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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 05-06-2009 17:49
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Good luck! 
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 05-06-2009 23:33
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let the tour begin 
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| ember |
Posted on 06-06-2009 08:57
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Tour de France 2008 starts with an opening prologue in Toulouse. It isn't very long, but it is long enough to let the GC-guns make seconds between themselves.
I had some expectations for this prologue, most of my riders are in great form, and with those TT-stats that are in my team, it will be hard to not perform well here. Maybe we can make our sponsor goal and win a stage at the very first day?
Andre Steensen from Denmark was our first rider off. His dream is to win Tour de France one time, but not this year. He will be a helper, but on this stage he gives it what he can. He ends 7th, 14 seconds behind todays winner.
The next threat for a stage win today was Cancellara, but he seems out of shape as he only managed 13th, 22 seconds behind.
Edvald Boasson Hagen was next, and he took the lead, and it will last for 5th on this stage, only 5 seconds behind the winner. I am really dreaming of getting him back to Maxbo Bianchi. It would be perfect!
Taylor Phinney, our superkid was our next, he is only a teenager and still, he is making his debut in Tour de France. Probably he is nervous, but he finished nice, ending inside top 10, 10th place, 19 seconds behind.
Valverde hit the road for us quite late, unlucky he had a poor day and he couldn't fight for the stage win. He ended 6th, 11 seconds behind. Still, quite a good prologue, but it could have been better.
It was Vladimir Karpets from Caisse d'Epargne who took the stage win, he was two seconds ahead of Kreuziger, both had shown us that they won't be throwing balls in this Tour de France. Dave Z was our last rider on the road, and he secured us a great podium place, well done by him!
Karpets could celebrate the stage win, and the yellow jersey, good ride by him!
But we also had something to celebrate, we had 4 riders in the top 10 of the stage, and we took a clear lead in the teams classification, but we know that we will soon say goodbye to that lead.
Stage:
1 Vladimir Karpets CAISSE D'EPARGNE 9'22
2 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS + 2
3 David Zabriskie TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI + 8
4 Levi Leipheimer TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 10
5 Edvald Boasson Hagen EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
6 Alejandro Valverde TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI + 11
7 André Steensen TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI + 14
8 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 17
9 Dominique Cornu PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 18
10 Taylor Phinney TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI + 19
11 Aleksandr Pliuschin TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI s.t.
12 Gustav Larsson TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 20
13 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC + 22
14 Linus Gerdemann SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
15 Bernhard Kohl TEAM CSC s.t.
16 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK s.t.
17 François Pervis TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI s.t.
18 Jurgen Van den Broeck PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 23
19 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 25
20 Michael Rogers CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
Edited by ember on 06-06-2009 08:58
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| olabj |
Posted on 06-06-2009 09:30
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Nice start of the TdF
btw, how did the other NC go |
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| ember |
Posted on 06-06-2009 10:49
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Pervis won the TT in France....But I haven't got my jerseys, Valverde hasn't got the national jersey, do anyone know why? |
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| olabj |
Posted on 06-06-2009 11:17
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Yep, you`ll have to make it cause PCM07 doesn`t handle NC jerseys which isn`t in the team folder. don`t know why |
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 06-06-2009 14:07
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Nice tour start ember
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| ember |
Posted on 06-06-2009 15:08
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Thanks |
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| ember |
Posted on 10-06-2009 06:43
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I am sorry I haven't posted anything in 4 days, but I'm having my exam today and I really had to practice for it...But hopefully later today (when my exam is finished) I will play on in Tour de France |
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| Maximka |
Posted on 10-06-2009 08:45
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Don't be sorry for that |
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| ember |
Posted on 11-06-2009 17:36
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Stage 2 is ranked as a flat stage, but there is a tricky hill inside the last ten kilometres. There might be some attacks there, and Valverde will probably follow. We will wait and see.
The first action of today was the first sprint, Lampre and C.A had ensured that the peloton was all together for that sprint and it was Bennati who took it, in front of Hushovd.
Then a break formed for the day, and I putted Nordhaug in it. He was very close on taking the mountain jersey, he took 10 points, but Vaitkus took 11. (I forgot to picture the break...)
As predicted, some riders tried their luck on the final climb, and with only 6.7 km from the top of the climb to the finish line it was a good shot. It was Menchov from Astana who took off. Valverde followed. Valverde was very strong and he decended much better than Menchov, actually he had got a good gap to him and the peloton with 3 kilometres to go.
But with 600 metres to go, he was surrounded by two norwegian vikings Hushovd was on his right and Boasson Hagen on his left. Those two will surely fight it out for the stage win.
Hushovd took the stage, ahead of Boasson, which meant that Boasson was going to wear yellow next stage. Valverde was able to follow Hushovd's will for third.
Stage:
1 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE 4h25'57
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
3 Alejandro Valverde TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI s.t.
4 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER s.t.
5 Fran Ventoso SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
6 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
7 José JoaquÃn Rojas CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
8 Allan Davis PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
9 Óscar Freire QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
10 Enrico Gasparotto UNIBET.COM s.t.
Overall:
1 Edvald Boasson Hagen EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI 4h35'17
2 Vladimir Karpets CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 2
3 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS + 4
4 Alejandro Valverde TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI + 5
5 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 11
6 Levi Leipheimer TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 12
7 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 19
8 Dominique Cornu PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 20
9 Aleksandr Pliuschin TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI + 21
10 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK + 24
11 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
12 Bernhard Kohl TEAM CSC s.t.
13 Linus Gerdemann SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
14 Jurgen Van den Broeck PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 25
15 Michael Rogers CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 27 |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 11-06-2009 18:41
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Hagen for Euskaltel
good luck in the tour
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| ember |
Posted on 11-06-2009 18:50
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Thanks! And yes, it's a shame that Hagen has the yellow jersey for Euskaltel....But hopefully he won't have the jersey in Paris |
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| olabj |
Posted on 11-06-2009 20:56
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nice results, hope for a Tour win |
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 12-06-2009 06:12
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nice podium place 
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| niconico |
Posted on 12-06-2009 18:28
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What happened to Steensen?
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| ember |
Posted on 12-06-2009 20:16
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Steensen isn't in top shape and is only in the Tour to hit the full 4th experience bar, so he hopefully can be a good contender in the Vuelta.
So I used him as a protector of Valverde with 90-80 kilometres to the line, that resulted in Steensen wasn't able to follow the peloton close to the finish... |
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| olabj |
Posted on 06-08-2009 13:08
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I hope that you`ll put up a report on the next stages pretty soon |
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