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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 17-09-2010 00:35
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Well, the first half of the Tour of Britain was challenging enough, and aggressively raced, to make it a worthwhile enough preparation. But pan flat stages are no good to anyone.
I guess it does at least encourage participation in the Vuelta, or the new Canadian races, when the Tour of Britain is the only category 1 or above stage race that runs alongside the Vuelta.
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| Wilier |
Posted on 17-09-2010 19:09
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Tour of Britain, Stage 7: Bury St. Edmunds - Colchester
1. Borut Bozic (SLO) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 3h24'15"
2. Gregory Henderson (NZL) Sky Professional Cycling Team st
3. Richie Porte (AUS) Team Saxo Bank 03"
4. Pierpaolo De Negri (ITA) ISD - Neri 03"
5. Koen de Kort (NED) Skil - Shimano 03"
6. Jonathon McEvoy (GBR) Motorpoint - Marshalls Pasta 03"
7. Stijn Neirynck (BEL) Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator 03"
8. Alexandre Blain (FRA) Endura Racing 06"
9. Jack Bauer (NZL) Endura Racing 06"
10. Zakkari Dempster (AUS) Rapha Condor - Sharp 06"
Albasini still leading the GC with 01'05" advantage on Bozic.
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 17-09-2010 19:13
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issoisso wrote:
SportingNonsense wrote:
doddy13 wrote:
Tour of Britain stage 6
Andre Griepel won.
Boring stage, boring winner. But of course, its a flat stage in a smaller stage race - Greipel's favourite
Exactly.
The problem here is that there's no credible alternative to the Vuelta. There's only a few classics as far as decent-sized races go, as preparation for the worlds.
I still don't get why they moved Poland. It was fine where it was.
Poland had a nice place on the calendar, I thought it was a nice place anyway.
The Tour of Britain, I see it as good worlds preparation, this years strong field field and better route than usual have seen a noticably better race. Well done to the organisers on it.
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 17-09-2010 19:14
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The TOB should be a PT race IMO. Because it seems to have a lot of potential and it sits on a nice calender place 
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 17-09-2010 19:30
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As much as the TOB as PT would please me personally. It won't happen, and I'll tell you for why:
-The organisation still has a lot to learn, but the good side of that is, every year they are learning quite a lot
-British domestic teams can take part right now, they get blown out of the water (mostly, we do have some domestic guys who really should be riding at a higher level though).
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| itsmichael |
Posted on 17-09-2010 19:38
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Tour of Hokkaido - Stage 1
1. Sung Baek Park - South Korea
2. Takashi Miyazawa - Japan
3. Shih Hsin Hsiao - Taiwan
4. Shinri Suzuki - Japan
5. Miyataka Shimizu - Japan
6. Takeaki Ayabe - Japan
7. Nara Motoi - Japan
8. Gregor Gazvoda - Slovenia
9. Yoshimitsu Tsuji - Japan
10. Hikaru Kosaka - Japan
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 17-09-2010 20:09
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hillis91 wrote:
The TOB should be a PT race IMO. Because it seems to have a lot of potential and it sits on a nice calender place
A British ProTour race would be nice, but I like the Tour of Britain how it is - allowing the mix of domestic teams with ProTour/ProConti.
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| ruben |
Posted on 17-09-2010 20:40
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Good point SNonsense, that's also what I always sayt about the ENECO Tour, it was more interesting when it was still the Ronde van Nederland and when it still had a good few domestic teams in, and a general more dutch/belgian field than international.
I'd rather have ENECO Tour like Britain, a 2.1 or 2.HC status and a mix of PT/PCT/CT teams |
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| Wilier |
Posted on 17-09-2010 21:44
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GP de la Somme
1. Martin Elmiger (SUI) Ag2r - La Mondiale 4h38'38"
2. Michael Stevenson (SWE) Sparebanken Vest - Ridley st
3. Anthony Ravard (FRA) Ag2r - La Mondiale 06"
4. Cédric Pineau (FRA) Roubaix - Lille Metropole 06"
5. Benoît Vaugrenard (FRA) FDJ 06"
6. Kevyn Ista (BEL) Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne 06"
7. Yukiya Arashiro (JPN) Bbox - Bouygues Telecom 06"
8. Florian Vachon (FRA) Bretagne - Schuller 06"
9. Romain Lemarchand (FRA) BigMat - Auber 93 06"
10. Jimmy Casper (FRA) Saur - Sojasun 08"
Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
1. Leigh Howard (AUS) Team HTC - Columbia 4h09'00"
2. Aidis Kruopis (LTU) Palmans - Cras st
3. Tom Veelers (NED) Skil - Shimano
4. Romain Feillu (FRA) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
5. Davy Commeyne (BEL) Landbouwkrediet
6. Jetse Bol (NED) Rabobank
7. Alexander Kristoff (NOR) BMC Racing Team
8. Gert Steegmans (BEL) Team RadioShack
9. Cole House (USA) BMC Racing Team
10. Timothy Dupont (FRA) Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht
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| itsmichael |
Posted on 18-09-2010 11:42
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Tour of Hokkaido - Stage 2
1. Miyataka Shimizu - Japan
2. Junya Sano - Japan
3. Jong Gyun Choi - South Korea
4. Takeaki Ayabe - Japan
5. Jumpei Murakami - Japan
6. Stefan Poll - Austria
7. Kohei Uchima - Japan
8. Tomoya Kano - Japan
9. Brian Walter Barkouse - Canada
10. Shinri Suzuki - Japan
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 18-09-2010 20:03
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Tour of Britain ended in a sprint so you can guess who won.
