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| Stijn_vranken |
Posted on 11-05-2008 17:51
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power to mandri
prevent hangovers --> stay drunk
pozzato, basically the most stupid cyclist around
RIP WW. Gone but not forgotten
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 20:25
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TDU stage 3.
Another flat stage but with any big hills, again I hoped to get a good result in the sprint finish, and I was confident after my victory yesterday.
At the start of the race a nine man breakaway got away, unfortunately there is no pictures of them, but Marcel Sieberg took all he KOM points which brings on level with Gavazzi, but Gavazzi will wear the Jersey tomorrow.
Today Euskaltel and Quickstep have made trains, I choose the wheel of Bru who had Isasi as lead-out man.
But Fischer and Hunt comes with great speed from behind with only 800 meters to go.
And Fischer wins ahead of me, Bru and Hunt.
Stage result:
1 Murilo Fischer Liquigas 3h25'29
2 René Mandri AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
3 Yon Bru Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
4 Jeremy Hunt Crédit Agricole s.t.
5 Xavier Florencio Bouygues Télécom s.t.
6 Lilian Jégou Française des Jeux s.t.
7 José Iván Gutiérrez Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
8 Thomas Voeckler Bouygues Télécom s.t.
9 Manuele Mori Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
10 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom s.t.
11 Carlos Barredo Quick•Step s.t.
12 Pablo Lastras Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
13 Pierrick Fédrigo Bouygues Télécom s.t.
14 Iñaki Isasi Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
15 David De la Fuente Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
16 Mark Renshaw Crédit Agricole s.t.
17 Marco Bandiera Lampre s.t.
18 Yauheni Hutarovich Française des Jeux s.t.
19 René Haselbacher Astana s.t.
20 Tom Leezer Rabobank s.t.
GC:
1 Murilo Fischer Liquigas 10h15'51
2 René Mandri AG2R - La Mondiale + 3
3 Servais Knaven High Road + 14
4 Volker Ordowski Gerolsteiner s.t.
5 Jeremy Hunt Crédit Agricole + 15
6 Yon Bru Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
7 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom s.t.
8 Paolo Fornaciari Lampre s.t.
9 Lilian Jégou Française des Jeux + 17
10 Xavier Florencio Bouygues Télécom s.t.
11 Pierrick Fédrigo Bouygues Télécom s.t.
12 José Iván Gutiérrez Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
13 Pablo Lastras Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
14 Manuele Mori Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
15 Carlos Barredo Quick•Step s.t.
16 Mark Renshaw Crédit Agricole s.t.
17 Yohann Gené Bouygues Télécom s.t.
18 Tom Leezer Rabobank s.t.
19 David De la Fuente Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
20 Bram De Groot Rabobank s.t.
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 12-05-2008 08:13
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TDU stage 4.
Again another flat stage, there’s quite a lot of them here down under, but I hope I can keep concentrated and not have focus on Willuga Hill tomorov.
Again a nine man breakaway out in front (they seem to like them down here), lead by Garcia Acosta.
Only Rabobank have made a train today, and I’m in the wheel of Hayman.
Hayman in a good position with 800 meters to go.
And he manages to keep us away and takes the victory, in front of me.
Stage result:
1 Matthew Hayman Rabobank 3h14'23
2 René Mandri AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
3 Murilo Fischer Liquigas s.t.
4 Yauheni Hutarovich Française des Jeux s.t.
5 Jeremy Hunt Crédit Agricole s.t.
6 José Iván Gutiérrez Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
7 Francesco Chicchi Liquigas s.t.
8 Marco Bandiera Lampre s.t.
9 Luciano Pagliarini Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
10 Tom Leezer Rabobank s.t.
11 Mark Renshaw Crédit Agricole s.t.
12 René Haselbacher Astana s.t.
13 Greg Henderson High Road s.t.
14 Lilian Jégou Française des Jeux s.t.
15 Yon Bru Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
16 Leonardo Duque Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone s.t.
17 Mickael Delage Française des Jeux s.t.
18 Xavier Florencio Bouygues Télécom s.t.
19 Marcel Sieberg High Road s.t.
20 Alberto Ongarato Team Milram s.t.
GC:
1 Murilo Fischer Liquigas 13h30'12
2 René Mandri AG2R - La Mondiale + 1
3 Matthew Hayman Rabobank + 13
4 Servais Knaven High Road + 16
5 Volker Ordowski Gerolsteiner s.t.
6 Jeremy Hunt Crédit Agricole + 17
7 Yon Bru Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
8 Paolo Fornaciari Lampre s.t.
9 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom s.t.
10 Sébastien Minard Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone s.t.
11 Bert Grabsch High Road + 18
12 José Iván Gutiérrez Caisse d'Epargne + 19
13 Lilian Jégou Française des Jeux s.t.
14 Mark Renshaw Crédit Agricole s.t.
15 Tom Leezer Rabobank s.t.
16 Xavier Florencio Bouygues Télécom s.t.
17 René Haselbacher Astana s.t.
18 Yohann Gené Bouygues Télécom s.t.
19 Greg Henderson High Road s.t.
20 Mickael Delage Française des Jeux s.t.
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Posted on 12-05-2008 09:48
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schleck93 wrote:
I Would as always like to hear how i can improve my writing, and how i can improve my layout.
At the moment no way. Your story is very good, I really like it - you've got a good balance between text and pictures, and your updates are the right length. BVravo.
Anyway, good 2nd spot 
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Posted on 12-05-2008 10:07
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Crommy wrote:
schleck93 wrote:
I Would as always like to hear how i can improve my writing, and how i can improve my layout.
At the moment no way. Your story is very good, I really like it - you've got a good balance between text and pictures, and your updates are the right length. BVravo.
Anyway, good 2nd spot
Thanks for the good words, it's always good to get so good response from a so good story writer.
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| Halvor |
Posted on 12-05-2008 10:56
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I like your type of writing! Not so much text, and some nice pictures!
Remember to set Mandri on his type of races - when the exp. is level 2, there are the continental races you have to race with him. Level 3 - ProTour races. level 4 - grand tours.
Remember to just write about the races your guy is in!
But
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Posted on 12-05-2008 12:50
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TDU stage 5.
Finally some real hills or a real hill, as it’s only Willunga Hill that’s going to decide who is going to win TDU 2008. I’m looking forward to racing it but there is some really great hill riders here, such as Barredo, Cobo and Luis Leon Sanchez, so I’m not expecting a top result today.
At the start of the day, something very unusually happened, a twelve man breakaway got away instead of a nine man breakaway, you can se the beautiful landscape that there was on this stage.
At the bottom of the hill I tried to get away, but it was hard since the spectators was very bad at moving their asses away from the road , and my attack made many others try to get away, including GC leader Fischer.
At the top of the hill Sanchez was alone in front, ahead of Florencio, and after him a group with Fischer, Joly, Cherel, Zberg, Halgand and me.
Sanchez wins all alone, ahead of Florencio, there where catch but not overtaken at the last Fischer took 3rd ahead of Zberg
Stage result:
