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Posted on 06-10-2008 19:00
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Jonas’ Corner
- Bouncing back
The injury has set me back a whole lot and I’m beginning to fear a bit that I won’t return to full fitness this season. But I will work as hard as I can to my form back for Tour of Lombardy, but as of right now it doesn’t seem likely, and it is a huge hit to my morale.
After crashing out of Sachsen Tour I spent a few days in the hospital, where I had the chance to catch up with the final results from the Tour de France. To no surprise, Alberto Contador won the race ahead of Cadel Evans and Thomas Dekker. Kirchen finished in 6th for us which is a very good result. Also Lars Bak won two stages and Edvald Boasson also took one, so it was a good race for us.
In other news, Thomas Dekker has apparently signed for us. It happened during my injury in the beginning of March. While catching up on some news back home in Italy, I found out that Thomas Dekker will be my team-mate for next season and as I’m probably going to the Tour de France, I will most likely be one of his domestiques as I think he is a better candidate for the win than Kirchen is.
About this injury, I was finally able to get back on the bike on August 16, having been sitting at home for almost three weeks, so I have more or less no form right now. This also meant that I missed Clasica San Sebastian. The team did pretty well anyway as Kirchen finished 2nd to surprise winner José Ivan Gutierrez. I should have started in Eneco Tour to try and do something in the GC, but my form has just gone down so severely that I wouldn’t even be able to stay with the pack.
Instead I will wait till August 25 to make my comeback in GP Plouay. The profile suits me, but I will be at the back in the finale.
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Posted on 06-10-2008 19:03
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It's alive Nah to bad with then injury destroying his season, but good luck in Lombardy.
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Posted on 06-10-2008 19:27
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GP Plouay
I’m back, but only just. Because I won’t be able to anything today surely. But we have some other guys who could do something on this course. Riders like Kairelis, Hagen and Ulissi, with the latter being in very good form right now having just taken a stage win in Rothaus Int. Tour.
As expected I was breathing hard already on the 2nd lap with a lot of riders trying to break off the front the whole time. A big group of 11 riders got away in which we had Craig Lewis. My hopes now were that the pack didn’t want to reel them in so I would have an easy ride today, but the pack quickly sensed the danger and increased the pace. They would be reeled in for sure, while I had hit the back of the pack with 40 kilometres remaining, while Ulissi and Hagen were still up there.
And our young Italian managed to get in the winning move alongside Mathieu Sprick, Paolo Longho Borghini, Stefan Denifl and Julien Simon. They wouldn’t be caugth even with some big names chasing and in a very vivid finale with the riders up front trying to put in several attacks as none of them were particularily good sprinters, Diego Ulissi came out on top by outsprinting his breakaway companions.
Ulissi takes his 2nd career win and his first ProTour event victory.
As Ulissi crossed the line I still had some way to go having been dropped by the pack in my favourite terrain.
1 Diego Ulissi Team High Road 6h04'30
2 Julien Simon Team Astana s.t.
3 Stefan Denifl Quick•Step s.t.
4 Paolo Longo Borghini Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
5 Mathieu Sprick Bouygues Télécom s.t.
6 Daniele Pietropolli LPR Brakes + 59
7 Rémi Pauriol Team CSC s.t.
8 Joaquim RodrÃguez Caisse d'Epargne + 1'28
9 Roberto Longo Lampre + 2'29
10 David Herrero Team Astana s.t.
11 Simone Ponzi LPR Brakes s.t.
12 Constantino Zaballa Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
13 Grégory Rast Team Astana s.t.
14 Maxime Bouet Mitsubishi - Jartazi - Protech s.t.
15 Nelson Vitorino Française des Jeux s.t.
16 Edvald Boasson Hagen Team High Road s.t.
17 Hélder Oliveira Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
18 Jérémy Roy Lampre s.t.
19 Enrico Gasparotto Barloworld s.t.
20 Heinrich Haussler Gerolsteiner s.t.
142 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road + 9'27
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Posted on 06-10-2008 19:30
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Posted on 06-10-2008 20:02
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Great that the story is back! 
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Posted on 06-10-2008 20:07
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well done diego
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Posted on 07-10-2008 12:27
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Great win by Ulissi.
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Posted on 08-10-2008 17:25
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Jonas’ Corner
I learned in GP Plouay that it will take a lot of effort for me to just get round to a decent form again by the end of this season. I had an awful ride in Plouay in what is supposed to be my best terrain and that’s a clear testament to me being way off my peak.
This also means that I will lose out on a lot of the upcoming races. Deutschland Tour, Tour of Ireland and Tour de Pologne are next up on the team calendar, but I won’t take part as I won’t be at the level I want to be at. I’m determined to finish off the season in a respectable manner still, and I’m ready to work hard every day to get back in form and I hope I can get where I want to be. I don’t think I’ll make it in time for the Worlds, but I have said earlier that the route doesn’t really suit me, so I’m not too worried there. Lombardy isn’t that long after the Worlds, but I hope it’s just enough time for me.
I will start off my preparations in Vattenfall Cyclassics which takes part the day after Deutschland Tour wraps up. I will be riding for Hagen here since I will be dead-beat in the finale anyway. The day after Vattenfall I will line-up in London for the start of the Tour of Britain as I just need to get a lot of competitive kilometres into my legs to hone my race form. A week after finishing in Britain I will go to France, like I did last year, to compete in GP d’Isbergues, and here I will surely find out if I have anything to compete with.
