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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 06-04-2013 20:14
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9 minutes to 2nd? Looks like Contador took a little bit too much steak for that race. |
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 07-04-2013 08:21
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Miguel98: Yeah, and that's even right after finishing 2nd in the Giro and going on to race the Tour. Talk about suspicious...
No one managed to follow him on a single attack - he just went off and then people cracked behind!
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 08-04-2013 12:43
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Championship Week - ITT's
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The riders expected to battle this one out it Bøchman, Alex Rasmussen, Fuglsang, Quaade and Norman Hansen.
Blue Water is having a brilliant day as Lasse Norman Hansen sets best time - a time Fuglsang is not able to beat! First rider to beat Lasse is team mate Rasmus Quaade.
Mads Christensen of Glud & Marstrand – LRØ is even faster. Only Bøchman and Rasmussen left on the route by now.
Lasse have really enjoyed riding in the champions jersey this last year and just manage to beat Christensen. They are no match for Alex Rasmussen in shape though. Brilliant ride by Alex, but disappointing for us to lose the jersey.
| 1 | Alex Rasmussen | Garmin - Sharp | 53'32 | | 2 | Lasse Bøchman | Volvo - STARK | + 1'00 | | 3 | Mads Christensen | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 1'07 | | 4 | Rasmus Quaade | Blue Water Cycling | + 1'26 | | 5 | Lasse Norman Hansen | Blue Water Cycling | + 1'28 |
Spoiler | 6 | Søren Nissen | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 1'52 | | 7 | Michael Valgren Andersen | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 1'53 | | 8 | Jimmi Sørensen | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 1'56 | | 9 | Jakob Fuglsang | Volvo - STARK | + 1'58 | | 10 | Michael Færk Christensen | Volvo - STARK | + 2'00 | | 11 | Christopher Juul-Jensen | Volvo - STARK | + 2'02 | | 12 | Martin Mortensen | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 2'12 | | 13 | Rasmus Guldhammer | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 2'23 | | 14 | Michael Mørkøv | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 2'24 | | 15 | Michael Tronborg | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 2'25 | | 16 | Morten Kruse Brink | Volvo - STARK | + 2'32 | | 17 | Casper Von Folsach | Blue Water Cycling | + 2'53 | | 18 | Andreas Frisch | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 2'55 | | 19 | Niki Østergaard | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 2'58 | | 20 | Matti Breschel | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 21 | André Steensen | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 2'59 | | 22 | Frederik Thalund | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 3'01 | | 23 | Daniel Kreutzfeldt | Volvo - STARK | + 3'04 | | 24 | Michael Reihs | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 3'06 | | 25 | Sebastian Lander | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 3'07 | | 26 | Brian Vandborg | SpiderTech powered by C10 | + 3'10 | | 27 | Nikola Aistrup | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 3'11 | | 28 | Kasper Klostergaard | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 3'18 | | 29 | Kristian Sobota | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 3'24 | | 30 | Rasmus Sterebo | Volvo - STARK | + 3'27 | | 31 | Mark Sehested | Blue Water Cycling | + 3'28 | | 32 | Rolf Nyborg Broge | Blue Water Cycling | + 3'32 | | 33 | Ole Olsen | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 3'38 | | 34 | Niki Byrgesen | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 3'43 | | 35 | Troels Rønning Vinther | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 3'45 | | 36 | Kasper Linde Jørgensen | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 3'49 | | 37 | Michael Rasmussen | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 38 | Michael Smith Larsen | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 4'00 | | 39 | Jesper Mørkøv | Blue Water Cycling | + 4'02 | | 40 | Daniel Foder | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 4'03 | | 41 | Christian Ranneries | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 4'07 | | 42 | Jeppe Lykke Hartvig Nielsen | Volvo - STARK | + 4'11 | | 43 | Matthias Lisson | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 4'12 | | 44 | René Jørgensen | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 45 | Kaspar Larsen | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 4'13 | | 46 | Jesper Nielsen | Blue Water Cycling | + 4'24 | | 47 | Casper Degn | Blue Water Cycling | + 4'27 | | 48 | Kenneth Hansen | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 4'31 | | 49 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 4'40 | | 50 | Jonas Aaen Jørgensen | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 51 | Marc Hester | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 4'45 | | 52 | Mikkel Lund | Blue Water Cycling | + 5'10 | | 53 | Philip Nielsen | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 5'20 | | 54 | Brian Steen Matzen | Volvo - STARK | + 5'27 | | 55 | John B. Blond | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 5'42 | | 56 | Jacob Clorius | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 5'46 | | 57 | Lars Høeg | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 6'18 | | 58 | Morten Høberg | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 6'33 |
Admitted: That was quite disappointing. Of course the Norwegian championship was never within our reach and Alex is hard to beat in a TT when he is in top shape.
