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| Pazflor |
Posted on 01-02-2010 17:29
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Yay! Norwegian power |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 01-02-2010 17:53
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great stage win!! |
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| brownwm |
Posted on 01-02-2010 18:52
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great stage win congrats!!
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Posted on 01-02-2010 19:04
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Youre lucky you simmed the TTT in Qatar (Boo @ that btw), since I doubt the gaps would have been so big if raced properly, putting Bonnet at less of a disadvantage.
Nice win with Sutton nonetheless though.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 01-02-2010 19:15
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Youre lucky you simmed the TTT in Qatar (Boo @ that btw), since I doubt the gaps would have been so big if raced properly, putting Bonnet at less of a disadvantage.
Nice win with Sutton nonetheless though.
yeah but if I had played the TTT we would have lost like 2 minutes and with riders like Wiggins, Hagen and Cummings in the team that wouldn't have been too good either
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 01-02-2010 20:08
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Boasson Hagen won yesterday but he can he do it again? It will also depend if Flecha and Vigano will be able to put him in an another great position for the sprint
As we were heading to the expected mass sprint, Flecha was leading our train to the front of the pack. This time nobody managed to get in our splistream, which means that Hagen's mission could be even easier than in the second stage
When the sprint started Flecha already made a gap between the Sky train and the other riders, our main chasers being Soler as the sprints are far away behind
In the last kilometer, when Hagen made the final move to take the lead from Vigano, he and the Italian had an amazing over the pack, which could mean that this stage could turn into a second double this season for Sky
The first one to realize the great performance our train put in today was Flecha, who immediately threw his hands up in sign of victory
Second stage win in a row for Hagen, but more important than that is that he was followed on the podium by Vigano and Flecha! An amazing performance for Sky, which could be put on the weak opponents, but it's still an amazing result
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| 1. | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 3h50'25 | | 2. | Davide Viganò | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3. | Juan Antonio Flecha | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4. | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 5. | Hilton Clarke | Bahati Foundation | s.t. | | 6. | Oleg Chuzhda | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 7. | Joaquin Ortega | Barbot - Siper | s.t. | | 8. | José Luis Arrieta | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 9. | Enrique Mata | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 10. | Alexander Gottfried | Team NetApp | s.t. | | 11. | Yury Trofimov | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 12. | Samuel Caldeira | Palmeiras Resort - Tavira | s.t. | | 13. | Matt Rice | Bahati Foundation | s.t. | | 14. | Alexandre Lemair | Roubaix Lille Métropole | s.t. | | 15. | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | s.t. |
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| 1. | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | 7h57'08 | | 2. | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | + 6 | | 3. | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 8 | | 4. | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 11 | | 5. | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | + 13 | | 6. | Niki Terpstra | Team Milram | s.t. | | 7. | Markus Fothen | Team Milram | + 15 | | 8. | Oleg Chuzhda | Caja Rural | + 16 | | 9. | Rubén Plaza | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 10. | Johan Mombaerts | Big Mat - Auber 93 | + 18 | | 11. | Stephen Cummings | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 12. | David Le Lay | AG2R La Mondiale | + 19 | | 13. | Nicolas Vogondy | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 14. | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 24 | | 15. | Laurent Lefèvre | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 25 |
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| 1. | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 66 | | 2. | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 34 | | 3. | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | 33 | | 4. | Davide Viganò | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 32 | | 5. | Juan Antonio Flecha | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 26 |
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Posted on 01-02-2010 20:23
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great stage win, and lovely lead out by flecha and vigano
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Posted on 01-02-2010 21:01
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The first one of the hilly stages will be raced today, but it's a long way between the top of the last climb and the finish which means that we should see any significant gaps
An important name was today in the breakaway, Victor Hugo Pena, but it was Marcos Garcia who became the King of the Mountains in Vuelta a Andalucia
On the last climb of the day there were made a lot of attacks, some of them being quite important names in this race. But it only Valverde and Lovkvist were strong enough to get away
