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 17.06.2011: Tour de Suisse
Stage 5
Horgen - Gletsch: 171.0km
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The long grind up to the Furka pass takes the Tour the Suisse across its highest point. The never ending mountain is a good opportunity for Leipheimer to increase his lead. We've decided to back Levi 100% now that he is in the leader's jersey. Judging by stage 3, Brice Feillu will be the main man to watch. Let's hope he doesn't reproduce his performances from last year's Swiss tour.
With the early break well reeled in, Egoi Martinez wound up the pace on the Furka climb. We had a lot of uphill kilometers to work our Discovery tempo magic!
Juanjo Cobo went up the road 14km before the top, and a few kilometers later, he had carved out a 2min lead. Impressive, considering our continued high pace.
When it was Andreas Klöden's turn to pull the peloton, Cobo's lead diminished. The German handed out some serious pain to the steadily shrinking peloton.
The pace wasn't high enough for Andy Schleck though. The climber put in a dig 7.5km before the top, when Cobo was still 1'30 ahead.
That was the end of Klöden, but Lance Armstrong managed to pull Levi up to the Schlecklet. He brought with him Brice Feillu and Caisse's Dani Moreno.
Cobo had grown a pair of wings today, and summited the Furka pass 40 seconds ahead of the five chasers.
The five-man chasegroup grew on the descent down to the finish line, as a large number of those riders dropped on the climb managed to get back on. Cobo was still ahead, but would it all come together?
Nah. A very impressive stage win by Juanjo Cobo, who got what is only Saunier Duval's fifth victory of the season.
Fabian Cancellara descended like a madman to get back to the main group, and celebrated that achievement by taking 2nd on the stage and also the points jersey. We didn't manage to increase Levi's lead, but we still dominate the top of the GC. Only Klöden dropped back a little.
Today's winner
Results
| 1. | Juanjo Cobo | Saunier Duval | 4h56'31 | | 2. | Fabian Cancellara  | Liquigas | + 26 | | 3. | Brice Feillu | Cofidis | s.t. | | 4. | Levi Leipheimer  | Discovery Channel | s.t. | | 5. | Vladimir Efimkin | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 6. | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo | s.t. | | 7. | Carlos Barredo | Quick-Step | s.t. | | 8. | Andy Schleck | Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 9. | Lance Armstrong | Discovery Channel | s.t. | | 10. | Matteo Carrara | Liquigas | s.t. |
GC
| 1. | Levi Leipheimer | Discovery Channel | 19h05'58 | | 2. | Fabian Cancellara | Liquigas | + 27 | | 3. | Brice Feillu | Cofidis | + 1'11 | | 4. | Lance Armstrong | Discovery Channel | + 2'24 | | 5. | Markus Fothen | Milram | + 4'18 | | 6. | Michael Rogers | T-Mobile | + 4'46 | | 7. | Andreas Klöden | Discovery Channel | + 4'59 | | 8. | Juanjo Cobo | Saunier Duval | + 5'04 | | 9. | Andy Schleck | Saxo Bank | + 5'19 | | 10. | Vladimir Efimkin | AG2R La Mondiale | + 5'28 |
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Posted on 29-03-2011 01:13
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Oh, gotta say I didn't like Levi being the new leader =(
But indeed, Armstrong lost too many time in the TT to continue as leader.
And damn, neither Cancellara or Feillu lost time today! Especially Feillu, who should be very tired after yesterday's efforts. Hopefully that'll eventually have a considerable effect =)
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Posted on 29-03-2011 05:55
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Nice tactical riding , bad luck Cancellara made it with first group,any hard mountain stages left?
Go Roman!
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hellboy wrote:
any hard mountain stages left?
Squire wrote:
The 2436m Furka Pass looms on stage 5, while the following day is an absolute killer with several mountains, finishing on the Oberalppass. Stage 7 & 8 also contain a fair amount of climbing.
