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| Smoothie |
Posted on 03-08-2007 11:18
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Im off for the day so will bring you some stages hopefully tonight. |
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 03-08-2007 15:15
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Le Tour de Langkawi Stage 7 Kuantan - Karak
With a brilliant day behind us we had our positive mood on. Klyuev said that we would keep this mood all the way to the mountains, another stage win maybe. At breakfast news had broke out that a team member had a nasty crash in training but they were unsure who it was. All the text message saidwas "Crash in training, in hospital." From Alex Dowsett. Everyone was hoping it wasnt leader Dowsett but after a quick call we found out it was Wesley Sulzberger. He had come off downhill and was badly cut up.
Anyway onto the race...
With a few catergorised climbs in the race Intxausti couldnt help himself, with 20 from yesterday this second gave him 4 points. It was enough to give the KoM which he said he wanted.
As the break was caught the fight for position happened. Klyuev feeling ,extremly good again, took up a great wheel that gave him the best potition for when the sprint was to start...
The sprint began at only 1km to go and Klyuev open it up delivering all his power...
It couldnt be better a double victory!
The green jersey looks to stay on his shoulders unless he has a fall or Florencio wins tomorrow.
Stage
1 Andrey Klyuev VIRGIN MEDIA 4h31'29
2 Antonio Bucciero CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
3 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
4 Stefan Loffler TEAM SPARKASSE s.t.
5 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM s.t.
6 Carlos Da Cruz FRANCAISE DES JEUX s.t.
7 Said Haddou BOUYGUES TELECOM s.t.
8 Martin Elmiger AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
9 Mathieu Ladagnous FRANCAISE DES JEUX s.t.
10 Franck Renier BOUYGUES TELECOM s.t.
Overall
1 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 23h06'56
2 Benat Intxausti VIRGIN MEDIA + 1'35
3 Emanuele Sella CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 1'37
4 Evgueni Petrov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 1'43
5 Jose Luis Arrieta AG2R PREVOYANCE + 2'22
6 Adam Blythe VIRGIN MEDIA s.t.
7 Dimitri Fofonov CREDIT AGRICOLE + 3'02
8 Luca Mazzanti CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
9 Ricardo Serrano G. TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
10 Sebastien Joly FRANCAISE DES JEUX + 3'28
Points
1 Andrey Klyuev VIRGIN MEDIA 110
2 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 99
3 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PREVOYANCE 91
4 Antonio Bucciero CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE 75
5 Andy Flickinger BOUYGUES TELECOM 60
6 Stefan Löffler TEAM SPARKASSE 55
7 Carlos Da Cruz FRANCAISE DES JEUX 48
8 Nikolay Trusov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 44
9 Saïd Haddou BOUYGUES TELECOM 39
10 Niels Scheuneman UNIBET.COM 36
Mountain
1 Benat Intxausti VIRGIN MEDIA 24
2 Evgueni Petrov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 22
3 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 22
4 Emanuele Sella CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE 16
5 Stefan Parinussa TEAM SPARKASSE 6
6 Sergio Pardilla VIRGIN MEDIA 6
7 Maarten Pieter Tjallingii SKIL - SHIMANO 6
8 Alessandro Bertolini SERRAMENTI PVC - SELLE ITALIA 6
9 Robert Kiserlovski ADRIA MOBIL 4
10 Bradley Mc Gee FRANCAISE DES JEUX 4
This will probably put Klyuev on top of the continental rankins and the team on top too. I know for sure we are the most victorious team. I just hope we can do well tomorrow on the big climb. I think Florencio has to good form to be able to beat but we will give it all... |
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 03-08-2007 15:19
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great win
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| Crommy |
Posted on 03-08-2007 15:57
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Great win 
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Posted on 03-08-2007 16:50
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this is turning out rather well |
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Posted on 03-08-2007 18:00
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Le Tour de Langkawi Stage 8 Shah Alam - Genting Highlands
First of all id like to thankd everyone for their comments. It means a lot to me.
