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| Gaffeff |
Posted on 14-07-2014 19:16
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The Schleck Fan wrote:
I just caught up with this.Looks like a great story
Thanks, glad you like it. Looks like Pinot read it too today. Gave him some confidence back.
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Posted on 14-07-2014 19:22
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Stage 15: 174.4km Mountain top finish.
Excellent: All riders.
BA plan: Best described by one of the sprinters “Movistar, Sky and British Airways all looking serious. This is going to hurt”
Chaves covers Pinot, Fleeman covers Kennaugh. Water carrier shared around.
Breakaway: R Bardet (ALM), M Nieve (SKY), R Kiserlovski (TFR), D Nerz (BMC)
85 km: Jungels falls.
33km: Jungels falls again.
On penultimate ascent, elite group of Froome, Quintana, Valverde, Kennaugh formed.
Pinot goes big, after a Kennaugh drive, attacks with 11km to go.
Big stage win for Pinot taking 1 min 16 out of Froome, over 2 and a half minutes out of Quintana.
| Stage Winner: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Red Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Points Jersey: Marcel Kittel (ARG) | | Mountain Jersey: Romain Bardet (ALM) | | Young Riders Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Team award: Movistar |
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Thibaut Pinot | British Airways | 56h39'19 | | 2 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | + 2'02 | | 3 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | + 2'31 | | 4 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | + 3'31 | | 5 | Sergio Henao | Team Sky | + 10'15 | | 6 | Nicolas Roche | Team Saxo Bank | + 11'28 | | 7 | Franco Pellizotti | Astana Pro Team | + 11'37 | | 8 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | + 11'38 | | 9 | Michał Kwiatkowski | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 11'51 | | 10 | Rafal Majka | Team Saxo Bank | + 12'55 | | 12 | Peter Kennaugh | British Airways | + 14'32 |
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Posted on 14-07-2014 20:21
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This doesn't deseve less than a banana.What a victory!! |
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Posted on 15-07-2014 22:30
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Was cool, drove behind Kennaugh and they didn't follow. Then it was just go for it and hang on.
[Looks like my mate Dave has been following this too, sounds like Sky are signing Pinot in Real life.]
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Posted on 15-07-2014 22:37
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Stage 16: 193.8km Mountain top finish.
Very Good: Pinot, Kennaugh.
Average: Brownlee.
Good: Others.
BA plan: Although we took a lot of time in the last stage it really hurt us. We have to hope that the other teams are hurting too. Rest day tomorrow, then two flats stages. So going to try and bluff it, by putting some of our riders on the front but keeping the pace slow until the end. Then hope Pinot doesn’t lose too much. The time gap we have means we can ride defensively and just need to watch Froome. I think we have second (assuming Pinot stays on his bike) maybe even a win.
Chaves covers Pinot, Fleeman covers Kennaugh. Water carrier shared around.
Breakaway: T de Gendt (OPQ), J Hernadez (SAX), F Mourey (FDJ), M Nieve (SKY), F Aru (AST), C Riblon (ALM), A Cardoso (GRS), G Caruso (KAT), I Izaguirre (MOV).
26km to go, Froome attacks on the decent, he has a minute on Pinot who has 25 seconds on Quintana and Valverde.
With 4.2 km to go, Pinot has caught Froome. And Pinot just sits on.
With 1km the slowest sprint in history starts on the steep ramp. Pinot beats Froome by 16 seconds.
| Stage Winner: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Red Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Points Jersey: Marcel Kittel (ARG) | | Mountain Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Young Riders Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Team award: Movistar |
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Thibaut Pinot | British Airways | 62h18'24 | | 2 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | + 3'51 | | 3 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | + 4'14 | | 4 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | + 5'22 | | 5 | Sergio Henao | Team Sky | + 13'54 | | 6 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | + 15'17 | | 7 | Nicolas Roche | Team Saxo Bank | + 15'27 | | 8 | Franco Pellizotti | Astana Pro Team | + 15'36 | | 9 | Michał Kwiatkowski | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 15'50 | | 10 | Rafal Majka | Team Saxo Bank | + 16'54 | | 12 | Peter Kennaugh | British Airways | + 19'03 |
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Posted on 15-07-2014 22:40
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Rest Day:
Recover.