I'm not really afraid of Cancellara. He will certainly drop back. I still think Feillu is the most dangerous. |
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18.06.2011: Tour de Suisse
Stage 6
Ulrichen - Oberalppass: 192.0km
Tactics meeting
The Tour de Suisse organizers really know how to make legs hurt. This killer of a mountain stage is a nice way for the riders to test their Tour de France legs, as long as they don't destroy themselves in the process. We will make sure Cancellara disappears from the 2nd spot in the GC. Maybe we can get two Discovery riders on the podium in this race?
Carlos Barredo went for a daring solo escape already on the first mountain. He's no stranger to breakaways on inhuman stages though, we all remember the spectacular 16th stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia.
On the penultimate mountain, Lance Armstrong began the legbreaking for real. Barredo was 7 minutes ahead.
One by one, riders went out the back of the peloton. Points jersey wearer Cancellara (2nd overall) was one of the first to give in. That was our main mission for today accomplished.
Another casualty was far more surprising. Brice Feillu struggled to keep up! The Frenchman had 4 dreadful kilometers left to the top of this second-to-last climb. Armstrong was riding superbly as a domestique!
But soon even Armstrong hit the wall. That meant that only Leipheimer and Andy Schleck were left in the favourites group. Over the summit, Barredo kept a lead of 5 minutes back to these two. He could be able to keep ahead on the last climb.
At the foot of the Oberalppass, the final climb, Andy Schleck took off! Levi had nothing to answer the accelration with, as Schleck seemed much stronger.
The five minutes up to Barredo presented no problems for Schleck, who powered past the Spaniard with 4km remaining. At least Barredo got himself the KoM jersey.
Levi managed to limit his losses a bit, as he stayed within 2 minutes of the rampaging Luxembourger. Maxime Monfort (T-Mobile) made his way up to the yellow jersey on the climb.
There was nothing stopping Andy! What a show of power! Little brother Schleck moves into 2nd overall. He will be dangerous in the Tour de France.
Monfort and Leipheimer also passed Barredo. Monfort moved ahead of Levi in the final meters, but Levi only conceded 2'06 to Andy Schleck, so he still sits comfortably in the yellow jersey. Our only concern is that there are two mountain stages left, and if Schleck keeps this form up, who knows what might happen.
Today's winner
Results
| 1. | Andy Schleck | Saxo Bank | 6h26'24 | | 2. | Maxime Monfort | T-Mobile | + 1'52 | | 3. | Levi Leipheimer | Discovery Channel | + 2'06 | | 4. | Carlos Barredo  | Quick-Step | + 2'24 | | 5. | Lance Armstrong | Discovery Channel | + 3'08 | | 6. | Juanjo Cobo | Saunier Duval | + 4'46 | | 7. | Dani Moreno | Caisse d'Epargne | + 5'06 | | 8. | Brice Feillu | Cofidis | + 5'20 | | 9. | Markus Fothen | Milram | + 5'27 | | 10. | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo | + 5'43 |
GC
| 1. | Levi Leipheimer | Discovery Channel | 25h34'24 | | 2. | Andy Schleck | Saxo Bank | + 3'07 | | 3. | Lance Armstrong | Discovery Channel | + 3'30 | | 4. | Brice Feillu | Cofidis | + 4'29 | | 5. | Maxime Monfort | T-Mobile | + 5'22 | | 6. | Fabian Cancellara | Liquigas | + 5'43 | | 7. | Carlos Barredo | Quick-Step | + 7'02 | | 8. | Markus Fothen | Milram | + 7'43 | | 9. | Juanjo Cobo | Saunier Duval | + 7'48 | | 10. | Dani Moreno | Caisse d'Epargne | + 8'58 |
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Posted on 29-03-2011 17:28
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Great work by Armstrong. But in such hard stage, it wasn't a surprise to see Cancellara/Feillu get out of the way.
Bad Levi lost 2 minutes to Andy, but he still has a very comfortable position in GC. And hopefully Lance keeps his podium.
