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Euskaltel - restoring basque honor
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| Mads_0 |
Posted on 22-06-2008 22:56
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Girlfriend showed up unexpectedly, so that'll be the end of the hyperspeed posting sadly  Well, few stages a day i'll probably manage Anyhoo, i'm off See ya lads |
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| Ak4 |
Posted on 22-06-2008 22:57
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Where did she come from?  |
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| mowinckel91 |
Posted on 22-06-2008 23:23
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We'll have to wait until tomorrow then... |
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 23-06-2008 00:20
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Sad but true..
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| Biathlon |
Posted on 23-06-2008 00:51
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Why do u not put the text under the picture so we can look on the picture before we read But it is a great storie. Giro will be yoursB)
Words to live by
"What would Lance do?"
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| Ak4 |
Posted on 23-06-2008 08:11
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ContaRicco wrote:
Why do u not put the text under the picture so we can look on the picture before we read But it is a great storie. Giro will be yoursB)
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| Hurricane |
Posted on 23-06-2008 08:41
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Damm, I normally never look here for a story, but this story is sooooooooo nice man. Keep up the good work, you're doing very well!
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| Martjeu |
Posted on 23-06-2008 09:07
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He already told us on p. 4:
It's a DELL XPM M1730 Laptop
2,2 Dual core
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| Mads_0 |
Posted on 23-06-2008 17:50
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Giro d' Italia - Stage 4
Stage 4 sees a mountain and then a sprint finish. Both Landaluze, Martinez and Anton tried to get away today but the peleton set an extreme pace throughout the stage. Only Gerolsteiners Schreck and Vaugrenard of FDJ were able to break free. But with 60km to go they hold a slender lead and will almost surely be caught.
And they're caught close to 30km from the finish. It'll be a sprint finish again.
Koldo Fernandez is trying to get into position. But the pace is so high that everyone is hurting right now!
With 2.8km to go he's absolutely spent! He found the wheel of Freire but the pace was just too high. No dice for Fernandez today.
Bennati again in a league of his own, he's followed by Hunter of Barloworld and Alejandro Valverde. Koldo Fernandez said he was very disappointed and "just don't know what happened" Well, he'll get more chances in the days to come.
Stage
1 Daniele Bennati Liquigas 4h39'38
2 Robert Hunter Barloworld s.t.
3 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
4 Paolo Bettini Quick·Step s.t.
5 Fabio Baldato Lampre s.t.
6 Anthony Geslin Bouygues Télécom s.t.
7 Erik Zabel Team Milram s.t.
8 Mirko Lorenzetto Lampre s.t.
9 Stefan Schumacher Gerolsteiner s.t.
10 Alessandro Bertolini Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni - Androni Giocattoli s.t.
11 Dani Moreno Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
12 Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole s.t.
13 Pablo Lastras Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
14 Danilo Napolitano Lampre s.t.
15 Bert Grabsch Team Columbia s.t.
16 Murilo Fischer Liquigas s.t.
17 Luca Paolini Acqua e Sapone - Caffè Mokambo s.t.
18 Andrea Noè Liquigas s.t.
19 Enrico Poitschke Team Milram s.t.
20 Óscar Freire Rabobank s.t.
