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Auber 93 - BigMat | Season 2009
rjc_43
Stage 3 of the Driedsaage van West-Vlaanderen

We decided it was futile trying to get Jollet to the end of todays stage, so he'd have to fend for himself. We expected him to survive about 75% of the stage.

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With only the last mountains sprint containing points, Brouzes would be saving his energy for that, and so someone else would be going with the break today.

Morizot was the charged man, and so off he went in an initial group of 7, which was down to 6 by half way. [img-l]https://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d87/Cleavers/DvWVstg3Break.jpg[/img-l] Behind in the peloton, as soon as Wiesenhof hit the gas to reel back the breakaway, the 65kph winds ripped the field apart. With Drujon placed right at the front, to start with, this was no problem, but as the race progressed, he kept getting misplaced, and with the rest of the team unable to protect him much longer, he was by himself with 20km to go.

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He still managed to get in the only real train of the day, but with only 4km left, the wind took it's toll, and Drujon got dropped.

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The win for the day again went to in form Pollack.

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Brouzes was dropped before managing to get any more mountains points, so he'd settle for 2nd in that classification.

Stage
1 Olaf Pollack TEAM WIESENHOF FELT 3h59'47
2 Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
3 Wouter Weylandt QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
4 Tom Veelers RABOBANK CONTINENTAL s.t.
5 Hans Dekkers AGRITUBEL s.t.
6 Steffen Wesemann TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
7 Marco Zanotti UNIBET.COM s.t.
8 Nico Sijmens LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER s.t.
9 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
10 Wilfried Cretskens QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
23 Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 s.t.
83 Steve Chainel AUBER 93 s.t.
91 Damien Gaudin AUBER 93 s.t.
97 Yannick Martinez AUBER 93 s.t.
122 Niels Brouzes AUBER 93 + 4'27
129 Guillaume Levarlet AUBER 93 + 4'51
137 Florian Morizot AUBER 93 + 10'35
139 Thierry Jollet AUBER 93 s.t.


Overall
1 Olaf Pollack TEAM WIESENHOF FELT 13h21'30
2 Wouter Weylandt QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 16
3 Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
4 André Korff T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
5 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 22
6 Nicolas Jalabert AGRITUBEL + 23
7 Jarno Van Mingeroet JARTAZI PROMO FASHION + 24
8 Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 + 25
9 Stefan Schreck T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
10 Hans Dekkers AGRITUBEL + 26
11 Tom Veelers RABOBANK CONTINENTAL s.t.
12 Juha-Matti Alaluusua TIME - VAN HEMERT s.t.
13 Marco Zanotti UNIBET.COM s.t.
14 Nico Sijmens LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER s.t.
15 Steffen Wesemann TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
64 Damien Gaudin AUBER 93 s.t.
103 Guillaume Levarlet AUBER 93 + 5'17
114 Yannick Martinez AUBER 93 + 6'20
117 Steve Chainel AUBER 93 + 7'53
128 Niels Brouzes AUBER 93 + 12'02
136 Florian Morizot AUBER 93 + 16'54
141 Thierry Jollet AUBER 93 + 32'25

Out of 141 finishers.

Points
1 Olaf Pollack TEAM WIESENHOF FELT 42
2 Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN 28
3 Wouter Weylandt QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 27
4 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL 16
5 André Korff T-MOBILE TEAM 15
6 Tom Veelers RABOBANK CONTINENTAL 14
7 Janek Tombak JARTAZI PROMO FASHION 12
8 Gert Vanderaerden DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 9
9 Ciaran Power NAVIGATORS INSURANCE 9
10 Marco Zanotti UNIBET.COM 7
13 Niels Brouzes AUBER 93 5
15 Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 4
27 Florian Morizot AUBER 93 1


Mountains Jersey
1 Steven Kruijswijk RABOBANK CONTINENTAL 6
2 Niels Brouzes AUBER 93 4
3 Jürgen Van De Walle QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 3
4 Stefan Schreck T-MOBILE TEAM 3
5 Aron Huysmans BABES ONLY - VILLAPARK LINGEMEER - FLANDERS 3
6 Gil Suray UNIBET.COM 3
7 Erwin Thijs UNIBET.COM 3
8 Jarno Van Mingeroet JARTAZI PROMO FASHION 2
9 Cédric Coutouly AGRITUBEL 2
10 Nicolas Jalabert AGRITUBEL 1
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Does Home Grown Hero Bronze count for winning a single stage?
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Any race at all Smile
 
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Paris - Troyes

An important race for us as it was our sponsors 3rd goal of the season to win this race.