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19.06.2011: Tour de Suisse
Stage 7
Ambri - Bosco-Gurin: 180.0km
Tactics meeting
Stage 7 takes us up to the Alpine village of Bosco Gurin on the Swiss-Italian border. Apart from the final climb, it's a very gentle stage. The climb is probably not hard enough for Schleck to do any significant damage, so we expect to keep the yellow jersey through the day.
The peloton limited the possibilities of any breakaways. At the last intermediate sprint, Tom Boonen took back the polkadotted points jersey from Levi for a moment.
Aproaching the final climb, it was obvious who had intentions. Saxo Bank put several riders on the front.
And when they were spent, Andy Schleck went on the attack! The Luxembourger looks like he really wants the Tour de Suisse title.
We once again put Armstrong on the front. He has really acted profesionally after his overall ambitions took a hit in the stage 2 time trial.
Schleck was brought back again 8km from the top. Nice work by the eight-time Tour de France winner turned super-domestique.
The next to try his luck was stage 5 winner Juan Jose Cobo. We didn't have any big reason to chase down this attack.
But that situation soon changed. Andy Schleck wasn't beaten yet, and tried to go with Cobo!
The rest of the top climbers kept within sight of the leading duo. No real danger yet.
Schleck had spent too much energy on his first fruitless attack, so Cobo eventually dropped him. The Spaniard was all alone in front, with only 1.5km left.
Lance & Levi's group got a bit strung out in the last kilometer, and our riders lost a bit of ground, but Andy Schleck was just ahead.
Juanjo Cobo crossed the line for his second stage win in the Tour de Suisse. This one was even more brilliant than the one two days ago. Maybe he'll be a force to be reckoned with in the Tour de France?
Levi Leipheimer ended up on the wrong side of a time gap in the chasing group, and lost more than 1 minute to Andy Schleck. Still in yellow though, and with only tomorrow's mountain stage to split the peloton (stage 9 is flat), it's looking very good for us!
Today's winner
Results
| 1. | Juanjo Cobo | Saunier Duval | 4h16'18 | | 2. | Andy Schleck | Saxo Bank | + 1'02 | | 3. | Carlos Barredo | Quick-Step | + 1'14 | | 4. | Dani Moreno | Caisse d'Epargne | + 1'39 | | 5. | Maxime Monfort | T-Mobile | + 1'50 | | 6. | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo | s.t. | | 7. | Lance Armstrong | Discovery Channel | s.t. | | 8. | Levi Leipheimer | Discovery Channel | + 2'08 | | 9. | Markus Fothen | Milram | s.t. | | 10. | Brice Feillu | Cofidis | s.t. |
GC
| 1. | Levi Leipheimer | Discovery Channel | 29h52'50 | | 2. | Andy Schleck | Saxo Bank | + 1'55 | | 3. | Lance Armstrong | Discovery Channel | + 3'12 | | 4. | Brice Feillu | Cofidis | + 4'29 | | 5. | Maxime Monfort | T-Mobile | + 5'04 | | 6. | Juanjo Cobo | Saunier Duval | + 5'30 | | 7. | Carlos Barredo | Quick-Step | + 6'04 | | 8. | Fabian Cancellara | Liquigas | + 7'05 | | 9. | Markus Fothen | Milram | + 7'43 | | 10. | Dani Moreno | Caisse d'Epargne | + 8'29 |
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Posted on 29-03-2011 22:31
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Damn, one minute to Schleck when he was in clear sights in the last km.
Better luck for tomorrow, but I believe both Levi and Lance might secure their positions =)
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Posted on 29-03-2011 23:14
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A bit of bad luck with the time gaps. Looking at the picture, the gap between Lance and Levi is hardly 18 seconds.
