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Team HTC-Columbia - The End!
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| LaMagliaRosa |
Posted on 21-12-2010 23:24
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Don't forget Steegmans as well. Seems theyre stacked with sprinters who can take 3rds-10ths but not anyone who can take many wins.
Great story btw, keep it coming!  |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 07:37
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LaMagliaRosa wrote:
Don't forget Steegmans as well. Seems theyre stacked with sprinters who can take 3rds-10ths but not anyone who can take many wins.
Great story btw, keep it coming!
Omg Steegmans as well!?
Thanks a lot, it´s always great to hear something like that |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 09:28
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While the Vuelta isn´t far away, we still have to participate in an one day classic in France. Because of that, we´ve sent a very strong squad with Monfort and Albasini as team leaders. Siutsou and Velits are also there so we´ve got nice chances for good results. The competition isn´t that strong with Fothen, Fedrigo, Cobo, Le Mevel, Igor Anton and of course Monfort and Albasini. By the way we´re thinking about a Vuelta start by Maxime Monfort
There were some famous names in today´s breakaway with De La Fuente and Reus but they were caught with more than 25 kilometres to go
As Monfort´s shape isn´t really good at the moment, we´ve sent hin on a special trip! Cobo and Ista were following him while Igor Anton and a few more made a move out of the pack
With only 8 kilometres to go, Ista and Cobo were in front but Ista was able to get a little gap to his main rival Cobo
Bad luck for Maxime Monfort as he was crashing 3 kilometres before the race was over. Fortunately he wasn´t injured badly
Ista was unstoppable today. He took a really nice win for his team but where are Albasini and the other favourites?
While Cobo was able to take an easy second place, the chasing group sprinted for the last position on the podium. Albasini was in front when the sprint began
But he wasn´t fast enough to keep it up with Fedrigo and Igor Anton! Finally he finished as 9th..this is not that good we´ve thought about in front of this race
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 22-12-2010 09:50
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What a weird result, since when Ista wins a PT classic?  |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 09:52
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FreitasPCM wrote:
What a weird result, since when Ista wins a PT classic?
Yes, that´s quite unusual but I´m still happy if we can get a nice Vuelta result  |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 09:55
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So with only 2 days to christmas, I would like to show you the top 3 transfers for Columbia!
Today I´ll present you a great time trialist but he´s also a fantastic sprinter and he likes cobblestones! You might know him as a Columbia fan  We decided to bring him back to his old team
Let´s welcome Edvald Boasson Hagen
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 09:59
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Great transfer!
Next two even better then this?! |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 10:10
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Pellizotti2 wrote:
Great transfer!
Next two even better then this?!
Yes exactly I know it´s hard to beat this one but it should be better, at least in my opinion |
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| roturn |
Posted on 22-12-2010 10:47
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Excellent. HTC in 2011 will be brilliant.
50+ wins should be possible. |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 11:13
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@roturn, 50+ sounds hard but could be possible
It´s the last flat stage in this year´s Eneco Tour, so it´s the last chance for Renshaw to win a stage. But as you know our sprint preperation wasn´t really good in the last days. Boonen and Ciolek might be the biggest favourites as both of them are in a brilliant shape so far. I´m looking forward, if we going to see them at the Vuelta!
