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Omega Pharma Quickstep - 2012
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| xXMajesticoXxx |
Posted on 14-02-2012 16:33
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You are putting on very nice results in the season, i think there will come much better in the following races. How will be your tactic on grand tours for the general classification? becuase omega pharma quick step havnt got much good mountain riders.
Im a big omega quick step fan and especially of tom boonen hope to see him kicking ass of cancalara.
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| jona777 |
Posted on 14-02-2012 16:43
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Thankyou for the explanation, seems like the best program for him, eventhough you could try to ride the eneco tour if he's not to tired  Good Luck in Oman!
RIP Wouter Weylandt, siempre con noi
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| PCM rulezz |
Posted on 14-02-2012 18:49
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The season started just great, you makes OPQS a great team. Are you the NC coach of Belguim? |
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| Schleck96 |
Posted on 14-02-2012 19:06
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Nice reports! |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 15-02-2012 06:34
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Great season start for OPQS, hopefully this will continue or it will be even better in February 
And hats off for König, he was great in Mallorca...
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 15-02-2012 08:25
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xXMajesticoXxx - First, thank you very much for your kind words. Very much appreciated
Then to the Grand Tours. Velits and Cataldo will be our main GC riders at the Giro, with Cataldo supporting Velits to get a Top 10 hopefully. Ciolek is going to be our main sprinter here.
Then we come to the Tour, where it's Martin and Levi that are going to lead our team. We'll see how Martin fares with so many TT km's, but Levi will be our captain at the start. He'll get help from De Weert and Chavanel. Boonen and Ciolek will be our sprinters. We hope we get at least Top 5 and fight for Points Jersey with Boonen.
At the Vuelta it's Velits again. He'll have De Weert and Deveyns as his best mountain domestique, and we hope for a podium here. Steegmans will be our sprinter and hope for a stage win.
jona777 - Yes, that's the plan. After the Tour, he's going to ride last race in either Pologne or Eneco. Eneco is obvious choice though as he can get good GC postion too. Eneco should be the last race on calendar, but you never know how his form might be. Thank you Jona
PCM rulezz - Thank you very much. And yes indeed, should be fun Worlds Champs with Gilbert 
Schleck96 - Thank you, glad you like them
Avin Wargunnson - Thank you Indeed we want to improve on that by winning all the races we are in February. Oman probably the hardest with De Weert as there will be some tough competition, but possible nontheless. Konig was aboslutely phenomal, if he continues that a contract with our team is very liekely
Sorry for no promised reports yesterday, have been quite busy, but today is my final day of school for this week So today afternoon both reports from Oman and Algarve will be up Stay Tuned
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| purepasd |
Posted on 15-02-2012 16:13
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Alakagom wrote:
Then to the Grand Tours. Velits and Cataldo will be our main GC riders at the Giro, with Cataldo supporting Velits to get a Top 10 hopefully. Ciolek is going to be our main sprinter here.
Then we come to the Tour, where it's Martin and Levi that are going to lead our team. We'll see how Martin fares with so many TT km's, but Levi will be our captain at the start. He'll get help from De Weert and Chavanel. Boonen and Ciolek will be our sprinters. We hope we get at least Top 5 and fight for Points Jersey with Boonen.
At the Vuelta it's Velits again. He'll have De Weert and Deveyns as his best mountain domestique, and we hope for a podium here. Steegmans will be our sprinter and hope for a stage win.
Wow, thats funny. I've planned the exact same schedule for my riders o.o  |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 15-02-2012 18:53
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Been extremely busy the last few days. Since I only have tests today, hopefully I wont get homework and maybe I can read it tonight after hockey
Skimmed through though and the last few pages are looking good!
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| MC |
Posted on 15-02-2012 19:05
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In Mallorca was not very well could be the participation? Good luck in Qatar! |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 15-02-2012 20:21
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purepasd - We have similar minds then with fitness of our riders then. Good luck with your team, we can compare throughout the year then
valverde321 - Thank you very much. I know how that is with school and the uni's choices... Thanks for looking trough it, much appreciated
RMCF 1902 - It wasn't mainly because of Moivstar pace at the climbs. We played Qatar already btw, Boone finished 3rd and took a stage victory. I reported earlier with a short report
My little brother decided to play PCM when I was away. He unfortunately opened this game and quick stimulated Algarve and Oman.
