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| dave92 |
Posted on 16-03-2008 20:50
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thist team is too insane
doesnt it get boring winning everything? 
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| matt493 |
Posted on 16-03-2008 20:54
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dave92 wrote:
thist team is too insane
doesnt it get boring winning everything?
It only gets boring if you lose everything.
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| Cristi M |
Posted on 16-03-2008 21:43
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mrlol can you please upload your save game...
1 year after panaflex's one
UCI Pro Tour Magenta AllStars Team Manager
ANDY SCHLECK FOR SALE in the MAN GAME
This is my new nickname, it represents my name so call me Cristi in the future  thanks
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| mrlol |
Posted on 17-03-2008 07:43
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I'll never get bored winning
and I sure can upload it 
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there you go. I'll put some info in the 'upload your savegame' topic.
https://www.mediafire.com/?9tly5mvl5xd
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| mrlol |
Posted on 17-03-2008 09:51
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It's a flat stage today in the Vuelta, perfect for a sprint although a break does have a chance. Favourites are Ciolek, Pettacchi and Sutton.
But there's no luck for the break today as they are caugth just before the final intermediate sprint, which is won by the relaying Rosseler before Grabovskyy and Ciolek extending his lead for the points jersey.
The sprint preparation is a mess and there are no real trains. Most sprinters are way back and it's Steegmans who's leading out the relaying train of Chocolade Jaques and Sutton is following one of those with de Ketele and Ballan behind him.
With 1.5km to go Steegman has made a gap by sprinting away from the relaying train which contains rider that cant sprint at all. Sutton is coming closer to Steegman fast and he looks very strong but will the gap be too big? All other sprinters are coming as well, but they are too late, it's gonna be between the teammates.
And it's Sutton who can get in Steegmans' slipstream and power past him on the line, it's a well deserved one-two for Quick Step.
Tomorrow we're going back into the mountain to see if anyone can challenge Intxausti for the golden jersey.
Stage result
Rank Name Team Time
1 Christopher Sutton QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 4h56'57
2 Gert Steegmans QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
3 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
4 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
5 Carlos Eduardo Alzate UNIBET.COM s.t.
6 Gerald Ciolek T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
7 Kenny De Ketele CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
8 Matti Breschel RABOBANK s.t.
9 José Joaquín Rojas CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
10 Assan Bazayev T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
Points
Rank Name Team Stage Overall
1 Gerald Ciolek T-MOBILE TEAM 11 224
2 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 0 166
3 Christopher Sutton QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 25 165
4 Elia Rigotto TEAM MILRAM 0 151
5 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM 16 127
6 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK 0 103
7 Assan Bazayev T-MOBILE TEAM 9 86
8 José Angel Gómez Marchante CAISSE D'EPARGNE 0 85
9 Damiano Cunego SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 4 84
10 Carlos Eduardo Alzate UNIBET.COM 12 82
Other classements remain unchanged
Edited by mrlol on 17-03-2008 09:54
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| mrlol |
Posted on 17-03-2008 11:04
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Mountain time today! The favourites are Intxausti, Mugika and Sastre but Marchante and Scnchez (3rd and 2rd in GC) should be up front as well. Note the little hill just before the finish which could give a late attack a good chance for victory, this is what we are aiming for today.
The beginning of the stage was buissiness as usuall, attacks came, a break formed and stayed away. Untill the gap was at 11'23, that was the sign for Rabobank and Caisse to send their men up front. Sanchez and Marchante should have a plan to attack the race leader it seems.
But on the last mountain the attacks didnt come, untill in the last km of it Cunego attacked for the KOM points, which caused all GC rider to counter because they were not sure if he'd stop rider after taking the points. Well, he did but there was a groupe: Intxausti, Sanchez, Marchante and Zubeldia stayed away after the attacks, while Sastre was able to get himself to the front groupe pretty fast without attacking which caused Mugika and Lloret to follow him.
This groupe worked well together in the downhill and my two riders took something to eat and drink to get some strength back to the final dash!
