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Posted on 18-03-2012 17:35
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Great well done !! What a pity Pinot !! |
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Posted on 18-03-2012 19:41
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@ FreitasPCM: Thank you  Pinot has been great here and Demare has been good too, I think if he hadn't of been involved in the crash on Stage 4 he could have gained even better results 
@ RMCF 1902: Thanks! Pinot just wasn't strong enough to hang in there with Spilak at the end but still pleased with the result! |
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Posted on 18-03-2012 23:03
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Stage 10 - Shah Alam to Kuala Lumpur
The final stage of the 2012 edition of the Tour de Langkawi and it should be a day for the sprinters here as it is generally flat.
Favourites: Kittel (1t4i), Demare (FDJ), Lacombe (Spidertech)
A 2-man break went away early containing Kovaler (RusVelo) and Wurf (Champion) but the gap was held steady by FDJ and Project 1t4i at 2 mins for most of the day. They were eventually caught with 20km to go. With 15km to go, a huge crash happened wiping out a 1/3rd of the peloton and Trofimov (Katusha), the man who was 3rd in the GC!
I don't believe it! Another huge crash with 10km to go wipes out the entire field except a group of 15 at the front, which contained every FDJ rider! Kittel is down, so no victory for him today! Wait! Spilak is down too! The yellow jersey wearer is not in the front group! Pinot could have a chance at a win here!
And there he is! Pinot driving the front group along to gain time on Spilak to try and gain the lead in the race! Forget Demare and the sprint we sent all of our riders to the front to set a ferocious pace so Spilak would not be able to get back on!
Lacombe takes victory here from Markov (RusVelo) and Ljungblad ()! Pinot is awarded the same time as the sprinters and we wait and see if Spilak can possibly keep hold of his lead in the GC! But Spilak crosses the line almost 2 mins down! Pinot wins the Tour de Langkawi in the most crazy of circumstances!
| 1 | Keven Lacombe | SpiderTech powered by C10 | 2h16'18 | | 2 | Alexei Markov | RusVelo | s.t. | | 3 | Jonas Ljungblad | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 4 | Jaan Kirsipuu | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | Arnaud Demare | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 6 | Ian Wilkinson | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 7 | Mathieu Drujon | BigMat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 8 | Anthony Geslin | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 9 | Gabriel Rasch | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 10 | Cédric Pineau | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. |
| 1 | Thibaut Pinot | FDJ - BigMat | 33h30'53 | | 2 | Simon Spilak | Katusha Team | + 1'15 | | 3 | Fabio Duarte | Colombia - Coldeportes | + 5'35 | | 4 | Ian Bibby | Endura Racing | + 6'35 | | 5 | Johan Mombaerts | BigMat - Auber 93 | + 7'27 | | 6 | Gustavo César Veloso | Andalucía | + 7'36 | | 7 | Oleg Chuzhda | Accent Jobs - Willems Veranda's | + 8'21 | | 8 | Leonardo Giordani | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 9 | Sergey Firsanov | RusVelo | s.t. | | 10 | Cédric Pineau | FDJ - BigMat | + 8'23 | | 11 | Davide Frattini | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 8'54 | | 12 | Yury Trofimov | Katusha Team | + 9'12 | | 13 | Juan Pablo Suarez | Colombia - Coldeportes | + 10'12 | | 14 | Enrico Battaglin | Colnago - CSF Inox | + 10'45 | | 15 | Marcel Kittel | Project 1t4i | + 12'31 |
| 1 | Marcel Kittel | Project 1t4i | 150 | | 2 | Keven Lacombe | SpiderTech powered by C10 | 127 | | 3 | Arnaud Demare | FDJ - BigMat | 101 | | 4 | Alexei Markov | RusVelo | 75 | | 5 | Simon Spilak | Katusha Team | 73 |