5 stages left. 1xMountain TT, 2x flat, 1 mountain with descent to finish, 1 x TT.
With two time trials and a mountainous stage with a descent to the finish Froome should do well, but is the 3 minute gap enough?
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Posted on 16-07-2014 03:34
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Come on, Pinot you can do this
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Posted on 16-07-2014 08:14
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Posted on 18-07-2014 21:31
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Stage 17: 29.6km Mountain TT.
Very Good: Pinot.
Good: Kennaugh, Gallopin, Wilson, Jungels.
Average: Bibby, Chaves, Fleeman.
Bad: Brownlee.
BA Plan: Go as fast as we can. Try to lose less than 1 minute to Froome.
Not a lot of subtlety in a mountain TT.
Froome finishes in a time of 56 min 14 seconds. 35 seconds ahead of Quintana and almost 2 minutes ahead of Valverde.
Pinot finishes in a time of 55 minutes and 46 seconds, beating Froome to the delight of Gaffeff.
| Stage Winner: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Red Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Points Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Mountain Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Young Riders Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Team award: Movistar |
Pinot doing rather well on the jerseys there.
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Thibaut Pinot | British Airways | 63h14'10 | | 2 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | + 4'19 | | 3 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | + 5'17 | | 4 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | + 7'44 | | 5 | Sergio Henao | Team Sky | + 18'09 | | 6 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | + 18'53 | | 7 | Michał Kwiatkowski | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 19'29 | | 8 | Nicolas Roche | Team Saxo Bank | + 19'44 | | 9 | Franco Pellizotti | Astana Pro Team | + 20'28 | | 10 | Rafal Majka | Team Saxo Bank | + 21'19 | | 11 | Peter Kennaugh | British Airways | + 22'09 |
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Posted on 18-07-2014 21:33
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What Pinot is doing is, if nothing, impressive. Holy moly! 
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Posted on 20-07-2014 20:59
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admirschleck wrote:
What Pinot is doing is, if nothing, impressive. Holy moly!
I think we've got a multiple grand tour winner on our hands. Now can we afford to keep him? His contract is up for renewal after the 2015 season.
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Posted on 20-07-2014 21:04
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Stage 18: 185.9 km Flat
Very Good: Pinot, Kennaugh.
Good: Wilson, Jungels, Gallopin.
Average: Brownlee, Bibby, Chaves, Fleeman.
BA plan: Just avoid any loss of time. Give the climbers a rest.
Jungels covers Pinot, Gallopin covers Kennaugh. Wilson carries the water.
Breakaway: R Nocentini (ALM), L Westra (AST), F Mourey (FDJ), L Paolini (KAT), J Acevedo (GRS)
Breakaway has a 16 minute gap with 60 km to go. The winner is going to be out of the breakaway.
Westra takes the stage from out of the breakaway.
Pinot loses no time and has a quiet day.
| Stage Winner: Lieuwe Westra (AST) | | Red Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Points Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Mountain Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Young Riders Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Team award: Astana |
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Thibaut Pinot | British Airways | 67h59'03 | | 2 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | + 4'19 | | 3 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | + 5'17 | | 4 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | + 7'44 | | 5 | Sergio Henao | Team Sky | + 18'09 | | 6 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | + 18'53 | | 7 | Michał Kwiatkowski | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 19'29 | | 8 | Nicolas Roche | Team Saxo Bank | + 19'44 | | 9 | Franco Pellizotti | Astana Pro Team | + 20'28 | | 10 | Rafal Majka | Team Saxo Bank | + 21'19 | | 11 | Peter Kennaugh | British Airways | + 22'09 |
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Posted on 20-07-2014 22:45
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Stage 19: 162.4 km Flat
Excellent: Pinot, Kennaugh, Gallopin, Wilson.
Very Good: Jungels, Bibby, Chaves
Good: Fleeman, Brownlee.
BA plan: Just avoid any loss of time. Give the climbers a rest.
Jungels covers Pinot, Gallopin covers Kennaugh. Wilson carries the water until the crash, then Bibby.
Breakaway: P Fedrigo (FDJ), D Millar (GRS), M Moser (CAN), M Schar (BMC)
109.5 km Wilson Crashed.
