A_Schleck wrote:
I kinda have a problem here. I simply can't start my PCM07 game, making it quite difficult for me to update the story. Everytime I try to open the game the game freezes on a total black screen, where the only thing I can see is the red cursor. I've been recommended to delete the Pro Cycling Manager 2007 folder (c:/Documents and Settings/My Name/Application Data/Pro Cycling Manager 2007), but that didn't work either.
Any suggestions?
Damn..this is looks bad..I hate when my Disco story crashed...thats why I do just in case back up every time I start..but this is not eather guarantee. I realy hope that you can continue.
I have no clue on this one. Cyanide has screwed up before but this goes beyond my imagination. How can you play a gam without problems for two months and then suddenly one day, you can't bloody open the game.
I've tried both of setzel's suggestions with no result whatsoever. I've even tried to just install the game without installing any patches or DB's or nothing. Same result. This is unbelieveable.
This update is dedicated to setzel as he helped me out in fixing my game, in order to continue this story :)
April 4:Three Days at Panne 2007 – Stage 2 | Zottegem > Koksijde – 227 km
After yesterday’s quite special cobble stage, we’e back in more familiar sorroundings as today’s stage doesn’t involve any nasty cobble sections. It’s just a 227 km flat route, so things should come down to a mass sprint in the end. Our only rider with a real shot of winning this race must be Stuey as he finished 3rd on yesterday’s stage and is now 12 seconds after the leader Tom Boonen, as the belgian picked up 20 additional seconds on the line.
After 30 km the breakaway of the day got away, it seemed pretty strong as it contained a few quite strong guys but also because it contained no less than 10 riders. We had veteran Allan Johansen among them, riding in the danish national jersey. The nine other were: Bileka (DSC), Hayman (RAB), Ingels (PRL), Hammond (TMO), Auger (FDJ), Lobato Elvira (SDV), Goesinnen (SKS), Pronk (UNI) and Rudnicki (INT). Another rider, Meirhaeghe also got away but he rode between the pack and the breakaway all day as he couldn’t make contact with the leaders.
A strong 10-man group got away on the pack’s way to Koksijde with Meirhaghe struggling in no-mans land.
While Quickstep controlled the pace in the pack, Stuey concentrated on sticking close to Boonen all day.
None of breakaway riders made any threat to the GC, as they had lost a lot of time the previous day, which lead Quickstep to give the leading group a quite long leash. The gap topped with 100 km to go however. At this point the breakaway had more than 10 minutes on the pack. So Quickstep and Liquigas looked in control.
Quickstep and Liquigas worked hard to reel in the breakaway, in which we had Allan Johansen.
And the gap really came down fast actually as Quickstep and Liquigas was really motoring on the route. With 40 km to go, they had cut the deficit to only 1’45”, meaning they were practically toying with breakaway at this point. Pretty strange actually that a 10-man break would be so easy to reel in. We had hoped that Allan would get a chance to race for the stage victory today. But that looked impossible now.
And sure enough. 10 km later the pack was back on level terms with the breakaway. At this point, with 30 km to go, the pack hit a short, but very steep hill and it cost a lot of riders, as the pack was now down to only 60 riders, coming into today’s finale.
We became a fantastic statement from Stuey here. He was feeling unbelieveable again today, so we decided to set him up for the sprint (well we would have done it anyway), and to let no other than Fábian Cancellara lead him out. I couldn’t imagine myself a better lead-out man for Stuey.
With 5 km to go, there was a big crash in the back of the pack, which costed dearly for three of the GC riders. Stuey’s experience told him to stay in the front, so we avoided the crash, which was great. But Hincapie, Flecha and Gusev were involved in the crash, which meant that Hincapie and Flecha lost 2’41” to today’s winner. Gusev couldn’t ride on, so he had to withdraw from the race. I don’t want to sound cynical but actually that crash worked out for the best for us, as Hincapie and Gusev are really strong time trialists and they will be able to finish this tour in style on the final stage.
The atmosphere won’t be very high in the Discovery Channel team bus after this incident that costed Gusev and Hincapi’s GC aspirations.
Back at the front, Cancellara was leading out Stuey, and he was actually riding so fast that only Eeckhout, Boonen and Pozzatto could follow him, meaning that these five riders got a small gap to the rest of the pack.
