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| Batista15 |
Posted on 09-03-2010 14:49
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Paris-Nice
Stage 6 : St-Paul-Trois-Chateaux - La Montagne de Lure
Today we´re expecting the hardest stage in Paris-Nice 2010!It´s probably the queen stage and so many favorites should shine there such as Valverde,Gerdemann,Lövkvist,Voigt,Vande Velde and Sastre.We will see if Monfort and Martin can hold on at the final climb which looks really hard
Mark Cavendish managed to get in today´s break.There he could win a few sprint points so he will get the green jersey for tomorrow.Muravyev won all KoM competitions so far and is the new King of Mountains
As the final climb began the first move came from Sastre with more than 12 kilometres to go
Only one kilometre later Gerdemann started his attack with Monfort and Martin on his backwheel.Martin and Monfort were really close together today.Both of them worked really hard for themselves..kind of dream team
There was built a small chasing group about 6 riders including Voigt,Gerdemann,Monfort and of course Tony Martin.Sastre was still a few seconds in front
But with only 7 kilometres to go the group was brought back to the peloton.Caisse d´Epargne worked a lot at the front for Valverde.Only Sastre could defend his small advantage in front of this group
The next moves were made with only 4 kilometres to go,this time by Fedrigo and Garate
Lövkvist went after them just a few moment later
Valverde was still in this bigger group together with his team-mates Brushegin and Moreau.Monfort and Martin were leading the chasers
With 2,5 kilometres to go Valverde started his attack and he reached the leading riders really easy
Another move by Monfort!
Fedrigo,Garate,Lövkvist,Sastre and Barredo could not keep it up with Valverde,he was just too strong
He was still attacking on the one kilometre brand.His advantage to Barredo&Co became bigger and bigger
Valverde takes the stage win and his leading leadership in the overall becomes bigger,too
Barredo wins the sprint behind Valverde in front of Lövkvist and Sastre
Here comes Monfort with 1 minute and 22 seconds to Valverde
Martin could defend his white jersey,finishing as 15th 2´22 behind Valverde
Stage results
| 1 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 5h10'54 | | 2 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 41 | | 3 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 57 | | 4 | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo Test Team | s.t. | | 5 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 1'05 | | 6 | Juan Manuel Gárate | Rabobank | s.t. | | 7 | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | + 1'22 | | 8 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 9 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 10 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 1'35 | | 11 | Gorka Verdugo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 1'42 | | 12 | Sébastien Joly | Saur - Sojasun | + 1'50 | | 13 | Rémy Di Gregorio | Française des Jeux | + 2'14 | | 14 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 15 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 2'22 |
Overall
| 1 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 24h03'46 | | 2 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 1'18 | | 3 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'23 | | 4 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 1'44 | | 5 | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo Test Team | + 2'21 | | 6 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | + 2'34 | | 7 | Sébastien Joly | Saur - Sojasun | + 3'00 | | 8 | Juan Manuel Gárate | Rabobank | s.t. | | 9 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 3'05 | | 10 | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | + 3'06 | | 11 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | + 3'09 | | 12 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 3'21 | | 13 | Gorka Verdugo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 14 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 3'26 | | 15 | Marzio Bruseghin | Caisse d'Epargne | + 3'57 |
Points
| 1 | Mark Cavendish | Team HTC - Columbia | 75 | | 2 | Lieuwe Westra | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | 74 | | 3 | Heinrich Haussler | Cervélo Test Team | 65 |
KoM
| 1 | Dimitriy Muravyev | Team RadioShack | 26 | | 2 | Ivan Rovny | Team RadioShack | 22 | | 3 | Damien Gaudin | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | 19 |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 09-03-2010 17:41
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Tirreno-Adriatico
Stage 3 : Fucecchio - Santa Croce Sull´Arno
The third stage should be made for sprinters like Freire and Boonen.With a short hilly section before the finish we´re expecting that Greipel will have some problems so Eisel should be our man
There were some important riders in today´s breakaway such as Fränk Schleck and Cummings
We couldn´t form a sprint train and so Eisel had to manage the sprint final on his own
With only 5 kilometres to go Oscar Freire and Tom Boonen are already in a good position while Eisel is still searching for that
The sprint begins and Ciolek tries to take the lead;on the right side comes Freire,Boonen on the left side
Freire takes the lead in front of Carrara and Boasson Hagen comes really fast now in the middle
Freire takes the stage in front of Boasson Hagen and Carrara.Eisel had no chance in the end and so he becomes 13th
Stage results
