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Saur - Sojasun
valverde321
Posted on 03-10-2010 02:42
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Wow a 2nd. Hopefully the canadians can get these kind of results in my story.
And you took the points jersey.
Did you get bored of the WC and decide to play one quick stage of PCM before watching the finish?
Tuco the Ugly
Posted on 03-10-2010 03:07
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valverde321 wrote:
Wow a 2nd. Hopefully the canadians can get these kind of results in my story.
And you took the points jersey.
Did you get bored of the WC and decide to play one quick stage of PCM before watching the finish?
Well with Boonen, Petacchi, and Bennati not sprinting, Casper was probably the best sprint stat wise.
And yes.
Tuco the Ugly
Posted on 03-10-2010 22:49
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Tour Méditerranéen: Stage 3: Greasque - Six Fours: 107.5km
Despite some climbs, the third stage of the Tour Méditerranéen should come down to a bunch sprint. Given the terrain, a breakaway may have a chance, but Saur-Sojasun will work hard to protect the leader's jersey, worn by Cyril Lemoine after his great solo victory yesterday.
After several groups unsuccessfully tried to escape, the peloton, and specifically Saur-Sojasun, let a group of 13 riders loose. There was no one really of note, and the highest placed rider was Freddy Bichot (Bbox Bouygues Télécom) who was 20th at +54".
The break moving up the Côte de Mazaugues.
When the break reached the top of the the Côte de Mazaugues, they only had a lead of 1'14". Saur-Sojasun was keeping a tight leash on the break.
4 Saur-Sojasun riders working to protect Lemoine's jersey.
45km from the finish, Anthony Charteau (Bbox Bouygues Télécom), Paolo Longo Borghini (ISD - Neri), and Ronan Van Zandbeek (Van Vliet EBH Elshof) attacked from the peloton, trying to bridge to the break. They were able to do this, and at the final KOM point, 36km from the finish, had an advantage of 1'01" over the peloton.
An aggressive attack was launched by these three riders.
Ultimately, all the riders were brought together with 14.8km remaining. The flat finish of the stage did not allow the break riders to maintain their advantage. Barring a crash or a mechanical, Lemoine would wear his leader's jersey another day.
In the sprint finish, Japan's Yukiya Arashiro (Bbox Bouygues Télécom) bested the field to take the stage victory. Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) was coming up fast, but mistimed his final move.
Lemoine would finish safely in 11th.
Results:
1 Yukiya Arashiro Bbox Bouygues Télécom 2h34'38 2 Florian Vachon Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 3 Wesley Sulzberger Française des Jeux s.t. 4 Anthony Ravard AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 5 Jens Keukeleire Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 6 Paride Grillo CarmioOro NGC s.t. 7 Laurent Beuret CarmioOro NGC s.t. 8 Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team s.t. 9 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 10 Danilo Wyss BMC Racing Team s.t.
Spoiler
11 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun s.t. 12 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team s.t. 13 Ben Gastauer AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 14 HÃ¥kan Nilsson Continental Team Differdange s.t. 15 Jackson Stewart BMC Racing Team s.t. 16 Francis Mourey Française des Jeux s.t. 17 Jempy Drucker Continental Team Differdange s.t. 18 Carlo Scognamiglio ISD - Neri s.t. 19 Jean-Marc Bideau Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 20 Chad Beyer BMC Racing Team s.t. 21 Romain Hardy Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 22 Emanuele Vona ISD - Neri s.t. 23 Mickaël Buffaz Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 24 Freddy Bichot Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 25 Christian Poos Continental Team Differdange s.t. 26 John Murphy BMC Racing Team s.t. 27 Laurent Pichon Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 28 Florian Guillou Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 29 Yury Trofimov Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 30 Francesco Failli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 31 Julien Fouchard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 32 Pierpaolo De Negri ISD - Neri s.t. 33 Christophe Riblon AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 34 Giovanni Visconti ISD - Neri s.t. 35 Jure Kocjan CarmioOro NGC s.t. 36 Rony Martias Saur - Sojasun s.t. 37 Eduardo Gonzalo Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 38 Jonathan Hivert Saur - Sojasun s.t. 39 Olivier Peelman Continental Team Differdange s.t. 40 Yohann Gène Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 41 Pit Schlechter Continental Team Differdange s.t. 42 Alexander Kvachuk ISD - Neri s.t. 43 Cyrille Heymans Continental Team Differdange s.t. 44 Yohan Offredo Française des Jeux s.t. 45 Andrea Piechele CarmioOro NGC s.t. 46 Christophe Le Mével Française des Jeux s.t. 47 David Moncoutié Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 48 Anthony Charteau Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 49 Morten Knudsen Continental Team Differdange s.t. 50 Julien Simon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 51 Dimitri Kryvtsov ISD - Neri s.t. 52 Thomas Voeckler Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 53 Alexander Efimkin AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 54 Hubert Dupont AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 55 Rafaâ Chtioui Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 56 Paolo Longo Borghini ISD - Neri s.t. 57 Niels Brouzes Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 58 Anthony Delaplace Saur - Sojasun s.t. 59 Matthieu Boulo Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 60 Sébastien Joly Saur - Sojasun s.t. 61 Emanuele Sella CarmioOro NGC s.t. 62 Stefano Garzelli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 63 Jean-Marc Marino Saur - Sojasun s.t. 64 Sébastien Duret Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 65 Johan Mombaerts Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 66 Clément Lhotellerie Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 67 Steve Morabito BMC Racing Team s.t. 68 Sergio Pardilla CarmioOro NGC s.t. 69 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 70 Rémi Pauriol Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 71 José Luis Arrieta AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 72 Martial Ricci Poggi Landbouwkrediet s.t. 73 Jonathan Bertrand Landbouwkrediet s.t. 74 Yannick Talabardon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 75 John Gadret AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 76 Ronan Van Zandbeek Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 77 Amaël Moinard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 78 Patrick Gressnich Continental Team Differdange s.t. 79 Jocelyn Bar Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 80 Nicolas Vogondy Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 81 Celestino Pinho Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 82 Kalle Kriit Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 83 Karsten Kroon BMC Racing Team s.t. 84 Rémy Cusin Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 85 Vladimir Miholjevic Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 86 Jack Bauer Endura Racing s.t. 87 Arnaud Molmy Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 88 DÃdac Ortega Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 89 Kevin Peeters Landbouwkrediet s.t. 90 Benjamin Verraes Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 91 Davide Ricci Bitti ISD - Neri s.t. 92 Bruno Saraiva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 93 Francesco Masciarelli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 94 Rogerio Batista Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 95 João Cabreira Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 96 Thomas Berkhout Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 97 Raffaele Ferrara CarmioOro NGC s.t. 98 Luca Pierfelici Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 99 Sander Oostlander Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 100 Olivier Bonnaire Française des Jeux s.t. 101 Dimitri Le Boulch Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 102 Mats Boeve Rabobank CT s.t. 103 Callum Wilkinson Endura Racing s.t. 104 Tiago Silva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 105 Maxime Méderel Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 106 Christoph Pfingsten Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 107 Jérémy Roy Française des Jeux s.t. 108 Baptiste Planckaert Landbouwkrediet s.t. 109 Jasper Bovenhuis Rabobank CT s.t. 110 Jetse Bol Rabobank CT s.t. 111 Martijn Keizer Rabobank CT s.t. 112 Ross Creber Endura Racing s.t. 113 Francesco Tizza CarmioOro NGC s.t. 114 Roel Paulissen Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 115 Robert Partridge Endura Racing s.t. 116 Jason Christie Endura Racing s.t. 117 Bjorn De Decker Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 118 Rune Van der Meijden Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 119 Joeri Adams Rabobank CT s.t. 120 Iker Camaño Endura Racing s.t. 121 Julien Mazet Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 122 Jussi Veikkanen Française des Jeux s.t. 123 Rémy Di Gregorio Française des Jeux s.t. 124 Ludovic Baptista Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 125 Jesper Asselman Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 126 Wilco Kelderman Rabobank CT s.t. 127 Kenny Terweduwe Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 128 Timothy Dupont Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 129 David Lines Endura Racing s.t. 130 Niels Van Dyck Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 131 Remco Te Brake Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 132 Roberto De Patre Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 133 Sjoerd Kouwenhoven Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 134 Mathieu Drouilly Landbouwkrediet s.t. 135 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov Itera - Katusha s.t. 136 Moreno Hofland Rabobank CT s.t. 137 Brian Bulgac Rabobank CT + 2'35 138 Kevin Verwaest Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 139 Jorg Pannekoek Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 12'11
GC:
1 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun 8h53'04 2 Yukiya Arashiro Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 18 3 Paride Grillo CarmioOro NGC + 34 4 Florian Vachon Bretagne - Schuller + 42 5 Anthony Ravard AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 6 Thomas Voeckler Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 7 Wesley Sulzberger Française des Jeux + 46 8 Håkan Nilsson Continental Team Differdange + 54 9 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 10 Emanuele Vona ISD - Neri s.t.
Points:
1 Yukiya Arashiro Bbox Bouygues Télécom 57 2 Wesley Sulzberger Française des Jeux 42 3 Florian Vachon Bretagne - Schuller 38 4 Paride Grillo CarmioOro NGC 35 5 Anthony Ravard AG2R La Mondiale 34
KOM:
1 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun 20 2 Carlo Scognamiglio ISD - Neri 16 3 Chad Beyer BMC Racing Team 10 4 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team 10 5 Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team 10
U25:
1 Florian Vachon Bretagne - Schuller 8h53'46 2 Wesley Sulzberger Française des Jeux + 4 3 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 12 4 Jens Keukeleire Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 5 Chad Beyer BMC Racing Team s.t.
Team:
1 Saur - Sojasun 26h41'20 2 Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci + 34 3 BMC Racing Team s.t.
Tuco the Ugly
Posted on 04-10-2010 02:26
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Tour Méditerranéen: Stage 4: La Londe les Maures - Biot: 149.7km
For the penultimate stage, the peloton moves into more rugged terrain, dealing with 3 categorized climbs and various other rises in the road. Almost from the start, the riders will have to deal with the Col de Pas de Cerf and the Col de la Taillude. Neither are overly difficult, but will certainly test who is on form early. After some respite, the peloton will tackle the Col de Bagnol en Forêt. From here, the peloton will navigate several smaller climbs, before finishing in the hilltop village of Biot. The last rise should certainly see some attacks.
Once again, it was Saur-Sojasun's goal to help Cyril Lemoine retain his leader's jersey. Fearful of a breakaway getting away, the team set a high pace up the first two climbs of the day. Given the ending terrain of the day, a strong break would have a chance at surviving.
The only rider who didn't seem to be under pressure by the high pace was Christophe Le Mével (FDJ) who attacked at the top of both climbs in order to get full KOM points.
Le Mével going for KOM points while Yannick Talabardon and Julien Simon set the pace.
After summitting the Col de la Taillude, Saur-Sojasun eased up on the pace. The pace set had shed many riders, and the team felt confident they had caused enough damage to prevent a breakaway from being able to make it. Even still, 3 riders went off, trying to prove this theory was wrong. Iker Camaño (Endura Racing), Jempy Drucker (Continental Team Differdange), and young Romain Hardy (Bretagne - Schuller) were the brave souls.
The break, with Drucker nearly being hit by the neutral service car...
On the flat before the Col de Bagnol en Forêt, the breakaway riders quickly built up a large lead. With 70km remaining, they were 6'10" ahead.
Saur-Sojasun wasn't worried, because none of these riders had the pedigree to complete a move like this. Nonetheless, the team began to work, and the lead slowly came down.
The Col de Bagnol en Forêt saw no action, but on the next small hill Paolo Longo Borghini (ISD - Neri) took off on a solo ride. At this point, FDJ had joined Saur-Sojasun on the front, and it would take a superhuman effort from Longo Borghini to succeed.
To his credit, the Italian connected with the 3 leaders with 24km remaining. The group of 4 was 1'14" ahead of the charging peloton.
With only a couple of climbs left on the docket, attention needed to turn to the impending attacks. As the breakaway came into sight with 15km left, Karsten Kroon (BMC Racing Team), David Moncoutié (Cofidis), and Le Mével attacked. Camaño was able to go with them.
The contenders began to emerge on the second to last climb.
Lemoine and Saur-Sojasun team decided not to react. With nearly 12km of flat or downhill riding before the last climb to Biot, they banked on the peloton bringing everything back together. To ensure this, they sent Simon and Jean-Marc Marino to the front to work.
Everything came back together with 7km left.
Feeling strong, Lemoine took the fight to his competitors with 5km remaining, attacking the peloton. Kroon immediately got on his wheel, while Le Mével reacted a bit too late.
Lemoine surprises the field in the closing kilometers.
Lemoine had created a gap with Kroon, but couldn't hold his attack all the way up the hill. He was soon passed by both Kroon and Le Mével. Shortly, he found himself back in the peloton.
Kroon however would use Lemoine's attack to make the decisive move, winning the stage ahead of Le Mével who could never get up to his wheel. Lemoine would finish 30" back in the remnants of the peloton. He would end the day 4 seconds ahead of Kroon in GC.
Kroon was "launched" to victory by Lemoine...
Results:
1 Karsten Kroon BMC Racing Team 4h02'33 2 Christophe Le Mével Française des Jeux + 11 3 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R La Mondiale + 30 4 Luca Pierfelici Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 5 Rémi Pauriol Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 6 Thomas Voeckler Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 7 David Moncoutié Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 8 Vladimir Miholjevic Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 9 Francesco Tizza CarmioOro NGC s.t. 10 Alexander Efimkin AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
Spoiler
11 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 12 Nicolas Vogondy Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 13 Sébastien Joly Saur - Sojasun s.t. 14 Raffaele Ferrara CarmioOro NGC s.t. 15 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun s.t. 16 José Luis Arrieta AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 17 Jérémy Roy Française des Jeux s.t. 18 Anthony Charteau Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 19 Jonathan Hivert Saur - Sojasun s.t. 20 Jean-Marc Marino Saur - Sojasun s.t. 21 Jussi Veikkanen Française des Jeux s.t. 22 Stefano Garzelli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 23 Carlo Scognamiglio ISD - Neri s.t. 24 Francesco Failli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 25 Amaël Moinard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 26 Davide Ricci Bitti ISD - Neri s.t. 27 Johan Mombaerts Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 28 Giovanni Visconti ISD - Neri s.t. 29 Christophe Riblon AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 30 Steve Morabito BMC Racing Team s.t. 31 Freddy Bichot Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 32 Kevin Peeters Landbouwkrediet s.t. 33 Yury Trofimov Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 34 Julien Simon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 35 Emanuele Vona ISD - Neri s.t. 36 Francesco Masciarelli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 37 Emanuele Sella CarmioOro NGC s.t. 38 Clément Lhotellerie Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 39 John Gadret AG2R La Mondiale + 1'01 40 Yannick Talabardon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 41 Robert Partridge Endura Racing s.t. 42 Pierpaolo De Negri ISD - Neri s.t. 43 Wesley Sulzberger Française des Jeux s.t. 44 Paolo Longo Borghini ISD - Neri + 1'09 45 Maxime Méderel Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 46 Florian Guillou Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 47 Yohan Offredo Française des Jeux s.t. 48 Niels Brouzes Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 49 Jure Kocjan CarmioOro NGC s.t. 50 Hubert Dupont AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 51 Florian Vachon Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 52 Rémy Di Gregorio Française des Jeux s.t. 53 Alexander Kvachuk ISD - Neri s.t. 54 Rafaâ Chtioui Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 55 Francis Mourey Française des Jeux + 1'17 56 Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team s.t. 57 Thomas Berkhout Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 58 João Cabreira Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 59 Chad Beyer BMC Racing Team s.t. 60 Rémy Cusin Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 61 HÃ¥kan Nilsson Continental Team Differdange s.t. 62 Rony Martias Saur - Sojasun + 1'25 63 Roel Paulissen Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 64 Mickaël Buffaz Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 65 Ronan Van Zandbeek Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 66 Eduardo Gonzalo Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 67 Jack Bauer Endura Racing s.t. 68 Iker Camaño Endura Racing s.t. 69 Laurent Beuret CarmioOro NGC + 1'33 70 Yukiya Arashiro Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 71 Dimitri Le Boulch Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 72 Jonathan Bertrand Landbouwkrediet s.t. 73 Anthony Delaplace Saur - Sojasun s.t. 74 Christian Poos Continental Team Differdange s.t. 75 Baptiste Planckaert Landbouwkrediet s.t. 76 Olivier Bonnaire Française des Jeux + 1'41 77 Julien Mazet Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 78 Jempy Drucker Continental Team Differdange s.t. 79 Romain Hardy Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 80 Laurent Pichon Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 81 Anthony Ravard AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 82 Jackson Stewart BMC Racing Team s.t. 83 Ben Gastauer AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 84 DÃdac Ortega Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 85 Paride Grillo CarmioOro NGC s.t. 86 Jocelyn Bar Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 87 Sergio Pardilla CarmioOro NGC s.t. 88 Martial Ricci Poggi Landbouwkrediet + 1'49 89 Celestino Pinho Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 90 Julien Fouchard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 91 Roberto De Patre Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 92 Matthieu Boulo Roubaix Lille Métropole + 1'57 93 Jetse Bol Rabobank CT s.t. 94 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team s.t. 95 Christoph Pfingsten Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 96 Arnaud Molmy Roubaix Lille Métropole + 2'05 97 Bjorn De Decker Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 98 Jens Keukeleire Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 99 Bruno Saraiva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 100 Rune Van der Meijden Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 101 Yohann Gène Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 102 Pit Schlechter Continental Team Differdange s.t. 103 Benjamin Verraes Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 104 Danilo Wyss BMC Racing Team s.t. 105 Joeri Adams Rabobank CT + 2'13 106 Mats Boeve Rabobank CT s.t. 107 Olivier Peelman Continental Team Differdange s.t. 108 John Murphy BMC Racing Team s.t. 109 Ross Creber Endura Racing s.t. 110 Andrea Piechele CarmioOro NGC s.t. 111 Rogerio Batista Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 2'21 112 Jasper Bovenhuis Rabobank CT + 2'29 113 Ludovic Baptista Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 4'37 114 Kalle Kriit Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 115 Jean-Marc Bideau Bretagne - Schuller + 9'49 116 Sébastien Duret Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 117 Timothy Dupont Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 118 David Lines Endura Racing + 10'05 119 Wilco Kelderman Rabobank CT s.t. 120 Sander Oostlander Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 121 Martijn Keizer Rabobank CT s.t. 122 Jason Christie Endura Racing s.t. 123 Tiago Silva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 10'13 124 Cyrille Heymans Continental Team Differdange s.t. 125 Morten Knudsen Continental Team Differdange s.t. 126 Sjoerd Kouwenhoven Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 127 Moreno Hofland Rabobank CT s.t. 128 Remco Te Brake Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 129 Niels Van Dyck Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 130 Kenny Terweduwe Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 131 Dimitri Kryvtsov ISD - Neri s.t. 132 Jesper Asselman Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 133 Brian Bulgac Rabobank CT + 10'29 134 Callum Wilkinson Endura Racing s.t. 135 Kevin Verwaest Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 136 Mathieu Drouilly Landbouwkrediet s.t. 137 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov Itera - Katusha s.t. 138 Patrick Gressnich Continental Team Differdange s.t. 139 Jorg Pannekoek Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 10'53
GC:
1 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun 12h56'07 2 Karsten Kroon BMC Racing Team + 4 3 Christophe Le Mével Française des Jeux + 23 4 Thomas Voeckler Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 42 5 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R La Mondiale + 46 6 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 54 7 Emanuele Vona ISD - Neri s.t. 8 Christophe Riblon AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 9 Freddy Bichot Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 10 Alexander Efimkin AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
Points:
1 Yukiya Arashiro Bbox Bouygues Télécom 57 2 Wesley Sulzberger Française des Jeux 42 3 Florian Vachon Bretagne - Schuller 38 4 Paride Grillo CarmioOro NGC 35 5 Anthony Ravard AG2R La Mondiale 34
KOM:
1 Christophe Le Mével Française des Jeux 24 2 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun 20 3 Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team 16 4 Carlo Scognamiglio ISD - Neri 16 5 Iker Camaño Endura Racing 16
U25:
1 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom 12h57'01 2 Jonathan Hivert Saur - Sojasun s.t. 3 Clément Lhotellerie Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 4 Julien Simon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 5 Kevin Peeters Landbouwkrediet s.t.