I didn't see Kessiakoff's strong TT coming though. He is not a bad TT'er, but Ludvigsson in a decent form should beat Fredrik 9 out of 10 times!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 08-04-2013 12:58
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 08-04-2013 13:01
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No TT champion. That's disappointing. Good luck with the RR
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| krisa |
Posted on 08-04-2013 13:03
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So close
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 08-04-2013 13:46
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sutty: Yeah, sadly that doesn's help much in NC's 
Jakstar: In deed. No surprise in Norway and on paper Alex Rasmussen is the best Danish TT'er so I guess that's fair as well but I can't figure out how Kessiakoff managed to pull off a TT that strong! The RR's should be much better 
krisa: Yeah, just not close enough...
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 08-04-2013 15:47
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Boasson Hagen really is scary strong  |
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 08-04-2013 17:52
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Ian: He is. Not only catching the rider in front of him, but when that rider finishes 2nd it's hard to argue about Boasson Hagen just simply being the best
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 08-04-2013 18:19
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 Norsk Mesterskap
With the form Edvald have been showing lately the key to winning this race is finishing without him. Preferably without Kristoff as well…
For once in the Norwegian Championship Boasson Hagen and Nordhaug are ready to work right from the start so we can’t get Thor in a break as hoped. With 40 km to go 21 riders are left in the front group.
The Vodafone riders take turns in front for the last 100 km. They are hoping to tire Thor, but this is right up our alley.
Slowly more and more fall behind and when the group goes in to the last With 10 km only Nordhaug, Boasson Hagen and Hushovd remain in front. Guess it will be a sprint after all. Hopefully Edvald will be tired after working a lot today.
Thor didn’t quite feel comfortable by a sprint so with 5 km to go on a small flat section before the final 3 km downhill he is off. Edvald relies on Nordhaug to catch Thor.
That was the last mistake he made today!
| 1 | Thor Hushovd | Volvo - STARK | 5h36'44 | | 2 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Team Vodafone | s.t. | | 3 | Lars Petter Nordhaug | Team Vodafone | + 36 | | 4 | Alexander Kristoff | Team Gazprom | + 2'39 | | 5 | Magnus Espeland | Jardar Sykling | + 3'25 |
Spoiler | 6 | Havard Nybö | Volvo - STARK | + 4'19 | | 7 | Frederik Wilmann | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 8 | Frans-Leonard Markaskard | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | s.t. | | 9 | Sven Erik Bystrøm | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | s.t. | | 10 | Christer Rake | Joker Merida | s.t. | | 11 | Daniel Jarstø | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | s.t. | | 12 | Vegard Stake Laengen | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | | 13 | Gabriel Rasch | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 14 | Vegard Bugge | Jardar Sykling | + 5'20 | | 15 | Filip Eidsheim | Jardar Sykling | + 5'52 | | 16 | Ingar Stokstad | Jardar Sykling | + 6'56 | | 17 | Vegard Breen | Joker Merida | s.t. | | 18 | Adrian Gjølberg | Jardar Sykling | s.t. | | 19 | Martin Ole Ølmheim | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | + 7'32 | | 20 | Kristian Dyrnes | Jardar Sykling | s.t. | | 21 | Ole Haavardsholm | Volvo - STARK | + 8'09 | | 22 | Kristian Forbord | Joker Merida | + 10'20 | | 23 | Eirik Jarlseth | Jardar Sykling | s.t. | | 24 | Stian Remme | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | s.t. | | 25 | Geir Berg | Joker Merida | + 10'39 | | 26 | Sondre Sörtveit | Joker Merida | s.t. | | 27 | Håvard Blikra | Jardar Sykling | s.t. | | 28 | Daniel Gomnes | Jardar Sykling | s.t. | | 29 | Johan Ziesler | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | + 15'42 | | 30 | Carl Axel Storsve | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | + 16'01 |
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200 km of ups and downs. We have a strong team and anything except a win will be considered a failure.
Lots and lots of attacking right from the start, but for some reason GM – LRØ keep reeling the breaks back in – even when they’re in the break themselves!