| 1 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | 3h53'19 | | 2 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | Matteo Carrara | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Francesco Ginanni | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 5 | Koldo Fernández | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 6 | Greg Van Avermaet | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 7 | Tom Boonen | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 8 | Enrico Rossi | Ceramica Flaminia | s.t. | | 9 | Daniele Bennati | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 10 | Gerald Ciolek | Team Milram | s.t. | | 11 | Allan Davis | Astana | s.t. | | 12 | Baden Cooke | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 13 | Bernhard Eisel | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 14 | Marco Marcato | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 15 | Romain Feillu | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | 11h32'28 | | 2 | Tom Boonen | Quick·Step | + 4 | | 3 | Matteo Carrara | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 10 | | 4 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | Daniele Bennati | Liquigas - Doimo | + 16 | | 6 | Allan Davis | Astana | + 20 | | 7 | Francesco Ginanni | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 8 | Enrico Rossi | Ceramica Flaminia | s.t. | | 9 | Greg Van Avermaet | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 10 | Bernhard Eisel | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 11 | Luca Mazzanti | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 12 | Andrea Tonti | CarmioOro NGC | s.t. | | 13 | Marco Marcato | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 14 | Fabian Wegmann | Team Milram | s.t. | | 15 | Gerald Ciolek | Team Milram | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | 28 | | 2 | Tom Boonen | Quick·Step | 26 | | 3 | Matteo Carrara | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | 24 |
KoM
| 1 | Nick Nuyens | Rabobank | 5 | | 2 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 5 | | 3 | Michael Mørkøv | Team Saxo Bank | 5 |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 09-03-2010 21:20
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 10-03-2010 21:00
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Paris-Nice
Stage 7 : Manosque - Fayence
Stage 7 is another one made for climbers and puncheurs.The big favorite is of course Alejandro Valverde.Monfort and Martin want to defend their good overall positions,especially Martin wants to wear his white jersey until Nice
Caisse d´Epargne made the pace in the second part of the race for their team captain Valverde
After a successful move with more than 10 kilometres to go Barredo was in front 3 kilometres before the stage.His advantage over the pack was more than a minute
Behind,the favorites had to do something ´cause Barredo was dangerous for Valverde.Voigt and Vande Velde went after Valverde
Monfort and Martin worked together for another time
With only one kilometre to go Barredo was still in front but the gap to Valverde was less than 40 seconds.Voigt is in one group with Valverde and behind them Vande Velde,Monfort and Tony Martin are fighting for another great result
Barredo takes the stage
Valverde won the sprint against Voigt for the second place.And he lost only 32 seconds to Barredo in the end.That means he will defend his leader´s jersey
Monfort becomes 4th in front of Martin and Vande Velde.What a great result for our team!!Monfort can improve himself in the overall from rank 11 to 7!Martin from 14 to 13.Of course he will defend his jersey for the best young rider
Stage results
| 1 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | 5h01'01 | | 2 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | + 32 | | 3 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 4 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'00 | | 5 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 6 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 7 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 1'12 | | 8 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | s.t. | | 9 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'18 | | 10 | Kurt-Asle Arvesen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 11 | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 12 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 13 | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo Test Team | s.t. | | 14 | Juan Manuel Gárate | Rabobank | s.t. | | 15 | Marzio Bruseghin | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 29h05'13 | | 2 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 42 | | 3 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 2'15 | | 4 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 2'30 | | 5 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | + 2'36 | | 6 | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo Test Team | + 3'13 | | 7 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | + 3'43 | | 8 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 3'51 | | 9 | Sébastien Joly | Saur - Sojasun | + 3'52 | | 10 | Juan Manuel Gárate | Rabobank | s.t. | | 11 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 3'55 | | 12 | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | + 3'58 | | 13 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 4'00 | | 14 | Gorka Verdugo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 4'13 | | 15 | Marzio Bruseghin | Caisse d'Epargne | + 4'49 |
Points
| 1 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 86 | | 2 | Mark Cavendish | Team HTC - Columbia | 75 | | 3 | Lieuwe Westra | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | 74 |
KoM
| 1 | Dimitriy Muravyev | Team RadioShack | 26 | | 2 | Ivan Rovny | Team RadioShack | 22 | | 3 | Matthé Pronk | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | 22 |
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There's still a flat stage wright? You might be able to win points with Cavendish.