Lotto Belisol, Orica Greenedge, Omega Pharma and Argos Shimano all start pulling back the breakaway. They won’t make the same mistake they did yesterday.
With 10 km to go, British Airways sudden notice that Froome is no longer in the Peleton, he's 30 seconds up the road. [Yes I missed it, didn’t expect him to attack on the flat].
Jungels and Gallopin put the hammer done. Then Kennaugh leads out Pinot. In the end Pinot beats Froome.
Moser wins the stage. Pinot loses no time.
| Stage Winner: Moreno Moser (CAN) | | Red Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Points Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Mountain Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Young Riders Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Team award: Astana |
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Thibaut Pinot | British Airways | 71h41'00 | | 2 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | + 4'23 | | 3 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | + 5'21 | | 4 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | + 7'48 | | 5 | Sergio Henao | Team Sky | + 18'13 | | 6 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | + 18'57 | | 7 | Michał Kwiatkowski | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 19'27 | | 8 | Nicolas Roche | Team Saxo Bank | + 19'48 | | 9 | Franco Pellizotti | Astana Pro Team | + 20'32 | | 10 | Rafal Majka | Team Saxo Bank | + 21'23 | | 11 | Peter Kennaugh | British Airways | + 22'13 |
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Posted on 20-07-2014 22:51
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Stage 20: 137.7 km Mountains (Descent to finish)
Excellent: Pinot, Kennaugh, Gallopin, Wilson, Chaves
Very Good: Jungels, Bibby, Fleeman
Good: Brownlee.
BA plan: Mainly don’t fall off. Just watch Froome on the climb. Nearly there.
Chaves covers Pinot, Gallopin covers Kennaugh. Water shared round. We’ll be doing all the pacing work today.
Breakaway: C Riblon (ALM), J Acevedo (GRS), D Nerz (BMC), R Kiserlovski (TFR)
Peleton of 74 going over the penultimate climb, with 8 British Airways riders remaining.
Froome and Valverde joins forces to attack over the top, Pinot tries to go with them but the gap opens up on the descent.
A large crash on the descent, a British Airways rider is down… It’s Pete Kennaugh. 6 riders down including Kennaugh and Kwiakowski. Kwiakowski abandoned. Kennaugh has lost time but is able to continue the stage.
Froome and Valverde catch up with the breakaway on the descent.
Working together they extend the gap to 45 seconds. Froome goes with a couple of kilometres to go, but can’t shake Valverde. Valverde beats Froome in the final sprint.
Pinot loses just over a minute to Valverde and Froome but that should be enough with only the TT tomorrow.
Kennaugh after his crash drops back to 15th. He will be assessed overnight.
| Stage Winner: Alejandro Valverde (MOV) | | Red Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Points Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Mountain Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Young Riders Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Team award: Movistar |
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Thibaut Pinot | British Airways | 75h02'07 | | 2 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | + 3'11 | | 3 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | + 5'21 | | 4 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | + 6'32 | | 5 | Sergio Henao | Team Sky | + 18'13 | | 6 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | + 18'57 | | 7 | Nicolas Roche | Team Saxo Bank | + 19'48 | | 8 | Franco Pellizotti | Astana Pro Team | + 20'32 | | 9 | Rafal Majka | Team Saxo Bank | + 21'23 | | 10 | Laurens Ten Dam | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | + 22'38 | | 15 | Peter Kennaugh | British Airways | + 28'04 |
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Posted on 20-07-2014 22:59
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Stage 21: 32.6 km Individual TT
Excellent: Pinot, Kennaugh
Very Good: Gallopin, Chaves
Good: Others.
BA plan: Finish within 3 minutes of Froome. Simple?
At the 1st time check.
Froome leads the favourites by 8 seconds ahead of Pinot. Valverde 28 seconds back ahead of his teammate Quintana who is 40 seconds back.
The current stage leader Vasil Kiryienka was 28 seconds behind at this point.
2nd timecheck.
Froome comes through 38 seconds ahead of the current stage leader Thomas De Gendt. Pinot is 14 seconds behind. Valverde 54 seconds back and Quintana 1 minute 19 seconds back.
Just 10 km to go for Pinot and his debut Grand Tour win.
3rd and final timecheck.
