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David Veilleux-The Next Canadian Legend
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 22-04-2011 00:03
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lluuiiggii wrote:
Yeah, but irl was it a 11km stage either?
Yes its 11.4km to be precise and Christiano Salerno one of my favourite riders won that stage last year.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 22-04-2011 01:43
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David was so close ... 2 minute gap on just a 11 km course! I hope he can put a win in the standings soon 
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| Tuco the Ugly |
Posted on 22-04-2011 02:07
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Awesome stage. |
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Posted on 22-04-2011 02:31
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Great stage! Hope he can keep the top ten. |
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Posted on 22-04-2011 07:57
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Alakagom wrote:
Great result, love the pic of the volcano 
Agree to that. Great picture.
Also, great result from David, moving into the top 10. 
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 23-04-2011 01:27
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 Tour of Japan Stage 6
My Plan: With only an easy flat stage remaining after this stage, I think I want to try and remain fresh in case something happens. I dont want to force any attack because I'm happy with the position i'm in, but who knows. I need a result to please my directors or else I may be jobless at the end of the season.
So with a break getting away without one of our guys we were asked upon to chase, and like any French team we declined. This group in the lead had 7 minutes gap at one point, then Arashiro yelled something to Astana, and they began the chase. I have never seen Yukiya yell before so he must have be in good shape for the finish.
Unlucky for him there was a major crash right before the finish and he lost all momentum, yet still finished 16th. Pretty solid. That Polish guy won.
Unlike the Tour de France a crash inside 3km doesn't give you the same time as teveryone else, only inside the last km will that happen, so fan favourite Yukihro Doi of Skil is cheered on by fans as he rushes to the line.
Stage:
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Marek Rutkiewicz | CCC Polsat Polkowice | 2h51'49 | | 2 | Valentin Iglinskiy | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 3 | Sébastien Delfosse | Landbouwkrediet | s.t. | | 4 | Glen Alan Chadwick | PureBlack Racing | s.t. | | 5 | Sean Sullivan | V Australia | s.t. | | 6 | Josep Jufré | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 7 | Robert Kiserlovski | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 8 | Tomasz Marczynski | CCC Polsat Polkowice | s.t. | | 9 | Pasquale Muto | Miche - Guerciotti | s.t. | | 10 | Sergey Renev | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | ... | | 18 | David Veilleux | Team Europcar | s.t. |
GC
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Robert Kiserlovski | Pro Team Astana | 15h58'32 | | 2 | Bert De Waele | Landbouwkrediet | + 29 | | 3 | Josep Jufré | Pro Team Astana | + 45 | | 4 | Glen Alan Chadwick | PureBlack Racing | s.t. | | 5 | Charles Wegelius | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | + 1'09 | | 6 | Chris Froome | Sky ProCycling | + 1'33 | | 7 | Stefan Schumacher | Miche - Guerciotti | + 1'34 | | 8 | Luca Ascani | D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo | s.t. | | 9 | David Veilleux | Team Europcar | + 1'39 | | 10 | Marek Rutkiewicz | CCC Polsat Polkowice | + 1'42 |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 23-04-2011 02:11
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Tour of Japan Stage 7
My Plan: Today is the final stage. Today is Arashiro's day, so the plan is to have someone in the break, and then hopefully they get pulled back and Arashiro gets set up nicely for the sprint, with this weak-ish field. The only one who should contend with him is Bernardo Riccio of D'Angelo. Normaly I would help Arashiro in the sprint, but the team directors don't want me to risk it.
The BOTD, here with Charteau. They get a manageable gap but it slowly descends through the stage.
Anthony makes a suicide attack with 12km left. Around this point Riccio, drops back and retires. He must have had too much wasabi this morning, and had nasal issues or something, but anyway, Arashiro should have the stage now.
Here goes the sprint, with Arashiro in good position. He has no room on the barriers so he'll have to take it through the middle.
And Arashiro takes the win. This is what we were hoping for. With my 9th overall and Yukiya's win this will turn out to be a great Tour of Japan.
