I like it...but if you make only report of your races and then post screen from month i´ll be happy too...and so maybe you don´t loose your wish to play...
baia wrote:
I like it...but if you make only report of your races and then post screen from month i´ll be happy too...and so maybe you don´t loose your wish to play...
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Just your races are enough I think. Then a screenshot of the calender is enough in the end.
Our one main goal for this season is to win Paris-Roubaix, so we will very much concentrated on that race, Tour of Flanders is important but top5 would please me.
EBH will have his chance in Gent–Wevelgem, and Flecha may help him. We don't yet know for sure. Thoguh EBH now will concentrate on Paris-Nice and MSR.
Rigoberto Urán, Vuelta a Mallorca – Points Rankings
Other notable results 4th-10th
4th, Rigoberto Urán, Vuelta a Mallorca - Stage 2
5th, Rigoberto Urán, Vuelta a Mallorca - Stage 3
6th, Rigoberto Urán, Vuelta a Mallorca - Stage 4
8th, Rigoberto Urán - GP dell'Insubria-Lugano
7th, Jeremy Hunt, Tour of Oman - Stage 2
5th, Jeremy Hunt , Tour of Oman - Stage 4
5th, Jeremy Hunt - Kuurne – Bruxelles – Kuurne
6th, Geraint Thomas, Tour of Oman - Stage 1
8th, Geraint Thomas, Tour of Oman - Stage 5
4th, Greg Henderson, Tour of Oman - Stage 3
4th, Greg Henderson, Tour of Oman - Stage 5
5th,Juan Antonio Flecha, Tour of Oman - Stage 3
6th, Juan Antonio Flecha, Tour of Oman - Stage 5
10th, Ben Swift, Tour of Oman - Stage 3
10th, Chris Froome, Tour of Oman - Stage 6
6th Thomas Lofkvist - GP Di Lugano
Facts about the month
The month of February was quite suceessful for Sky. Starting with winning the first race of the February with Nordhaug and then following to Mallorca and fighting it out with Urán to take young rankings and good overall place alongside Barry taking Mountain ranking. Followed by probably most successful tour for us ever, Tour of Oman.
Next in the line were two Belgian classics which we took by storm with Flecha. And good results with Lofkvist in Switzerland. Nothing really to say about other results, as you probably know what happened from earlier reports.
The award was hard to give, there was a lot of riders who deserved the award, Hesejedal, Vinkourov, and Flecha. But at the end it was given to Frenchmen. He had great month with a lot of stage wins. But the young ranking is absolutely rubbish. Delage is 25 YEARS old. Urán or Thomas are younger and had better results throughout, very strange award.
Sky Rider of the Month
Flecha in my opinion was our best rider of the month, and this month Sky’s Rider of the Month award goes to him, very deservedly I would say. Taking two prestigious Belgian classics and a win in a sprint in Oman with great overall place. Can’t wish for more, no he will focus on Paris-Roubaix and hope for the best
Sky's Finances
Sky taking initiative to show fans how is cycling finances run, published a fiancés report for the month of February. It looks good of for the team, as the estimation don’t include prize moneys for wins in races. We spend a lot on coaches, but Sky believes it will bring better results too.
Cycling Blog had published two interviews, one typical of Vinokourov, and one by Thor which is probanbly thw worst ever interview given to a paper. You really NEED to have a read of this.
Sky Cycling Team
And at the end our team stats at the end of Feburary. No changes so far, but we hope that some happen this month, for good.
No changes in the Pro Tour ranking. E.B.Hagen leading the ranking after amazing Tour Down Under. We really hope we can defend his white jersey this month and the team ranking.
The continetal ranking changed a lot, Samu Dumoulin leading it bu a good margin from his teammate. In the team ranking Cofidis so far is destroying every team there, if they follow like that, they will surely qualify for Pro Tour next year.
As in Continental ranking there was a lot of changes, but still Hagen keeps his first place safe. With Flecha and Gerrans we have two others well positioned riders.
We also lead the team ranking by quite a margin ,and we can follow this up in March, Astana and lampre with good performances this month takes podium spots. And Cofidis maybe suprising everyobody with very stong positon already.
March schedule
Vuelta a Murcia Paris - Nice Tirreno - Adriatico Nokere-Koerse Milano - Sanremo Volta a Catalunya Dwars door Vlaanderen Critérium International E3 Prijs Vlaanderen – Harelbeke Gent–Wevelgem
Our month is quite packed with a lot of prestigous races, the moth is kicked off in Spain, with debut in Vuelta a Murcia. Then we enter two big Pro Tour races, one in France and one in Italy. Afterwards small belgian classics used as a last minute preparation for Milano - Sanremo.
In middle march, there is another Pro Tour race in spain, and A preparation for the Ronde Van Vlanderen and Paris Roubaix we also take part in the Belgium cobbled races and we will try to win onwe of them at least. We also want to repeat good overall place of Micheal Rogers in Critérium International.
Edited by Alakagom on 02-03-2011 21:36
The Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia is a road bicycle race held in and around Murcia, Spain. The race consists of a men's competition over three stages and is part of the UCI Europe Tour. The first four editions were reserved to amateurs.