Batista15 wrote:
1 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 29h05'13
A sign of things to come irl? 
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Posted on 10-03-2010 21:22
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Kami wrote:
There's still a flat stage wright? You might be able to win points with Cavendish.
Batista15 wrote:
1 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 29h05'13
A sign of things to come irl?
No it´s a hilly stage
What do you mean with come irl? |
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Posted on 10-03-2010 21:24
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Batista15 wrote:
Kami wrote:
There's still a flat stage wright? You might be able to win points with Cavendish.
Batista15 wrote:
1 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 29h05'13
A sign of things to come irl?
No it´s a hilly stage
What do you mean with come irl?
That Valverde would win Paris-Nice in real life.
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 10-03-2010 21:27
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Kami wrote:
Batista15 wrote:
Kami wrote:
There's still a flat stage wright? You might be able to win points with Cavendish.
Batista15 wrote:
1 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 29h05'13
A sign of things to come irl?
No it´s a hilly stage
What do you mean with come irl?
That Valverde would win Paris-Nice in real life.
Ah ok sorry mhh don´t think so...Contador will take the win there |
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Posted on 10-03-2010 21:29
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Batista15 wrote:
Kami wrote:
Batista15 wrote:
Kami wrote:
There's still a flat stage wright? You might be able to win points with Cavendish.
Batista15 wrote:
1 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 29h05'13
A sign of things to come irl?
No it´s a hilly stage
What do you mean with come irl?
That Valverde would win Paris-Nice in real life.
Ah ok sorry mhh don´t think so...Contador will take the win there
I was actually more or less sarcastic  . To bad you didnt see my epic sarcasm face
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 10-03-2010 21:38
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great job |
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Posted on 10-03-2010 21:39
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Kami wrote:
Batista15 wrote:
Kami wrote:
Batista15 wrote:
Kami wrote:
There's still a flat stage wright? You might be able to win points with Cavendish.
Batista15 wrote:
1 Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 29h05'13
A sign of things to come irl?
No it´s a hilly stage
What do you mean with come irl?
That Valverde would win Paris-Nice in real life.
Ah ok sorry mhh don´t think so...Contador will take the win there
I was actually more or less sarcastic . To bad you didnt see my epic sarcasm face
Well,I couldn´t see it but I thought thatNo one could mean this serious |
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Posted on 10-03-2010 21:41
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valverde321 wrote:
great job
Thanks a lot! |
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Posted on 11-03-2010 14:17
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Tirreno-Adriatico
Stage 4 : Foligno - Montelupone
Tirreno-Adriatico becomes serious now!!After 3 strange stages where many favorites lost a lot of time because of crashes this tour is going to be harder
Van Summeren was the only one in the break today
On the final climb with only 1.5 kilometres to go Ginanni leads the pack which was divided up into many groups
Rogers missed the right backwheel and so he couldn´t get a good result anymore
The sprint begins and Ginanni is still leading but Cunego comes really fast behind him.Can he reach him??