1 Luis León Sánchez Caisse d'Epargne 3h32'26
2 Xavier Florencio Bouygues Télécom + 40
3 Murilo Fischer Liquigas s.t.
4 Markus Zberg Gerolsteiner s.t.
5 René Mandri AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
6 Patrice Halgand Crédit Agricole s.t.
7 Mikaël Chérel Française des Jeux s.t.
8 Sébastien Joly Française des Jeux s.t.
9 Leonardo Duque Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone + 1'58
10 Thomas Voeckler Bouygues Télécom s.t.
11 José Iván Gutiérrez Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
12 Manuele Mori Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
13 Jeremy Hunt Crédit Agricole s.t.
14 Kjell Carlström Liquigas s.t.
15 Carlos Barredo Quick•Step s.t.
16 Yohann Gené Bouygues Télécom s.t.
17 Pierrick Fédrigo Bouygues Télécom s.t.
18 Matthew Hayman Rabobank s.t.
19 René Haselbacher Astana s.t.
20 Alexandre Pliuschin AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
GC:
1 Luis León Sánchez Caisse d'Epargne 17h02'51
2 Murilo Fischer Liquigas + 25
3 René Mandri AG2R - La Mondiale + 28
4 Xavier Florencio Bouygues Télécom + 42
5 Markus Zberg Gerolsteiner + 46
6 Patrice Halgand Crédit Agricole s.t.
7 Sébastien Joly Française des Jeux s.t.
8 Mikaël Chérel Française des Jeux s.t.
9 Matthew Hayman Rabobank + 1'58
10 Servais Knaven High Road + 2'01
11 Jeremy Hunt Crédit Agricole + 2'02
12 Sébastien Minard Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone s.t.
13 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom s.t.
14 Paolo Fornaciari Lampre s.t.
15 Yon Bru Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
16 Bert Grabsch High Road + 2'03
17 José Iván Gutiérrez Caisse d'Epargne + 2'04
18 Manuele Mori Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
19 Yohann Gené Bouygues Télécom s.t.
20 René Haselbacher Astana s.t.
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Posted on 12-05-2008 12:59
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Not bad! Which races are you planning to race now? |
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Posted on 12-05-2008 13:03
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After TDU, he's gonna race Tour of meditterian, and Paris-Nice, maybe some other races also, but these 2 are planned.
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Posted on 12-05-2008 13:10
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Accendetely i managed to simulate, the last stage, and as there was nothing to ride for, it aint the mistake of the century, but il'l give the results here:
Stage result:
1 Murilo Fischer Liquigas 1h46'13
2 Manuele Mori Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
3 Jeremy Hunt Crédit Agricole s.t.
4 Greg Henderson High Road s.t.
5 Thomas Voeckler Bouygues Télécom s.t.
6 Gerben Löwik Rabobank s.t.
7 Iñaki Isasi Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
8 Lilian Jégou Française des Jeux s.t.
9 Yauheni Hutarovich Française des Jeux s.t.
10 Sébastien Rosseler Quick·Step s.t.
11 Tom Leezer Rabobank s.t.
12 Luciano Pagliarini Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
13 Matthew Hayman Rabobank s.t.
14 William Bonnet Crédit Agricole s.t.
15 Arnaud Coyot Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
16 Francesco Chicchi Liquigas s.t.
17 Yon Bru Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
18 Mark Renshaw Crédit Agricole s.t.
19 Brett Lancaster Team Milram s.t.
20 Matej Jurco Team Milram s.t.
31 René Mandri AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
GC:
1 Luis León Sánchez Caisse d'Epargne 18h49'04
2 Murilo Fischer Liquigas + 19
3 René Mandri AG2R - La Mondiale + 28
4 Xavier Florencio Bouygues Télécom + 42
5 Patrice Halgand Crédit Agricole + 46
6 Markus Zberg Gerolsteiner s.t.
7 Mikaël Chérel Française des Jeux s.t.
8 Sébastien Joly Française des Jeux s.t.
9 Matthew Hayman Rabobank + 1'58
10 Manuele Mori Saunier Duval - Scott + 2'00
11 Jeremy Hunt Crédit Agricole s.t.
12 Servais Knaven High Road + 2'01
13 Yon Bru Euskaltel - Euskadi + 2'02
14 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom s.t.
15 Paolo Fornaciari Lampre s.t.
16 Sébastien Minard Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone s.t.
17 Bert Grabsch High Road + 2'03
18 Lilian Jégou Française des Jeux + 2'04
19 Tom Leezer Rabobank s.t.
20 Thomas Voeckler Bouygues Télécom s.t.
Lokking forward to my next race, cya.
