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Petronas - Monster Energy; The end of an era
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| dienblad |
Posted on 15-09-2012 17:35
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Maddrengen wrote:
And you were hoping for top 10 
Top 10 was realistic, winning it not 
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| banyai2000 |
Posted on 15-09-2012 17:37
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dienblad wrote:
banyai2000 wrote:
I do not know this but you are free to read my story?
I've read it, but usually only post replies when it lasts a few weeks in the game, as there are so many 12-stories right now, and a lot of them stop pretty soon after they started....
But good luck with it, looks nice!
Thank You it will last a long time . |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 15-09-2012 19:35
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A shame Andy lost the red jersey, but i am sure he will soon get it back |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 15-09-2012 19:38
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Not a good day for Andy. Btw, what are Keinath stats? |
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| dienblad |
Posted on 16-09-2012 21:23
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Miguel98 wrote:
Not a good day for Andy. Btw, what are Keinath stats?
No screen, but according to the editor: Fl 66, Mo 73, DH 69, Co 58, TT 63, PRL 61, Sp 65, ACC 71, STA 67, RES 69, REC 68, Hi 72
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| dienblad |
Posted on 16-09-2012 21:40
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August summary
August 2013 started with Thomas Dekker winning the Tour de Pologne and stage wins by Andy Schleck and Jelle Vanendert in Burgos. Theo Bos won the Dutch Food Valley Classic and Martijn Maaskant his first WT-race in Plouay. Finally, Andy Schleck and Marcel Kittel won stages in La Vuelta.
Media awards
With 2 sprint wins in Poland and the win in the Vattenfall Cyclassics, Tom Boonen gets the rider of the month award.
Rankings
World Tour riders
Igor Antón drops from 1st to 4th. Andy Schleck is in the lead, closely followed by Philippe Gilbert and Robert Gesink. Nothing is decided yet.
World Tour teams
No doubt about it, Monster Energy - Subway is the best WT-team. Lotto and Katusha have switched places.
Continental Tour riders
Pisanellastoria's Enrico Rossi has jumped to the leading position, followed by Stijn Devolder and Cayetano Sarmiento.
Continental Tour teams
Vacansoleil stays in the lead, followed by Saur. Liquigas has had a good month and is in 3rd place.
CQ riders
Andy Schleck has jumped over Igor Antón. Fabian Cancellara is now in 3rd place.
CQ teams
What a surprise, Monster Energy - Subway in the lead, followed by Lotto and Saxo Bank.
Wins riders
Igor Antón has got 12 wins this season, 1 more than Fabian Cancellara. Cavendish, Hagen, Gesink and Rossi have got 9 wins.
Wins teams
And 7 more wins make 50 for us! Lotto is in 2nd, Saxo in 3rd.
Lots of wins, so you know what you're gonna get!!
Edited by dienblad on 16-09-2012 21:41
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| dienblad |
Posted on 16-09-2012 21:43
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September preview
With La Vuelta and the Settimana Ciclicista Lombarda still running, September is the month with the 2 Canadian WT-races and the World Championships.
Our goals
- Still winning La Vuelta.
- At least 1 Top 3 in the Canadian races.
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| alexanderlens |
Posted on 16-09-2012 21:48
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Good luck and you're doing great!
Guess who's back? 
Lets see how many friens are still around... |
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| dienblad |
Posted on 16-09-2012 21:49
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alexanderlens wrote:
Good luck and you're doing great!
Thanks!
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| dienblad |
Posted on 16-09-2012 22:10
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Stage 12
We leave the Pyrénées after 1 day, but stay in the region Catalunya, as today's stage finishes in Lleida. Although most of the route is downhill, except for 1 climb early in the stage, the stage is classified as hilly.
112km to go
After the early breakaway gets caught, Joost Posthuma attacks just before the foot of the only categorized climb of the day, the Coll de Boixols (15.4km at 4.9%). And when every single day, the BOTD consists of 8 riders or more, today, noone is interested to join the timetrial-specialist....
Posthuma arrives at the summit of the Boixols with a margin of 4 minutes to the peloton, but is wondering why he attacked......