[IMG-l]https://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d87/Cleavers/Paris-TroyesRiderlist.jpg[/IMG-l]Lucky for us, all the riders were feeling good and happy after the successful build up to this race, and we fielded the strongest riders we had.

The profile looked like a mini-classic to us, and so the plan would be either for Drujon to wait for the sprint and pray he had good enough legs to beat the AG2R guys, or to go for the early break, and when that was caught, attack a lot.

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Drujon therefore got in the early break of 10 riders, which was still looking fairly strong approaching the final 50km. The lead was down to 3minutes, but was not coming down very fast after the initial drop.

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On the first of the two final climbs, the break still had a slight minute and a half lead, and with Drujon getting distanced slightly, Brouzes had a dig off the front.

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He quickly bridged across to Drujon, who, aware he was coming, had sat up to wait, and helped increase the gap with one last final pull.



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On the remaining climb of the day, just 15km from the line, Levarlet and Morizot also had a go. Brouzes had also caught up with the front group.


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Levarlet and Morizot managed to relay past the remaining breakaway riders, and caught up with Brouzes in the final stretch. Levarlet when he opened the tank passed Brouzes to claim the win, with Morizot and his awful sprint managing to hang on to the 3rd place. He appeared far happier with the result then either Levarlet or Brouzes! With the result, Auber 93 has firmly stamped its authority on the French Continental scene. Pulling off a 1-2-3 with French riders, on French soil is something the Sponsors were over the moon about.

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The results are as follows:

Overall:
1 Guillaume Levarlet AUBER 93 4h34'16
2 Niels Brouzes AUBER 93 s.t.
3 Florian Morizot AUBER 93 s.t.

4 Benjamin Baumgartner ATLAS - ROMER'S HAUSBÄCKEREI s.t.
5 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO - MEITAN HONPO - ASADA s.t.
6 Jean-Patrick Nazon AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
7 Mateusz Mroz CCC POLSAT POLKOWICE s.t.
8 Lloyd Mondory AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
9 Charles Guilbert BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX s.t.
10 Ivan Seledkov MOSCOW STARS s.t.
47 Yannick Martinez AUBER 93 s.t.
58 Maxim Belkov AUBER 93 s.t.
61 Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 s.t.
62 Damien Gaudin AUBER 93 s.t.
89 Thierry Jollet AUBER 93 + 11'13

Out of 90 Finishers. (Jollet didn't come last!!!!)

L'Equipe had nothing but praise for the team the following morning.

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Awesome 1-2-3!
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rjc_43
Grin On hard as well Grin

22/3/07

Maxime Mederel has mended fully and begins the process of getting ready to race again. His fitness has taken a big hit from the broken hip, but we feel confident he should be back in business before long.
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WOW! Great Job GrinGrinGrin
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Classic Loire Atlantique

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Another race where the team were looking for a good showing.

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With this in mind, we got Morizot in the break which managed to stay away until the 20km to go mark. Gaudin counter-attacked at this point and got caught just 3km from the line. His partner in crime managed to stick it out all the way. Drujon managed to sprint to 10th, so not all was lost. Jollet once again got dropped when the pace picked up.

nb. I clicked the wrong button at the end of the race - hence no screenshots Sad

Results:
Rank Name Team Time
1 Frédéric Finot ROUBAIX LILLE MÉTROPOLE 4h36'29
2 Tom Veelers RABOBANK CONTINENTAL + 42
3 Mikel Gaztañaga AGRITUBEL s.t.
4 Hans Dekkers AGRITUBEL s.t.
5 Ivan Quaranta AMORE E VITA - MCDONALD'S s.t.
6 Jos Van Emden RABOBANK CONTINENTAL s.t.
7 Martijn Maaskant RABOBANK CONTINENTAL s.t.
8 Jonathan Godfroid STOREZ LEDECQ MATERIAUX s.t.
9 Dainius Kairelis AMORE E VITA - MCDONALD'S s.t.
10 Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 s.t.
48 Niels Brouzes AUBER 93 s.t.
56 Yannick Martinez AUBER 93 s.t.
63 Damien Gaudin AUBER 93 s.t.
69 Steve Chainel AUBER 93 s.t.
71 Christophe Diguet AUBER 93 s.t.
88 Florian Morizot AUBER 93 + 4'24
94 Thierry Jollet AUBER 93 + 9'46

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La Roue Tourangelle

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Again Drujon would be looking to get a good place in the sprint, and Gaudin would be looking for the oportune moment to attack near the end of the race.

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We decided to send Jollet in the break today to see if he could do better off the front than off the back.