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Posted on 29-03-2011 23:16
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It appears Feillu only doped in the first mountain stage. |
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Posted on 30-03-2011 00:06
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20.06.2011: Tour de Suisse
Stage 8
Locarno - St Moritz: 192.0km
Tactics meeting
The penultimate stage is the last venture into the mountains, which makes us very happy. Just one more day of defending the overall lead, before Levi Leipheimer hopefully rides into Zurich with the yellow jersey tomorrow. Andy Schleck is 1'55 behind, but the flat section after the last climb could prove useful for reeling in any successful attacks.
A motivated breakaway was led by Astana's Juanma Garate on the climbs. The four-man group was given an advantage of 10 minutes over the second mountain.
As the peloton hit the last climb, Kolobnev and Devolder took to the front. Were they setting something up for Andy?
Carlos Barredo was the one with courage to launch the first attack! The Spaniard was borrowing Levi's points jersey today, even though he led the KoM competition.
Barredo was brought back 7km before the mountain top. And then, as expected, it was Andy's turn! Now we had to stay strong!
Luckily it wasn't one of the Schlecklet's best days. He didn't really get anywhere, and just ended up pacing the yellow jersey group closer to the breakaway.
And the last two escapees, Garate (Astana) and Pierfelici (Liquigas) were duly caught just before the road started to level out again.
A group of eight riders, comprising most of the top ten, made it across the last summit ahead of everybody else. Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer were of course still present.
Sensing an opportunity for a stage win, Leipheimer tried to ride away from the lead group under the 5km banner!
Brice Feillu was very attentive, and managed to go with Levi. It was now probably too late for the rest of the group to come back.
Not far from the line, Levi managed to manouvre himself into a perfect position! He had the win in his pocket!
With just a few meters remaining, Levi launched his sprint!
Noo! Levi couldn't go past Feillu, who wins his second stage! So close! Now we have to be content with just the overall win and no stage wins. Ah well, I think I can accept that!
Armstrong finished with the rest of the leading group to wrap up his 3rd place overall. What a Tour this is turning out to be for Discovery! Now, no accidents tomorrow please.
Today's winner
Results
| 1. | Brice Feillu | Cofidis | 5h36'27 | | 2. | Levi Leipheimer | Discovery Channel | s.t. | | 3. | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo | + 29 | | 4. | Maxime Monfort | T-Mobile | s.t. | | 5. | Markus Fothen | Milram | s.t. | | 6. | Juanjo Cobo | Saunier Duval | s.t. | | 7. | Andy Schleck | Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 8. | Lance Armstrong | Discovery Channel | s.t. | | 9. | Fabian Cancellara | Liquigas | + 1'21 | | 10. | Dani Moreno | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. |
GC
| 1. | Levi Leipheimer | Discovery Channel | 35h29'11 | | 2. | Andy Schleck | Saxo Bank | + 2'30 | | 3. | Lance Armstrong | Discovery Channel | + 3'47 | | 4. | Brice Feillu | Cofidis | + 4'25 | | 5. | Maxime Monfort | T-Mobile | + 5'39 | | 6. | Juanjo Cobo | Saunier Duval | + 6'05 | | 7. | Markus Fothen | Milram | + 8'18 | | 8. | Carlos Barredo | Quick-Step | + 8'29 | | 9. | Fabian Cancellara | Liquigas | + 8'32 | | 10. | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo | + 9'42 |
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Posted on 30-03-2011 00:42
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Great race for Discovery, pity you couldn't get a stage win. Damn you Feillu!
Levi seems ready for the TdF
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FreitasPCM wrote:
It appears Feillu only doped in the first mountain stage.
Are you sure?  |
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Posted on 30-03-2011 10:15
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Great performance in Switzerland,looking forward to NCs and of course TdF
Go Roman!
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21.06.2011: Tour de Suisse
Stage 9 [Last stage]
Davos - Zurich: 182.0km
Tactics meeting
Today's stage is the sprinters' reward for putting up with tough mountains through the last few days. But that doesn't mean we're not allowed to try and spoil it!
In a last attempt at a stage win, we put Sergio Paulinho in the breakaway.