Fábian was crazy as ever on the flat as he busted open a gap between his train and the rest of the pack.
Fortuneately, Eeckhout was on Stuey’s wheel just ahead of Boonen, meaning that Boonen would have a hard time reaching Stuey, considering the condition Stuey was in today. Fábian opened up with Stuey hot on his wheel. Eeckhout, Boonen and Pozzatto followed right after. Stuey quickly saw that Fábian’s pace wasn’t enough to hold off Boonen, Eeckhout and Pozzato, so he took matters into own hands and sprinted past Cancellara. None of the three others could follow, so Stuey claimed the win with a wide margin today. Boonen wasn’t very strong today as he didn’t even manage to outsprint Nico Eeckhout (all due respect Nico). Fábian finished 5th today, and Stuey took over the leader’s jersey.
Tom Boonen was outsprinted by a couple of oldies today as Stuey claimed the hot shot belgian’s leader’s jersey.
Three Days at Panne 2007 – Stage 2 Result | Zottegem > Koksijde – 227 km
1 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC 4h45'13
2 Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - T. VLAANDEREN s.t.
3 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
4 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS s.t. 5 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
6 Max Van Heeswijk RABOBANK s.t.
7 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
8 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS s.t.
9 Gerben Löwik RABOBANK s.t.
10 Christophe Detilloux FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t. 21 Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC s.t.
23 Karsten Kroon TEAM CSC s.t.
25 Lars Michaelsen TEAM CSC s.t.
30 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC s.t.
114 Anders Lund TEAM CSC + 6'41
117 Allan Johansen TEAM CSC s.t.
Three Days at Panne 2007 – Stage 2 | GC
1 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC 9h07'30
2 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
3 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS + 16
4 Björn Leukemans PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 28
5 Marcus Burghardt T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
6 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
7 Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - T. VLAANDEREN + 1'11 8 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC + 1'23
9 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS s.t.
10 Magnus Backstedt LIQUIGAS s.t.
11 Roberto Petito LIQUIGAS + 2'50
12 Juan Antonio Flecha RABOBANK + 3'08
13 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
14 Peter Van Petegem QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 3'24
15 Erwin Thijs UNIBET.COM + 4'30
16 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
17 Sébastien Rosseler QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
18 Geert Omloop JARTAZI + 5'29
19 Fabio Baldato LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
20 Frederic Guesdon FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t. 21 Lars Michaelsen TEAM CSC s.t.
25 Karsten Kroon TEAM CSC + 6'20
34 Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC + 9'47
56 Allan Johansen TEAM CSC + 20'08
88 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 24'27
121 Anders Lund TEAM CSC + 31'08
Who said this guy was getting old? He has now 6 victories this season.
April 5:Three Days at Panne 2007 – Stage 3 | De Panne > De Panne – 119 km and De Panne > Koksijde – 11km
Another unusual day in this unsual stage race. Two stages are to be raced today. Stage 3A is an ordinary flat and typical sprinting stage and the next is a 11 km long individual time trial, where the winner of this tour will be found.
First up was the ordinary stage. A 119 km long loop from De Panne and back again. Tactics were to keep Stuey safe so he could concentrate on the time trial but also to do well in a potential mass sprint. We decided that if a group with no dangerous riders got away we wouldn’t work to reel them in as that would mean that Boonen and Pozzato couldn’t gain any additional seconds on the line.
On the first stage of the day we kept the pace low until any other team would come and take over.
A small group got away on the short 119 km course. It was Rudnicki (INT), De Vocht (PRL), Amorison (LAN), Bileka (DSC), Marichal (FDJ) and Suray (UNI). But Liquigas and Quickstep wanted something from Boonen and Pozzato today so they kept the breakaway on a hook and controlled them without any problems whatsoever.
Pozzato had been up there with the best on the previous stages, so he really wanted something out of today’s ride as he ordered his team forward.
With 30 km to go, the breakaway was reeled in and things was going to end in a mass sprint today again. We were fine with that as Stuey had another good day in the saddle and he wanted to jostle it out against Tom Boonen and Filippo Pozzatto today aswell.
