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Rabobank Story : Qatar
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| matt493 |
Posted on 04-04-2008 23:24
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The big Tour of Qatar has all the stars and the race starts off with a team time trial.
The pre-race favorites Gerolstein showed a good performance but Rabobank tried but with not enough good time trialers Rabobank finished next to last.
SO we start the race 33 seconds down.
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| stuartmcstuart |
Posted on 04-04-2008 23:27
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33 seconds isn't too bad, make that back with a few victories  |
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| matt493 |
Posted on 04-04-2008 23:49
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Tour of Qatar Stage 2
A breakaway got away early but they were reeled back after the first intermediate sprint.
When things came to the 2nd intermediate sprint Freire seemed like the only one ready and easily took the sprint.
Freire followed Sacchi and waited until Pettachi, who was following Freire, started to sprint.
Freire just wasn't strong enough and finished 5th.
Edited by matt493 on 05-04-2008 13:47
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| stuartmcstuart |
Posted on 05-04-2008 12:21
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whats happened to your pictures Matt? I can't see any of your screenshots! |
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| matt493 |
Posted on 05-04-2008 13:40
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Oh sorry I'll have that fixed soon.
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| matt493 |
Posted on 05-04-2008 13:49
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Ok Everything is fixed now.
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| matt493 |
Posted on 05-04-2008 14:15
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Tour of Qatar Stage 3
The break took the first to intermediate sprint so everything came down to the final sprint. Freire was led out perfectly and just looked absolutely stronger than everyone else. He rocketed his way to victory. Now Freire is only 3 seconds behind.
1 Óscar Freire RABOBANK 3h11'53
2 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM + 21
3 Elia Rigotto TEAM MILRAM s.t.
4 Lloyd Mondory AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
5 Steven De Jongh QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
6 Saïd Haddou BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
7 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
8 Martin Elmiger AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
9 Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
10 Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
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Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM 6h19'40
Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
Elia Rigotto TEAM MILRAM + 2
Saïd Haddou BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
Óscar Freire RABOBANK + 3
Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM + 4
Assan Bazayev TEAM ASTANA s.t.
Dimitri Muravyev TEAM ASTANA s.t.
Andrey Mizourov TEAM ASTANA s.t.
Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 6
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| matt493 |
Posted on 05-04-2008 14:53
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Tour of Qatar Stage 4
A couple of Breakaways took away the intermediate sprints from Freire who is in need of a couple seconds. When everything came down to a sprint yet again Freire just pushed his way to the front of the pack and sprinted away for another victory as he takes the jersey.So Freire takes the lead and hopes to maintain.
1 Óscar Freire RABOBANK 3h13'12
2 Lloyd Mondory AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
3 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
4 Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
5 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS s.t.
6 Mark Cavendish T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
7 Martin Elmiger AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
8 Andy Flickinger BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
9 Saïd Haddou BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
10 Steven Caethoven CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
1 Óscar Freire RABOBANK 9h32'45
2 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM + 7
3 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
4 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
5 Saïd Haddou BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 9
6 Elia Rigotto TEAM MILRAM s.t.
7 Assan Bazayev TEAM ASTANA + 11
8 Andrey Mizourov TEAM ASTANA s.t.
9 Dimitri Muravyev TEAM ASTANA s.t.
10 Andy Flickinger BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 13
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| matt493 |
Posted on 05-04-2008 15:15
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It is officially the end of January so lets have a look at the Superprestige.
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| matt493 |
Posted on 05-04-2008 15:43
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Tour of Qatar Stage 5
Everything came down to a sprint again and Dekker led out Freire followed by Pettachi.
Freire and Pettachi were the only real contenders as they were 50 yards in front of the rest of the pack.
pettachi kept getting closer and closer but all of a sudden Freire started getting farther ahead and Freire takes another win.
It looks like Freire will be able to win but everything will come down to the last stage.
1 Óscar Freire RABOBANK 3h38'57
2 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
3 Lloyd Mondory AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
4 Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
5 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS s.t.
6 Steven Caethoven CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
7 Steven De Jongh QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
8 Martin Elmiger AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
9 Jean-Patrick Nazon AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
10 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
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1 Óscar Freire RABOBANK 13h11'32
2 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM + 11
3 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM + 17
4 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
5 Elia Rigotto TEAM MILRAM + 19
6 Saïd Haddou BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
7 Lloyd Mondory AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 21
8 Dimitri Muravyev TEAM ASTANA s.t.
9 Andrey Mizourov TEAM ASTANA s.t.
10 Andy Flickinger BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 23
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| matt493 |
Posted on 05-04-2008 15:48
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Edited by matt493 on 05-04-2008 16:01
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| matt493 |
Posted on 05-04-2008 16:03
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Just click the video and watch the 5th stage.
Edited by matt493 on 05-04-2008 16:04
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| matt493 |
Posted on 05-04-2008 20:34
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Edited by matt493 on 05-04-2008 20:38
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 05-04-2008 20:46
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Well done on winning Qatar.
Whos the guy who won Stage 2, you didnt actually post the results?
And on Stage 3, theres no way you could have got that gap just in the sprint - what did you do? Attack before the sprint to get a gap?
Nice innovative idea with the videos by the way.
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| matt493 |
Posted on 05-04-2008 20:51
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Andre Greipel won with Sacchi coming in second. And actually I did. I had Dekker put on 99 and the dot and have Freire follow him. I dropped Dekker and Freire was already a little bit ahead.
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 05-04-2008 20:52
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Nice innovative idea with the videos by the way.
Not really a video if you ask me. Its more a slideshow where the picture seems to stay on forever.
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| matt493 |
Posted on 05-04-2008 20:54
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I'd consider it a video. Just a really old fashioned video where nothing moves.
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 05-04-2008 21:06
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Come on, up the difficulty B)
EDIT: and considering you're using Rabobank you should be playing on extreme mode 
Edited by rjc_43 on 05-04-2008 21:07
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| matt493 |
Posted on 06-04-2008 20:23
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