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LA MSS - This Time Without the Dope!!!
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 21-11-2008 19:34
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As we are poor and don’t have enough money to spend in Monaco holidays like SN’s pcm daily squad we sent O’Grady and England and a walkie-talkie in a fishermen’s boat to the Australian championships. Hopefully they would return with more than kangaroos and boomerangs…
O’Grady was pointed as the 2nd favorite after Evans. Could he conquer something?
As the race started the crowd could see the monstrous amount of riders that constituted the huge Australian peloton
During the first 30km R. England struggled to show how good was is shape and he quickly disappeared from the peloton
There was a boring breakaway of two cyclists that didn’t last more than 20 km and the race only heated up with Evans’ attack with more than 50km to go
With the constant hills throughout all the circuit it became obvious that the peloton together couldn’t deal with Evans as his advantage raised to about 2’
O’Grady tried to help maintaining the pace…until Gerrans’ attack which appeared with 27km to go. With him went Cooke, Lloyd and … O’Grady!! They joined Sutherland who was in an intermediate position since he was part of the earlier break.
But the group wasn’t cooperating and the attacks were constant. At the last couple of laps Gerrans attacked again and this time he got advantage.
At the finish Evans didn’t celebrate…but we managed to collect a picture from inside the supporter car!!!
…Seconded by Gerrans…
…While the exhausted O’Grady was only 5th after Sutherland and Cooke
Australian Championships
1st – Cadel Evans (SIL)
2nd – Simon Gerrans (C.A)
5th – Stuart O’Grady (MAI)
48th (Last Place) – Richard England (MAI)
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| Halvor |
Posted on 21-11-2008 19:38
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ok by stuey :
Next race you'll win! btw, which is the next? |
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 21-11-2008 19:50
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dont think tour down under can be won by my "so called" sprinters... january is just not our month 
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 21-11-2008 20:05
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Amaxing graphics
BenBarnes wrote:
Thor wears a live rattlesnake as a condom.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 21-11-2008 20:23
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I think that the rider textures are a little bit darken
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| lagetcher |
Posted on 21-11-2008 20:48
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Cadel Evans cheated. He was holding on to the support vehicle! Nice pictures  |
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| ringo182 |
Posted on 21-11-2008 23:05
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they are amazing graphics. wish my computer could manage that. Mine struggles with a few supporters by the side of the road let alone towns and forests. |
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 22-11-2008 16:14
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i had to buy a laptop as i'm studying away from home and i got lucky because at the store there was one with great graphic fisplay and wasnt that expensive so i bought it
those images are the result
Cadel Evans cheated. He was holding on to the support vehicle! Nice pictures Smile
thanks for that lagetcher... it hought nobody had noticed how bad he as cheated 
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 22-11-2008 16:21
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Mid January – Tour Down Under
This should be considered one of the most beautiful races of the season if my team wasn’t in it… even better would be if it wasn’t a ProTour race. Two major concerns that join another one – this is a terribly boring race for a team without a sprinter…or money to buy one.
The ending of the stages always resulted in a massive sprint, except for stage 5 which had a small hill that could work for Vicioso…
…but it didn’t (lousy Spaniard!)
Nuyens won it, beating Gasparotto by 2 seconds and Gusiev by 13, both in stage 5 and in the GC
Teams Results: International Embarrassment
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 22-11-2008 23:24
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February
I’ll skip The Tour of Langkawi because it is a one-week stage-race for sprinters and I don’t have the patience to see my sprinters out of the top 15 since they can’t compete with Booonens or Hushovds.
The team headed out to Spain to start with a group of races that take place in "Nuestros Hermanos" country: Challenge Vuelta a Mallorca, Vuelta Ciclista a Andalucia, Vuelta a la Comunitat Valenciana and Vuelta a Murcia. Hopefully they’ll come as a good preparation for Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico. Last year we were able to finish top 5 in all of them and conquer Vuelta a Andalucia.
Let’s see what we can do in 09...
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 22-11-2008 23:26
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If you can compete with those Boonens and Hushovds do something so their test be positive
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 22-11-2008 23:31
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you've got a good point there alexkr00 but I prefer to gamble in more hilly (=exciting) races 
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 22-11-2008 23:32
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yeah, you don't have a sprint team like mine Mine sucks on hills except Kirchen
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 22-11-2008 23:36
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Volta Ciclista a Mallorca
The Mediterranean Isles were nice to us last year with 4th and 5th place, so this year we start as potential candidates. As we are not disciplined at all we’ll just take Contador’s methods of training and enjoy the sun of Baleares Islands’ beaches. Vicioso’s season begins here as well as Zaballa’s. One only question remains: did they bring enough of ‘it’ to win the race??
Our team:
1st Stage (simmed)
1st – Mark Cavendish THR
2nd – André Greipel THR +0
3rd – Paolo Bettini THR +0
4th – Iñaki Isasi EUS +0
5th – Bruno Lima SLB +0
GC
1st – Mark Cavendish THR
2nd – André Greipel THR +8s
3rd – Paolo Bettini THR +12s
4th – Iñaki Isasi EUS +20s
5th – Bruno Lima SLB +20s
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 22-11-2008 23:38
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1-2-3 for Columbia (or High Road, not sure) and Bettini at them
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 22-11-2008 23:39
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alexkr00 wrote:
yeah, you don't have a sprint team like mine Mine sucks on hills except Kirchen
I can tell just look at these results !!!
Yes that's Columbia they have another awesome squad this season hope you can achieve that in your story
Edited by Gustavovskiy on 22-11-2008 23:41
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 22-11-2008 23:43
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2nd Stage (also simmed)
1st – Mark Cavendish THR
2nd – André Greipel THR +0
3rd – Paolo Bettini THR +0
4th – Iñaki Isasi EUS +0
5th – Gorik Gardeyn SIL +0
GC
1st – Mark Cavendish THR
2nd – André Greipel THR +16s
3rd – Paolo Bettini THR +24s
4th – Ben Swift LIS +30s
5th – Xabat Otxotorena +30s
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 22-11-2008 23:47
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this starting to be anoying
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 22-11-2008 23:52
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now you see why I skip sprint stages
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 23-11-2008 10:31
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Haha, Columbia just chrushes everyone
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