In the sprint we used the same recipe as yesterday. Fábian led out Stuey. Today Fábian was riding even faster than yesterday as he opened a gap on the final 3 km between his train and the rest of the pack. Stuey really confirmed his fantastic form again today as he yet again managed, with help from Fábian to hold off the comeback of the other sprinters, to cruise home for another victory, the 7th of the season. Another fantastic result, which makes that white leader’s jersey stick even better to Stuey. On top of that he also took over the lead in the points competition. As a result of Fabian’s phenomenol pace a group of 8 managed to win some time on the pack today. That guy is really amazing.
Stuey takes another stunning victory as Boonen shows signs of weakness ahead of the cobble classics.
Three Days at Panne 2007 – Stage 3A Result | De Panne > De Panne – 119 km
1 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC 5h00'03
2 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
3 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS s.t.
4 Max Van Heeswijk RABOBANK s.t.
5 Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - T. VLAANDEREN s.t.
6 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM s.t. 7 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
8 Björn Leukemans PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
9 Leon Van Bon RABOBANK + 46
10 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t. 35 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC s.t.
37 Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC s.t.
38 Lars Michaelsen TEAM CSC s.t.
46 Allan Johansen TEAM CSC s.t.
49 Karsten Kroon TEAM CSC s.t.
118 Anders Lund TEAM CSC + 5'42
Three Days at Panne 2007 – Stage 3A | GC
1 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC 14h07'13
2 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 8
3 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS + 28
4 Björn Leukemans PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 48
5 Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - T. VLAANDEREN + 1'31
6 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 1'34
7 Marcus Burghardt T-MOBILE TEAM s.t. 8 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC + 1'43
9 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS + 2'29
10 Magnus Backstedt LIQUIGAS s.t.
11 Roberto Petito LIQUIGAS + 3'56
12 Juan Antonio Flecha RABOBANK + 4'14
13 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
14 Peter Van Petegem QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 4'30
15 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 5'36
16 Erwin Thijs UNIBET.COM s.t.
17 Sébastien Rosseler QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
18 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 6'35
19 Geert Omloop JARTAZI s.t.
20 Fabio Baldato LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t. 22 Lars Michaelsen TEAM CSC s.t.
25 Karsten Kroon TEAM CSC + 7'26
33 Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC + 10'53
52 Allan Johansen TEAM CSC + 21'14
78 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 25'33
119 Anders Lund TEAM CSC + 37'10
Three Days at Panne 2007 – Stage 3B | De Panne > Koksijde – 11km
So we had Stuey in a great position of this evening’s crucial time trial. On top of that we knew that we had an amazing chance of winning our third consecutive stage as Fábian was no. 1 favourite for this time trial. About the route, it was a 11 km long and completely flat route, with a lot of long straight streaks, which favoured Fábian even more.
Our first rider out on the course was neo-pro Anders Lund who had lost 37’10” on Stuey throughout this race. I was in the car between Lund, just to get a feel of the route and as the 11 km were done and Anders Lund clocked provisional 8th best time of the 15 riders who had already finished, we came to the conclusion that this route was almost perfect for Fábian. Our next rider was Kurt-Asle Arvesen and he rode a very strong time trial as he clocked provisional 3rd best time of 56 riders.
Lund rode a decent time trial considering his abilities in this discipline, while Kurt rode a really strong time trial.
The next CSC rider was Allan Johansen, who had showed his presence in this race by participating in a breakaway on stage 2. Not being a time trialist Allan did really well as he clocked 44th best time out of the 83 riders who had now come through the last 11 km of this edition of Three Days at Panne. It wasn’t over for Marcus Ljungqvist though, but out swedish rider did really good actually by being provisional 11th fastest on the line. Before the very top rider was gonna take off, we also had Karsten Kroon and Lars Michaelsen in action, who both did a decent job.
The first real favourite on the course was lithuanian Thomas Vaitkus, who rode very fast to clock the best time so far. After him it was Quickstep’s best bid for a victory today, Sebastien Rosseler who couldn’t beat the young lithuanian, but did manage a fine provisional 2nd place.
Thomas Vaitkus showed his big potential as he raced over the line in the best time so far, edging out Sebastien Rosseler.
George Hincapie and Magnus Bäckstedt rode to gain a decent top ten result.
