Jonathan Bellis | The Comeback
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Second stage of the race is about to begin. Today we'll mainly focus on bringing Bennett and me in position for the expected final sprint.
And of course we'll try everything to get a rider within the morningbreak. It would be a huge disappointment if we weren't in the breakaway.
Stage favourites
M. Goss
O. Freire, F. Ventoso
D. Galimzyanov, R. McEwen, A. Davis
"The nervousness from yesterdays starting stage has retracted a bit, but i still have some butterflies in my stomach here before the start.
I'll expect a difficult and very exhausting stage and hopefully the wind won't affect the pack very much"
Relatively fast a breakaway was builded. First the breakaway contained 3 riders including Mark Cassidy, but later on 7 riders more joined the breakaway too.
Mark Cassidy in todays break
The breakaway refused to drop back to the pack, concluding in a massive shoal of contra attacks. Cassidy was riding very fine, and held on to the very end of the breakaway.
Eliminination race in the breakaway until the bitter end
The breakaway only just got caught, with the last rider in front being caught only 6 km before the finish. Therefore it came down to a mass sprint.
Bennett found the perfect wheel, just behind the massive favorite Matthew Goss, whose team were perfectly prepared as yesterday, while i kept my place in the very front.
Bennett in the wheel of Goss
When nearing the finish, Bennett had lost his spot to P. Lastras from Movistar, but he still held on. For my own part, i was trying to reach Katusha's A. Vicioso's wheel, but without luck since E. Sanz came in front of me.
Me and Sam trying to get into positions
Sam completely exploded when Greenedge's leadout man Langeveld blocked him on his way down from the front, leaving Bennett on his own, trying to catch the wheel of Lastras again.
The situation meant that Davis, Goss and Lastras overtook the front, with several of bike lenght's between them and the rest of the pack.
3 riders alone in front after chaos in the pack
Matthew Goss repeated his triumph on the second stage, winning in front of Pablo Lastras and Karl Menzies.
Nothing seems to go wrong for this man, especially because of his fantastic team which was in front of the pack from start to finish.
Matthew Goss wins stage 2 of the Tour of Oman
While Goss was crossing the line, both me and Bennett was struggling.
We couldn't feel the momentum on the final kilometres, which went on to be a big disappointment for both of us.
Me crossing the line in 22th as best An Post rider of the stage
1 | Matthew Goss | GreenEdge Cycling Team | 2h54'16 | 2 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | s.t. | 3 | Karl Menzies | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 4 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | s.t. | 5 | Alexei Markov | RusVelo | s.t. | 6 | Manuel Cardoso | Caja Rural | s.t. | 7 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | s.t. | 8 | Allan Davis | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 9 | Roberto Ferrari | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 10 | Robert Förster | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | ... | 22 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. |
Spoiler 11 | Enrique Sanz | Movistar Team | s.t. | 12 | Alexandre Blain | Endura Racing | s.t. | 13 | Ian Bibby | Endura Racing | s.t. | 14 | Gustavo César Veloso | Andalucía | s.t. | 15 | Dean Windsor | Endura Racing | s.t. | 16 | Rory Sutherland | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 17 | Robbie McEwen | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 18 | Tom Stamsnijder | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 19 | Mart Ojavee | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 20 | Paul Voss | Endura Racing | s.t. | 21 | Fabio Duarte | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 22 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 23 | Jeffry Romero | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 24 | Martin Gilbert | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 25 | Giairo Ermeti | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 26 | Juan Pablo Suarez | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 27 | René Mandri | Endura Racing | s.t. | 28 | Sam Bennett | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 29 | Javier Francisco Aramendia | Caja Rural | s.t. | 30 | Javier Chacón | Andalucía | s.t. | 31 | Jens Keukeleire | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 32 | Alexandre Geniez | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 33 | Fausto Fognini | Team WIT | s.t. | 34 | Ian Wilkinson | Endura Racing | s.t. | 35 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | s.t. | 36 | Boy Van Poppel | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 37 | Jackson Rodríguez | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 38 | Denis Galimzyanov | Katusha Team | s.t. | 39 | Henry Frusto | Team Nippo | s.t. | 40 | Jonathon McEvoy | Endura Racing | s.t. | 41 | Alexander Mironov | RusVelo | s.t. | 42 | Vincenzo Garofalo | Team Nippo | s.t. | 43 | Fabio Felline | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 44 | Eduard Vorganov | Katusha Team | s.t. | 45 | Pengda Jiao | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 46 | Jay Thomson | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 47 | Fabricio Ferrari | Caja Rural | s.t. | 48 | Michael Rodriguez | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 49 | Danail Petrov | Caja Rural | s.t. | 50 | Simone Campagnaro | Team Nippo | s.t. | 51 | Evgeniy Kovalev | RusVelo | s.t. | 52 | Craig Lewis | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 53 | Vladimir Gusev | Katusha Team | s.t. | 54 | Ivan Savitsky | RusVelo | s.t. | 55 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Movistar Team | s.t. | 56 | Tyron Giorgieri | Team WIT | s.t. | 57 | Iván Gutiérrez | Movistar Team | s.t. | 58 | Alfredo Balloni | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 59 | Denis Menchov | Katusha Team | s.t. | 60 | Xavier Florencio | Katusha Team | s.t. | 61 | Gediminas Bagdonas | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 62 | Kun Jiang | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 63 | Daniele Callegarin | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 64 | Luca Paolini | Katusha Team | s.t. | 65 | Julián Sánchez Pimienta | Caja Rural | s.t. | 66 | Igor Boev | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 67 | Sergey Chernetskiy | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 68 | Enrico Montanari | Team WIT | s.t. | 69 | Marcos García | Caja Rural | s.t. | 70 | Alexander Zdanov | Team Nippo | s.t. | 71 | Sebastian Langeveld | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 72 | Dimitry Kozontchuk | RusVelo | s.t. | 73 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Team Nippo | s.t. | 74 | Rubens Bertogliati | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 75 | Serguei Klimov | RusVelo | s.t. | 76 | Igor Frolov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 77 | Stuart O'Grady | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 78 | David Boily | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 79 | Jonathan Monsalve | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 80 | Jacobus Venter | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 81 | Hernâni Brôco | Caja Rural | s.t. | 82 | Cameron Wurf | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 83 | César Bihel | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 84 | Frank Dressler | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 85 | Antonio Cabello | Andalucía | s.t. | 86 | Muhamad Othman | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 87 | Vyacheslav Kuznetsov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 88 | Kevin Kohlvelter | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 89 | Mark McNally | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 90 | Kohei Uchima | Team Nippo | s.t. | 91 | Julien Antomarchi | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 92 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 93 | Zachary Bell | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 94 | Kirill Baranov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 95 | Miguel Rubiano | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 96 | Gang Xu | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 97 | Andrey Solomennikov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 98 | Alex Meenhorst | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 99 | Dmitry Kosyakov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 100 | Ilnur Zakarin | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 101 | Rafael de Mattos Andriato | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 102 | Patrick Gretsch | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 103 | Alexander Serebryakov | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 104 | Simon Lambert-Lemay | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 105 | Francesco Failli | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 106 | Zakkari Dempster | Endura Racing | s.t. | 107 | Ryan Roth | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 108 | Mathieu Sprick | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 109 | Wilson Marentes | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 110 | Lucas Euser | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 111 | Remco Broers | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 112 | Juan Forero | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 113 | Tom Dumoulin | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 114 | Mark Cassidy | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 115 | Thierry Hupond | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 116 | Joey Rosskopf | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 117 | Juan José Cobo | Movistar Team | s.t. | 118 | Jason McCartney | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 119 | Beñat Intxausti | Movistar Team | s.t. | 120 | Jordi Simón | Andalucía | s.t. | 121 | Joe Eldridge | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 122 | Luca Mazzanti | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 123 | José Luis Roldán | Andalucía | s.t. | 124 | Vladimir Karpets | Movistar Team | s.t. | 125 | Davide Ricci Bitti | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 126 | Leonardo Giordani | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 127 | Diego Caccia | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 128 | Roberto De Patre | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 129 | Simon Geschke | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 130 | Adrián Palomares | Andalucía | s.t. | 131 | Davide Frattini | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 132 | Karol Domagalski | Caja Rural | s.t. | 133 | José Luis Cano | Andalucía | s.t. | 134 | Jesús Rosendo | Andalucía | s.t. | 135 | Mark Christian | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 136 | Sean Downey | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 137 | George Preidler | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 138 | Valery Kaykov | RusVelo | s.t. | 139 | Kiel Reijnen | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 140 | Caleb Fairly | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 141 | Ivan Rovny | RusVelo | s.t. | 142 | Raymond Künzli | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 143 | Víctor Hugo Peña | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 144 | Kai Reus | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 145 | Miguel Ubeto | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 146 | Michael Hepburn | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 147 | Luis Felipe Laverde | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 148 | Carlos José Ochoa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 149 | Cameron Meyer | GreenEdge Cycling Team | + 3'02 | 150 | Connor McConvey | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 151 | Biao Liu | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | + 13'11 |
1 | Matthew Goss | GreenEdge Cycling Team | 6h23'10 | 2 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | + 28 | 3 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | s.t. | 4 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | + 32 | 5 | Karl Menzies | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 6 | Ivan Savitsky | RusVelo | s.t. | 7 | Fabio Felline | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 34 | 8 | Enrico Montanari | Team WIT | s.t. | 9 | José Luis Cano | Andalucía | s.t. | 10 | Alfredo Balloni | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | + 36 | ... | 32 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 40 |
1 | Matthew Goss | GreenEdge Cycling Team | 50 | 2 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | 30 | 3 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | 26 | 4 | Alexei Markov | RusVelo | 21 | 5 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | 20 |
1 | Ivan Savitsky | RusVelo | s.t. | 6h23'42 | 2 | Fabio Felline | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | + 2 | 3 | José Luis Cano | Andalucía | s.t. | + 2 | 4 | Alfredo Balloni | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | + 4 | 5 | Muhamad Othman | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | + 4 | ... | 12 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | + 8 |
When looking back at todays stage i feel a bit disappointed.
