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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 19-11-2012 22:33
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It's very close at P-N! been away from the story for a few days and its progressed a lot! great read
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 19-11-2012 23:00
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Peter just about holding on to his GC Lead  |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 20-11-2012 06:38
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What's left of stages, actually? Will he be able to hang on? |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 20-11-2012 07:00
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Thanks a lot everybody,i appreciate your support and Peter too.
It was a hard stage to Mende, but the boys could do better, if i placed them more in front at the foot of the hill, i was slow on reaction. 
@Ian:There is one sprinters stage i will report today or tommorow (i played it already),followed by hilly stage where Peter should hold on, he can hopefully earn some bonus seconds in these two stages. Because the last stage is MTT to Col d Eze ,where Peter will probably lost some time to riders like Voeckler, Horner. Actually it is not looking too good for overall victory, but we will fight!
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 20-11-2012 07:16
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Bad news from Italy - shocker for spring classics campaign!
As we are in March and Peter Sagan is taking place with his teammates in Paris- Nice, second part of the team is in its homecountry competing at Tirreno-Adriatico. The race is very important for the team and the sponsors, thus Vincenzo Nibali is there to fight for the overall win and he was okay in the pack everyday so far, in the first two stages.
We brought also young powerhouse Daniel Oss to compete in the sprints, but he has extremely tough opponents like Cavendish, Goss, Greipel and many other top sprinters. In the first road stage he finished in nice 11th place, but it was the second road stage (stage3) where it happened. Daniel was looking for a place behind Cavendish, who suddenly changed the route and brought Oss to the ground accidentaly.
And the result? It is bad, as Daniel Oss broken his collarbone and he is out of the spring classics campaign and races like Milano - San Remo or all the Flanders classics. He should have been the main helper for Peter Sagan in his quest for monument win, the plan that now have big hole in it. We will try to find the solution, but our classics team is now very limited, Peter will be on his own in the race finales probably. 
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 20-11-2012 07:41
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Very bad news indeed... |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 20-11-2012 10:44
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Sad news about Daniel Oss  |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 22-11-2012 17:34
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Sorry for a delay, here is stage 6 and it was dramatic!
 Paris - Nice, stage6
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Stage 6 of Paris nice looks like a chance for the agressive riders, to jump into the break and fight for precious KOM points on the five categorized hills. But four of them are only of the third category, thus the stage should be decided between the sprinters, if the pack will control the break. Race leader Peter Sagan is looking to gain some valuable bonus seconds.
Five riders managed to form an early breakaway group today and here they are, as they were climbing to the first categorized climb.No one was much dangerous for the GC guys, but Julien Simon for example, is the rider made for such a stage. He scored some points at both first KOM sprints and was getting closer to Nicolas Vogondy in the mountain classification.
Liquigas was controlling the tempo with Sabatini, Agnoli and King and the gap was never bigger than 7 minutes and started going down. It was only 3 minutes with 50kms to go.
Here is the fantastic work of whole Garmin team, last man in the line is their leader Farrar. Simon meanwhile collected more points and was only six behind Vogondy. He will have to work also tommorow, to have a chance on polka-dot jersey.
But the Garmin team stopped working for unknown reason with 10 kms to go, while the gap to the break was still over a minute. Because of that even fifth in GC, Moreno Moser was sent to the front to work for Sagan.
Simon meanwhile left all his companions behind and was going strong. But Moreno Moser did incredible job to bring him almost down with flamme rouge nearing, with his yellow jersey slovak collegue on his tail. Next to him Van Avermaet started his sprint, Lemoine, Breschel and Freire were lurking behind and waiting.
Simon still held a slight lead with 200 metres left, but behind him we can see a great battle of three sprinters, coming to the line next to each other. It was Sagan, Breschel and Freire. Who fast the fastest in the end?
And it was a spanish legend Oscar Freire, who had beaten Breschel and Peter Sagan in the very tight three way finish. He even did not have the time to celebrate,what a spectacle! Unlucky Julien Simon finished sixth, after almost making that surprise win.
The comment of Avin, the journalist noob
I seriously loved today's finish, it was not clear who is the winner till the very last metres. Going to the last two kilometres, Simon had a very good gap, but he went BOOM,as Peter Sagan stormed to the finish. Unfortunately for the young superstar, Freire and Breschel were in his slipstream, having a better speed in the last metres.
At least the Slovak remained in the yellow jersey and gained valuable two seconds on his rivals Cancellara, Voeckler and Horner, who were safely hidden in the pack. Sagan will have a last chance to gain more tommorow, before the deciding mountain TT.
He also leads both the youth and points competion, in fact he is already the sure winner of the green one. Liquigas bosses should be happy.
Results
| 1 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | 4h29'04 | | 2 | Matti Breschel | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 4 | Cyril Lemoine | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 5 | Florian Vachon | Bretagne - Schuller | s.t. | | 6 | Julien Simon | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 7 | Greg Van Avermaet | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 8 | Michel Kreder | Team Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 9 | Matteo Pelucchi | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 10 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | s.t. |
GC after stage 6
| 1 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas - Cannondale | 23h01'03 | | 2 | Fabian Cancellara | RadioShack Nissan Trek | + 3 | | 3 | Chris Horner | RadioShack Nissan Trek | + 19 | | 4 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | + 20 | | 5 | Moreno Moser | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 33 | | 6 | Cyril Lemoine | Saur - Sojasun | + 37 | | 7 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 8 | Nicolas Vogondy | Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne | + 47 | | 9 | Nicolas Roche | Ag2r - La Mondiale | + 48 | | 10 | Matteo Carrara | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 49 |
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| maxime86 |
Posted on 22-11-2012 17:56
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come on Peter! |
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 22-11-2012 21:39
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Great job. GO SAGAN!!!! |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 22-11-2012 21:58
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Peter doing brilliantly. Moser did some excellent work there, hope Peter won't forget that anytime soon, maybe one day he can return the favor
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 22-11-2012 22:12
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Three seconds now, he might even win it, who knows.  |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 22-11-2012 23:22
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Another Great stage from Peter and he also increases his advantage over Fabian |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 23-11-2012 05:46
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Thanks a lot guys, Moser did really great job for his leader and Peter knows it. I thought for a moment that he can win a stage,but the finish came a bit too late for him, so Freire and Breschel were able to overcome him.
But he is sure green jersey winner and white looks secure too, you can look forward to the P-N conclusion this or tommorow evening, stage 7 is already played, just to report it and finish it with that MTT.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 23-11-2012 06:53
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Can't wait  |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 23-11-2012 10:24
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Green and White jerseys in the bag then
Now lets make it a trio with the Leaders jersey |
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 23-11-2012 10:30
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Great job securing green and white! Looking forward to the final stage report... gonna be tough!
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 26-11-2012 16:29
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Still hanging on |
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| ste_18 |
Posted on 26-11-2012 16:31
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Can't wait for the last stage! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 26-11-2012 17:50
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Peter did well to hold on to his GC lead after such a hard stage for him |
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