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Petronas - Monster Energy; The end of an era
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 04-05-2013 13:50
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Gesink is just slowly but surely winning this race  |
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Posted on 04-05-2013 20:14
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3 stages to go and Gesink can celebrate a new GT win
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 04-05-2013 21:22
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Gesink has this one in his pocket!!!
btw: congratulations on 250 pages 
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| dienblad |
Posted on 05-05-2013 10:28
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@ Miguel: Kennaugh has Mo 77, Hi 75, TT 74, PRL 73, Sp 65, Sta 72 and REC 76. 25 years old.
@ sutty & PCM rulezz: this can't go wrong.
@ Marcovdw: Thanks. First one of 3 milestones, namely 250 pages, 250.000 views and 5000 replies
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| dienblad |
Posted on 05-05-2013 12:22
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Stage 19
The first of 2 stages in Basque country brings the riders to Bilbao, with twice the Alto El Vivero in the last 45 kilometres. The climb isn't that difficult (8.8km at 4.5%), but still difficult enough to prevent a mass sprint.
39km to go
Different kind of tactic today: be part of the BOTD, so we don't have to work in chasing the BOTD. Peter Sagan is the one for us, and he is the first to crest the summit of the Alto EL Vivero for the first time. Our Slovakian sprinter/puncheur is joined by 11 buddies: Serguei Lagutin (Qantas), Egoiz García (Euskaltel), Franco Pellizotti (Lampre), Jens Voigt (Radio Shack), Mitja Mahoric (BMC), Javier Etxarri (Andalucía), Matthew Lloyd (Astana), Ángel Madrazo (Sky), Trent Lowe (Sony Ericsson), Diego Tamayo (Colombia es Pasion) and Stijn Devolder (Vacansoleil). The peloton follows at 3'35.
19km to go
The peloton has started the 2nd ascend of the Alto El Vivero, with th emargin to the BOTD being decreased to 2'11. With 6.5km to go to the summit, Rein Taaramäe is the first rider to attack out of the peloton, together with Amets Txurukka.
15km to go
With a little more than 2 ascending kilometres to go, the leading group of 12 has become a group of 7. Only Lagutin, Pellizotti, Etxarri, Madrazo, García, Voigt and Sagan are present in the leading group. The peloton now follows at 1'28, with Daniel Martin attacking. The Irish gets countered by Txurukka, Thomas De Gendt, Philippe Gilbert, Juan Mauricio Soler and Javier Moreno. So still no worries for Robert Gesink!
12km to go
Philippe Gilbert is the only rider that can bridge the gap from the peloton to the leading group. He joins them at the summit of the Alto El Vivero. This is the sign for Peter Sagan to attack and throwing himself in the ascend.
7km to go
Thanks to his outstanding downhill-capacities, Sagan creates a gap of 43 seconds to the chasing group. And as there were no riders in that group willing to work with and for each other, the peloton catches them again. While entering the streets of Bilbao, are these 43 seconds enough for Peter Sagan to take the stage win?
2km to go
Back on the flat, the margin is getting smaller. With 2km to go, it has descreased to 26 seconds. Sagan is at the end of his power, while the sprinting has started in the chasing peloton.
Finish
Fighting against cramps in his thighs and calfs, Sagan isn't able to sprint out of the saddle. Every metre, the peloton is coming closer and closer and the finish line is lying like a foto morgana at the horizon.
But this is no fata morgana, as the finish line is real, and a big relief for Sagan. The Slovakian takes the 2nd win of the season (first was the Brabantse Pijl), just before Edvald Boasson Hagen and Javier Moreno catch him. All GC-cotenders are present in the first group.