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Posted on 12-05-2008 18:56
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Tour of Mediterranean stage 1.
A flat stage but I’m not going to take part in the sprints, in this race, for this w have Poulhies and Mondory, they are either better or in better form than me, in this race.
We sent Kangert in the six Breakaway today.
As the sprinters tried to get a good position in the sprint I was unlucky a Mitshibitsi (how do you spell that?) fell right in front of, and as you can see four other riders also fell there. It's me lying down together with that Tinkoff and Agritubel, in something that look like somekind of gay orgy, wich it wasn't!
C.A, frd.juex and Tinkoff made today trains.
Bonnet wins ahead of Mickhailov and Poulhies.
As I forget to export here some screens of the standings.
Top 12 of stage:
Me and others from my team losing time:
Many would see my time lose as bad, bur choose to see on the bright side of it. Now that I’m out of the GC I will focus 100% on helping Gadret, and I can be used as a tactical element as I’m out of the GC. And now I’m even more looking forward to Mont Faron.
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| Halvor |
Posted on 12-05-2008 19:09
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Nice! I love your pictures |
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Posted on 12-05-2008 19:11
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Halvor wrote:
Nice! I love your pictures
Thanks the pictures is a very important part of my story, and use lot of time finding the right places and the right angels for the pictures.
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| Stijn_vranken |
Posted on 12-05-2008 19:16
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oh unlucky with the fall
prevent hangovers --> stay drunk
pozzato, basically the most stupid cyclist around
RIP WW. Gone but not forgotten
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 12-05-2008 21:01
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looking great so far
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At your story I am glad to see that Mandri has doing so well.. I should be happy. Just reading here Mandri interview at Estonian website...he was a little worried before the Giro..he isnt a decent shape after operation and crash, also guy has small astma condition (not hard enough to cure it..and to be inside UCI rules...so he should race with it) he was planning to be out on he's best at second part at the season.
But Ag2r team atmosphere is very nervous at the moment..no success and has he says there is war situation inside the team..wich doesnt help him to recover propely. Some guys are lazy to training some have terrible form.
Any one who has a normal condition is also but in startlist... has he in Giro.
Mandri booring? Maybe...but I belive there is quite few pro teams who like to see him on theyr list..hard worker and also have nice cool (finland style) temperament.
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Posted on 14-05-2008 15:08
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Tour of Mediterranean stage 2.
Another flat stage, all I wanted was to get to the end and get some massage, but Mondory and Poulhies, had other plans, the wanted to the stage in the final sprint.
5 guys tried their luck at the start of the stage; the biggest profile was Willems from Liquigas.
Tinkoff for Loddo and Francais des jeux for Jegou, was in the front at the start of sprint.
Jegou in the lead with 700 meters to go, but Bonnet is coming fast from behind.
Jegou keeps his speed and wins with a great gap to Bonnet and Mondory, Poulhies got a 5th place.
Stage result:
1 Lilian Jégou Française des Jeux 3h15'41
2 William Bonnet Crédit Agricole s.t.
3 Lloyd Mondory AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
4 Alberto Loddo Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
5 Stéphane Poulhiès AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
6 Samuel Dumoulin Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone s.t.
7 Julian Dean Slipstream - Chipotle powered by H3O s.t.
8 Jérôme Pineau Bouygues Télécom s.t.
9 Tyler Farrar Slipstream - Chipotle powered by H3O s.t.
10 Claudio Corioni Liquigas s.t.
11 Guennadi Mikhailov Mitsubishi - Jartazi - Protech s.t.
12 Anthony Geslin Bouygues Télécom s.t.
13 Mathieu Drujon Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
14 Mikel Gaztañaga Agritubel s.t.
15 Luca Mazzanti Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
16 Nikolai Trussov Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
17 Angelo Furlan Crédit Agricole s.t.
18 Magnus Bäckstedt Slipstream - Chipotle powered by H3O s.t.
19 Sjef De Wilde Willems Veranda's Continental Team s.t.
20 Christophe Mengin Française des Jeux s.t.
33 René Mandri AG2R - La Mondiale s.t. Player
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Posted on 14-05-2008 18:40
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Tour of Mediterranean stage 3.