31km to go
With the finish approaching, the energy disappears and Posthuma gets passed by BMC's Mauro Santambrogio. The Italian went in the counter attacked halfway the race, and dropped the Dutch rider on a small climb about 35km before the finish. He leads the peloton by 4'36, so a win looks certain.
Finish
And it is! Santambrogio takes the win in Lleida and gives his team the 2nd stage win in a row. 3'58 behind finish Stefan Denifl and Manuele Mori, who also attacked out of the peloton and passed Posthuma.
Joost Posthuma finishes just a few metres before the first riders of the peloton (the Lotto duo Hagen and Goss), 5'23 behind Santambrogio. Andy Schleck finishes in 7th, collecting some valuable points for the green jersey (winning that jersey is a sponsor goal). No time losses for the GC-contenders.
Results
| 1 |  Mauro Santambrogio | BMC Racing Team | 4h02'27 | | 2 |  Stefan Denifl | Red Bull - Cervélo | + 3'58 | | 3 | Manuele Mori | Lampre - Generali | s.t. | | 4 |  Joost Posthuma | Monster Energy - Subway | + 5'23 | | 5 |  Edvald Boasson Hagen | Lotto - Belisol | s.t. | | 6 |  Matthew Goss | Lotto - Belisol | s.t. | | 7 |  Andy Schleck | Monster Energy - Subway | s.t. | | 8 |  Peter Sagan | Monster Energy - Subway | s.t. | | 9 |  José Joaquín Rojas | Garmin - Barracuda | s.t. | | 10 | Giovanni Visconti | BMC Racing Team | s.t. |
GC
| 1 | Vincenzo Nibali | Radio Shack - Nissan | 50h15'01 | | 2 | Andy Schleck | Monster Energy - Subway | + 6 | | 3 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 9 | | 4 | Fränk Schleck | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step | + 1'43 | | 5 | Samuel Sánchez | Lampre - Generali | + 2'13 | | 6 | Carlos Barredo | Movistar Team | + 2'29 | | 7 | Giovanni Visconti | BMC Racing Team | + 2'35 | | 8 | José Herrada | Caja Rural | + 2'55 | | 9 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | + 3'12 | | 10 |  Jelle Vanendert | Monster Energy - Subway | + 3'49 |
Points
| 1 | Andy Schleck | Monster Energy - Subway | 113 | | 2 |  Mark Cavendish | Sky ProCycling | 96 | | 3 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Lotto - Belisol | 92 | | 4 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | 70 | | 5 | Giovanni Visconti | BMC Racing Team | 67 |
KOTM
| 1 |  Nadir Haddou | FDJ | 41 | | 2 | Paolo Tiralongo | Pro Team Astana | 38 | | 3 | Steve Houanard | AG2R La Mondiale | 32 | | 4 | Andy Schleck | Monster Energy - Subway | 31 | | 5 |  Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy | Pro Team Astana | 30 |
U25
| 1 |  Andrew Talansky | Radio Shack - Nissan | 50h22'57 | | 2 |  Jonathan Monsalve | Androni Giocattoli | + 9'47 | | 3 | Ángel Madrazo | Movistar Team | 12'57 | | 4 | Peter Sagan | Monster Energy - Subway | + 17'57 | | 5 | Higinio Fernández | Caja Rural | + 21'34 |
Teams
| 1 | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step | 150h03'16 | | 2 |  Saxo Bank SunGard | + 2'16 | | 3 |  BMC Racing Team | + 4'19 | | 4 | Red Bull - Cervélo | + 9'17 | | 5 | Radio Shack - Nissan | + 11'37 |
Today's winner
Word from the DS
To obad for Posthuma that noone wanted to join him in the attack. Strange.... He did a great job, but had no chance, as the route and the heat tired him too much.
