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Petronas - Monster Energy; The end of an era
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 20-10-2012 14:13
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Great win for Breschel.  |
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 20-10-2012 14:39
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Great win!
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| dienblad |
Posted on 20-10-2012 14:44
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Thank you guys!!
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| roturn |
Posted on 20-10-2012 14:44
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Great GC win with Breschel.
Weird to see Eisel/Farrar in a front group on Willunga Hill and good that you had enough time on Pozzato.
Looks like yet another successful story.
And last but not least a very big congratulation for being the longest story ever on PCM Daily??? Not 100% sure but you just passed my combined PCM11/PCM12 Garmin story by 1 page. |
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| dienblad |
Posted on 20-10-2012 14:48
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Thanks a lot!!! I know that the key thing in a long lasting story is the motivation. Right now, I'm motivated to make it 200 pages. When I achieve that (also thanks to all the followers who post replies!!!!), I'll see what's next.
Tour of Langkawi is next!
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| dienblad |
Posted on 20-10-2012 15:03
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Tour de Langkawi
Next stop is the Tour de Langkawi. It's the first time we participate in this Malaysian race, and the reason is obvious: our sponsor Petronas is a Malaysian based company.
Last year, Polish Sylwester Szmyd won the GC.
Startlist
Spoiler AG2R
1. T.Pinot
2. Y.Barbas
3. N.Bonnet
4. M.Claude
5. P.Delarue
6. S.Houanard
7. J.Peraud
8. M.Perget
Astana
11. Y.Trofimov
12. F.Duarte
13. D.Gruzdev
14. M.Izbasarov
15. Y.Nepomnyachshiy
16. M.Nieve
17. N.Ribeiro
18. J.Serpa
AndalucÃa
21. A.Txurruka
22. V.Celis
23. J.Etxarri
24. Ó.GarcÃa-Casarrubios
25. D.Gutiérrez Gutiérrez
26. F.J.López
27. A.Palomares
28. E.Ruiz
Movistar
31. R.Plaza
32. A.Amador
33. H.González
34. H.Guerra
35. D.Gutiérrez Palacios
36. C.Oyarzun
37. Ó.Pujol
38. R.Valls
Acqua & Sapone
41. C.Sarmiento
42. M.Busato
43. C.Corioni
44. F.Ginanni
45. M.Lorenzetto
46. A.Petacchi
47. F.Sabatini
48. F.Taborre
Cofidis
51. A.Geniez
52. S.Dumoulin
53. K.Kriit
54. A.Lemair
55. G.Lequatre
56. D.Monier
57. A.Passeron
58. G.Van Keirsbulck
Saur
61. B.Feillu
62. J.Bauer
63. J.Bideau
64. J.Cabreira
65. R.Chtioui
66. J.A.Jørgensen
67. D.Le Lay
68. M.Rieu
M&M's
71. T.Bonnin
72. J.Ariesen
73. T.Berkhout
74. M.Bos
75. S.Clement
76. T.Hupond
77. T.Leezer
78. B.Tankink
FDJ
81. D.Teklehaimanot
82. A.Blain
83. S.Chainel
84. D.Champion
85. M.Ladagnous
86. A.Petit
87. C.Pineau
88. A.Vichot
Colombia es Pasión
91. J.Pantano
92. J.Cano
93. J.Cardona
94. L.Laverde
95. W.Pedraza
96. W.Perez
97. A.RamÃrez
98. J.Salazar
Farnese Vini
101. A.Bisolti
102. O.Bulgarelli
103. V.Duma
104. A.Kvachuk
105. A.Pakthusov
106. D.Ricci Bitti
107. F.Savini
108. D.di Girolamo
Accent.Jobs
111. B.De Clercq
112. D.Cappelle
113. D.Commeyne
114. B.De Schrooder
115. K.Lisabeth
116. M.Neyens
117. F.Robert
118. J.Vanlandschoot
Colnago
121. S.Stortoni
122. M.Cattaneo
123. A.Donati
124. M.Frapporti
125. F.Gilioli
126. D.Loria
127. G.Palumbo
128. D.Viganò
Petronas
131. J.Posthuma
132. J.Babbel
133. G.Bernard
134. T.Dumoulin
135. M.Kittel
136. P.Ligthart
137. M.Maaskant
138. S.Rosseler
Androni
141. J.Monsalve
142. A.Bertolini
143. R.Chiarini
144. V.Garofalo
145. A.Grendene
146. L.Moser
147. L.Pierfelici
148. E.Vona
Itera
151. I.Rovny
152. A.Bauer
153. A.Khatuntsev
154. S.Klimov
155. A.Klyuev
156. N.Novikov
157. A.Serov
158. A.Tsatevitch
Spidertech
161. C.Meier
162. R.Anderson
163. P.Cortes
164. S.Cossette
165. C.Evans
166. J.Jufré
Kingspan
171. E.Oliphant
172. J.Burke
173. M.Cronshaw
174. A.Delattre
175. J.Hunt
176. J.Moss
Differdange
181. G.Bernard
182. D.Berscheid