Team:
1 Saur - Sojasun 38h50'29 2 Française des Jeux + 15 3 Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci + 34
Tuco the Ugly
Posted on 04-10-2010 03:20
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Tour Méditerranéen: Stage 5: La Ciotat - Toulon (Mt. Faron): 126.4km
The final stage of the Tour Méditerranéen will be decisive, as the peloton will be in the mountains, dealing with 4 climbs on the day. Like yesterday, there will be little waiting, as once the peloton are 30km into the stage, they will have already climbed the Col de Ceyreste and the Col de l'Espigoulier. The latter has already been climbed by any rider who took place in the Gran Prix de la Marseillaise. Both climbs are similar, being 8.9km and 9.6km in length, with gradients of 6.9% and 6.3% respectively. After the peloton will move towards Toulon climbing the Col du Corps de Garde 20km from the finish.
However all of this is just an appetizer for the main course on the day, Mt. Faron. Only 5.5km in length, it makes up for shortness with steep slopes, averaging 8.6%.
Cyril Lemoine of Saur-Sojasun has worn the leader's jersey since Stage 2, but it unlikely he will be able to make it over the terrain holding onto it. Even still, the team would give its all to try to protect his lead.
The race started out fast like yesterday, although this time, it wasn't Saur-Sojasun setting the pace. John Gadret (AG2R La Mondiale) went to the front of the group on the Col de Ceyreste and Col de l'Espigoulier.
The high pace put many riders, including Lemoine under pressure/
Only one rider, João Cabreira (Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano), dared to venture out on a breakaway.
Cabreira, head down and pedaling away.
Back in the peloton, Lemoine was recovering and being supported by his teammates. Rony Martias and Anthony Delaplace were nearly dropped on the first climbs, but rallied to support the race leader. However, it became very clear that Lemoine would most likely not being to go with the leaders on the last two climbs. Therefore, Saur-Sojasun would allow Jonathan Hivert or Sébastien Joly to go on the attack if an opportunity presented itself.
Approaching the Col du Corps Garde, Cabreira had a 2 minute lead on the peloton. The Portuguese rider was riding well, and it would take a good effort to bring him back in.
Then, the first attacks came. David Moncoutié (Cofidis), Christophe Le Mével (FDJ), Rinaldo Nocentini (AG2R La Mondiale), and Thomas Voeckler (Bbox Bouygues Télécom) went. With Lemoine laboring in the rear, Hivert tried to follow.
The riders fighting their way up the Col du Corps Garde.
However, the riders left their move too late, and were easily caught on the downhill. Lemoine was still present, but on his last legs. Either way, the race would be decided on the slopes of Mt. Faron.
The attacks did benefit one rider. Up ahead, Cabreira still had a lead of 1'33" at the bottom of the final climb. A decent enough climber, the peloton would need to reorganize. Another effect of the attacks, was that Hivert was spent. The only Saur-Sojasun rider with any energy was Joly.
Française des Jeux took the front, with Jérémy Roy, Rémy Di Gregorio, and Jussi Veikkanen working hard. They were clearly setting up an attack from Le Mével.
FDJ sets a high pace with Joly, Kroon and Le Mével waiting.
3.5km from the top, Lemoine finally was dropped. He would not win the Tour Méditerranéen and now, knowing this, had to just grit his teeth and finish.
The FDJ riders did a fantastic job, dropping most of the peloton. Finally, Le Mével went. Only Moncoutié and Voeckler could go with him. The three would catch Cabreira with 900m to go.
Le Mével pushes the pace in the final kilometer.
Cabreira almost made it, but he could not keep up with the 3 Frenchman. He would fall back, but still finish 4th.
However no one could keep up with Le Mével, who would pull away in the final meters, to take the stage and overall victory.
Joly would finish 6th, 37" back. Lemoine would come in 37th, 2'36" behind the winner.
Le Mével was the strongest on the climbs and deserved the win.
Results:
1 Christophe Le Mével Française des Jeux 3h34'35 2 David Moncoutié Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 10 3 Thomas Voeckler Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 28 4 João Cabreira Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 37 5 Amaël Moinard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 6 Sébastien Joly Saur - Sojasun s.t. 7 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 8 Stefano Garzelli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 9 Alexander Efimkin AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 10 Rémi Pauriol Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t.
Spoiler
11 John Gadret AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 12 Clément Lhotellerie Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 13 Johan Mombaerts Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 14 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 15 José Luis Arrieta AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 16 Luca Pierfelici Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 17 Yury Trofimov Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 1'16 18 Jonathan Hivert Saur - Sojasun s.t. 19 Rémy Di Gregorio Française des Jeux s.t. 20 Vladimir Miholjevic Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 21 Francesco Masciarelli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 22 Francesco Tizza CarmioOro NGC s.t. 23 Raffaele Ferrara CarmioOro NGC + 1'35 24 Jussi Veikkanen Française des Jeux s.t. 25 Emanuele Sella CarmioOro NGC + 1'44 26 Hubert Dupont AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 27 Christophe Riblon AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 28 Yannick Talabardon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 29 Jérémy Roy Française des Jeux s.t. 30 Anthony Charteau Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 31 Steve Morabito BMC Racing Team s.t. 32 Karsten Kroon BMC Racing Team + 2'15 33 Rémy Cusin Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 2'36 34 Francesco Failli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 35 Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team s.t. 36 Sergio Pardilla CarmioOro NGC s.t. 37 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun s.t. 38 Francis Mourey Française des Jeux s.t. 39 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team s.t. 40 Julien Simon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 41 Chad Beyer BMC Racing Team + 3'06 42 Jean-Marc Marino Saur - Sojasun + 3'16 43 Maxime Méderel Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 44 Giovanni Visconti ISD - Neri + 3'45 45 Emanuele Vona ISD - Neri + 3'57 46 Davide Ricci Bitti ISD - Neri + 4'05 47 Florian Guillou Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 48 HÃ¥kan Nilsson Continental Team Differdange s.t. 49 Paolo Longo Borghini ISD - Neri s.t. 50 Robert Partridge Endura Racing s.t. 51 Niels Brouzes Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 52 Iker Camaño Endura Racing s.t. 53 Anthony Delaplace Saur - Sojasun s.t. 54 Jure Kocjan CarmioOro NGC s.t. 55 Christian Poos Continental Team Differdange s.t. 56 Alexander Kvachuk ISD - Neri s.t. 57 Olivier Bonnaire Française des Jeux s.t. 58 Eduardo Gonzalo Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 59 Jesper Asselman Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 60 Anthony Ravard AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 61 Carlo Scognamiglio ISD - Neri s.t. 62 Matthieu Boulo Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 63 Jack Bauer Endura Racing s.t. 64 Florian Vachon Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 65 Celestino Pinho Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 4'49 66 DÃdac Ortega Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 67 Ronan Van Zandbeek Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 68 Roel Paulissen Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 69 Rafaâ Chtioui Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 70 Christoph Pfingsten Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 71 Julien Mazet Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 72 Laurent Beuret CarmioOro NGC s.t. 73 Dimitri Le Boulch Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 74 Pierpaolo De Negri ISD - Neri s.t. 75 Kevin Peeters Landbouwkrediet s.t. 76 Julien Fouchard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 77 Nicolas Vogondy Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 78 Laurent Pichon Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 79 Arnaud Molmy Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 80 Yukiya Arashiro Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 81 Roberto De Patre Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 82 Freddy Bichot Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 83 Romain Hardy Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 84 Paride Grillo CarmioOro NGC s.t. 85 Jackson Stewart BMC Racing Team s.t. 86 Bjorn De Decker Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 87 Jocelyn Bar Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 88 Yohan Offredo Française des Jeux s.t. 89 Wesley Sulzberger Française des Jeux s.t. 90 Danilo Wyss BMC Racing Team s.t. 91 Jempy Drucker Continental Team Differdange s.t. 92 Ben Gastauer AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 93 David Lines Endura Racing s.t. 94 Sébastien Duret Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 95 Jetse Bol Rabobank CT s.t. 96 Bruno Saraiva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 97 Martijn Keizer Rabobank CT s.t. 98 John Murphy BMC Racing Team s.t. 99 Jonathan Bertrand Landbouwkrediet s.t. 100 Rony Martias Saur - Sojasun s.t. 101 Wilco Kelderman Rabobank CT s.t. 102 Martial Ricci Poggi Landbouwkrediet s.t. 103 Rune Van der Meijden Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 104 Mats Boeve Rabobank CT s.t. 105 Jean-Marc Bideau Bretagne - Schuller + 6'09 106 Moreno Hofland Rabobank CT s.t. 107 Benjamin Verraes Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 108 Mickaël Buffaz Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 6'25 109 Jens Keukeleire Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 110 Timothy Dupont Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 6'37 111 Baptiste Planckaert Landbouwkrediet s.t. 112 Jasper Bovenhuis Rabobank CT + 6'45 113 Yohann Gène Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 7'09 114 Pit Schlechter Continental Team Differdange + 12'37 115 Tiago Silva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 12'53 116 Morten Knudsen Continental Team Differdange s.t. 117 Ludovic Baptista Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 13'09 118 Rogerio Batista Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 119 Cyrille Heymans Continental Team Differdange s.t. 120 Ross Creber Endura Racing + 13'25 121 Joeri Adams Rabobank CT s.t. 122 Thomas Berkhout Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 123 Callum Wilkinson Endura Racing s.t. 124 Jason Christie Endura Racing + 13'41 125 Niels Van Dyck Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 126 Sander Oostlander Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 127 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov Itera - Katusha s.t. 128 Remco Te Brake Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 13'57 129 Olivier Peelman Continental Team Differdange s.t. 130 Sjoerd Kouwenhoven Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 131 Dimitri Kryvtsov ISD - Neri s.t. 132 Andrea Piechele CarmioOro NGC s.t. 133 Kevin Verwaest Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 134 Kalle Kriit Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 135 Brian Bulgac Rabobank CT + 14'05 136 Kenny Terweduwe Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 137 Mathieu Drouilly Landbouwkrediet s.t. 138 Jorg Pannekoek Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 139 Patrick Gressnich Continental Team Differdange s.t.
GC:
1 Christophe Le Mével Française des Jeux 16h30'45 2 David Moncoutié Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 49 3 Thomas Voeckler Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 59 4 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R La Mondiale + 1'20 5 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 1'28 6 Alexander Efimkin AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 7 Rémi Pauriol Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 8 José Luis Arrieta AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 9 Amaël Moinard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 10 Johan Mombaerts Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 11 Stefano Garzelli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 12 Clément Lhotellerie Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 13 Sébastien Joly Saur - Sojasun s.t. 14 Luca Pierfelici Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 15 John Gadret AG2R La Mondiale + 1'59 16 Jonathan Hivert Saur - Sojasun + 2'07 17 Vladimir Miholjevic Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 18 Francesco Tizza CarmioOro NGC s.t. 19 Yury Trofimov Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 20 Francesco Masciarelli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 21 João Cabreira Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 2'15 22 Karsten Kroon BMC Racing Team + 2'16 23 Raffaele Ferrara CarmioOro NGC + 2'26 24 Jussi Veikkanen Française des Jeux s.t. 25 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun + 2'33 26 Christophe Riblon AG2R La Mondiale + 2'35 27 Anthony Charteau Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 28 Jérémy Roy Française des Jeux s.t. 29 Emanuele Sella CarmioOro NGC s.t. 30 Steve Morabito BMC Racing Team s.t. 31 Rémy Di Gregorio Française des Jeux + 2'46 32 Yannick Talabardon Saur - Sojasun + 3'06 33 Hubert Dupont AG2R La Mondiale + 3'14 34 Francesco Failli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci + 3'27 35 Julien Simon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 36 Jean-Marc Marino Saur - Sojasun + 4'07 37 Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team + 4'14 38 Francis Mourey Française des Jeux s.t. 39 Rémy Cusin Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 40 Giovanni Visconti ISD - Neri + 4'36 41 Chad Beyer BMC Racing Team + 4'44 42 Emanuele Vona ISD - Neri + 4'48 43 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team + 4'54 44 Carlo Scognamiglio ISD - Neri + 4'56 45 Davide Ricci Bitti ISD - Neri s.t. 46 Florian Vachon Bretagne - Schuller + 5'23 47 Robert Partridge Endura Racing + 5'27 48 Florian Guillou Bretagne - Schuller + 5'35 49 Jure Kocjan CarmioOro NGC s.t. 50 Paolo Longo Borghini ISD - Neri s.t. 51 Niels Brouzes Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 52 Alexander Kvachuk ISD - Neri s.t. 53 Freddy Bichot Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 5'40 54 Nicolas Vogondy Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 55 Kevin Peeters Landbouwkrediet s.t. 56 HÃ¥kan Nilsson Continental Team Differdange + 5'43 57 Jack Bauer Endura Racing + 5'51 58 Anthony Ravard AG2R La Mondiale + 5'55 59 Christian Poos Continental Team Differdange + 5'59 60 Wesley Sulzberger Française des Jeux + 6'03 61 Yukiya Arashiro Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 6'07 62 Olivier Bonnaire Française des Jeux s.t. 63 Pierpaolo De Negri ISD - Neri + 6'11 64 Rafaâ Chtioui Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci + 6'19 65 Yohan Offredo Française des Jeux s.t. 66 Paride Grillo CarmioOro NGC + 6'31 67 Rony Martias Saur - Sojasun + 6'35 68 Ronan Van Zandbeek Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 69 Roel Paulissen Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 70 Laurent Beuret CarmioOro NGC + 6'43 71 Jempy Drucker Continental Team Differdange + 6'51 72 Jackson Stewart BMC Racing Team s.t. 73 Ben Gastauer AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 74 Celestino Pinho Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 6'59 75 Sergio Pardilla CarmioOro NGC + 7'05 76 Maxime Méderel Big Mat - Auber 93 + 7'13 77 Arnaud Molmy Roubaix Lille Métropole + 7'15 78 Mickaël Buffaz Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 8'11 79 Eduardo Gonzalo Bretagne - Schuller + 8'18 80 Iker Camaño Endura Racing s.t. 81 Anthony Delaplace Saur - Sojasun + 8'26 82 Matthieu Boulo Roubaix Lille Métropole + 8'50 83 Jens Keukeleire Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 8'51 84 Dimitri Le Boulch Big Mat - Auber 93 + 9'10 85 Jonathan Bertrand Landbouwkrediet s.t. 86 Romain Hardy Bretagne - Schuller + 9'18 87 Laurent Pichon Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 88 Jocelyn Bar Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 89 DÃdac Ortega Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 90 Julien Mazet Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 91 Julien Fouchard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 9'26 92 Martial Ricci Poggi Landbouwkrediet s.t. 93 Roberto De Patre Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 94 Jetse Bol Rabobank CT + 9'34 95 Christoph Pfingsten Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 96 Danilo Wyss BMC Racing Team + 9'42 97 Bjorn De Decker Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 98 Bruno Saraiva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 99 Rune Van der Meijden Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 100 Mats Boeve Rabobank CT + 9'50 101 Baptiste Planckaert Landbouwkrediet + 10'58 102 Benjamin Verraes Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 11'02 103 Yohann Gène Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 12'02 104 Jasper Bovenhuis Rabobank CT s.t. 105 Thomas Berkhout Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 15'03 106 Pit Schlechter Continental Team Differdange s.t. 107 Olivier Peelman Continental Team Differdange + 16'31 108 Wilco Kelderman Rabobank CT + 17'42 109 Martijn Keizer Rabobank CT s.t. 110 Rogerio Batista Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 18'18 111 Joeri Adams Rabobank CT + 18'26 112 Ross Creber Endura Racing s.t. 113 Jean-Marc Bideau Bretagne - Schuller + 18'46 114 Andrea Piechele CarmioOro NGC + 18'58 115 Moreno Hofland Rabobank CT + 19'10 116 Timothy Dupont Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 19'14 117 Sébastien Duret Bretagne - Schuller + 19'18 118 David Lines Endura Racing + 19'34 119 Kalle Kriit Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 21'22 120 Morten Knudsen Continental Team Differdange + 25'54 121 John Murphy BMC Racing Team + 25'59 122 Cyrille Heymans Continental Team Differdange + 26'10 123 Jason Christie Endura Racing + 26'34 124 Kenny Terweduwe Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 27'06 125 Patrick Gressnich Continental Team Differdange + 27'22 126 Niels Van Dyck Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 28'34 127 Kevin Verwaest Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 29'49 128 Brian Bulgac Rabobank CT + 29'57 129 Jesper Asselman Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 35'23 130 Ludovic Baptista Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 36'43 131 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov Itera - Katusha + 39'15 132 Tiago Silva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 42'03 133 Sander Oostlander Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 42'43 134 Callum Wilkinson Endura Racing + 42'51 135 Dimitri Kryvtsov ISD - Neri + 43'07 136 Remco Te Brake Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 45'15 137 Sjoerd Kouwenhoven Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 138 Mathieu Drouilly Landbouwkrediet + 48'43 139 Jorg Pannekoek Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 1h01'18
Points:
1 Yukiya Arashiro Bbox Bouygues Télécom 57 2 Christophe Le Mével Française des Jeux 52 3 Thomas Voeckler Bbox Bouygues Télécom 46 4 Wesley Sulzberger Française des Jeux 42 5 Florian Vachon Bretagne - Schuller 38 6 Paride Grillo CarmioOro NGC 35 7 Anthony Ravard AG2R La Mondiale 34 8 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun 31 9 Karsten Kroon BMC Racing Team 31 10 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R La Mondiale 30 11 David Moncoutié Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 29 12 Alexander Efimkin AG2R La Mondiale 23 13 Jens Keukeleire Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 22 14 Rémi Pauriol Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 21 15 Danilo Wyss BMC Racing Team 18 16 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom 15 17 Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team 15 18 Giovanni Visconti ISD - Neri 14 19 Luca Pierfelici Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci 14 20 João Cabreira Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano 14 21 Sébastien Joly Saur - Sojasun 13 22 Amaël Moinard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 12 23 Håkan Nilsson Continental Team Differdange 10 24 Laurent Beuret CarmioOro NGC 9 25 Vladimir Miholjevic Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci 8 26 Stefano Garzelli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci 8 27 Paolo Longo Borghini ISD - Neri 8 28 Francesco Tizza CarmioOro NGC 7 29 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team 7 30 Florian Guillou Bretagne - Schuller 6 31 John Gadret AG2R La Mondiale 5 32 Christian Poos Continental Team Differdange 5 33 Emanuele Vona ISD - Neri 4 34 Anthony Charteau Bbox Bouygues Télécom 4 35 Nicolas Vogondy Bbox Bouygues Télécom 4 36 Clément Lhotellerie Roubaix Lille Métropole 4 37 Johan Mombaerts Big Mat - Auber 93 3 38 Ben Gastauer AG2R La Mondiale 3 39 Raffaele Ferrara CarmioOro NGC 2 40 Kevin Peeters Landbouwkrediet 2 41 Jean-Marc Bideau Bretagne - Schuller 2 42 Christophe Riblon AG2R La Mondiale 1 43 José Luis Arrieta AG2R La Mondiale 1 44 Jackson Stewart BMC Racing Team 1
KOM:
1 Christophe Le Mével Française des Jeux 40 2 João Cabreira Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano 40 3 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun 20 4 Thomas Voeckler Bbox Bouygues Télécom 18 5 Christophe Riblon AG2R La Mondiale 18 6 Carlo Scognamiglio ISD - Neri 16 7 Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team 16 8 Iker Camaño Endura Racing 16 9 Anthony Charteau Bbox Bouygues Télécom 14 10 Chad Beyer BMC Racing Team 14 11 David Moncoutié Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 12 12 Romain Hardy Bretagne - Schuller 12 13 Freddy Bichot Bbox Bouygues Télécom 10 14 Francesco Failli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci 10 15 Hubert Dupont AG2R La Mondiale 10 16 Jempy Drucker Continental Team Differdange 10 17 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team 10 18 Eduardo Gonzalo Bretagne - Schuller 10 19 Julien Simon Saur - Sojasun 8 20 Jean-Marc Marino Saur - Sojasun 8 21 Rémy Cusin Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 8 22 Amaël Moinard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 6 23 Steve Morabito BMC Racing Team 6 24 Florian Guillou Bretagne - Schuller 6 25 Paolo Longo Borghini ISD - Neri 6 26 Ronan Van Zandbeek Van Vliet EBH Elshof 6 27 Celestino Pinho Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano 6 28 Jonathan Bertrand Landbouwkrediet 6 29 DÃdac Ortega Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci 6 30 Davide Ricci Bitti ISD - Neri 4 31 Sébastien Joly Saur - Sojasun 4 32 Jure Kocjan CarmioOro NGC 4 33 Niels Brouzes Big Mat - Auber 93 4 34 Rafaâ Chtioui Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci 4 35 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R La Mondiale 2 36 Yury Trofimov Bbox Bouygues Télécom 2 37 Rémy Di Gregorio Française des Jeux 2 38 Francis Mourey Française des Jeux 2 39 Rony Martias Saur - Sojasun 2 40 Christoph Pfingsten Van Vliet EBH Elshof 2 41 Jean-Marc Bideau Bretagne - Schuller 2
U25:
1 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom 16h32'13 2 Clément Lhotellerie Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 3 Jonathan Hivert Saur - Sojasun + 39 4 Francesco Masciarelli Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci s.t. 5 Rémy Di Gregorio Française des Jeux + 1'18
Team:
1 Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 49h36'12 2 AG2R La Mondiale + 27 3 Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 57 4 Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci + 1'06 5 Française des Jeux + 1'08 6 Saur - Sojasun + 1'39 7 CarmioOro NGC + 3'11 8 BMC Racing Team + 5'28 9 Big Mat - Auber 93 + 10'19 10 ISD - Neri + 10'23 11 Roubaix Lille Métropole + 13'12 12 Continental Team Differdange + 14'36 13 Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 14'59 14 Bretagne - Schuller + 15'31 15 Endura Racing + 15'39 16 Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 17'55 17 Landbouwkrediet + 20'03 18 Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 23'22 19 Rabobank CT + 25'17
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Tour of Oman
With the Tour Méditerranéen over, attention returns to the Arabian peninsula and the Tour of Oman. A new event on the UCI calendar, the 2.1 race is organized by Amaury Sport Organization, A.S.O., the very same group that runs the Tour de France. Saur-Sojasun, participating with the same squad from the Tour of Qatar, will be hoping to showcase their talents with a wild card bid for Le Tour in mind. Much like the Tour of Qatar, the Tour of Oman is 6 stages, the first five being pan flat. Wind could play a factor, but the real decider in the race will be Stage 6, a 26.4km individual time trial.