No he can´t!Ginanni is too strong in the last weeks!
Rogers becomes 8th in the end.It´s really strange but Contador lost again 2´07 to Ginanni!!
Stage results
| 1 | Francesco Ginanni | Androni Giocattoli | 4h15'07 | | 2 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 3 | Matteo Carrara | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 15 | | 4 | Stijn Devolder | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 5 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 35 | | 6 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | s.t. | | 7 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 8 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 48 | | 9 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 10 | Rubén Plaza | Caisse d'Epargne | + 58 | | 11 | JoaquÃm RodrÃguez | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 12 | David López | Caisse d'Epargne | + 1'04 | | 13 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 14 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 15 | Sylvain Chavanel | Quick·Step | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Francesco Ginanni | Androni Giocattoli | 15h47'45 | | 2 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 4 | | 3 | Matteo Carrara | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 11 | | 4 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | + 25 | | 5 | Stijn Devolder | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 6 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 45 | | 7 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 8 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 58 | | 9 | Rubén Plaza | Caisse d'Epargne | + 1'08 | | 10 | JoaquÃm RodrÃguez | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 11 | Bernhard Eisel | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'14 | | 12 | Andrea Tonti | CarmioOro NGC | s.t. | | 13 | Nick Nuyens | Rabobank | s.t. | | 14 | Sylvain Chavanel | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 15 | Sergueï Ivanov | Team Katusha | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | 33 | | 2 | Matteo Carrara | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | 32 | | 3 | Tom Boonen | Quick·Step | 26 |
KoM
| 1 | Nick Nuyens | Rabobank | 10 | | 2 | Francesco Ginanni | Androni Giocattoli | 8 | | 3 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 6 |
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Posted on 11-03-2010 18:36
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Paris-Nice
Stage 8 : Nice - Nice
It´s the last stage in France and it´s gonna be a serious one!Valverde should be the winner of Paris-Nice but behind there are some interesting fights
The breakaway was really big today.Muravyev and Fothen were there,too and the King of Mountains could get some more points for his jersey+
On the last climb there were some important moves by Lövkvist,Joly,Sastre,Monfort and Valverde
On the top of this climb Valverde could get a small gap to the first chasing group with Monfort,Lövkvist,Barredo and Garate
On the downhill Valverde is still in front
After a short flat section Monfort can get a small gap to the bigger group
Last kilometre!!And it seems that Valverde is really tired,he becomes slow!
The sprint begins and Monfrot comes really close to Valverde now!
And that´s it!!!!Monfort beats Valverde in the sprint.Great stage win for him and he improved himself in the overall again from 7 to 4!!!!
Stage results
| 1 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | 3h36'44 | | 2 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 3 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 16 | | 4 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | Juan Manuel Gárate | Rabobank | s.t. | | 6 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 1'04 | | 7 | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo Test Team | s.t. | | 8 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 9 | Daniel Navarro | Astana | s.t. | | 10 | Jürgen Van de Walle | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 11 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 12 | Vasil Kiryienka | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 13 | Sébastien Joly | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 14 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 2'02 | | 15 | Kevin Seeldraeyers | Quick·Step | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 32h41'48 | | 2 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 1'02 | | 3 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 2'40 | | 4 | Maxime Monfort | Team HTC - Columbia | + 3'40 | | 5 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | + 3'49 | | 6 | Juan Manuel Gárate | Rabobank | + 4'16 | | 7 | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo Test Team | + 4'26 | | 8 | Pierrick Fédrigo | Bbox Bouygues Télécom | + 4'41 | | 9 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | + 5'04 | | 10 | Sébastien Joly | Saur - Sojasun | + 5'05 | | 11 | Christian Vande Velde | Garmin - Transitions | + 6'06 | | 12 | Christophe Moreau | Caisse d'Epargne | + 6'09 | | 13 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | + 6'11 | | 14 | Gorka Verdugo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 6'24 | | 15 | Daniel Navarro | Astana | + 6'27 |
Points
| 1 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 111 | | 2 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | 87 | | 3 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 82 |
KoM
| 1 | Dimitriy Muravyev | Team RadioShack | 51 | | 2 | Markus Fothen | Team Milram | 26 | | 3 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 23 |
Best young rider
| 1 | Tony Martin | Team HTC - Columbia | 32h47'59 |
Best team
1 Caisse d'Epargne 98h18'10
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 11-03-2010 21:58
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perfect result valverde wins and you get top five. great reports btw. |
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valverde321 wrote:
perfect result valverde wins and you get top five. great reports btw.