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Things were looking good until the break started to increase its pace. At which point Jollet broke, and went backwards, so far that he shot through the back of the peloton and ended up with a nice solo ride to the finish.

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With 15km to go, Gaudin hit the front again with an attempt to stay away this time for good. He managed to get a good 30second gap, but with his sprinting stat only at 54, he just couldn't keep away from the sprinters as they started to go for it.

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Boasson Hagen is already showing his potential with a good classy 2nd place.

Results:
Rank Name Team Time
1 Ivan Quaranta AMORE E VITA - MCDONALD'S 4h34'00
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI s.t.
3 Jacob Moe Rasmussen TEAM GLS s.t.
4 Yukiya Arashiro NIPPO - MEITAN HONPO - ASADA s.t.
5 Jurgen Roelandts DAVITAMON - WIN FOR LIFE - JONG VLAANDEREN s.t.
6 Ivan Seledkov MOSCOW STARS s.t.
7 Martín Garrido DUJA - TAVIRA s.t.
8 Jean-Luc Delpech BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX s.t.
9 Olivier Pardini STOREZ LEDECQ MATERIAUX s.t.
10 Stéphane Bonsergent BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX s.t.
14 Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 s.t.
30 Damien Gaudin AUBER 93 s.t.
45 Niels Brouzes AUBER 93 s.t.
62 Florian Morizot AUBER 93 s.t.
71 Steve Chainel AUBER 93 s.t.
87 Yannick Martinez AUBER 93 s.t.
98 Steven Tronet AUBER 93 + 3'14
104 Thierry Jollet AUBER 93 + 20'10

/104 starters.
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Cholet - Pays du Loire

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A smaller squad will be going to this race as the main sprinting squad will be off to contest the flat Tour de Normandie.

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The Classics riders were racing this in preparation for the coming cobble races.

Pioline was the first to get in a break, but obviously the break was too strong as it was quickly chased down. Diguet was the next to go, and he got in a break of 5 riders. The gap was quickly brought down over the few lumps in the middle of the race.

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With 40km to go, the pack was breaking up as riders couldn't get back up to the front to shelter from the wind.

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This left us with Gaudin and Brouzes in the front group of 35 or so. A group of 4 formed up the road of the stronger riders from the Pro Tour squads in the race. This left the chase upto the Rabobank continental squad, who couldn't bring it back. Gaudin tried to leave the group, but didn't have it in him. He did however manage to pick the pace up even more and drag back in a rider in between both groups.

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The sprint for first was contested in the front group.

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Brouzes a rather average sprinter was feeling pretty good and so followed a few wheels to a pleasing 7th place. Gaudin rolled in in 17th place.

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Rank Name Team Time
1 Pierrick Fédrigo BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM 5h00'03
2 Sylvain Chavanel COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
3 Cyril Dessel AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
4 Nicki Sörensen TEAM CSC s.t.
5 Martijn Maaskant RABOBANK CONTINENTAL + 1'03
6 Anthony Geslin BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
7 Niels Brouzes AUBER 93 s.t.
8 Lloyd Mondory AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
9 Laurent Brochard BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
10 Tom Leezer RABOBANK CONTINENTAL s.t.
17 Damien Gaudin AUBER 93 s.t.
29 Bingen Fernández COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
30 Jean-Patrick Nazon AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 3'30
31 Luke Roberts TEAM CSC + 5'48
46 Hans Dekkers AGRITUBEL + 7'48
84 Jean Mespoulède AUBER 93 s.t.
86 Davide Malacarne AUBER 93 s.t.
98 Renaud Pioline AUBER 93 s.t.
132 Christophe Diguet AUBER 93 + 15'56

/133 starters.
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Tour de Normandie

We're taking our entire sprinting contingent to this tour with the hope of getting some top 5 places. From our previous races, this could appear to be quite a task to achieve. In all hopes we are aiming for a top 10 overall GC placing, but this is also going to be hard to achieve as the first TT could well make or break that hope for us.

Jollet and Morizot are also looking to level up and so we are hoping that they will become better riders for it.

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I will be doing an overall race review at the end rather than every single stage.
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Good Luck Grin
 
rjc_43
The races took a while to do, but here they are:

n.b. J.Galland, F.Morizot and S.Tronet all leveled up to level 2 exp, but none had noticably great increases.

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Route Adelie de Vitre

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The "classics crew" would be visiting this one being headed up by D.Gaudin as usual.

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An early break went, sparked by N.Brouzes.

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Due to all major teams being present in the break, it wasn't chased down and unfortunately Brouzes was not race fit and so got dropped. He was later caught 300m from the line.

The winner came from Francaise de Jeux surprisingly...

