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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 13-05-2007 15:49
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Introducing....
Mikhael Ignatiev, 20  Mikhail has a strong TT stat and also has a lot of potential. Mikhail won an olympic gold in the points race and has come 1st and 2nd in the last two editions of the World Under 23 Time Trial race.
Marcel Kittel, 17  The 2005 Junior world time trial champion also has a huge potential that he is eager to unleash.
And 2 Swiss brothers:
Danilo Wyss (20) and Marcel Wyss (19)  . We were keen to sign Danilo as his Sprinting stat of 72 could come in handy if we are to get any results in the first season, and Marcel came with him in the package. Their potentiials are 6 and 7 respectively. |
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 13-05-2007 15:51
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very nice new signings |
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Posted on 13-05-2007 16:57
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well if David Rozehnal (CZE) is focusing on the sprinting abilites, than i hope he can be as good as retired Czechoslovakian sprinter legend Jan Svorada B)
whats his stats now and how much promising talent he has ? |
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Posted on 13-05-2007 17:21
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Most stats are around 62-61 now, I dont think anyones progressed to 63 in anything at all yet. At current, the best Czech sprinter has a stat of 72. Other than the Wyss brothers, every rider has potential 8.
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Posted on 13-05-2007 17:27
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Posted on 13-05-2007 17:32
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Yeh, I did let Rozehnal attack in the Classic de Almeria. I underestimated the hills though and he fell away from the break and I made him withdraw.
My team are back in training now though, I realised it was stupid for them to not bother training at all. |
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Posted on 17-05-2007 19:02
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Pro Tour Update
Well, its been 2 months of little action for Eurosport.com, but the riders are no starting to get to full fitness so have a chance of maybe making some sort of impact. Its time to update you on the ProTour!
Paris-Nice
1. Voigt
2. Millar 
3. Jaksche
Tirreno-Adriatico
1. Ricco 
2. Kirchen 
3. Scarponi 
Milan-San Remo
1. Petacchi
2. Zabel
3. McEwen 
Ronde van Vlaanderen
1. Flecha
2. Wesemann
3. Cancellara
Vuelta al Pais Vasco
1. Voigt
2. Sanchez
3. Schumacher
Gent - Wevelgem
1. Backstedt 
2. Cancellara
3. Hoste 
Paris-Roubaix
21 riders finished on the same time up front as Boonen crashed out.
1. Eisel 
2. Hammond
3. Cancellara
Amstel Gold
1. F. Schleck
2. Boogerd 
3. Pozzato
Fleche Wallone
1. Kroon
2. Rebellin
3. Kirchen
Liege Bastogne Liege
1. Bettini
2. Kirchen
3. Rebellin
So lets see what impact that has on the standings:
1. Cancellara
2. Rebellin
3. Kirchen
4. F. Schleck
5. Voigt
6. Horner 
7. Eisel
8. Hammond
9. Wesemann
10. Boogerd
1. CSC 
2. T-Mobile
3. Discovery Channel
Toyota-United are last and have yet to get off the mark! While Ag2r has 1 pt, and Unibet.com and DFL are on 3.
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Samuel Sanchez leads the continental tour ahead of Andy Flickinger and Janek Tomback. Their teams (Euskaltel, Bouygues + Jartazi) lead the team ranks.
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Posted on 18-05-2007 01:26
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Eurosport's Team Begins to Progress Eurosport.com
After a couple of months of training for the Eurosport.com team, they were back into action at the end of April with some promising results, particularly on the cobbles.
It began in the Ronde van Noord Holland where Ben Swift finished 21st and Sven Boonen 24th in the teams' first encounter with cobbles.
The GP Herning in Denmark offered a sterner test of cobbles.
Our young riders were soon motivated in the early sections in cobbles, where they kept up front while ProTour riders from DFL and CSC fell back (Before catching up again). Dane, Kurt Elkjær made the breakway. Towards the second half of the race a front group of 16 included Elkjær, had a lead over a 2nd pack. Elkjær fell back while Schanke, Schleck + Boonen worked to seperate Eurosport.com's riders permanently from those that kept falling back in the cobbles.
They did their job and fell back a bit as a group of 12 formed, with 13th the best outcome. The sprint began and we said goodbye to Kurt Asle-Arvesen who went on to take 13th, but the Eurosport riders were determined to take a top 20 placing and 3 riders achieved that.