Thanks valverde good to hear that |
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Ok Paris-Nice is over now!I will continue with the next stage in Italy;it´s a hilly time trial so it should be useful for Rogers.
P.S. If there is something you would improve in this story, just tell me your ideasthanks |
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Tirreno-Adriatico
Stage 5 : Loreto - Macerata ITT
Since the general standings are mostly strange this time trial will show if the big favorites like Contador are still alive.Cancellara should be the great favorite but also Rogers wants to shine today
Cancellara was the first one setting an amazing time!He needed 50 minutes and 58 seconds for 33 kilometres if this is already the winner time?We´ll see....
Next one was Contador,his first time after 10 kilometres was 2 seconds faster than Cancellara´s.At the second time measurement he was already 4 seconds behind the world champion and in the end he is 10 seconds behind Fabian Cancellara
Ruben Plaza came with an amazing day and a fantastic interim time,5 seconds faster than Cancellara!!At the second time measurement he was even 8 seconds in front.And the big surprise came in the end he could hold on and he beats Cancellara by 13 seconds!!
Michael Rogers did a great job today.Of course he couldn´t reach the great times by Plaza,Cancellara and Contador but he gets a great 6th rank in the end
Good time by Cunego!He´s 10th in the end with a big chance becoming the new leader of the tour
That´s it!Cunego takes the leader´s jersey ´cause of a bad time by Ginanni.He lost 3´02 to Plaza who is second in the overall now
Stage results
| 1 | Rubén Plaza | Caisse d'Epargne | 50'45 | | 2 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Saxo Bank | + 13 | | 3 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 18 | | 4 | Alberto Contador | Astana | + 23 | | 5 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 38 | | 6 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 7 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | + 47 | | 8 | Stijn Devolder | Quick·Step | + 48 | | 9 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | + 54 | | 10 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 11 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 56 | | 12 | Lars Ytting Bak | Team HTC - Columbia | + 57 | | 13 | Sylvain Chavanel | Quick·Step | + 1'04 | | 14 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 15 | Stefano Garzelli | Acqua & Sapone | + 1'10 |
Overall
| 1 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 16h39'28 | | 2 | Rubén Plaza | Caisse d'Epargne | + 10 | | 3 | Stijn Devolder | Quick·Step | + 15 | | 4 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 43 | | 5 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 51 | | 6 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 55 | | 7 | Matteo Carrara | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 56 | | 8 | Sylvain Chavanel | Quick·Step | + 1'20 | | 9 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 1'28 | | 10 | Franco Pellizotti | Liquigas - Doimo | + 1'46 | | 11 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | + 1'51 | | 12 | Francesco Ginanni | Androni Giocattoli | + 2'04 | | 13 | Bernhard Eisel | Team HTC - Columbia | + 2'08 | | 14 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 2'13 | | 15 | JoaquÃm RodrÃguez | Team Katusha | + 2'18 |
Points
| 1 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | 33 | | 2 | Matteo Carrara | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | 32 | | 3 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 27 |
KoM
| 1 | Nick Nuyens | Rabobank | 10 | | 2 | Francesco Ginanni | Androni Giocattoli | 8 | | 3 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 6 |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 12-03-2010 13:48
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Tirreno-Adriatico
Stage 6 : Civitanova Marche - Camerino
This one is the queen stage in this year´s Tirreno-Adriatico.We´ll see if Cunego can defend his jersey also it´s interesting to see Contador and Schleck on their first hard mountain stage
The biggest name in today´s breakaway was Van Den Broeck who could stay in front for a long time
After the hardest climb of today´s stage the pack was really small!Favorites like Contador,Schleck,Plaza and Cunego were still there.Rogers could stay there,too but he already had some problems on the climb
