GO Russell!!!, i'm off to see him tonight in the 'Chevin Cycles/Otley CC BC National Elite Mens Circuit Race Championship'
in Yorkshire
loads of people are going to be there:
-Russell Downing
-Stephen Cummings
-James Taylor
-Tony Gibb
-Simon Gaywood
-Dean Downing
-Chris Newton
-Malcolm Elliott
-Ian Wilkinson
-Peter Kennaugh
-Adam Blythe
the list goes on, and a preview of the race is available here https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/...Champs.asp
i hope Russell can repeat what he did, tonightEdited by Addy291 on 20-06-2007 17:57
The Charge up Ventoux ~ Stage 5
23km to go and the day's breakaway is already splitting apart.
Sonnery, Duarte and England (France, Colombia and USA) are the lead 3, ahead of Winn and Cabreira (Wales and Portugal). Adam Richardson (England), Mikkel Schioler (Denmark) and Denis Schkarpeta (Uzbekistan - Neutral).
The peleton are 4'24 down, and have already lost Hincapie, who crashed midway through the stage.
With 18km to go Vinokourov kick starts the many, many attacks - even Hushovd had a go at one point! Christophe Moreau benefited well from the attacks though, powered on by his home support.
At 12km to go England leads, ahead of Sonnery. Moreau and Duarte further back, but at 10km to go, Moreau has caught England. Sonnery @ 1'25; Duarte, Vinokourov, Popovych, Rogers @ 2'03; Lovkvist, Pereiro, Karpets @ 3'00; Cabreira @ 3'23; 40 rider peleton including Millar @ 3'50.
The peleton thins down to 13, with Millar climbing brilliantly to hang on, Zabriskie is another TTer doing well, in support of Danielson. Eurosport protegee, Kurt Elkjaer leads the group, but not for much longer.
At 6km to go (Gaps are to Moreau):
Moreau > 1'08 > England > 1'56 > Rogers, Popvych, Vinokourov > 2'26 > Sonnery > 2'42 > Pereiro, Lovkvist > 3'34 > 13 rider group, inc. Millar, Menchov, Rasmussen, Karpets, Danielson, Evans and Anton.
Here we see Zabriskie guiding Danielson in E4 as Rasmussen leads the chase towards Moreau's other chasers who are coming closer together - but further away from Moreau. Millar has now been dropped by the group.
Christophe Moreau takes a phenomenal victory in a rather realistic climb to Ventoux, behind the fight for 2nd place hots up as all the chasers merge, watch out for those at the back of the group who are undoubtedly fresher - especially Cadel Evans perched right at the back of the group.
Vinokourov made a small attack with 1km to go to earn a gap, but Evans sprinted flat out and almost caught him, before Vino chose to sprint again. Despite starting the last km together, there were some 'big' caps at the finish.
Christophe Moreau David Millar Christophe Moreau Thomas Lövkvist
England may be snubbed for Tour
ASO have issued a stiff warning to the England team today following Mont Ventoux. The tour is all about the mountains so ASO were looking to see Charly Wegelius towards the front, just as Wales' Geraint Thomas and Scotland's David Millar and James McCallum were.
95 Charles Wegelius ENGLAND + 21'13
The ASO chief, Andreas Simone Onion, says he has only been 'mildly' impressed by Russel Downing of the whole England team, and would much rather pick the climbers than the sprinters for Le Tour.
Scotland meanwhile, may have earnt there place following praise from My A.S.Onions particularly concerning Millar's performance.
The british chief of cycling has responded by hinting that a joint Great Britain team may take on Le Tour, instead of the seperate nations. Depending on ASO's selections.
Edited by SportingNonsense on 21-06-2007 22:44
31km to go: Moreau attacks and easily passes the days break, he again has twice the amount of blue bar than the other attackers and leaves them behind - im beginning to think theres a hidden programming that favours Moreau in the mountains.
21km to go: Moreau reaches the top of the Col d'Izoard with a 2 minute advantage over 7 riders.
How he got such a gap against 7 stronger climbers, I dont know. The 7 strongest behind him are Menchov, Evans, Popovych, Vinokourov, Lovkvist, Pereiro and Rasmussen.
Menchov is dropped on the descent, and there is a group of 9 behind him, with a lot of americans.