Finally Mont Faron is ahead of us, the route has some medium hard hills besides Mont Faron, which will be ridden with 112% by everyone, but I’m not aiming for at win today, today is all about getting a god place for Gadret.
Ignatiev tries his luck from way out, and the pack is not catching him until 10 kilometres before goal, With 20 Kilometres to the finishing line Gadret, reported of bad legs, and as had diamonds I had to be prepared, for Mont Faron, it was hard to prepare myself mentally with only 15 kilometers to Mont Faron.
Danielson is the strongest on Mont Faron and takes the lead all by himself, but he can still be catched.
Behind a group containing, Moncuotie, Noe, Gadret, Moreno, Petrov, Rohregger and me, yes I’m in the leading riders at the last, and Gadret is also looking better now.
Danielson takes his victory, but is close to be catched by Moncoutie, and I was terrible in the sprint and ended last in the group.
Stage result:
1 Tom Danielson Slipstream - Chipotle powered by H3O 2h47'28
2 David Moncoutié Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone + 8
3 Andrea Noè Liquigas s.t.
4 John Gadret AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
5 Daniel Moreno Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
6 Evgeni Petrov Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
7 Thomas Rohregger ELK Haus - Simplon s.t.
8 René Mandri AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
9 Przemyslaw Niemiec Miche - Silver Cross + 55
10 David Arroyo Caisse d'Epargne + 1'11
11 Jérôme Pineau Bouygues Télécom + 1'43
12 Eduardo Gonzalo Agritubel + 1'51
13 Luca Mazzanti Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
14 Christian Vandevelde Slipstream - Chipotle powered by H3O + 1'59
15 Benoit Salmon Agritubel s.t.
16 Ricardo Serrano Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
17 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom + 2'07
18 Gianni Meersman Française des Jeux s.t.
19 Charles Wegelius Liquigas s.t.
20 Guillaume Levarlet Française des Jeux s.t.
GC:
1 Tom Danielson Slipstream - Chipotle powered by H3O 9h03'45
2 David Moncoutié Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone + 16
3 Andrea Noè Liquigas + 20
4 Daniel Moreno Caisse d'Epargne + 28
5 John Gadret AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
6 Evgeni Petrov Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
7 Thomas Rohregger ELK Haus - Simplon s.t.
8 Przemyslaw Niemiec Miche - Silver Cross + 1'15
9 David Arroyo Caisse d'Epargne + 1'31
10 Jérôme Pineau Bouygues Télécom + 2'03
11 Eduardo Gonzalo Agritubel + 2'11
12 Ricardo Serrano Tinkoff Credit Systems + 2'19
13 Christian Vandevelde Slipstream - Chipotle powered by H3O s.t.
14 Benoit Salmon Agritubel s.t.
15 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom + 2'27
16 Charles Wegelius Liquigas s.t.
17 Gianni Meersman Française des Jeux s.t.
18 Wladimir Miholjevic Liquigas + 2'35
19 Tom Stubbe Française des Jeux s.t.
20 Stef Clement Bouygues Télécom + 2'43
34 René Mandri AG2R - La Mondiale + 3.23.
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| K-A |
Posted on 14-05-2008 18:44
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schleck93 wrote:
Halvor wrote:
Nice! I love your pictures
Thanks the pictures is a very important part of my story, and use lot of time finding the right places and the right angels for the pictures.
You are good at that ! |
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the english on this forum is surprisingly good.
I know englishmen who have much much worse eloquence and grammar than this
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