And with more than 25 kilometres to go Contador started an attack
Pellizotti,Casar and Ginanni went after him
But they were all caught from this group.Rogers and Nibali had some problems to keep it up with the favorites
Far in front was a small group with Pellizotti,Casar and Van Den Broeck who was still in front
This was the first chasing group with Rodriguez,Contador and Boasson Hagen
Next attack this time by Joaquim Rodriguez who seems to be in an amazing shape
The sprint begins and Rodriguez is still in front with a powerful acceleration
That´s it!!Stage win for the Spaniard
Great finish by Popovych!!Carrara becomes third in the end and Rogers lost a few more seconds same like Contador and Schleck
Stage results
| 1 | JoaquÃm RodrÃguez | Team Katusha | 6h38'40 | | 2 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 8 | | 3 | Matteo Carrara | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 5 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 6 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 7 | Johnny Hoogerland | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | + 42 | | 9 | Michele Scarponi | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 10 | Stefano Garzelli | Acqua & Sapone | s.t. | | 11 | Rubén Plaza | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 12 | Fränk Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 13 | Massimo Codol | Acqua & Sapone | + 54 | | 14 | Andrea Tonti | CarmioOro NGC | s.t. | | 15 | Ivan Basso | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | ... | | 27 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 23h18'16 | | 2 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 37 | | 3 | Rubén Plaza | Caisse d'Epargne | + 44 | | 4 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 51 | | 5 | Matteo Carrara | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 52 | | 6 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | + 1'28 | | 7 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'41 | | 8 | JoaquÃm RodrÃguez | Team Katusha | + 2'00 | | 9 | Franco Pellizotti | Liquigas - Doimo | + 2'32 | | 10 | Francesco Ginanni | Androni Giocattoli | + 2'50 | | 11 | Johnny Hoogerland | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | + 2'57 | | 12 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 3'07 | | 13 | Sergueï Ivanov | Team Katusha | + 3'10 | | 14 | Massimo Codol | Acqua & Sapone | + 3'18 | | 15 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 3'23 |
Points
| 1 | Matteo Carrara | Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | 40 | | 2 | Óscar Freire | Rabobank | 33 | | 3 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Professional Cycling Team | 27 |
KoM
| 1 | Nick Nuyens | Rabobank | 10 | | 2 | Francesco Ginanni | Androni Giocattoli | 8 | | 3 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 6 |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 12-03-2010 21:32
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Tirreno-Adriatico
Stage 7 : San Benedetto del Tronto
It´s the last stage in Italy for our team and we´re expecting a mass sprint!
Our sprint results weren´t really well so Eisel and Greipel are angry about that and they really want to show her strength today
What a bad luck,I´m really sorry but the game crashed after the great sprint finish.Our team was motivated for this last stage and we were working hard.After the breakaway was brought back the teams began to form their sprint trains.Eisel and Greipel were in front and Rogers kept the pace high so our train was great with Eisel behind Rogers and Greipel on his backwheel.Rogers did a great job today,Eisel could continue this great work and so it was up to Greipel.It looked great in the first moment but his acceleration wasn´t really well today so Eisel was even faster than him.On the right side came Baden Cooke,Boonen,Fernandez and Allan Davis really fast.In the end Eisel took a good podium for us behind the stage winner Baden Cooke and Fernandez.Greipel became 4th in front of Boonen and Davis.This result is ok but not our wish for the future!We are an amazing sprinter team and our sprints there in Italy were not good so we really have to work on this!!Hope it´s becoming better...
Stage results
There were no important changes in the overall so Cunego won this year´s Tirreno-Adriatico |
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