2 Lucas Sebastien Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank
3 Roger Hammond (GBr) Cervelo Test Team
4 Greg Henderson (NZl) Sky Professional Cycling Team
5 Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
6 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil - Shimano
7 Russell Downing (GBr) Sky Professional Cycling Team
8 Edward Clancy (GBr) Motorpoint - Marshalls Pasta
9 Marco Frapporti (Ita) Colnago - CSF Inox
10 Zak Dempster (Aus) Rapha Condor - Sharp
Bozic and Henderson seemed to forget to sprint until right at the end, and never had any chance of winning.
Final GC:
1 Michael Albasini (Swi) Team HTC - Columbia 29:23:47
2 Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:01:05
3 Greg Henderson (NZl) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:01:10
4 Richie Porte (Aus) Team Saxo Bank 0:01:13
5 Johnny Hoogerland (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:01:32
6 Patrick Sinkewitz (Ger) ISD - Neri Giambenini 0:02:12
7 Christian Meier (Can) Garmin - Transitions 0:02:30
8 Robert Partridge (GBr) Endura Racing 0:02:32
9 Koen De Kort (Ned) Skil - Shimano 0:02:35
10 Marco Frapporti (Ita) Colnago - CSF Inox 0:03:31
11 Lucas Sebastien Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank 0:10:19
12 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:11:01
13 Ian Bibby (GBr) Motorpoint - Marshalls Pasta 0:11:20
14 Simon Richardson (GBr) Sigma Sport - Specialized 0:11:51
15 Jack Bauer (NZl) Endura Racing 0:12:18
16 Pierpaolo De Negri (Ita) ISD - Neri Giambenini 0:13:00
17 Russell Downing (GBr) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:13:16
18 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator 0:13:17
19 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Colnago - CSF Inox 0:13:25
20 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Motorpoint - Marshalls Pasta 0:13:44
21 Kristian House (GBr) Rapha Condor - Sharp 0:14:31
22 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:14:42
23 Jonathan McEvoy (GBr) Motorpoint-Marshalls Pasta 0:15:12
24 Philip Lavery (Irl) An Post - Sean Kelly 0:15:22
25 Gianluca Mirenda (Ita) ISD - Neri Giambenini 0:17:19
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 18-09-2010 20:07
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The Hulk?
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| siwi |
Posted on 18-09-2010 20:24
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Must be a crap route if Bozic can get 2 in GC. |
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 18-09-2010 20:28
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Greipel in the sprint 
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 18-09-2010 20:29
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siwi wrote:
Must be a crap route if Bozic can get 2 in GC.
What a useless, and ignorant post.
Id explain why, but its not worth the effort - so Ill only suggest you actually look to see what happened in the race.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 18-09-2010 20:30
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hillis91 wrote:
Greipel in the sprint
Except that his nickname is the Gorilla
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 18-09-2010 20:37
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SportingNonsense wrote:
hillis91 wrote:
Greipel in the sprint
Except that his nickname is the Gorilla
Allways thought it was the hulk
Is this better?
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| Tuco the Ugly |
Posted on 18-09-2010 21:07
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That's an orangutan. |
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 18-09-2010 21:52
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Tuco the Ugly wrote:
That's an orangutan.
Your a human. Greipel is non-human, let's agree on that..
On a more serious note; i didn't find any gorillas on a bike pictures..
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 18-09-2010 21:57
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hillis91 wrote:
Tuco the Ugly wrote:
That's an orangutan.
Your a human. Greipel is non-human, let's agree on that..
On a more serious note; i didn't find any gorillas on a bike pictures..
Here, in the middle:
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