1 Sven Vanthourenhout RABOBANK CONTINENTAL 5h37'36
16 Ben Swift EUROSPORT.COM + 12'04
17 Eric Kuijlen EUROSPORT.COM s.t.
18 Adam Blythe EUROSPORT.COM s.t.
21 Jani Minkenen EUROSPORT.COM s.t.
24 Jurgen Schánke EUROSPORT.COM + 15'18
25 Marc Schleck EUROSPORT.COM + 16'06
The Colliers classic was less successful as our riders dont quite have the stamina to keep up when the peleton starts to chase the break, which included Elkjær. At one stage the break looked certain to be caught but with 20km left they looked like they would hang on. Elkjær couldnt though and fell back at 10km but 5 of the 9 riders did make it to the finish first. Elkjær was our best finisher, coming 44th - inside the first group.
While this took place, another Eurosport side raced in a 4 stage race in Poland. Ignatieve, Thomas and Svensson were the stronger riders as proved after the first two stages. Stage 3 was Ignatievs chance to perform in a time trial, unfortunately his fitness is not quite ready and the course was possibly too hilly as he took 20th. Intel-Action controleld Stage 4, and broke away from the back on the main hill and soon catching the break which included Lustrinelli and Lucarelli. My 2 guys then fell back towards the peleton and then further back. The 3 stronger rides stook with the peleton, as did Dave Rozehnal and as a result Svensson gained 2 GC places to 29th, with Thomas 31st overall. |
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Posted on 18-05-2007 01:52
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As the Giro D'Italia began in Italy, 9 of my riders were also in Italy, at the Pinarello Factory. They were here in order to improve their Time Trial technique and Ignatiev aims to use the training to gain a good results in Stage 3 of the Tour of Belgium later this month. They started with 4 days but were then joined by Kuijlen and Boonen for a further 7 days.
You can see what a huge effect it has had on the time trial skills of the team:
Ignatiev gained 5 while the othere gained at least 7 points. |
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Posted on 18-05-2007 16:29
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some people call that cheating, Sporting
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Posted on 18-05-2007 17:57
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Some people run their careers with a squad that can take good results consistently so dont need training camps. 
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Posted on 18-05-2007 23:07
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The Tour of Belgium would turn out to be the best tour of the season so far.
Stage 1
Irishman Aidan Finegan got himself into the 6 man breakway for the relatively flat stage, with 1 KoM climb in the middle, I didnt have enough bloue bar at that point to win the points so had to settle for second, in Hindsight i should have used up a drink in order to have more blue bar as I ended up losing a lot of time with him anyway. Aidan fell back and the rest of the break was caught at 3.5km. By then only Danilo Wyss and Mikhael Ignatiev were left and Danilo took 21st in the sprint.
Stage 2
Sven and Eric (Boonen and Kuijlen) set off in todays break of 5 and Sven made sure a Boonen would win one sprint in the race - his brother Tom was not participating. The 5 were then caught by 2 others including a stronger sprinter in Dietziker. Sven could therefore only take 2nd in the next sprint and he and Eric were caught as they crosses the third sprint, with the other 5 caught shortly after.
It became a tough battle for the whole of my team to stay in the peleton but Ignatiev did well and hung on in as the sole representee from Eurosport.com.
Stage 3
The time trial!
With all my riders riding early on the time trial was more interesting as at one stage 8 of the 9 were on course. Of them it was Kittel who sent the benchmark time.
Lars Boom was the first 3 star favourite on course and he was immediately followed by another 3-star favourite - our very own Mikhail. The strong rating from the bookies surprised us considering our performances over the season but we knew Mikha had a chance. Boom beat Kittel's time at the checkpoint and Mikha was just 9 seconds behind Boom at that point. Boom kept up his pace but Miha was able to increase his speed and close the gap but not quite enough, falling 3 seconds short of Lars Boom, with Kittel now 3rd.
Jartazi's Kaupas beat Mikha at the checkpoint but not the finish, but then Dmitri Gabrovski stormed to the win - taking a minute over Lars Boom! I sure hope he had a drugs test! Gusev (CSC) and Van Schalen (Ubbink) also went marginally quicker than Mikha who happily settled for 5th, Marcel Kittel also got a top 10 - with 9th.
The team took 3rd in the stage rankings and Mikha is now 9th overall - but is set to lose time in the hilly stage 4.
Stage 4
A tough hilly stage, IGnatieve was again the top finisher, outside the top 50 and over ten minutes down.
Stage 5
A break of 8 went away including Schleck and Blythe. Blythe helped relay, while Schleck did not. Later on it became clear that the break would make it but Blythe began to struggle and fell off along with a Panaria rider. Schleck though just about managed to hang on although a red moment when the sprint began meant he could do no better than 6th.
In the Overall Classification Mikha did best with 54th, just under 15 minutes down.
We now have ranking points!!! Mikha has 4pts and Schleck 2pts and we are now ranked the 67th best team in the continental rankings (Out of 68).
