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| valverde321 |
Posted on 19-03-2010 00:05
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you have a strong team by the sounds of it for this race. That should be good for a win maybe? you`ve got grabsh too who might surprise if he has a decent flat and cobbles stat. Good luck. |
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| MrSpartacus |
Posted on 19-03-2010 06:13
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This looks realy good. Velits are doing very well! Keep ut the good work!  |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 19-03-2010 08:29
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valverde321 wrote:
you have a strong team by the sounds of it for this race. That should be good for a win maybe? you`ve got grabsh too who might surprise if he has a decent flat and cobbles stat. Good luck.
Thanks valverde!You´re right our team should be able to get the win there |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 19-03-2010 08:29
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MrSpartacus wrote:
This looks realy good. Velits are doing very well! Keep ut the good work!
Thanks a lot,good to hear that! |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 19-03-2010 09:13
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mr spartacus long time no see. |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 19-03-2010 12:03
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Scheldeprijs
We hope for a great result by Eisel,that´s for sure!De Waele is our biggest rival there and his team is strong but our team must be stronger and so we are optimistic for today.Especially the last part of the race where many cobblestone sections will wait for us could be decisive
First of all we sent Jan Ghyselinck in today´s break!On the first cobblestone section he could get a small gap to the other escapes but in the end they were all caught with more than 70 kilometres to go
With 50 kilometres to go the pack was divided up into many groups.Most of our team could stay in front together with De Waele and his team-mates
After 10 kilometres in this group Guldhammer and Ghyselinck couldn´t hang on anymore
Next one was Grabsch who couldn´t stay there anymore but he did a great job keeping the pace really high there!Eisel,Goss,Sieberg and Bak were still in front
Short time later Sieberg and Eeckhout were leave behind!But our team was still in front with 3 riders!
As I already said our team were still there with 3 riders.Eisel,Goss and Lars Ytting Bak while De Waele had no team-mate left there just like Van Hecke who was leading the group
Next one who could not keep up the high speed was Bak but he also did an amazing job today!
With 12 kilometres to go it was up to Matthew Goss to support his team-mate and team-captain Bernhard Eisel!
And then with only 8 kilometres to go Eisel made his move!This looked quite good but could De Waele counter that?Matthew Goss´job is done for the moment!
With 5 kilometres to go Eisel was still in front while Goss could stay in this chasing group.Is Da Waele already bushed??
No just a few moment later he started an amazing move.It was so powerful and fast that we thought he even could reach Eisel!
But it was too late!Eisel were already at the finish line and he had no energy left for celebrating his great victory!This was just a fantastic team performance today
Da Waele became second in the end 1 minute and 21 seconds behind Bernhard Eisel
Wow!Goss could stay there the whole time with Van Hecke but he lost the sprint for the podium.Still an amazing job by him today!I think we can be happy and optimstic for Paris-Roubix ´cause Bak took the 5th place;Sieberg became 9th!!Great results for our team
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| bfreire |
Posted on 19-03-2010 12:22
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nice win with eisel
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 19-03-2010 16:28
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bfreire wrote:
nice win with eisel
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Posted on 19-03-2010 17:00
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Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco
Stage 4 : Eibar - Güenes
The 4th stage there in Spain is another hard one.Of course Peter Velits wants to get some points again also when there´s no one who could be dangerous for him in this competition but sure is sure!In the end there are some small uphill sections,we will see if there is some action
Velits was again in the break and he could get 21 points today!That means he had 70 points overall!
With only 7 kilometres to go on the last short uphill section of today´s stage Michael Albasini made a move which was probably very surprising for everyone ´cause no one went after him!Well,maybe they didn´t take him serious?
He was still in front by 30 seconds with 3,6 kilometres to go!Looks like another great performance of our team
Behind the stage leader Albasini,the sprint began with Rogers
That´s it for Michael Albasini!Great stage win for him,up to here he improved his shape a lot for the spring classics next week!
The sprint for the second and third position is also really exciting.Rodriguez the best sprinter in the last stages was in front while Michael Rogers could stay in his slipstream.This group came 36 seconds behind Albasini,that means he can improve his position in the overall;he´s 3rd now!!
