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| roturn |
Posted on 06-01-2011 12:39
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Before coming to the national championships it`s time for a short transfer overview again.
As already written during the TdS Fischer officially renewed his contract with us. Therefore it`s still open how Zabriskie decides. We hope to hold him for one more year.
Pozzovivo is staying with Colnago and will be a great double lead together with Mollema.
Cunego will also stay with Lampre. This is quite surprising as he was sad about not being nominated for the Giro to defend his title. But obviously he feels really well with them.
Carlos Sastre renewed his contract with Team Katusha for one more year. He is still waiting for the big win in this season but obviously Katusha believes in him.
Therefore Pozzato is looking for a new challenge. He leaves the Russian team. He won`t have big problems to find a new team as there are already many interests.
Also Haussler is leavin the Cervelo Test Team. Maybe we should ask him about joining our team? Would be a great addition with his abilities but not sure if we can make it real.
This is also a surprise. Frank Schleck leaves Team Saxobank. He won a lot with them and was wearing the rainbow jersey for them. But obviously he is looking for a new leader role as he is always behind his brother Andy and also Porte and Fuglsang are coming from behind. |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 06-01-2011 12:52
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Haussler would be a a nice transfer for your team. I would try to sign him 
Great timetrial, good to see LL Sanchez making the Top-10! Congrats!
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| roturn |
Posted on 06-01-2011 14:09
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I just give a short overview about the most important national championships and then posting the whole results in June later.
ITT
Campeonato de España
| 1 | Alberto Contador | Astana | 48'31 | | 2 | Luis León Sánchez Gil | Garmin - Transitions | + 1'43 | | 3 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 1'44 |
LL Sanchez had a good ride but Contador seems to be in a brilliant shape for the Tour and was unbeatable.
Nederlands Kampioenschap
| 1 | Stef Clement | Rabobank | 1h10'17 | | 2 | Jos Van Emden | Rabobank | s.t. | | 3 | Lars Boom | Garmin - Transitions | + 38 |
We missed the first goal to win this ITT with Boom. Rabobank was much too strong today.
USA Championship
| 1 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Transitions | 47'56 | | 2 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | + 3 | | 3 | Tejay Van Garderen | Team HTC - Columbia | + 33 |
This was a surprise for us. Zabriskie beats the favourite Leipheimer by 3s and wins the ITT championship. Danny Pate, our best time trialist finished 4th.
Road
USA Championship
| 1 | George Hincapie | BMC Racing Team | 5h55'46 | | 2 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Transitions | + 8 | | 3 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. |
This was bad luck for Garmin. Hincapie attacked on the half of the race. Garmin controlled the peloton for the whole stage and in the end Hincapie saved 8s to the win ahead of last years winner Zabriskie and a strong Farrar. Pate and Danielson on 4 and 5 with +1'15 show our domination ahead of the RadioShack riders and Van Garderen finishing with +2'01.
Campeonato de España
| 1 | Francisco Ventoso | Team RadioShack | 5h26'04 | | 2 | Juan José Oroz | Palmeiras Resort - Prio | s.t. | | 3 | David GarcÃa Dapena | Xacobeo Galicia | + 12 |
Rojas was a small favourite if the tempo is not too high. Undortunately it was won by a breakaway. Rojas and Sanchez finished in the peloton with all favourites.
Nederlands Kampioenschap
| 1 | Sebastian Langeveld | Rabobank | 5h20'06 | | 2 | Lars Boom | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 3 | Laurens Ten Dam | Rabobank | + 22 |
Again Rabobank dominating the championships. Boom attacked on the last hill, just Langeveld was able to follow. Then he won the sprint from Boom`s wheel. Maaskant and Kreder did also well in the top 10.
