent started.
Di Luca attacked almost at the top as nobody wanted to risk anything.
Ballan, Cancellara, Schumacher(C.A) and Gilbert formed a group with him in the descent.
In the final 15kms, the flat specialists created a gap to the chasing group containing all the sprinters. With 5km to go the group stopped working and everyone started to prepare the final sprint.
2kms later Di Luca stormed at the front.He wouldn’t stand a chance in the sprint so he went for it! The sprinters werent that far! He maintained a 15’’ gap till the start of the sprint.
He started sprinting closer to the finish that everyone else. The rest of the group was recovering the distance along with the newly arrived sprinters!! Less than 1km and the Italian was caught could he do a top 10 though??
No… what a shame.He was caught by an avalanche of sprinters and finished 13th after Bennatti.Ballan got the win!
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| Wiggo |
Posted on 07-12-2008 22:45
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Unlucky for Di Luca. |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 08-12-2008 08:13
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very unlucky, I mean 12 places lost in the last km.....
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 08-12-2008 11:02
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he was really fading away
but he was only caught with 0.8km to the finish and so I thought he could get a reasonable result...
but the group of the sprinters catched the group at the front and so Di Luca didnt have a chance
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 08-12-2008 11:24
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Don't know about that. Think Di Luca would have done OK looking at the top 10. |
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 08-12-2008 11:34
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Di Luca's sprint ability was only higher than Schumacher's in the front group and was the worst flat rider....
plus the group of sprinters was catching the front goup... it was a surprise for me that Ballan, Gilbert and Cancellara got the podium...
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 08-12-2008 12:34
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Yes, those were the 3 I thought Di Luca had a chance against. Still only another 800m and it would have been a fantastic result.
Anyway. I'm expecting some big results from Di Luca. |
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 08-12-2008 13:51
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MARCH REPORT
Uhhh… disastrous is it a good word?? Yes I think so… It couldn’t go worst than it did!! Paris-Nice was an authentic failure. Vicioso made the worse performance of his season and of course we can’t blame the Kloden for anything… As to Tirreno-Adriatico I must say we were unlucky. Di Luca made several attempts in the mountain stage but he didn’t catch the right time to attack so he didn’t gain much time too time trialists. Milano - San Remo was just as tragedic. In the end we ended this phase of the season with only 2 PT points brought by Kloden in Paris-Nice’s Prologue. The only good news came in the end of the month with Zaballa’s win in GP Llodio which brought some confidence into the team.
“We’ve touched the bottom, now we can only rise up” – Zaballa said to his team mates in clear castellano
Pro Tour Rankings after March
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| olabj |
Posted on 08-12-2008 14:15
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At least you`re not last |
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 10-12-2008 08:54
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yes at least... but the team isnt too worried with Pro Tour Rankings, sooner or later we'll be able to raise ou standings... The major problem are the finances... it will be really hard to avoid bankruptcy
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April
The Spring has finally come and with it The Classics! O’Grady will have the chance to shine upon the Cobblestones and to bring us some points. The Ardennes will be disputed by a strong squad headed by Di Luca once more with the help of the Spaniards. Vuelta al Pais Vasco will also be faced by Vicioso and Zaballa, a race which would fit them perfectly if it wasn’t for the last TT stage which might turn their classification into something unpleasant. Two more one-day races will be raced by Di Luca to help getting him fit, and two Iberian races are going to our portuguese talents to get some cash for the team – cuz we need it !!
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 10-12-2008 08:58
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Ronde van Vlanderen
No pictures available on this one sorry…
O’Grady didn’t really had anyone to help so he lost most of his strenghts before the rest of the favorites. In the last plain section he was on a group with Vansumeren and Langeveld who were dirty players and didn’t help him (Steegmans was really close to the three of them)! So in the end he got a 12th which was not too bad…
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 12-12-2008 15:44
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Vuelta al Pais Vasco
The first race included in our season goals is raced in neighbour territory. This five-day stage race does not feature any mountain of biblic proportions but a consistent range of hilly terrain stages which create a perfect environment for Vicioso and Zaballa to do their magic. The only problem is the last day TT that will probably leave our leaders out of the top10.
1st Stage
The peloton could see Zaballa being left behind… he crashed during GP Miguel Indurain and he apparently wasnt recovered yet. More bad luck…
The 14-men breakaway was hard to catch. That only happened at the last hill – Alto de Deskarga
As the hill was really short the attacks came almost at its top.
Leipheimer(LPR) was the first to go, then Cunego and after him Vicioso
After the mountain Sprint the only one interested in taking the break all the way to the finish line was the Spanish. So he built a gap of 30’’ in the 6km long descent.
At the final meters the chasing group closed on him but nobody could reach him as he conquered the first victory in the Pro Tour for LA MSS!!
After him (+11’’) Cobo and Barredo finished in front of the rest of the favorites
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| Juan |
Posted on 12-12-2008 16:18
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Good for a first win
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 12-12-2008 17:44
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2nd Stage
Riccò wining a flat stage… No comment…
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