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SpiderTech - Cervélo | A sad ending
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| fernando97 |
Posted on 27-09-2012 19:15
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Thanks for the comments guys!
Volta a Catalunya Stage 4
Stage 4 of this years edition of the Volta a Catalunya, is quite hilly, with two 1st cat. climbs. Although this might sound hard, but the last 20kms are all downhill/flat.
After a slow start of the day, the usual daily break formed, the highest profile rider was Vacansoleil's Dutchie, Wout Poels. The 5-man break's other biggest name was wildcard team, Andalúcia's Gustavo Veloso. They quickly built up a great lead, which peaked at 7mins at the middle of the stage.
With 50kms to go at the foot of the first climb, Movistar upped the pace, and tried to reel in the BotD, which had a ca. 4:30 lead as they hit the steep percentages.
On the first climb nothing really interesting happened, the peloton closed with half of a minute to the break, but no attacks came. Unfortunately our riders were not feeling good, and struggled a bit to keep themselves in the first row.
The second 1st category climb, was basically the same, but the peloton gained a minute this time. At the top of the climb, some attacks came by the likes of Moreno, and Vandenbroeck. However these attacks weren't strong enough to get away. The Movistar train was way too strong to let these attacks stay away. Our spiders, were a bit behind, but hoped to recover on the descents.
Meanwhile the peloton was a bit nervous, the break kept it calm, and were preparing for the little group sprint. Who will be the deserving winner?
And Gustavo Veloso takes the stage after a fantastic effort in the breakaway! Great win by him! Poels takes the 2nd, and Saxo's Lund comes in 3rd. Martin Elmiger wins the mass-sprint for the 6th place, 1'12 down on the winner. The best spider was Clemson at the 12th place.
| 1 | Gustavo César Veloso | AndalucÃa | 5h23'19 | | 2 | Wout Poels | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | 4 | Alexander Kvachuk | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 5 | Jérémie Galland | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 6 | Martin Elmiger | AG2R La Mondiale | + 1'12 | | 7 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 8 | Marco Marcato | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 9 | Javier Moreno | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 10 | David Arroyo | Movistar Team | s.t. |
| 1 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | 19h15'10 | | 2 | Daniel Moreno | Katusha Team | + 1'06 | | 3 | John Gadret | AG2R La Mondiale | + 1'08 | | 4 | Luis León Sánchez | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 1'37 | | 5 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 6 | Daniel Navarro | Team Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | 7 | Igor Antón | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 1'52 | | 8 | Bauke Mollema | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 9 | John Clemson | SpiderTech - Cervélo | + 2'10 | | 10 | Winner Anacona | Lampre - ISD | + 2'17 |
Today we will award the efforts by our domestiques. They all did a terrifying job on protecting our leaders.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 27-09-2012 19:18
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Clemson still doing a good job in Spain. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 28-09-2012 09:20
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Lets hope that Clemson can keep his top ten  |
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| fernando97 |
Posted on 29-09-2012 21:29
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Miguel98 wrote:
Clemson still doing a good job in Spain.
sutty68 wrote:
Lets hope that Clemson can keep his top ten
The following stages aren't that hard, so let's hope for the best.
E3Prijs is coming up in an hour (or two )!  |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 29-09-2012 22:14
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I'm glad that this story is moving so smoothly and without any problems, it's a great idea and it's great to see it working out so well! I can't wait for my rider to start his races and earn his points
keep it up! |
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| fernando97 |
Posted on 29-09-2012 22:32
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E3 Prijs Vlaanderen Harelbeke
Favorites:
*** Boonen, Cancellara, Pye
** Flecha, Hushovd, Ballan
* Pozzato, Sagan, Boom
Here is our squad for the first cobbled classic of the year. Mike Pye is our main cobblestone specialist, and he'll lead the team. Canadian Van der Valde is our co-leader, but if Pye feels good, then he'll serve as a pure domestique.
This years course of the E3 starts with a nice flat run-in, until we reach the hills, and the main "part" of the race, the cobbled sections. The 2nd part will be really demanding, and the race will most likely be decide in a very select group sprint.
This years E3 started off pretty fast, as the first breaks too strong for the like of Team Sky, and they chased them down. However, after 30kms a break established themselves in front of the peloton, with the biggest names being Devolder and Puccio. After a while Katushas italian Luca Paolini joined them too.
The pace was a bit slow in the peloton until the first cobbled sections, but then OPQS turned up the pace a bit, and blew the peloton into pieces. Some pre-race favorites were caught behind the splits, but after the hill, on the descent they fought their way back into the peloton.
Meanwhile the peloton picked up the pace, thanks to Omega Pharma - Quickstep, in the break Paolini attacked a decided to do a big solo ride. His lead was really big (around 7mins), and didn't show signs of tireing.
