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Posted on 16-09-2008 15:10
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Giro d’Italia – Stage 20
An awesome day and an awesome finale for has been the best race of my career no doubt. This no doubt tops my Silver Medal at the Worlds and my win in Tour of Lombardy, eventhough those are still huge.
Everyone in the pack was just so relaxed right from the outset, kidding around and stuff. I have these parade stages a lot of times on the telly and now I’m one of the riders who has fought through three gruelling weeks of pain and steep climbs. But the outcome has been beyond everything I imagined. I would have said that too if I just had one stage win, but I ended up with two and I just can’t put words on that. I have worked so hard to win a race during the entire and then it just melts together in harmony on two occasions for me, here in Italy.
The CSC car was handing out champagne and since I’m Danish I managed to talk my way to a round for my team. Also I had my picture taken with Basso (Maglia Rosa), Nibali (Maglia Bianca) and Soler (2nd in Maglia Verde to Basso), which was a big experience for me, to be one of the riders who had set their print on the race.
Traditionally the race came together for a mass sprint, and me still feeling strong lead out Greipel as I had pulled into the lead almost creating a small gap on the pack. Greipel lost my wheel though as he was down in 4th position at the start of the sprint.
Leading out the final sprint of the Giro with Napolitano, Cucinotta and Greipel in my wheel.
I put in a good effort but Greipel’s position wasn’t optimal to pull off a result and Cucinotta, who has been by far the strongest sprinter in the last week took a convincing win with Greipel in 2nd and me in 4th.
Nevertheless a good conclusion to a good race for us. We’d hoped to have Siutsou in the Top 5, but his crash put a stop to that. He met up with us in Milan that evening as we celebrated the Giro being over. It has been a fantastic race. I’ve never felt anymore exhausted though and after a long spring I’m now off for a well-deserved break and I’m actually not sure when I will be back in the saddle this season. In a few months I reckon. I didn’t want to think about it though as this evening was just dedicated celebrate the end of the Giro.
1 Claudio Cucinotta LPR Brakes 3h14'51
2 André Greipel Team High Road s.t.
3 Oscar Gatto Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
4 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road s.t.
5 Danilo Napolitano Lampre s.t.
6 Allan Davis Silence - Lotto s.t.
7 Claudio Corioni Crédit Agricole s.t.
8 Tom Leezer Rabobank s.t.
9 Fran Ventoso Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
10 Matteo Montaguti LPR Brakes s.t.
11 Heinrich Haussler Gerolsteiner s.t.
12 Davide Viganò Quick•Step s.t.
13 Yauheni Hutarovich Gerolsteiner s.t.
14 Aaron Kemps AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
15 Danilo Di Luca LPR Brakes s.t.
16 Jonathan Bellis Team CSC s.t.
17 Filippo Pozzato Liquigas s.t.
18 Alberto Curtolo Acqua e Sapone - Caffè Mokambo s.t.
19 Francesco Gavazzi Lampre s.t.
20 Edgar Pinto Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
Final GC
1 Ivan Basso Team CSC 85h07'23
2 Damiano Cunego Lampre + 9'29
3 Vincenzo Nibali Liquigas + 16'00
4 Manuel Medina Team Astana + 19'50
5 Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott + 27'00
6 Danilo Di Luca LPR Brakes + 29'57
7 Mauricio Soler Barloworld + 34'02
8 Alberto Losada Caisse d'Epargne + 35'39
9 Branislav Samoilau Quick•Step + 44'59
10 Linus Gerdemann Rabobank + 45'13
11 Morris Possoni CSF Group - Navigare + 46'36
12 Laurens Ten Dam Gerolsteiner + 49'57
13 Ignacio Sarabia Caisse d'Epargne + 52'16
14 Josep Jufré Tinkoff Credit Systems + 52'20
15 Matthew Lloyd Saunier Duval - Scott + 52'52
16 Luca Pierfelici Quick•Step + 53'01
17 Sébastien Joly Française des Jeux + 54'42
18 Wout Poels Lampre + 59'02
19 Eddy Ratti Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni - Androni Giocattoli + 59'56
20 Chris Anker Sørensen Team Astana + 1h00'07
57 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road + 1h46'29
Points Competition
1 Ivan Basso Team CSC 224
2 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road 188
3 Damiano Cunego Lampre 149
4 Vincenzo Nibali Liquigas 135
5 Danilo Napolitano Lampre 112
6 Filippo Pozzato Liquigas 109
7 Claudio Cucinotta LPR Brakes 107
8 Manuel Medina Team Astana 106
9 Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott 101
10 Danilo Di Luca LPR Brakes 100
King of the Mountains
1 Ivan Basso Team CSC 116
2 Mauricio Soler Barloworld 98
3 Damiano Cunego Lampre 78
4 Danilo Di Luca LPR Brakes 72
5 Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval - Scott 59
6 Vincenzo Nibali Liquigas 40
7 Manuel Medina Team Astana 36
8 Craig Lewis Team High Road 28
9 Ignacio Sarabia Caisse d'Epargne 19
10 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road 18
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 16-09-2008 16:49
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Fantastic Giro
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Posted on 16-09-2008 17:36
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I love this story!!!! JAJ really had a great Giro. |
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 16-09-2008 18:18
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Awesome Giro, so close to the points jersey  Great work by JAJ!