Ireland Championship
| 1 | Daniel Martin | Garmin - Transitions | 4h01'12 | | 2 | Páidà O'Brien | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 21'10 | | 3 | David O'Loughlin | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. |
Daniel Martin with an impressive ride in Ireland. At first he did the pace to fetch 3 An Post riders with 1min ahead then he just rode and the other riders were distanced a lot. Actually there were 8 riders, 6 An Post, Martin and Deignan. Last years double champion Roche is injured and missed it. He might have been a better opponent as seen last year. |
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| janne_837 |
Posted on 06-01-2011 14:33
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I guess it was a funny ride in Ireland 
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Posted on 06-01-2011 14:57
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O'Brien at 21'10 
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Posted on 06-01-2011 15:00
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It was really a funny ride And I rode on 50 the most time. Could have even more with 65% In 2010 I did the same, but unfotunately Roche was always 2min behind and a few kilometers to the finish he overtook me. Therefore I wasn`t able to win the ITT with Martin, although Roche wasn`t there. 2nd again.
All other results will be posted in a few minutes in the month summary. But Martin won both German nationals. |
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| roturn |
Posted on 06-01-2011 15:23
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Summary of June 2011
In general it was a quite successful month for us. Good results in all races. Also we were able to win again after a long break. Boom, Farrar, Zabriskie and Martin were able to celebrate. But also Hesjedal`s 4th in the Dauphine and Sanchez 10th in Suisse aren`t bad.
Unfortunately we had lots of bad luck in some nationals with Boom or in the American Roads.
Therefore we will ride with the new Irish champion.
Another reason to get Felline is his win in the Italian road championship.
Kreuziger dominated the Dauphine which was much harder than the TdS.
He won the overall, the point and young jersey and 2 stages. He also won the Czeck nationals and deserves this trophy.
The young award goes to Roman Kireyev (Astana).
With two breakaways he won the KoM jersey in the Dauphine and was 4th in the Kazakstan ITT.
Pro Tour ranking
CQ-Ranking
Liquigas is also dominating this ranking. We can also be happy with both rankings on 5. At the moment ISD-Neri with Visconti and Gerrans and Cofidis with Dumoulin and Taaramae would get a PT license next year but the season is still long. |
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| roturn |
Posted on 06-01-2011 15:36
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With the Tour de France many riders will be busy for the whole month. But we decided to participate in Austria, too. Martin had a great 2nd last year with one stage win behind Pozzovivo. This year he wants to go for the overall win. Not sure about the starting field as his form is just about 75.
We will have a great squad for the Tour with Hesjedal being the leader and Farrar for the sprints.
In Austria we hope for Martin and Rojas. We want to get at least 2 wins there.
In San Sebastian Hesjedal will be our leader if he is still in a good shape after the Tour. Otherwise Sanchez, Kessiakoff or Maaskant might be more relaxed to help him out.
So first days will jump between Tour and Austria. |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 06-01-2011 16:35
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Can't wait for Tour, hopefully top10 with Hesjedal or better is possible  What's Farrar goal on stage wins in Tour ? |
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| roturn |
Posted on 06-01-2011 16:39
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The Tour De France, Grande Boucle or Le Tour is the most famous cycling race in the world. It`s held since 1903 every year for 3 weeks in July. It`s organized by the ASO and is the third biggest sport event after the soccer world cup and Olympia.
It`s supposed to be the hardest cycling race although the race profiles are often harder in the other 2 GT`s.
For many years it was Lance Armstrong against Jan Ullrich. While Armstrong is also participating this year Ullrich retired a few years ago. Since then it was often Contador against Andy Schleck. Could be the same this year. Even more surprising was the win by Denis Menchov last year.
Result in 2010
| 1 | Denis Menchov | Rabobank | | 2 | Alberto Contador | Astana | | 3 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | | 4 | Levi Leipheimer | Team RadioShack | | 5 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Professional Cycling Team | | 6 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | | 7 | Ivan Basso | Liquigas-Doimo | | 8 | Carlos Sastre | Cervélo Test Team | | 9 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Omega Pharma-Lotto | | 10 | Michael Rogers | Team HTC - Columbia |
Hesjedal struggled on the last mountain stages and wasn`t able to get a top10. Also in 2011 it will be hard to reach it as all riders are participating again except of Van den Broeck.
Schleck lost his podium on the final ITT and felt back on 5.