183. M.Hebik
184. C.Heymans
185. R.Hunter
186. A.Kunitski
187. S.Siedler
188. T.Thill
Our team
The favourites
*** Thibaut Pinot (AG2R), Fabio Duarte (Astana), Amets Txurukka (AndalucÃa).
** Rubén Plaza (Movistar), Cayetano Sarmiento (Acqua et Sapone), Brice Feillu (Saur).
* Alexandre Geniez (Cofidis), Yuri Trofimov (Astana), Rafael Valls (Movistar).
Our goals
We have absolutely no GC-ambitions here. We focus on the flat stages, to take mass sprint wins with Marcel Kittel. We think that this is the easiest way to satisfy our sponsor!
Stage 1
The first stage from Dataran Lang to Kuah is only 93 kilometres short and the route is, except for a few short climbs, almost pancake flat. So this is option 1 to win a stage.
And the team works hard to let the stage end in a mass sprint. We manage to set up the best sprint train of all the teams, and with 1500 metres to go, final lead out man Pim Ligthart launches Marcel Kittel perfectly. With this great work by the team, our German sprinter has no problems winning the sprint and takes his first victory of the season in his first race.
Davy Commeyne (Accent.Jobs) finishes in a surprising 2nd place, with Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) in third.
Results
| 1 |  Marcel Kittel | Petronas - Monster Energy | 2h02'47 | | 2 |  Davy Commeyne | Accent.Jobs - Veranda's Willems | s.t. | | 3 |  Samuel Dumoulin | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 4 |  Fabio Sabatini | Acqua & Sapone | s.t. | | 5 | Andrea Grendene | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 6 | Sebastian Siedler | Differdange - Spuerkeess | s.t. | | 7 |  Matt Cronshaw | Kingspan - Alpro | s.t. | | 8 |  Tom Leezer | M&M's | s.t. | | 9 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Acqua & Sapone | s.t. | | 10 | Pim Ligthart | Petronas - Monster Energy | s.t. |
Today's winner
Word from the DS
Perfect start, and a very happy sponsor!
Edited by dienblad on 20-10-2012 15:04
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 20-10-2012 15:09
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Nice start 
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 20-10-2012 15:49
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It's good to see that the team took a good start, with a change of sponsor, it's always a question mark. The team confirmed the talent lay in their riders, great work  |
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| Daggen |
Posted on 20-10-2012 23:08
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really good start. always nice to see a scandinavian rider win
EDIT: With this i meant TDU. Great results in TDLangkwi as well
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 20-10-2012 23:10
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Great start from Kittel! Blew the opposition away!
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 20-10-2012 23:32
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Arashiro won the TDU KOM
oh... and well done with Breschel and Kittel 
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 21-10-2012 11:00
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Great win. I hope the sprinting problems will be over for this season. |
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| dienblad |
Posted on 21-10-2012 11:01
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Stage 2
With Marcel Kittel in the leaders jersey, the 2nd stage of the Tour de Langkawi brings the riders from Kangar to Butterworth. The stage is 173 kilometres long and features some short hills.
With the other teams not helping us (well, you can't blame them as the sprinters got destroyed in yesterday's sprint....), the BOTD gets lucky today. As we miscalculate our chase, the 9 riders of the BOTD will sprint for the stage win. Saur - Sojasuns Tunesian rider Rafaa Chtioui is the fastest of the 9 and takes his first win in 4 years. The 2nd place goes to Claudio Corioni (Acqua et Sapone) and the 3rd to Alessandro Donati (Colnago). Kittel wins the sprint for the 10th place at '46. Because of this gap, Chtioui takes over the GC-lead.