So we figured that if we can’t get in a break we might as well take charge and make the race hard from the peloton.
With 50 km to go we have reduced the peloton to 36 riders with Nikola Aistrup, Jonas Aaen Jørgensen and Mads Andersen out in front with about a minutes advantage. Everything going according to the plan B this far…
9 km to go and Bøchman sets in his move. Surprisingly no one follows him and he quickly gets half a minute alone.
Brilliant teamwork resulted in a championship for the strongest rider on the day.
| 1 | Lasse Bøchman | Volvo - STARK | 5h17'54 | | 2 | Matti Breschel | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | Niki Østergaard | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | s.t. | | 4 | Jonas Aaen Jørgensen | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 5 | Martin Pedersen | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. |
Spoiler | 6 | André Steensen | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | s.t. | | 7 | Jesper Hansen | Volvo - STARK | s.t. | | 8 | Nikola Aistrup | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | s.t. | | 9 | Troels Rønning Vinther | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 10 | Michael Reihs | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 11 | Michael Valgren Andersen | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | s.t. | | 12 | Brian Steen Matzen | Volvo - STARK | s.t. | | 13 | Nicki Sørensen | Volvo - STARK | s.t. | | 14 | Daniel Kreutzfeldt | Volvo - STARK | s.t. | | 15 | Jakob Fuglsang | Volvo - STARK | s.t. | | 16 | Christopher Juul-Jensen | Volvo - STARK | s.t. | | 17 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Volvo - STARK | s.t. | | 18 | Jeppe Lykke Hartvig Nielsen | Volvo - STARK | s.t. | | 19 | Michael Rasmussen | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 20 | Michael Tronborg | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 21 | Kristian Sobota | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 1'25 | | 22 | Søren Nissen | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 23 | Kasper Linde Jørgensen | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 2'23 | | 24 | Jimmi Sørensen | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 25 | Matthias Lisson | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | s.t. | | 26 | Mads Christensen | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 3'23 | | 27 | Marc Hester | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | s.t. | | 28 | Kasper Klostergaard | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 29 | Kenneth Hansen | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | s.t. | | 30 | Andreas Frisch | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 4'37 | | 31 | Rasmus Guldhammer | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 5'08 | | 32 | Frederik Thalund | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | s.t. | | 33 | Kaspar Larsen | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 6'17 | | 34 | Daniel Foder | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | s.t. | | 35 | Lasse Norman Hansen | Blue Water Cycling | s.t. | | 36 | Rolf Nyborg Broge | Blue Water Cycling | s.t. | | 37 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 38 | Jesper Nielsen | Blue Water Cycling | + 8'05 | | 39 | Sebastian Lander | Glud & Marstrand - LRØ | + 8'35 | | 40 | René Jørgensen | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 8'57 | | 41 | Michael Mørkøv | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 42 | Morten Øllegaard | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 9'58 | | 43 | Martin Mortensen | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 44 | Casper Von Folsach | Blue Water Cycling | + 11'24 | | 45 | Casper Degn | Blue Water Cycling | + 12'10 | | 46 | Brian Vandborg | SpiderTech powered by C10 | + 15'03 | | 47 | Alex Rasmussen | Garmin - Sharp | + 19'05 | | 48 | Christian Ranneries | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 20'01 | | 49 | Philip Nielsen | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 24'57 | | 50 | Jesper Mørkøv | Blue Water Cycling | s.t. | | 51 | Pelle Clapp | Blue Water Cycling | s.t. | | 52 | Rasmus Quaade | Blue Water Cycling | s.t. | | 53 | Mark Sehested | Blue Water Cycling | s.t. | | 54 | Ole Olsen | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | s.t. | | 55 | John B. Blond | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 30'00 | | 56 | Jacob Clorius | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 30'36 | | 57 | Lars Høeg | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 58 | Morten Høberg | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 32'24 |
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With the form Kessiakoff showed in the TT we will have to keep a close eye on him and make sure he is either gone or tired when the final kms approach.
Right from the start I told Tobias Ludvigsson to get in a break. If possible with an IKEA-rider and one of the Concordia-guys. He did so even though three IKEA-riders might be overdoing it a bit.
With 100 km to go the gap has grown to 17’25’’. Kessiakoff still not looking to start working and with IKEA and Concordia satisfied to be in the break he doesn't get much help…
I have to say I find it rather embarrassing that Kessiakoff still won’t do anything. An alliance with the other “lone riders” could have been strong. The route fits Wetterhall as well and Håkan Nilsson should have good chances in a sprint.