And when the final hill came, Intxaustie screamed to Mugika he could have the stage and so he attacked. He was followed but his attack seems strong enough.
And he takes it! He didnt slow down in the few last meters, while Marchante, Sastre and Zubeldia lost contact with the groupe due to the attack.
Stage result
1 Lander Múgika QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 5h46'39
2 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK s.t.
3 Manuel Lloret DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
4 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
5 José Angel Gómez Marchante CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 12
6 Carlos Sastre PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 20
7 Haimar Zubeldia EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
8 Aleksandr Pliuschin DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 56
9 Yaroslav Popovych LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 1'56
10 Damiano Cunego SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
GC
1 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 75h29'57
2 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK + 6'17
3 José Angel Gómez Marchante CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 6'58
4 Lander Múgika QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 8'02
5 Carlos Sastre PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 8'17
6 Manuel Lloret DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 11'03
7 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS + 15'04
8 Yaroslav Popovych LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 16'43
9 Haimar Zubeldia EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 16'53
10 Damiano Cunego SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 17'02
Points
1 Gerald Ciolek T-MOBILE TEAM 0 224
2 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 14 180
3 Christopher Sutton QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 0 165
4 Elia Rigotto TEAM MILRAM 0 151
5 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM 0 127
KOM
1 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 10 112
2 Carlos Sastre PREDICTOR - LOTTO 1 101
3 Damiano Cunego SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 19 87
4 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK 2 78
5 José Angel Gómez Marchante CAISSE D'EPARGNE 7 63
Mugika went up one place in the GC! Tomorrow one more mountain stage before a mountain time trial up the Estación de Esquí la Covatilla which should make the final disicions in the GC. Then it's only the traditional sprinters' stage to Madrid.
Edited by mrlol on 17-03-2008 16:57
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| Crommy |
Posted on 17-03-2008 16:30
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| mrlol |
Posted on 17-03-2008 16:56
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The final 'normal' mountain stage of this years Vuelta. The finish is on the 'Bola del Mundo'. A very though climb with the last 3.4km at an avarage of 10.8% and sections of over 18%.
The tv-break of the day is realed in before the final intermediate sprint, and because none of the sprinters except for Sutton are in the peloton anymore, it's an easy win for him so he get's a little close to Ciolek again, allthough he seems to have secured his jersey. Maybe Intxausti can take it but he'll need a lot of luck.
On the final climb, the attacks come as usual. It's Popovych who starts it and he's folled by Sastre, Inxausti and Mugika. Others would follow later.
Then suddenly, L.L. Sanchez comes powering past the groupe. He first takes 8 seconds, then it becomes 15 and even 25 seconds. But then the teammates Mugika and Intxausti both start taking very fast relays. The others in the groupe(Lloret, Sastre, Popovych) are struggeling to keep up but the gap remains stable.
In the final kilometer Mugika and Intxausti try their best to sprint to Sancgez and Intxausti makes it to his wheel but it's too late for victory. Sanchez deserved it as he obviously had a great day. Mugika come in a few seconds later but the gap to Sastre, Lloret and Popo is a little bigger. However, Gomez Marchante is the big loser of the day. He never made it to the groupe and goes down to 4th place in the GC after losing 1'34. Zubeldia loses allmost 3 minutes and the pack is even further back.
Stage results
1 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK 4h43'32
2 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
3 Lander Múgika QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 16
4 Manuel Lloret DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 30
5 Carlos Sastre PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
6 Yaroslav Popovych LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 48
7 José Angel Gómez Marchante CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 1'34
8 Haimar Zubeldia EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 2'57
9 Carlos Barredo GEROLSTEINER + 4'05
10 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS s.t.