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Posted on 19-05-2007 02:01
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Stae 1 - Prologue
MIKHA WINS!!! Eurosport.com
Russian Mikhail Ignatiev raised eyebrows today in Luxembourg as he took a phenomal victory in the opening prologue for the Skoda Tour de Luxembourg.
The Russian took 5th in a recent Time Trial at the Tour of Belgium and the former World U23 TT Champion continued his form in a lower-quality field, providing his Eurosport.com team their first ever victory!
Mikha had the tough job of starting the race and he set a strong time of 6'10, but had no idea how well he would do. Pre-stage favourite Brian Vandborg was soon on his way.
It looked like a blistering time but as the finish neared the seconds ticked by. 6'05, 6'06, 6'07, 6'08, Lunges to the line and .... 6'10. The same time as Mikha, but no! Mikha has the lead by a split second.
With the biggest threat gone Mikha still had to watch the rest and Vincenzo Nibali came within 2 seconds but it was not enough to prevent a superb victory.
Tomorrow is a new day and the Eurosport.com team will relish having the Yellow jersey. Will Mikha retain it? It'll be tough and inexperience may go against him.
Rank Name Team Time
1 Mikhail Ignatiev EUROSPORT.COM 6'10
2 Brian Vandborg TEAM CSC s.t.
3 Vincenzo Nibali LIQUIGAS + 2
4 Torsten Schmidt TEAM WIESENHOF - AKUD + 6
5 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC + 9
6 Grischa Niermann RABOBANK s.t.
7 Lukasz Bodnar INTEL - ACTION s.t.
8 Cezary Zamana INTEL - ACTION s.t.
9 Floris Goessinen SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
10 Andy Cappelle LANDBOUWKREDIET - COLNAGO + 12
15 Marc Schleck EUROSPORT.COM + 16
22 Marcel Wyss EUROSPORT.COM + 18
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Posted on 19-05-2007 10:28
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Some people run their careers with a squad that can take good results consistently so dont need training camps.
very good point
and A WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted on 19-05-2007 11:51
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Thanks
Stage 2
Mikha would mak the most of his day in yellow as there's a fair chance it will be his only day.
AN 8-man break went away including 3 Eurosport riders! Petric, Kulovits + Rinkus. Their aim? Take the KoM jersey!
It was so far so good at 44km as we took a 1-2-3: Petric, Kulovits, Rinkus. The road to the next climb was harder as the immature Aussie,Scot Davis tried to attack many times. It all settled down, but then the peleton began to chase hard.
With 500m to go to the top the whole of the break attacked in order to get the points. Bonnaire did enough for first and Rinkus slowed to 3rd to allow Petric 2nd. As soon as they crossed the top they were caught and Petric's jersey was guaranteed. ANother break went away and got a gap including Brian Vandborg. Vandborg took 2 bonus seconds in the sprint so would take yellow it seemed. The peleton began to wittle down before catching the break and 40 riders crossed the line in the group. Breschel won having stormed past Schreck in the last kilometre.
Where was Mikha? 41st  |
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Posted on 19-05-2007 12:11
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so that's a no, on keepy his jersey
but now you have another to defend; the KOM jersey |
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Posted on 19-05-2007 12:54
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Indeed.
Stage 3
Petric and Kulovits made their way into the break of 5 but were dropped too soon  This left 3 guys to fight it out for 6,4,2 pts 3 times. Luckily though they shared it out evenly and took 12pts each, so Petric is still just 2 pts down.
As the sprint began Ignatiev was the only rider left in the peleton, altyhough you can see Schleck + Minkenen in the distance.
Could Breschel hold on? Or would Nibali power through?
Its Breschel! Vandborg may regret also celebrating as Breschel now has the overall lead. |
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Posted on 19-05-2007 16:44
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Stage 4
Minkene worked hard but made it into the early break, Petric was poor so I told him to give up his attack.
With 30km to go the Peleton were climbing the penultimate hill, with Nicki Sorenson a minute up. Mikha + Minkenen were the only Eurosport riders and Minken did well to get Mikha back in the peleton after the previous hill
At 10km to go:
There was now 2 groups of 25, with Mikha in the latter and Minkenen along way back.
Coming into the sprint Breschel was badly positioned who would win?
Its Schreck, who JUST holds off Fofonov. Mikha came in 50th, and drops to 45th overall.
The battle for first overall is now very tight: Schreck and Breschel have nothing to seperate them
Stage 5
We join the action with 3km to go.
Sorenson has a very slight gap over 21 others in E1. The top 3 Schreck, Breschel and Nibali are there but in a bad position.