They both joined the breakaway group on the downhill but only to be all caught at the 10 kilometer banner. Not really a good move by Valverde and Lovkvist to try the decisive attack with 30 kilometers left from the stage
A new bunch of attacks started, with Duran making the first move. Riders like Hagen, Trofimov, Gerdemann, Vogondy or Mosquera followed him but once again only a few of them were able to leave the pack behind
And the strongest one of them was Boassong Hagen who entered the last kilometers of the stage in a solo lead. After winning to mass sprints he has a nice chance to take a third stage win, this time after an attack
He was followed by a chasing group, with Gerdemann, Vogondy and Rodrigues. They were somewhere at 30 seconds behind the Sky rider, while the pack was only 10 seconds behind them
Boasson Hagen takes his third stage win in a row, great race for him so far. This time he managed to get a gap though which means that he is also the new leader of the race, with an advantage of 16 seconds over the previous leader, Linus Gerdemann, who finished second today
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| 1. | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 3h59'13 | | 2. | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | + 24 | | 3. | Nicolas Vogondy | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 4. | Vitor Rodrigues | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 5. | Niki Terpstra | Team Milram | s.t. | | 6. | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 7. | Oleg Chuzhda | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 8. | Martin Elmiger | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 9. | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 10. | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 11. | Óscar Sevilla | Rock Racing | s.t. | | 12. | Johan Mombaerts | Big Mat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 13. | Ezequiel Mosquera | Xacobeo - Galicia | s.t. | | 14. | Yury Trofimov | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 15. | René Mandri | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. |
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| 1. | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 11h56'29 | | 2. | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | + 16 | | 3. | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | + 22 | | 4. | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 27 | | 5. | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | + 29 | | 6. | Niki Terpstra | Team Milram | s.t. | | 7. | Markus Fothen | Team Milram | + 31 | | 8. | Oleg Chuzhda | Caja Rural | + 32 | | 9. | Johan Mombaerts | Big Mat - Auber 93 | + 34 | | 10. | Stephen Cummings | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 11. | David Le Lay | AG2R La Mondiale | + 35 | | 12. | Nicolas Vogondy | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 13. | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 40 | | 14. | Laurent Lefèvre | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 41 | | 15. | Michael Christensen | Team Designa Køkken - Blue Water | + 44 |
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| 1. | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 91 | | 2. | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | 53 | | 3. | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 41 | | 4. | Nicolas Vogondy | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | 40 | | 5. | Davide Viganò | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 32 |
Mountain
| 1. | Marcos GarcÃa | Xacobeo - Galicia | 17 | | 2. | Clément Lhotellerie | Roubaix Lille Métropole | 8 | | 3. | Johan Mombaerts | Big Mat - Auber 93 | 7 | | 4. | Hugo Sabido | LA - Rota dos Móveis | 6 | | 5. | Nadir Haddou | Big Mat - Auber 93 | 5 |
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Posted on 01-02-2010 21:09
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That´s amazing!Again a great stage win by Hagen seems that he is in a good form,isn´t he? |
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Posted on 01-02-2010 21:33
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Batista15 wrote:
That´s amazing!Again a great stage win by Hagen seems that he is in a good form,isn´t he?
He has a great fitness at the moment - 85
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Posted on 01-02-2010 21:36
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alexkr00 wrote:
Batista15 wrote:
That´s amazing!Again a great stage win by Hagen seems that he is in a good form,isn´t he?
He has a great fitness at the moment - 85
Well,that´s good for February!By the way Sky is a Pro Tour Team right? |
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Posted on 01-02-2010 21:37
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Batista15 wrote:
alexkr00 wrote:
Batista15 wrote:
That´s amazing!Again a great stage win by Hagen seems that he is in a good form,isn´t he?
He has a great fitness at the moment - 85
Well,that´s good for February!By the way Sky is a Pro Tour Team right?
yes, Team Sky is in the Pro Tour
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Posted on 01-02-2010 21:39
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alexkr00 wrote:
Batista15 wrote:
alexkr00 wrote:
Batista15 wrote:
That´s amazing!Again a great stage win by Hagen seems that he is in a good form,isn´t he?
He has a great fitness at the moment - 85
Well,that´s good for February!By the way Sky is a Pro Tour Team right?
yes, Team Sky is in the Pro Tour
Aha ok,thanks i didn´t know it exactly but now i´m really looking forward to the Tour De France |
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Posted on 01-02-2010 21:41
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Batista15 wrote:
alexkr00 wrote:
Batista15 wrote:
alexkr00 wrote:
Batista15 wrote:
That´s amazing!Again a great stage win by Hagen seems that he is in a good form,isn´t he?