Rodriguez took the second place while Rogers even became third!!Great stage for us
Stage results
| 1 | Michael Albasini | Team HTC - Columbia | 4h23'28 | | 2 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 36 | | 3 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 4 | Daniel Moreno | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 5 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 6 | David De la Fuente | Astana | s.t. | | 7 | Rinaldo Nocentini | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 8 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 9 | Fabian Wegmann | Team Milram | s.t. | | 10 | Philippe Gilbert | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 11 | David López | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 12 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 13 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 14 | Cyril Dessel | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 15 | Rubén Pérez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 16 | Murilo Fischer | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 17 | Pavel Brutt | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 18 | Ángel Vicioso | Andalucía Cajasur | s.t. | | 19 | Rodrigo García | Xacobeo - Galicia | s.t. | | 20 | Rigoberto Urán | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | 16h49'35 | | 2 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 3 | Michael Albasini | Team HTC - Columbia | + 15 | | 4 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | + 48 | | 5 | Franco Pellizotti | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 6 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 51 | | 7 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | + 1'02 | | 8 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 9 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 1'24 | | 10 | Juan Manuel Gárate | Rabobank | s.t. | | 11 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 12 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 13 | David De la Fuente | Astana | + 1'39 | | 14 | Sergueï Ivanov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 15 | Manuel Vázquez | Andalucía Cajasur | s.t. | | 16 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 2'09 | | 17 | Christophe Le Mével | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 18 | Philippe Gilbert | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 2'16 | | 19 | David Arroyo | Caisse d'Epargne | + 2'37 | | 20 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | + 3'04 |
Points
| 1 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | 79 | | 2 | Michael Albasini | Team HTC - Columbia | 62 | | 3 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 56 |
KoM
| 1 | Peter Velits | Team HTC - Columbia | 70 | | 2 | René Mandri | AG2R La Mondiale | 24 | | 3 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | 22 |
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Posted on 19-03-2010 20:12
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Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco
Stage 5 : Güenes - Zalla
After an amazing tour by our team and even two stage wins there´s only one stage left before the time trial on stage 6 will come!That means it´s the last chance for an attack or something like this.Albasini and Rogers have a great position in the overall and we hope that they can hang on today.The favorites should be Valverde,Cunego,Barredo and Voigt
We have to thank Peter Velits for his amazing shows in this tour!Again he could get many points!This time he was able to collect even 30 points which means he comes exactly on 100 points overall;of course he won the KoM competition
It was really hard today to take good screenshots because the moments when the favorites attacked very all very strange for me!So I only can show you the leading group with only 6,4 kilometres to go.Voigt and Barredo could get a gap to their first chasing group
De La Fuente,Cunego,Valverde and Pellizotti were in this chasing group
Just a few seconds behind them was Lövkvist,he lost many seconds on the downhill!
Albasini and Rogers were in one group with Luis Leon Sanchez and Popovych almost 1 minute behind Voigt and Barredo
With only 2 kilometres to go Rogers and Albasini made another move to get some seconds back
Jens Voigt took the stage win in front of Barredo and De La Fuente
While Albasini came as 8th to the finish in front of Rogers 57 seconds behind the stage winner.Albasini lost a few positions in the overall but he´s still 5th!
Stage results
| 1 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | 4h33'09 | | 2 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | s.t. | | 3 | David De la Fuente | Astana | s.t. | | 4 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 5 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 6 | Franco Pellizotti | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 7 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 42 | | 8 | Michael Albasini | Team HTC - Columbia | + 57 | | 9 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 10 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | s.t. | | 11 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 12 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 13 | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | s.t. | | 14 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 15 | Philippe Gilbert | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 21h22'44 | | 2 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | + 48 | | 3 | Franco Pellizotti | Liquigas - Doimo | s.t. | | 4 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 57 | | 5 | Michael Albasini | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'12 | | 6 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 1'24 | | 7 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'33 | | 8 | David De la Fuente | Astana | + 1'39 | | 9 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 1'59 | | 10 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 2'21 | | 11 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 12 | Manuel Vázquez | Andalucía Cajasur | + 2'36 | | 13 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | + 3'04 | | 14 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 3'06 | | 15 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | + 3'11 |
Points
| 1 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | 84 | | 2 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 71 | | 3 | Michael Albasini | Team HTC - Columbia | 70 |
KoM
| 1 | Peter Velits | Team HTC - Columbia | 100 | | 2 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | 24 | | 3 | René Mandri | AG2R La Mondiale | 24 |
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Posted on 19-03-2010 21:55
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Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco
Stage 6 : Zalla CRI
Welcome to the last stage in Spain!As I already said this will be a time trial about 25 kilometres.Cunego should win the tour but I´m sure he wants to shine there,too.Rogers is one of today´s favorites while Albasini will try everything to stay in the top 5!
Nibali was one of the first setting a good time.With 37´04 he´s the leader for the moment
After the great time by Nibali the German guy Voigt came with a good time ,too.He sets the same time like Nibali!
Luis Leon Sanchez was motivated for this time trial!His ride was great and fast.He is 7 seconds faster than Nibali and Voigt
Popovych was the next one and his time was amazing!He could set a new best time with 36´45,that means he is 12 seconds faster than Sanchez
Then came Michael Rogers with a fantastic time ,too!In the end he couldn´t beat Popovych´s time but he was only 11 seconds behind him and that means one second faster than the Spaniard Sanchez
Lövkvist did a great job today but he couldn´t take the lead.Popovych,Rogers and Sanchez were faster than him,he´s 16 seconds behind Popovych who was still leading!
Albasini gave all his power into this ride and I think we should be happy with a 26th place in the end loosing only 1 minute and 11 seconds to the stage winner
Now it was up Valverde to show his strength.He should be able to set a good time.And it was amazing to see him today ´cause he was 7 seconds faster than Popovych.Valverde took the stage win but the question was if Cunego would loose almost a minute to Valverde?