Edited by dienblad on 16-09-2012 22:11
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 16-09-2012 23:42
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A World Tour 1-2 with Andy and the Team doing so well |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 17-09-2012 08:38
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The most epic story on Daily ever ? Well this is definitely up there
Great win in GP Ouest France Plouay, and the Vuelta GC is shaping up very excting. Looking forward to the next stages. Keep it up
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| dienblad |
Posted on 17-09-2012 09:14
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Alakagom wrote:
The most epic story on Daily ever ? Well this is definitely up there
Great win in GP Ouest France Plouay, and the Vuelta GC is shaping up very excting. Looking forward to the next stages. Keep it up
Really too much honour.....  For sure, the longest lasting and still continuing story, without breaks
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 17-09-2012 17:47
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Shame for Phostuma. He didn't have energy to hang in with Santambrogio. |
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 17-09-2012 19:44
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dienblad wrote:
Alakagom wrote:
The most epic story on Daily ever ? Well this is definitely up there
Great win in GP Ouest France Plouay, and the Vuelta GC is shaping up very excting. Looking forward to the next stages. Keep it up
Really too much honour..... For sure, the longest lasting and still continuing story, without breaks
And that is what makes a story epic!  12 months with the same motivation, I think I wouldn't be able! |
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| dienblad |
Posted on 18-09-2012 21:26
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Stage 13
Two smaller climbs in the second half of the stage make it a hilly one. 190 kilometres from Rincón de Soto to Burgos, in the region of Castillia y Leon and the last 30 kilometres are slightly descending. A stage for the sprinters, or a breakaway?
52km to go
With 52km to go, the question is answered: the BOTD will decide who wins the stage, as the margin is over 8 minutes and increasing. And present in this group is Tom Dumoulin. He is in great fitness and has a great daily form of +4, just as saving as much energy as possible. Together with Malacarne, Dupont, Rodríguez, Wren, Haussler, Belkov, Morabito (again), Pérez Arrieta, Eijssen, S. Clarke, Keinath (again), Haddou (again) and Rabon, he'll fight for the stage win.
17km to go
Pérez Arrieta and Rabon get dropped in the 2 climbs, and Davide Malacarne tried to attack with 30km to go but without succes. With 17km to go, both BMC-riders, Yannick Eijssen and Steve Morabito attack, joined by Cristopher Wren (Garmin).
6km to go
Tom Dumoulin feels that this is the one, and counters a few kilometres later, together with Nadir Haddou and Hubert Dupont. The 3 can bridge the gap and lead the 6 others by 40 seconds.
1km to go
Dumoulin is riding in 3rd place with less than 2km to go, behind Eijssen and Dupont. But the pace drops and the 6 chasing riders are closing in rapidly. And with a great sprinter as Heinric Haussler among these 6, the win isn't certain anymore for 1 of the 6 leaders.
So with 1400m to go, Dumoulin launches his sprint. Under the red banner, he is in the lead, closely followed by Morabito. But Haussler and Malacarne are already only a few metres behind...
Finish
Dumoulin (Sp 61) keeps leading until 200m to go. Then Europcars Davide Malacarne (Sp 70) passes him and takes the win in Burgos. Our young Dutch rider also gets passed by Nadir Haddou (Sp 69), so he has to settle with the 3rd place. But he was so close........
The peloton finishes at 9'29, with all the favourites in it.
Results
| 1 | Davide Malacarne | Team Europcar | 4h41'14 | | 2 | Nadir Haddou | FDJ | s.t. | | 3 | Tom Dumoulin | Monster Energy - Subway | s.t. | | 4 | Steve Morabito | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 5 |  Jackson Rodríguez | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 6 |  Nico Keinath | Sony Ericsson | s.t. | | 7 | Heinrich Haussler | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 | Hubert Dupont | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 9 | Simon Clarke | Qantas Airways | s.t. | | 10 | Tyler Wren | Garmin - Barracuda | s.t. |
Rankings
No (important) changes.
Today's winner
Word from the DS
Tom was so close to win it, so close...... I feel sorry for him, missing his most important stage with this close margin.
Tomorrow: Peña Cabarga!
Edited by dienblad on 18-09-2012 21:40
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 18-09-2012 21:33
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Shame for Dumoulin. Malacarne god damn you. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 18-09-2012 23:38
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So unlucky in the sprint 
But that looks like Dumoulin got second to me |
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| TimoCycling |
Posted on 19-09-2012 06:33
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Shame Dumoulin didn't win, but the others were to good at sprinting |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 19-09-2012 07:16
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Unfortunate for him. But he'll have other chances |
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