The Results
| 1 |  Peter Sagan | Petronas - Monster Energy | 4h05'07 | | 2 |  Edvald Boasson Hagen | Dexia | s.t. | | 3 |  Javier Moreno | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 4 |  Philippe Gilbert | Dexia | s.t. | | 5 |  Bradley Wiggins | Dexia | s.t. | | 6 |  Rein Taaramäe | Sony Ericsson | s.t. | | 7 |  Robert Gesink | Petronas - Monster Energy | s.t. | | 8 | Carlos Barredo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 9 | Thomas De Gendt | Radio Shack - Nissan | s.t. | | 10 |  Michael Albasini | Red Bull - Cervélo | s.t. |
GC
| 1 | Robert Gesink | Petronas - Monster Energy | 78h08'11 | | 2 | Alberto Contador | Movistar Team | + 6'07 | | 3 | Carlos Barredo | Movistar Team | + 8'19 | | 4 | Javier Moreno | Caja Rural | + 9'46 | | 5 |  Robert Kiserlovski | Pro Team Astana | + 9'50 | | 6 | Amets Txurruka | Andalucía - Catalunya | + 11'39 | | 7 |  Juan Mauricio Soler | Colombia es Pasión - Café de Colombia | + 15'34 | | 8 | Ezequiel Mosquera | Caja Rural | + 17'35 | | 9 | Thomas De Gendt | Radio Shack - Nissan | + 20'03 | | 10 | Mikel Astarloza | Movistar Team | + 21'15 |
Points
| 1 | Robert Gesink | Petronas - Monster Energy | 235 | | 2 | Javier Moreno | Caja Rural | 135 | | 3 | Carlos Barredo | Movistar Team | 130 | | 4 | Alberto Contador | Movistar Team | 130 | | 5 | Philippe Gilbert | Dexia | 111 |
KOTM
| 1 | Robert Gesink | Petronas - Monster Energy | 144 | | 2 |  Gregory Bernard | Petronas - Monster Energy | 107 | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Movistar Team | 100 | | 4 | Robert Kiserlovski | Pro Team Astana | 95 | | 5 | Carlos Barredo | Movistar Team | 93 |
Today's Winner
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And that's stage win number 6 for our team, amazing!! Great job by Sagan, especially in the final descend. And Gesink did great in staying out of problems, just 2 stages to go.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 05-05-2013 12:46
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Sagan beeing a beast, as always.  |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 05-05-2013 21:04
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Sagan with a win, great! 6 by the team already, that's domination! |
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Posted on 05-05-2013 21:05
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This is sagan as we know him 
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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| PCM rulezz |
Posted on 05-05-2013 21:05
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This is sagan as we know him
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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| dienblad |
Posted on 05-05-2013 21:10
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@ Miguel: Unfortunately not enough in my story...
@ Ian: Thanks, but don't forget the weakness of the opponents!
@ PCM rulezz: as said before, not enough in my story so far.
Yeah, 250.000+ views. Now let's go for the 5000 replies
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 05-05-2013 21:11
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Only 11 to go. |
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 05-05-2013 21:43
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Nice win
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 05-05-2013 22:34
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Almost there, and Gesink can raise his hands!  |
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 05-05-2013 23:17
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I guess the other teams might as well just go home now with Sagan hitting this kind of form and everything else gone to Gesink...
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 05-05-2013 23:37
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Super Sagan |
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Posted on 07-05-2013 15:46
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Gee whizz Dienblad! PETRONAS sure has some riders in form, maybe the WC will be in the ranks next season.  |
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| dienblad |
Posted on 08-05-2013 14:32
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Stage 20
The penultimate stage of the Vuelta, and the stage isn't designed for attcking GC-favourites. Reason for this is that the summit of the last climb, the steep Puerto de Urkiola (5.4km at 9.6%) is 43 kilometres before the finish in Vitoria.