At the 10km mark, Paolini was still in the lead and a ca. 20man chase group followed him with a 1min gap. Some really big names were missing, like Boonen or Sagan. Our 2 leaders were still there, so a double chance is there for us.
In the last kms Pye positioned himself on Breschel's and Hushovd's wheel. These 4 with Cancellara got a small gap on the others, and were just about to catch Paolini. Cancellara was probably the strongest of the riders, but he launched the earliest. Is he strong enough?
At the 1km mark Cancellara was still in the lead, and the others were also overtaking Paolini. What an unlucky race for the Italian! Pye is a bit behind, but he certainly didn't launched his sprint yet. Can he come a bit closer to Cancellara?
And with 500ms Mike gets a lot closer to the swissman, and his full speed is just incredible! Is there enough time for him to completely overtake, the swiss motor?
Yes, he has! Mike Pye wins his first PT classic! What an amazing sprint this was by the british machine! Amazing!!!!! Cancellara comes 2nd, and Italian Ballan takes 3rd after a great sprint.
| 1 | Mike Pye | SpiderTech - Cervélo | 5h09'53 | | 2 | Fabian Cancellara | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 3 | Alessandro Ballan | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 4 | Juan Antonio Flecha | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 5 | Thor Hushovd | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 6 | Matti Breschel | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 7 | Luca Paolini | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 8 | Sebastian Langeveld | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 9 | Lars Boom | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 10 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. |
Pye - 3 No words for this performance!
Van der Valde - 1 Without him, this win would have been impossible.
Edited by fernando97 on 04-10-2012 17:59
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 29-09-2012 22:33
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Its always nice to see your own rider doing so well |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 29-09-2012 22:40
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What a show off power by Pye! I don't know his age but if he's quite young he has a great career ahead of him! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 29-09-2012 22:42
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What a Brilliant victory both for Mike Pye and the team  |
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| fernando97 |
Posted on 29-09-2012 22:52
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Ian Butler wrote:
What a show off power by Pye! I don't know his age but if he's quite young he has a great career ahead of him!
Mike Pye
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Well, not too much unfortunately.
@sutty - Well he's not my especially own. He's baggieboys's rider. Thanks for commenting, it's really highly appreciated. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 29-09-2012 22:53
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fernando97 wrote:
Ian Butler wrote:
What a show off power by Pye! I don't know his age but if he's quite young he has a great career ahead of him!
Mike Pye
United Kingdom
17/04/1979
Well, not too much unfortunately.
@sutty - Well he's not my especially own. He's baggieboys's rider. Thanks for commenting, it's really highly appreciated.
baggieboy will be so happy to this result |
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 29-09-2012 22:59
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Epic win in E3! 
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| Welwyn |
Posted on 30-09-2012 00:06
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Wow! Any time you beat Canca is a massive win! |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 30-09-2012 07:39
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Too bad he's so old although, it's a bit more realistic, as experience is very helpful in cobbled races. |
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| fernando97 |
Posted on 30-09-2012 12:30
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sutty68 wrote:
baggieboy will be so happy to this result
I hope so.
fcancellara wrote:
Epic win in E3!
Thanks, I was really happy at the end!
Welwyn wrote:
Wow! Any time you beat Canca is a massive win!
Thanks, he is certainly a beast.
Ian Butler wrote:
Too bad he's so old although, it's a bit more realistic, as experience is very helpful in cobbled races.
I hope that he has some more years in the tank. |
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| andy222c |
Posted on 30-09-2012 14:18
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Wow! Great win
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 30-09-2012 14:22
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Great win for Pye. Btw, will Van Der Valde have a chance of leading at least 1 cobble race? |
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| Kritzo |
Posted on 30-09-2012 14:44
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Congratualations with the win!
Proud Member of the Leeds United Army!
RAFAL MAJKA |
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| fernando97 |
Posted on 30-09-2012 21:29
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andy222c wrote:
Wow! Great win
Thanks, it was a real big race, with a big fight at the end, I was so glad that I won!
Miguel98 wrote:
Great win for Pye. Btw, will Van Der Valde have a chance of leading at least 1 cobble race?
If Nick feels himself really good during the race, then he won't have to help Mike at all, he can ride for himself. But most likely Mike won"t support him, unless he has a really bad day. I hope the explanation was clear.
Kritzo wrote:
Congratualations with the win!
Thanks!
The next Volta a Catalunya stage will come up tomorrow! Stay tuned guys, and please support the Spiders! |
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| baggieboys32 |
Posted on 01-10-2012 02:28
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YEAAHHHHH!!!!! WOOOOHHHH!!!! 
Nice ride Fernando!
Always following, but my halls internet at uni means i can't get on often, brilliantto see this when i do!
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