Anyway todays stage would decide the winner of the tour. With Florencio taking the last mountain stage i dont think the favourites like Sella would let him escape of the final climbs.
"The Genting Highlands are a good test for the guys but i dont think they are strong enough to create attacks yet..." Said Manager.
Highest placed rider Benat Intauxsti was desperate to try and do something.
"It will be so hard to beat Florencio because hes in such goid form!"
Benat would need a whole 1:35 on Florencio, that will be very hard.
The stage rolled along the short flat section with the break taking the sprints, they remained off the front at the foot of the climb but were sure to be caught.
The team set a high pace hoping to keep a high enough tempo so an attack was very hard to do. But Florencio fanied hs chances nobody chased but Pardilla but he got droped very quuick and the guys remused the pace.
On the last climb it was the peleton made up of 46 riders and Florencio. Florencio had only a 50 second gap and with that Intauxsti went off in hunt of Florencio.
Florencio had accelerated and the favourite all came flying past Benat but stoped just a few meters on.
Another win then and a seeled win for Florencio.
Almost 3 minutes on the bunch was led home by Hamilton, he was suspiuosly insepcted afterwards and dope control did several tests... It was all good for Benat though he had manged to claw his way back up and managed to conserve second place.
Stage
1 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 2h57'04
2 Tyler Hamilton TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 2'44
3 Serguei Klimov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
4 Wladimir Belli SERRAMENTI PVC - SELLE ITALIA s.t.
5 Hubert Dupont AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
6 Walter Fernando Pedraza SERRAMENTI PVC - SELLE ITALIA s.t.
7 Fortunato Baliani CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
8 Evgueni Petrov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
9 Emanuele Sella CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
10 Domenico Pozzovivo CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
Overall
1 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 26h03'50
2 Benat Intxausti VIRGIN MEDIA + 4'29
3 Emanuele Sella CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 4'31
4 Evgueni Petrov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 4'37
5 Adam Blythe VIRGIN MEDIA + 5'16
6 Jose Luis Arrieta AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
7 Ricardo Serrano G. TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 5'56
8 Dimitri Fofonov CREDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
9 Luca Mazzanti CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
10 Sebastien Joly FRANCAISE DES JEUX + 6'22
Points
As expected Florencio took green too.
1 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 124
2 Andrey Klyuev VIRGIN MEDIA 110
3 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PREVOYANCE 91
4 Antonio Bucciero CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE 75
5 Andy Flickinger BOUYGUES TELECOM 60
6 Stefan Loffler TEAM SPARKASSE 55
7 Carlos Da Cruz FRANCAISE DES JEUX 48
8 Nikolay Trusov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 44
9 Said Haddou BOUYGUES TELECOM 39
10 Niels Scheuneman UNIBET.COM 36
Mountain
1 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 42
2 Evgueni Petrov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 26
3 Benat Intxausti VIRGIN MEDIA 24
4 Emanuele Sella CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE 19
5 Tyler Hamilton TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 14
6 Serguei Klimov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 12
7 Wladimir Belli SERRAMENTI PVC - SELLE ITALIA 10
8 Hubert Dupont AG2R PREVOYANCE 8
9 Stefan Parinussa TEAM SPARKASSE 6
10 Sergio Pardilla VIRGIN MEDIA 6
Well it was an interesting day and it was sort of expected, losing all the jerseys except the U25 was hard for the team but over the next days we will fight hard still. Hope your aare enjoying the story so far and please ask me anything to do with it. Thanks. |
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| niconico |
Posted on 03-08-2007 18:06
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Damn Florencio. At least you have a good chance of winning the green jersey 
Keep it up |
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| samtheman |
Posted on 03-08-2007 18:27
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2nd is very good too!B) |
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 03-08-2007 18:32
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Q : Happy with your second place that you look to carry to the end?