The three IKEA guys could become a problem in the finale, so Tobias put on the pressure on the hills to shake them and it pays off. With 7 km to go he is alone with Sebastian Balck 1’40’’ ahead of the three other breakers and about a millennium ahead of the main group.
Having absolutely no risk of getting caught from behind the last 5 km turns extremely tactical with neither Tobias nor Sebastian willing to lead. Both knows that the one who opens the sprint will be the one losing it...
In the end Balck opens the sprint and Tobias can call himself Swedish Champion.
| 1 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Volvo - STARK | 5h48'42 | | 2 | Sebastian Balck | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | + 38 | | 3 | Linus Dahlberg | IKEA Cykling | + 3'01 | | 4 | Niklas Gustavsson | IKEA Cykling | s.t. | | 5 | Filip Rudenstam | IKEA Cykling | s.t. |
Spoiler | 6 | Jonas Ljungblad | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | + 28'58 | | 7 | Fredrik Kessiakoff | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 8 | Thomas Löfkvist | Volvo - STARK | s.t. | | 9 | Michael Stevenson | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | s.t. | | 10 | Johan Lindgren | IKEA Cykling | s.t. | | 11 | Andreas Linden | IKEA Cykling | s.t. | | 12 | Gunnar Grönlund | IKEA Cykling | s.t. | | 13 | Lars Andersson | IKEA Cykling | s.t. | | 14 | Johan Nystrand | IKEA Cykling | + 29'36 | | 15 | Philip Lindau | Volvo - STARK | s.t. | | 16 | Gustav Erik Larsson | Volvo - STARK | s.t. | | 17 | Christofer Stevenson | Volvo - STARK | s.t. | | 18 | Håkan Nilsson | Atlas Personal - Jakroo | + 30'43 | | 19 | Alexander Wetterhall | Endura Racing | + 34'30 |
Now that's more like it. The team executed the plans to perfection and though we missed out on the TT's getting all three RR-championships is very important to us!
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Posted on 08-04-2013 18:22
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3 out of 3!!!
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Posted on 08-04-2013 18:30
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so close in the TT but total domination in the RR great job!
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 08-04-2013 18:33
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Great win. 28 minutes to the pack in Sweden is good. Hurray for NC's and his easiness to win. |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 08-04-2013 19:05
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Oh yeah. No TT but all RR, amazing!
Who beat mighty EBH? Only one man who could do that  |
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 08-04-2013 20:19
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dienblad: No more than what we aimed for
SSj2Luigi: Thanks
Miguel98: Yeah Sweden and Norway are all about getting in the break, but the Danish is much more difficult to win as guite a few teams are willing to chase breaks.
Ian: Thor may be old, but in a race like this routine counts as well
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 08-04-2013 23:39
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Three National Champions in a row |
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Posted on 09-04-2013 10:35
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sutty: No better way to show we're the Nordic Super-team!
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 09-04-2013 10:49
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Great job with the 3 wins. You are going to put my jerseys to use
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Posted on 09-04-2013 10:55
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Jakstar: Thanks. The jerseys will most certainly be used throughout the entire season
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Posted on 09-04-2013 10:55
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Rider of the month:  Alberto Contador, Team Saxo – Tinkoff. Complete domination in Tour de Suisse and a Spanish TT-championship. Not bad for a month in-between two Grand Tours.
Nordic rider of the month: Edvald Boasson Hagen, Team Vodafone. For winning Ster ZLM Tour including the mountain jersey, the points jersey and four of the five stages. Along with that a completely sueperior show of power in the Norwegian TT-championship.
Edvald Boasson Hagen, Team Vodafone
For the last 1½ month you have completely dominated the races you take part in making you the rider with the most victories of all this season. Yet you are only 106th in the World Tour rankings. That must feel weird?
It does. When I signed with Sky for the 2010-season I was promised to be captain in the biggest races when I have developed and then the management go signing riders like Cavendish and Sagan, who target the same races as me. That is very disappointing for me!
So you will not be staying with Vodafone next season?
It this point I can’t give you any details, but I promise you that next season I will not be riding mainly as support for others. I’m going into the best years of my career and I will not waste them on a team that doesn’t appreciate my qualities!