But if the peloton is determined, there is no way a break can stay away. Paulinho was reeled in 11km out.
A bunch sprint followed, and it was won by Edvald Boasson Hagen, who hasn't really capitalized on the promise of his early career results.
The main event for us on this day was the podium presentation. Levi Leipheimer wins his first major stage race since his Dauphiné triumph in 2006! He is definitely ready to challenge for top honours in the Tour de France.
Today's winner
Results
| 1. | Edvald Boasson Hagen | T-Mobile | 4h31'02 | | 2. | Dennis Pohl | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 3. | Robert Förster | Milram | s.t. | | 4. | Martin Elmiger | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 5. | Vicente Reynés | T-Mobile | s.t. | | 6. | Tom Boonen | Quick-Step | s.t. | | 7. | Óscar Freire | Silence - Lotto | s.t. | | 8. | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 9. | Borut Bozic | Katusha | s.t. | | 10. | Andreas Klöden | Discovery Channel | s.t. |
Final GC
| 1. | Levi Leipheimer | Discovery Channel | 40h00'13 | | 2. | Andy Schleck | Saxo Bank | + 2'30 | | 3. | Lance Armstrong | Discovery Channel | + 3'47 | | 4. | Brice Feillu | Cofidis | + 4'25 | | 5. | Maxime Monfort | T-Mobile | + 5'39 | | 6. | Juanjo Cobo | Saunier Duval | + 6'05 | | 7. | Markus Fothen | Milram | + 8'18 | | 8. | Carlos Barredo | Quick-Step | + 8'29 | | 9. | Fabian Cancellara | Liquigas | + 8'32 | | 10. | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo | + 9'42 | | 11. | Dani Moreno | Caisse d'Epargne | + 9'56 | | 12. | Vladimir Efimkin | AG2R La Mondiale | + 11'10 | | 13. | Michael Rogers | T-Mobile | + 16'10 | | 14. | Oliver Zaugg | Liquigas | + 17'09 | | 15. | Sandy Casar | Cofidis | + 18'34 |
Points ranking
| 1. | Levi Leipheimer | Discovery Channel | 58 | | 2. | Tom Boonen | Quick-Step | 53 | | 3. | Brice Feillu | Cofidis | 49 |
Mountain ranking
| 1. | Carlos Barredo | Quick-Step | 114 | | 2. | Andy Schleck | Saxo Bank | 71 | | 3. | Sylvain Calzati | Agritubel | 66 |
Youth ranking
| 1. | Vitaliy Buts  | Lampre | 40h20'00 | | 2. | Marcel Wyss | Cervélo | + 22 | | 3. | Andrey Amador | Caisse d'Epargne | + 2'01 |
Team classification
| 1. | Discovery Channel | 120h28'33 | | 2. | T-Mobile | + 12'19 | | 3. | Milram | + 18'11 |
Finally a big win for us! It's our 13th of the season, and our biggest by far! Levi proved himself to be the most consistent rider over the nine stages, and despite not winning any of them, he was a clear winner of the race. Armstrong was our original leader in Switzerland, but his TT capabilities let him down. Our double domination with Levi and Lance on stage 3 of this race was probably the last we saw of Armstrong as a major force in the mountains. He will now go on a holiday, before he ends his career at Lombardia in October.
Just like Leipheimer, Andy Schleck seems to be on his way into some good Tour de France form. After the time trial win on stage 2, Fabian Cancellara is the big favourite for taking the first Maillot Jaune after the prologue in Paris. There's a big question mark surrounding Alberto Contador, who has taken part in neither the Dauphiné nor the Tour de Suisse.
There are only a couple of weeks left until La Grand Boucle, and we're really looking forward to it! Before the Tour de France though, there are plenty of national champion jerseys to be handed out! Stay tuned! |
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Posted on 30-03-2011 16:56
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As often, great race for Discovery. Team, points and two on overall podium. When these guys are on form, almost no one can beat them =)
Hopefully the 'strange' preparation of Contador kicks him out of contention, so I believe this tour should be very much around Levi and Schleck, and Levi seems ready to take the challenge
Looking forward for the TdF, yay!