GC
1 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 80h13'29
2 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK + 6'17
3 Lander Múgika QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 8'18
4 José Angel Gómez Marchante CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 8'32
5 Carlos Sastre PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 8'47
6 Manuel Lloret DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 11'33
7 Yaroslav Popovych LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 17'31
8 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS + 19'09
9 Haimar Zubeldia EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 19'50
10 Damiano Cunego SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 21'07
Points
1 Gerald Ciolek T-MOBILE TEAM 0 224
2 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 20 200
3 Christopher Sutton QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 4 169
4 Elia Rigotto TEAM MILRAM 0 151
5 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK 25 148
KOM
1 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 25 137
2 Carlos Sastre PREDICTOR - LOTTO 12 113
3 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK 30 108
4 Damiano Cunego SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 5 92
5 Lander Múgika QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 20 81
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Posted on 17-03-2008 18:46
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Today should bring the descision in the GC, after this there won't be any changes. Everything needs to happen today. And exactly, today Intxausti is having a bad day. His daily form is -5. However his lead is big enough so no worries.
On to the race, This is a 20km long climb, which is not the steepest. Only around 5.5% avarage, but a section between kilometer 15.5 and 19.5 is just under 10% so the difference should be made there.
In the beginning you see some riders struggeling past the finish, and still having a bad time. Others on the other hand, save their energy for the last stage tomorrow. This is what I told my riders so these where the bottom 5 finishers:
187 Diego Ulissi QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 9'29
188 Sébastien Rosseler QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 9'47
189 Gert Steegmans QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 10'26
190 Dimitri Claeys QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 11'07
191 Christopher Sutton QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 13'31
Ulissi, Rosseler and Claeys will have to real in a breakaway one more time while Steegmans will have to lead out Sutton for a final stage win.
But no to the big guns. Obviously, the top GC riders where up front today. But there where a few big differences.
3rd today is Intxausti in the golden jersey on '32 seconds. As said, this was not his best day so a 3rd place is not bad at all.
2nd Is L.L. Sanchez, again showing his great form. He was only 2 seconds slower then the winner...
And that was, Mugika! Taking his 2nd win of the season and in this Vuelta.
Conclusion: No big changes in the GC, Intxausti won the Vuelta and the team is ready for the World Championships.
Stage results
1 Lander Múgika QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 45'00
2 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK + 2
3 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 32
4 José Angel Gómez Marchante CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 45
5 Carlos Sastre PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 51
6 Rubén Plaza CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 1'20
7 Manuel Lloret DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1'32
8 Yaroslav Popovych LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 1'38
9 Haimar Zubeldia EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 2'17
10 Aleksandr Pliuschin DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 2'41
GC
1 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 80h59'01
2 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK + 5'47
3 Lander Múgika QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 7'46
4 José Angel Gómez Marchante CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 8'45
5 Carlos Sastre PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 9'06
6 Manuel Lloret DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 12'33
7 Yaroslav Popovych LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 18'37
8 Haimar Zubeldia EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 21'35
9 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS + 22'13
10 Damiano Cunego SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 23'42
Points
1 Gerald Ciolek T-MOBILE TEAM 0 224
2 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 16 216
3 Christopher Sutton QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 0 169
4 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK 20 168
5 Elia Rigotto TEAM MILRAM 0 151
KOM
1 Beñat Intxausti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 0 137
2 Carlos Sastre PREDICTOR - LOTTO 0 113
3 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK 0 108
4 Damiano Cunego SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 0 92
5 Lander Múgika QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 0 81
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Posted on 17-03-2008 18:50
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Its great that Mugika has moved up to a podium spot - do you know if he is a scouted rider?
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| mrlol |
Posted on 17-03-2008 18:51
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Its great that Mugika has moved up to a podium spot - do you know if he is a scouted rider?
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Posted on 17-03-2008 18:57
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| mrlol |
Posted on 17-03-2008 19:02
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somewhere is spain I guess. but you wont be able to scout him anyway |
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Posted on 17-03-2008 20:09
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Shocked to see Christopher Sutton and Gert Steegmans on the top while all the squad was really behind (stage 17)
5'47, Beñat Intxausti overhung the vuelta 
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Posted on 17-03-2008 20:12
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Posted on 18-03-2008 10:17
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Today is the final stage in the vuelta, the traditional sprint stage to madrid. Favourites today are Petacchi, Ciolek and Sutton.