But Vaitkus’ time didn’t stand long as home favourite Leif Hoste took over the lead by clocking a time 7 seconds faster than the Discovery Channel-rider. But that wouldn’t make do either as it was now Cancellara’s turn to rip up this belgian road. I was driving behind Fábian in the car, while another of our sports directors would guide Stuey through. As I talked to Fábian with the team doctor after the first stage of the day, it had turned out that he had picked up an injury in the sprint. Nevertheless he was gonna complete this race and he showed up on the platform anyway.
And boy was that a good decision, because he was motoring out there as ever. This time trial is only 11 km, but nevertheless Fábian managed to overtake Luca Paolini, who started 1’30” before Fábian, on the home stretch and he raced over the finish line in a fantastic time, beating Leif Hoste by a whopping 29 seconds. What a class rider this guy is, I just don’t have a fitting superlative for him, he defied his injury today and we even had problems staying on his wheel in the support car. I can’t wait to see him defend his title in Paris-Roubaix, but in order to do so he has to be completely fit, so lets hope he can get over his injury as soon as possible.
Vintage performance by Cancellara as he showed no mercy today on the final stage of Three Days at Panne.
It was now time to settle this race. I didn’t follow Stuey in a support car, so me and the rest of the riders were waiting in the finish area to celebrate with Stuey if he was going to win that is. He had 8 seconds on Boonen and 28 on Pozzatto, who were going to be his only opponents for the GC. We could quickly conclude that Boonen couldn’t keep up and so we turned our attention to Pozzatto who was actually doing pretty good out there. Better than we expected actually. He finished the time trial in 13 minutes and 10 seconds. 50 seconds slower than Fábian, meaning that Stuey would have to beat a time of 13 minutes and 38 seconds. But Stuey was in control and his great experience told him that he was doing just fine. And there wasn’t any doubt after all as Stuey clocked the exact same time as Pozzatto to finished the day as the 11th best rider. Stuart O’Grady has won Three Days at Panne 2007!
Pozzatto did his best but he couldn’t beat the experience of Stuart O’Grady this time.
So a fantastic prelude for the cobble classics for us, winning three out of four stages, the GC and the points competition. As our next race is Tour of Flanders in Belgium, we allowed usselves to celebrate the victory a bit more intense than normally as we would have three days to recover. But again, pro cyclists can’t take that much alcohol, so we kept the riders on a leash at the hotel this night. The following day it was off to Brugge, where Tour of Flanders was gonna take off in 2 days time. And with Stuey and Fábian in such great form, we couldn’t do anything but being excited about the next three cobble races.
Three Days at Panne 2007 – Stage 3B Result | Koksijde > De Panne – 11 km
1 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC 12'20
2 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 29
3 Magnus Backstedt LIQUIGAS + 34
4 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 36
5 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 41
6 Joost Posthuma RABOBANK + 42
7 Raivis Belohvosciks SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 44
8 Roberto Petito LIQUIGAS + 45
9 Bogdan Bondariew INTEL - ACTION + 47
10 Manuel Quinziato LIQUIGAS + 49
11 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS + 50 12 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t.
13 Sébastien Rosseler QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 52
14 Bert Grabsch T-MOBILE TEAM s.t. 15 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 53
16 Sébastien Joly FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 54
17 Iker Camaño SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 56
18 Bernard Van Ulden NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
19 Robert Radosz INTEL - ACTION + 57
20 Marcin Osinski INTEL - ACTION + 58 22 Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC + 59
24 Karsten Kroon TEAM CSC + 1'01
64 Lars Michaelsen TEAM CSC + 1'23
74 Anders Lund TEAM CSC + 1'25
75 Allan Johansen TEAM CSC s.t.
Three Days at Panne 2007 – Stage 3B | Final GC
1 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC 14h20'23
2 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS + 28
3 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t. 4 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC + 53
5 Björn Leukemans PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1'23
6 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 1'51
7 Marcus Burghardt T-MOBILE TEAM + 1'59
8 Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - T. VLAANDEREN + 2'11
9 Magnus Backstedt LIQUIGAS + 2'13
10 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS + 3'10
11 Roberto Petito LIQUIGAS + 3'51
12 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 4'05
13 Juan Antonio Flecha RABOBANK + 4'26
14 Peter Van Petegem QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 4'45
15 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 5'15
16 Sébastien Rosseler QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 5'38
17 Erwin Thijs UNIBET.COM + 6'18
18 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 6'21
19 Geert Omloop JARTAZI + 7'06 20 Lars Michaelsen TEAM CSC + 7'08
24 Karsten Kroon TEAM CSC + 7'37
32 Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC + 11'02
54 Allan Johansen TEAM CSC + 21'49
78 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 25'36
118 Anders Lund TEAM CSC + 37'45
The two blades on CSC’s cobble classics sword are looking incredibly sharp just before the fun commence.