The route 2011:
It`s my own Tour variant of the 2008 edition. It`s without a prologue and starts with a lightly hilly uphill finish, so the favourites must be concentrated from the first day. There are 7-8 stages for the sprinters and 5 hard mountainstages including the mountain top finishes on HAutacam, Prato Nevoso and Alpe d'Huez. With 82,5km of pretty flat ITT it will be hard for bad time trialists to win the overall.
More information here: https://www.letour...cours.html
Garmin squad 2011
Hesjedal will be our leader. He will have some problems with the long timetrials and the harder mountains but we think he can do quite well.
He is supported by Danielson, Lowe and Peterson in the mountains.
Tyler Farrar is one of the strongest sprinters in this Tour and our sponsor wants the points jersey after 21 stages. So we will give our best in the flat stages. With Boom and Vansummeren he will have a great sprint train.
Kreder and Zabriskie will help as good as they can. But all of our riders will also get the chance to break out if there is a good opportunity.
Full startlist
Spoiler Astana
1. A.Contador
2. A.Davis
3. M.Gourov
4. M.Iglinskiy
5. B.Raimbekov
6. R.Shishelov
7. A.Vinokourov
8. A.Zeits
9. G.Å tangelj
Saxo
11. A.Schleck
12. M.Breschel
13. F.Cancellara
14. L.Didier
15. J.Fuglsang
16. J.Haedo
17. R.Porte
18. F.Schleck
19. J.Voigt
Lampre
21. I.Basso
22. A.Ballan
23. L.Bernucci
24. G.Bole
25. A.Furlan
26. F.Ginanni
27. M.Lorenzetto
28. A.Malori
29. D.Napolitano
Sky
31. B.Wiggins
32. E.Boasson Hagen
33. S.Cummings
34. J.Flecha
35. P.Kennaugh
36. T.Lövkvist
37. C.Sutton
38. B.Swift
39. I.Wilkinson
Rabobank
41. R.Gesink
42. G.Brown
43. S.Clement
44. Ó.Freire Gómez
45. S.Langeveld
46. B.Leukemans
47. M.Rogers
48. L.Ten Dam
49. P.Weening
RadioShack
51. L.Leipheimer
52. L.Armstrong
53. J.Brajkovic
54. T.Hushovd
55. T.Leezer
56. G.Lequatre
57. T.Machado
58. I.Rovny
59. G.Steegmans
Liquigas
61. R.Kreuziger
62. D.Bennati
63. F.Chicchi
64. M.Finetto
65. P.Gilbert
66. M.Kump
67. N.Nuyens
68. D.Oss
69. F.Willems
Euskaltel
71. S.Sánchez
72. I.Antón
73. S.De Lis
74. M.Drouilly
75. K.Fernández
76. I.Isasi
77. E.MartÃnez
78. A.Ovechkin
79. P.Urtasun
Ag2r
81. D.Menchov
82. G.Bonnafond
83. M.Bouet
84. D.Champion
85. A.Gérard
86. B.Kadri
87. L.Mondory
88. C.Riblon
89. L.Turpin
Katusha
91. V.Karpets
92. C.Evans
93. V.Gusev
94. K.Kirchen
95. A.Kolobnev
96. R.McEwen
97. F.Pozzato
98. J.RodrÃguez Oliver
99. C.Sastre
HTC
101. M.Monfort
102. M.Albasini
103. B.Eisel
104. M.Goss
105. A.Greipel
106. R.Guldhammer
107. T.Martin
108. M.Renshaw
109. V.Reynès Mimo
Garmin
111. R.Hesjedal
112. L.Boom
113. T.Danielson
114. T.Farrar
115. M.Kreder
116. T.Lowe
117. T.Peterson
118. J.Vansummeren
119. D.Zabriskie
FDJ
121. C.Le Mével
122. O.Bonnaire
123. S.Casar
124. S.Chavanel
125. M.Chérel
126. Y.Hutarovich
127. F.Mourey
128. A.Roux
129. B.Vaugrenard
Caisse
131. D.Arroyo
132. J.Cobo Acebo
133. A.Coyot
134. M.Drujon
135. I.Erviti Ollo
136. J.Gutiérrez
137. D.López GarcÃa
138. R.Plaza
139. R.Urán
Quick
141. S.Chavanel
142. C.Barredo
143. T.Boonen
144. S.Devolder
145. A.Engels
146. K.Hulsmans
147. J.Pineau
148. A.Stauff
149. R.Zingle
Omega
151. J.Péraud
152. M.Delage
153. L.Hoste
154. O.Kaisen
155. J.Ljungblad
156. G.Löwik
157. A.Petacchi
158. S.Scheirlinckx
159. G.Van Avermaet
Bbox
161. T.Voeckler
162. F.Bichot
163. S.Chainel
164. A.Charteau
165. P.Fédrigo
166. C.Gautier
167. C.Lhotellerie
168. A.Pichot
169. S.Turgot
Skil
171. A.Geniez
172. D.Cornu
173. B.De Backer
174. K.De Kort
175. D.Deroo
176. S.Houanard
177. Y.Huguet
178. T.Hupond
179. K.Van Hummel
Cervélo
181. X.Florencio
182. D.Appollonio
183. L.Beuret
184. T.Bos
185. H.Haussler
186. A.Klier
187. R.Mestre
188. O.Pujol Muñoz
189. G.Rasch