Stage:
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Yukiya Arashiro | Team Europcar | 2h24'59 | | 2 | Glen Alan Chadwick | PureBlack Racing | s.t. | | 3 | Constantino Zaballa | Miche - Guerciotti | s.t. | | 4 | Blazej Janiaczyk | CCC Polsat Polkowice | s.t. | | 5 | Sacha Modolo | Colnago - CSF Inox | s.t. | | 6 | Pasquale Muto | Miche - Guerciotti | s.t. | | 7 | Stefan Schumacher | Miche - Guerciotti | s.t. | | 8 | Stefan Van Dijk | Veranda's Willems - Accent | s.t. | | 9 | Valentin Iglinskiy | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 10 | Bobbie Traksel | Landbouwkrediet | s.t. | | 11 | José Herrada | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 12 | Marek Rutkiewicz | CCC Polsat Polkowice | s.t. | | 13 | Alexandre Pichot | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 14 | Robert Kiserlovski | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 15 | Giovanni Bernaudeau | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 16 | Marcel Kittel | Skil - Shimano | s.t. | | 17 | David Veilleux | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 18 | Jake Keough | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 19 | Volodymyr Zagorodny | Miche - Guerciotti | s.t. | | 20 | Pavel Kochetkov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. |
Final GC
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Robert Kiserlovski | Pro Team Astana | 18h23'31 | | 2 | Bert De Waele | Landbouwkrediet | + 29 | | 3 | Glen Alan Chadwick | PureBlack Racing | + 45 | | 4 | Josep Jufré | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 5 | Charles Wegelius | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | + 1'09 | | 6 | Chris Froome | Sky ProCycling | + 1'33 | | 7 | Stefan Schumacher | Miche - Guerciotti | + 1'34 | | 8 | Luca Ascani | D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo | s.t. | | 9 | David Veilleux | Team Europcar | + 1'39 | | 10 | Marek Rutkiewicz | CCC Polsat Polkowice | + 1'42 | | 11 | José Herrada | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 12 | Benjamin Gourgue | Landbouwkrediet | + 1'45 | | 13 | Rubens Bertogliati | Team Type 1 | + 1'56 | | 14 | Johannes Fröhlinger | Skil - Shimano | + 2'01 | | 15 | Valentin Iglinskiy | Pro Team Astana | + 2'05 | | 16 | Sergey Renev | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 17 | Gorazd Stangelj | Pro Team Astana | + 2'06 | | 18 | Maxim Gourov | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 19 | Andrey Zeits | Pro Team Astana | + 2'32 | | 20 | Roman Kireyev | Pro Team Astana | + 2'56 | | 21 | Pasquale Muto | Miche - Guerciotti | + 3'08 | | 22 | Jose Mendes | CCC Polsat Polkowice | + 3'15 | | 23 | Yukiya Arashiro | Team Europcar | + 3'19 | | 24 | Sean Sullivan | V Australia | + 3'33 | | 25 | Kjell Carlström | Sky ProCycling | + 3'44 |
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Posted on 23-04-2011 02:33
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Great results in Japan 
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 23-04-2011 02:39
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Thanks!
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David's Blog
After the great finish to the Tour of Japan, I was shocked to find out that the team was not happy with my result. This is especially bad news as I don't have a contract for next season with Europcar and I'm sensing some animosity between myself and the team.
Because of my "poor" result the team have chosen Cyril Gautier to ride in my place for Ryedale GP, East Yorkshire Classic, and the Urkiola Igoera Subida Urkiola. I feel they must think Gautier and I are the same type riders and that they are favouring him over me because of his nationality. If this is the way they want it to be, I might have to leave the team during the July transfers, although I do like my place in this team. I think FDJ might have interest in me as Rollin is already with them. Either way, I just have to focus on getting a good result at the ProRace Berlin if I'm to get a contract extension with Europcar.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 23-04-2011 02:49
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Oh, a nice twist to this interesting one-rider story. 
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Posted on 23-04-2011 02:50
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Nice result in Japan! I think you should
Let david walk. It would be interesting to see if another team would sign. Spidertech? |
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Posted on 23-04-2011 03:26
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Tour of Japan was nice, good result for David and also Arashiro did great winning the last stage.
Very interesting situation now, with David not going to some races and a possible change of teams going on. I wanna see what will happen
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 23-04-2011 14:53
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Thanks everyone, glad you like, this blog idea then. Maybe I'll make some more blog entries to make this more interesting.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 23-04-2011 20:04
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 ProRace Berlin
I couldn't play the stage for some reason, so I detail simmed.