The quality of riders in the start list is deep, with many PT teams bringing their main sprints. Mark Cavendish, André Greipel, Mark Renshaw, and Bernhard Eisel make up the power HTC - Columbia sprint train. Garmin bring their main man, Tyler Farrar, along with lead-out specialist Julian Dean. Not to mention, sprinters such as Allan Davis (Astana), Juan José Haedo (Saxobank), Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre - Farnese Vini), and Daniele Bennati (Liquigas - Doimo) have all made the trip. However, given the composition of the race, the man to beat in the GC competition will be strongman Fabian Cancellara (Saxobank).
As Saur-Sojasun brings the same squad, they will be working for sprinter Jimmy Casper. Casper had a very successful Tour of Qatar, with a stage win and the overall points jersey. It will be hard to replicate those results given the quality of riders, but Saur-Sojasun management has faith and high hopes.
Spoiler
Saxo Bank
1. F.Cancellara
2. M.Breschel
3. L.S.Haedo
4. J.J.Haedo
5. J.Marycz
6. M.Mørkøv
7. S.O'Grady
8. A.Rasmussen
Garmin
11. T.Farrar
12. J.Dean
13. M.Maaskant
14. T.Meyer
15. S.Tuft
16. J.Van Summeren
17. M.Wilson
18. D.Zabriskie
HTC - Columbia
21. M.Cavendish
22. B.Eisel
23. B.Grabsch
24. A.Greipel
25. R.Guldhammer
26. M.Renshaw
27. V.Reynès
28. H.Roulston
Lampre
31. A.Petacchi
32. A.Balloni
33. L.Bernucci
34. G.Bole
35. F.Gavazzi
36. A.Malori
37. D.Pietropolli
38. S.Ponzi
Liquigas
41. D.Bennati
42. M.Bodnar
43. D.Cimolai
44. M.Finetto
45. J.Guarnieri
46. M.Paterski
47. P.Sagan
48. F.Willems
BMC
51. G.Hincapie
52. A.Ballan
53. C.Barton
54. M.Burghardt
55. A.Kristoff
56. J.Louder
57. S.Nydam
58. M.Schär
Sky
61. G.Henderson
62. S.Cummings
63. J.A.Flecha
64. L.P.Nordhaug
65. N.Portal
66. I.Stannard
67. C.Sutton
68. D.Viganò
Omega Pharma
71. P.Gilbert
72. K.De Haes
73. M.Delage
74. L.Hoste
75. O.Kaisen
76. J.Ljungblad
77. S.Scheirlinckx
78. G.Van Avermaet
Astana
81. A.Davis
82. V.Dmitriyev
83. A.Grivko
84. M.Iglinskiy
85. Y.Nepomnyachshiy
86. B.Raimbekov
87. S.Renev
88. M.Selvaggi
Saur - Sojasun
91. J.Casper
92. C.Bessy
93. C.Coutouly
94. J.Engoulvent
95. F.Jeandesboz
96. L.Mangel
97. R.Matheou
98. S.Poulhiès
Topsport Vlaanderen
101. K.Vandewalle
102. J.Baugnies
103. T.De Gendt
104. K.De Ketele
105. G.Joseph
106. S.Neirynck
107. S.Van Vooren
108. P.Vanspeybroeck
Skil - Shimano
111. T.Veelers
112. D.Deroo
113. F.Goesinnen
114. S.Houanard
115. J.Long
116. P.Rooijakkers
117. J.Vissers
118. R.Wagner
Vorarlberg - Corratec
121. S.Siedler
122. S.Ackermann
123. A.Gufler
124. R.Hollenstein
125. H.Schwab
126. C.Sokoll
127. M.Strgar
128. R.Weissinger
ISD CT
131. A.Usov
132. I.Abakoumov
133. D.Flahaut
134. R.Mykhaylov
135. A.Pakthusov
136. V.Rybin
137. A.Topchanyuk
138. M.Vasilyev
Fly V
141. B.Day
142. J.Cantwell
143. D.J.Crawford
144. D.Kemp
145. B.Kersten
146. D.Lill
147. B.Sulzberger
148. J.Thomson
CDC - Cavaliere
151. L.Ascani
152. D.Agosta
153. D.Andrenacci
154. D.Bonuccelli
155. D.Callegarin
156. E.Loria
157. B.Riccio
158. L.Zanasca
CCC Polsat
161. T.Kiendys
162. A.Honkisz
163. S.Janiszewski
164. T.Marczynski
165. T.Repinski
166. J.Rebiewski
167. A.Sznitko
168. M.Tomaszewski
PSK Whirlpool
171. P.BencÃk
172. T.Buchácek
173. T.Danacik
174. J.DanacÃk
175. V.Dlouhý
176. L.König
Itera - Katusha
181. S.Rudaskov
182. A.Arguelyes
183. P.Ignatenko
184. A.Mironov
185. N.Novikov
186. E.Popov
187. A.Porsev
Betonezpressz
191. Z.Madaras
192. A.Angeloni
193. G.Coletta
194. K.Lovassy
195. W.Proch
196. D.Puskas
197. R.A.Richeze
198. P.Simon
Stage 1: Muscat Corniche: 118.9km
Quite easily, a break of 10 riders formed in the early parts of the stage. Given the flat nature of the stage, the peloton would give them a wide margin to work with. No Saur-Sojasun rider took place in the break, deciding to stay with Casper and protect his interests.
A Skil - Shimano rider leads the break.
At the only sprint point, near the middle of the stage, the break had an advantage of 4'41" over the field. Liquigas and Lampre took to the front to begin to whittle down the gap.
This would be accomplished rather easily, as the last break riders were caught with 16.7km remaining.
As focus shifted towards the impending sprint finish, the dark skies finally opened up. The harsh conditions were not welcomed by the peloton.
HTC leads the peloton. Saur-Sojasun is coming up on the right as the 5km banner approaches.
The slick roads would lead to a crash with 9.6km remaining. Greg Henderson (Sky) and Tomasz Kiendys (CCC Polstat Polkowise) got tangled going around a corner.
In the sprint, Saur-Sojasun did a good job setting up Casper for the final burst, however he could not keep up with the fastest men on the day. Even still, he came in 4th.
Set up brilliantly by Dean, Farrar dominated the field, finishing 2 bike lengths ahead of his nearest competitor. Haedo was able to edge out Kenny De Haes (Omega Pharma - Lotto) for 2nd.
Farrar with a dominating win in the rain.
Results:
1 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions 2h38'02 2 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank s.t. 3 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 4 Jimmy Casper Saur - Sojasun s.t. 5 Alexandre Usov ISD Continental Team s.t. 6 Denis Flahaut ISD Continental Team s.t. 7 Stuart O'Grady Team Saxo Bank s.t. 8 Julian Dean Garmin - Transitions s.t. 9 Greg Van Avermaet Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 10 Grega Bole Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t.
Spoiler
11 Matthew Wilson Garmin - Transitions s.t. 12 Mickaël Delage Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 13 Alex Rasmussen Team Saxo Bank s.t. 14 Jimmy Engoulvent Saur - Sojasun s.t. 15 Jacopo Guarnieri Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 16 Alessandro Petacchi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 17 Romain Matheou Saur - Sojasun s.t. 18 Daniele Bennati Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 19 Igor Abakoumov ISD Continental Team s.t. 20 Svein Tuft Garmin - Transitions s.t. 21 Allan Davis Astana s.t. 22 Lorenzo Bernucci Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 23 Staf Scheirlinckx Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 24 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 25 Mark Cavendish Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 26 Mauro Finetto Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 27 Johan Van Summeren Garmin - Transitions s.t. 28 Bernhard Eisel Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 29 Daniele Pietropolli Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 30 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 31 Stéphane Poulhiès Saur - Sojasun s.t. 32 Martijn Maaskant Garmin - Transitions s.t. 33 Cyril Bessy Saur - Sojasun s.t. 34 Matti Breschel Team Saxo Bank s.t. 35 Maciej Bodnar Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 36 Lucas Sebastián Haedo Team Saxo Bank s.t. 37 Michael Mørkøv Team Saxo Bank s.t. 38 Francesco Gavazzi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 39 Rasmus Guldhammer Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 40 David Zabriskie Garmin - Transitions s.t. 41 Travis Meyer Garmin - Transitions s.t. 42 Mark Renshaw Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 43 Fabian Cancellara Team Saxo Bank s.t. 44 Daniele Callegarin CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 45 Andriy Grivko Astana s.t. 46 Vicente Reynès Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 47 Bert Grabsch Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 48 Jaroslaw Marycz Team Saxo Bank s.t. 49 Michael Schär BMC Racing Team s.t. 50 Volodymyr Rybin ISD Continental Team s.t. 51 Hayden Roulston Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 52 Gianluca Coletta Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 53 George Hincapie BMC Racing Team s.t. 54 Peter Sagan Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 55 Frederik Willems Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 56 Stephen Cummings Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 57 Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy Astana s.t. 58 Alfredo Balloni Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 59 Laurent Mangel Saur - Sojasun s.t. 60 Christopher Sutton Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 61 Olivier Kaisen Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 62 Leif Hoste Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 63 Davide Cimolai Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 64 Piet Rooijakkers Skil - Shimano s.t. 65 Adriano Malori Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 66 Valeriy Dmitriyev Astana s.t. 67 Steve Houanard Skil - Shimano s.t. 68 Simone Ponzi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 69 Mirko Selvaggi Astana s.t. 70 Bolat Raimbekov Astana s.t. 71 Luca Ascani CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 72 Bernardo Riccio CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 73 Reto Hollenstein Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 74 Arkimedes Arguelyes Itera - Katusha s.t. 75 Maciej Paterski Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 76 Kristof Vandewalle Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 77 Steven Van Vooren Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 78 Christoph Sokoll Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 79 Matic Strgar Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 80 Alexander Kristoff BMC Racing Team s.t. 81 Danilo Andrenacci CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 82 René Weissinger Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 83 Juan Antonio Flecha Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 84 Sergey Renev Astana s.t. 85 Pieter Vanspeybroeck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 86 Alexander Porsev Itera - Katusha s.t. 87 Marcus Burghardt BMC Racing Team s.t. 88 Jonathan Cantwell Fly V Australia s.t. 89 Cédric Coutouly Saur - Sojasun s.t. 90 David Kemp Fly V Australia s.t. 91 Evgueni Popov Itera - Katusha s.t. 92 Nikita Novikov Itera - Katusha s.t. 93 Anatoliy Pakthusov ISD Continental Team s.t. 94 Péter Simon Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 95 Hubert Schwab Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 96 Chris Barton BMC Racing Team s.t. 97 Alexander Mironov Itera - Katusha s.t. 98 Jakub DanacÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 99 Krisztian Lovassy Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 100 Jin Long Skil - Shimano s.t. 101 Floris Goesinnen Skil - Shimano s.t. 102 Ben Day Fly V Australia s.t. 103 Ben Kersten Fly V Australia s.t. 104 Walter Proch Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 105 Alexander Gufler Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 106 Scott Nydam BMC Racing Team s.t. 107 David Puskas Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 108 Zoltan Madaras Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 109 Alessandro Ballan BMC Racing Team s.t. 110 Rostislav Mykhaylov ISD Continental Team s.t. 111 Leopold König PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 112 Fabrice Jeandesboz Saur - Sojasun s.t. 113 Petr Ignatenko Itera - Katusha s.t. 114 Jay Thomson Fly V Australia s.t. 115 Thomas De Gendt Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 116 Tomas Danacik PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 117 Nicolas Portal Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 118 Ian Stannard Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 119 Petr BencÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 120 Jérôme Baugnies Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 121 Tomáš Buchácek PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 122 Kenny De Ketele Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 123 Bernard Sulzberger Fly V Australia s.t. 124 Sebastian Siedler Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 125 Darren Lill Fly V Australia s.t. 126 Jonas Ljungblad Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 127 Sergey Rudaskov Itera - Katusha s.t. 128 Jeff Louder BMC Racing Team s.t. 129 Davide Bonuccelli CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 130 Silvère Ackermann Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 131 Stijn Neirynck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 132 Lars Petter Nordhaug Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 133 Davide Viganò Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 134 Maksym Vasilyev ISD Continental Team s.t. 135 Robert Wagner Skil - Shimano s.t. 136 David Deroo Skil - Shimano s.t. 137 Artem Topchanyuk ISD Continental Team s.t. 138 David Jai Crawford Fly V Australia s.t. 139 Adriano Angeloni Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 140 Job Vissers Skil - Shimano s.t. 141 Tom Veelers Skil - Shimano s.t. 142 Grégory Joseph Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 143 Domenico Agosta CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 144 Tomasz Repinski CCC Polsat Polkowice + 3'29 145 Adrian Honkisz CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 146 Sylwester Janiszewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 147 Marcin Tomaszewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 148 Tomasz Marczynski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 149 Tomasz Kiendys CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 150 Adam Sznitko CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 151 Eugenio Loria CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 152 Greg Henderson Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 153 Jaroslaw Rebiewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 154 Roberto Antonio Richeze Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 155 Luca Zanasca CDC - Cavaliere + 5'29
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Posted on 07-10-2010 01:18
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Tour of Oman: Stage 2: Nizwa - Samail: 135.2km
Stage 2's racing would see the peloton travelling in the Ad Dakhiliyah (Interior Region) of Oman. Starting in the largest city in the region, Nizwa, and heading north to the smaller, picturesque Samail.
Most of the riders seemed to want to take it easy today, with only 4 adventurous souls participating in the breakaway. They were Michael Schär (BMC Racing Team), Andriy Grivko (Astana), Stijn Neirynck (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator), and Matic Strgar (Vorarlberg - Corratec).
Ocean in the Interior Region? Strgar leads the break.
Throughout the day, HTC - Columbia would pace the peloton. Their control over the race did not come as a surprise, given their poor performance in the first stage with their first rider coming in 24th. Given their strength, this can only be classed as a failure.
HTC would not let the break get away, and would catch the break with 11.9km left.
The winds were a bit higher today, and caused havoc in the creation of the sprint trains. Nevertheless, Jimmy Engoulvent worked hard to get Jimmy Casper highly placed before the sprint started. Quite noticeably, Romain Matheou failed in his duties.
Casper in the middle of a chaotic peloton approaching the last turn.
Casper would not be able to repeat last stage's placing, finishing in a disappointing 18th. Because of Matheou's poor job, Engoulvent and Casper had to do too much work.
HTC would be able to make amends for yesterday, with André Greipel taking the hotly contested sprint finish. Interestingly, rival Mark Cavendish did not sprint, finishing in 34th.
No one could beat the "Gorilla" today. Not even the three-headed monster of Farrar, Burghardt, and Flecha...
Results:
1 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia 3h00'12 2 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 3 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 4 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions s.t. 5 Juan Antonio Flecha Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 6 Marcus Burghardt BMC Racing Team s.t. 7 Mark Renshaw Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 8 Travis Meyer Garmin - Transitions s.t. 9 Sebastian Siedler Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 10 Bernhard Eisel Team HTC - Columbia s.t.
Spoiler
11 Alessandro Ballan BMC Racing Team s.t. 12 Matti Breschel Team Saxo Bank s.t. 13 Mauro Finetto Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 14 Greg Henderson Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 15 Daniele Pietropolli Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 16 Alexandre Usov ISD Continental Team s.t. 17 Julian Dean Garmin - Transitions s.t. 18 Jimmy Casper Saur - Sojasun s.t. 19 Lorenzo Bernucci Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 20 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank s.t. 21 Jacopo Guarnieri Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 22 René Weissinger Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 23 Grega Bole Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 24 Greg Van Avermaet Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 25 Ian Stannard Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 26 Denis Flahaut ISD Continental Team s.t. 27 Igor Abakoumov ISD Continental Team s.t. 28 Jimmy Engoulvent Saur - Sojasun s.t. 29 Matthew Wilson Garmin - Transitions s.t. 30 Allan Davis Astana s.t. 31 Stéphane Poulhiès Saur - Sojasun s.t. 32 Alessandro Petacchi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 33 Svein Tuft Garmin - Transitions s.t. 34 Mark Cavendish Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 35 Romain Matheou Saur - Sojasun s.t. 36 George Hincapie BMC Racing Team s.t. 37 Tom Veelers Skil - Shimano s.t. 38 Vicente Reynès Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 39 Daniele Bennati Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 40 Simone Ponzi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 41 Martijn Maaskant Garmin - Transitions s.t. 42 David Zabriskie Garmin - Transitions s.t. 43 Sergey Rudaskov Itera - Katusha s.t. 44 Mickaël Delage Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 45 Alex Rasmussen Team Saxo Bank s.t. 46 Bert Grabsch Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 47 Mirko Selvaggi Astana s.t. 48 Hayden Roulston Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 49 Johan Van Summeren Garmin - Transitions s.t. 50 Peter Sagan Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 51 Francesco Gavazzi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 52 Rasmus Guldhammer Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 53 Steve Houanard Skil - Shimano s.t. 54 Lucas Sebastián Haedo Team Saxo Bank s.t. 55 Stephen Cummings Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 56 Kristof Vandewalle Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 57 Christoph Sokoll Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 58 Jeff Louder BMC Racing Team s.t. 59 Bernardo Riccio CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 60 Frederik Willems Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 61 Adriano Malori Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 62 Fabian Cancellara Team Saxo Bank s.t. 63 Nikita Novikov Itera - Katusha s.t. 64 Anatoliy Pakthusov ISD Continental Team s.t. 65 Arkimedes Arguelyes Itera - Katusha s.t. 66 Christopher Sutton Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 67 Davide Viganò Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 68 Staf Scheirlinckx Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 69 Jay Thomson Fly V Australia s.t. 70 Davide Cimolai Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 71 Thomas De Gendt Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 72 Luca Ascani CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 73 Jonas Ljungblad Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 74 Ben Day Fly V Australia s.t. 75 Krisztian Lovassy Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 76 Lars Petter Nordhaug Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 77 Leif Hoste Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 78 Cédric Coutouly Saur - Sojasun s.t. 79 Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy Astana s.t. 80 Volodymyr Rybin ISD Continental Team s.t. 81 Laurent Mangel Saur - Sojasun s.t. 82 Bolat Raimbekov Astana s.t. 83 Davide Bonuccelli CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 84 Nicolas Portal Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 85 Alfredo Balloni Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 86 Evgueni Popov Itera - Katusha s.t. 87 Zoltan Madaras Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 88 Valeriy Dmitriyev Astana s.t. 89 Hubert Schwab Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 90 Alexander Mironov Itera - Katusha s.t. 91 Alexander Gufler Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 92 Jaroslaw Marycz Team Saxo Bank s.t. 93 Stuart O'Grady Team Saxo Bank s.t. 94 Leopold König PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 95 Walter Proch Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 96 Jakub DanacÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 97 Gianluca Coletta Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 98 Piet Rooijakkers Skil - Shimano s.t. 99 Tomasz Repinski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 100 Maciej Bodnar Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 101 Fabrice Jeandesboz Saur - Sojasun s.t. 102 Ben Kersten Fly V Australia s.t. 103 Floris Goesinnen Skil - Shimano s.t. 104 Olivier Kaisen Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 105 David Jai Crawford Fly V Australia s.t. 106 Reto Hollenstein Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 107 Job Vissers Skil - Shimano s.t. 108 Kenny De Ketele Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 109 Silvère Ackermann Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 110 Cyril Bessy Saur - Sojasun s.t. 111 Robert Wagner Skil - Shimano s.t. 112 Michael Mørkøv Team Saxo Bank s.t. 113 Sergey Renev Astana s.t. 114 Petr Ignatenko Itera - Katusha s.t. 115 David Deroo Skil - Shimano s.t. 116 Darren Lill Fly V Australia s.t. 117 David Puskas Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 118 Pieter Vanspeybroeck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 119 Chris Barton BMC Racing Team s.t. 120 Steven Van Vooren Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 121 Petr BencÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 122 Adam Sznitko CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 123 Alexander Porsev Itera - Katusha s.t. 124 Tomáš Buchácek PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 125 Daniele Callegarin CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 126 Jérôme Baugnies Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 127 Alexander Kristoff BMC Racing Team s.t. 128 Jaroslaw Rebiewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 129 Grégory Joseph Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 130 Tomasz Marczynski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 131 Maksym Vasilyev ISD Continental Team s.t. 132 Artem Topchanyuk ISD Continental Team s.t. 133 Adrian Honkisz CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 134 Domenico Agosta CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 135 Sylwester Janiszewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 136 Danilo Andrenacci CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 137 Maciej Paterski Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 138 Bernard Sulzberger Fly V Australia s.t. 139 Luca Zanasca CDC - Cavaliere + 1'29 140 Eugenio Loria CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 141 Scott Nydam BMC Racing Team s.t. 142 Adriano Angeloni Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 143 Péter Simon Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 144 Rostislav Mykhaylov ISD Continental Team s.t. 145 Jonathan Cantwell Fly V Australia s.t. 146 Jin Long Skil - Shimano s.t. 147 Andriy Grivko Astana s.t. 148 David Kemp Fly V Australia s.t. 149 Marcin Tomaszewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 150 Tomasz Kiendys CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 151 Michael Schär BMC Racing Team s.t. 152 Stijn Neirynck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 153 Roberto Antonio Richeze Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 154 Matic Strgar Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 155 Tomas Danacik PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t.