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| niconico |
Posted on 16-09-2008 21:10
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Jonas’ Corner
My break after the Giro wasn’t as relaxing as I would have liked to be. Because of my two stage wins there has arised a big attention around me and I agreed in doing quite a lot of interviews for some cycling magazines and also for some Danish TV Stations, as I have become quite the icon back home.
Anyway I got to do some relaxing, but you never relax totally. You have to train every day, but I had some nice workouts with Thomas Løvkvist, who lives close to me in Italy. Also I spend my break signing a new contract with High Road so it won’t expire until 2012. Another step in the right direction for me. I have been thinking about which races I want to do peak for in the remainder of the season. The route at the Worlds this year is too easy, so I won’t come there with winning ambitions. I’m very fatigue after the Giro and I probably won’t reach the same level I was at during the three weeks in Italy again this season, but I will try my best to peak for Giro di Lombardia to try and defend my title there.
The field of hosts for next season’s World Championships has been narrowed down to three and I think it sounds promising. The candidates are Valkenburg (Holland), Berlin (Germany) and Cagliari (Italy). I don’t hope it will be in Berlin because I don’t think the route will be hilly enough there for me to win. Valkenburg sounds like a perfect fit though with the Cauberg hill being the place to make a difference and I have my fingers crossed for Holland on this one.
I think completing my first Grand Tour has given me the experience needed to compete for the win in the Ardennes now.
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| t-baum |
Posted on 16-09-2008 21:12
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JAJ to start winning the ardennes now!
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Posted on 16-09-2008 21:33
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Wow JAJ is getting very strong. I think he is a better Valverde in the making  |
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Posted on 16-09-2008 22:26
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Danish National Championships
This is my first race since the Giro, well I also took part in the ITT Championships, but a no-show would have gained almost as good as a result as I came away with there. I did do some very good time trials at the Giro but with my form way off right now I don’t even think I can defend my Danish Championship Jersey
Again this year the leading teams were CSC, GLS and Designa, so me and Lars had to work out some way to get our hands on that jersey. We tried to get in the early break, but it didn’t work out so we were stuck in the pack praying Designa would pick up the pace at some point with no riders in the breakaway group, which consisted of Klostergaard (CSC), Reckweg (GLS), Vinther (Cycle Collstrop), Heine Møller (P3Transfer) and the 2008 Champion, Ricky Jørgensen (Fercase).
They had a gap of over 6 minutes when Nicki Sørensen (Differdange) attacked with 56 kilometres to go, after me and Lars had put in some work to cut the deficit back. This made GLS and CSC pick up the pace and we now started gaining on the breakaway riders. It seemed like Sørensen would easily be caught, but he kept his pace high eventhough the gap at one point was cut to just 30 seconds.
In an indredible effort Sørensen rode his way up to the breakaway riders, who were split up, with Vinther leading the race and it looked as though he would win it if he could keep just a reasonable pace. But he ran out of energy as Sørensen first made contact with Ricky Jørgensen just to drop him in an instance. In a matter of minutes had caught up with Vinther, and he was leading the pack with about 40 seconds coming into the finale.
Sørensen fighting to hold off the pack having dropped Vinther on the very same hill where I founded my win last year.
GLS were sitting up the sprint for Mørkøv in the pack and I jumped right on my former team-mate’s wheel, looking to take this in the sprint as we were gaining dramatically on Sørensen up the road. But in the final right-hander I lost control of my bike and crashed out of contention. I hit the deck pretty hard but managed to get on my bike and roll in.
But up the road Sørensen was keeping it going and with an amazing effort he held off Mørkøv and the other sprinters to take a fantastic victory.
I had to congratulate Nicki afterwards because I have never seen anything quite like it. I was a bit dissapointed but I have had a great year in the jersey and I will for sure win it back some other time.
1 Nicki Sørensen Differdange - Apiflo Vacances 5h02'21
2 Michael Morkov Team GLS - Pakke Shop s.t.
3 Glenn Bak Team GLS - Pakke Shop s.t.
4 Peter Riis Andersen Team GLS - Pakke Shop s.t.
5 Morten Reckweg Team GLS - Pakke Shop s.t.
6 Troels Vinther Cycle Collstrop s.t.
7 Matti Breschel Team CSC s.t.
8 René Jørgensen Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
9 Michael Reihs Cycle Collstrop s.t.
10 Martin Mortensen Team Designa Køkken s.t.
11 Mikkel Schiøler Team GLS - Pakke Shop s.t.
12 Jens Erik Madsen Team Designa Køkken s.t.
13 Michael Blaudzun Team 3C Gruppe s.t.
14 Jakob Fuglsang Mróz - Action - Uniqa s.t.
15 Niki Østergaard Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
16 Søren Nissen Davitamon - Lotto - Jong Vlaanderen s.t.
17 Casper Jørgensen Team GLS - Pakke Shop s.t.
18 Mik Kjer Auber 93 s.t.
19 Martin Pedersen Team GLS - Pakke Shop s.t.
20 Jacob Moe Rasmussen Team Sparebanken Vest s.t.
42 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road + 2'21
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Posted on 17-09-2008 13:14
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To bad you wasn't able to do something good at the NC, but when you're out of form theres nothing to do.