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25.06.2011: National championships
It's late June, and once again the majority of national cycling championships have just been ridden. We looked forward to the national championships with a few time trial hopes like Gusev, Millar and Paulinho. In the road races, anything could happen. We had quite a few guys capable of delivering the goods, so we were hoping to become a colourful gang in the coming year.
The NC weekend didn't start off very well, as David Millar was beaten by Wiggins in the British TT championship. Success soon followed though, as both Gusev and Paulinho took home their national TT titles. Gusev therefore swaps his Russian road race jersey for a similarly coloured skinsuit, while Paulinho will continue to time trial in red and green.
David Millar made up for the TT defeat by winning the British road championship after a stellar solo effort. It's the second time in his career that Millar is national road champion.
 
Both Gusev and Millar celebrated their national titles in miserable conditions.
Roman Kreuziger raced his first competitive race since Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but he could only manage 6th in his national road race. However, we did get an Eastern European national champion, as Ivan Rovny soloed to the win in Russia. Discovery dominated the Russian championships, taking both road and TT wins.
The most agonizing result happened in Spain. Egoi Martinez and Haimar Zubeldia managed to get into a four-man breakaway that stayed away until the finish. Despite a good lead-out from Martinez, Zubeldia saw himself beaten in the sprint by Cervélo's Oscar Pujol. It would have been nice to have the prestigous Spanish national champion's jersey in the team, but 2nd & 4th was still a good result. At least Valverde's three-year streak comes to an end.
Zubeldia was one wheel-length away from becoming Spanish champion.
Riders like Popovych, Di Gregorio and Van Goolen lacked support in their national races, and failed to feature in the finale. We still got four victories during the weekend, something I'm very pleased with. We will add some colour to the peloton during the next year, starting with the Tour de France.
Notable national champions
Individual time trial
 Maxime Monfort | T-Mobile |  Jérôme Coppel | AG2R La Mondiale |  Tony Martin | T-Mobile |  Bradley Wiggins | Garmin - Transitions |  Ivan Basso | Liquigas |  Joost Posthuma | Rabobank |  Sergio Paulinho | Discovery Channel |  Vladimir Gusev | Discovery Channel |  Alberto Contador | Astana |
Road race
| Philippe Gilbert | Silence - Lotto | | Jérôme Pineau | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | | Heinrich Haussler | Saxo Bank | | David Millar | Discovery Channel | | Giovanni Visconti | Liquigas | | Robert Gesink | Quick-Step | | Rui Costa | Caisse d'Epargne | | Ivan Rovny | Discovery Channel | | Óscar Pujol | Cervélo |
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Posted on 30-03-2011 22:48
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Damn, even without Suisse/Dauphiné Contador managed to win the ITT. Hopefully that's not a sign of good form =/
Great championships for Discovery, 4 wins and one 2nd place
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@luigi: We had even more 2nd places Klöden behind Martin, Millar behind Wiggins.
Now I want some opinions from you readers. In the past, I've been doing extended Tour de France coverage, with updates on all jerseys and even summaries at the end of each stage. Is this something you want to see continued, or should I cut it down to the normal way in which I do all other races? I feel the former could be bordering on information overload, and is it really necessary now that I have included small jersey pictures? What do you guys say? |
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Posted on 30-03-2011 23:57
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That will be like choosing candy or candy I found your Tour de Suisse reports great, but I also enjoyed the way you reported the TdF 2010. If I have to choose, I hope you do it similar to last TdF. At least I thought it was great, reading "in-depth" about Martinez fight for the KoMjersey, and also having control on what was going on in the fight for the green jersey, not to mention the great "usual" report from each stage.
I'm not sure I've commented on your story before, but it is great reading, nice language and great pictures |
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