Froome nearly catches Quintana for a stunning performance, he has probably won the stage. Pinot is struggling, he can’t lose it from here can he?
Froome finishes in a time of 42 minutes 16 seconds. Valverde next of the favourites 1 minute 9 seconds down, Pinot really hit the wall at the end finishing 1 minute 36 seconds down, Quintana 1 minute 48 seconds down.
Now I know why I wanted that lead, but Pinot wins the Vuelta!
Happy with Kennaugh's 14th. He had to support Pinot to the detriment of his own race at least twice and he lost time when he crashed too. A top 10 would have been entirety reasonable.
Sorry, got carried away and forgot to take the screenshot!
| Stage Winner: Chris Froome (SKY) | | Red Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Points Jersey: Chris Froome (SKY) | | Mountain Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Young Riders Jersey: Thibaut Pinot (BAY) | | Team award: Movistar |
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Thibaut Pinot | British Airways | 75h46'00 | | 2 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | + 1'34 | | 3 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | + 5'33 | | 4 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | + 6'05 | | 5 | Sergio Henao | Team Sky | + 18'13 | | 6 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | + 18'16 | | 7 | Nicolas Roche | Team Saxo Bank | + 19'43 | | 8 | Franco Pellizotti | Astana Pro Team | + 21'07 | | 9 | Rafal Majka | Team Saxo Bank | + 21'18 | | 10 | Laurens Ten Dam | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | + 22'55 | | 14 | Peter Kennaugh | British Airways | + 28'07 |
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Posted on 21-07-2014 02:52
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YEAAAAAA
baseballlover312, 06-03-14 : "Nuke Moscow...Don't worry Russia, we've got plenty of love to go around your cities"
Sarah Palin, 08-03-14 (CPAC, on Russian aggression) : "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke"
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Posted on 22-07-2014 13:00
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The user formerly known as 'The Schleck Fan'
Gracias Alberto.
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Posted on 27-07-2014 21:17
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[Thanks Schleck Fan and 547984. Looking forward to the Tour de France next year.
Last race of this year will be the redone Tour of Britain. I’m redoing this as in career mode it was a bit daft. We won every stage and the overall. Hopefully it’ll be harder fought this time round.]
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Posted on 27-07-2014 21:22
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2014 Tour of Britain British Airways - Welcome to Yorkshire squad.
Adam Blythe
Jonathan Brownlee
Sebastian Langeveld
Phillip Lavery
Daniel Lloyd
Thomas Murray
Taylor Phinney
Diego Ulissi
Objective is Top 3. Not sure if it'll be Ulissi or Phinney that we'll use for that. Probably Ulissi, but we'll keep Phinney as an option.
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Posted on 28-07-2014 11:34
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Stage 1: 199.8 km Flat
BA plan: Not sure whether Phinney or Ulissi is team leader. See if we can get Blythe near the front for the sprint.
Murray covers Blythe, Lloyd covers Ulissi. Water shared round
Breakaway: L Grivell-Millor (RCJ), O Doull (SKT), M Holmes (RAL), M Jones (IGS)
Cannondale, Sky and British Airways bring back the breakaway.
Sprint train formed. Cannondale and British Airways. Other sprinters just hang on.
Blythe gets a great lead out from Murray and takes the win confortably.
| Stage Winner: Adam Blythe (BAY) | | Red Jersey: Adam Blythe (BAY) | | Points Jersey: Adam Blythe (BAY) | | Mountain Jersey: Luke Grivell-Mellor (RCJ) | | Young Riders Jersey: Adam Blythe (BAY) | | Team award: British Airways |
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Adam Blythe | British Airways | 4h26'48 | | 2 | Ramunas Navardauskas | Garmin Sharp | + 13 | | 3 | Luke Grivell-Mellor | Rapha Condor - JLT | + 21 | | 4 | Simon Clarke | Orica GreenEdge | + 23 | | 5 | Matthew Holmes | Team Raleigh | + 25 | | 6 | Daniel Lloyd | British Airways | + 27 | | 7 | Dario Cataldo | Team Sky | s.t. | | 8 | Daniel Schorn | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | 9 | Sam Bennett | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | 10 | Sebastian Langeveld | British Airways | s.t. |
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