GC:
1 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions 5h37'54 2 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 3 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 4 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank + 8 5 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto + 12 6 Gianluca Coletta Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 14 7 Mirko Selvaggi Astana + 16 8 Daniele Callegarin CDC - Cavaliere + 18 9 Alexandre Usov ISD Continental Team + 20 10 Jimmy Casper Saur - Sojasun s.t.
Points:
1 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions 39 2 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto 36 3 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia 25 4 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank 20 5 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto 16
U25:
1 Mirko Selvaggi Astana 5h38'10 2 Greg Van Avermaet Omega Pharma - Lotto + 4 3 Grega Bole Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 4 Jacopo Guarnieri Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 5 Mauro Finetto Liquigas - Doimo s.t.
Team:
1 PSK Whirlpool - Author 16h54'42 2 Fly V Australia s.t. 3 Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t.
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Posted on 08-10-2010 01:52
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Tour of Oman: Stage 3: Saifat Ash Shiekh - Qurayy: 139.5km
Again, flat.
Today, Saur-Sojasun would try to take place in the breakaway. After two days of staying in the peloton, it was time for some of the riders to test their legs.
Cyril Bessy and Laurent Mangel would both try to make the move.
Bessy and Mangel attacking with an Omega rider.
Both of the riders would successfully make the break with 9 other riders. The 11 riders took a while to start working together, making their prospects bleak.
Bernado Riccio of CDC - Cavaliere drives the break on.
As predicted the break would be reeled in. Mangel, the last rider ahead on the road, was wrapped up with 9.3km remaining.
Hoping to rebound after a disappointing result yesterday, Saur-Sojasun worked to set the pace at the end of the stage. Unlike yesterday, their sprint train was at the head of the group.
Saur-Sojasun and Omega Pharma - Lotto next and next, leading the field.
However, once again, Romain Matheou failed to carry out his duties. The hard work to place the sprint train had drained him, and again, Jimmy Engoulvent and Jimmy Casper had to do too much work. Casper would finish in 12th.
HTC would again be in the thick of things, with Mark Renshaw and André Greipel both closing extremely fast. However, unlike yesterday, they would have to settle for the podium places.
The other sprint train battling with Saur-Sojasun on the run-in did a great job launching sprinter Kenny De Haes, who would take the win just ahead of the HTC riders and Tyler Farrar.
De Haes would take the overall race lead with the win.
Results:
1 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto 3h02'37 2 Mark Renshaw Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 3 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 4 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions s.t. 5 Matti Breschel Team Saxo Bank s.t. 6 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank s.t. 7 Daniele Pietropolli Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 8 Sebastian Siedler Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 9 Jacopo Guarnieri Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 10 Bernhard Eisel Team HTC - Columbia s.t.
Spoiler
10 Bernhard Eisel Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 11 Allan Davis Astana s.t. 12 Jimmy Casper Saur - Sojasun s.t. 13 Greg Henderson Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 14 Alexandre Usov ISD Continental Team s.t. 15 Volodymyr Rybin ISD Continental Team s.t. 16 Evgueni Popov Itera - Katusha s.t. 17 Matthew Wilson Garmin - Transitions s.t. 18 Jaroslaw Rebiewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 19 Krisztian Lovassy Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 20 Walter Proch Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 21 Anatoliy Pakthusov ISD Continental Team s.t. 22 Alex Rasmussen Team Saxo Bank s.t. 23 Julian Dean Garmin - Transitions s.t. 24 Mauro Finetto Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 25 Denis Flahaut ISD Continental Team s.t. 26 Igor Abakoumov ISD Continental Team s.t. 27 Grega Bole Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 28 Martijn Maaskant Garmin - Transitions s.t. 29 Jonas Ljungblad Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 30 Jaroslaw Marycz Team Saxo Bank s.t. 31 Mickaël Delage Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 32 Davide Viganò Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 33 Romain Matheou Saur - Sojasun s.t. 34 Mirko Selvaggi Astana s.t. 35 Olivier Kaisen Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 36 Stéphane Poulhiès Saur - Sojasun s.t. 37 Jimmy Engoulvent Saur - Sojasun s.t. 38 Lucas Sebastián Haedo Team Saxo Bank s.t. 39 Vicente Reynès Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 40 Mark Cavendish Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 41 Johan Van Summeren Garmin - Transitions s.t. 42 Davide Cimolai Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 43 Fabian Cancellara Team Saxo Bank s.t. 44 George Hincapie BMC Racing Team s.t. 45 Francesco Gavazzi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 46 Rasmus Guldhammer Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 47 Matic Strgar Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 48 Hayden Roulston Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 49 Lorenzo Bernucci Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 50 Bert Grabsch Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 51 Hubert Schwab Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 52 Simone Ponzi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 53 Artem Topchanyuk ISD Continental Team s.t. 54 Daniele Bennati Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 55 Jay Thomson Fly V Australia s.t. 56 Adrian Honkisz CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 57 Svein Tuft Garmin - Transitions s.t. 58 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 59 Stephen Cummings Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 60 Alexander Gufler Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 61 Ben Day Fly V Australia s.t. 62 Piet Rooijakkers Skil - Shimano s.t. 63 Jeff Louder BMC Racing Team s.t. 64 Maksym Vasilyev ISD Continental Team s.t. 65 Robert Wagner Skil - Shimano s.t. 66 Alessandro Petacchi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 67 David Zabriskie Garmin - Transitions s.t. 68 Nicolas Portal Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 69 Travis Meyer Garmin - Transitions s.t. 70 Michael Schär BMC Racing Team s.t. 71 Cédric Coutouly Saur - Sojasun s.t. 72 Frederik Willems Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 73 Adriano Malori Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 74 Stijn Neirynck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 75 Christopher Sutton Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 76 Lars Petter Nordhaug Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 77 Bernardo Riccio CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 78 Maciej Paterski Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 79 Steve Houanard Skil - Shimano s.t. 80 Tom Veelers Skil - Shimano s.t. 81 Job Vissers Skil - Shimano s.t. 82 Luca Ascani CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 83 Arkimedes Arguelyes Itera - Katusha s.t. 84 Kenny De Ketele Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 85 Pieter Vanspeybroeck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 86 Scott Nydam BMC Racing Team s.t. 87 Alexander Kristoff BMC Racing Team s.t. 88 Staf Scheirlinckx Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 89 Michael Mørkøv Team Saxo Bank s.t. 90 Alessandro Ballan BMC Racing Team s.t. 91 Gianluca Coletta Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 92 Grégory Joseph Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 93 Marcus Burghardt BMC Racing Team s.t. 94 Leif Hoste Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 95 Maciej Bodnar Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 96 Kristof Vandewalle Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 97 Jérôme Baugnies Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 98 Juan Antonio Flecha Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 99 Jonathan Cantwell Fly V Australia s.t. 100 Thomas De Gendt Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 101 David Jai Crawford Fly V Australia s.t. 102 Ian Stannard Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 103 Stuart O'Grady Team Saxo Bank s.t. 104 Alfredo Balloni Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 105 Bernard Sulzberger Fly V Australia s.t. 106 Christoph Sokoll Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 107 Greg Van Avermaet Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 108 Rostislav Mykhaylov ISD Continental Team s.t. 109 Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy Astana s.t. 110 René Weissinger Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 111 Darren Lill Fly V Australia s.t. 112 Davide Bonuccelli CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 113 Silvère Ackermann Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 114 David Kemp Fly V Australia s.t. 115 Peter Sagan Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 116 Eugenio Loria CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 117 Bolat Raimbekov Astana s.t. 118 Sergey Rudaskov Itera - Katusha s.t. 119 Jakub DanacÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 120 Zoltan Madaras Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 121 Ben Kersten Fly V Australia s.t. 122 Tomasz Repinski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 123 Valeriy Dmitriyev Astana s.t. 124 Alexander Mironov Itera - Katusha s.t. 125 Petr Ignatenko Itera - Katusha s.t. 126 Leopold König PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 127 Jin Long Skil - Shimano s.t. 128 Nikita Novikov Itera - Katusha s.t. 129 Luca Zanasca CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 130 Fabrice Jeandesboz Saur - Sojasun s.t. 131 David Puskas Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 132 Marcin Tomaszewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 133 Sergey Renev Astana s.t. 134 Domenico Agosta CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 135 Andriy Grivko Astana s.t. 136 Daniele Callegarin CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 137 Sylwester Janiszewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 138 Petr BencÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 139 Danilo Andrenacci CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 140 Chris Barton BMC Racing Team s.t. 141 Tomasz Marczynski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 142 David Deroo Skil - Shimano s.t. 143 Tomáš Buchácek PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 144 Adam Sznitko CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 145 Péter Simon Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 146 Floris Goesinnen Skil - Shimano s.t. 147 Steven Van Vooren Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 148 Laurent Mangel Saur - Sojasun s.t. 149 Tomasz Kiendys CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 150 Adriano Angeloni Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 151 Cyril Bessy Saur - Sojasun s.t. 152 Tomas Danacik PSK Whirlpool - Author + 1'37 153 Roberto Antonio Richeze Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 154 Reto Hollenstein Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 155 Alexander Porsev Itera - Katusha s.t.
GC:
1 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto 8h40'11 2 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia + 12 3 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions + 20 4 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank + 28 5 Mark Renshaw Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 6 Igor Abakoumov ISD Continental Team + 32 7 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 8 Gianluca Coletta Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 34 9 Steven Van Vooren Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 10 Mirko Selvaggi Astana + 36
Points:
1 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto 61 2 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions 53 3 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia 41 4 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank 30 5 Mark Renshaw Team HTC - Columbia 29 6 Jimmy Casper Saur - Sojasun 18 7 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto 16 8 Matti Breschel Team Saxo Bank 16 9 Sebastian Siedler Vorarlberg - Corratec 15 10 Alexandre Usov ISD Continental Team 14
U25:
1 Steven Van Vooren Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator 8h40'45 2 Mirko Selvaggi Astana + 2 3 Jacopo Guarnieri Liquigas - Doimo + 6 4 Grega Bole Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 5 Mauro Finetto Liquigas - Doimo s.t.
Team:
1 PSK Whirlpool - Author 26h02'33 2 Fly V Australia s.t. 3 Itera - Katusha s.t.
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Tour of Oman: Stage 4: Ibri - Nakhal: 135.2km
Nothing new, another mass sprint finish should be expected.
7 riders would form an early breakaway. They were Michael Schär (BMC), Tomasz Kiendys (CCC Polstat), Christoph Sokoll (Vorarlberg - Corratec), Volodymyr Rybin (ISD CT), Pieter Vanspeybroeck (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator), David Kemp (Fly V), and Tomáš Buchácek (PSK Whirpool).
The BOTD
The break would get a maximum lead of 5'02" with 86km remaining before Omega Pharma - Lotto began to work in order to protect Kenny De Haes' lead.
The run-in to the finish was not without some action, as with 45km left, Hayden Roulston (HTC), Johan Van Summeren (Garmin), and Chris Sutton (Sky) would jump out of the peloton.
Three attacking riders jump out of the main field.
Roulston would get a better jump than the other two, and eventually bridge to the slowing break. However, it was futile move, as ever rider was closed down before the 10km banner was passed.
The sprint was a bit unorganized, and no real trains formed. This would certainly benefit some, but who?
Bernhard Eisel (HTC), JJ Haedo (Saxobank), and Allan Davis (Astana) all were well positioned as the sprint started. It looked as though the winner would come from these three.
Jimmy Casper was a bit further back, with Mark Cavendish and Mark Renshaw, the former being conspicuously absent thus far in the race.
Casper is too far back as the line approaches. But can Cav do anything?
Casper would do better today, coming in 9th.
The winner would come from that leading group of 3 in the form of Davis, who used Eisel's wheel to propel himself to victory.
However, the story of the day was Cavendish's awakening from his winter slumber, closing extremely fast to finish 4th. Surely if he opened up his sprint a bit earlier he would've won. Perhaps the Manx Missile is just now finding form.
Davis slips by Eisel for the win.
Results:
1 Allan Davis Astana 2h57'36 2 Bernhard Eisel Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 3 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank s.t. 4 Mark Cavendish Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 5 Daniele Pietropolli Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 6 Mark Renshaw Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 7 Sebastian Siedler Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 8 Alexandre Usov ISD Continental Team s.t. 9 Jimmy Casper Saur - Sojasun s.t. 10 Greg Henderson Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t.
Spoiler
10 Greg Henderson Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 11 Jacopo Guarnieri Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 12 Greg Van Avermaet Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 13 Juan Antonio Flecha Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 14 Marcus Burghardt BMC Racing Team s.t. 15 Alessandro Ballan BMC Racing Team s.t. 16 Peter Sagan Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 17 Kenny De Ketele Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 18 Igor Abakoumov ISD Continental Team s.t. 19 René Weissinger Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 20 Leif Hoste Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 21 Mauro Finetto Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 22 Alessandro Petacchi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 23 Jimmy Engoulvent Saur - Sojasun s.t. 24 Denis Flahaut ISD Continental Team s.t. 25 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions s.t. 26 Julian Dean Garmin - Transitions s.t. 27 Grega Bole Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 28 Daniele Bennati Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 29 Matic Strgar Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 30 Silvère Ackermann Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 31 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 32 Reto Hollenstein Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 33 Stuart O'Grady Team Saxo Bank s.t. 34 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 35 Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy Astana s.t. 36 Anatoliy Pakthusov ISD Continental Team s.t. 37 Thomas De Gendt Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 38 Matthew Wilson Garmin - Transitions s.t. 39 Mirko Selvaggi Astana s.t. 40 Martijn Maaskant Garmin - Transitions s.t. 41 Stéphane Poulhiès Saur - Sojasun s.t. 42 Francesco Gavazzi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 43 Frederik Willems Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 44 Tom Veelers Skil - Shimano s.t. 45 Fabian Cancellara Team Saxo Bank s.t. 46 Lorenzo Bernucci Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 47 Romain Matheou Saur - Sojasun s.t. 48 Alfredo Balloni Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 49 Davide Cimolai Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 50 Hayden Roulston Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 51 Bert Grabsch Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 52 Johan Van Summeren Garmin - Transitions s.t. 53 Christopher Sutton Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 54 Piet Rooijakkers Skil - Shimano s.t. 55 David Zabriskie Garmin - Transitions s.t. 56 Steven Van Vooren Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 57 Bernardo Riccio CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 58 Rasmus Guldhammer Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 59 Jay Thomson Fly V Australia s.t. 60 George Hincapie BMC Racing Team s.t. 61 Valeriy Dmitriyev Astana s.t. 62 Bolat Raimbekov Astana s.t. 63 Laurent Mangel Saur - Sojasun s.t. 64 Stephen Cummings Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 65 Hubert Schwab Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 66 Andriy Grivko Astana s.t. 67 Kristof Vandewalle Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 68 Ben Day Fly V Australia s.t. 69 Sergey Renev Astana s.t. 70 Simone Ponzi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 71 Luca Ascani CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 72 Maciej Paterski Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 73 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 74 Jakub DanacÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 75 Jérôme Baugnies Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 76 Staf Scheirlinckx Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 77 Eugenio Loria CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 78 Domenico Agosta CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 79 Volodymyr Rybin ISD Continental Team s.t. 80 Luca Zanasca CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 81 Ian Stannard Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 82 Davide Bonuccelli CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 83 Leopold König PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 84 Evgueni Popov Itera - Katusha s.t. 85 Adriano Malori Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 86 Sergey Rudaskov Itera - Katusha s.t. 87 Artem Topchanyuk ISD Continental Team s.t. 88 Alexander Gufler Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 89 Lucas Sebastián Haedo Team Saxo Bank s.t. 90 Petr Ignatenko Itera - Katusha s.t. 91 Maksym Vasilyev ISD Continental Team s.t. 92 Krisztian Lovassy Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 93 Péter Simon Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 94 Maciej Bodnar Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 95 Daniele Callegarin CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 96 Michael Schär BMC Racing Team s.t. 97 Jonathan Cantwell Fly V Australia s.t. 98 Arkimedes Arguelyes Itera - Katusha s.t. 99 Alexander Mironov Itera - Katusha s.t. 100 Alexander Porsev Itera - Katusha s.t. 101 Lars Petter Nordhaug Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 102 Davide Viganò Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 103 Alex Rasmussen Team Saxo Bank s.t. 104 Svein Tuft Garmin - Transitions s.t. 105 Gianluca Coletta Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 106 Cédric Coutouly Saur - Sojasun s.t. 107 Matti Breschel Team Saxo Bank s.t. 108 Travis Meyer Garmin - Transitions s.t. 109 Vicente Reynès Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 110 Fabrice Jeandesboz Saur - Sojasun s.t. 111 Nikita Novikov Itera - Katusha s.t. 112 Mickaël Delage Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 113 Floris Goesinnen Skil - Shimano s.t. 114 Jarosaw Rebiewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 115 Jonas Ljungblad Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 116 Sylwester Janiszewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 117 Ben Kersten Fly V Australia s.t. 118 Stijn Neirynck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 119 Adam Sznitko CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 120 Cyril Bessy Saur - Sojasun s.t. 121 Scott Nydam BMC Racing Team s.t. 122 Zoltan Madaras Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 123 Jeff Louder BMC Racing Team s.t. 124 Job Vissers Skil - Shimano s.t. 125 Tomasz Marczynski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 126 David Deroo Skil - Shimano s.t. 127 Steve Houanard Skil - Shimano s.t. 128 Alexander Kristoff BMC Racing Team s.t. 129 Nicolas Portal Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 130 Michael Mørkøv Team Saxo Bank s.t. 131 Adrian Honkisz CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 132 Tomasz Repinski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 133 Chris Barton BMC Racing Team s.t. 134 Bernard Sulzberger Fly V Australia s.t. 135 Robert Wagner Skil - Shimano s.t. 136 Darren Lill Fly V Australia s.t. 137 Walter Proch Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 138 Grégory Joseph Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 139 David Jai Crawford Fly V Australia s.t. 140 Adriano Angeloni Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 141 Tomasz Kiendys CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 142 Petr BencÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 143 Danilo Andrenacci CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 144 Tomáš Buchácek PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 145 Marcin Tomaszewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 146 Jaroslaw Marycz Team Saxo Bank s.t. 147 Olivier Kaisen Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 148 Rostislav Mykhaylov ISD Continental Team s.t. 149 Jin Long Skil - Shimano s.t. 150 Christoph Sokoll Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 151 Pieter Vanspeybroeck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 152 David Puskas Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 153 Tomas Danacik PSK Whirlpool - Author + 2'16 154 David Kemp Fly V Australia s.t. 155 Roberto Antonio Richeze Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t.