As we have the race leader, and a good shot for the stage, we take our responsability to chase the break in the first part of the race. in the last 40km other spirnt teams start to help us and the break was easily caught.
In the final corner with 3km to go, there is only one small sprinters train with Claeys - Steegmans - Sutton - Petacchi - Ciolek. There are some other lost sprinters up front, which one there own, they certainly won't win.
For us, it's looking good as both Claeys and Sutton have a daily form of +4, although this has a negative side, as Steegmans didnt recover good from the last 20 days and he's struggeling to follow Claeys. Let's hope he won't screw up.
Unfortunatly, he does. Claeys get's the speed up, but Ale-Jet is closing fast so Steegmans immediatly has to pass him to prevent the other sprinters from catching up, but he's not good enough. Sutton, now has to close the gap to Claeys, and then go for it with still 1.5km to go. Will it be too far?
No, it was not too far! Sutton shows he is in great form for the worlds and takes and impressive win in Madrid, with Alzate 2nd and Petacchi 3rd while Claeys still manages a nice 4th place.
And Intxausti finished in the peloton without any problem, which mean have have won the Vuelta and completed our final sponsor goal!
Stage result
1 Christopher Sutton QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 3h21'05
2 Carlos Eduardo Alzate UNIBET.COM s.t.
3 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
4 Dimitri Claeys QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
5 Gerald Ciolek T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
6 Elia Rigotto TEAM MILRAM s.t.
7 Francisco Pacheco TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
8 Gert Steegmans QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
9 Stuart O'Grady LIQUIGAS s.t.
10 Yauheni Hutarovich CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
11 Assan Bazayev T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
12 Koldo Fernández de Larrea EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
13 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
14 Mahdi Sohrabi T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
15 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
16 Michael Albasini UNIBET.COM s.t.
17 Kenny De Ketele CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
18 Morris Gerlach T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
19 Cândido Barbosa TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
20 Bobbie Traksel DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
11 Rubén Plaza CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 24'47
12 Aleksandr Pliuschin DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 24'49
13 Jurgen Van den Broeck PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 28'17
14 José Serpa UNIBET.COM + 30'52
15 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 33'44
16 Javier González TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 34'24
17 Toni Colom DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 35'13
18 Riccardo Riccò CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 35'41
19 Mauricio Ortega LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 35'59
20 Carlos Barredo GEROLSTEINER + 36'15
21 Óscar Pereiro CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 38'40
22 Dainius Magdisauskas UNIBET.COM + 39'02
23 Egoi Martínez DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 40'47
24 Yuri Trofimov QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 44'25
25 Tom Danielson BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 44'26
26 Domenico Pozzovivo CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 45'07
27 Matteo Carrara CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 45'42
28 Amets Txurruka EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 45'51
29 Dmytro Grabovskyy QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 46'18
30 Artjom Grafenstein PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 49'18
31 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 49'50
32 Rubén Pérez LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 50'46
33 Vitor Rodrigues RABOBANK + 51'11
34 Pablo Lastras UNIBET.COM + 51'24
35 Gabriele Tassinari PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 52'23
36 Samuel Paricio KARPIN GALICIA + 52'33
37 Pedro Usabiaga KARPIN GALICIA + 52'41
38 Giovanni Visconti TEAM CSC + 52'50
39 Joaquim Rodríguez TEAM CSC + 54'51
40 Luis Orán Castañeda UNIBET.COM + 55'23
41 Ángel Vázquez CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 56'07
42 Mikel Astarloza SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 56'43
43 Roberto Heras TEAM ASTANA + 56'47
44 Virgílio Santos SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 57'29
45 Vasil Kiryienka LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 58'22