43km to go
Our plan for today: Gregory Bernard is present in the BOTD, so he can collect enough KOTM-points to take over the lead in the KOTM-ranking. To do that, he needs to be the first rider in all 4 KOTM-sprints. Unfortunately, no other riders wants to join him in the attack, so he has to do a long solo, after attacking before the foot of the first climb. His margin gets a maximum of 2 minutes, but he gets caught by the first chasing peloton only 1 kilometre before the summit of the Puerto de Urkiola.... Poor Bernard, who was so close in winning the KOTM-jersey 
25km to go
But because the peloton was chasing Bernard, the pace was that high at the climbs, that a lot of riders got dropped. After the summit of the Puerto de Urkiola, only 14 riders are present in the first group: for Petronas - Monster Energy Gesink (1st), Vanendert (21st) and Breschel (75th), for Movistar Contador (2nd), Barredo (3rd) and Astarloza (10th), for Qantas Albasini (26th), for Dexia Wiggins (11th), Cobo (15th) and Gilbert (25th), for Andalucía Txurukka (6th), for Colombia Soler (7th), for Caja Rural Moreno (5th) and for Astana Kiserlovski (4th). A 2nd group with riders as De Gendt, Taaramäe and Kennaugh follows at 3 minutes.
5km to go
The pace of the leading group isn't that high, as we don't feel like doing the work (hey, we don't need to), Dexia is too weak to do it, and Movistar is fighting which rider has to do it. Consequently, the 2nd group is about to join the first with 5km to go. We have taken the lead of the group and formed a little train for Matti Breschel.
Finish
With 2km to go, like a jack out of a box comes Gerald Ciolek sprinting passing the first riders of the group. Matti Breschel jumps at his wheel, but realizes too soon that this was to early, as he starts to fade with 500m to go. He gets overtaken by noone else than Carlos Barredo! The 3 previous seasons he couldn't win a single race, and no he takes his 3rd stage win this Vuelta, and is cruising to the 3rd place of the GC!
Breschel finishes in 2nd, Ciolek in 3rd and Gesink safely in the 12th place. Job almost done!
The Results
| 1 | Carlos Barredo | Movistar Team | 4h51'20 | | 2 |  Matti Breschel | Petronas - Monster Energy | s.t. | | 3 |  Gerald Ciolek | Red Bull - Cervélo | s.t. | | 4 | Javier Moreno | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 5 | Amets Txurruka | Andalucía - Catalunya | s.t. | | 6 | Philippe Gilbert | Dexia | s.t. | | 7 | Michael Albasini | Red Bull - Cervélo | s.t. | | 8 | Thomas De Gendt | Radio Shack - Nissan | s.t. | | 9 | Bradley Wiggins | Dexia | s.t. | | 10 | Mikel Astarloza | Movistar Team | s.t. |
GC
| 1 | Robert Gesink | Petronas - Monster Energy | 82h59'31 | | 2 | Alberto Contador | Movistar Team | + 6'07 | | 3 | Carlos Barredo | Movistar Team | + 7'59 | | 4 | Javier Moreno | Caja Rural | + 9'46 | | 5 | Robert Kiserlovski | Pro Team Astana | + 9'50 | | 6 | Amets Txurruka | Andalucía - Catalunya | + 11'39 | | 7 | Juan Mauricio Soler | Colombia es Pasión - Café de Colombia | + 15'34 | | 8 | Thomas De Gendt | Radio Shack - Nissan | + 20'03 | | 9 | Ezequiel Mosquera | Caja Rural | + 20'54 | | 10 | Mikel Astarloza | Movistar Team | + 21'15 |
Points
| 1 | Robert Gesink | Petronas - Monster Energy | 239 | | 2 | Carlos Barredo | Movistar Team | 155 | | 3 | Javier Moreno | Caja Rural | 149 | | 4 | Alberto Contador | Movistar Team | 130 | | 5 | Philippe Gilbert | Dexia | 121 |
KOTM
| 1 | Robert Gesink | Petronas - Monster Energy | 160 | | 2 | Gregory Bernard | Petronas - Monster Energy | 139 | | 3 | Alberto Contador | Movistar Team | 105 | | 4 | Carlos Barredo | Movistar Team | 103 | | 5 | Robert Kiserlovski | Pro Team Astana | 96 |
Today's Winner
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Well, you can't win them all.... Still strange to see Barredo outsprinting Breschel, but he's capable in doing everything this Vuelta.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 08-05-2013 14:36
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A -not so close- second, not bad |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 08-05-2013 14:39
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Nice try from Breschel. But Barredo. |
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 08-05-2013 14:40
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Gesink has this
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