GC
1 Bert Grabsch Team Columbia 15h40'22
2 Sergei Ivanov Astana Cycling Team + 17
3 Steve Zampieri Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone + 51
4 Egoi MartÃnez Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
5 Enrico Poitschke Team Milram + 1'21
6 Christian Knees Team Milram s.t.
7 Björn Schröder Team Milram s.t.
8 Maarten Wynants Quick·Step + 1'25
9 Addy Engels Quick·Step s.t.
10 Carlo Scognamiglio Barloworld + 1'28
Points
1 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 16 30
2 Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole 6 26
3 Robert Hunter Barloworld 20 26
4 Philippe Gilbert Française des Jeux 0 25
5 Luca Paolini Acqua e Sapone - Caffè Mokambo 0 25
6 Daniele Bennati Liquigas 25 25
7 Sergei Ivanov Astana Cycling Team 0 24
8 Carlo Scognamiglio Barloworld 0 22
9 Andrea Moletta Gerolsteiner 0 20
10 Alberto Ongarato Team Milram 0 16
Mountain
1 Philippe Gilbert Française des Jeux 0 5
2 Benoit Vaugrenard Française des Jeux 5 5
3 Egoi MartÃnez Euskaltel - Euskadi 0 3
4 Stefan Schreck Gerolsteiner 3 3
5 Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Columbia 3 3
6 Stéphane Augé Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 3
7 Giuseppe Palumbo Acqua e Sapone - Caffè Mokambo 0 1
8 Karsten Kroon Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1 1 |
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Posted on 23-06-2008 19:06
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Giro d' Italia - Stage 5
Another sprinterstage with a bit of hills on it. Fernandez told me this morning that "someone should have a talk with the Giro directors about all these damned hills!"
A bunch of breaks today. Out in the very front though is Kroon and Ivanov. It's obvious that Kroon is there for the KoM points so we know we'll have to watch out for him if we want that jersey. 100km to go on a sunny day with no wind.
The two hold out for quite a long time, but with 24km to go it's all over.
The pack now has one final hill to negotiate before the sprint to the line.
9,3km to go and we've just come over the small hill. Koldo Fernandez has found the wheel of sprinter-ace Bennati. But again he is suffering under the effects of the hill. He is however fairly well placed now!
With 2,4 to go they're off. It's gonna be uphill and Astarloza has to use some strength to make sure he stays at the front. Fernandez is still on Bennati's wheel.
But it's just too tough for him with the hill. Bennati seems to be the strongest, but here comes Valverde from behind!
And Valverde takes it by an inch. Bennati must feel he was robbed of that one. He looked like he had it
Stage
1 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 3h54'30
2 Daniele Bennati Liquigas s.t.
3 Pierre Rolland Crédit Agricole s.t.
4 Pablo Lastras Caisse d'Epargne + 12
5 Óscar Freire Rabobank s.t.
6 Enrico Poitschke Team Milram s.t.
7 Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole s.t.
8 Murilo Fischer Liquigas s.t.
9 Luca Paolini Acqua e Sapone - Caffè Mokambo + 20
10 Koldo Fernández de Larrea Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
11 Dimitri Fofonov Crédit Agricole s.t.
12 Andrea Noè Liquigas s.t.
13 Robert Hunter Barloworld s.t.
14 Björn Schröder Team Milram s.t.
15 Bert Grabsch Team Columbia s.t.
16 Paolo Bettini Quick·Step s.t.
17 Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia s.t.