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1 Arnaud Gérard FRANÇAISE DES JEUX 4h12'28
2 Paul Brousse ROUBAIX LILLE MÉTROPOLE s.t.
3 Jonathan Patrick McCarty TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
4 Matt Wilson UNIBET.COM s.t.
5 Julien Loubet AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 8
6 Nicolas Hartmann COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
7 Adam Wadecki CERAMICA FLAMINIA s.t.
8 Ivan Seledkov MOSCOW STARS + 40
9 Olivier Bonnaire BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
10 Benoit Poilvet CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
11 Laurent Lefèvre BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 48
12 Sébastien Joly FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 56
13 John Gadret AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
14 Luis Pasamontes UNIBET.COM + 1'04
15 Maxime Monfort COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 1'12
16 Steven Tronet ROUBAIX LILLE MÉTROPOLE + 1'20
17 Benoit Salmon AGRITUBEL + 1'36
18 Christophe Moreau AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 1'44
19 Xavier Florencio BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
20 Alexandre Botcharov CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
21 Victor Hugo Peña UNIBET.COM s.t.
22 Rémy Di Gregorio FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 1'52
23 Laurent Brochard BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
24 Eduardo Gonzalo AGRITUBEL s.t.
25 Alberto Martínez AGRITUBEL s.t.
26 Benoît Vaugrenard FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
27 Rigoberto Urán UNIBET.COM s.t.
28 Raffaele Illiano CERAMICA FLAMINIA s.t.
29 Yoann Le Boulanger BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM + 2'00
30 Niels Brouzes AUBER 93 s.t.
48 Florian Morizot AUBER 93 + 2'16
54 Damien Gaudin AUBER 93 + 2'32
79 Davide Malacarne AUBER 93 + 4'24
93 Maxim Belkov AUBER 93 + 5'44
97 Jean Mespoulède AUBER 93 + 6'00
105 Renaud Pioline AUBER 93 + 8'48
111 Thierry Jollet AUBER 93 + 14'48

/112 starters
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The remainder of the squad went over to race Les Boucles de l'Artois

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With only 7 members racing, we decided not to send anyone with the break, rather do a bit of pulling on the front to keep the gap to a minimum. When it was obvious no other team was going to bring the break back, we upped the pace until the penultimate hill where M.Drujon went off solo to claim 5th place, having overtaken a dropped breakaway member.

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1 Pawel Szaniawski CCC POLSAT POLKOWICE 3h35'26
2 Kasper Jebjerg TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
3 Ken Devaere BABES ONLY - VILLAPARK LINGEMEER - FLANDERS s.t.
4 Joe Kirch CONTINENTAL TEAM DIFFERDANGE s.t.
5 Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 + 50
6 Tomasz Kiendys CCC POLSAT POLKOWICE + 1'12
7 Jens Erik Madsen TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
8 Fredrik Johansson TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
9 Tomasz Lisowicz CCC POLSAT POLKOWICE s.t.
10 Krzysztof Jezowski CCC POLSAT POLKOWICE s.t.
25 Steven Tronet AUBER 93 s.t.
27 Guillaume Levarlet AUBER 93 s.t.
42 Christophe Diguet AUBER 93 s.t.
43 Jérémie Galland AUBER 93 s.t.
44 Steve Chainel AUBER 93 s.t.
45 Yannick Martinez AUBER 93 + 2'47


I'm quite disappointed as these races i need to take advantage of to get as many points as possible if i want even a shot at a top 5 continental ranking this year. At the monent i'm down in 16th place.
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From one disappointment to one amazing result.

GP de la Ville de Rennes

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A completely flat course, so good preparation for the classic riders and a great race for my sprinters, who have of yet, failed to get many good results.

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With such a long flat race in mind, we all knew it would come down to a sprint finish, but none the less we sent someone with the breakaway, and got some other team bods to do some relaying so that the breakaway rider would have a free ride. This seemed to be a good tactic, as the gap started to fall, Brouzes started to do some hard turns on the front of the break, causing it to shatter apart and it was looking good with 8km to go.

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It was not to be however, and he got caught with just 5km left to go. For once, Drujon had managed to get on an ok wheel, and with a large number of crashes, one f which has broken one of my lesser talented riders' ribs, he was looking good.
Jollet also managed to get on a rubbish wheel, which was a surprise as this was the first race he's managed to finish at the front of a race for.

Amazingly, running into the last few corners, the wheel Drujon was sat on failed to go, so he quickly changed his tactics and went after number one. The speed he got across was astonishing, we all thought he'd sail past in the last km, but he seemed to slow a load when trying to go past.