Of course the game crashed again! This time, the breakaway dominated the stage until the end. As we were the only team, doing a lot of work in the pack, we had no chance to get them back. It seemed that no sprinter was interested to win that stage. The most famous names in today´s break were Chicchi, Dean and Intxausti. Last one was able to make a final move in the last kilometres. No one went after him so Chicchi and Dean missed the chance to win a stage. We were not interested in a bunch sprint while the break takes many places today! So the next flat stage, where we couldn´t demonstrate our strength. Intxausti won the stage in front of Offredo and Gavazzi
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 13:40
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So we finally reached the last stage of the Eneco Tour 2010! Only 13 kilometres left for the winner of this tour Fabian Cancellara. Well, his advantage is too big and by the way he is the best time trialist in this whole world. The last 7 days were not as successful as we hoped before but with a nice result in today´s ITT, we still could be happy
Brajkovic was the first great rider today, crossing the finish line with a budding time! But we didn´t know how good this time would be in the end as there were still 91 rider left. 17 minutes and 39 seconds were to beat for Cancellara&Co
But this time didn´t hold for a long time. Because only 3 riders later our best time trialist Tony Martin came with an amazing ride! He was able to beat Brajkovic by incredible 54 seconds! 16´45 is the new best time
Westra showed a great shape the last weeks just like his team-mate Bobbie Traksel. He wasn´t able to beat Martin but he still got a great time, 17´20
Posthuma came with a great ride, too. But as you can imagine, Martin´s time was unbeatable so far! Posthuma got the same time like Brajkovic in the beginning
Sorry I forgot to take a screen from Bak, our best placed rider in the overall. Well, Boasson Hagen was not reachable for Bak but with only 11 seconds behind the Norwegian we can be quite happy. Finally, Bak finished this tour as 6th in the overall with only 1 second behind Posthuma and 3 seconds to Kirchen! Boasson Hagen also wasn´t able to beat Tony Martin, but with 48 seconds behind the German, he can be happy as he got the third overall position
Last but not least, Fabian Cancellara was on fire! Again he was really fast and , I was sure about his 4th stage win in 8 days. But when he crossed the finish line, Tony Martin was still in front! Fabian Cancellara is beatable! He lost 12 seconds to Martin which is a small miracle..great stage win for Tony Martin!
Stage results
| 1 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | 16'45 | | 2 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | + 12 | | 3 | Lieuwe Westra | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 35 | | 4 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 48 | | 5 | Joost Posthuma | Rabobank | + 54 | | 6 | Janez Brajkovic | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 7 | Stijn Devolder | Quick·Step | + 58 | | 8 | Lars Ytting Bak | Team HTC - Columbia | + 59 | | 9 | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | + 1'00 | | 10 | Laszló Bodrogi | Team Katusha | + 1'02 | | 11 | Dominique Cornu | Skil - Shimano | s.t. | | 12 | Rui Costa | Caisse d'Epargne | + 1'03 | | 13 | Alex Rasmussen | Team Saxo Bank | + 1'04 | | 14 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 15 | Niki Terpstra | Team Milram | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | 26h47'14 | | 2 | Lieuwe Westra | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 1'29 | | 3 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'33 | | 4 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 1'40 | | 5 | Joost Posthuma | Rabobank | + 1'43 | | 6 | Lars Ytting Bak | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'44 | | 7 | Jimmy Engoulvent | Saur - Sojasun | + 1'55 | | 8 | Stef Clement | Rabobank | + 1'57 | | 9 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | + 1'58 | | 10 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 2'15 | | 11 | Sylvain Chavanel | Quick·Step | + 2'16 | | 12 | Tom Boonen | Quick·Step | + 2'18 | | 13 | Robert Hunter | Garmin - Transitions | + 2'23 | | 14 | Filippo Pozzato | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 15 | Baden Cooke | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | 111 | | 2 | Tom Boonen | Quick·Step | 94 | | 3 | Bernhard Eisel | Team HTC - Columbia | 77 |
U-25
| 1 Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 26h48'47 | | 2 Jürgen Roelandts | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 1'02 | | 3 Jan Bakelants | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 1'10 |
Teams
| 1 Team Saxo Bank | 80h25'54 | | 2 Team HTC - Columbia | + 10 | | 3 Team RadioShack | + 22 |
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| janne_837 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 13:42
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Nice victory! You beat Cancellara on a time trial, impressive |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 13:46
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janne_837 wrote:
Nice victory! You beat Cancellara on a time trial, impressive
I think it was quite important to bring Cancellara back down to earth |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 13:54
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So guys the next race will be: La Vuelta a Espana 2010!