Stage:
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Eric Baumann | Team NetApp | 4h27'36 | | 2 | Jonas Aaen Jørgensen | Saxo Bank SunGard | s.t. | | 3 | Baden Cooke | Saxo Bank SunGard | s.t. | | 4 | Bartlomiej Matysiak | CCC Polsat Polkowice | s.t. | | 5 | Graham Briggs | Rapha Condor - Sharp | s.t. | | 6 | Krzysztof Jeżowski | Bank BGZ Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 7 | Angelo Furlan | Team Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 8 | Sébastien Chavanel | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 9 | Michael Reihs | Team Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | 10 | Giovanni Bernaudeau | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 11 | Taylor Phinney | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 12 | Steven Van Vooren | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | s.t. | | 13 | Andreas Schillinger | Team NetApp | s.t. | | 14 | Andrew Tennant | Rapha Condor - Sharp | s.t. | | 15 | Tomasz Kiendyś | CCC Polsat Polkowice | s.t. | | 16 | Stijn Joseph | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | s.t. | | 17 | David Kopp | Team Eddy Merckx - Indeland | s.t. | | 18 | Alexandre Pichot | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 19 | Mauro Santambrogio | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 20 | Timon Seubert | Team NetApp | s.t. | | ... | | 91 | David Veilleux | Team Europcar | s.t. |
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Posted on 23-04-2011 21:12
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The Killer wins it all!
This years Giro was a nail-biter. Danilo Di Luca won this years edition by 23 seconds over Michele Scarponi and 41 seconds over Stefano Garzeli. This was a very close race and many thought Di Luca would lose his lead on the final day of racing. Damiano Cunego took two early stage wins on Stage 5 and 6 to take an early lead in the GC, with Di Luca 48 seconds behind at that point. Then on stage 12 Emanuele Sella won the stage by 3 minutes over everyone else and he took the maglia rosa with a 2 minute buffer over the GC riders. For him that lead could be possible to keep. Then on Stage 15 Di Luca took 1 minute out of all the other GC riders with a 4th place finishing just behind the breakaway riders.
Di Luca then won the stage 16 TT and took the Maglia Rosa from Sella. Stage 17 saw Petacchi's 5th win of the Giro, and a lock for the points jersey. Stage 18, 19 and 20 saw Di Luca lose 48 seconds to Gazeli Scarponi and Nibali, but he was able to limit his losses and keep the Pink jersey. Then the final TT and Di Luca lost nearly a minute to Garzeli, and 45 seconds to Scarponi, barely keeping his GC lead.
Edited by valverde321 on 23-04-2011 21:18
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Posted on 23-04-2011 21:49
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Tour de France Wildcard Accepted; Riders Chosen
We are very happy to announce that we have been given a spot in the Tour de France this year. The biggest race of the season for us, and we hope to bring a good squad with us to hunt for stage wins. not only that but we think that Voeckler can be the best placed French Rider in the Tour and that Turgot can win one stage. This will be tough, but we think its better to aim high for goals.
We have also chosen our 9 riders for the race and our 3 back-up riders in case of injuries.
 Thomas Voeckler
Sebastien Turgot
Sebastien Chavanel
Yukiya Arashiro
Pierre Rolland
Anthony Charteau
Chritophe Kern
Damien Gaudin
Cyril Gautier
And the three back-up riders:
Giovanni Bernaudeau
Mathieu Claude
Alexandre Pichot
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| roturn |
Posted on 23-04-2011 22:11
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Strange that Berlin Pro Race didn`t work. For me it runs perfect. Did it just crash while loading or during the stage? |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 24-04-2011 00:07
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roturn wrote:
Strange that Berlin Pro Race didn`t work. For me it runs perfect. Did it just crash while loading or during the stage?
For me it took about 10 minutes to load the stage and then everytime as the start city was appearing it would just freeze and crash.
Is it possible it has a lot of graphical content in it, like tons of cities and water? Because to be honest I forgot to try on lower settings.
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Posted on 24-04-2011 00:09
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The start city (Berlin) might be quite big but other than that just as most of my stages.
I always test my stages with maximum details and never had crashes with this one.
Just stages with sea crash quite often and have to be rebuild. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 24-04-2011 00:12
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roturn wrote:
The start city (Berlin) might be quite big but other than that just as most of my stages.
I always test my stages with maximum details and never had crashes with this one.
Just stages with sea crash quite often and have to be rebuild.
Does it maybe have any extra 3d objects that I'd need. Maybe I'm missing that?
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