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Battling on the World Stage - Queen Stage at Le Dauphine
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| latarnik |
Posted on 17-06-2007 17:19
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yes of course, it would be great |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 17-06-2007 17:21
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Latarnik. I was asking whether you thought Poland should ride the Tour de Suisse or the Dauphine?
I will be doing both tours.
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 17-06-2007 17:48
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I would say Suisse |
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| latarnik |
Posted on 17-06-2007 18:28
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oh sorry... yes Suisse will be good |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 17-06-2007 18:58
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Line up for the 72km ITT:
1 Neutral
Australia
Austria
Croatia
Czech Republic
England
Germany
Holland
Ireland
Italy
Kazakhstan
Poland
Russia
Scotland
Serbia
Slovenia
Spain
Switzerland
Ukraine
USA |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 17-06-2007 21:10
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ITT - SLOVENIA - 
*** -  Cancellara,  Millar,  Gutierrez
** -  Rogers, Brajkovic,  Vinokourov,  Zabriskie, Julich
* -  Karpets,  Gerdemann,  Dekker, McGee, Ignatiev, Gusev, Reus,  Popovych
Would one of these favourites break the trend and actually win? All 3 TTTs were won by a squad that was not among the favourites.
Escobar () began the precedings but 3rd up was Mikhail Ignatiev (), who went about setting a tough benchmark for others to beat.
He comfortably passed Ricco ( ) on his way to a time of 1h45'00. Gabrovski () was the nearest threat, 36 seconds back for quite a while until 2 TT Powerhouses left the starthouse.
Cancellara () and Zabriskie (). Zabriskie though, was unconvincing and could only take 4th at the finish, a minute behind Ignatiev. Cancellara was a different matter though and after a slow start, he powered onwards and took the lead by nearly 29 seconds.
José Iván Gutiérrez (), Marzio Bruseghin (),
Yaroslav Popovych (), David Millar (), and Alexandre Vinokourov () all tried and failed to beat Cancellara as only 4 strong riders were left.
Brad McGee (), and Bradley Wiggins () imitated an Individiual Pursuit on the track as Wiggins immediately followed Mcee, this is an event which Wiggins has dominated recently and it showed as Wiggins easily beat McGee, almost catching him on the line. They were both chasing the new best time of Bobby Julich () and Wiggins led from start to finish to take the lead - it all looked set for yet another victory from a non-favourite.
Local favourite Janez Brajkovic () couldnt stop this, finishing 5th.
1 Bradley Wiggins ENGLAND 1h43'52
2 Bobby Julich UNITED STATES OF AMERICA + 21
3 Fabian Cancellara SWITZERLAND + 39
4 José Iván Gutiérrez SPAIN + 53
5 Janez Brajkovic SLOVENIA + 1'06
6 Michael Rogers AUSTRALIA + 1'08
7 Mikhail Ignatiev RUSSIA s.t.
8 Marzio Bruseghin ITALY + 1'20
9 Yaroslav Popovych UKRAINE + 1'23
10 Vincenzo Nibali ITALY + 1'30
11 David Millar SCOTLAND + 1'32
12 Paolo Savoldelli ITALY + 1'33
13 Alexandre Vinokourov KAZAKHSTAN s.t.
14 Dmytro Gabrovski UKRAINE + 1'44
15 Jens Voigt GERMANY + 1'52
16 Bradley McGee AUSTRALIA + 1'56
17 David Zabriskie UNITED STATES OF AMERICA + 2'09
18 Christopher Baldwin UNITED STATES OF AMERICA + 2'27
19 Markus Fothen GERMANY + 2'30
20 Oscar Pereiro SPAIN + 2'31
21 Luis León Sánchez SPAIN + 2'33
22 Evgeni Petrov RUSSIA + 2'34
23 William Walker AUSTRALIA + 2'37
24 Lars Boom HOLLAND + 2'48
25 Kai Reus HOLLAND + 2'56 |
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| latarnik |
Posted on 17-06-2007 21:50
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who from Polish riders was the best?? |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 17-06-2007 21:52
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45 Piotr Mazur POLAND + 3'58
47 Slawomir Kohut POLAND + 4'02
85 Tomasz Kiendys POLAND + 5'21
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| Crommy |
Posted on 17-06-2007 22:01
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Wiggins Wins!!!
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| dave92 |
Posted on 18-06-2007 05:31
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this is nice, keep it coming |
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 18-06-2007 12:09
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Hmm yes its great, must have been very hard that ride 77KM! lol Like the helmets! |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 18-06-2007 23:37
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The helmets are just of whatever team they replaced Apart from the Australian one you see in Stage 1 of the Dauphine - I made that as I didnt like SouthAustralia's purple. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-06-2007 00:07
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Dauphine Libere
STAGE 1
*** - David Millar , Dave Zabriskie , Michael Rogers
A short and flat ITT to kickoff the procedings.
Matija Kvasina laid down the benchmark time.
After 20 riders:
1.  Matija Kvasina 6'35. 2.  Andreas Svensson 6'41. 3. Ben Swift 6'46.
Michael Rogers (Pictured) and Mikhail Ignatiev were expected to set new faster times, after all, Kvasina was 4 minutes down on Wiggins in the 77km TT.
But, after 40 riders:
1. Matija Kvasina 6'35. 2. Michael Rogers 6'39. 3. Mikhail Ignatiev 6'40.
Dave Zabriskie was the next challenger, and he couldnt quite do it, equalling Kvasina.