The results are fine, but i could definitely see that things wasn't working for me out on the road.
Bennett was really unlucky today, if he wasn't blocked he maybe could have taken a top-10 spot. But such things happens in cyclesport.
Tommorow will be the last flat stage before the queen stage.
And i think the plans will be changed quite dramaticly...
Edited by andy222c on 08-02-2012 19:52
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sutty68 |
Posted on 07-02-2012 17:05
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Nice start Jonathan |
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Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 08-02-2012 09:11
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Not bad from Jonathan. Btw you accidentaly have the bad headline for stage 2 probably, there is said stage 1 again and profile looks same as in stage 1 too.
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FreitasPCM |
Posted on 08-02-2012 16:54
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Jonathan still trying to get the best shape, still a solid result inside the 30 best. Of course with a different, easier field, Bellis can fight for a win. |
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andy222c |
Posted on 08-02-2012 20:03
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@Sutty68: Thanks
@Avin Wargunnson: Thanks, and thank you for telling me about the error. I was appearently a little too fast to not notice it myself. I've corrected both errors
@FreitasPCM: I definitely agree with what you are saying. This is only a warm-up race which have got a really tough lineup with some of the very best riders within it.
I'm also quite convinced that Jonny will be able to fight for the win in some of the smaller races later in the season
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andy222c |
Posted on 09-02-2012 21:41
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The third stage will be the last flat stage before the queen stage.
We've changed our strategy a little, since we've been proved that we got no sprinter who's good enough to follow the best.
Therefore we won't even try to compeed in the final sprint, and instead focus 100 % on breakaways.
Stage favourites
M. Goss
O. Freire, F. Ventoso
D. Galimzyanov, R. McEwen, A. Davis
"Our tactic is very agressive today, so i'll have to keep my eyes open all day long. I can feel that my shape is beginning to get better, so i'm quite confident in my abilities"
A lot of riders wanted to be in the breakaway today, and therefore a lot of riders attacked from the very start. Among others my own team-mate Mark McNally whose shape is really great at the moment.
But the final breakaway came down to be only 3 riders. We tried to get 2 riders within it, and it succeeded, therefore both Sean Downey and Sam Bennett were in the break.
Sean Downey and Sam Bennett in todays break
Up in the break the three guys worked very well together and extended their lead continuous. Bennett won the first sprint of the stage and later became second in the last intermediate-sprint, and therefore earned some very nice bonus-seconds.
With 20 km left, they had about 2' min. down to the pack and Downey had to drop of because of exhaustion.
Now only Bennett and the Team Differdange rider were in front.
Downey drops down with 20 km to the line
The two guys really put in their efforts and rode extremely fast, but with 12 km to go, the pack drove in both of them after a great effort by the breakaway.
It now seemed as though it had to end in another mass-sprint with Greenedge in front.
The breakaway finishes 12 km from the line
It all seemed to end in a mass-sprint. But with 5 km left, I saw a golden moment. The Greenedge train suddenly didn't drove the same fast pace as before and i had to try exploit this chance.
It was all or nothing, so i gave myself all in.
Me exploiting a quiet moment 5 km from the line
But unfortunately Greenedge seemed to have everything under control.
They just send up a new man to pull me in completely, and i was therefore back in the pack with 3 km to go.
Because of my attack, greenedge's train was shortened a bit, and Goss had to set in his sprint very early.
