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Petronas - Monster Energy; The end of an era
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| ryant |
Posted on 20-02-2013 11:05
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Unusual that the break won today, seemed like a pretty strong one too!
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Posted on 20-02-2013 11:51
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Unlucky result for the team, but at least it shows that Kittel is in great shape!
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Posted on 20-02-2013 15:04
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Too bad the break made it to the end, Kittel could have won this 
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| dienblad |
Posted on 20-02-2013 16:29
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@ all: Sometimes, it's strange to see that no team wants to let the stage end in a mass sprint. Especially with all the best sprinters present....
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| The_Cav |
Posted on 20-02-2013 21:32
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strange stage, still a good result for kittel. |
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Posted on 21-02-2013 07:02
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Stage 3
Another flat stage, however there are 1300 height metres. And tere is 1 classified KOTM-sprint, so the riders can sprint for the polka dot jersey.
192km to g
Saurs Johan Le Bon is the one that wins the KOTM-sprint after 11 kilometres. He's the fastest of a group of that has attacked before the climb started. Together with Steven Van Vooren, Thor Hushovd (these 2 again) and Alessandro Ballan (BMC) they manage to create a gap to the peloton.
60km to go
The leading group increases from 4 riders to 10. Stijn Vandenbergh (Katusha), Juan Antonio Flecha (Euskaltel), Said Haddou (Europcar), Paul Voss (Red Bull, again), Murilo Fischer (Sony Ericsson) and Matteo Montaguti (Acqua et Sapone) have bridged the gap to Le Bon, Van Vooren, Ballan and Hushovd. The Norwegian wins the Intermediate sprint, and knows he'll probably get to wear the maillot verde after today's stage.
4km to go
The BOTD is almost caught with 12km to go, when 2 riders attack out of the peloton. Sebastian Langeveld (Qantas) and Tosh Van der Sande (Omega Pharma) bridge the gap to the BOTD, and immediately leave them behind. Van der Sande must have a superday, as he also leaves Langeveld behind and creates a margin of a minute to a peloton, that is chasing like hell.......
Finish
And it's the 2nd breakaway win in 2 days, despite the routes are perfect for mass sprints. Tosh Van der Sande takes his first professional win, and it's one in the Tour de France!! Sebastian Langeveld couldn't follow the Belgian and has to settle with the 2nd place.
The peloton finishes in the same time as Van der Sande, and Matthew Goss wins the sprint for the 3rd place. Marcel Kittel takes a good 4th place. Again, no important time losses.
Results
| 1 |  Tosh Van der Sande | Omega Pharma - Quick•Step | 4h32'51 | | 2 |  Sebastian Langeveld | Qantas Airways | s.t. | | 3 |  Matthew Goss | Dexia | s.t. | | 4 |  Marcel Kittel | Petronas - Monster Energy | s.t. | | 5 |  Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Barracuda | s.t. | | 6 |  Giacomo Nizzolo | Lampre - Alitalia | s.t. | | 7 | Heinrich Haussler | Radio Shack - Nissan | s.t. | | 8 |  José JoaquÃn Rojas | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 9 |  Mark Cavendish | Sky ProCycling | s.t. | | 10 | Michael Matthews | Qantas Airways | s.t. |
GC
| 1 |  Fabian Cancellara | Sky ProCycling | 9h22'27 | | 2 | Lars Boom | Saxo Bank SunGard | + 26 | | 3 | Tony Martin | Red Bull - Cervélo | + 30 | | 4 | Bradley Wiggins | Dexia | + 36 | | 5 |  Thor Hushovd | Dexia | + 41 | | 6 | Geraint Thomas | Qantas Airways | + 44 | | 7 | Paul Voss | Red Bull - Cervélo | + 45 | | 8 | Sebastian Langeveld | Qantas Airways | + 55 | | 9 | Grégory Rast | Team Europcar | + 59 | | 10 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Barracuda | + 1'02 |
Points
| 1 | Thor Hushovd | Dexia | 61 | | 2 | Greg Van Avermaet | Sony Ericsson | 55 | | 3 | Steven Van Vooren | Omega Pharma - Quick•Step | 51 | | 4 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Barracuda | 49 | | 5 | Paul Voss | Red Bull - Cervélo | 47 |
KOTM
| 1 |  Johan Le Bon | Saur - Sojasun | 1 |
Today's Winner
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Not counting the ITT, 2 stages and 2 breakaway wins, as well as 2 Belgian wins. Today, only we and Garmin chased when Van der Sande and Langeveld attacked. And how the heck can a 23-year-old be faster in 10km than 2 sprint trains????? Tomorrow must be for the sprinters....