A (Benat Intauxsti) : Yes im very pleased, its not just me thats happy though the whole team is happy. It shows that we are not just pathetic nobodies and we have a chance at these big climbing races. |
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 03-08-2007 21:05
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Le Tour de Langkawi Stage 9 Putrajaya - Seremban
Todays stage was a relaxed stage the team were going to relax sit back and not do much. In all the local newspaper you could see the pictures of Florencios domination. But in a small sport newsletter there was an article on the team, saying how well we had done.
On todays stage, after the mountains the guys said it would be a good idea to send someone up the road. After his valued work yesterday Pluchkin got the go ahead and he would do his best to get in a break.
He stuck to the plan and went off the fronty and soon settled into a steady rythem pick up time. At one point they get 14 minutes over the pack but the Telecom boys wouldnt allow tthat and literally went off the front to shut the gap down.
On the last climb about 10km from the finish Pluchkin put a big effort in hoping to go for the finish. He looked strong and got a big gap over his break companions, that were probably slowing him down.
He pushed all the way home and scored a brilliant victory, and looked overjoyed!
A massive gap and a massive win that helped him jump 10 places in the GC.
The sprint for the minor sprint was extremly fast going into 50km/h! Dumoulin took it meaning he had the fresher legs? I hope not.
Stage
1 Aleksandr Pluchkin VIRGIN MEDIA 3h59'50
2 Niels Scheuneman UNIBET.COM + 2'47
3 Blazej Janiaczyk ACTION - UNIQUA s.t.
4 Stefan Parinussa TEAM SPARKASSE + 3'20
5 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PREVOYANCE + 3'59
6 Andrey Klyuev VIRGIN MEDIA s.t.
7 Nikolay Trusov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
8 Said Haddou BOUYGUES TELECOM s.t.
9 Mikhail Ignatiev TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
10 Jose Luis Arrieta AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
Overall
1 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 30h07'39
2 Benat Intxausti VIRGIN MEDIA + 4'29
3 Emanuele Sella CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 4'31
4 Evgueni Petrov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 4'37
5 Jose Luis Arrieta AG2R PREVOYANCE + 5'16
6 Adam Blythe VIRGIN MEDIA s.t.
7 Ricardo Serrano G. TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 5'56
8 Luca Mazzanti CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
9 Dimitri Fofonov CREDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
10 Sylvain Calzati AG2R PREVOYANCE + 6'22
Points
Getting close hopefully tomorrow Klyuev can claim the jersey that is right fully his!
1 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 129
2 Andrey Klyuev VIRGIN MEDIA 120
3 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PREVOYANCE 103
4 Antonio Bucciero CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE 79
5 Niels Scheuneman UNIBET.COM 62
6 Andy Flickinger BOUYGUES TELECOM 60
7 Stefan Loffler TEAM SPARKASSE 55
8 Nikolay Trusov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 53
9 Blazej Janiaczyk ACTION - UNIQUA 52
10 Carlos Da Cruz FRANCAISE DES JEUX 51
Mountain
1 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 42
2 Aleksandr Pluchkin VIRGIN MEDIA 34
3 Stefan Parinussa TEAM SPARKASSE 32
4 Evgueni Petrov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 26
5 Benat Intxausti VIRGIN MEDIA 24
6 Niels Scheuneman UNIBET.COM 24
7 Emanuele Sella CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE 19
8 Blazej Janiaczyk ACTION - UNIQUA 18
9 Alessandro Bertolini SERRAMENTI PVC - SELLE ITALIA 16
10 Tyler Hamilton TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 14 |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 03-08-2007 21:10
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Great win! Hopefully you can get the green jersey tomorrow. Do your best to stop the break getting away!
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 03-08-2007 22:10
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Q : Are you hoping to win the stage tomorrow?
