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| Addy291 |
Posted on 01-11-2007 17:37
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great presentation, and done so quickly as well
EDIT: bit of a random pic by isso below
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Posted on 01-11-2007 17:39
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here's hoping this lasts
Go Alex!
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Posted on 01-11-2007 17:43
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what role will Fabian Wegmann have this year?
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and what is Lang going to be up to? or is his program going to be "let's take it as it comes?"
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Posted on 01-11-2007 17:51
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I guess one major race in Langs season should be the nationals, good look with cyanblue and go Wegmann!!
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Thanks!
kida wrote:
what role will Fabian Wegmann have this year?
and one final question do you plan to do the double at the German nationals?
Wegmann will mostly assist the top 2, Schumacher/Rebellin, but he will have his chances as well to get some good results. Free roles in some of the less important races like San Sebastian, and also in the National Championship where he is our main bet for the road race ( Lang in the TT )
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and what is Lang going to be up to? or is his program going to be "let's take it as it comes?"
He will try to win the National TT and hopefully some prologues and TT's. Main goal is Tour de France prologue and the National championship. |
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Posted on 01-11-2007 18:01
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It would appear you left of the programme of your best rider, Thomas Fothen what are you aims for this super talent?
Also can you confirm that it's in his contract that you have to give a contract to his less talented brother?
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kida wrote:
It would appear you left of the programme of your best rider, Thomas Fothen what are you aims for this super talent?
To finish top 150 in one raceB)
and yes, I can confirm that
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Nice picture btw issoB)
GP di Lugano
Leaders:
Wegmann
Rebellin
Schumacher
Pre race info:
Here we are at last. The first race of the season, except sending a weak squad to Qatar. We expect a decent result here with our 3 best hilly riders since it's a hilly race, but they are only here to get some km's in their legs really. Rebellin and Wegmann preparing for Paris-Nice and Schumacher for Tirreno-Adriatico.
The idea is to save all riders to the final deciding climb and see what we can do there. One to watch out for is Ricco, my bet for the win if not Wegmann takes it. He has looked strong the last couple of weeks.
The race:
We kick off with a 6 man break with mostly weak riders, nothing to do anything against the good riders later on. Closing in on the final clib I get a report from our leaders. Rebellin is feeling good and the other two is having some small problems but still doing fine. I decide to let Rebellin attack and the other two wait for now, but before we can react something else happens.
Yep, Ricco has attacked and it's a big one. Vila, Rebellin and Calazati reacts to late to follow and are left way behind and ends up chasing with Ricco and the peleton on either side. Rebellin makes an effort to close the gap, but it has no effect what so ever.
Here the three man group is chasing during the downhill, but it's to no use really. Ricco is just to strong...
And he takes a nice big solo victory and really looks like he is in shape for the early part of the season. Behind Vila just edges out Rebellin for 2nd with Calazti claiming 4th.
The peleton arrives a while later in a sprint for place 5, Wegmann and Schumacher both ends in top 15, so a nice race for Gerolsteiner.
Rank Name Team Time
1 Riccardo Ricco' SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 4h31'41
2 Patxi Vila LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 57
3 Davide Rebellin GEROLSTEINER s.t.
4 Sylvain Calzati AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 1'10
5 Ivan Rovny TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 2'16
6 Thomas Lövkvist FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
7 Fabian Wegmann GEROLSTEINER s.t.
8 Alessandro Spezialetti LIQUIGAS s.t.
9 Dmitri Grabovski QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
10 Sébastien Hinault CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
11 Adam Hansen T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
12 Michael Albasini LIQUIGAS s.t.
13 Stefan Schumacher GEROLSTEINER s.t.
14 Salvatore Commesso TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
15 Thierry Marichal FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
16 Cyril Dessel AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
17 John Gadret AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
18 Paolo Tiralongo LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
19 Mauro Santambrogio LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
20 Benoît Vaugrenard FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
21 Simon Gerrans AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
22 Blaise Sonnery AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
23 Mauro Facci QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
24 Steffen Weigold TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
25 Patrick Calcagni LIQUIGAS s.t.
26 Ricardo Serrano TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
27 Jakob Piil T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
28 Sandy Casar FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
29 Guido Trentin SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
30 Bram Tankink QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
31 Nikolai Trusov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
32 Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQUIGAS s.t.
33 Dmitri Fofonov CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
34 Christophe Kern CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
35 Alessandro Proni QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
36 Giuseppe Guerini T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
37 Kevin Seeldraeyers QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
38 Rik Verbrugghe COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
39 Aleksandr Efimkin BARLOWORLD s.t.
40 Konstantin Siutsou BARLOWORLD s.t.
41 Gerrit Glomser TEAM VOLKSBANK s.t.
42 Jure Golcer TENAX s.t.
43 Marlon Pérez Arango TEAM UNIVERSAL CAFFE' - ECOPETROL s.t.
44 Daniele Pietropolli TENAX s.t.
45 Ruben Elvira Lobato SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 3'40
46 Pierre Drancourt BOUYGUES TELECOM s.t.
47 Ivan Santaromita QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
48 Felix Cardénas BARLOWORLD s.t.
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Posted on 01-11-2007 22:18
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nice riding to get 3 in the top 15
obviously a pity about not winning, but you can't win them all
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Indeed
Pro tour preview - March
Welcome to this preview for the first thrre races of this years pro tour, Paris-Nice ( P-N ), Tirreno-Adriatico ( T-A ) and Milano - Sanremo ( MSR ). First out is the Paris-Nice race that will see Wegmann och Rebellin trying both to achive a top 10 position, but Wegmann will have to take the role as helper if needed. Considering his good sprint we hope that he will have a shot at the sprinter jersey as well.