46 Gonzalo Rabuñal KARPIN GALICIA + 59'03
47 Paco Lara CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 59'26
48 Alexander Kvachuk CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 59'52
49 Alexis Castro PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1h00'27
50 Cândido Barbosa TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 1h00'44
51 Aitor Pérez Arrieta UNIBET.COM + 1h00'58
52 David Herrero KARPIN GALICIA + 1h01'11
53 Rinaldo Nocentini CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 1h01'17
54 Alexandr Kolobnev TEAM CSC + 1h01'18
55 Jorge Azanza EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 1h01'25
56 Óscar Pujol TEAM ASTANA + 1h01'36
57 Lidio Cainelli LIQUIGAS + 1h03'34
58 Gorka Verdugo EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 1h05'09
59 José Joaquín Rojas CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 1h05'10
60 Juan Miguel Mercado TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 1h05'22
61 Yannick Talabardon CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
62 Nicki Sörensen TEAM CSC + 1h08'51
63 Francisco Pacheco TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 1h08'55
64 Francesco Bellotti CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN + 1h11'51
65 Ángel Vicioso COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 1h12'14
66 Antonio Muñoz KARPIN GALICIA + 1h12'25
67 Teddy Chelle EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 1h13'20
68 Dimitri Claeys QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 1h13'25
69 Sandy Casar COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 1h14'22
70 Steve Morabito TEAM ASTANA + 1h15'38
71 Jean-Marc Marino CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 1h16'31
72 Iban Mayoz EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 1h17'58
73 Nicolas Fritsch SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 1h18'52
74 Alberto Rodríguez CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN + 1h19'02
75 Chu Thien Dionisiev CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 1h19'30
76 Christopher Sutton QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 1h24'24
77 Diego Ulissi QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 1h24'36
78 Andrea Palini CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 1h25'11
79 Marc De Maar RABOBANK + 1h25'41
80 Yann Huguet TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 1h31'08
81 David García Dapena KARPIN GALICIA + 1h31'16
82 Didac Ortega TEAM ASTANA + 1h36'23
83 Kenny De Ketele CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN + 1h37'55
84 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 1h38'12
85 Michael Albasini UNIBET.COM + 1h38'36
86 Steven Cummings DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1h38'50
87 Christophe Laurent CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 1h40'02
88 Jens Peder Keller TEAM CSC + 1h40'43
89 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM + 1h41'52
90 José Miguel Elías TEAM ASTANA + 1h42'00
91 Assan Bazayev T-MOBILE TEAM + 1h43'04
92 Serafín Martínez KARPIN GALICIA + 1h43'55
93 Sébastien Rosseler QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 1h45'04
94 Kanstantsin Siutsou TEAM MILRAM + 1h45'52
95 Elia Rigotto TEAM MILRAM + 1h47'08
96 Torsten Hiekmann GEROLSTEINER + 1h48'28
97 Romain Feillu EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 1h49'00
98 Joost Posthuma RABOBANK + 1h49'13
99 Stuart O'Grady LIQUIGAS + 1h52'22
100 Ricardo Serrano TEAM MILRAM + 1h52'32
101 Wouter Weylandt PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1h54'16
102 Juan José Oroz CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN + 1h54'55
103 Matti Breschel RABOBANK + 1h55'17
104 Stefano Boggia RABOBANK + 2h02'58
105 Nikolas Maes PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 2h06'36
106 Gregor Pawlowski RABOBANK + 2h08'15
107 Santi Pérez GEROLSTEINER + 2h10'42
108 Dimitri Muravyev TEAM ASTANA + 2h12'11
109 Bastiaan Giling TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 2h13'14
110 Dailos Díaz COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 2h13'20
111 Robert Stifler TEAM ASTANA + 2h13'53
112 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 2h13'56
113 Gerald Ciolek T-MOBILE TEAM + 2h13'57
114 Błażej Janiaczyk TEAM MILRAM + 2h17'16
115 Vicente Reynès CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 2h17'53
116 Björn Leukemans COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 2h19'52
117 Mickael Bounouara CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 2h21'52
118 Carlo Scognamiglio PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 2h23'36
119 Cédric Hervé TEAM CSC + 2h23'45
120 Koldo Fernández de Larrea EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 2h26'35
121 Marco Marcato CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 2h28'48
122 Rubens Bertogliati SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 2h29'42