Cunego got a 9th place today loosing 29 seconds to Valverde that means he won this year´s Vuelta Cicilsta al Pais Vasco!Albasini became 6th in the overall after the great time trial of Lövkvist.That´s still a fantastic result for us while Velits also won the KoM competition
Stage results
| 1 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | 36'38 | | 2 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 7 | | 3 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 18 | | 4 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 19 | | 5 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 23 | | 6 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | + 26 | | 7 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 8 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | + 29 | | 9 | Ivan Basso | Liquigas - Doimo | + 34 | | 10 | Marco Pinotti | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 11 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 43 | | 12 | Marzio Bruseghin | Caisse d'Epargne | s.t. | | 13 | Franco Pellizotti | Liquigas - Doimo | + 48 | | 14 | David Millar | Garmin - Transitions | + 51 | | 15 | Gustavo César Veloso | Xacobeo - Galicia | + 52 | | 16 | Kim Kirchen | Team Katusha | + 57 | | 17 | Haimar Zubeldia | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 18 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 1'00 | | 19 | Linus Gerdemann | Team Milram | + 1'02 | | 20 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 1'03 |
Overall
| 1 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 21h59'51 | | 2 | Alejandro Valverde | Caisse d'Epargne | + 19 | | 3 | Franco Pellizotti | Liquigas - Doimo | + 1'07 | | 4 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | + 1'11 | | 5 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | + 1'27 | | 6 | Michael Albasini | Team HTC - Columbia | + 1'54 | | 7 | Carlos Barredo | Quick·Step | + 1'58 | | 8 | Yaroslav Popovych | Team RadioShack | + 1'59 | | 9 | Luis León Sánchez | Caisse d'Epargne | + 2'11 | | 10 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | + 2'41 | | 11 | David De la Fuente | Astana | + 2'45 | | 12 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia | + 2'55 | | 13 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | + 3'01 | | 14 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Doimo | + 3'08 | | 15 | Philippe Gilbert | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 3'53 |
Points
| 1 | Joaquím Rodríguez | Team Katusha | 84 | | 2 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Farnese Vini | 74 | | 3 | Michael Albasini | Team HTC - Columbia | 70 |
KoM
| 1 | Peter Velits | Team HTC - Columbia | 100 | | 2 | Jens Voigt | Team Saxo Bank | 24 | | 3 | René Mandri | AG2R La Mondiale | 24 |
U-25
| 1 | Arkaitz Durán | Footon - Servetto | 22h02'32 | | 2 | Kevin Seeldraeyers | Quick·Step | + 3'24 | | 3 | Jakob Fuglsang | Team Saxo Bank | + 3'25 | | 4 | Tiago Machado | Team RadioShack | + 3'26 | | 5 | Tejay Van Garderen | Team HTC - Columbia | + 3'26 |
Best team
| 1 | Caisse d'Epargne | 66h07'03 | | 2 | Liquigas - Doimo | + 2'03 | | 3 | Team HTC - Columbia | + 2'37 |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 19-03-2010 22:06
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you definately have kom clinched |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 19-03-2010 22:06
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Good news for you!I already played Paris-Roubaix and it didn´t crash in the end,that means there will be a huge report tomorrow |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 19-03-2010 22:07
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valverde321 wrote:
you definately have kom clinched
Yes it wasn´t really close in the end I think |
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Posted on 19-03-2010 23:17
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Batista15 wrote:
Good news for you!I already played Paris-Roubaix and it didn´t crash in the end,that means there will be a huge report tomorrow
Oh yah !  |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 20-03-2010 10:32
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We sent the same team to France except Gert Dockx who will be replaced by Saramotins!Of course our team-captain is Bernhard Eisel while Matthew Goss and Bak want to help him getting another great result.After the great victory at the Scheldeprijs by Eisel we´re very optimistic for today also when the competition is much stronger than in Blegium
Team Columbia for Paris Roubaix
 Bernhard Eisel
 Matthew Goss
 Jan Ghyselinck
 Lars Ytting Bak
Rasmus Guldhammer
 Aleksejs Saramotins
 Marcel Sieberg
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 20-03-2010 14:50
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Just a Q since I want to improve on my story writing but do you Italisize all of your writing or mybe what do you do that makes it look the way it does.
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 20-03-2010 17:07
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valverde321 wrote:
Just a Q since I want to improve on my story writing but do you Italisize all of your writing or mybe what do you do that makes it look the way it does.
What do you extactly mean with Italisize? |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 20-03-2010 17:10
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Do you mean the cursive style? |
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| Batista15 |
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Let´s talk about the competition and the biggest favorites!
Well,we don´t know who will be the biggest favorite for today but one thing we can say:There are many favorites!There is for example Tom Boonen the winner of Ronde van Vlaanderen and also winner of Paris-Roubaix 2009!He showed us that his shape is great but can he repeat his victory?
Another great rider is Fabian Cancellara the winner of Gent-Wevelgem.He could win in Belgium with an amazing performance!But there are many more like Pozzato,Ballan or Flecha who might have chances to take the win there!
Here is a list with the biggest favorites
Johan Van Summeren
Tom Boonen
Leif Hoste
Stijn Devolder
Nick Nuyens
 Alessandro Ballan
Filippo Pozzato
 Sylvain Chavanel
 Juan Antonio Flecha
 Edvald Boasson Hagen
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