Cofidis
191. S.Minard
192. G.Blot
193. W.Bonnet
194. S.Dumoulin
195. J.Fouchard
196. K.Ista
197. A.Labbe
198. D.Monier
199. M.Robillard
The only one really missing is Mark Cavendish. Therefore Andre Greipel might be the sprint captain and with Goss, Eisel and Renshaw he might have a good train.
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| baia |
Posted on 06-01-2011 16:48
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Good luck...Liquigas must be really strong,looking at the points difference..
It´s Fellini so good?
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| roturn |
Posted on 06-01-2011 17:00
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Favourites
Overall
Of course he is the top favourite. He is the best climber and the best time trialist of the favourites.
Can he defend his title? He is still a great climber and also pretty good against the clock. If he is in a good shape he could be one of the strongest opponents of Contador.
Andy Schleck can dominate the mountains with the right form. But he has to if he wants to compensate for his time trial skills.
Another good bet is Samuel Sanchez. He rode quite well in the TdS and might have a good form.
Basso is good in the mountains but he already rode the Giro and might be exhausted. But again he got the nod over Cunego.
Wiggins might have problems on hilly stages but he will be one of the strongest on the real moutnains and against the clock.
***** Contador
**** Sanchez, Menchov
*** A. Schleck, Wiggins, Basso
** F.Schleck, Gesink, Leipheimer, Kreuziger
* Brajkovic, Anton, Monfort, Hesjedal, Karpets
Points
Tyler Farrar is our hope for this jersey. He is one of the best sprinters and is also not the worst on light hills.
The biggest opponent could be HTC with Greipel. He already rode the Giro. Not sure about his fitness.
Also Hushovd could get some wins on the flat stages. He dominated the Vuelta last year but after changing teams to RadioShack he wasn`t that great so far. At least he won the Norwegian Championship last week.
Boasson Hagen is maybe not the fastest in a mass sprint but he will also collect some points on the more hilly terrain.
***** Farrar
**** Greipel, Hagen
*** Hushovd, Davis, Haedo
** Breschel, Napolitano, Pozzato, McEwen
* Sutton, Brown, Steegmans, Chicchi, Mondory
U25
Robert Gesink will lead the Rabobank squad after Menchov left the team.
It could come to an interesting duel with Roman Kreuziger, the winner of the Dauphine. The Czeck rider might have some advantages. |
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| roturn |
Posted on 06-01-2011 17:02
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@ baia:
Liquigas dominated the Giro and Dauphine plus some more races.
Felline is average (72-74) in cobbles and hills and also quite good in flat and sprint. Plus very young and room to increase. He also leads the Continental ranking. |
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| shin0da_13 |
Posted on 06-01-2011 17:12
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It will be hard a top ten with Hesjedal but you have a lot more chances with Farrar for the sprinters jersey. Good luck. |
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 06-01-2011 17:17
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Yay!! Tour de France! Go anyone that can beat Contador! And go Farrar, of course
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 06-01-2011 17:19
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What is Wiggins MO stat ? In PCM.Daily it is 77, is it better ? |
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Posted on 06-01-2011 17:50
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Wiggins has 80mo, 74hi, 79ITT.