Presentation of our team and the competition will be online in a few hours |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 21:32
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Sorry guys but after my hard training this afternoon I´m not able to post the presentation as I´m feeling still really bad. It´s the first time I´ve crossed my physical frontiers. So hopefully you´re not that angry at me I promise you, I´ll post it tomorrow morning |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 22-12-2010 21:36
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That's no problem But i'm very excited about your 2 signings..
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 21:37
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tsmoha wrote:
That's no problem But i'm very excited about your 2 signings..
Yes, the ´second best´transfer will be posted tomorrow |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 21:42
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Hadn't even seen the Hagen signing. That is a really good one and makes me miss the days when I liked their team, but then all the cool riders left. |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 22-12-2010 21:44
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valverde321 wrote:
Hadn't even seen the Hagen signing. That is a really good one and makes me miss the days when I liked their team, but then all the cool riders left.
Well, then I think you like that signing |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 23-12-2010 10:17
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La Vuelta a Espana 2010
This year´s route ( Unfortunately it´s the 2009 route)
Well, it´s the last Grand Tour for 2010 so we will try everything to get a last great result in Spain! The season was just amazing with a surprising Giro podium by Tony Martin and of course the incredible Tour win by Maxime Monfort. Because of these great results, we decided to send an allstar-squad to Spain! The team is really strong for this 21 stages. Maxime Monfort is our leader but we don´t know his shape yet. Hopefully he can improve during the Vuelta. If he is not able to fight for a good overall result, we still have Tony Martin, who is in an amazing shape so far! Furthermore we´ve got Siutsou, Pinotti, Lars Ytting Bak, Craig Lewis and Tejay Van Garderen. That´s our ´overall squad´ but there are of course also some flat stages for the sprinters. For this reason we´ve sent a great sprint squad to Spain. Andre Greipel is our sprint captain and he will try to get the sprinter´s jersey just like 2009! The chances for that are great as his lead out man Bernhard Eisel is in a fantastic shape so far. Tony Martin will try to pull the sprints for them.
Let´s talk about the favourites
Radioshack might be the strongest team there with Levi Leipheimer as team leader. Klöden and Brajkovic are his main helper in the mountains but they should be able to get a nice result for theirselves, too.
Furthermore we´ve got Bradley Wiggins, Franco Pellizotti ( the Giro winner), Samuel Sanchez, Carlos Sastre, Mosquera, Joaquim Rodriguez, Damiano Cunego and Luis Leon Sanchez. Of course we would like to add Maxime Monfort or Tony Martin to this register of favourites for the overall win or at least for the podium. The question is, who is going to be the successor of Alejandro Valverde? I´m really looking forward to this great stage race and I hope you will enjoy the stage reports.