18 Christian Knees Team Milram s.t.
19 Simon Gerrans Crédit Agricole s.t.
20 Dani Moreno Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
GC
1 Bert Grabsch Team Columbia 19h35'12
2 Enrico Poitschke Team Milram + 1'13
3 Björn Schröder Team Milram + 1'21
4 Christian Knees Team Milram s.t.
5 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne + 1'29
6 Steve Zampieri Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone + 1'31
7 Carlo Scognamiglio Barloworld + 1'44
8 Francesco Bellotti Barloworld + 1'50
9 Joost Posthuma Rabobank + 2'02
10 Gerben Löwik Rabobank s.t.
14 Mikel Astarloza Euskaltel - Euskadi + 2'09
Points
1 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 25 55
2 Daniele Bennati Liquigas 20 45
3 Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole 9 35
4 Sergei Ivanov Astana Cycling Team 8 32
5 Luca Paolini Acqua e Sapone - Caffè Mokambo 7 32
6 Robert Hunter Barloworld 3 29
7 Philippe Gilbert Française des Jeux 0 25
8 Carlo Scognamiglio Barloworld 0 22
9 Andrea Moletta Gerolsteiner 0 20
10 Dimitri Fofonov Crédit Agricole 5 17
Mountain
1 Karsten Kroon Team CSC - Saxo Bank 6 7
2 Philippe Gilbert Française des Jeux 0 5
3 Benoit Vaugrenard Française des Jeux 0 5
4 Sergei Ivanov Astana Cycling Team 4 4
5 Egoi MartÃnez Euskaltel - Euskadi 0 3
6 Stefan Schreck Gerolsteiner 0 3
7 Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Columbia 0 3
8 Stéphane Augé Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone 0 3
9 Giuseppe Palumbo Acqua e Sapone - Caffè Mokambo 0 1
10 Daniele Nardello Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni - Androni Giocattoli 1 1 |
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Posted on 23-06-2008 20:07
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Posted on 23-06-2008 20:47
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Hes not a biiig hill rider... |
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Posted on 23-06-2008 21:03
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thia final stage was good for LAndaluce,why didn`t he atack in the finally??
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Posted on 23-06-2008 21:24
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Giro d' Italia - Stage 6
Fernandez just looked at me this morning with a sort of "not 1.. not 2.. not 3..but 3 and an uphill sprint, are you kidding me?!" kind of look. I know he'll try his best. But i don't think we've got anyone suited for this kind of finish. Asterloza will have to make sure he doesn't lose any time tho'
With 97 to go the 4 man breakaway of the day has an 8 minute gap. But todays stage has been long and the pack is starting to move fast now. Landaluze is in the break and took the KoM sprint of the day.
Sure enough, at 51km the pack has the breakaway in sight. The peleton will be together as we hit the hills, it's going to be a rough finish!
Coming up on the first hill, only Astarloza is still feeling fresh.
Second hill, Astarloza won't lose time, but everyone else is spent by now. Tough finish!
We're over the top of the 2nd hill, the sprint is coming up and Astarloza tries to latch onto Bettini at the front.
But too late! Bettini flew off like an absolute rocket today! No way we could follow him! Almost everyone of the team will lose sometime it seems. Apart from our captain Astarloza.
Stage
1 Paolo Bettini Quick·Step 5h47'41
2 Anthony Geslin Bouygues Télécom + 7
3 Philippe Gilbert Française des Jeux s.t.
4 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
5 Damiano Cunego Lampre s.t.
6 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom s.t.