123 Salvador Guardiola KARPIN GALICIA + 2h33'26
124 Paolo Bettini TEAM MILRAM + 2h33'45
125 Adrián Palomares COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 2h34'05
126 Florian Morizot BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 2h34'54
127 Isidoro Canino LIQUIGAS + 2h36'08
128 Bert Grabsch T-MOBILE TEAM + 2h36'13
129 Geert Steurs GEROLSTEINER + 2h38'29
130 Arnaud Labbe BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 2h39'05
131 Willi Calabria LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 2h39'47
132 Pascal Hungerbühler COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 2h41'32
133 Gerrit Glomser SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 2h42'01
134 Carlos Eduardo Alzate UNIBET.COM + 2h43'35
135 Crescencio Gutiérrez DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 2h45'36
136 Mathieu Heijboer COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 2h46'27
137 Ion Bariego SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 2h47'37
138 Nathan O'Neill COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 2h48'33
139 Stijn Neirynck CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN + 2h48'36
140 Harald Totschnig TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 2h49'23
141 Anthony Geslin CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 2h51'48
142 Benoît Vaugrenard T-MOBILE TEAM + 2h52'09
143 Felix Odebrecht CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN + 2h52'50
144 Mario Ickx T-MOBILE TEAM + 2h55'35
145 Ruslan Ivanov BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 2h58'19
146 Matteo Priamo CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 2h59'14
147 Martin Velits TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 2h59'15
148 Francesco Tomei CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 2h59'18
149 Max Van Heeswijk LIQUIGAS + 2h59'55
150 Sebastian Lang GEROLSTEINER + 3h00'14
151 Gert Steegmans QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 3h02'17
152 Qin Xinpeng SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 3h02'35
153 Bobbie Traksel DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 3h03'45
154 Marc Lotz CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 3h03'52
155 Mahdi Sohrabi T-MOBILE TEAM + 3h04'13
156 Lars Petter Nordhaug TEAM CSC + 3h04'25
157 Tom Veelers GEROLSTEINER + 3h05'39
158 Renato Cartago LIQUIGAS + 3h06'04
159 Pedro Horrillo RABOBANK + 3h06'06
160 Ramón Troncoso KARPIN GALICIA + 3h06'24
161 Johnny Hoogerland LIQUIGAS + 3h06'29
162 Christian Murro T-MOBILE TEAM + 3h06'32
163 Christophe Edaleine CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 3h07'00
164 Jonathan Page LIQUIGAS + 3h08'29
165 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC + 3h08'46
166 Niki Terpstra TEAM MILRAM + 3h08'50
167 Morris Gerlach T-MOBILE TEAM + 3h09'53
168 José Ruiz UNIBET.COM + 3h09'56
169 Carlo Westphal GEROLSTEINER + 3h10'12
170 Bonifacio Iturbe SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 3h10'37
171 Igor Astarloa UNIBET.COM + 3h12'45
172 Daniele Colli CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 3h14'17
173 Koen Barbé LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 3h14'53
174 Frédéric Amorison RABOBANK + 3h15'22
175 Yauheni Hutarovich CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN + 3h15'55
176 Saïd Haddou BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 3h19'06
177 Paolo Bossoni TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 3h19'58
178 Ian MacGregor EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 3h21'00
179 David Kopp GEROLSTEINER + 3h24'09
180 Julien Taramarcaz TEAM MILRAM + 3h27'42
181 Stef Clement BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 3h28'37
182 Anthony Colin CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN + 3h28'58
183 Brett Lancaster TEAM MILRAM + 3h29'45
184 Luke Roberts TEAM CSC + 3h29'49
185 Bart Dockx LIQUIGAS + 3h30'13
186 Henk Vogels DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 3h32'10
187 Steffen Wesemann COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 3h33'35
188 Robbie McEwen T-MOBILE TEAM + 3h36'15
189 Generoso Bonati CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 3h36'26
190 Jan Boven LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 3h58'40
191 Rubén Bongiorno CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 4h05'06
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| mrlol |
Posted on 18-03-2008 15:06
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Welcome, today it is finally time for the World Championships Individual Time Trial in and around Zolder in Belgium. It's a 53km flat course so it should be perfect for the likes of Cancellara, Kittel and Wiggins. It's obviuous the Quick Step riders have been preparing hard for this, but for 2 riders(Reinikanen and Chagoya) this party won't go on as their countries did not qualify.