He has a great fitness at the moment - 85
Well,that´s good for February!By the way Sky is a Pro Tour Team right?
yes, Team Sky is in the Pro Tour
Aha ok,thanks i didn´t know it exactly but now i´m really looking forward to the Tour De France
well... me too... but there's still a long way until that 
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Posted on 01-02-2010 22:02
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Hagen had so far an impressive race winning 3 out of 4 stages, but today's terrain seems to favor more Valverde, who didn't put in a great effort so far except for the opening TT and the attack front yesterday's stage
Plaza had a really bad stage yesterday when he lost more than 4 minutes to Boasson Hagen. Still today he looked better and took part in the day's main breakaway. He was clearly the strongest climber in the leading group he left all the other escapes a few minutes behind him on the final climb of the day
Behind him Duran and Lovkvist made the first moves in the pack from the favorites but that just awake Valverde who had no problems following them
Valverde did not only follow them, he was the strongest from the favorites and he passed the summit in the second position, behind his team - mate, Plaza. Still he is 1 minute and a half behind the Spanish Champion which will be pretty hard to gain on the downhill
One minute behind Valverde, Lovkvist was leading the chasing group. Moreau, Gerdemann and Hagen were the other important names in that group
Lovkvist took a lot of risks on the downhill, but it was impossible to catch Valverde as the Spanish is a better on the downhills than Thomas, plus nobody in the chasing group really helped him
Plaza lost some time to Valverde in the last kilometers of the stage, but with the advantage that he had at the top of the climb it was still enough to maintain in front and take the stage win
Valverde crossed the finish line 11 seconds behind his team - mate bringing Caisse d'Epargne an 1-2. He needs to win 22 seconds over Hagen and it looks like he has done that
Gerdemann lead the chasing group, almost 1 minute behind Valverde, where a resigned Hagen finished took only the 9th place. Still this was a great race for him with 3 stage wins, winner of the points and young classification plus a second place overall
Stage
| 1. | Rubén Plaza | Caisse d'Epargne | 4h20'46 | | 2. | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | + 11 | | 3. | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | + 1'07 | | 4. | Johan Mombaerts | Big Mat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 5. | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 6. | Nicolas Vogondy | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 7. | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 8. | Edgar Pinto | LA - Rota dos Móveis | s.t. | | 9. | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 10. | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 11. | David Bernabéu | Barbot - Siper | + 2'35 | | 12. | Oleg Chuzhda | Caja Rural | + 2'51 | | 13. | Óscar Sevilla | Rock Racing | s.t. | | 14. | Martin Elmiger | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 15. | Ezequiel Mosquera | Xacobeo - Galicia | s.t. |
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| 1. | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 16h17'36 | | 2. | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 46 | | 3. | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | + 54 | | 4. | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'13 | | 5. | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | + 1'15 | | 6. | Johan Mombaerts | Big Mat - Auber 93 | + 1'20 | | 7. | Nicolas Vogondy | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 1'21 | | 8. | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 1'26 | | 9. | Markus Fothen | Team Milram | + 3'01 | | 10. | Oleg Chuzhda | Caja Rural | + 3'02 | | 11. | David Bernabéu | Barbot - Siper | + 3'03 | | 12. | David Le Lay | AG2R La Mondiale | + 3'05 | | 13. | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | + 3'15 | | 14. | Francisco Mancebo | Rock Racing | s.t. | | 15. | José Enrique Gutiérrez | Rock Racing | + 3'16 | | 16. | Yury Trofimov | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 3'18 | | 17. | VergÃlio Santos | LA - Rota dos Móveis | s.t. | | 18. | Martin Elmiger | AG2R La Mondiale | + 3'20 | | 19. | Rubén Plaza | Caisse d'Epargne | + 3'22 | | 20. | Vitor Rodrigues | Caja Rural | + 3'23 |
Points
| 1. | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 98 | | 2. | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | 69 | | 3. | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 61 | | 4. | Nicolas Vogondy | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | 50 | | 5. | Rubén Plaza | Caisse d'Epargne | 37 |
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| 1. | Marcos GarcÃa | Xacobeo - Galicia | 29 | | 2. | Rubén Plaza | Caisse d'Epargne | 23 | | 3. | Byron Guama | Burgos Monumental - Castilla y Leon | 10 | | 4. | Johan Mombaerts | Big Mat - Auber 93 | 9 | | 5. | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 8 |