7 Pierrick Fédrigo Bouygues Télécom s.t.
8 Yaroslav Popovych Silence - Lotto s.t.
9 Fränk Schleck Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
10 Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
11 Jérôme Pineau Bouygues Télécom s.t.
12 Carlos Barredo Quick·Step s.t.
13 Thomas Voeckler Bouygues Télécom s.t.
14 Markus Zberg Gerolsteiner s.t.
15 Kurt-Asle Arvesen Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
16 Marcus Ljungqvist Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
17 Davide Rebellin Gerolsteiner s.t.
18 Franco Pellizotti Liquigas s.t.
19 Bert Grabsch Team Columbia s.t.
20 Karsten Kroon Team CSC - Saxo Bank s.t.
GC
1 Bert Grabsch Team Columbia 25h23'00
2 Enrico Poitschke Team Milram + 1'13
3 Christian Knees Team Milram + 1'21
4 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne + 1'29
5 Steve Zampieri Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone + 1'31
6 Carlo Scognamiglio Barloworld + 1'44
7 Francesco Bellotti Barloworld + 1'50
8 Gerben Löwik Rabobank + 2'02
9 Joost Posthuma Rabobank s.t.
10 Pierre Rolland Crédit Agricole + 2'05
11 Addy Engels Quick·Step s.t.
12 Sylvain Chavanel Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone + 2'07
13 Mikel Astarloza Euskaltel - Euskadi + 2'09
14 Maarten Wynants Quick·Step + 2'13
15 Dani Moreno Caisse d'Epargne + 2'17
16 George Hincapie Team Columbia + 2'18
17 Murilo Fischer Liquigas + 2'25
18 Marco Pinotti Team Columbia + 2'26
19 Yaroslav Popovych Silence - Lotto + 2'33
20 Dimitri Fofonov Crédit Agricole s.t.
Points
1 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 0 55
2 Daniele Bennati Liquigas 0 45
3 Philippe Gilbert Française des Jeux 16 41
4 Paolo Bettini Quick·Step 25 39
5 Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole 0 35
6 Sergei Ivanov Astana Cycling Team 0 32
7 Luca Paolini Acqua e Sapone - Caffè Mokambo 0 32
8 Anthony Geslin Bouygues Télécom 20 30
9 Robert Hunter Barloworld 0 29
10 Carlo Scognamiglio Barloworld 0 22
Mountain
1 Karsten Kroon Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0 7
2 Philippe Gilbert Française des Jeux 0 5
3 Benoit Vaugrenard Française des Jeux 0 5
4 Iñigo Landaluze Euskaltel - Euskadi 5 5
5 Sergei Ivanov Astana Cycling Team 0 4
6 Egoi MartÃnez Euskaltel - Euskadi 0 3
7 Stefan Schreck Gerolsteiner 0 3
8 Edvald Boasson Hagen Team Columbia 0 3
9 Stéphane Augé Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone 0 3
10 Damien Monier Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 3
Tomorrow is more our terrain. A mountainstage, albeit a fairly light one, is coming up.
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Posted on 23-06-2008 21:37
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A good win for Bettini |
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Posted on 23-06-2008 23:03
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Giro d' Italia - Stage 7
This years first mountainstage features some rugged terrain and then 2 small climbs towards the end. As the announcer said "It's not the dolomites but it'll give the local cycclingfans something to cheer about"
At 78km to go a 5 mean breaks is in front. Two smaller breaks are stuck between the front and the pack. Ivanov is the most prominent rider out there today.
On the first real climb the pack is starting to close in on the breakaway.
It'll be tough for them to hold out today!
Sella broke from the pack on the first climb and joins Ivanov, it'll be interesting to see what he can do today. In the pack Saunier Duval and Lampre have sent the heavy boys to do some work and it's starting to show as people are getting tired.
We're starting the last climb and it's Cobo and Piepoli in front. They are really going at it now! 22km to go.
15km to go and some of the outsiders attack. Schleck goes, Nibali goes.. Saunier are really puring it on. If this keeps up, we'll be forced into a defensive!
9,3km to go and we're just trying to hang onto the big boys. Valverde has brought himself to the very front of things, Cunego is powering ahead to snap up Pelizotti and Nibali. Barredo, Ricco and Piepoli are here too.
6km to go and we'll have to drop of now to avoid slowing too much. Ricco and Cunego attack!
1,4km to go and we're going at our own pace to try and conserve what little energy we have to(a fraction of yellow, not even visible on the screenshot) minimize the time lost.
Cunego, Ricco and Valverde are in a league of their own today!
It's Cunego 1st, Ricco 2nd and Valverde 3rd. Amazingly, Pfannberger had the energy to power up from behind and take 4th. It's Pelizotti in 5th, Barredo 6th, Nibali 7th and Astarloza manages 8th. We take a hit of a minutes time on the 2 Italians today.