But could he hold it to the line?
Goss starting his sprint very early this time
It became very close between Goss and Manuel Cardoso who came really fast on the last metres, and therefore the win had to be decided in a photofinish.
The photo showed that Goss was a little in front of Cardoso, and therefore he could call himself winner of his third stage in a row.
I kept myself in front and finished in 32th.
Matthew Goss takes the tripple
1 | Matthew Goss | GreenEdge Cycling Team | 3h18'45 | 2 | Manuel Cardoso | Caja Rural | s.t. | 3 | Robert Förster | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 4 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | s.t. | 5 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | s.t. | 6 | Allan Davis | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 7 | Alexei Markov | RusVelo | s.t. | 8 | Roberto Ferrari | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 9 | Denis Galimzyanov | Katusha Team | s.t. | 10 | Dean Windsor | Endura Racing | s.t. | ... | 32 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. |
Spoiler 11 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | s.t. | 12 | Robbie McEwen | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 13 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | s.t. | 14 | Enrique Sanz | Movistar Team | s.t. | 15 | Ian Bibby | Endura Racing | s.t. | 16 | Juan Forero | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 17 | Fabio Duarte | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 18 | Fabio Felline | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 19 | Rory Sutherland | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 20 | Tom Stamsnijder | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 21 | Gustavo César Veloso | Andalucía | s.t. | 22 | René Mandri | Endura Racing | s.t. | 23 | Caleb Fairly | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 24 | Alexandre Geniez | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 25 | Raymond Künzli | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 26 | Javier Chacón | Andalucía | s.t. | 27 | Jeffry Romero | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 28 | Julien Antomarchi | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 29 | Juan Pablo Suarez | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 30 | Karl Menzies | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 31 | Kai Reus | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 32 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 33 | Gediminas Bagdonas | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 34 | Pengda Jiao | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 35 | Ivan Rovny | RusVelo | s.t. | 36 | Miguel Ubeto | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 37 | Jason McCartney | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 38 | Michael Rodriguez | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 39 | George Preidler | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 40 | Ian Wilkinson | Endura Racing | s.t. | 41 | Martin Gilbert | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 42 | Remco Broers | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 43 | Jesús Rosendo | Andalucía | s.t. | 44 | Valery Kaykov | RusVelo | s.t. | 45 | Craig Lewis | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 46 | Davide Frattini | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 47 | Jacobus Venter | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 48 | Luis Felipe Laverde | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 49 | Frank Dressler | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 50 | Jonathon McEvoy | Endura Racing | s.t. | 51 | Carlos José Ochoa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 52 | Boy Van Poppel | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 53 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Movistar Team | s.t. | 54 | Danail Petrov | Caja Rural | s.t. | 55 | Alexandre Blain | Endura Racing | s.t. | 56 | Alex Meenhorst | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 57 | Ivan Savitsky | RusVelo | s.t. | 58 | Paul Voss | Endura Racing | s.t. | 59 | Mart Ojavee | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 60 | Zakkari Dempster | Endura Racing | s.t. | 61 | Adrián Palomares | Andalucía | s.t. | 62 | Kevin Kohlvelter | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 63 | Jens Keukeleire | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 64 | Hernâni Brôco | Caja Rural | s.t. | 65 | Stuart O'Grady | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 66 | César Bihel | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 67 | Sebastian Langeveld | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 68 | Mark Christian | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 69 | Mark Cassidy | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 70 | Fabricio Ferrari | Caja Rural | s.t. | 71 | Javier Francisco Aramendia | Caja Rural | s.t. | 72 | Julián Sánchez Pimienta | Caja Rural | s.t. | 73 | Mark McNally | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 74 | Jay Thomson | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 75 | Michael Hepburn | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 76 | Alexander Mironov | RusVelo | s.t. | 77 | Connor McConvey | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 78 | Cameron Meyer | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 79 | Luca Paolini | Katusha Team | s.t. | 80 | Igor Boev | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 81 | Dmitry Kosyakov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 82 | Henry Frusto | Team Nippo | s.t. | 83 | Kirill Baranov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 84 | Vyacheslav Kuznetsov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 85 | Simone Campagnaro | Team Nippo | s.t. | 86 | Andrey Solomennikov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 87 | Diego Caccia | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 88 | Igor Frolov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 89 | Kohei Uchima | Team Nippo | s.t. | 90 | Vincenzo Garofalo | Team Nippo | s.t. | 91 | Sam Bennett | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 92 | Ilnur Zakarin | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 93 | Giairo Ermeti | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 94 | Alexander Serebryakov | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 95 | Alexander Zdanov | Team Nippo | s.t. | 96 | Davide Ricci Bitti | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 97 | Alfredo Balloni | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 98 | Muhamad Othman | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 99 | Roberto De Patre | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 100 | Leonardo Giordani | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 101 | Fausto Fognini | Team WIT | s.t. | 102 | Luca Mazzanti | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 103 | José Luis Cano | Andalucía | s.t. | 104 | Sergey Chernetskiy | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 105 | Cameron Wurf | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 106 | Wilson Marentes | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 107 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 108 | Zachary Bell | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 109 | Antonio Cabello | Andalucía | s.t. | 110 | Rafael de Mattos Andriato | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 111 | Simon Geschke | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 112 | Rubens Bertogliati | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 113 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Team Nippo | s.t. | 114 | Jackson Rodríguez | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 115 | Tyron Giorgieri | Team WIT | s.t. | 116 | Daniele Callegarin | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 117 | Simon Lambert-Lemay | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 118 | David Boily | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 119 | Francesco Failli | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 120 | Dimitry Kozontchuk | RusVelo | s.t. | 121 | Eduard Vorganov | Katusha Team | s.t. | 122 | Sean Downey | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 123 | Jonathan Monsalve | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 124 | Patrick Gretsch | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 125 | Kun Jiang | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 126 | Thierry Hupond | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 127 | Karol Domagalski | Caja Rural | s.t. | 128 | Miguel Rubiano | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 129 | Enrico Montanari | Team WIT | s.t. | 130 | Víctor Hugo Peña | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 131 | José Luis Roldán | Andalucía | s.t. | 132 | Lucas Euser | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 133 | Evgeniy Kovalev | RusVelo | s.t. | 134 | Gang Xu | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 135 | Tom Dumoulin | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 136 | Serguei Klimov | RusVelo | s.t. | 137 | Vladimir Gusev | Katusha Team | s.t. | 138 | Joey Rosskopf | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 139 | Joe Eldridge | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 140 | Juan José Cobo | Movistar Team | s.t. | 141 | Vladimir Karpets | Movistar Team | s.t. | 142 | Kiel Reijnen | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 143 | Biao Liu | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 144 | Xavier Florencio | Katusha Team | s.t. | 145 | Iván Gutiérrez | Movistar Team | s.t. | 146 | Marcos García | Caja Rural | s.t. | 147 | Mathieu Sprick | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 148 | Jordi Simón | Andalucía | s.t. | 149 | Beñat Intxausti | Movistar Team | s.t. | 150 | Ryan Roth | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 151 | Denis Menchov | Katusha Team | s.t. |
1 | Matthew Goss | GreenEdge Cycling Team | 9h41'35 | 2 | Manuel Cardoso | Caja Rural | + 48 | 3 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | s.t. | 4 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | s.t. | 5 | Sam Bennett | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 50 | 6 | César Bihel | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 7 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | + 52 | 8 | Robert Förster | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 9 | Karl Menzies | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 10 | Ivan Savitsky | RusVelo | s.t. | ... | 34 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 1'00 |
1 | Matthew Goss | GreenEdge Cycling Team | 75 | 2 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | 35 | 3 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | 34 | 4 | Robert Förster | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 34 | 5 | Manuel Cardoso | Caja Rural | 34 |
1 | Sam Bennett | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 9h42'25 | 2 | César Bihel | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | + 0 | 3 | Ivan Savitsky | RusVelo | s.t. | + 2 | 4 | Fabio Felline | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | + 4 | 5 | José Luis Cano | Andalucía | s.t. | + 4 | ... | 14 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | + 10 |
Our agressive tactic worked pretty well today. With Bennett's bonus-seconds, we now got him in 5th overall and in lead of the young riders classification.
A great result for the team, and therefore a very profitable stage for us.
My own breakaway didn't worked as i wanted it to be, but i'm happy that i tried. Only by trying, you'll learn.
Tommorow's stage will be quite different with a steep mountain finish.
We'll keep our agressive tactic, since we haven't got any climber on our team, but let's see how we all are feeling tommorow, because it will surely be the one with the best legs who we'll work for.
Jonny
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valverde321 |
Posted on 09-02-2012 21:52
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Great race, helping out Bennet
You have some original concepts in your reports too
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Alakagom |
Posted on 09-02-2012 21:57
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Awesome stage, very aggressive by An Post. Good luck tomorrow, will be tough but hopefully you're going do well. Very nice reports too with the screens. All is great
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andy222c |
Posted on 10-02-2012 17:12
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@valverde321: Thank you
Original concepts? It sounds positive, but could you specify?