Team: Fábian Cancellara, Stuart O’Grady, Lars Michaelsen, Karsten Kroon, Allan Johansen, Marcus Ljungqvist, Kurt-Asle Arvesen and Michael Blaudzun.
Time for the second classic of the year, Tour of Flanders or Vlaanderens mooiste. After three days at Panne, we have very big ambitions coming into this race. Stuey and Fábian are in peak conditions and they have a great team to back them up today. Unfortuneately we had our cobbler talent Matti Breschel injured in one the “prelude races” and he will be out injured until the end of May, meaning that he’ll also miss out on the Giro d’Italia. But Matti was with us today and he will be from now on and until the Paris-Roubaix that will culminate the cobble season in one week. This part of the season’s is Matti’s prefered and as he also missed out on it last year you really got feel sorry for the guy. But he’s with us in the support car today to back up his teammates, which is great.
The race took off in Brugge at the famous market square, where the riders also had been presented for the belgian crowd.
As usual the peloton took off on the renouned market square in Brugge, to start the 91st Ronde van Vlaanderen.
Cancellara was being protected by his entire team as Quickstep controlled the peloton in the first of the race.
As in most race a small group of opportunists got away early on. It contained three riders, Padrnos (DSC), Cavendish (TMO) and Velits (WIE). Not very interesting considering the size of the group and the riders in it. Eventhough Cavendish of course is a big talent, he won’t win Tour of Flanders today.
A group of riders attacked 250 km from the finish, now that’s courage. Lampre, Francaise des Jeux, Quickstep and Predictor-Lotto controlled them.
The race became quite static from this point until 120 km were left to be raced, as home favourite Tom Boonen crashed just before the real Tour of Flanders-terrain commenced. The pack was split up already on the first climb, meaning that Boonen was stranded in a grupetto. Not good for the title holder. Alongside Boonen in the grupetto were also George Hincapie, Bernhard Eisel and Roger Hammond.
Quickstep wasn’t even bothered by Boonen’s crash as they kept their guys up front, to work for Bettini and Van Petegem.
The race was now on as the riders frequently hit another paved climb. After the two first climbs, the riders would pass a cobble section until they reached one of the biggest difficulties of this race; Oude Kwaaremont. Here the raced really got going as the pack broke up on the climb and were cut to about 70 riders. Fábian and Stuey stayed at the front to avoid being stranded if the pack should break again. 80 km to go.
In order to avoid getting stranded, Fábian and Stuey sticked close to the front at the pack, among the other favourites.
As the pack hit another paved climb with 70 km to go, Fábian decided to take the front of the pack to try and test his opponents for the win. This resulted in a small, exclusive group breaking free of the pack with Fábian, Stuey and Pozzato in it. Fábian told us that he had no problems following the pack’s pace on the climb, so we suggested him to open up now and see who could challenge him. So he did.
Fábian was feeling terrific so he decided to open the race with 70 km to go. Only Stuey and Pozzato could follow.
But as Pozzato began relaying on the climbs, he immediately inflicted pain on our two guys. He was really strong. With 60 km to go, he decided to take off on a small hill and he got a gap immediately. Fábian and Stuey couldn’t follow, so we told them to keep the pace and try and chase him down.
Pozzato had more punch then Stuey and Fábian on the climbs, so he wore the down by setting a hard pace on the climbs.
With 50 km to go, Pozzato had gained a gap of 51 seconds to our two guys, while they had 2’09” on the pack, which consisted of 47 riders. But Pozzato kept increasing the gap surprisingly as he 10 km later had 2’10” on Stuey and Fábian. We couldn’t understand how he could do that.
Fillippo Pozzato was unbelievably strong today as rode away from our two strongest riders.