Horner, Raisin, Danielson, McCartney and Zabriskie are joined by Karpets, Anton,Sanchez and Mizourov. With 18km to go, they are 3 minutes down.
A group of 6 follows, 4 minutes down, containing Wegelius, Thomas, Iglinskiy, Di Gregorio, Moncoutie and a disappointing Michael Rogers. This group of 6 splits in 2 further down the descent, with Iglinskiy, Rogers and Wegelius pulling away.
Moreau wins comfortably, despite losing time following the Col d'Izoard.
Popovych wins the sprint for second.
SportingNonsense wrote: The Charge up Ventoux ~ Stage 5
23km to go and the day's breakaway is already splitting apart.
Sonnery, Duarte and England (France, Colombia and USA) are the lead 3, ahead of Winn and Cabreira (Wales and Portugal). Adam Richardson (England), Mikkel Schioler (Denmark) and Denis Schkarpeta (Uzbekistan - Neutral).
The peleton are 4'24 down, and have already lost Hincapie, who crashed midway through the stage.
how long have i been in this career for
unless thats another rider with the same name of courseEdited by Addy291 on 22-06-2007 16:28
STAGE 7
The queen stage, please let the stage winner not be Moreau!!
Alex Coutts (Scotland) and Sergey Lagutin (Uzbekistan) attack from the start, and 15km later, a crucial attack follows.
12th Overall Igor Anton flies away from the peleton, and easily passes Coutts and Lagutin who are soon caught up the first climb.
Anton reaches the top with a 3 minute advantage over Thomas Lovkvist, with the peleton a further minute back. Some time later, Lovkvist crosses for second and Rasmussen also attacks for 3r, both riders are brought back in the following descent - but not Anton, who increases his lead.
The Col du Telegraph is much shorter and Anton crosses first, Lovkvist again attacks to take 2nd - he will not be caught again for over 30km. Rasmussen is third.
David Millar, having survived the opening climbs, sprints to take the 2 available sprint points in defence of his jersey.
Anton's lead goes up to 5 minutes at one point on the next big climb, the Col du Glandon. But it is back to 3 minutes as Michael Rasmussen crosses for 2nd, ahead of Kazakh Mizourov.
Lovkvist is among the 24 surving riders - but his attempted attack for points just sent him towards the back of the group. Wegelius is the sole remaining brit, but he and 3 others are separated during the descent.
The penultimate climb, the Col du Mollard is next. Moreau has his teammates set the pace but a crucial moment comes 2km from the top, as Calzati falls away.
Moreau is desperate to claw back Anton's 2 minute advantage, so takes on the pace himself. BIG mistake. After about 500-750metres he falls back to the back of the group, while the rest of the frenchies are gone. Senesing an opportunity, his opponents attacked.
So, at the foot of La Toussiere following a 20km descent, it would appear that Cadel Evans and a Spaniard, Pereiro maybe have led the attacks. No. It is Cadel Evans, but that rider is Igor Anton - who lost his 2 minute advantage over the attacking Evans on the descent. Anton has rode brilliantly today though, 160km solo up 4 tough mountains. Popovych and Menchov are 18 seconds back, Vinokourov @ 40, Group Moreau (With 10 others, no frenchies) @ 1'29. Unfortunately Moreau seems to have recovered.
Anton continues to fall and is caught by Group Moreau with 15km to go. Moreau attacks! Pereiro has his wheel, can anyone else follow? No.
With 10km of La Tourssiere to go, the situation is as follows:
Vinokourov, Evans, Popvych > 39" > Moreau, Pereiro > 1'20 > Karpets, Danielson, Rasmussen, Menchov, Rogers, Sanchez, Zabriskie > 2'04 > Lovkvist, Moncoutie, Di Gregorio > 3'08 > Anton, Gadret. The lead brit, Charly Wegelius is with Serpa and Saul Raisin, 5 minutes behind Vinokourov's group.
With 3km to go Vino, Evans and Popo have stopped working. Their gap to Moreau and Pereiro is still 40 seconds, so acknowledging they cant grab Yellow, they are now looking for the stage. Both Vino and Popo have had a second place so far, with Evans 3rd on both those occasions.
1km to go, let the sprinting commence. Vino is surely the favourite, but WAIT!
Vino is down and out of it, noone could have predicted that!
Cadel Evans immediately launches himself for the sprint, Popovych is surpriesed, meaning....
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