| 1 | Simon Spilak | Katusha Team | 34 | | 2 | Thibaut Pinot | FDJ - BigMat | 34 | | 3 | Adrián Palomares | Andalucía | 28 | | 4 | Fabio Duarte | Colombia - Coldeportes | 18 | | 5 | Preben Van Hecke | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | 16 |
| 1 | Thibaut Pinot | FDJ - BigMat | 33h30'53 | | 2 | Enrico Battaglin | Colnago - CSF Inox | + 10'45 | | 3 | Marcel Kittel | Project 1t4i | + 12'31 | | 4 | Arnaud Demare | FDJ - BigMat | + 13'43 | | 5 | Kenny Elissonde | FDJ - BigMat | + 14'26 |
| 1 | Katusha Team | 100h50'41 | | 2 | FDJ - BigMat | + 3'37 | | 3 | Colombia - Coldeportes | + 6'20 | | 4 | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 10'50 | | 5 | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | + 13'01 |
(A weird victory for the team to say the least, but we will take it! We have had a great performance here from our riders and even though a stage win eluded us, we still have, amazingly, come away with the overall win! The second crash started by one of Kittel's leadout train crashing and wiping out everyone behind him. Lucky for us our team was on the other side of the road and wasn't affected. Now we move into February and onto the Tour of Qatar!) |
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| hazzy |
Posted on 18-03-2012 23:20
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Awesome win by Pinot. But unfair to Spilak, though. |
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| CLURPR |
Posted on 19-03-2012 11:27
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@ hazzy: It feels like a hollow victory to win in those circumstances  but thats cycling! |
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Posted on 19-03-2012 11:38
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Monthly Summary - January
A nice start to the season for BMC here with 3 race wins, but we managed to gain a great results in Langkawi with Pinot but that stage win still eludes us!
Unsurprisingly, Hushovd wins here as he was dominant in the sprints in the Tour Down Under. But we managed to win an award with Courteille who won the mountains jersey in the Tour Down Under, so January was a very good month for us!
(I did take screenshots of the monthly rankings but they seem to have gone missing, so I will wait until the end of February to give you the current rankings.)
Edited by CLURPR on 20-03-2012 18:35
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Posted on 19-03-2012 13:01
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The 2012 edition of the Tour of Qatar is the 11th edition of the race. It is a 6-day stage race which is mainly a race for sprinters, but this year a Team Time Trial has been thrown into the mix, so the sprinter who has a solid time-trialling team around him should win the 2012 Tour of Qatar.
Spoiler Katusha
1. Ó.Freire
2. D.Galimzyanov
3. M.Ignatiev
4. L.Paolini
5. R.Selig
6. G.Smukulis
7. M.Vantomme
8. Á.Vicioso
Astana
11. B.Božic
12. A.Bazayev
13. E.Gasparotto
14. F.Gavazzi
15. A.Grivko
16. M.Iglinskiy
17. R.Kiserlovski
18. Y.Nepomnyachshiy
Rabobank
21. M.Renshaw
22. S.Clement
23. R.Flens
24. T.Leezer
25. P.Martens
26. T.Slagter
27. J.Van Emden
28. D.Van Winden
Movistar
31. V.Karpets
32. A.Amador
33. J.Castroviejo
34. R.Costa
35. J.Iriarte
36. Á.Madrazo
37. R.Plaza
38. E.Sanz
FDJ
41. Y.Hutarovich
42. D.Boucher
43. M.Delage
44. F.Mourey
45. T.Pinot
46. D.Rollin
47. J.Veikkanen
Farnese Vini
51. F.Pozzato
52. C.Benenati
53. P.De Negri
54. E.Favilli
55. O.Gatto
56. A.Guardini
57. M.Rabottini
58. D.Ricci Bitti
Lampre
61. D.Hondo
62. D.Kostyuk
63. Y.Krivtsov
64. A.Kvachuk
65. A.Malori
66. D.Pietropolli
67. O.Sheydyk
68. D.Viganò
Liquigas
71. D.Oss
72. V.Agnoli
73. M.Bodnar
74. D.Caruso
75. K.Koren
76. M.Moser
77. J.Sagan
78. E.Viviani
UnitedHealthcare
81. R.Förster
82. H.Clarke
83. C.Jones
84. K.Menzies
85. K.Reus
86. R.Sutherland
87. B.Van Poppel
88. B.White
Euskaltel
91. G.Izagirre
92. V.Cabedo
93. P.Cazaux
94. R.García
95. R.Pérez
96. A.Pérez