A turn at 2.5km catches out Breschel and his hopes are surely gone.
Fofonov is surely the favourite to win as he is closing in on Sorenson's wheel.
Sorenson just isnt sprinting, Fofonov moves through will he be stopped? Bernucci is 3rd at the moment.
The gaps are appearing the front 3 as Blaudzun leads the charge for 4, Schreck is struggling now as Breschel is recovering. (Breschels in White, Schreck Yellow)
Fofonov Wins!
and he takes the overall as well!
1 Dimitri Fofonov CREDIT AGRICOLE 14h32'18
2 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC s.t.
3 Stefan Schreck T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
4 Vincenzo Nibali LIQUIGAS + 8
5 Brian Vandborg TEAM CSC + 16
6 Nicki Sörensen TEAM CSC + 27
7 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC s.t.
8 Grischa Niermann RABOBANK s.t.
9 Cezary Zamana INTEL - ACTION s.t.
10 Lorenzo Bernucci T-MOBILE TEAM + 31
He also won the points jersey.
1 Dimitri Fofonov CREDIT AGRICOLE 77
2 Stefan Schreck T-MOBILE TEAM 68
3 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC 65
4 Vincenzo Nibali LIQUIGAS 59
5 Michael Albasini LIQUIGAS 34
6 Lorenzo Bernucci T-MOBILE TEAM 32
7 Brian Vandborg TEAM CSC 31
8 Nicki Sörensen TEAM CSC 29
9 Matej Mugerli LIQUIGAS 27
10 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC 26
11 Mikhail Ignatiev EUROSPORT.COM 25
But he didnt win the KoM jersey
1 Niels Scheunemann RABOBANK 34
2 Corey Sweet TEAM WIESENHOF - AKUD 14
3 Thorwald Veneberg RABOBANK 12
4 Mashahiro Shinagawa SKIL - SHIMANO 12
5 Lukasz Bodnar INTEL - ACTION 12
6 Scott Davis T-MOBILE TEAM 12
7 Mladan Petric EUROSPORT.COM 10
45 Mikhail Ignatiev EUROSPORT.COM + 6'35
59 Marc Schleck EUROSPORT.COM + 19'58
69 David Rozehnal EUROSPORT.COM + 28'26
71 Igors Rinkus EUROSPORT.COM + 28'44
73 Jani Minkenen EUROSPORT.COM + 29'48
76 Marcel Wyss EUROSPORT.COM + 37'43
85 Mladan Petric EUROSPORT.COM + 1h06'41
86 Raimund Kulovits EUROSPORT.COM + 1h12'29
Next up we have a 4 stage race in Holland before the national championships. |
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Posted on 19-05-2007 17:18
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For 10 days of this month a few more riders trained in their TT skills, and Marcel Kittel leads the team in preparation for the Stage 2 TT. Danilo Wyss has 74/80 fitness and will aim at Stage 1 and 5, while Geraint Thomas is the best hope for Stages 3 and 4.
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Posted on 19-05-2007 23:16
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Stage 1
The field contained 7 ProTour teams so I knew this would be a tougher few days than I had expected.
and De Weerdt nearly makes it!
But which rider will take it?
Unibet! And the rider's name?
1 Jeremy Hunt UNIBET.COM 3h15'45
2 Pedro Horrillo RABOBANK s.t.
3 Martin Pedersen TEAM CSC s.t.
4 Simone Cadamuro TEAM MILRAM s.t.
5 Fred Rodriguez DAVITAMON - LOTTO s.t.
6 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC s.t.
7 Bram De Groot RABOBANK s.t.
8 Gerben Löwik RABOBANK s.t.
9 Kevin De Weert QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
10 Paul Van Schalen UBBINK-SYNTEC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
47 Sven Boonen EUROSPORT.COM s.t.
53 Geraint Thomas EUROSPORT.COM s.t.
54 Jochen Matschke EUROSPORT.COM s.t.
Kuijlen kept himself in contention for the KoM jersey - he has vowed to attack on every stage.
1 Gabriele Bosisio TEAM TENAX SALMILANO 18
2 Kevin De Weert QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 16
3 Eric Kuijlen EUROSPORT.COM 14
4 Mashahiro Shinagawa SKIL - SHIMANO 4
5 Frank Hoj GEROLSTEINER 4
6 Kevin Neirynck LANDBOUWKREDIET - COLNAGO 2
7 Matthew Gilmore CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN 2
Stage 2
Stage 3
A very hilly stage where at one point all but one of the teams had a man up front, the odd one out being Quick Step. The riders up front were spread amonst many different groups.
As there was only Quick Step to chase it was no surprise that a survivor from the break won.
Geert Omloop.
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