@Alakagom: Thanks Yeah, tommorows stage will be very dificult for our team, so we'll join every single breakaway to ensure our appearance in the front. I also hope that Bagdonas can follow through on the climb, so he can get a nice overall result with a good result in the TT.
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sutty68 |
Posted on 10-02-2012 17:36
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That was one hell of a close sprint |
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valverde321 |
Posted on 10-02-2012 18:15
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Well you put the quotes above the pic, which is a good idea, and you also have certain graphics which you use for every report.
I was thinking of doing something similar as well with the graphics, but you've beat me to it again I was going to put titles on my "Race Results" one though, but that pic you chose, is great
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andy222c |
Posted on 12-02-2012 19:42
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Okay, i'm so glad that you like it
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andy222c |
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This fourth stage will be very exciting. The stage is the queen stage of the race, and will be very crucial for the overall GC.
The rare thing about the stage is the mountain finish. After 3 days in the flat-land of Oman, we'll be heading for the mountains, which can be dreadfully steep.
We have no climbers in our squad, so we'll be very agressive once again.
Stage favourites
D. Menchov
J.J. Cobo, B. Intxausti
P. Lastras, F. Duarte, V. Karpets
"I have no comments, i'm too focused on the race to talk smalltalk with you right now..."
The first breakaway got away and Jonny followed them exactly as we'd planned. But the break got caught again, and a new one followed. After several attempts a breakaway with 16 riders was build including Bellis .
Bellis on his way into the final breakaway
But the pack didn't seem very happy with the break, and with 80 km left of the stage the breakaway got caught again.
This got J. Venter (Differdange) to counter attack.
A part of our tactic for today's stage was to be in the breakaway with two riders like yesterday. Therefore when Bellis saw Bagdonas being ready to make his counter, he reacted quickly and followed the Differdange rider with Bagdonas in his wheel.
Bellis with Bagdonas in his wheel, trying to make the gap
The breakaway seemed to work fine together with the two AnPost riders obviously making the biggest amount of work.
Even though Bellis had been into the previous breakaways, he was without no doubt the greatest sprinter among the 3, and therefore took the last intermediate sprint in front of his own team-mate.
Bellis taking the intermediate sprint
With 40 km to the finish, race leader Matthew Goss tried to attack.
It was a quite sepctacular sight, and he also got caught about 10 km after.
When he got caught the pack seemed to stop completely just to figure out what just happened. This was very useful for the breakaway which suddenly extended their lead to 3' min with 30 km to go.
Race leader Goss on the run - Which in the end was very useful for the breakaway
Break companion J. Venter had just tried to escape from the two AnPost riders, when he got caught and Bellis made a counter attack with 10 km to go, in favour of team-mate Bagdonas.
J. Venter had to make all the work while Bellis extended his lead every second, leaving Bagdonas to relax just behind Venter.
Bellis making a counter attack
Bellis was on very hard work and had a little gap down to his two follwers.
In the meantime the pack leaded by Katusha (Menchov) was nearing the breakaway dramaticly fast.
Bellis in his solo-attack
Bellis got caught with only 5 km to go, leaving J. Venter to drop down along, and Bagdonas alone in the front.
But with 3,5 km to go, he also got caught in the many breakaways which occurred from the pack.
In front R. Sutherland was alone, with two other riders a little further down.
Bagdonas was the last to be caught with 3,5 km to go
A lot of riders tried to escape on the last kilometres, but Sutherland still remained in front of the race. Behind Sutherland P. Lastras was trying to reach him to the front.
Sutherland in front - Lastras just behind
In the end Sutherland was too strong and took a very great victory in front of Lastras and J. Suarez who won the sprint in the pack.
With the stage-win he also overtooked the leaders jersey.