Intxausti is one of the first to start and he immediatly set a great time. (5th 1'46)
About half an houre later, there are again some big guns coming to the finish line. Rosseler(6th 1'52) has overtaken Pozzato(33th + 4'55), and he'll be taken over shortly after by Cancellara(2nd '20).
Then it's Dave Z who's flying over the track(4th 1'19).
But Grabobskyy is going even faster, he is taking every risk and in the penultimate corner he was not more then one inch away from crashing into a parked car. (3rd '58)
Then it's time for the British hope, Bradley Wiggins. He is a little dissapoiting however(9th 2'49)
And the winner of the WC ITT 2010 is.......
Marcel Kittel!!!! The German has been preparing for this race ever since he recoverd from his injury last years due to which he couln't be in last years WC. He took 1h07'07" to complete the 53 km beating number two, Fabian Cancellara by 20 seconds.
Full Results:
11 Etienne Pierret COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 3'17
12 Thomas Ziegler LIQUIGAS + 3'26
13 Jérôme Coppel UNIBET.COM + 3'31
14 Mikhail Ignatiev T-MOBILE TEAM + 3'34
15 Luis León Sánchez RABOBANK + 3'36
16 Jens Peder Keller TEAM CSC + 3'49
17 Marc De Maar RABOBANK + 3'50
18 Christian Müller TEAM ASTANA + 3'54
19 Brian Vandborg DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 3'55
20 Stijn Devolder DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 3'57
21 Rubén Plaza CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 3'58
22 Isidoro Canino LIQUIGAS + 4'01
23 Ruud Vullings UNIBET.COM + 4'02
24 Edvald Boasson Hagen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 4'18
25 Stefan Schumacher T-MOBILE TEAM + 4'23
26 Mark Jamieson SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI - SELLE ITALIA + 4'25
27 Jurgen Van den Broeck PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 4'29
28 Michael Rogers DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 4'31
29 Thomas Frei TEAM ASTANA + 4'36
30 Peter Velits LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 4'41
31 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 4'51
32 Alexander Kvachuk CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 4'53
33 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS + 4'55
34 Manuel Quinziato LIQUIGAS + 5'01
35 Benoît Vaugrenard T-MOBILE TEAM + 5'02
36 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 5'12
37 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 5'14
38 Tony Gallopin BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 5'18
39 Julián Rodas SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
40 Tom Danielson BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 5'24
41 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 5'27
42 Piotr Mazur SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
43 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC + 5'28
44 Sergio Paulinho DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 5'34
45 Rubens Bertogliati SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 5'35
46 Przemyslaw Niemiec TEAM ASTANA + 5'42
47 Ricardo Mestre RABOBANK CONTINENTAL + 5'53
48 Cadel Evans DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 6'06
49 Levi Leipheimer RABOBANK + 6'10
50 Josef Benetseder TEAM VORARLBERG - VOLKSBANK + 7'27 |
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 18-03-2008 15:50
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It has to be said, this is a silly story...
I, personally, prefer realistic stories, or stories where i see the team build up from the beginning and get as strong as this.
Nice reporting though
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 18-03-2008 15:51
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1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9!
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| mrlol |
Posted on 18-03-2008 15:57
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rjc_43 wrote:
It has to be said, this is a silly story...
I, personally, prefer realistic stories, or stories where i see the team build up from the beginning and get as strong as this.
Nice reporting though
all I can say is that there are more then enough realistic stories, and if I had to make a story building up a team like this all the way to 2010 it would take ages.
With this story I hope to be original, and I hope people will keep reading it. |
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