A (Klyuev) : Im hoping yes but not aiming it would help a lot to win it though, I really hope to get 9 points in hand tomorrow and the team said they will put everything into th races so can get some premes to make it easier at the end... |
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 04-08-2007 12:52
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yes very good win
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 04-08-2007 18:11
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Le Tour de Langkawi Stage 10 Kuala Lumpur Criterium
With a great win yesterday the team seemed really upbeat, ready to take the green jersey! He was determinded to remind the press that he was not being greedy and after the stage all he wanted was to get 9 points on Florencio who began to look a bit tired. It was a fast tight criteruim all of which Klyuev seem a bit unhappy about.
"Today will be quick and will dash from place to place" Said Blythe
With the yellow jersey seeled there was only one thing that had to be decided, the green... Lets, get, Racing!
There was as usual a breakaway, but they had no chance of lasting and were gobbled up way before the line
The guys put on a Top pace to shell of the straggerlers and to stop attacks. This was a strong performance...
The sprint started and Elminger set a blistering pace, with a corner 1km from the end it would be very hard to pass Dumoulin.
On the last corner there was a very small gap and Klyuev had no chance of winning but at least Florencio was way back!
The winner Dumoulin and the winner Klyuev crossed the line, he also celebrated after the line for winning the green!
Stage
1 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PREVOYANCE 1h18'40
2 Andrey Klyuev VIRGIN MEDIA s.t.
3 Martin Elmiger AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
4 Ricardo Serrano G. TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
5 Mathieu Ladagnous FRANCAISE DES JEUX s.t.
6 Antonio Bucciero CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
7 Nikolay Trusov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
8 Mikhail Ignatiev TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
9 Carlos Da Cruz FRANCAISE DES JEUX s.t.
10 Said Haddou BOUYGUES TELECOM s.t.
Overall
1 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 31h26'19
2 Benat Intxausti VIRGIN MEDIA + 4'29
3 Emanuele Sella CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE + 4'31
4 Evgueni Petrov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 4'37
5 Adam Blythe VIRGIN MEDIA + 5'16
6 Jose Luis Arrieta AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
7 Ricardo Serrano G. TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 5'56
8 Luca Mazzanti CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
9 Dimitri Fofonov CREDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
10 Sebastien Joly FRANCAISE DES JEUX + 6'22
Points
1 Andrey Klyuev VIRGIN MEDIA 140
2 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 133
3 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PREVOYANCE 128
4 Antonio Bucciero CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE 89
5 Andy Flickinger BOUYGUES TELECOM 65
6 Nikolay Trusov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 62
7 Niels Scheuneman UNIBET.COM 62
8 Carlos Da Cruz FRANCAISE DES JEUX 58
9 Stefan Loffler TEAM SPARKASSE 56
10 Said Haddou BOUYGUES TELECOM 53
Montain
1 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TELECOM 42
2 Aleksandr Pluchkin VIRGIN MEDIA 34
3 Stefan Parinussa TEAM SPARKASSE 32
4 Evgueni Petrov TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 26
5 Benat Intxausti VIRGIN MEDIA 24
6 Niels Scheuneman UNIBET.COM 24
7 Emanuele Sella CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE 19
8 Blazej Janiaczyk ACTION - UNIQUA 18
9 Alessandro Bertolini SERRAMENTI PVC - SELLE ITALIA 16
10 Tyler Hamilton TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS 14 |
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Posted on 04-08-2007 18:19
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Shame about the stage but at lkeast you got the green jersey!
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| alex153 |
Posted on 04-08-2007 18:26
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Congrats on the jersey |
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 04-08-2007 18:33
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yes well done Smoothie
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| Crommy |
Posted on 04-08-2007 21:42
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Green jersey is a great result
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Posted on 05-08-2007 09:43
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Wow, this is without doubt the best PCM 2007 story i have read so far |
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 05-08-2007 10:39
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ZhotLog wrote:
Wow, this is without doubt the best PCM 2007 story i have read so far
Thanks a lot, And thanks to everyone else for there comments. |
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