The last but final climb today was of course Le Muur, an absolute savage paved climbs that will decide this race. If Pozzato doesn’t crack on this one, he never will on the remaining 15 km. But the italian didn’t crack, on the contrary, he kept increasing his gap to our CSC-duo, who begang losing a lot of time on their chasers. Pozzato climbed the Muur 4’15” ahead of Stuey and Fábian who got caught by the chasers on the descent. Stuey was dropped right away, but Fábian managed to stay with the group until the final climb, Bosberg.
Not even Le Muur could hold back Fillipo Pozzato, who raced up the climb, to look a certain winner of the 91st Tour of Flanders.
Fábian and Stuey couldn’t hold the chaser behind them as a group with Flecha, Bettini, Leukemans, Hoste, Klier, Van Petegem, Paolini, Ballan and Boogerd caught them on Le Muur.
After Bosberg, with 5 km to go, the race situation looked like this. Pozzato led the race, 4’45” ahead of a five-man group with Flecha, Van Petegem, Leukemans, Hoste and Klier. 20 seconds later Fábian and Ballan raced and 30 seconds later Paolini and Stuey appeared. Pozzato was going to win the second classic of the season, after he also won Milan-San Remo in march.
And he did win. With a gigantic margin. What a field day this italian starlet had today, he really looks terrifying ahead of the last two cobble races. Andreas Klier and Leif Hoste completed the podium after they were the strongest in the chasing group on the home stretch. Fábian finished a dissapointing 8th and Stuey finished 10th. But they’ll be back on Wednesday at Gent-Wevelgem and they’ll be very eager to win this after this dissapointing result. But you can’t win them all. Pozzato also took over the lead in the ProTour’s individual standings.
Pozzato wins the 91st edition of Tour of Flanders after a superior solo effort on the 270 km course.
91st Tour of Flanders | Result
1 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS 7h06'49
2 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM + 4'36
3 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
4 Peter Van Petegem QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
5 Björn Leukemans PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
6 Juan Antonio Flecha RABOBANK s.t.
7 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS + 5'07 8 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
9 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 5'41 10 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t.
11 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 6'08
12 Michael Boogerd RABOBANK s.t.
13 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 6'50
14 Philippe Gilbert FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
15 Steffen Wesemann TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
16 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
17 Serguei Ivanov ASTANA s.t. 18 Karsten Kroon TEAM CSC s.t.
19 Peter Wrölich GEROLSTEINER + 8'17
20 Erik Zabel TEAM MILRAM s.t.
21 Marcus Burghardt T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
22 Frank Hoj COFIDIS + 8'55
23 Frederic Guesdon FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 9'52
24 Gert Steegmans QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 10'24
25 Roberto Petito LIQUIGAS s.t.
26 Kevin Hulsmans QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
27 Leon Van Bon RABOBANK s.t. 28 Allan Johansen TEAM CSC s.t.
29 Lars Michaelsen TEAM CSC + 11'12
30 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 12'08 57 Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC + 21'36
73 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 24'00
88 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC + 27'37
Filippo Pozzato takes over the lead on the ProTour after another fantastic win for the italian superstar.
ProTour | Individual Standings
1 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS 102
2 Björn Leukemans PREDICTOR – LOTTO 86 3 Fränk Schleck TEAM CSC 77
4 Sámuel Sánchez G. EUSKALTEL – EUSKADI 60
5 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP – INNERGETIC 56
6 John Gadret AG2R PREVOYANCE 42
7 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PREVOYANCE 41
8 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE 40 9 Karsten Kroon TEAM CSC 39
10 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC 38 25 Fábian Cancellara TEAM CSC 12
35 Stuart O’Grady TEAM CSC 3
Great reporting has usual...Pippo virus I had the same....before him I had O'Grady virus.
Atacked to early?..cheer up man..there us lot cobble fun to come. I had my moment almost at the last one Paris-Roubaix.
Yeah I also think I was a bit too eager. I always did that in PCM06 and won by a big margin as no one could follow, but it's a no-go in this game. But Gent-Wevelgem and Paris-Roubaix fits better for O'Grady and Cancellara
good result, only a bit of the exitement goes when youve seen it done a hundred times before. not your fault obviously, you have some good story writing skills, you should try bouyges
Karl_rab wrote:
good result, only a bit of the exitement goes when youve seen it done a hundred times before. not your fault obviously, you have some good story writing skills, you should try bouyges
Should I change something? The layout for instance? Do you like the double-image feature or should I do something about that?