After that it’s off to the Worlds, if I’m selected for the Danish National Team, surely I hope I will be, but if the coach reckons I’m in too bad of a form to help out my team-mates I will accept his choice.
A few days after the Worlds, on October 2nd I will start my final approach for Lombardy where I will line-up for Circuit Franco-Belge. After 4 stages here I’m off to France on October 6th for Paris-Tours. Then I will have a day-off before I travel to Italy for my final tune-up race Milano-Torino on October 8th. Hereafter it’s all about what kind of shape I’m in, as Giro di Lombardia will wrap up my season the very following day.
An injury won’t keep me away from this.
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Posted on 08-10-2008 17:41
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You better ride the worlds! 
EDIT: Stop clogging the tubes of the internet with excessive quoting - Waghlon
EDIT: And dammit, stop putting my edits in quotes - Waghlon
Edited by Waghlon on 09-10-2008 20:01
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Posted on 08-10-2008 18:35
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T-Baum there's no need to qoute the whole post.
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Posted on 08-10-2008 19:20
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schleck93 wrote:
T-Baum there's no need to qoute the whole post.
There's no need not to is there?
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 09-10-2008 12:27
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t-baum wrote:
schleck93 wrote:
T-Baum there's no need to qoute the whole post.
There's no need not to is there?
Yes it makes your post 100 times bigger than needed, and you can just take the particular part if the post and just qoute that. It will look a lot better.
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Posted on 09-10-2008 16:22
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schleck93 wrote:
t-baum wrote:
schleck93 wrote:
T-Baum there's no need to qoute the whole post.
There's no need not to is there?
Yes it makes your post 100 times bigger than needed, and you can just take the particular part if the post and just qoute that. It will look a lot better.
Thank you, I've never noticed how deathly reckless i was.
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 09-10-2008 19:57
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Vattenfall CyClassics
I’m in a race against time to regain in order to be able to compete for the win in Lombardy in October. There’s still about a month left, but it’s not a lot of time when you’re at the level I’m at right now. I keep regretting lining up for Sachsen Tour where I crashed and came down with this setbacking injury. I regret it to my very guts. But then again it wasn’t actually my decision, so there’s no idea in blaming it on someone. I’ll just have to make the best of it.
Today is a big test for me as this is a very long and enduring race and if I can stay with the pack then I have made slight progress already. I had the same feeling as in GP Plouay as we took off. I should be home training right now with the form I’m in, because just the slightest accelerations in pace heightened my pulse drastically, and I was hardly able to talk to our support car over the radio as I was breathing so hard. Things settled down a bit after the break got away, so I was able to sit quite comfortably with my team-mates.
The break was comfortable reeled in and with 70 kilometres to go, Ballan, Del Nero, Hincapie and Franzoi took off. Already at that point I had nothing to respond with, but I had been aware of that all day and this race was about Hagen really. He decided not to go with the four though as we figured they had tried from too far off. Their gap was kept static at around 40 seconds for a long time and on an odd hill some 25 kilometres from the finish Hagen and Kirchen jumped off the front of the pack and made the junction to the leaders. It was to be settled between these six riders and I was still sitting in the pack. In the back of it, but still.
Given Hagen sprinting abilities we thought he had been handed this on a silver plattern, but somehow both Ballan and Del Nero managed to outsprint him. 3rd is good, but Hagen was by far the strongest sprinter, and since Ballan and Del Nero had been out there for 50 kilometres more than Hagen, he should have all the opportunities in the World to pull this off. He didn’t though and that’s very dissapointing. Decent with two guys in the Top 6, but still dissapointing.
124th – that’s what I’m talking about!
I tried sprinting for the line but I was way back in the pack and it was all cosmetic. I’m pretty pleased though as I managed to stay with the pack in a 250 kilometres ProTour race. That’s progress right there. I’m off to Britain now, as I will start Tour of Britain tomorrow. It’s my first time in this race, and I have heard some nice things about, so I’m looking forward.
1 Alessandro Ballan Lampre 5h57'52
2 Jesús Del Nero Silence - Lotto s.t.
3 Edvald Boasson Hagen Team High Road s.t.
4 George Hincapie LPR Brakes s.t.
5 Enrico Franzoï Liquigas s.t.
6 Kim Kirchen Team High Road s.t.
7 Thomas Fothen Gerolsteiner + 1'08
8 Tyler Farrar Crédit Agricole s.t.
9 Tilo Schüler AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
10 Lloyd Mondory AG2R - La Mondiale s.t.
124 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road s.t.
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Posted on 09-10-2008 19:58
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Nicely 
his stats please? |
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Posted on 09-10-2008 20:00
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Check one of the previous pages, I think it's there somewhere after the Giro.
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Posted on 09-10-2008 20:09
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Tour of Britain! Good luck JAJ, im sure youll be in stomping shape come Lombardy. Good luck! |
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Posted on 09-10-2008 20:11
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win the tour of britain if no british rider is lookign like he's gonna win
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Posted on 09-10-2008 20:13
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Nah I'm not gonna win Britain, I don't even think I'm gonna win a stage eventhough there's a few hills along the route.
But I won't rule out Cav or Wiggins winning it. 
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 09-10-2008 20:16
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try and engineer it that way
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