GC:
1 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto 11h37'47 2 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia + 12 3 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank + 20 4 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions s.t. 5 Allan Davis Astana s.t. 6 Bernhard Eisel Team HTC - Columbia + 28 7 Mark Renshaw Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 8 Igor Abakoumov ISD Continental Team + 32 9 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 10 Volodymyr Rybin ISD Continental Team + 34
Points:
1 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto 61 2 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions 53 3 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank 46 4 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia 41 5 Mark Renshaw Team HTC - Columbia 39
U25:
1 Steven Van Vooren Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator 11h38'21 2 Mirko Selvaggi Astana + 2 3 Pieter Vanspeybroeck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 4 Jacopo Guarnieri Liquigas - Doimo + 6 5 Mauro Finetto Liquigas - Doimo s.t.
Team:
1 PSK Whirlpool - Author 34h55'21 2 Fly V Australia s.t. 3 Itera - Katusha s.t.
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Tour of Oman: Stage 5: Wattayat - Sultan Qaboos Stadium: 139.5km
The last flat stage and last chance for a Saur-Sojasun victory.
Because of the this, the team did not send any riders in the breakaway. Given the sprint trains' poor performance setting up Jimmy Casper, team management wanted extra riders on hand in case reinforcements were needed.
A break of 11 riders formed including white jersey wearer Steven Van Vooren (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator).
Another doomed break travelling through Oman.
As expected, the peloton easily reeled in the breakaway with 15.4km left in the stage.
When the sprint trains were forming, Romain Matheou lost control of his bike, and fell. Thankfully, no other Saur riders were affected, but many other riders could not avoid the fallen Frenchman.
Matheou picks up his bike as other riders start to lick their wounds.
Several riders would abandon due to injuries, but no notable riders were caught up by the mess.
Perhaps by coincidence, or perhaps not, but with Matheou, the Saur-Sojasun sprint train worked much more effectively today, launching Casper on the left. On the right side of the road Alessandro Petacchi and JJ Haedo were level with Mark Cavendish in Petacchi's wheel.
Cavendish emerging from Petacchi's slipstream, with all pushing for the win.
Casper would record his best result of the race, coming in 3rd. He would just edge out the Argentinian Haedo, who had previously beaten Casper in all but one stage during the Tour of Oman.
Cavendish was clearly regaining his famous finishing burst, but on this day, he did not have enough to pass Ale-Jet. Petacchi would claim the last sprinter's stage in the Tour of Oman.
Interestingly, with such a strong field of sprinters, every sprint stage saw a unique winner. However, Kenny De Haes would go into the final time trial leading.
Petacchi starting to celebrate his win.
Results:
1) Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre)
2) Mark Cavendish (HTC)
3) Jimmy Casper (Saur - Sojasun)
4) JJ Haedo (Saxobank)
5) Alexandre Usov (ISD CT)
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Tour of Oman: Stage 6: Al Jissah - Muscat Corniche: 26.2km
The final stage of the Tour of Oman would likely decide the overall GC. A 26.2km individual time trial would surely separate the riders after 5 pan flat stages. With no major climbs, this stage seems tailor made for Swiss machine Fabian Cancellara, who lies 40" off the lead.
Saur - Sojasun's team, to put it lightly, is very suspect in this discipline and the team management is expecting very little.
Jimmy Engoulvent was the best placed Saur - Sojasun rider, finishing 20th in 37'59". A pleasant surprise for the team.
The sun was shining as Polish champion Maciej Bodnar (Liquigas) sets the early time to beat, 37'47".
Bodnar held this time for a while, until Leif Hoste, seen pushing for the line, beat him by 9 seconds.
The very next rider, Svein Tuft, would come in at 37'35", lowering the best time further by 3 seconds.
Straight out of a Terminator movie, Stephen Cummings would have an excellent time trial, finishing 5th.
A bit long in the tooth, Bert Grabsch shows he still has ability, finishing 1 second better than Cummings for 4th.
George Hincapie rounded off a good time trial for BMC with a 3rd place finish.
3-time WC ITT Champion Cancellara is on the course. Can anyone beat him?
David Zabriskie getting out of his saddle, giving everything he had. He would finish in 37'04". Would that time hold up?
Not even close. Cancellara crossing the line in 35'57" to take the stage and the overall victory.
Results:
1 Fabian Cancellara Team Saxo Bank 35'57 2 David Zabriskie Garmin - Transitions + 1'07 3 George Hincapie BMC Racing Team + 1'11 4 Bert Grabsch Team HTC - Columbia + 1'16 5 Stephen Cummings Sky Professional Cycling Team + 1'17 6 Daniele Bennati Liquigas - Doimo + 1'30 7 Alessandro Ballan BMC Racing Team + 1'37 8 Svein Tuft Garmin - Transitions + 1'38 9 Leif Hoste Omega Pharma - Lotto + 1'41 10 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto + 1'43
Spoiler
11 Piet Rooijakkers Skil - Shimano s.t. 12 Peter Sagan Liquigas - Doimo + 1'48 13 Marcus Burghardt BMC Racing Team + 1'49 14 Maciej Bodnar Liquigas - Doimo + 1'50 15 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions + 1'55 16 Luca Ascani CDC - Cavaliere + 1'57 17 Johan Van Summeren Garmin - Transitions + 2'00 18 Travis Meyer Garmin - Transitions + 2'01 19 Ian Stannard Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 20 Jimmy Engoulvent Saur - Sojasun + 2'02 21 Juan Antonio Flecha Sky Professional Cycling Team + 2'05 22 Alfredo Balloni Lampre - Farnese Vini + 2'08 23 Alex Rasmussen Team Saxo Bank + 2'09 24 Ben Day Fly V Australia + 2'10 25 Greg Van Avermaet Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 26 Kristof Vandewalle Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator + 2'12 27 Kenny De Ketele Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator + 2'14 28 Adriano Malori Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 29 Martijn Maaskant Garmin - Transitions + 2'17 30 Thomas De Gendt Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator + 2'18 31 Steve Houanard Skil - Shimano + 2'20 32 Christopher Sutton Sky Professional Cycling Team + 2'22 33 Tomasz Kiendys CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 34 Stuart O'Grady Team Saxo Bank + 2'25 35 Hayden Roulston Team HTC - Columbia + 2'26 36 Andriy Grivko Astana s.t. 37 René Weissinger Vorarlberg - Corratec + 2'28 38 Matti Breschel Team Saxo Bank s.t. 39 Mauro Finetto Liquigas - Doimo + 2'30 40 Rasmus Guldhammer Team HTC - Columbia + 2'34 41 Grega Bole Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 42 Nicolas Portal Sky Professional Cycling Team + 2'35 43 Alessandro Petacchi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 44 Mark Cavendish Team HTC - Columbia + 2'39 45 Cyril Bessy Saur - Sojasun + 2'40 46 Tom Veelers Skil - Shimano s.t. 47 Lorenzo Bernucci Lampre - Farnese Vini + 2'42 48 Matthew Wilson Garmin - Transitions s.t. 49 Greg Henderson Sky Professional Cycling Team + 2'44 50 Silvère Ackermann Vorarlberg - Corratec + 2'45 51 Michael Schär BMC Racing Team + 2'46 52 Leopold König PSK Whirlpool - Author + 2'48 53 Reto Hollenstein Vorarlberg - Corratec + 2'49 54 Darren Lill Fly V Australia s.t. 55 Pieter Vanspeybroeck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator + 2'51 56 Michael Mørkøv Team Saxo Bank s.t. 57 Olivier Kaisen Omega Pharma - Lotto + 2'52 58 Hubert Schwab Vorarlberg - Corratec + 2'53 59 Nikita Novikov Itera - Katusha + 2'54 60 Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy Astana s.t. 61 Jay Thomson Fly V Australia s.t. 62 Daniele Pietropolli Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 63 Petr Ignatenko Itera - Katusha + 2'55 64 Staf Scheirlinckx Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 65 Jeff Louder BMC Racing Team + 2'56 66 Lars Petter Nordhaug Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 67 Zoltan Madaras Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 2'57 68 David Jai Crawford Fly V Australia s.t. 69 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 70 Alexander Porsev Itera - Katusha s.t. 71 Daniele Callegarin CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 72 Davide Bonuccelli CDC - Cavaliere + 2'58 73 Francesco Gavazzi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 74 Bernhard Eisel Team HTC - Columbia + 2'59 75 Stijn Neirynck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 76 Floris Goesinnen Skil - Shimano s.t. 77 Alexander Kristoff BMC Racing Team + 3'00 78 Adam Sznitko CCC Polsat Polkowice + 3'01 79 Péter Simon Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 3'02 80 Evgueni Popov Itera - Katusha s.t. 81 Laurent Mangel Saur - Sojasun + 3'03 82 Frederik Willems Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 83 Tomáš Buchácek PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 84 Ben Kersten Fly V Australia + 3'04 85 Mark Renshaw Team HTC - Columbia + 3'07 86 Allan Davis Astana s.t. 87 Jaroslaw Rebiewski CCC Polsat Polkowice + 3'09 88 Sergey Rudaskov Itera - Katusha + 3'10 89 Volodymyr Rybin ISD Continental Team + 3'11 90 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank + 3'12 91 Krisztian Lovassy Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 92 Luca Zanasca CDC - Cavaliere + 3'13 93 Tomasz Marczynski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 94 Arkimedes Arguelyes Itera - Katusha + 3'14 95 Chris Barton BMC Racing Team + 3'17 96 Jonathan Cantwell Fly V Australia s.t. 97 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia + 3'18 98 Anatoliy Pakthusov ISD Continental Team s.t. 99 Grégory Joseph Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 100 Julian Dean Garmin - Transitions s.t. 101 Jakub DanacÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author + 3'19 102 Gianluca Coletta Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 103 David Kemp Fly V Australia + 3'20 104 Mickaël Delage Omega Pharma - Lotto + 3'21 105 Vicente Reynès Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 106 Lucas Sebastián Haedo Team Saxo Bank s.t. 107 Davide Cimolai Liquigas - Doimo s.t. 108 Simone Ponzi Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 109 Jonas Ljungblad Omega Pharma - Lotto + 3'22 110 Eugenio Loria CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 111 Jaroslaw Marycz Team Saxo Bank s.t. 112 Mirko Selvaggi Astana + 3'23 113 Romain Matheou Saur - Sojasun s.t. 114 Igor Abakoumov ISD Continental Team s.t. 115 Domenico Agosta CDC - Cavaliere + 3'25 116 Jérôme Baugnies Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator + 3'26 117 Sebastian Siedler Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 118 Steven Van Vooren Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator + 3'27 119 Scott Nydam BMC Racing Team s.t. 120 Sylwester Janiszewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 121 Denis Flahaut ISD Continental Team + 3'30 122 Alexandre Usov ISD Continental Team s.t. 123 Walter Proch Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 3'32 124 Petr BencÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 125 Robert Wagner Skil - Shimano + 3'33 126 Maciej Paterski Liquigas - Doimo + 3'34 127 Fabrice Jeandesboz Saur - Sojasun s.t. 128 Bernard Sulzberger Fly V Australia + 3'35 129 Artem Topchanyuk ISD Continental Team s.t. 130 Maksym Vasilyev ISD Continental Team + 3'36 131 Marcin Tomaszewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 132 Stéphane Poulhiès Saur - Sojasun + 3'37 133 Valeriy Dmitriyev Astana + 3'38 134 Alexander Gufler Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 135 Bolat Raimbekov Astana s.t. 136 Tomasz Repinski CCC Polsat Polkowice + 3'41 137 Danilo Andrenacci CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 138 Christoph Sokoll Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 139 Sergey Renev Astana s.t. 140 Jacopo Guarnieri Liquigas - Doimo + 3'42 141 Jin Long Skil - Shimano s.t. 142 Roberto Antonio Richeze Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 s.t. 143 Bernardo Riccio CDC - Cavaliere + 3'43 144 David Deroo Skil - Shimano + 3'45 145 Alexander Mironov Itera - Katusha + 3'47 146 Rostislav Mykhaylov ISD Continental Team + 3'48 147 Matic Strgar Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 148 Davide Viganò Sky Professional Cycling Team + 3'50 149 Tomas Danacik PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 150 Adrian Honkisz CCC Polsat Polkowice + 3'58 151 David Puskas Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 4'01 152 Job Vissers Skil - Shimano + 4'07 153 Adriano Angeloni Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 4'08 154 Cédric Coutouly Saur - Sojasun + 4'12 155 Jimmy Casper Saur - Sojasun + 4'15
GC:
1 Fabian Cancellara Team Saxo Bank 15h19'43 2 David Zabriskie Garmin - Transitions + 1'07 3 George Hincapie BMC Racing Team + 1'11 4 Bert Grabsch Team HTC - Columbia + 1'16 5 Stephen Cummings Sky Professional Cycling Team + 1'17 6 Daniele Bennati Liquigas - Doimo + 1'30 7 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions + 1'35 8 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 9 Alessandro Ballan BMC Racing Team + 1'37 10 Svein Tuft Garmin - Transitions + 1'38 11 Leif Hoste Omega Pharma - Lotto + 1'41 12 Piet Rooijakkers Skil - Shimano + 1'43 13 Maciej Bodnar Liquigas - Doimo + 1'50 14 Luca Ascani CDC - Cavaliere + 1'57 15 Johan Van Summeren Garmin - Transitions + 2'00 16 Travis Meyer Garmin - Transitions + 2'01 17 Ian Stannard Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 18 Jimmy Engoulvent Saur - Sojasun + 2'02 19 Juan Antonio Flecha Sky Professional Cycling Team + 2'05 20 Alfredo Balloni Lampre - Farnese Vini + 2'08 21 Alex Rasmussen Team Saxo Bank + 2'09 22 Greg Van Avermaet Omega Pharma - Lotto + 2'10 23 Ben Day Fly V Australia s.t. 24 Kristof Vandewalle Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator + 2'12 25 Adriano Malori Lampre - Farnese Vini + 2'14 26 Kenny De Ketele Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 27 Alessandro Petacchi Lampre - Farnese Vini + 2'15 28 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto + 2'17 29 Martijn Maaskant Garmin - Transitions s.t. 30 Thomas De Gendt Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator + 2'18 31 Steve Houanard Skil - Shimano + 2'20 32 Christopher Sutton Sky Professional Cycling Team + 2'22 33 Stuart O'Grady Team Saxo Bank + 2'25 34 Hayden Roulston Team HTC - Columbia + 2'26 35 Mark Cavendish Team HTC - Columbia + 2'27 36 Matti Breschel Team Saxo Bank + 2'28 37 René Weissinger Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 38 Mauro Finetto Liquigas - Doimo + 2'30 39 Grega Bole Lampre - Farnese Vini + 2'34 40 Rasmus Guldhammer Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 41 Nicolas Portal Sky Professional Cycling Team + 2'35 42 Tom Veelers Skil - Shimano + 2'40 43 Cyril Bessy Saur - Sojasun s.t. 44 Matthew Wilson Garmin - Transitions + 2'42 45 Lorenzo Bernucci Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 46 Silvère Ackermann Vorarlberg - Corratec + 2'45 47 Bernhard Eisel Team HTC - Columbia + 2'47 48 Allan Davis Astana s.t. 49 Pieter Vanspeybroeck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 50 Leopold König PSK Whirlpool - Author + 2'48 51 Darren Lill Fly V Australia + 2'49 52 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia + 2'50 53 Michael Mørkøv Team Saxo Bank + 2'51 54 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank + 2'52 55 Olivier Kaisen Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 56 Hubert Schwab Vorarlberg - Corratec + 2'53 57 Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy Astana + 2'54 58 Jay Thomson Fly V Australia s.t. 59 Nikita Novikov Itera - Katusha s.t. 60 Mark Renshaw Team HTC - Columbia + 2'55 61 Staf Scheirlinckx Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 62 Daniele Callegarin CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 63 Lars Petter Nordhaug Sky Professional Cycling Team + 2'56 64 Jeff Louder BMC Racing Team s.t. 65 Zoltan Madaras Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 2'57 66 Tomáš Buchácek PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 67 Francesco Gavazzi Lampre - Farnese Vini + 2'58 68 Davide Bonuccelli CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 69 Frederik Willems Liquigas - Doimo + 2'59 70 Floris Goesinnen Skil - Shimano s.t. 71 Alexander Kristoff BMC Racing Team + 3'00 72 Laurent Mangel Saur - Sojasun + 3'01 73 Evgueni Popov Itera - Katusha + 3'02 74 Ben Kersten Fly V Australia + 3'04 75 Volodymyr Rybin ISD Continental Team + 3'05 76 Krisztian Lovassy Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 3'10 77 Sergey Rudaskov Itera - Katusha s.t. 78 Gianluca Coletta Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 3'13 79 Jakub DanacÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 80 Arkimedes Arguelyes Itera - Katusha + 3'14 81 Julian Dean Garmin - Transitions + 3'18 82 Anatoliy Pakthusov ISD Continental Team s.t. 83 Grégory Joseph Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 84 Mirko Selvaggi Astana + 3'19 85 Davide Cimolai Liquigas - Doimo + 3'21 86 Vicente Reynès Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 87 Mickaël Delage Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 88 Lucas Sebastián Haedo Team Saxo Bank s.t. 89 Steven Van Vooren Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 90 Jonas Ljungblad Omega Pharma - Lotto + 3'22 91 Sebastian Siedler Vorarlberg - Corratec + 3'26 92 Jérôme Baugnies Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 93 Alexandre Usov ISD Continental Team + 3'30 94 Denis Flahaut ISD Continental Team s.t. 95 Walter Proch Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 3'32 96 Petr BencÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author s.t. 97 Robert Wagner Skil - Shimano + 3'33 98 Maciej Paterski Liquigas - Doimo + 3'34 99 Fabrice Jeandesboz Saur - Sojasun s.t. 100 Artem Topchanyuk ISD Continental Team + 3'35 101 Bernard Sulzberger Fly V Australia s.t. 102 Maksym Vasilyev ISD Continental Team + 3'36 103 Stéphane Poulhiès Saur - Sojasun + 3'37 104 Bernardo Riccio CDC - Cavaliere s.t. 105 Bolat Raimbekov Astana + 3'38 106 Alexander Gufler Vorarlberg - Corratec s.t. 107 Valeriy Dmitriyev Astana s.t. 108 Christoph Sokoll Vorarlberg - Corratec + 3'41 109 Sergey Renev Astana s.t. 110 Jacopo Guarnieri Liquigas - Doimo + 3'42 111 David Deroo Skil - Shimano + 3'45 112 Davide Viganò Sky Professional Cycling Team + 3'50 113 Job Vissers Skil - Shimano + 3'57 114 Michael Schär BMC Racing Team + 4'05 115 Jimmy Casper Saur - Sojasun + 4'07 116 Cédric Coutouly Saur - Sojasun + 4'12 117 Stijn Neirynck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator + 4'22 118 Reto Hollenstein Vorarlberg - Corratec + 4'26 119 Alexander Porsev Itera - Katusha + 4'30 120 Péter Simon Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 4'31 121 Jonathan Cantwell Fly V Australia + 4'46 122 Scott Nydam BMC Racing Team + 4'56 123 Peter Sagan Liquigas - Doimo + 5'04 124 Marcus Burghardt BMC Racing Team + 5'05 125 Matic Strgar Vorarlberg - Corratec + 5'15 126 Rostislav Mykhaylov ISD Continental Team + 5'17 127 Adriano Angeloni Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 5'37 128 Romain Matheou Saur - Sojasun + 5'53 129 Daniele Pietropolli Lampre - Farnese Vini + 6'10 130 Petr Ignatenko Itera - Katusha + 6'11 131 Greg Henderson Sky Professional Cycling Team + 6'13 132 David Jai Crawford Fly V Australia s.t. 133 Adam Sznitko CCC Polsat Polkowice + 6'30 134 Igor Abakoumov ISD Continental Team + 6'31 135 Chris Barton BMC Racing Team + 6'33 136 Simone Ponzi Lampre - Farnese Vini + 6'37 137 Jaroslaw Marycz Team Saxo Bank + 6'38 138 Jaroslaw Rebiewski CCC Polsat Polkowice s.t. 139 Domenico Agosta CDC - Cavaliere + 6'41 140 Tomasz Marczynski CCC Polsat Polkowice + 6'42 141 Sylwester Janiszewski CCC Polsat Polkowice + 6'56 142 Danilo Andrenacci CDC - Cavaliere + 6'57 143 David Kemp Fly V Australia + 6'59 144 Andriy Grivko Astana + 7'03 145 Alexander Mironov Itera - Katusha s.t. 146 Tomasz Repinski CCC Polsat Polkowice + 7'10 147 David Puskas Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 7'17 148 Tomasz Kiendys CCC Polsat Polkowice + 7'20 149 Adrian Honkisz CCC Polsat Polkowice + 7'27 150 Eugenio Loria CDC - Cavaliere + 8'20 151 Jin Long Skil - Shimano + 8'27 152 Tomas Danacik PSK Whirlpool - Author + 9'12 153 Marcin Tomaszewski CCC Polsat Polkowice + 11'50 154 Luca Zanasca CDC - Cavaliere + 13'27 155 Roberto Antonio Richeze Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 15'49
Points:
1 Kenny De Haes Omega Pharma - Lotto 61 2 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank 60 3 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions 54 4 Mark Renshaw Team HTC - Columbia 49 5 André Greipel Team HTC - Columbia 41 6 Jimmy Casper Saur - Sojasun 41 7 Mark Cavendish Team HTC - Columbia 34 8 Alexandre Usov ISD Continental Team 34 9 Bernhard Eisel Team HTC - Columbia 32 10 Allan Davis Astana 30 11 Sebastian Siedler Vorarlberg - Corratec 30 12 Alessandro Petacchi Lampre - Farnese Vini 25 13 Fabian Cancellara Team Saxo Bank 25 14 Matti Breschel Team Saxo Bank 23 15 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto 22 16 Daniele Pietropolli Lampre - Farnese Vini 22 17 David Zabriskie Garmin - Transitions 20 18 Greg Henderson Sky Professional Cycling Team 19 19 Jacopo Guarnieri Liquigas - Doimo 16 20 George Hincapie BMC Racing Team 16 21 Juan Antonio Flecha Sky Professional Cycling Team 15 22 Alessandro Ballan BMC Racing Team 15 23 Marcus Burghardt BMC Racing Team 15 24 Bert Grabsch Team HTC - Columbia 14 25 Stephen Cummings Sky Professional Cycling Team 12 26 Greg Van Avermaet Omega Pharma - Lotto 11 27 Job Vissers Skil - Shimano 10 28 Denis Flahaut ISD Continental Team 10 29 Grega Bole Lampre - Farnese Vini 10 30 Daniele Bennati Liquigas - Doimo 10 31 Michael Schär BMC Racing Team 10 32 Christopher Sutton Sky Professional Cycling Team 9 33 Stuart O'Grady Team Saxo Bank 9 34 Julian Dean Garmin - Transitions 8 35 Travis Meyer Garmin - Transitions 8 36 Svein Tuft Garmin - Transitions 8 37 Igor Abakoumov ISD Continental Team 8 38 Andriy Grivko Astana 8 39 Volodymyr Rybin ISD Continental Team 7 40 Leif Hoste Omega Pharma - Lotto 7 41 Bernardo Riccio CDC - Cavaliere 6 42 Gianluca Coletta Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 6 43 Jakub DanacÃk PSK Whirlpool - Author 6 44 Steven Van Vooren Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator 6 45 Tomáš Buchácek PSK Whirlpool - Author 6 46 Stijn Neirynck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator 6 47 David Kemp Fly V Australia 6 48 Matthew Wilson Garmin - Transitions 5 49 Piet Rooijakkers Skil - Shimano 5 50 Reto Hollenstein Vorarlberg - Corratec 5 51 Mirko Selvaggi Astana 4 52 Frederik Willems Liquigas - Doimo 4 53 Pieter Vanspeybroeck Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator 4 54 Alex Rasmussen Team Saxo Bank 4 55 Mickaël Delage Omega Pharma - Lotto 4 56 Alexander Porsev Itera - Katusha 4 57 Peter Sagan Liquigas - Doimo 4 58 Mauro Finetto Liquigas - Doimo 3 59 Laurent Mangel Saur - Sojasun 2 60 Krisztian Lovassy Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 2 61 Daniele Callegarin CDC - Cavaliere 2 62 Jimmy Engoulvent Saur - Sojasun 2 63 René Weissinger Vorarlberg - Corratec 2 64 Maciej Bodnar Liquigas - Doimo 2 65 Matic Strgar Vorarlberg - Corratec 2
U25:
1 Maciej Bodnar Liquigas - Doimo 15h21'33 2 Travis Meyer Garmin - Transitions + 11 3 Ian Stannard Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 4 Alfredo Balloni Lampre - Farnese Vini + 18 5 Greg Van Avermaet Omega Pharma - Lotto + 20 6 Kristof Vandewalle Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator + 22 7 Adriano Malori Lampre - Farnese Vini + 24 8 Kenny De Ketele Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 9 Thomas De Gendt Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator + 28 10 Steve Houanard Skil - Shimano + 30
Team:
1 Team Saxo Bank 46h03'43 2 BMC Racing Team + 3 3 Garmin - Transitions + 6 4 Liquigas - Doimo + 34 5 Sky Professional Cycling Team + 49 6 Omega Pharma - Lotto + 1'00 7 Team HTC - Columbia + 1'42 8 Skil - Shimano + 2'09 9 Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator + 2'10 10 Lampre - Farnese Vini + 2'22 11 Saur - Sojasun + 3'11 12 CDC - Cavaliere + 3'18 13 Fly V Australia + 3'19 14 Vorarlberg - Corratec + 3'28 15 Astana + 3'53 16 Itera - Katusha + 4'12 17 PSK Whirlpool - Author + 4'36 18 Tecnofilm - Betonexpressz 2000 + 4'37 19 ISD Continental Team + 5'18 20 CCC Polsat Polkowice + 14'25
Unfortunately, after the race, we were disappointed to be informed our wildcard entry to Paris-Nice was rejected. Androni Giocattoli, Cervelo, Cofidis, and Bbox Bouygues Télécom were deemed more worthy of entry.