After 60 riders:
1. Matija Kvasina 6'35. 2. Dave Zabriskie 6'35. 3. Michael Rogers 6'39.
After 80:
1. Matija Kvasina 6'35. 2. Dave Zabriskie 6'35. 3. Antonio Colom 6'38.
 
Karpets + Millar both looked strong today:
After 140 riders:
1. David Millar 6'31. 2. Vladimir Karpets 6'32. 3. Matija Kvasina.
It's Millar time!
Could Bradley Wiggins spoil Millar time?
1 David Millar SCOTLAND 6'31
2 Vladimir Karpets RUSSIA + 1
3 Matija Kvasina CROATIA + 4
4 David Zabriskie UNITED STATES OF AMERICA s.t.
5 Bradley Wiggins ENGLAND + 6
6 Antonio Colom SPAIN + 7
7 Michael Rogers AUSTRALIA + 8
8 Bradley McGee AUSTRALIA s.t.
9 Denis Menchov RUSSIA s.t.
10 Mikhail Ignatiev RUSSIA + 9
11 Oscar Pereiro SPAIN + 10
12 Andreas Svensson SWEDEN s.t.
13 Thomas Lövkvist SWEDEN + 11
14 Cadel Evans AUSTRALIA s.t.
15 Stuart O'Grady AUSTRALIA s.t.
16 Alexandre Vinokourov KAZAKHSTAN s.t.
17 Radoslav Rogina CROATIA s.t.
18 Yaroslav Popovych UKRAINE + 12
19 Saul Raisin UNITED STATES OF AMERICA + 13
20 Tomas Vaitkus LITHUANIA s.t.
21 Alex Rasmussen DENMARK s.t.
22 Tom Danielson UNITED STATES OF AMERICA + 14
23 Sven Boonen BELGIUM s.t.
24 Hayden Roulston NEW ZEALAND s.t.
25 Linas Balciunas LITHUANIA s.t. |
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| Crommy |
Posted on 19-06-2007 08:29
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Yet another win for the Brits
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 19-06-2007 09:46
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Not racing together though bit like commenwealth games  [wonder if that would make a good story?] |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-06-2007 18:42
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STAGE 2
*** - Robbie McEwen, Tom Boonen, Thor Hushovd
Denis Shkarpeta (UZB - Neutral Team) and Jonathan Clarke  make the days break, which is inevitably doomed, despite gaining a lead of 12'22.
With 60km Clarke held a 1'20 lead, but had been joined by 6 others ... who dropped him .. but were then caught themselves.
Coming into the sprint, Ventoso and Riberio  were looking strong. Alex Rasmussen  was also up there along with the Downings. Where were Boonen, Hushovd and McEwen?
Well there was Hushovd! He surged through to spoil what looked to be a surprise win for Portugal.
1 Thor Hushovd NORWAY
2 Sérgio Ribeiro PORTUGAL
3 Francisco Ventoso SPAIN
4 Alex Rasmussen DENMARK
5 Russell Downing ENGLAND
6 Tom Boonen BELGIUM
7 Dean Downing ENGLAND
8 Jimmy Casper FRANCE
9 Julian Dean NEW ZEALAND
10 Heath Blackgrove NEW ZEALAND
11 Xavier Florencio SPAIN
12 Hayden Roulston NEW ZEALAND
13 Philippe Gilbert BELGIUM
14 Aleksei Zaitsev KAZAKHSTAN
15 Simon Gerrans AUSTRALIA
16 Robbie McEwen AUSTRALIA
 David Millar
 David Millar
 Jonathan Clarke
 Martija Kvasina
Edited by SportingNonsense on 19-06-2007 22:34
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 19-06-2007 18:45
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very nice like the jerseys! Good feature |
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| latarnik |
Posted on 19-06-2007 20:56
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yes, this shirts are just simply great!! |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-06-2007 22:35
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Copied them from the tour de france website Added a picture of the sprint finish |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 20-06-2007 17:03
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STAGE 3
*** - Robbie McEwen , Tom Boonen  , Thor Hushovd 
Omar di Felice (Neutral) went on a crzy solo break and late on in the stage Remy di Gregorio, Igor Anton, Aleksandr Diachenko and George Hincapie took over, they led by 3 minutes at the start of a short, tough climb, but at the top that lead was 30 seconds, with over half of the 30km left downhill.
5km to go, thed sprint is gearing up but only 35 riders are in the front group. The stage will be between Downing, Boonen and Ribeiro. Dean Downing leads out his brother Russel as Ribeiro and Boonen make their moves early to try to get round them. At 1km left Russel finally makes his move with a clear road in front of him - has the hill taken too much out of Boonen or will he surge through?
The pack joined in the sprint, so 109 riders finished on the same time.
1 Russell Downing ENGLAND 4h50'15
2 Tom Boonen BELGIUM s.t.
3 Sérgio Ribeiro PORTUGAL s.t.
4 Dean Downing ENGLAND s.t.
5 José Adrian Bonilla 1 NEUTRAL s.t.
6 Matt Talbot ENGLAND s.t.
7 Philippe Gilbert BELGIUM s.t.
8 Mikhail Ignatiev RUSSIA s.t.
9 Pavel Brutt RUSSIA s.t.
10 Nico Sijmens BELGIUM s.t.
11 Samuel Sánchez SPAIN s.t.
12 Saul Raisin UNITED STATES OF AMERICA s.t.
13 Cadel Evans AUSTRALIA s.t.
14 Sergio Paulinho PORTUGAL s.t.
15 Thor Hushovd NORWAY s.t.
David Millar
Sérgio Ribeiro
Igor Anton
Martija Kvasina
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