One team does spring to mind when a Nordic profile seeks a new team though…
Haha… I guess it does, but since we aren’t allowed to negotiate contracts until tomorrow I can’t tell you anything. Except that I’m leaving all doors open as long as I get to be captain on a WT-team.
You’re all set up for Tour de France. What will be your role their?
The same as usual – babysitting for Mark and then riding my own chance in the TT’s. 18 days at the office and three days of fun…
Well good luck with that. We’ll look forward to seeing you dominate on the World Tour next season…
| 1 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo – Tinkoff | 391 | | 2 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel – Euskadi | 373 | | 3 |  Tom Boonen | RadioShack – Nissan | 363 | | 10 | Thor Hushovd | Volvo – STARK | 204 | | 13 | Jakob Fuglsang | Volvo – STARK | 157 | | 68 | Thomas Löfkvist | Volvo – STARK | 48 |
| 1 |  RadioShack – Nissan | 1149 | | 2 |  Rabobank Cycling Team | 654 | | 3 | Volvo – STARK | 639 | | 10 | Team Saxo – Tinkoff | 410 | | 27 | Joker Merida | 41 |
Relegation spots: Gazprom and OmegaPharma - QuickStep
| 1 |  Nacer Bouhanni | FDJ – BigMat | 350 | | 2 | Aurélion Passeron | AG2R La Mondiale | 335 | | 3 |  Marko Kump | Adria Mobil | 331 | | 63 | Michael Reihs | Christina Watches – Onfone | 120 | | 69 | Frederik Wilmann | Christina Watches – Onfone | 111 | | 132 | Sebastian Balck | Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | 59 |
| 1 | Cofidis, le credit en ligne | 1378 | | 2 | FDJ – BigMat | 1267 | | 3 | Landbouwkredit - Euphony | | 8. | Christina Watches – Onfone | 817 | | 21. | Team Øster Hus – Ridley | 468 | | 24. | Team Concordia Forsikring – Himmerland | 422 | | 34. | Joker Merida | 250 | | 35. | Glud & Marstrand – LRØ | 228 | | 45. | Blue Water Cycling | 142 | | 50. | Ikea Cykling | 74 | | 58. | Jardar Sykling | 43 |
Promotion spots: Cofidis and Colnago – CSF Inox
It is expected that the announced replacement of Glud & Marstrand with the major Danish phone company TDC will increase the team budget next year. What will this mean for Danish cycling in the future – especially considering DONG energys replacement of Concordia Forsikring? Two big companies replaces two small in the peloton.
Quite a lot of high-profile riders have yet to sign a contract for next season. Among the most noteworthy are Cavendish, Urán and Wiggins from Team Vodafone. A team that apparently will be looking very different next season. Also RadioShack is parting with a lot of their best riders as are Liquigas – Cannondale. This will certainly invite to an interesting transfer season!
For a comprehensive list of the WT-profiles free for transfer (grouped by current team):
Complete overview of mid-season champions
| TT-champion | RR-Champion | | Denmark | Alex Rasmussen | Lasse Bøchman | | Norway | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Thor Hushovd | | Sweden | Fredrik Kessiakoff | Tobias Ludvigsson |  Austria | | Bernhard Eisel | | Belgium | Kevin De Weert | Nick Nuyens |  Canada | Svein Tuft | Guillaume Boivin |  Columbia | Rigoberto Urán | Rigoberto Urán |  Czech Republic | Frantisek Rabon | Martin Hebik |  Estonia | | Pavel Korotshkin | | France | Anthony Roux | Anthony Roux |  Germany | Tony Martin | André Greipel |  Great Britain | Bradley Wiggins | Mark Cavendish |  Ireland | | Sam Benett |  Italy | Maurizio Biondo | Filippo Pozzato |  Kazakhstan | | Assan Bazayev |  Lithuania | | Gediminas Bagdonas |  Luxembourg | | Alex Kirsch | | Netherlands | Robert Gesink | Lars Boom |  Poland | Bartosz Huzarski | Krzysztof Jezowski |  Portugal | Tiago Machado | Nelson Oliveira |  Russia | Vladimir Karpets | Alexandr Kolobnev | | Slovenia | | Grega Bole | | Spain | Alberto Contador | Francisco José Ventoso |  Switzerland | Fabian Cancellara | Grégory Rast |  Ukraine | Vitaliy Popkov | Vitaliy Popkov | | USA | David Zabriskie | Christian Vande Velde |
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