Thank God it was until that point he stopped, we have no results from those races and very strange results too in GC's. I am not that angry as I didn't really care for results there, but now I have excuse to have a password on my computer
So Algarve and Oman will be reported in the monthly review. The results weren't awful, but almost every stage was won by a break which resulted in crappy results. So here's the Omloop report. Hope you enjoy it
Omega Pharma Quickstep Squad
 Tom Boonen
 Sylvain Chavanel
Gert Steegmans
 Niki Terpstra
Stijn Vandenbergh
Nikolas Maes
 Bert Grabsch
Our first test on cobbles, and first big test for Boonen. He's got a very good form coming from Qatar and Oman. Chavanel starts his first race from his last win n Calbria. The rest of the team is designed to aid our two leaders and work for our win here.
Omloop is one of the tougher cobbled races on the calendar. Not only containing a lot of pave sections, but lots of steep hills too. One of the longest sections of pave, around 30km before the end of the race should create the elite break, and we hope we will be in it.
The break was formed early and contained 13 riders, but we decided let them go as none were big threats today.
Until 50km to go nothing happen really. The break was caught and the peleton was riding steadily. Until then.... our of nowhere almost all of the peleton was caught out on small steep hill by Cancellara who was leading with frantic pace. 5 riders from OPQS made it.
With 30km to go the break is 42" seconds ahead of bigger group containing favourites that missed out here. Biggest loosers are Garmin with no riders in the group, all big favourites including Flecha, Boom, Breschel, Ballan, Hushovd, Langeveld and Cancellara are present in this break.
With 13km to go it's Terpstra who is leading the peleton so no riders can escape, we want this race to end in mass sprint with Boonen big favourite here.
The plan worked perfectly. It's Steegmans who was leading out Chavanel. Chavanel was last part of puzzle, accelerating and releasing Tomeke from the pack. It's looking good.
It's Boonen accelerating and looking in prime spot to win. Our fist classics victory is close...
Tomeeeekkkkeee takes it at the line comfortably ! What a day. Amazing effort by the team. Chavanel rounds it off for us with 5th place. It's the surprising winner of Alagrve, Scheirlinckx and Hushvod that round off the podium.
Result
| 1 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Team | 5h13'07 | | 2 | Staf Scheirlinckx | Accent Jobs - Willems Veranda's | s.t. | | 3 |  Thor Hushovd | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 4 |  Fabian Cancellara | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 5 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Team | s.t. | | 6 |  Matti Breschel | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 7 | Lars Boom | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 |  Juan Antonio Flecha | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 9 | Sebastian Langeveld | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | | 10 | Greg Van Avermaet | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 11 |  Alessandro Ballan | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 12 | Leif Hoste | Accent Jobs - Willems Veranda's | s.t. | | 13 | Gert Steegmans | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Team | s.t. | | 14 | Niki Terpstra | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Team | s.t. | | 15 | Johan Vansummeren | Garmin - Barracuda | s.t. |
Spoiler | 16 | Bert De Waele | Landbouwkrediet - Euphony | s.t. | | 17 | Stijn Vandenbergh | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 18 | Stuart O'Grady | GreenEdge Cycling Team | + 2'26 | | 19 | Frédéric Amorison | Landbouwkrediet - Euphony | s.t. | | 20 | Lars Ytting Bak | Lotto Belisol Team | + 2'50 | | 21 | Heinrich Haussler | Garmin - Barracuda | + 3'07 | | 22 | Davy Commeyne | Landbouwkrediet - Euphony | s.t. | | 23 | Tomas Vaitkus | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | | 24 | Matthew Hayman | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 25 | Koen Barbé | Landbouwkrediet - Euphony | s.t. | | 26 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 27 | George Hincapie | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 28 | Dominic Klemme | Project 1t4i | s.t. | | 29 | Bernhard Eisel | Sky Procycling | + 4'41 | | 30 | Grégory Rast | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 31 | Andreas Klier | Garmin - Barracuda | s.t. | | 32 | Sébastien Rosseler | Garmin - Barracuda | s.t. | | 33 | Yaroslav Popovych | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 34 | Manuel Quinziato | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 35 | Nikolas Maes | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 36 | Johan Coenen | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 37 | Joost Posthuma | RadioShack - Nissan | + 6'55 | | 38 | Sep Vanmarcke | Garmin - Barracuda | + 7'44 | | 39 | Leonardo Duque | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 40 | Yohan Offredo | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 41 | Bert De Backer | Project 1t4i | s.t. | | 42 | Marcus Burghardt | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 43 | Koen De Kort | Project 1t4i | s.t. | | 44 | Daniele Bennati | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 45 | Kevyn Ista | Accent Jobs - Willems Veranda's | s.t. | | 46 | Andy Cappelle | Accent Jobs - Willems Veranda's | s.t. | | 47 | Steven Van Vooren | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | s.t. | | 48 | Jens Debusschere | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 49 | Jan Ghyselinck | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 50 | Frédéric Guesdon | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 51 | Johnny Hoogerland | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 52 | Rob Goris | Accent Jobs - Willems Veranda's | s.t. | | 53 | Alex Rasmussen | Garmin - Barracuda | s.t. | | 54 | Bart De Clercq | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 55 | Zico Waeytens | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | s.t. | | 56 | Kevin Peeters | Landbouwkrediet - Euphony | s.t. | | 57 | Guillaume Van Keirsbulck | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 58 | Jan Bakelants | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 59 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin - Barracuda | s.t. | | 60 | Vytautas Kaupas | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 61 | Yann Huguet | Project 1t4i | s.t. | | 62 | Egoitz GarcÃa | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 9'13 | | 63 | Arnaud Gérard | FDJ - BigMat | + 9'42 | | 64 | Mateusz Taciak | CCC Polkowice | + 10'36 | | 65 | Jacobus Venter | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 66 | Patrick Bercz | Team Eddy Merckx - Indeland | + 12'03 | | 67 | Scott Law | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | | 68 | Wesley Kreder | Rabobank Continental Team | s.t. | | 69 | Stefan Denifl | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 70 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 12'35 | | 71 | Benoit Jarrier | Veranda Rideau - Super U | s.t. | | 72 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 73 | Robbie McEwen | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | | 74 | Maarten Wynants | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 75 | Christian Knees | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 76 | Jonas Ljungblad | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 77 | Nico Sijmens | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 78 | Nico Eeckhout | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | | 79 | Sven Vandousselaere | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | s.t. | | 80 | Romain Feillu | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 81 | Romain Zingle | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 82 | Jelle Vanendert | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 83 | Pieter Jacobs | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | s.t. | | 84 | Kamil Zielinski | CCC Polkowice | s.t. | | 85 | Michal Olejnik | Veranda Rideau - Super U | s.t. | | 86 | Stijn Ennekens | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | | 87 | Joost Van Leijen | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 88 | Joren Segers | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | | 89 | Justin Jules | Veranda Rideau - Super U | s.t. | | 90 | Sander Cordeel | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 91 | Dennis Van Winden | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 92 | Gabriel Rasch | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 93 | Ben Hermans | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 94 | Jens Keukeleire | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | | 95 | Arthur Van Overberghe | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | s.t. | | 96 | Maarten Tjallingii | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 97 | Theo Bos | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 98 | Wim De Vocht | Accent Jobs - Willems Veranda's | s.t. | | 99 | Jens Mouris | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | | 100 | Aidis Kruopis | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | | 101 | Wout Poels | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 102 | Alex Meenhorst | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 103 | Gustav Erik Larsson | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 104 | Rick Flens | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 105 | Sergey Lagutin | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 106 | David Moncoutié | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 107 | Arnold Jeannesson | FDJ - BigMat | + 14'21 | | 108 | Klaas Lodewyck | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 109 | Derk Abel Beckeringh | Rabobank Continental Team | s.t. | | 110 | Bob Schoonbroodt | Cyclingteam De Rijke | s.t. | | 111 | Thibaut Pinot | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 112 | Bartlomiej Matysiak | CCC Polkowice | s.t. | | 113 | Rick Ottema | Cyclingteam De Rijke | s.t. | | 114 | Albert Timmer | Project 1t4i | s.t. | | 115 | Kanstantsin Siutsou | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 116 | Rémy Di Gregorio | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 117 | Nelson Oliveira | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 118 | Simon Geschke | Project 1t4i | s.t. | | 119 | Sjef De Wilde | Accent Jobs - Willems Veranda's | s.t. | | 120 | Franck Vermeulen | Veranda Rideau - Super U | s.t. | | 121 | Thomas Bonnin | Project 1t4i | s.t. | | 122 | Evert Verbist | Accent Jobs - Willems Veranda's | s.t. | | 123 | Jelle Wallays | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | s.t. | | 124 | Rob Ruijgh | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 125 | Luke Rowe | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 126 | Vincent Baestaens | Landbouwkrediet - Euphony | s.t. | | 127 | Francis Mourey | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 128 | Dylan Van Baarle | Rabobank Continental Team | s.t. | | 129 | Kenny Van Hummel | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 130 | Gilles Devillers | Landbouwkrediet - Euphony | s.t. | | 131 | Frank Dressler | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 132 | Yannick Eijssen | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 133 | Tim Mertens | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | s.t. | | 134 | Dennis Vanendert | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 135 | Brian Megens | Rabobank Continental Team | + 15'20 | | 136 | Mark Renshaw | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 137 | Matthew Wilson | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | | 138 | Bas Stamsnijder | Cyclingteam De Rijke | s.t. | | 139 | Rune Van der Meijden | Cyclingteam De Rijke | s.t. | | 140 | Moreno Hofland | Rabobank Continental Team | s.t. | | 141 | Nicolas Edet | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 142 | Dariusz Batek | CCC Polkowice | s.t. | | 143 | Jürgen Van de Walle | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 144 | Kevin De Jonghe | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | s.t. | | 145 | Thierry Hupond | Project 1t4i | + 17'24 | | 146 | Bert Grabsch | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 147 | Roy Jans | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 18'14 | | 148 | Gediminas Bagdonas | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | | 149 | Rafal Ratajczyk | CCC Polkowice | s.t. | | 150 | Jesper Schipper | Cyclingteam De Rijke | s.t. | | 151 | Jasper Bovenhuis | Rabobank Continental Team | + 19'34 | | 152 | Ike Groen | Cyclingteam De Rijke | s.t. | | 153 | Jeroen Boelen | Cyclingteam De Rijke | s.t. | | 154 | Mats Boeve | Cyclingteam De Rijke | s.t. | | 155 | Jonathan Breyne | Landbouwkrediet - Euphony | s.t. | | 156 | Daan Olivier | Rabobank Continental Team | s.t. | | 157 | Sean Downey | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 20'56 | | 158 | Michael Kurth | Team Eddy Merckx - Indeland | + 21'45 | | 159 | Florian Monreal | Team Eddy Merckx - Indeland | s.t. | | 160 | Marc Goos | Rabobank Continental Team | s.t. | | 161 | Maxime Le Montagner | Veranda Rideau - Super U | s.t. | | 162 | Adrian Honkisz | CCC Polkowice | s.t. | | 163 | Kevin Denis | Veranda Rideau - Super U | s.t. | | 164 | Matthias Bertling | Team Eddy Merckx - Indeland | s.t. | | 165 | Robert Retschke | Team Eddy Merckx - Indeland | s.t. | | 166 | Geoffrey Soupe | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. |
Team’s Reaction
Majestic. Amazing. Those are the words that I can say right now. The race has played out perfectly for us. Terpstra first keeping high tempo, so no one escaped from the elite break at the end. And Steegmans, leading Chavanel who finally released Tomeke. Great team effort and a win. Couldn't wish for anything better today.
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| PCM rulezz |
Posted on 15-02-2012 20:27
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This is just great  , Tommeke and Chavanel are in great shape. Good luck in K-B-K |
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| purepasd |
Posted on 15-02-2012 21:00
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Grats for the nice win! Should be big favourite for K-B-K too |
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| jona777 |
Posted on 15-02-2012 21:02
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Fabulous result!! First cobble-win is a fact!! Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne could make a double-succes, I hope that it will be victoryweekend in the OPQS-team! PS: nice that the face of Boonen looks like him in the game!
RIP Wouter Weylandt, siempre con noi
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| dienblad |
Posted on 15-02-2012 21:37
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Great win, true Omega Pharma domination!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 15-02-2012 22:49
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Brilliant win for Boonen, Well Done indeed |
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 15-02-2012 23:24
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One win achieved, another to go.  |
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| 27incher |
Posted on 16-02-2012 05:46
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Great win by Boonen.
It looks like he's in form for some of the later cobblestone classics |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 16-02-2012 06:46
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Great win, looks like OPQS will be very strong on cobbles this season
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| 0buKKaKe |
Posted on 16-02-2012 08:03
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oh yeah, thats why they call him Tornado Tom !!! also Chava 5th, thats a great result, love em classics, bring us more, this is Booonens yr |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 16-02-2012 12:21
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Thank you all very much. Means a lot to me that you enjoying the story and Bonnen's great win Thanks once again
KBK is about to start now, so I am heading off to the directing car to lead the team, Hopefully Boonen is going to repeat his victory and make it a very promising double for us
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