A last ditch effort to get into the Tirreno-Adriatico, which was always likely to fail, did. Androni, Acqua & Sapone, CarmioOro NGC, Cervelo, and Miche were given the 5 open spots.
Quietly, Saur - Sojasun team management is unsure why Androni deserve two wildcard berths in concurrent races. Lack of entry will leave the team with no racing for a long period in the middle of March. Nevertheless, adjustments will be made to rider calendars and Air France will be disappointed and may pull their sponsorship, as they expected the team to win the KOM competition in Paris-Nice.
Tuco the Ugly
Posted on 10-10-2010 21:27
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Tour du Haut Var
The next race on the Saur-Sojasun calendar is the two-day race, the Tour du Haut Var. This race covers some rugged terrain in Southern France. Additionally, given the time of year, bad weather will also likely be a factor.
The start list contains many familiar faces from the French racing circuit this year. Bbox Bouygues Télécom bring Thomas Voeckler and Nicolas Vogondy, while Cofidis have Samuel Dumoulin and Christophe Kern. Voeckler and Dumoulin have already shown their strength this season. AG2R will led by foreigners Vladimir Efimkin and Rinaldo Nocentini. Lastly, Emanuele Sella and Domenico Pozzovivo will lead CarmioOro NGC and Colgano - CSF respectively.
After the disappointment of being rejected from Paris-Nice, the Saur - Sojasun team has extra motivation to perform well and show the cycling world they are worthy of inclusion into the big races. They will be using the same line-up from the Tour Méditerranéen with Sébastien Joly leading the team.
Spoiler
AG2R
1. V.Efimkin
2. J.Arrieta
3. G.Bonnafond
4. M.Bouet
5. J.Bérard
6. C.Dessel
7. R.Nocentini
8. C.Riblon
Française des Jeux
11. C.Le Mével
12. O.Bonnaire
13. P.Cazaux
14. S.Chavanel
15. M.Chérel
16. A.Gérard
17. Y.Offredo
18. J.Veikkanen
Bouygues Télécom
21. T.Voeckler
22. F.Bichot
23. W.Bonnet
24. S.Chainel
25. C.Gautier
26. S.Haddou
27. V.Jérôme
28. N.Vogondy
Cofidis
31. C.Kern
32. M.Buffaz
33. J.Demaret
34. S.Dumoulin
35. K.Ista
36. S.Minard
37. A.Moinard
38. R.Zingle
Saur - Sojasun
41. S.Joly
42. A.Delaplace
43. J.Hivert
44. C.Lemoine
45. J.Marino
46. R.Martias
47. J.Simon
48. Y.Talabardon
Colnago - CSF
51. D.Pozzovivo
52. M.Belletti
53. F.Canuti
54. M.Gaia
55. A.Marangoni
56. S.Modolo
57. M.Pavarin
58. E.Zen
CarmioOro
61. E.Sella
62. E.Berthou
63. L.Beuret
64. R.Ferrara
65. P.Grillo
66. J.Kocjan
67. F.Terrenzio
68. A.Tonti
Loulé - Louletano
71. J.Cabreira
72. L.Baptista
73. C.Pinho
74. S.Pérez
75. B.Saraiva
76. T.Silva
ISD - Neri
81. S.Clarke
82. D.Caccia
83. P.De Negri
84. D.Krivtsov
85. P.Longo Borghini
86. D.Ricci Bitti
87. C.Scognamiglio
88. F.Tomei
Auber 93
91. J.Mombaerts
92. F.Bacquet
93. N.Brouzes
94. N.Haddou
95. F.Morizot
96. J.Thiré
Roubaix
101. C.Lhotellerie
102. B.Daeninck
103. R.Dion
104. M.Kneisky
105. A.Lemair
106. S.Tronet
Skil - Shimano
111. D.Cornu
112. R.Chaigneau
113. K.De Kort
114. H.Feng
115. S.Geschke
116. C.Ji
117. A.Timmer
118. K.Van Hummel
Differdange
121. C.Poos
122. T.Cuppens
123. F.Dressler
124. J.Drucker
125. S.Harbonnier
126. C.Heymans
127. V.Kaupas
128. H.Nilsson
Endura
131. J.Bauer
132. A.Blain
133. I.Camaño
134. R.Creber
135. A.King
136. J.Moss
137. R.Partridge
138. I.Wilkinson
Rabobank CT
141. J.Bol
142. M.Hofland
143. M.Keizer
144. W.Kelderman
145. W.Kreder
146. J.Ockeloen
147. R.Sinkeldam
148. B.Van Poppel
Bretagne - Schuller
151. N.Lelarge
152. J.Bideau
153. J.Delpech
154. F.Guillou
155. L.Jégou
156. J.Le Bon
157. G.Malacarne
158. L.Pichon
Landbouwkrediet
161. D.Commeyne
162. F.Amorison
163. K.Barbé
164. D.Boucher
165. M.Drouilly
166. M.Ricci Poggi
167. B.Scheirlinckx
168. T.Van den Haute
Van Vliet
171. T.Berkhout
172. R.Dijkxhoorn
173. C.Pfingsten
174. B.Schmitz
175. B.Schoonbroodt
176. B.Van Haaren
177. R.Van der Meijden
178. S.Vreugdenhil
Itera - Katusha
181. D.Ignatiev
182. M.Antonov
183. D.Kosyakov
184. V.Kuznetsov
185. R.Maikin
186. A.Solomennikov
187. S.Starobudtsev
188. S.Volkov
Jong Vlaanderen
191. S.Van Dousselaere
192. B.De Decker
193. T.Dupont
194. B.Ligneel
195. S.Schets
196. P.Serry
197. K.Terweduwe
198. G.J.Van Immerseel
Stage 1: La Croix Valmer - Grimaud: 162.3km
The first stage would likely be one for the sprinters, but, it take a strong rider to survive the climbs on the day. The very first climb of the day, the Col de Gassin, was short, but quite steep with a 7.9% gradient. It would not be a pleasant start. The biggest climb on the day was the Col de la Garde Freinet would test the riders fitness. The 5.5km climb, with an average gradient of 4.1% has the potential to break up the group.
Saur - Sojasun did not send any riders into the breakaway today, which initially was made up of these 9 riders: Marcello Pavarin (Colnago), Nadir Haddou (Big Mat - Auber 93), Gaël Malacarne (Bretagne - Schuller), Steven Tronet (Roubaix Lille Métropole), Christoph Pfingsten (Van Vliet EBH Elshof), Laurent Beuret (CarmioOro NGC), Tjarco Cuppens (Continental Team Differdange), Boy Van Poppel (Rabobank CT), and Dimitri Kryvtsov (ISD - Neri).
The break riding through the rain.
Several kilometers later, 5 more riders jumped from the peloton in an effort to bridge to the break. Again, no Saur - Sojasun riders were involved. This time, Bruno Saraiva (Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano), Brian Ligneel (Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht), Roman Maikin (Itera - Katusha), Julien Bérard (AG2R), and Saïd Haddou (Bbox), made the move.
A small chase group formed on the Col de la Garde Freinet.
The chasers were able to make the connection with the break on the descent of the Col de la Garde Freinet, at that time, they had an advantage of 3'13" over the main field.
Back in the peloton, while travelling through the commune of Le Luc, the narrowing roads caused the peloton to split. Only 66 riders made it through in the main group. All of Saur - Sojasun's riders were safe, but GC contenders Nocentini and Pozzovivo weren't so lucky.
The split forms as the road narrows.
The peloton was able to maintain its advantage over those who lost contact on the flat group between Le Luc and the next climb, the Col du Revest.
At the bottom of the Col du Revest, Saur - Sojasun leader Joly, surprised everyone, by attacking, 68km from the line.
Joly leaves the peloton behind.
Joly quickly began to eat into the break's lead on the Col du Revest. However the climb wasn't long enough for him to bridge.
Joly summits the Col du Revest alone, still behind the leading 14 riders.
There was around 35km of flat between the Revest and the next small climb, the Col du Bougnon. It would take a great effort by Joly to bridge in this terrain. With 40km left in the race, Joly was 1'08" behind the leaders, and 1'05" ahead of the peloton.
Initially, Joly continued to eat into the lead of the break, but he was never going to win a 14 vs. 1 battle. Joly put in a great effort, but sat up with 30km left in the stage, only 48" behind the break. The peloton would caught Joly just before the Col du Bougnon.
Joly is caught by the peloton.
The breakaway would hold on over the Bougnon, and through Sainte Maxime, but would be caught before the final rise to Grimaud.
At this point, Saur - Sojasun had their best sprinter Cyril Lemoine positioned up front. However, he would have no benefit of a sprint train. He would have to find his own way to the line.
The final kilometer of the road was slightly uphill and very narrow. Knowing this, the sprinters opened up early, hoping to gain the best position. Heading into the last corners, Kenny Van Hummel (Skil - Shimano) and Dumoulin headed the field.
Van Hummel and Dumoulin race around the final bend.
Van Hummel was able to hold off the field, thanks to his strength and the narrow roads. Dumoulin would settle for second, while Lemoine grabbed 12th.
Van Hummel celebrates after a savvy sprint.
Results:
1 Kenny Van Hummel Skil - Shimano 4h01'03 2 Samuel Dumoulin Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 3 Thomas Voeckler Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 4 Frédéric Amorison Landbouwkrediet s.t. 5 Sébastien Chavanel Française des Jeux s.t. 6 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 7 Vladimir Efimkin AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 8 Christophe Kern Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 9 Clément Lhotellerie Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 10 Johan Mombaerts Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t.
Spoiler
11 Ian Wilkinson Endura Racing s.t. 12 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun s.t. 13 Nicolas Vogondy Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 14 Guillaume Bonnafond AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 15 Dominique Cornu Skil - Shimano s.t. 16 Freddy Bichot Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 17 Paolo Longo Borghini ISD - Neri s.t. 18 Kevyn Ista Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 19 Raffaele Ferrara CarmioOro NGC s.t. 20 Steve Chainel Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 21 Carlo Scognamiglio ISD - Neri s.t. 22 Mikaël Chérel Française des Jeux s.t. 23 Manuel Belletti Colnago - CSF Inox s.t. 24 Renaud Dion Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 25 Robert Partridge Endura Racing s.t. 26 Alexandre Lemair Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 27 Tjarco Cuppens Continental Team Differdange s.t. 28 Fabien Bacquet Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 29 Mickaël Buffaz Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 30 Yohan Offredo Française des Jeux s.t. 31 Francesco Tomei ISD - Neri s.t. 32 Christoph Pfingsten Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 33 Iker Camaño Endura Racing s.t. 34 Jean-Eudes Demaret Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 35 Christophe Le Mével Française des Jeux s.t. 36 Alexander King Endura Racing s.t. 37 Jonathan Hivert Saur - Sojasun s.t. 38 Olivier Bonnaire Française des Jeux s.t. 39 Jack Bauer Endura Racing s.t. 40 Sébastien Minard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 41 Jean-Marc Marino Saur - Sojasun s.t. 42 Amaël Moinard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 43 Ross Creber Endura Racing s.t. 44 James Moss Endura Racing s.t. 45 Boy Van Poppel Rabobank CT s.t. 46 Nadir Haddou Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 47 Robin Chaigneau Skil - Shimano s.t. 48 Koen Barbé Landbouwkrediet s.t. 49 Arnaud Gérard Française des Jeux s.t. 50 Albert Timmer Skil - Shimano s.t. 51 Alexandre Blain Endura Racing s.t. 52 Yannick Talabardon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 53 Cyril Dessel AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 54 Sébastien Joly Saur - Sojasun s.t. 55 Emanuele Sella CarmioOro NGC s.t. 56 Marcello Pavarin Colnago - CSF Inox s.t. 57 Koen De Kort Skil - Shimano s.t. 58 Saïd Haddou Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 59 Bert Scheirlinckx Landbouwkrediet s.t. 60 Pierre Cazaux Française des Jeux s.t. 61 Dimitri Kryvtsov ISD - Neri s.t. 62 Laurent Beuret CarmioOro NGC s.t. 63 Anthony Delaplace Saur - Sojasun s.t. 64 Julien Bérard AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 65 Julien Simon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 66 Jonathan Thiré Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 67 Simon Clarke ISD - Neri s.t. 68 Davide Ricci Bitti ISD - Neri s.t. 69 Gaël Malacarne Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 70 Florian Morizot Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 71 Andrea Tonti CarmioOro NGC s.t. 72 Noan Lelarge Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 73 Jussi Veikkanen Française des Jeux s.t. 74 Niels Brouzes Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 75 Romain Zingle Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 76 Steven Tronet Roubaix Lille Métropole + 1'30 77 Bruno Saraiva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 78 Eric Berthou CarmioOro NGC s.t. 79 Rony Martias Saur - Sojasun s.t. 80 Roman Maikin Itera - Katusha s.t. 81 Cheng Ji Skil - Shimano + 2'30 82 Vincent Jérôme Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 2'39 83 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 84 Davy Commeyne Landbouwkrediet s.t. 85 Christian Poos Continental Team Differdange s.t. 86 Jure Kocjan CarmioOro NGC s.t. 87 José Luis Arrieta AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 88 Pierpaolo De Negri ISD - Neri s.t. 89 Jean-Luc Delpech Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 90 Håkan Nilsson Continental Team Differdange s.t. 91 Christophe Riblon AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 92 Lilian Jégou Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 93 Paride Grillo CarmioOro NGC s.t. 94 Sacha Modolo Colnago - CSF Inox s.t. 95 Sven Van Dousselaere Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 96 Federico Canuti Colnago - CSF Inox s.t. 97 Simon Geschke Skil - Shimano s.t. 98 Thomas Berkhout Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 99 William Bonnet Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 100 Jempy Drucker Continental Team Differdange s.t. 101 Steve Schets Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 102 Rikke Dijkxhoorn Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 103 Bart Van Haaren Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 104 Vytautas Kaupas Continental Team Differdange s.t. 105 Mikhail Antonov Itera - Katusha s.t. 106 Ramon Sinkeldam Rabobank CT s.t. 107 David Boucher Landbouwkrediet s.t. 108 Bram Schmitz Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 109 Dimitry Ignatiev Itera - Katusha s.t. 110 Celestino Pinho Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 111 Jasper Ockeloen Rabobank CT s.t. 112 Alan Marangoni Colnago - CSF Inox s.t. 113 Bjorn De Decker Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 114 João Cabreira Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 115 Domenico Pozzovivo Colnago - CSF Inox s.t. 116 Fabio Terrenzio CarmioOro NGC s.t. 117 Jetse Bol Rabobank CT s.t. 118 Florian Guillou Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 119 Jean-Marc Bideau Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 120 Brian Ligneel Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 121 Andrey Solomennikov Itera - Katusha s.t. 122 Diego Caccia ISD - Neri s.t. 123 Cyrille Heymans Continental Team Differdange s.t. 124 Laurent Pichon Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 125 Rune Van der Meijden Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 126 Timothy Dupont Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 127 Martial Ricci Poggi Landbouwkrediet s.t. 128 Tom Van den Haute Landbouwkrediet s.t. 129 Maxime Bouet AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 130 Dmitry Kosyakov Itera - Katusha s.t. 131 Han Feng Skil - Shimano s.t. 132 Johan Le Bon Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 133 Gert-Jan Van Immerseel Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 134 Martijn Keizer Rabobank CT s.t. 135 Bob Schoonbroodt Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 136 Stanislav Starobudtsev Itera - Katusha s.t. 137 Enrico Zen Colnago - CSF Inox s.t. 138 Frank Dressler Continental Team Differdange s.t. 139 Santiago Pérez Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 140 Ludovic Baptista Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 141 Pieter Serry Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 142 Michele Gaia Colnago - CSF Inox s.t. 143 Kenny Terweduwe Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 144 Tiago Silva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 145 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov Itera - Katusha s.t. 146 Wilco Kelderman Rabobank CT s.t. 147 Mathieu Drouilly Landbouwkrediet s.t. 148 Moreno Hofland Rabobank CT s.t. 149 Benoît Daeninck Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 150 Stanislav Volkov Itera - Katusha + 5'45 151 Wesley Kreder Rabobank CT + 11'13 152 Morgan Kneisky Roubaix Lille Métropole + 13'21
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Tour du Haut Var: Stage 2: Draguignan - Montaroux: 197.4km
The second, and final stage of the Tour du Haut Var would be decisive, as well as very difficult. The peloton would navigate 5 climbs on the day, ending with the difficult Mur de Montaroux (Wall of Montaroux), a 2.5km climb that averages 6.5%.