Team Columbia for Spain
 Maxime Monfort
 Tony Martin
 Tejay Van Garderen
Craig Lewis
Andre Greipel
 Bernhard Eisel
 Marco Pinotti
 Kanstantsin Siutsou
 Lars Ytting Bak
The whole startlists
Spoiler The Shack
1. L.Leipheimer
2. J.Brajkovic
3. M.Busche
4. B.Hermans
5. A.Klöden
6. T.Machado
7. I.Rovny
8. G.Steegmans
9. H.Zubeldia
Sky
11. B.Wiggins
12. K.Arvesen
13. S.Calzati
14. J.Flecha
15. C.Froome
16. S.Gerrans
17. G.Henderson
18. M.Possoni
19. C.Sutton
Liquigas
21. F.Pellizotti
22. F.Bellotti
23. D.Bennati
24. F.Chicchi
25. K.Koren
26. F.Sabatini
27. S.Szmyd
28. A.Vanotti
29. F.Willems
Euskaltel
31. S.Sánchez
32. I.Antón
33. K.Fernández
34. A.Hernández
35. I.Isasi
36. R.Pérez
37. A.Pérez
38. R.Sicard
39. P.Urtasun
HTC - Columbia
41. M.Monfort
42. L.Y.Bak
43. B.Eisel
44. A.Greipel
45. C.Lewis
46. T.Martin
47. M.Pinotti
48. K.Siutsou
49. T.Van Garderen
Cervélo
51. C.Sastre
52. I.Cuesta
53. X.Florencio
54. R.Hammond
55. H.Haussler
56. T.Hushovd
57. A.Klier
58. Ó.Pujol
59. X.Tondo
Xacobeo
61. E.Mosquera
62. C.Castaño
63. G.César Veloso
64. A.Fernández
65. R.García
66. M.García
67. D.García Da Pena
68. F.J.Pacheco
69. G.Rabuñal
Katusha
71. J.Rodríguez
72. M.Ignatiev
73. S.Ivanov
74. A.Kolobnev
75. R.McEwen
76. D.Napolitano
77. E.Petrov
78. F.Pozzato
79. E.Vorganov
Lampre
81. D.Cunego
82. L.Bernucci
83. A.Furlan
84. A.Grendene
85. D.Hondo
86. M.Lorenzetto
87. A.Petacchi
88. G.Simoni
89. S.Spilak
Caisse d'Epargne
91. J.J.Cobo
92. A.Coyot
93. M.Drujon
94. P.Lastras
95. Á.Madrazo
96. J.J.Rojas
97. L.L.Sánchez
98. R.Urán
99. X.Zandio
Omega Pharma
101. F.De Greef
102. M.Aerts
103. P.Gilbert
104. M.Lloyd
105. G.Löwik
106. D.Moreno
107. S.Scheirlinckx
108. G.Van Avermaet
109. C.Wegelius
Saxo Bank
111. J.Fuglsang
112. M.Breschel
113. B.Cooke
114. J.A.Jørgensen
115. D.Klemme
116. A.Lund
117. S.O'Grady
118. A.Rasmussen
119. C.A.Sörensen
Rabobank
121. L.Ten Dam
122. M.Ardila
123. G.Brown
124. Ó.Freire
125. J.M.Gárate
126. P.Martens
127. B.Mollema
128. K.Reus
129. M.Tjallingii
Garmin
131. D.Zabriskie
132. J.Dean
133. T.Farrar
134. R.Hunter
135. F.Kessiakoff
136. D.Martin
137. D.Millar
138. J.Van Summeren
139. M.Wilson
Team Milram
141. C.Knees
142. G.Ciolek
143. M.Fothen
144. R.Förster
145. T.Rohregger
146. R.Sentjens
147. N.Terpstra
148. F.Wegmann
149. P.Wrolich
Andalucía
151. J.Á.Gómez Marchante
152. M.Calvente
153. J.Montenegro
154. J.Moreno
155. A.Piedra
156. J.Ramírez
157. J.L.Roldán
158. Á.Vicioso
159. M.Vázquez
Astana
161. A.Vinokourov
162. A.Davis
163. S.Davis
164. V.Dmitriyev
165. D.Fofonov
166. E.Gasparotto
167. M.Iglinskiy
168. B.Noval
169. G.Stangelj
AG2R
171. N.Roche
172. J.Arrieta
173. G.Bonnafond
174. D.Champion
175. A.Efimkin
176. K.Goddaert
177. L.Mondory
178. R.Nocentini
179. C.Riblon
Footon - Servetto
181. A.Durán
182. J.A.Benítez
183. E.Capecchi
184. M.Cardoso
185. G.Cheula
186. E.Mata
187. M.Pedersen
188. R.Valls
189. J.Walker
Androni Giocattoli
191. J.Rodríguez
192. R.Bertogliati
193. T.Bertolini
194. A.Loddo
195. D.Margutti
196. L.Á.Maté
197. C.J.Ochoa
198. F.Piemontesi
199. F.Taborre
Vacansoleil
201. R.Feillu
202. B.Božic
203. G.Gardeyn
204. M.Golas
205. B.Leukemans
206. M.Marcato
207. J.Mouris
208. A.Ongarato
209. J.Van Leije |
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