1 | Rory Sutherland | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 3h51'35 | 2 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | + 8 | 3 | Juan Pablo Suarez | Colombia - Coldeportes | + 1'06 | 4 | Ian Bibby | Endura Racing | + 1'14 | 5 | Fabio Duarte | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 6 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | s.t. | 7 | Eduard Vorganov | Katusha Team | s.t. | 8 | Danail Petrov | Caja Rural | + 1'25 | 9 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | s.t. | 10 | Ivan Rovny | RusVelo | s.t. | ... | 71 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 5'04 |
Spoiler 11 | Luis Felipe Laverde | Colombia - Coldeportes | + 1'35 | 12 | Kai Reus | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 1'40 | 13 | Alexandre Geniez | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 14 | Francesco Failli | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 15 | Miguel Rubiano | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 16 | Davide Frattini | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 17 | Simon Geschke | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 18 | Jackson Rodríguez | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 19 | Carlos José Ochoa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 1'55 | 20 | Matthew Goss | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 21 | Julien Antomarchi | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 22 | Vladimir Karpets | Movistar Team | s.t. | 23 | Juan José Cobo | Movistar Team | s.t. | 24 | Vincenzo Garofalo | Team Nippo | s.t. | 25 | Luca Paolini | Katusha Team | s.t. | 26 | Serguei Klimov | RusVelo | s.t. | 27 | Giairo Ermeti | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 28 | Jonathan Monsalve | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 29 | Vladimir Gusev | Katusha Team | s.t. | 30 | George Preidler | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 31 | Craig Lewis | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 32 | Denis Menchov | Katusha Team | s.t. | 33 | Daniele Callegarin | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 34 | Sebastian Langeveld | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 35 | Sergey Chernetskiy | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 36 | Gustavo César Veloso | Andalucía | + 2'30 | 37 | David Boily | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 38 | Jesús Rosendo | Andalucía | s.t. | 39 | Raymond Künzli | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 40 | Jeffry Romero | Colombia - Coldeportes | + 2'40 | 41 | Xavier Florencio | Katusha Team | s.t. | 42 | Dimitry Kozontchuk | RusVelo | s.t. | 43 | Alexandre Blain | Endura Racing | s.t. | 44 | Rafael de Mattos Andriato | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | + 3'19 | 45 | Víctor Hugo Peña | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 46 | Rubens Bertogliati | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 47 | Karol Domagalski | Caja Rural | s.t. | 48 | Adrián Palomares | Andalucía | s.t. | 49 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Movistar Team | s.t. | 50 | Allan Davis | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 51 | Denis Galimzyanov | Katusha Team | s.t. | 52 | José Luis Roldán | Andalucía | s.t. | 53 | Fabio Felline | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 54 | Gediminas Bagdonas | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 3'40 | 55 | Paul Voss | Endura Racing | s.t. | 56 | Julián Sánchez Pimienta | Caja Rural | s.t. | 57 | Manuel Cardoso | Caja Rural | s.t. | 58 | Tom Dumoulin | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 59 | Andrey Solomennikov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 60 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | s.t. | 61 | Jason McCartney | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 62 | Henry Frusto | Team Nippo | s.t. | 63 | Jacobus Venter | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 64 | Stuart O'Grady | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 65 | Pengda Jiao | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 66 | Enrique Sanz | Movistar Team | s.t. | 67 | Beñat Intxausti | Movistar Team | + 4'24 | 68 | Caleb Fairly | SpiderTech powered by C10 | + 4'29 | 69 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Team Nippo | + 4'35 | 70 | Alexander Mironov | RusVelo | + 4'56 | 71 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 5'04 | 72 | Michael Hepburn | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 73 | Iván Gutiérrez | Movistar Team | s.t. | 74 | Marcos García | Caja Rural | s.t. | 75 | Alfredo Balloni | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 76 | Karl Menzies | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 77 | Jonathon McEvoy | Endura Racing | s.t. | 78 | Jordi Simón | Andalucía | s.t. | 79 | René Mandri | Endura Racing | s.t. | 80 | Javier Chacón | Andalucía | s.t. | 81 | Javier Francisco Aramendia | Caja Rural | s.t. | 82 | Wilson Marentes | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 83 | Ian Wilkinson | Endura Racing | s.t. | 84 | Mart Ojavee | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 85 | Fausto Fognini | Team WIT | s.t. | 86 | Martin Gilbert | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | 87 | Juan Forero | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 88 | Simone Campagnaro | Team Nippo | s.t. | 89 | Connor McConvey | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 90 | Patrick Gretsch | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 91 | Remco Broers | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 92 | Mathieu Sprick | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 93 | Cameron Meyer | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 94 | Gang Xu | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 95 | Kohei Uchima | Team Nippo | s.t. | 96 | Roberto Ferrari | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 97 | Mark McNally | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 98 | Michael Rodriguez | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 99 | Kun Jiang | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 100 | Leonardo Giordani | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 101 | Davide Ricci Bitti | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 102 | Alexei Markov | RusVelo | s.t. | 103 | Jay