2010 Results
1. Frantisek Rabon (Team HTC - Columbia) 16:01:24
2. Denis Menchov (Rabobank) 0:00:38
3. Bradley Wiggins (Sky Professional Cycling Team) 0:00:53
4. Andreas Klöden (Radio Shack) 0:00:57
5. Josep Jufre Pou (Astana) 0:01:21
6. Stef Clement (Rabobank) 0:01:23
7. Lance Armstrong (Radio Shack) s.t.
8. Pietr Weening (Rabobank) 0:01:41
9. Luke Roberts (Team Milram) 0:01:42
10. Tomasz Marczynski (CCC - Polsat - Polkowice) 0:01:59
Lasy year winner Rabon wont be participating, as Menchov and our star Bradely Wiggins, but Kloden will, and will be rated top favourite here. We hope we can do as well as last year but it's gonna be hard without Bradley, but we will give our best.
Sky Team
Christian Knees Thomas Löfkvist Michael Rogers Rigoberto Urán Dario Cioni Stephen Cummings Lars Petter Nordhaug Serge Pauwels
As usual, we field strong squad for our first race in March, Christian Knees will be our captain, having best form from all other riders. Löfkvist had decent fitness, and will be our co-leader.
It’s a debut from Michael Rogers so we can’t expect much on his first day. The last stage prologue 12km prologue doesn’t favour young Columbian, so he will have to help out our two captains. As there is not flat stages we didn’t bring any sprinters.
Looking at the favourites there are three really strong opponents, Cadel Evans, Roman Kreuziger and Andreas Klöden. We don’t expect big differences in times and the prologue may be deciding factor, and those three excel in them best.
The dark horse may be the young Slovakian, Peter Sagan, the course plays to his abilities and if he can survive easy mountain stage he can surprise.
And finally massive thanks to Roturn, great work by him and because of his hard work we can enjoy PCM even better with better races etc. Thanks
Tour of Murcia - Stage 1
San Pedro del Pinatar - Alhama de Murcia
Stage brilliantly made by Roturn and never seen before in any story. What can I say, the stage isn't as hard as it looks and there might be mass sprint, breakaway has a chance as well. Riders with good downhill skill and decent sprint abilities have a big chance today.
Favourites: A.Kloden, V.Nibali, C.Evans My secret tip: Peter Sagan, the stage looks like made for him, steep clibs but not the toughest, if this ends in sprint he is the guy to watch.
Depart in San Pedro del Pinatar.
Many riders try their luck but none escape.
Dario Cioni has one goal today, collect as many king of the mountains points as possible, after 60km of peaceful riding, we attack.
Only Giairo Ermeti followed, Cioni then lead whole way to the hill and unfortunately Ermeti attacked on the 0.1km to the point, I couldn't respond that fast and Ermeti takes full points.
Ermeti was super-human today, he attacked all day, whenever I just joined him, he attacked again. This time luckily for us he did't attack for next KOM point and we win some important points.
The last long hill before the downhill looked like perfect spot to attack, there were many attacks, but peleton let nobody got away.
5km to go and mass sprint is about to begin. The whole peleton is together and nobody lost time today.
Cândido Barbosa wins stage 1. Though Sagan looked to be first to cross the line but offcials had in invented new rule aka Srpint Bug
Great result for Barbosa and his team. They rode well today, if they keep epelton together, Barbosa has chance in the final prologue to be in contention. My tip Sagan didn't dissapoint today as well.
Knees on dissapointing 10th, I started the sprint too early, if I had waited maybe top5. But still good result, Urán finished 11th and Lofkvist 15th, taking respective result.
Tour of Murcia - Stage 2
Estrella Levante - Interpretación Sierra Espuña
The hardest and deciding stage of Tour of Murcia. With 10km of climbing to be done, there will be a lot of opportunities to attack, we just need to time this correctly and we stand with a chance.
Favourites: A.Kloden, V.Nibali, C.Evans My secret tip:José IvánGutiérrez was 4th yesterday, he looks to be in form and definitely will be the one to watch carefully.
The hardest and deciding stage is about to begin.
As our tactic today is to win the first KOM point, and this one is long away. So we lead peleton and let nobody to escape to attack later.
At the 100km to go we decide to attack, now at the 70km along Jacques Janse Van Rensburg we have over 5 minutes lead. With 35km to the KOM point, even second will give us maountain jersey, so Cioni sets furious tempo.
And yes we make it, Cioni takes the point and with this looks certain to secure Mountain Jersey.
Unfortuanately they were caught soon after, and now Movistar (Tondo) and Astana (Tiralongo) are doing the pace.
The attack begin, and as yesterday they are all caught soon after. We still wait for the right moment.
And that moment comes with 3km to go, Knees and Lofkvist attack, chased by Tondo, Tiralongo and Horner.
Don't know what happend, but next pictures I made didn't save. After this 5 riders came together on the downhill, I didn't attack with Urán in case we would be caught.
Lofkvist and Knees worked together to make the gap work, as the 3 riders sat on Sky riders wheels. The gap did work and with 2km to go it was 40 seconds.
Maybe I shouldn't have done this pace as it tired my riders, but at the end we didn't have much left energy to sprint and took respective 3th and 5th. Our first podium on extreme.
Great result by our two riders, nothing else to add. Brilliant stuff, addingg to that the Mountain Jersey and Team Classifcation, this day ends on a high.
Great chance now for a double win with your riders in the overall.
We`ll see tomorrow if there are really just 5 riders in the group. I think it will be a bigger group. ~25 riders in real