Edited by dienblad on 23-02-2013 11:14
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Posted on 21-02-2013 08:06
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Hushovd for the green!  |
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Posted on 21-02-2013 08:30
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Wow, Van Der Sande with the race of a lifetime
But why aren't there any mass sprints... Obviously Kittel's ready for them, what's wrong with all those other teams! |
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Posted on 21-02-2013 09:40
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Someone has to chase the Breakaways, so Kittel can deliver the job. He has the legs to do it. |
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Posted on 21-02-2013 10:54
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Kittel getting closer to a win  |
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Posted on 21-02-2013 15:12
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What is going on in this Tour  I want to see a mass sprint. But anyway, nice win for Van Der Sande.
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
It's difficult not to be happy when you're surrounded by Belgians. - Mark Cavendish
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| The_Cav |
Posted on 21-02-2013 17:35
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just strange.
kittel in breakaway?
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 22-02-2013 22:48
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The_Cav wrote:
just strange.
kittel in breakaway?
Kittel in breakaway
Mass sprint finish
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| dienblad |
Posted on 23-02-2013 10:53
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@ all: And the strange stages haven't finished......
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| dienblad |
Posted on 23-02-2013 10:54
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Saw that this stories has over 200.000 views. Nice!! 
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Posted on 23-02-2013 11:09
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Stage 4
Flat as a pancake, that is the summarization of stage 4. 174 kilometres from Evreux to Blois. The sprinter teams should be able to control this stage....
38km to go
The first 100km of the stage have been done at an extremely high pace. A lot of riders wanted to attack, among them for the 3rd day in a row Thor Hushovd, Paul Voss and Steven Van Vooren (of course......), but the peloton (that is: our team) didn't want to get a breakaway create a margin too big to catch them again.
But when Alessandro Petacchi (Acqua et Sapone), Dirk Bellemakers (Rabobank), Lars Boom (Saxo Bank), Thomas Voeckler (Europcar), Sebastian Langeveld (Qantas) and Frédéric Guesdon (AG2R) attacked, they simply rode too fast for our domestiques, so we decided to stop the chase. The gap increased to several minutes and with 38km to go, it is still 3'10. And strangely, Team Sky doesn't seem to wanna defend the maillot jaune of Cancellara, as the GC's number 2 Lars Boom is present in the breakaway.
2km to go
And this is exactly what is going wrong in this Tour, why there are no mass sprints. With 2km to go, the 6 still lead the peloton by '35. And there ain't no organized chase again. We try to do it, by forming a sprint train for Marcel Kittel. Then suddenly on the other side of the road, comes a Sky-rider rushing by, with his sprinter Cavendish not even in his wheel, but 3 others between them.....
Finish
So the sprint for the win is between 5 riders (Guesdon has been dropped), and with everybody expecting Alessandro Petacchi to win, being the best sprinter, it's fully logical that Thomas Voeckler takes the win, his first win in more than 2 years! Langeveld finishes in 2nd, Bellemakers in 3rd and Ale Jet in 4th, in front of Boom. But Boom knows he'll become the new GC-leader.
And guess who wins the peloton sprint pretty easily, at '29?? 
Results
| 1 | Thomas Voeckler | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | 3h45'24 | | 2 | Sebastian Langeveld | Qantas Airways | s.t. | | 3 | Dirk Bellemakers | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Alessandro Petacchi | Acqua & Sapone | s.t. | | 5 | Lars Boom | Saxo Bank SunGard | s.t. | | 6 | Marcel Kittel | Petronas - Monster Energy | + 29 | | 7 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Barracuda | s.t. | | 8 | Mark Cavendish | Sky ProCycling | s.t. | | 9 | José JoaquÃn Rojas | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 10 | Giacomo Nizzolo | Lampre - Alitalia | s.t. |
GC
| 1 | Lars Boom | Saxo Bank SunGard | 13h08'17 | | 2 | Fabian Cancellara | Sky ProCycling | + 3 | | 3 | Sebastian Langeveld | Qantas Airways | + 29 | | 4 | Tony Martin | Red Bull - Cervélo | + 33 | | 5 | Bradley Wiggins | Dexia | + 39 | | 6 | Thor Hushovd | Dexia | + 44 | | 7 | Geraint Thomas | Qantas Airways | + 47 | | 8 | Paul Voss | Red Bull - Cervélo | + 48 | | 9 | Grégory Rast | Team Europcar | + 1'02 | | 10 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Barracuda | + 1'05 |
Points
| 1 | Sebastian Langeveld | Qantas Airways | 100 | | 2 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Barracuda | 80 | | 3 | Alessandro Petacchi | Acqua & Sapone | 67 | | 4 | Thor Hushovd | Dexia | 61 | | 5 | Marcel Kittel | Petronas - Monster Energy | 61 |
Today's Winner
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Posted on 23-02-2013 11:12
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What about stage 3?
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Posted on 23-02-2013 11:15
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Maddrengen wrote:
What about stage 3?
The stage wn by Van der Sande is stage 3. Mistyped the stage number in the report......
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| ryant |
Posted on 23-02-2013 11:16
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this will be remembered as the weirdest TDF ever in history (even though its a game)
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 23-02-2013 11:19
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Voeckler winning a TdF stage, okay that's possible
Voeckler winning a flat TdF stage, fuck logic
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