We were over the moon to settle for 2nd however! B)

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1 Andrus Aug CERAMICA FLAMINIA 2h58'05
2 Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 s.t.
3 Anthony Ravard AGRITUBEL s.t.
4 Mikhaylo Khalilov CERAMICA FLAMINIA s.t.
5 Adam Wadecki CERAMICA FLAMINIA s.t.
6 Laurent Brochard BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
7 Mikel Gaztañaga AGRITUBEL s.t.
8 Jaroslaw Zarębski ACTION - UNIQA s.t.
9 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
10 Błażej Janiaczyk ACTION - UNIQA s.t.
11 Romain Feillu AGRITUBEL s.t.
12 Antonio Bucciero CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
13 Sébastien Hinault CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
14 Jean-Luc Delpech BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX s.t.
15 Ivan Seledkov MOSCOW STARS s.t.
16 Tyler Farrar COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
17 Thierry Jollet AUBER 93 s.t.
18 Geoffroy Lequatre COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
19 Simon Gerrans AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
20 Jérôme Pineau BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
32 Niels Brouzes AUBER 93 s.t.
33 Steven Tronet AUBER 93 s.t.
40 Steve Chainel AUBER 93 s.t.
47 Davide Malacarne AUBER 93 s.t.
67 Damien Gaudin AUBER 93 s.t.

DNF Christopher Diguet - Broken Rib
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Coming Up:

Circuit Cycliste de la Sarthe

3 flat stages, 1 criterium and 1 ITT should provide ample time for gaining full race fitness prior to the cobbled classics, as well as allowing M.Drujon to stretch his legs further, and T.Jollet to gain a bit more road experience.

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A team of 6 would be going to the race. Half sprinters, and the other half the classics riders.

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Stage one ended of course in a mass sprint, in which M.Drujon managed to jump from wheel to wheel to improve his position.

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Results:
1 Geoffroy Lequatre COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 4h08'05
2 Stéphane Bonsergent BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX s.t.
3 Aart Vierhouten SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
4 Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 s.t.
5 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
6 Angelo Furlan CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
7 Antonio Bucciero CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
8 Kenny Van Hummel SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
9 Anthony Ravard AGRITUBEL s.t.
10 Andrus Aug CERAMICA FLAMINIA s.t.
22 Steven Tronet AUBER 93 s.t.
73 Davide Malacarne AUBER 93 s.t.
74 Damien Gaudin AUBER 93 s.t.
82 Renaud Pioline AUBER 93 + 2'40
84 Thierry Jollet AUBER 93 + 5'25

Overall:
1 Geoffroy Lequatre COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 4h07'45
2 Stéphane Bonsergent BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX + 8
3 Aart Vierhouten SKIL - SHIMANO + 12
4 Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 + 20
5 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
22 Steven Tronet AUBER 93 s.t.
73 Davide Malacarne AUBER 93 s.t.
74 Damien Gaudin AUBER 93 s.t.
82 Renaud Pioline AUBER 93 + 3'00
85 Thierry Jollet AUBER 93 + 5'45

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Stage two finished in another sprint, with Drujon positioned well again, and S.Tronet feeling great (+5 form) we got him on a sprint train as well.

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1 Aart Vierhouten SKIL - SHIMANO 2h07'16
2 Stéphane Bonsergent BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX s.t.
3 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
4 Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 s.t.
5 Angelo Furlan CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
6 Andrus Aug CERAMICA FLAMINIA s.t.
7 Anthony Ravard AGRITUBEL s.t.
8 Óscar Gatto GEROLSTEINER s.t.
9 Antonio Bucciero CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
10 Romain Feillu AGRITUBEL s.t.
11 Steven Tronet AUBER 93 s.t.
12 Geoffroy Lequatre COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
13 Paride Grillo CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
14 Linas Balciunas AGRITUBEL s.t.
15 Mikel Gaztañaga AGRITUBEL s.t.
67 Davide Malacarne AUBER 93 s.t.
68 Damien Gaudin AUBER 93 s.t.
81 Renaud Pioline AUBER 93 + 2'44
83 Thierry Jollet AUBER 93 + 3'51


Overall:
1 Aart Vierhouten SKIL - SHIMANO 6h14'53
2 Stéphane Bonsergent BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX + 4
3 Geoffroy Lequatre COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 8
4 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 20
5 Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 + 28
6 Angelo Furlan CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
18 Steven Tronet AUBER 93 s.t.
63 Davide Malacarne AUBER 93 s.t.
64 Damien Gaudin AUBER 93 s.t.
76 Renaud Pioline AUBER 93 + 5'52
86 Thierry Jollet AUBER 93 + 9'44

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