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| Heine |
Posted on 13-01-2011 10:10
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SotD wrote:
Aww. Hopefully no injuries! I feel for the captains there. Madrazo went down it seems, but both Contador and Ardila stayed up for now. And a good result from Lavoine...
Fingers crossed, that this was the only bad crash of this Tour.
You know it will be more, next time it's Contador :-p
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| Christer |
Posted on 13-01-2011 10:39
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Woo! 9th for Greipel!
No! Paulinho! 
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| SotD |
Posted on 13-01-2011 10:43
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Heine wrote:
SotD wrote:
Aww. Hopefully no injuries! I feel for the captains there. Madrazo went down it seems, but both Contador and Ardila stayed up for now. And a good result from Lavoine...
Fingers crossed, that this was the only bad crash of this Tour.
You know it will be more, next time it's Contador :-p
Don't say it. The game will jinx him.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 13-01-2011 11:08
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Heine wrote:
Might be only me Smowz, but isn't it spelled Boonen and Greipel? Dunno if it's intentional or not 
No offence, Smowz, but I have to second Heine here 
Anyway, interesting stage. Still a complete no-show by Philips, but that's a good thing. |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 13-01-2011 11:08
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So without Sieberg, Van Stayen is lost. And now he is 19 points behind Bennati in the race for the green jersey.
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| Smowz |
Posted on 13-01-2011 12:02
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CrueTrue wrote:
Heine wrote:
Might be only me Smowz, but isn't it spelled Boonen and Greipel? Dunno if it's intentional or not
No offence, Smowz, but I have to second Heine here
Anyway, interesting stage. Still a complete no-show by Philips, but that's a good thing.
Gah my spelling of names is horrible, I really need to get better. You know Bennati is the real blighter, Bennetti, Benati, Benneti, Benatti etc.
Actually my spelling in general is bad, but as I write the reports in word I usually get corrected.
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 13-01-2011 12:10
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Smowz wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
Heine wrote:
Might be only me Smowz, but isn't it spelled Boonen and Greipel? Dunno if it's intentional or not
No offence, Smowz, but I have to second Heine here
Anyway, interesting stage. Still a complete no-show by Philips, but that's a good thing.
Gah my spelling of names is horrible, I really need to get better. You know Bennati is the real blighter, Bennetti, Benati, Benneti, Benatti etc.
Actually my spelling in general is bad, but as I write the reports in word I usually get corrected.
Agreed, writing the break of the day takes me forever as a have to check almost every name in the info box. It's the worst part of racing
 [url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182] Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 13-01-2011 14:20
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Ill pretend I read the whole stage, but as soon as you said significant crash, I just skipped to the results to make sure it wasnt Uran So try to avoid putting 'spoilers' at the very top of the reports
Bennati seems to have re-found his sprint mojo though, and Boonen doing nothing when Warner Bros desperately need him to, could be sending his team down if Spilak doesnt score heavily.
Edited by SportingNonsense on 13-01-2011 14:22
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| SotD |
Posted on 13-01-2011 14:30
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Exactly. It seems to be a very interesting Tour on so many different levels. If we take out the top and the bottom team there seems to be a battle for every single position in the bunch. Relegation battle intensifies, as do the podium battle, and the top 5-top 10 and so on...
The Tour will probably shake the entire rankings list up by quite some changes :-)
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 13-01-2011 14:45
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The start of the TdF is really surprising me. Corioni has already finished 4th and 2nd while Echarri has been pretty active in the breakaways. I have to be honest, with such a weak squad I wasn't hoping for that much. Let's hope it keeps this way 
and Smowz about the spelling, it's Energie-Diesel and Café de Colombia. Nice to read you reports though, your insight of the Man-Game works really well with your enthusiasm in the reports, just try to correct the mispellings plz
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| SotD |
Posted on 13-01-2011 14:49
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Personally I don't give a shit about the misspells as long as it's understandable, and it definately is. So i'm enjoying it very much, KUTGW.
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 13-01-2011 16:44
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143 José Angel Gomez Marchante Café de Colombia + 3'14
Did he fall or is he just saving himself for an assault on a stage win and a KOM jersey? (I wish) |
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| p3druh |
Posted on 13-01-2011 17:03
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Yeah, Richeze is not really working out as a lead out for Vanderbist and Vanderbist is not really working out as an above-average sprinter.
fenian_1234 wrote:
143 José Angel Gomez Marchante Café de Colombia + 3'14
Did he fall or is he just saving himself for an assault on a stage win and a KOM jersey? (I wish)
He fell. Smowz reported the crash
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 13-01-2011 18:28
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Don't know how I missed reading that. 
Just saw Phinney mentioned...have to read more slowly in the future. |
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| Christer |
Posted on 13-01-2011 18:51
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Wow. Greipel sucks! I have made up my mind. He's out of the team next season. Offers will have to wait until the transfer season starts.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 13-01-2011 18:59
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Just 8th for Van Stayen. At least he got a stage win and the green jersey for one day.
Also, the KoM rankings are really close, 4 riders with 6 points but we have the jersey
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| mattiasgt |
Posted on 13-01-2011 19:34
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Good to see Granjel Cabrera made a strong rush to fourth. But with Boonen getting that kind of lead out there is not much to do.
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| SotD |
Posted on 13-01-2011 20:37
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So my 2 main helpers have both been down. Ardila and Madrazo... I guess Contador goes down in the next stage...
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 13-01-2011 21:11
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Saw another Cafe de Colombia faller in that stage. Suppose I should be grateful we didn't get hit with crashes in the Vuelta.
More than making up for it here though. |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 13-01-2011 21:55
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My heart just skipped a beat when I saw a Philips man down |
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