Results
| 1 |  Rafaâ Chtioui | Saur - Sojasun | 4h08'11 | | 2 | Claudio Corioni | Acqua & Sapone | s.t. | | 3 | Alessandro Donati | Colnago - CSF Inox | s.t. | | 4 |  Javier Etxarri | AndalucÃa - Catalunya | s.t. | | 5 | Kenny Lisabeth | Accent.Jobs - Veranda's Willems | s.t. | | 6 |  Ryan Anderson | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 7 | Alexis Delattre | Kingspan - Alpro | s.t. | | 8 |  Wilmar Perez | Colombia es Pasión - Café de Colombia | s.t. | | 9 |  Tom Thill | Differdange - Spuerkeess | s.t. | | 10 | Marcel Kittel | Petronas - Monster Energy | + 46 |
Today's winner
Stage 3
Chance of plans today. We want to be in the BOTD, so we don't have to chase the BOTD. After a failed attempt by Tom Dumoulin, it's the nestor of the team that makes it to the BOTD: Sébastien Rosseler. Our Belgian veteran and his 8 breakaway buddies create a maximum margin of 4 minutes, with Suar-Sojasun doing the work in the peloton. But with better sprinters than him in the BOTD, Rosseler decides to attack 45km before finish place Sitiawan.
He quickly leads by 1 minute, but then the 8 start to reel him in slowly. And with 10km to go, he gets caught. As we saw this coming, we formed a long sprint train with 15km to go, and our domestiques worked their asses off to catch the BOTD. But it is very, very close, as Marcel Kittel overtakes Evan Oliphant (Kingspan) and Alexander Khatuntsev (Itera) with only 200 metres to go!
So the 2nd stage win for Marcel Kittel in Malaysia, with Chtioui still in yellow. But the next 2 stages will shake up the GC, as they finish in Cameron Highlands and Genting Highlands.
Results
| 1 | Marcel Kittel | Petronas - Monster Energy | 2h58'23 | | 2 | Evan Oliphant | Kingspan - Alpro | s.t. | | 3 |  Alexander Khatuntsev | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 4 | Andrea Grendene | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 5 | Marco Frapporti | Colnago - CSF Inox | s.t. | | 6 | Cédric Pineau | FDJ | s.t. | | 7 |  Martin Hebik | Differdange - Spuerkeess | s.t. | | 8 | Matt Cronshaw | Kingspan - Alpro | s.t. | | 9 | Davy Commeyne | Accent.Jobs - Veranda's Willems | s.t. | | 10 | Davide Ricci Bitti | Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli | s.t. |
Today's winner
GC
| 1 | Rafaâ Chtioui | Saur - Sojasun | 9h09'01 | | 2 | Marcel Kittel | Petronas - Monster Energy | + 26 | | 3 | Claudio Corioni | Acqua & Sapone | + 40 | | 4 | Alessandro Donati | Colnago - CSF Inox | + 46 | | 5 | Samuel Dumoulin | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 50 | | 6 | Alexander Khatuntsev | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 7 | Ryan Anderson | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 8 | Evan Oliphant | Kingspan - Alpro | + 52 | | 9 | Davy Commeyne | Accent.Jobs - Veranda's Willems | + 54 | | 10 | Martin Hebik | Differdange - Spuerkeess | s.t. |
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| dienblad |
Posted on 21-10-2012 11:02
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FreitasPCM wrote:
Great win. I hope the sprinting problems will be over for this season.
Don't forget that Kittel is the only sprinter with Sp above 80 (85) and in a pretty good form. We'll judge this after the WT-races.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 21-10-2012 13:15
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Kittel is off to a good start! I see him winning Milan San Remo, maybe |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 21-10-2012 13:28
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It looks easy for Marcel. |
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| dienblad |
Posted on 21-10-2012 16:34
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@ Ian Butler: He won't race Milano - San Remo, but maybe next season.
@ Miguel98: As said, the opponents aren't good enough 
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 21-10-2012 21:55
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yet another nice victory for kittel. shame about stage 2
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| Daggen |
Posted on 22-10-2012 08:47
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Marcel Kittel! The next Cavendish but with better hill stats |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 22-10-2012 14:16
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Kittel looking in good form |
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