Thomson | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 104 | Alex Meenhorst | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 105 | Robbie McEwen | GreenEdge Cycling Team | s.t. | 106 | Dmitry Kosyakov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 107 | Antonio Cabello | Andalucía | s.t. | 108 | Cameron Wurf | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 109 | Fabricio Ferrari | Caja Rural | s.t. | 110 | Kirill Baranov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 111 | Tom Stamsnijder | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 112 | Luca Mazzanti | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 113 | Roberto De Patre | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 114 | Jens Keukeleire | GreenEdge Cycling Team | + 6'17 | 115 | Boy Van Poppel | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 116 | Robert Förster | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 6'26 | 117 | Lucas Euser | SpiderTech powered by C10 | + 6'31 | 118 | Igor Boev | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 119 | César Bihel | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 120 | Igor Frolov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 121 | Alexander Serebryakov | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 122 | Mark Cassidy | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 6'46 | 123 | Ryan Roth | SpiderTech powered by C10 | + 7'09 | 124 | Kiel Reijnen | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 125 | Ilnur Zakarin | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 126 | Ivan Savitsky | RusVelo | + 7'20 | 127 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 128 | Frank Dressler | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | + 7'26 | 129 | Enrico Montanari | Team WIT | s.t. | 130 | Zakkari Dempster | Endura Racing | s.t. | 131 | Sean Downey | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 132 | Dean Windsor | Endura Racing | s.t. | 133 | Alexander Zdanov | Team Nippo | s.t. | 134 | José Luis Cano | Andalucía | s.t. | 135 | Miguel Ubeto | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | 136 | Muhamad Othman | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 137 | Vyacheslav Kuznetsov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | 138 | Sam Bennett | An Post - Sean Kelly | s.t. | 139 | Mark Christian | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 7'48 | 140 | Tyron Giorgieri | Team WIT | s.t. | 141 | Zachary Bell | SpiderTech powered by C10 | + 12'04 | 142 | Joe Eldridge | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 143 | Hernâni Brôco | Caja Rural | + 22'05 | 144 | Thierry Hupond | Project 1t4i | s.t. | 145 | Biao Liu | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 146 | Evgeniy Kovalev | RusVelo | s.t. | 147 | Valery Kaykov | RusVelo | s.t. | 148 | Diego Caccia | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | 149 | Kevin Kohlvelter | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | 150 | Joey Rosskopf | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | 151 | Simon Lambert-Lemay | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. |
1 | Rory Sutherland | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 13h33'50 | 2 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | + 4 | 3 | Matthew Goss | GreenEdge Cycling Team | + 1'15 | 4 | Juan Pablo Suarez | Colombia - Coldeportes | + 1'18 | 5 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | + 1'26 | 6 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | + 1'33 | 7 | Ian Bibby | Endura Racing | + 1'34 | 8 | Fabio Duarte | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | 9 | Eduard Vorganov | Katusha Team | s.t. | 10 | Danail Petrov | Caja Rural | + 1'45 | ... | 73 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 5'18 |
1 | Matthew Goss | GreenEdge Cycling Team | 75 | 2 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | 49 | 3 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | 45 | 4 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | 41 | 5 | Manuel Cardoso | Caja Rural | 34 |
1 | Ivan Rovny | RusVelo | 13h35'35 | 2 | Alexandre Geniez | Project 1t4i | + 15 | 3 | George Preidler | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | + 30 | 4 | Sergey Chernetskiy | Itera - Katusha | + 30 | 5 | Jonathan Monsalve | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 30 | ... | 19 | Jonathan Bellis | An Post - Sean Kelly | + 3'33 |
This was really a positive day for our team.
The team plan really worked the way it should and i'm really happy about my own performance. Being within every breakaway of the day seems quite convincing for my own confidence, so i'm very happy.
Even though Bennett lost his 5th place and his youth jersey, we aren't disappointed because we didn't expect he could keep his position.
Bagdonas looked good and he may make a very good result tommorow on the time trial - Let's hope.
Jonny
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sutty68 |
Posted on 12-02-2012 23:59
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Great riding by the An Post boy's today |
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Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 13-02-2012 08:20
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Good team effort, nice stage
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dienblad |
Posted on 13-02-2012 08:40
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Good effort. You need these tries (often) to get succesful!
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Mresuperstar |
Posted on 13-02-2012 12:10
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So close It was a nice effort nonetheless.
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andy222c |
Posted on 15-02-2012 14:43
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@all:Thanks guys - Next stage is a TT, so let's see how Jonny can handle that
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sutty68 |
Posted on 15-02-2012 17:29
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Come on Jonny, you can do this |
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Alakagom |
Posted on 15-02-2012 20:19
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Again great report and great effort by Bellis. He did all he could and definitely deserved breakaway rider of the day award
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