Stage
1 Damiano Cunego Lampre 4h35'33
2 Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
3 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne + 20
4 Christian Pfannberger Barloworld + 48
5 Franco Pellizotti Liquigas s.t.
6 Carlos Barredo Quick·Step s.t.
7 Vincenzo Nibali Liquigas + 1'06
8 Mikel Astarloza Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
9 Leonardo Bertagnolli Liquigas s.t.
10 Leonardo Piepoli Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
11 Juanjo Cobo Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
12 Andrea Noè Liquigas s.t.
13 Manuel Beltrán Liquigas s.t.
14 David Arroyo Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
15 Sandy Casar Française des Jeux s.t.
16 Vladimir Karpets Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
17 Thomas Lövkvist Team Columbia s.t.
18 Marzio Bruseghin Lampre + 2'03
19 Andrei Mizourov Astana Cycling Team + 2'35
20 Fränk Schleck Team CSC - Saxo Bank + 2'43
GC
1 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 30h00'14
2 Mikel Astarloza Euskaltel - Euskadi + 1'34
3 Andrea Noè Liquigas + 1'58
4 Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
5 Franco Pellizotti Liquigas + 2'36
6 Carlos Barredo Quick·Step + 2'42
7 Sandy Casar Française des Jeux + 2'44
8 Steve Zampieri Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone + 2'49
9 Vladimir Karpets Caisse d'Epargne + 2'54
10 David Arroyo Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
Points
1 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 16 71
2 Daniele Bennati Liquigas 0 45
3 Philippe Gilbert Française des Jeux 0 41
4 Paolo Bettini Quick·Step 0 39
5 Sergei Ivanov Astana Cycling Team 6 38
6 Damiano Cunego Lampre 25 37
7 Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole 0 35
8 Luca Paolini Acqua e Sapone - Caffè Mokambo 0 32
9 Anthony Geslin Bouygues Télécom 0 30
10 Robert Hunter Barloworld 0 29
Mountain
1 Damiano Cunego Lampre 15 15
2 Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott 10 10
3 Sergei Ivanov Astana Cycling Team 4 8
4 Karsten Kroon Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0 7
5 Franco Pellizotti Liquigas 7 7
6 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 7 7
7 Philippe Gilbert Française des Jeux 0 5
8 Benoit Vaugrenard Française des Jeux 0 5
9 Iñigo Landaluze Euskaltel - Euskadi 0 5
10 Christian Pfannberger Barloworld 4 4
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Astarloza rode smart today. The stage really didn't suit him as it was a series of smaller climbs stringed together but he managed to minimize the loss. In the GC we've moved up to 2nd spot, which is really nice and well done by Mikel.
Mikel's fitnesspeak is planned for the last 3rd of the Giro, when we hit the dolomites and there are some crucial timetrials, including a brutal 14km mountain timetrial. We have faith in Mikel's timetrialing ability, and compared to the immidiate comptetion. Mikel is probably one of the best timetrialists. So as we see it, it's looking pretty good. The next 2 stages are flat/small hills, then there's a rest day and a 36km timetrials.
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| deco200 |
Posted on 23-06-2008 23:21
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Hey Mads...i've got a question
is it true that you can attack numerous times on the final climb (with good climber)? And that slelection on the climb never stops (some riders can struggle firstly on the ascend, but then they can join leading group)??
Because when i read your story (which is really great btw. congrats) i've got an impression that riding during mountain stages hasn't changed at all. |
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Posted on 23-06-2008 23:47
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deco200 wrote:
Hey Mads...i've got a question
is it true that you can attack numerous times on the final climb (with good climber)? And that slelection on the climb never stops (some riders can struggle firstly on the ascend, but then they can join leading group)??
Because when i read your story (which is really great btw. congrats) i've got an impression that riding during mountain stages hasn't changed at all.
It's changed a lot! In 07 i could've probably won this stage fairly easy on hard. The new system has a LOT of attacks. I think Ricco attacked 3 times on the final climb. And yes, riders who are going slow at first can suddenly come back and ride fast. It's all to do with the new energysystem. It's great! |
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| Contador38 |
Posted on 24-06-2008 01:09
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Great job man...I love the way you write and makes this stories, keep it going...it makes me even more jealus for not having PCM08 as it comes into the stores in norway at the 4 of july....god job |
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 24-06-2008 02:54
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Toast to that!
I love this story, and on top of it. My PCM 07 crashed today, so now i have to wait to 4th of July until i can play PCM, but then its 08  
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