Before the finishing climb, the peloton would have to tackle the Côte de Tourtour, the Côte des Tuillières, the Col des Marjoris, and the Col de Mans. Seeing as the Tourtour and the Tuillières are early on, there is likely to be any action seen there. But the positioning of the Marjoris, a short climb with an average gradient of 7.7% and the Col de Mans, a 6.8km climb at 4.8% in the latter part of the stage should see a selection made.
On the first climb of the day, Domenico Pozzovivo (Colnago), Christophe Riblon (AG2R), and Florian Guillou (Bretagne - Schuller) moved out of the peloton. All three had lost time yesterday when the peloton split.
It was part of Saur - Sojasun's plan to get in the break, put given the worrying presence of Pozzovivo, this was urgently done. Julien Simon countered the initial move in hopes of joining the breakaway. He was joined by Renaud Dion (Roubaix Lille Métropole), Håkan Nilsson (Continental Team Differdange), and Davy Commeyne (Landbouwkrediet).
The break forming on the Côte de Tourtour.
The seven riders would work well together up the rest of the climb, edging out their lead. Given the pedigree of the breakaway riders, it would take a strong effort to contain them.
By the Côte des Tuillières, they were already ahead of the main field by 5'06". Sensing trouble, the peloton began to ride harder, and breaks already began to occur on the steep hills.
The ground was fairly flat for nearly 60km, which allowed the peloton to regain control of the race, as they let the breakaway's lead hover around 4 minutes.
The Col des Marjoris saw no action from the peloton, as it was probably too far out.
However, the breakaway would break up into 3 groups on its slopes. Pozzovivo and Riblon would move away from their companions. The second group would contain Nilsson and Commeyne. Julien Simon was in the last group with Dion and Guillou. Simon was in this group on team orders, as he had been told to sit up and conserve energy...
As the peloton began the ascent of the Col de Mans, Saur - Sojasun moved to the front to set a fast tempo. Jonathan Hivert's turn at the front shredded the field. Sébastien Joly sat second wheel.
Hivert and the Saur - Sojasun team blew the race apart on the Col de Mans.
Hivert pulled off the front and Joly unleashed a ferocious attack 7km from the summit, over 50km from the finish.
Joly has rode with a great attacking style thus far this season.
When Joly left the peloton, he was 3'14" behind the leaders, and 1'58" behind teammate Julien Simon.
Joly was able to connect with his waiting teammate several kilometers before the summit. Immediately, Julien Simon began to work for his team leader. The two riders would leave Dion and Guillou behind quickly, and would reach the top alone, 1'53" behind the leaders and 1'33" ahead of the peloton.
Simon leading Joly up the Col de Mans.
Simon, still with some energy, would lead the descent. The two would throw caution to the wind in an effort to make up more ground on the leaders. On the way, the would catch and pass Commeyne and Nilsson. Upon reaching flat ground, they were 1'30" behind the leaders. More impressively, they were now 2'40" ahead of the shrinking peloton.
Simon and Joly making a quick descent off the Col de Mans.
With 22km remaining, Simon was empty, and Joly would take off on the attack again. Thanks to Simon's great work, Joly was still very fresh.
Joly would reach Pozzovivo and Riblon with 10km remaining in the stage. He would immediately pass the two exhausted riders. However, at this stage, the peloton only lurked 56" back!
Joly catching the leaders on the road, with the peloton just around the bend.
However Joly was very strong, and able to maintain his advantage. It was coming down, but only slowly. With 5km left, he still had a lead of 40". This is when the attacks came. First was Samuel Dumoulin.
Dumoulin goes after Joly.
Next was Thomas Voeckler. Who would catch and pass Dumoulin.
Voeckler launches a strong attack.
Voeckler would continue his attack onto the Mur de Montaroux. Up ahead, Joly was desperately trying to hang on to his advantage.
Can Joly hold off a charging Voeckler?
Voeckler underestimated the difficulty of the Mur de Montaroux, and mistimed his attack. Having come so close to Joly, he would fall back in the final kilometer. Joly would hold on to complete a great ride and win the Tour du Haut Var!
Truly a team effort.
Joly celebrates a triumphant win.
Results:
1 Sébastien Joly Saur - Sojasun 5h29'01 2 Thomas Voeckler Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 32 3 Vladimir Efimkin AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 4 Samuel Dumoulin Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 1'05 5 Christophe Kern Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 6 Johan Mombaerts Big Mat - Auber 93 + 1'26 7 Romain Zingle Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 8 Amaël Moinard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 1'34 9 Cyril Dessel AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 10 Christophe Riblon AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
Spoiler
11 Sébastien Minard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 12 Simon Geschke Skil - Shimano s.t. 13 Paolo Longo Borghini ISD - Neri s.t. 14 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 15 Florian Morizot Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 16 Domenico Pozzovivo Colnago - CSF Inox s.t. 17 Raffaele Ferrara CarmioOro NGC s.t. 18 Emanuele Sella CarmioOro NGC s.t. 19 Nicolas Vogondy Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 20 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 21 Julien Simon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 22 Davide Ricci Bitti ISD - Neri s.t. 23 Clément Lhotellerie Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 24 Jonathan Hivert Saur - Sojasun s.t. 25 Andrea Tonti CarmioOro NGC s.t. 26 Freddy Bichot Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 27 Guillaume Bonnafond AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 28 Carlo Scognamiglio ISD - Neri s.t. 29 Dimitry Ignatiev Itera - Katusha s.t. 30 Niels Brouzes Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 31 Dominique Cornu Skil - Shimano s.t. 32 Davy Commeyne Landbouwkrediet s.t. 33 Kenny Van Hummel Skil - Shimano s.t. 34 João Cabreira Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 35 Håkan Nilsson Continental Team Differdange s.t. 36 Robert Partridge Endura Racing s.t. 37 Yannick Talabardon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 38 Nadir Haddou Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 39 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun s.t. 40 Jean-Marc Marino Saur - Sojasun s.t. 41 Laurent Beuret CarmioOro NGC s.t. 42 Jure Kocjan CarmioOro NGC s.t. 43 Ian Wilkinson Endura Racing s.t. 44 Florian Guillou Bretagne - Schuller + 4'21 45 José Luis Arrieta AG2R La Mondiale + 4'37 46 Sven Van Dousselaere Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 5'17 47 Renaud Dion Roubaix Lille Métropole + 5'33 48 Simon Clarke ISD - Neri + 6'21 49 Steve Chainel Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 6'37 50 Marcello Pavarin Colnago - CSF Inox + 6'45 51 Andrey Solomennikov Itera - Katusha + 6'53 52 Gaël Malacarne Bretagne - Schuller + 7'09 53 Jussi Veikkanen Française des Jeux + 7'17 54 Noan Lelarge Bretagne - Schuller + 7'33 55 Laurent Pichon Bretagne - Schuller + 8'13 56 Yohan Offredo Française des Jeux + 8'21 57 Pierre Cazaux Française des Jeux + 8'29 58 Mickaël Buffaz Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 9'41 59 Jack Bauer Endura Racing + 9'57 60 Jean-Eudes Demaret Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 10'05 61 Christophe Le Mével Française des Jeux + 10'13 62 Kevyn Ista Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 10'21 63 Celestino Pinho Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 10'37 64 Pierpaolo De Negri ISD - Neri s.t. 65 Iker Camaño Endura Racing + 10'53 66 Mikhail Antonov Itera - Katusha s.t. 67 Bert Scheirlinckx Landbouwkrediet s.t. 68 Julien Bérard AG2R La Mondiale + 11'09 69 Mikaël Chérel Française des Jeux + 11'17 70 Olivier Bonnaire Française des Jeux s.t. 71 Santiago Pérez Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 72 Frédéric Amorison Landbouwkrediet + 11'25 73 Rony Martias Saur - Sojasun s.t. 74 Christian Poos Continental Team Differdange s.t. 75 Thomas Berkhout Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 11'33 76 Dmitry Kosyakov Itera - Katusha + 11'41 77 Bart Van Haaren Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 11'57 78 William Bonnet Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 79 Lilian Jégou Bretagne - Schuller + 12'05 80 Bram Schmitz Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 12'21 81 Federico Canuti Colnago - CSF Inox + 12'29 82 Maxime Bouet AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 83 Rune Van der Meijden Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 84 Koen Barbé Landbouwkrediet + 12'37 85 Sébastien Chavanel Française des Jeux + 12'45 86 Francesco Tomei ISD - Neri + 12'53 87 Vincent Jérôme Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 88 Jetse Bol Rabobank CT + 13'01 89 Jean-Marc Bideau Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 90 Koen De Kort Skil - Shimano s.t. 91 Bjorn De Decker Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 13'17 92 Paride Grillo CarmioOro NGC + 13'25 93 Alexandre Blain Endura Racing s.t. 94 Christoph Pfingsten Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 95 Rikke Dijkxhoorn Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 96 Han Feng Skil - Shimano + 13'33 97 Arnaud Gérard Française des Jeux s.t. 98 Albert Timmer Skil - Shimano + 13'49 99 Fabien Bacquet Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 100 Fabio Terrenzio CarmioOro NGC s.t. 101 Jempy Drucker Continental Team Differdange + 13'57 102 David Boucher Landbouwkrediet s.t. 103 Diego Caccia ISD - Neri s.t. 104 Eric Berthou CarmioOro NGC s.t. 105 Jonathan Thiré Big Mat - Auber 93 + 14'05 106 Tjarco Cuppens Continental Team Differdange s.t. 107 Martial Ricci Poggi Landbouwkrediet s.t. 108 Alexandre Lemair Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 109 Saïd Haddou Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 14'13 110 Ramon Sinkeldam Rabobank CT s.t. 111 Roman Maikin Itera - Katusha s.t. 112 Stanislav Starobudtsev Itera - Katusha + 14'21 113 Cheng Ji Skil - Shimano + 14'29 114 Jean-Luc Delpech Bretagne - Schuller + 18'37 115 Manuel Belletti Colnago - CSF Inox s.t. 116 James Moss Endura Racing + 18'53 117 Enrico Zen Colnago - CSF Inox + 19'09 118 Johan Le Bon Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 119 Bruno Saraiva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 19'33 120 Ross Creber Endura Racing s.t. 121 Martijn Keizer Rabobank CT + 19'41 122 Jasper Ockeloen Rabobank CT s.t. 123 Michele Gaia Colnago - CSF Inox + 19'57 124 Sacha Modolo Colnago - CSF Inox + 20'13 125 Bob Schoonbroodt Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 20'29 126 Steve Schets Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 21'09 127 Ludovic Baptista Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 128 Alexander King Endura Racing + 21'17 129 Pieter Serry Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 21'33 130 Gert-Jan Van Immerseel Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 131 Alan Marangoni Colnago - CSF Inox + 21'49 132 Wilco Kelderman Rabobank CT + 22'21 133 Moreno Hofland Rabobank CT + 22'37 134 Benoît Daeninck Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 135 Anthony Delaplace Saur - Sojasun + 22'53 136 Tiago Silva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 23'17 137 Timothy Dupont Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 138 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov Itera - Katusha s.t. 139 Dimitri Kryvtsov ISD - Neri + 23'25 140 Morgan Kneisky Roubaix Lille Métropole + 24'37 141 Vytautas Kaupas Continental Team Differdange + 25'09 142 Frank Dressler Continental Team Differdange + 25'17 143 Tom Van den Haute Landbouwkrediet + 25'33 144 Robin Chaigneau Skil - Shimano s.t. 145 Steven Tronet Roubaix Lille Métropole + 25'49 146 Cyrille Heymans Continental Team Differdange s.t. 147 Kenny Terweduwe Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 26'13 148 Stanislav Volkov Itera - Katusha + 26'21 149 Boy Van Poppel Rabobank CT s.t. 150 Wesley Kreder Rabobank CT + 26'45 151 Brian Ligneel Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 29'33 152 Mathieu Drouilly Landbouwkrediet + 32'45
GC:
1 Sébastien Joly Saur - Sojasun 9h29'44 2 Thomas Voeckler Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 32 3 Vladimir Efimkin AG2R La Mondiale + 44 4 Samuel Dumoulin Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 1'13 5 Christophe Kern Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 1'25 6 Kenny Van Hummel Skil - Shimano + 1'34 7 Laurent Beuret CarmioOro NGC + 1'42 8 Julien Simon Saur - Sojasun + 1'44 9 Johan Mombaerts Big Mat - Auber 93 + 1'46 10 Romain Zingle Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 11 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 1'54 12 Paolo Longo Borghini ISD - Neri s.t. 13 Clément Lhotellerie Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 14 Nicolas Vogondy Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 15 Raffaele Ferrara CarmioOro NGC s.t. 16 Guillaume Bonnafond AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 17 Freddy Bichot Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 18 Dominique Cornu Skil - Shimano s.t. 19 Carlo Scognamiglio ISD - Neri s.t. 20 Amaël Moinard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 21 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun s.t. 22 Sébastien Minard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne s.t. 23 Ian Wilkinson Endura Racing s.t. 24 Robert Partridge Endura Racing s.t. 25 Jonathan Hivert Saur - Sojasun s.t. 26 Cyril Dessel AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 27 Emanuele Sella CarmioOro NGC s.t. 28 Jean-Marc Marino Saur - Sojasun s.t. 29 Nadir Haddou Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 30 Florian Morizot Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 31 Yannick Talabardon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 32 Davide Ricci Bitti ISD - Neri s.t. 33 Andrea Tonti CarmioOro NGC s.t. 34 Niels Brouzes Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 35 Christophe Riblon AG2R La Mondiale + 4'25 36 Håkan Nilsson Continental Team Differdange + 4'27 37 João Cabreira Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 38 Domenico Pozzovivo Colnago - CSF Inox + 4'29 39 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R La Mondiale + 4'33 40 Simon Geschke Skil - Shimano s.t. 41 Davy Commeyne Landbouwkrediet s.t. 42 Jure Kocjan CarmioOro NGC s.t. 43 Dimitry Ignatiev Itera - Katusha s.t. 44 Renaud Dion Roubaix Lille Métropole + 5'53 45 Simon Clarke ISD - Neri + 6'41 46 Marcello Pavarin Colnago - CSF Inox + 6'55 47 Steve Chainel Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 6'57 48 Florian Guillou Bretagne - Schuller + 7'18 49 Gaël Malacarne Bretagne - Schuller + 7'23 50 José Luis Arrieta AG2R La Mondiale + 7'36 51 Jussi Veikkanen Française des Jeux + 7'37 52 Noan Lelarge Bretagne - Schuller + 7'53 53 Sven Van Dousselaere Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 8'16 54 Yohan Offredo Française des Jeux + 8'41 55 Pierre Cazaux Française des Jeux + 8'49 56 Andrey Solomennikov Itera - Katusha + 9'52 57 Mickaël Buffaz Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 10'01 58 Jack Bauer Endura Racing + 10'17 59 Jean-Eudes Demaret Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 10'25 60 Christophe Le Mével Française des Jeux + 10'33 61 Kevyn Ista Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 10'41 62 Laurent Pichon Bretagne - Schuller + 11'12 63 Iker Camaño Endura Racing + 11'13 64 Bert Scheirlinckx Landbouwkrediet s.t. 65 Julien Bérard AG2R La Mondiale + 11'29 66 Mikaël Chérel Française des Jeux + 11'37 67 Olivier Bonnaire Française des Jeux s.t. 68 Frédéric Amorison Landbouwkrediet + 11'45 69 Koen Barbé Landbouwkrediet + 12'57 70 Sébastien Chavanel Française des Jeux + 13'05 71 Francesco Tomei ISD - Neri + 13'13 72 Rony Martias Saur - Sojasun + 13'15 73 Koen De Kort Skil - Shimano + 13'21 74 Pierpaolo De Negri ISD - Neri + 13'36 75 Celestino Pinho Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 76 Christoph Pfingsten Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 13'43 77 Alexandre Blain Endura Racing + 13'45 78 Mikhail Antonov Itera - Katusha + 13'52 79 Arnaud Gérard Française des Jeux + 13'53 80 Fabien Bacquet Big Mat - Auber 93 + 14'09 81 Albert Timmer Skil - Shimano s.t. 82 Santiago Pérez Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 14'16 83 Christian Poos Continental Team Differdange + 14'24 84 Tjarco Cuppens Continental Team Differdange + 14'25 85 Alexandre Lemair Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 86 Jonathan Thiré Big Mat - Auber 93 s.t. 87 Thomas Berkhout Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 14'32 88 Saïd Haddou Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 14'33 89 Dmitry Kosyakov Itera - Katusha + 14'40 90 William Bonnet Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 14'56 91 Bart Van Haaren Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 92 Lilian Jégou Bretagne - Schuller + 15'04 93 Bram Schmitz Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 15'20 94 Federico Canuti Colnago - CSF Inox + 15'28 95 Rune Van der Meijden Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 96 Maxime Bouet AG2R La Mondiale s.t. 97 Eric Berthou CarmioOro NGC + 15'47 98 Vincent Jérôme Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 15'52 99 Jetse Bol Rabobank CT + 16'00 100 Jean-Marc Bideau Bretagne - Schuller s.t. 101 Roman Maikin Itera - Katusha + 16'03 102 Bjorn De Decker Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 16'16 103 Paride Grillo CarmioOro NGC + 16'24 104 Rikke Dijkxhoorn Van Vliet EBH Elshof s.t. 105 Han Feng Skil - Shimano + 16'32 106 Fabio Terrenzio CarmioOro NGC + 16'48 107 Jempy Drucker Continental Team Differdange + 16'56 108 David Boucher Landbouwkrediet s.t. 109 Diego Caccia ISD - Neri s.t. 110 Martial Ricci Poggi Landbouwkrediet + 17'04 111 Ramon Sinkeldam Rabobank CT + 17'12 112 Cheng Ji Skil - Shimano + 17'19 113 Stanislav Starobudtsev Itera - Katusha + 17'20 114 Manuel Belletti Colnago - CSF Inox + 18'57 115 James Moss Endura Racing + 19'13 116 Ross Creber Endura Racing + 19'53 117 Bruno Saraiva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 21'23 118 Jean-Luc Delpech Bretagne - Schuller + 21'36 119 Alexander King Endura Racing + 21'37 120 Johan Le Bon Bretagne - Schuller + 22'08 121 Enrico Zen Colnago - CSF Inox s.t. 122 Jasper Ockeloen Rabobank CT + 22'40 123 Martijn Keizer Rabobank CT s.t. 124 Michele Gaia Colnago - CSF Inox + 22'56 125 Sacha Modolo Colnago - CSF Inox + 23'12 126 Anthony Delaplace Saur - Sojasun + 23'13 127 Bob Schoonbroodt Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 23'28 128 Dimitri Kryvtsov ISD - Neri + 23'45 129 Steve Schets Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 24'08 130 Ludovic Baptista Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 131 Gert-Jan Van Immerseel Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 24'32 132 Pieter Serry Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht s.t. 133 Alan Marangoni Colnago - CSF Inox + 24'48 134 Wilco Kelderman Rabobank CT + 25'20 135 Moreno Hofland Rabobank CT + 25'36 136 Benoît Daeninck Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t. 137 Robin Chaigneau Skil - Shimano + 25'53 138 Timothy Dupont Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 26'16 139 Tiago Silva Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano s.t. 140 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov Itera - Katusha s.t. 141 Boy Van Poppel Rabobank CT + 26'37 142 Steven Tronet Roubaix Lille Métropole + 27'37 143 Vytautas Kaupas Continental Team Differdange + 28'08 144 Frank Dressler Continental Team Differdange + 28'16 145 Tom Van den Haute Landbouwkrediet + 28'32 146 Cyrille Heymans Continental Team Differdange + 28'48 147 Kenny Terweduwe Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 29'12 148 Stanislav Volkov Itera - Katusha + 32'26 149 Brian Ligneel Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 32'32 150 Mathieu Drouilly Landbouwkrediet + 35'44 151 Morgan Kneisky Roubaix Lille Métropole + 38'18 152 Wesley Kreder Rabobank CT s.t.