Starting during P-N 4th stage is Tirreno-Adriatico that will have Schumacher taking on the leader role. There the goal is to win a stage and get top 30 in the gc, but this is nowhere near Schumacher's peak form so we are not sure he will make that. Depends on the other riders form as well. Milano- Sanremo is the first of the momentum classics this year and considering our best sprinter is Förster ( no offence, but he won't survive the hills ) we have to aim for a breakaway with Rebellin or making the race really hard, so Wegmann can sprint for the win.
P-N Goal: 2 riders in top 15, 1 in top 5, top 3 points jersey.
T-A Goal: 1 rider in top 3, 1 stage win
MSR Goal: 1 rider in top 10
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Paris-Nice Stage 1/8
Leaders:
Wegmann
Rebellin
Pre race info:
Top riders participating is Voigt, Cioni, Savoldelli among others.
The race:
Todays first stage is a TT prologue that could decide a lot of the race ahead. We have some small hopes for a win with Lang, but considering the other strong TT riders it will be hard.
The race starts and Wegmann makes an early good run for Gerolsteiner, later Sylvain Chavanel makes a decent leading time. He is in the lead for a while, but then Lang starts.
It's a new leader with 7 seconds!...much better then I expected
Cioni starts later and is just 2 sec behind at the time check, will he make it?
No, he is just a little bit to slow
The lead keeps and it almost looks like a win when...
Wiggins sets an amazing new time several seconds faster, will it be a british win?
Certainly looks like it, Voigt is a few seconds to late. Then Hincapie starts as last big threat, but he is way behind at the time check. Wiggins almost starts to celebrate...
Hincape does a 2nd half out of this world and takes the win
Rank Name Team Time
1 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM 8'00
2 Bradley Wiggins COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 6
3 Sebastian Lang GEROLSTEINER + 10
4 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
5 Dario David Cioni PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 11
6 Marco Pinotti T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
7 José Ivan Gutiérrez Palacios CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 12
8 David Moncoutié COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 14
9 Sylvain Chavanel COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 17
10 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
11 René Mandri AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 19
12 Iñigo Landaluze EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
13 Davide Rebellin GEROLSTEINER + 20
14 Sandy Casar FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
15 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS + 21
16 Vincenzo Nibali LIQUIGAS + 22
17 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS + 23
18 Bradley McGee FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
19 Andrei Grivko TEAM MILRAM s.t.
20 Francisco Perez Sanchez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
21 Kim Kirchen T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
22 Bert Grabsch T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
23 Sébastien Joly FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
24 Joost Posthuma RABOBANK + 24
25 Fabian Wegmann GEROLSTEINER s.t.
26 Gustav Larsson UNIBET.COM s.t.
27 Paolo Savoldelli ASTANÁ s.t.
28 Christophe Riblon AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
29 Matthieu Sprick BOUYGUES TELECOM + 25
30 Christophe Edaleine CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
31 Iker Camaño SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 26
32 Mirko Lorenzetto TEAM MILRAM s.t.
33 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC s.t.
34 Laurent Brochard BOUYGUES TELECOM s.t.
35 Pablo Lastras CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
36 Yoann Le Boulanger BOUYGUES TELECOM s.t.
37 Amaël Moinard COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 27
38 Saul Raisin CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
39 Nicki Sørensen TEAM CSC s.t.
40 Lars Ytting Bak TEAM CSC s.t.
41 José Luis Arrieta AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
42 Christian Knees TEAM MILRAM + 28
43 Vladimir Djudja TEAM MILRAM s.t.
44 Chris Anker Sørensen TEAM CSC + 29
45 Antton Luengo EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
46 Carl Naibo AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
47 Pierrick Fédrigo BOUYGUES TELECOM + 30
48 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 31
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Posted on 02-11-2007 20:35
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great start, unluvky for Wiggins
about the goals; i think they are all very acheivable, and you should be ably to get them
but 1 question, is you aim top 3 or top 30 in T-A, because you've put both
if it's top 30 then definatley, top3 may be difficult
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Addy291 wrote:
great start, unluvky for Wiggins
about the goals; i think they are all very acheivable, and you should be ably to get them
but 1 question, is you aim top 3 or top 30 in T-A, because you've put both
if it's top 30 then definatley, top3 may be difficult
hehe of course it's top 3
wrote wrong on the other one I guess
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Posted on 02-11-2007 20:52
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Also, the v6 is out tomorrow, so are you continuing with this, despite the release or switching to the v6?
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Addy291 wrote:
Also, the v6 is out tomorrow, so are you continuing with this, despite the release or switching to the v6?
Going to stay with this one |
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Posted on 02-11-2007 20:54
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you keep up the good work then
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Damn few days late..I would like to see first french story..
Well Gerolsteiner hasnt bad choice at all ,great team..good luck.
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yay Alex is back
Good luck with ur story and a nice podium place there for Lang
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