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Posted on 17-09-2008 17:30
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you can't win em all
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Posted on 17-09-2008 17:31
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Unlucky crash, i hope you can bounce back |
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Posted on 19-09-2008 16:38
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Wow, some great results at the giro. I'm reading at the airport and I'm glad you updated so regularly so I have something to occupy my time  |
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| BB95 |
Posted on 23-09-2008 12:44
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Are this stori finish?  |
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Posted on 23-09-2008 20:38
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No, why would you think that?
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Posted on 23-09-2008 23:02
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Sachsen Tour
My preparations for the final part of the season starts in Germany at the Sachsen Tour. There are few stages that suits me quite well, but first of all this is just about getting some kilometres into my legs, because I feel very rusty right now, even after racing the Danish Championships. My tough programme in the spring surely cost me a lot of fatigue which I’m paying for right now. I’m more tired than I have ever been this time a year.
Anyway about the racing our captains for this race were our young guns and future Tour prospects Diego Ulissi and Nico Keinath. I’m might try something in a bunch sprint, but I don’t really count on it.
Back in the vanilla High Road jersey after a year in red and white.
The first was won by Gaudin, who I beat on my way to my first stage win in the Giro, so I actually quite pleased to see him win. He and Harbig of Thüringer Energie Team just managed to hold off the pack as the Frenchman was triumphant in the sprint of those two guys. I just rolled in with the pack today.
Next stage actually came down to a bunch sprint, but too tired at the end to do anything I just stayed in the middle of the pack, not really interested in putting in any effort. At the end, Eric Baumann of Team Sparkasse was the first rider to cross the line giving the German fans something to cheer about. As we don’t have any sprinters here except me, we had a pretty quiet day.
1 Eric Baumann Team Sparkasse 5h02'38
2 Joachim Tolles Team Kuota - Senges s.t.
3 Assan Bazayev Team Astana s.t.
4 René Weissinger Team Volksbank s.t.
5 Matti Breschel Team CSC s.t.
52 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road s.t.
The third stage was relatively hilly with a big hill some 40 kilometres from the finish. I got over it alongside Keinath and Ulissi, but I had to fight a lot to hang in there, as it’s now more or less confirmed that my legs are pretty rubbish right now.
As we got over the climb and I fought my way back to the front of the pack something unfortuneatel happened. Without any contact or anything and I still have no idea why, I crashed. Luckily I was sitting in the left side of the pack so all the riders managed to dodge me. Me on the other hand wasn’t feeling too terrific. I tried to get back up on my bike, but no way. I couldn’t go on. Even with just 5 kilometres to the line I simply couldn’t not make the pedals go around. So when Piva, our directeur sportif in this race, pulled over the car to check on me, we make a decision that I would abandon the race. So I did.
Rohregger won the stage for those interested. Ulissi in 2nd.
1 Thomas Rohregger Team Astana 4h53'25
2 Diego Ulissi Team High Road + 21 (Pack)
3 Mitja Mahoric Team Volksbank s.t.
4 Assan Bazayev Team Astana s.t.
5 Der Zolt ELK Haus - Simplon s.t.
DNF Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road
I went to the hospital with Piva immediately after, where I was diagnosed with a fracture. For some reason they couldn’t tell me what kind of fracture. Only that it was in fact, a fracture. This means that I will be out until mid-august, which is like three weeks. I will miss out on Clasica San Sebastian, which I was looking forward to racing for the first time. But those things happen. I hope it doesn’t disrupt my training and make me completely in capable of building up my form for Giro di Lombardia.
Mitja Mahoric ended up winning Sachsen Tour ahead of Cancellara and my Giro breakaway companion, Damien Gaudin. Ulissi was our best rider in 6th place. Klier was 19th and Keinath 22nd.
Edited by niconico on 23-09-2008 23:03
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| t-baum |
Posted on 23-09-2008 23:22
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Poor JAJ
Macquet wrote:
"We all know that wasn't the real footage of the Worlds anyway. That was just the staged footage to perpetuate the coverup that it was actually Vinokourov that won the race."
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Posted on 25-09-2008 13:59
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Unlucky...
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Posted on 25-09-2008 15:38
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Ulucky
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Posted on 25-09-2008 15:49
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Aww, bad luck. I hope to see JAJ ready soon. Good luck!  |
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Posted on 04-10-2008 13:58
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Hoping for update(s) soon |
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