Points:
1 Thomas Voeckler Bbox Bouygues Télécom 36 2 Samuel Dumoulin Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 34 3 Kenny Van Hummel Skil - Shimano 25 4 Vladimir Efimkin AG2R La Mondiale 25 5 Sébastien Joly Saur - Sojasun 25 6 Christophe Kern Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 20 7 Johan Mombaerts Big Mat - Auber 93 16 8 Frédéric Amorison Landbouwkrediet 14 9 Christophe Riblon AG2R La Mondiale 14 10 Laurent Beuret CarmioOro NGC 12 11 Sébastien Chavanel Française des Jeux 12 12 Marcello Pavarin Colnago - CSF Inox 10 13 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom 10 14 Julien Simon Saur - Sojasun 10 15 Romain Zingle Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 9 16 Amaël Moinard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 8 17 Clément Lhotellerie Roubaix Lille Métropole 7 18 Cyril Dessel AG2R La Mondiale 7 19 Gaël Malacarne Bretagne - Schuller 6 20 Håkan Nilsson Continental Team Differdange 6 21 João Cabreira Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano 6 22 Ian Wilkinson Endura Racing 5 23 Sébastien Minard Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 5 24 Boy Van Poppel Rabobank CT 4 25 Cyril Lemoine Saur - Sojasun 4 26 Simon Geschke Skil - Shimano 4 27 Domenico Pozzovivo Colnago - CSF Inox 4 28 Nicolas Vogondy Bbox Bouygues Télécom 3 29 Paolo Longo Borghini ISD - Neri 3 30 Christoph Pfingsten Van Vliet EBH Elshof 2 31 Guillaume Bonnafond AG2R La Mondiale 2 32 Steven Tronet Roubaix Lille Métropole 2 33 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R La Mondiale 2 34 Florian Guillou Bretagne - Schuller 2 35 Dominique Cornu Skil - Shimano 1 36 Florian Morizot Big Mat - Auber 93 1
KOM:
1 Christophe Riblon AG2R La Mondiale 40 2 Domenico Pozzovivo Colnago - CSF Inox 40 3 João Cabreira Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano 34 4 Julien Simon Saur - Sojasun 24 5 Håkan Nilsson Continental Team Differdange 22 6 Gaël Malacarne Bretagne - Schuller 20 7 Davy Commeyne Landbouwkrediet 16 8 Florian Guillou Bretagne - Schuller 14 9 Tjarco Cuppens Continental Team Differdange 12 10 Laurent Beuret CarmioOro NGC 8 11 Nadir Haddou Big Mat - Auber 93 8 12 Marcello Pavarin Colnago - CSF Inox 6 13 Renaud Dion Roubaix Lille Métropole 5 14 Sébastien Joly Saur - Sojasun 5 15 Christoph Pfingsten Van Vliet EBH Elshof 4 16 Julien Bérard AG2R La Mondiale 4 17 Boy Van Poppel Rabobank CT 2 18 Christophe Kern Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 2 19 Kenny Terweduwe Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht 2 20 Jonathan Hivert Saur - Sojasun 1
U25:
1 Laurent Beuret CarmioOro NGC 9h31'26 2 Julien Simon Saur - Sojasun + 2 3 Romain Zingle Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 4 4 Cyril Gautier Bbox Bouygues Télécom + 12 5 Clément Lhotellerie Roubaix Lille Métropole s.t.
Team:
1 Saur - Sojasun 28h33'20 2 Cofidis, le crédit en ligne + 28 3 AG2R La Mondiale + 32 4 Bbox Bouygues Télécom s.t. 5 Big Mat - Auber 93 + 1'26 6 CarmioOro NGC + 1'34 7 ISD - Neri s.t. 8 Skil - Shimano s.t. 9 Endura Racing + 9'57 10 Roubaix Lille Métropole + 18'04 11 Bretagne - Schuller + 18'34 12 Colnago - CSF Inox + 20'19 13 Landbouwkrediet + 20'44 14 Française des Jeux + 20'59 15 Itera - Katusha + 23'00 16 Centro Ciclismo de Loulé - Louletano + 27'08 17 Continental Team Differdange + 29'06 18 Van Vliet EBH Elshof + 38'01 19 Jong Vlaanderen - Bauknecht + 44'32 20 Rabobank CT + 49'05
valverde321
Posted on 11-10-2010 03:51
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Great win, both the stage and GC. But if this keeps up, you'll be hearing from me about the difficulty needing a raise. And you won't like that.
roturn
Posted on 11-10-2010 10:21
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Great win. So you would have deserved a wildcard obviously
But funniest result is Kenny Van Hummel as 6th. Didn`t lose much time.
Tuco the Ugly
Posted on 11-10-2010 18:32
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valverde321 wrote:
Great win, both the stage and GC. But if this keeps up, you'll be hearing from me about the difficulty needing a raise. And you won't like that.
I may consider moving to extreme, but am hesitant. I don't think my results have been too unrealistic. Joly has either been a 1st or 2nd favorite on his two stage wins. Casper is a really good sprinter in the game that can't quite compete with the very elite. And Lemoine's win was pretty fluky.
I think a lot of my success has to do with PCM10's shortcomings in sprints and hilly stages though, combined with good early fitness from my riders.
roturn
Great win. So you would have deserved a wildcard obviously
But funniest result is Kenny Van Hummel as 6th. Didn`t lose much time.
I was shocked Androni would get it over me.
Yeah, I was shocked when I saw him still with the leading pack. He has a 67 for Hill, which probably needs to be lowered.
Squire
Posted on 11-10-2010 19:23
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Amazing win for Joly! You employed some great tactics there.
This story looked promising from the off, and it keeps on impressing! I think it's my favourite PCM10 story
Tuco the Ugly
Posted on 11-10-2010 21:34
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@ Squire: Thanks for the kind words.
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad: Gent - Gent: 200.8km
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad opens the Belgian cycling season and is the first cobbled race of the year. The peloton will deal with 9 cobbled sections, and numerous short steep climbs. Over a month before the big cobbled prizes of Paris-Roubaix and Ronde van Vlaanderen, the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad should be an entertaining start to the Spring classics season.
Most of the big guns are making their presence felt in this race. Fabian Cancellara and Matti Breschel lead Saxobank. They will contend with Tom Boonen (Quickstep), Juan Antonio Flecha (Sky), Filippo Pozzato (Katusha), Bjorn Leukemans (Vacansoleil), and Leif Hoste (Omega Pharma - Lotto). The only serious cobbled teams missing are Cervelo Test Team and Rabobank, both of whom have have decided to skip the race. Rabobank has sent their developmental team though.
Cobblestone racing is not one Saur - Sojasun's strongest aspects. However, it is a goal of team management to develop and gain experience in such races. Jimmy Casper is the team's best cobble rider, and even so, he is average. He will lead the team with Jimmy Engoulvent and Stéphane Poulhiès as his lieutenants. Overall, nothing is really expected from the team.
Spoiler
Saxo Bank
1. F.Cancellara
2. M.Breschel
3. L.Didier
4. J.Fuglsang
5. J.J.Haedo
6. S.O'Grady
7. N.Sørensen
8. J.Voigt
Quick·Step
11. T.Boonen
12. C.Barredo
13. S.Chavanel
14. K.De Weert
15. S.Devolder
16. A.Engels
17. I.Keisse
18. W.Weylandt
Katusha
21. F.Pozzato
22. D.Galimzyanov
23. S.Klimov
24. L.Mazzanti
25. E.Petrov
26. A.Pliuschin
27. E.Silin
28. N.Trussov
Sky
31. J.A.Flecha
32. K.Arvesen
33. E.Boasson Hagen
34. G.Henderson
35. S.Pauwels
36. I.Stannard
37. B.Swift
38. G.Thomas
Omega Pharma
41. P.Gilbert
42. M.Aerts
43. J.Bakelandts
44. W.Cretskens
45. L.Hoste
46. S.Scheirlinckx
47. G.Van Avermaet
48. J.Van Goolen
Garmin
51. J.Van Summeren
52. J.Bobridge
53. T.Duggan
54. T.Farrar
55. M.Maaskant
56. C.Meier
57. S.Tuft
58. M.Wilson
Vacansoleil
61. B.Leukemans
62. B.Božic
63. B.Feillu
64. G.Gardeyn
65. B.Traksel
66. A.Van Groen
67. J.Van Leijen
68. F.Veuchelen
HTC - Columbia
71. B.Eisel
72. L.Bak
73. M.Cavendish
74. G.Dockx
75. J.Ghyselinck
76. B.Grabsch
77. H.Roulston
78. M.Velits
Team Milram
81. N.Terpstra
82. W.De Vocht
83. S.Knaven
84. C.Knees
85. L.Roberts
86. T.Rohregger
87. P.Voss
88. P.Wrolich
Française des Jeux
91. F.Guesdon
92. A.Gérard
93. M.Ladagnous
94. G.Meersman
95. F.Mourey
96. Y.Offredo
97. T.Pinot
98. A.Vichot
Astana
101. A.Davis
102. S.Davis
103. A.Dyachenko
104. D.Fofonov
105. A.Grivko
106. B.Noval
107. M.Selvaggi
108. A.Zeits
Topsport Vlaanderen
111. S.Vanmarcke
112. T.De Gendt
113. K.De Ketele
114. P.Jacobs
115. G.Joseph
116. S.Joseph
117. M.Neyens
118. K.Vandewalle
Lampre
121. G.Bole
122. A.Balloni
123. F.Gavazzi
124. A.Grendene
125. D.Hondo
126. A.Malori
127. M.Marzano
128. S.Ponzi
Skil - Shimano
131. T.Veelers
132. D.Cornu
133. B.De Backer
134. S.Geschke
135. F.Goesinnen
136. T.Hupond
137. K.Van Hummel
138. J.Vissers
Landbouwkrediet
141. F.Amorison
142. S.Caethoven
143. D.Commeyne
144. S.Delfosse
145. B.Dockx
146. K.Peeters
147. B.Scheirlinckx
148. G.Verheyen
Rabobank CT
151. C.Vermeltfoort
152. J.Adams
153. J.Bol
154. R.Broers
155. W.Kelderman
156. R.Sinkeldam
157. T.Slagter
158. N.Van der Lijke
An Post - Sean Kelly
161. N.Eeckhout
162. K.Borry
163. B.Brems
164. B.De Schrooder
165. M.Debusschere
166. P.Ghyllebert
167. K.Lisabeth
168. G.Suray
Kuota - Indeland
171. D.Kopp
172. A.Grad
173. F.Knauer
174. M.Kurth
175. D.Mrosek
176. C.Patron
177. A.Schmitt
178. D.Westmattelmann
Saur - Sojasun 181. J.Casper 182. C.Bessy 183. J.Engoulvent 184. C.Lemoine 185. L.Mangel 186. R.Matheou 187. S.Poulhiès 188. Y.Talabardon
Verandas Willems
191. S.Van Dijk
192. D.Cappelle
193. S.De Wilde
194. T.Degand
195. G.Habeaux
196. J.Paquet
197. S.Renders
198. J.Vanlandschoot
Team NetApp
201. E.Baumann
202. C.Benedetti
203. D.Claeys
204. A.Dietziker
205. H.Duyn
206. A.Gottfried
A breakaway formed several kilometers into the race. It did not feature any real threats as it was composed of 11 riders: Thomas Rohregger (Milram), Thierry Hupond (Skil - Shimano), Adriano Malori (Lampre), Dmitriy Fofonov (Astana), Brice Feillu (Vacansoleil), Benny De Schrooder (An Post - Sean Kelly), Christian Meier (Garmin), Tom Slagter (Rabobank CT), Laurent Didier (Saxobank), Cesare Benedetti (TeamNetApp), and Francis Mourey (FDJ). The break had a 2'20" lead when the reached the first cobbled section.
The break on the cobbles.
After the peloton got back onto smooth roads, three riders left the main field in an attempt to bridge to the break. They were Wouter Weylandt (Quickstep), Staf Scheirlinckx (Omega Pharma - Lotto), and Sep Vanmarcke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator). Unlike the breakaway riders, all three of these riders were cobbled specialists.
Despite this, they were allowed to get away, and would connect with the break before the second cobbled section.
The break reached the second section 4'26" ahead of the peloton. Here, Vanmarcke would not wait for the slower break riders, and used his talent to move away from those riders who could not keep up. Only Weylandt and Scheirlinckx had the strength to go with him.
Vanmarcke, Scheirlinckx, and Weylandt now lead on the road.
With 65km remaining, and beginning the 3rd cobbled section, the 3 leading riders had a lead of 44" over the original break riders, and 5'26" over the main field. A dangerous lead given the terrain left to cover.
Then, disaster struck for Sep Vanmarcke. He suffered a puncture on the cobbles.
Vanmarcke raises his hand to signal his team car.
As Scheirlinckx and Weylandt moved away, Vanmarcke remained calm and slowly clawed his way back. Soon enough, he was back with the leaders.
The 3rd to last cobbled section came with only 34km left in the race. The original breakaway had been caught, but the 3 leaders had a 3'50" lead. It now began to appear as if the peloton had made a mistake letting Scheirlinckx, Weylandt, and Vanmarcke escape.
The leaders in the peloton now realized they would need to react in order to catch the riders up the road. With 25km remaining, Cancellara, Boonen, and Flecha attacked.
The favorites begin attacking.
A small group of the elite riders formed, containing Cancellara, Boonen, Flecha, Pozzato, Johan Van Summeren, Leif Hoste, and Bernhard Eisel.
There was one cobbled section left.
Up the road, Sep Vanmarcke, who had made the initial move, and done the bulk of the work, fell back. Weylandt and Scheirlinckx would likely fight it out for the win.
But, here comes Cancellara!
The Swiss strongman was closing fast.
The other favorites tried to counter, but none could stay with Cancellara, who reached the leading two with 8.5km left. Strangely, despite looking extremely strong, Cancellara did not try to drop Scheirlinckx and Weylandt.
In the final kilometers, Cancellara led Scheirlinckx and Weylandt through the streets of Gent.
The leading three.
17" behind them was Johan Van Summeren, who was having a great ride, having left everyone else behind.
Could Van Summeren complete his great ride and reach the leaders...
The third group on the road contained Flecha, Pozzato, Eisel, Hoste, and Vanmarcke.
A strong third group.
Van Summeren began to fade, and it was clear one of the leading three would take the win. Even a strong, late attack from Hoste couldn't bring down the lead.
As the leaders rounded to final corner, Cancellara still lead and was looking strong.
Cancellara still in the lead around the final turn.
But as the round straightened out, it began very clear that Cancellara had made a mistake keeping Wouter Weylandt around, who easily sprinted past the Swiss favorite. Scheirlinckx would fall back a bit, but still finish 3rd.
Jimmy Casper was the highest finishing Saur rider in 38th. Oddly, the race judges gave the first 53 riders the same time, when that was clearly not the case.
Weylandt takes a big, unexpected win.
Results:
1 Wouter Weylandt Quick·Step 5h04'14 2 Fabian Cancellara Team Saxo Bank s.t. 3 Staf Scheirlinckx Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 4 Leif Hoste Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 5 Johan Van Summeren Garmin - Transitions s.t. 6 Juan Antonio Flecha Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 7 Filippo Pozzato Team Katusha s.t. 8 Matti Breschel Team Saxo Bank s.t. 9 Bernhard Eisel Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 10 Allan Davis Astana s.t.
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11 Grega Bole Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 12 Tom Boonen Quick·Step s.t. 13 Frédéric Amorison Landbouwkrediet s.t. 14 Greg Van Avermaet Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 15 Geraint Thomas Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 16 Sep Vanmarcke Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 17 Niki Terpstra Team Milram s.t. 18 Martijn Maaskant Garmin - Transitions s.t. 19 Stijn Devolder Quick·Step s.t. 20 Björn Leukemans Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team s.t. 21 Sylvain Chavanel Quick·Step s.t. 22 Davy Commeyne Landbouwkrediet s.t. 23 Philippe Gilbert Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 24 Tyler Farrar Garmin - Transitions s.t. 25 Stuart O'Grady Team Saxo Bank s.t. 26 Bobbie Traksel Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team s.t. 27 Kurt-Asle Arvesen Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 28 Mark Cavendish Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 29 Edvald Boasson Hagen Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 30 Ian Stannard Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 31 Gianni Meersman Française des Jeux s.t. 32 Hayden Roulston Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 33 Bert Grabsch Team HTC - 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Shimano s.t. 60 Thomas De Gendt Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator s.t. 61 Tom Veelers Skil - Shimano s.t. 62 Ben Swift Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 63 Laurent Mangel Saur - Sojasun s.t. 64 Martin Velits Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 65 Juan José Haedo Team Saxo Bank s.t. 66 Svein Tuft Garmin - Transitions s.t. 67 Kim Borry An Post - Sean Kelly s.t. 68 Luca Mazzanti Team Katusha s.t. 69 Steven Caethoven Landbouwkrediet + 4'31 70 Kevin De Weert Quick·Step s.t. 71 Borut Božic Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team s.t. 72 Jan Bakelandts Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 73 BenjamÃn Noval Astana s.t. 74 David Kopp Team Kuota - Indeland s.t. 75 Jakob Fuglsang Team Saxo Bank s.t. 76 Serge Pauwels Sky Professional Cycling Team s.t. 77 Cyril Bessy Saur - Sojasun s.t. 78 Addy Engels Quick·Step s.t. 79 Yannick Talabardon Saur - Sojasun s.t. 80 Nikolai Trussov Team Katusha + 5'27 81 Bart Dockx Landbouwkrediet s.t. 82 Laurent Didier Team Saxo Bank s.t. 83 Andriy Grivko Astana s.t. 84 Sébastien Delfosse Landbouwkrediet s.t. 85 Ramon Sinkeldam Rabobank CT s.t. 86 Wilfried Cretskens Omega Pharma - 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Farnese Vini s.t. 137 Eric Baumann Team NetApp s.t. 138 Pieter Ghyllebert An Post - Sean Kelly s.t. 139 Scott Davis Astana s.t. 140 Dieter Cappelle Verandas Willems s.t. 141 Thomas Degand Verandas Willems s.t. 142 Wilco Kelderman Rabobank CT s.t. 143 Joeri Adams Rabobank CT s.t. 144 Florenz Knauer Team Kuota - Indeland s.t. 145 Sjef De Wilde Verandas Willems s.t. 146 Evgeni Petrov Team Katusha s.t. 147 Arnoud Van Groen Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team s.t. 148 Alexander Grad Team Kuota - Indeland s.t. 149 Andrea Grendene Lampre - Farnese Vini s.t. 150 Egor Silin Team Katusha + 11'51 151 Christian Patron Team Kuota - Indeland + 14'47 152 Julien Paquet Verandas Willems s.t. 153 Alexander Schmitt Team Kuota - Indeland s.t. 154 Gert Dockx Team HTC - Columbia s.t. 155 Mario Aerts Omega Pharma - Lotto s.t. 156 Andreas Dietziker Team NetApp s.t. 157 Daniel Westmattelmann Team Kuota - Indeland s.t. 158 Arthur Vichot Française des Jeux s.t. 159 Thibaut Pinot Française des Jeux s.t. 160 Kevin Peeters Landbouwkrediet s.t. 161 Remco Broers Rabobank CT s.t. 162 Grégory Habeaux Verandas Willems s.t. 163 Nick Van der Lijke Rabobank CT s.t. 164 Daniel Mrosek Team Kuota - Indeland s.t. 165 Alexsandr Dyachenko Astana + 17'03 166 Andrey Zeits Astana + 17'35
Edited by Tuco the Ugly on 11-10-2010 21:39
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I thought the final turn pic was good, but I didn't think it was that good.
Also I agree with Squire.
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Posted on 11-10-2010 21:40
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Even more expected is Scheirlinckx's third.
Edited by FreitasPCM on 11-10-2010 21:40
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