He developed at least one time,so not sure whatthe value was in the beginning. |
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Posted on 06-01-2011 18:06
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Good luck! Go Hesjedal, Farrar and Armstrong |
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Posted on 06-01-2011 18:08
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Armstrong will probably fight with Machadofor the 3rd RadioShack
Leipheimer and Brajkovic should be so much better. Top 20 is still possible but hard for him. |
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Posted on 06-01-2011 20:49
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Le Tour de France - Stage 1
Brest - Plumelec
This Tour doesn`t start with a prologue but with an hilly stage in Western France. The uphill finish might lead to time gaps, so all overall riders must be careful.
Real winner 2008: Alejandro Valverde
A bigger group is formed after the start. No Garmin rider there as it is just the first stage. So we were surprised that so many riders will already spend much energy. Liquigas with even 2 riders in it.
With Florencio, Hoste, Goss and Bonnet for example the group is really strong.
Saxobank did most work behind. Breschel or Cancellara are also riders for this stage. But also Liquigas is helping while Finetto and Oss aren`t working in the front group.
Last year Farrar won the sprinters jersey in the Giro and was exhausted in the Tour afterwards, so he won no stage there. Will he be able to get a win in 2011. Probably not today but there are more stages coming for him.
Or can Greipel dominate in France? At the Giro he was just sprinter number 2 behind Cavendish but now he will have a better support on the final kilometers.
Shocking moment. One Rabobank rider in the first rows crashed. Luckily all other riders behind him could pass him without problems.
It was Leukemans but he is already on his wheel and can continue.
With 10km to ride the group will probably have success. Liquigas plays the 2 rider advantage. Finetto attacks and can create a gap.
But he was caught on the final kilometer and so Grega Bole celebrates a big win for him. He is ahead of Florencio and Chainel. So Liquigas with bad luck in the front group and bad luck with their sprinter Benatti. He didn`t crash today but is several minutes behind the peloton. Obviously he is totally out of form. Not sure if he was injured before the Tour. So Chicchi and Kump might be their riders in the flat stages.
Gilbert wins the sprint of the peloton. Behind him a small group with the biggest favourites and Hesjedal reaches the finish and gaining 25s on the rest. So the loser of this stage are Karpets, Basso, Wiggins, Monfort, Kreuziger, Leipheimer, F.Schleck, Anton and Brajkovic, who lost these seconds as also our 8 other riders.
With Hesjedal gaining time on several opponents we started quite good in this Tour even without fighting for the stage win.
Result
| 1 | Grega Bole | Lampre-Farnese Vini | 4h44'14'' | | 2 | Xavier Florencio | Cervélo Test Team | s.t. | | 3 | Steve Chainel | Bbox Bouygues Telecom | s.t. | | 4 | Anthony Roux | FDJ | s.t. | | 5 | Leif Hoste | Omega Pharma-Lotto | s.t. | | 6 | Kevyn Ista | Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne | s.t. | | 7 | Daniel Oss | Liquigas-Doimo | s.t. | | 8 | Ben Swift | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 9 | Mauro Finetto | Liquigas-Doimo | s.t. | | 10 | Matthew Harley Goss | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | William Bonnet | Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne | s.t. | | 12 | Koen De Kort | Skil - Shimano | s.t. | | 13 | Philippe Gilbert | Liquigas-Doimo | +1'02'' | | 14 | Andy Schleck | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 15 | Alberto Contador | Astana | s.t. | | 16 | Samuel Sánchez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 17 | Alexander Vinokourov | Astana | s.t. | | 18 | Michael Rogers | Rabobank | s.t. | | 19 | Denis Menchov | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 20 | Ryder Hesjedal | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 21 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank | s.t. | | 22 | Nick Nuyens | Liquigas-Doimo | +1'35'' | | 23 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sky Professional Cycling Team | s.t. | | 24 | Matti Breschel | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | ... |
P: Grega Bole Lampre-Farnese Vini
KoM: Xavier Florencio Cervélo Test Team
U25: Anthony Roux FDJ
Team: Liquigas-Doimo
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