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| 1. | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 16h18'22 | | 2. | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 40 | | 3. | Oleg Chuzhda | Caja Rural | + 2'16 |
Teams
| 1. | Caisse d'Epargne | 48h54'26 | | 2. | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 3'49 | | 3. | Team Milram | + 7'56 |
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Posted on 01-02-2010 22:26
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well done to stay second with boasson-hagen, nice stage wins
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Posted on 02-02-2010 13:59
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After some nice results in Spain and Qatar we are moving to Belgium for 2 northen classics. The first one of them is Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Gilbert seems to be the main favorite, but except for him there are no other strong opponents for Flecha and Edvald Boasson Hagen, some of the other important names in this race being Steegmans, Freire, Ivanov, Breschel, Eisel, Bennati, Ista, Goss, Ista or Leukemans
There were some important names in the day's breakaway such as Joaquim Rodriguez, Mouncutie or Gustav Larsson but neither of them were riders made for this type of races so the breakaway didn't last for too long
With 70 kilometers before the finish, with the escapes almost caught Boassong Hagen made an attack to lead the way for Flecha
Even though he was wearing the number 13, Hagen managed to win in only 20 kilometers almost 5 minutes over the other favorites, while the breakaway was history already
Behind him Ista and Gilbert were the main chasers, while Flecha, Eisel and some Radio Shack riders were also present in the small group that was left from the pack
With Hagen having a nice lead everything seemed too look very good for Sky, but with just 30 kilometers left Flecha crashed while trying to counter some attacks from Ista, Gilbert and Steegmans
The crash cost Flecha more than minutes. But after he got back on his bike he caught and left behind all the riders that have passed him while he was down, one of them being Gert Steegmans, who was in the same group with Flecha, when the Spaniard crashed
Meanwhile in front Boasson Hagen barely lost 2 minutes from his advantage but what was left from that seemed more than enough to secure the win for him
On the last cobbled section of the day the main chaser of Hagen was Gilbert, but the Omega Pharma rider had more than 2 minutes to gain back in 5 kilometers, which was basically impossible without Hagen having a serious technical problem or a crash from the Norwegian
Ista lost the contact to Gilbert and lost almost 1 minute in only a few kilometers. While passing the last cobblestones of the day he was also caught by Flecha, even though 25 kilometers before that the Sky rider was more than 2 minutes behind him
Boasson Hagen didn't have any kind of problems in the last kilometers and he takes an amazing win after riding alone the whole 70 kilometers of the race!
Gilbert was the main favorite at the start of the race, but he finished only second, almost 2 minutes and a half behind the winner, Edvald Boasson Hagen
Flecha beat easily Ista in the sprint for the third place. And with 2 riders on the podim this is a great start for Team Sky in the northen classics this season
Results
| 1. | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 5h36'42 | | 2. | Philippe Gilbert | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 2'29 | | 3. | Juan Antonio Flecha | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 3'56 | | 4. | Kevyn Ista | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 4'08 | | 5. | Gert Steegmans | Team RadioShack | + 4'52 | | 6. | Bert Scheirlinckx | Landbouwkrediet | + 6'55 | | 7. | Bernhard Eisel | Team HTC - Columbia | + 8'05 | | 8. | Allan Davis | Astana | s.t. | | 9. | Björn Leukemans | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 10. | Bert De Waele | Landbouwkrediet | s.t. | | 11. | Daniele Bennati | Liquigas - Doimo | + 8'43 | | 12. | Davy Commeyne | Landbouwkrediet | + 9'49 | | 13. | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 14. | Sébastien Rosseler | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 15. | Romain Zingle | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 16. | Dimitriy Muravyev | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 17. | Frédéric Amorison | Landbouwkrediet | + 12'15 | | 18. | Job Vissers | Skil - Shimano | s.t. | | 19. | André Greipel | Team HTC - Columbia | + 13'27 | | 20. | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | s.t. |
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Posted on 02-02-2010 14:13
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Great results there in Belgium!What´s Hagen´s cobblestone stat? |
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Posted on 02-02-2010 14:14
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good job 2 on the podium
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Posted on 02-02-2010 14:21
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Batista15 wrote:
Great results there in Belgium!What´s Hagen´s cobblestone stat?
75. check the first post
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