97. P.Urtasun
98. G.Verdugo
Androni
101. R.Ferrari
102. R.Chiarini
103. A.De Marchi
104. F.Felline
105. F.J.Moreno
106. A.Parrinello
107. E.Sella
108. M.Ubeto
1t4i
111. S.Geschke
112. B.De Backer
113. C.Ji
114. D.Klemme
115. R.Kluge
116. R.Sinkeldam
117. A.Timmer
118. R.Van Zandbeek
AG2R
121. M.Montaguti
122. R.Bardet
123. G.Bonnafond
124. M.Bouet
125. J.Bérard
126. H.Dupont
127. S.Minard
128. B.Shpilevsky
BMC
131. M.Kohler
132. A.Blythe
133. M.Frank
134. K.Lodewyck
135. S.Morabito
136. T.Roe
137. I.Santaromita
138. D.Wyss
Nippo
141. T.Hayakawa
142. A.M.Richeze
143. M.A.Richeze
144. A.Testa
145. K.Uchima
146. A.Zdanov
SpiderTech
151. H.Houle
152. R.Anderson
153. D.Boily
154. F.De Luna
155. C.Fairly
156. J.P.McCarty
157. R.Roth
158. B.Selander
RusVelo
161. I.Savitsky
162. A.Ershov
163. N.Eskov
164. S.Klimov
165. E.Kovalev
166. D.Kozontchuk
167. A.Serov
168. M.Zubov
Endura Racing
171. I.Camaño
172. J.Anderson
173. R.Partridge
174. E.Rowsell
175. S.Thwaites
176. J.Tiernan-Locke
177. A.Wetterhall
The startlist here is pretty weak to be honest, the only real sprinters here who could challenge for a win are Freire, Bozic, Galimzyanov and Hutarovich. There are no BMC, Garmin or Sky teams here which is surprising but this means that the lesser-sprinters could be in with a shot of an early-season victory here. |
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| CLURPR |
Posted on 19-03-2012 13:06
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We have got a relatively strong team here to challenge for stage wins but not for the overall as our time trial abilities are rubbish! We expect Hutarovich to possibly snag a stage win or come consistently in the Top 5 here, Rollin will be his leadout man here and the others squad members will be here to help out chasing down breakaways to allow a mass sprint to happen at the end of every stage. |
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| hazzy |
Posted on 19-03-2012 14:19
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Hope that Hutarovich wons a stage and maybe finish top 10 in GC. |
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Posted on 19-03-2012 15:38
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Stage 1 - Barzan Towers to Doha Golf Club
As is the norm in Qatar, the stage is flat and should be won by a sprinter.
Favourites: Bozic (Astana), Galimzyanov (Katusha), Hutarovich (FDJ)
There was a 5-man break out front today with Sella (Androni), but they were never allowed more than 4 min advantage and were caught at 15km to go. It was Galimzyanov with the win from Bazayev (Astana) and Guardini (Farnese-Vini), it was a bit of a weird sprint really as not all the favourites actually sprinted.
| 1 | Denis Galimzyanov | Katusha Team | 3h05'18 | | 2 | Assan Bazayev | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 3 | Andrea Guardini | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 4 | Tom Leezer | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | Daniel Oss | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 6 | Danilo Hondo | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 7 | Borut Božic | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 8 | Elia Viviani | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 9 | Filippo Pozzato | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 10 | Yauheni Hutarovich | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. |
Stage 2 - Lusail to Lusail
The team time trial stage has come upon us and we do not expect to do very well at all as our time trial abilites are well down on the big favourites.
Favourites: Rabobank, Movistar, Katusha
It was the favourites Rabobank with the win today, from Movistar and Katusha. We came dead last just under a minute down, I cannot do Team Time Trials at all and I don't hold much hope for doing them in the future either.
| 1 | Rabobank Cycling Team | 13'51 | | 2 | Movistar Team | + 12 | | 3 | Katusha Team | + 16 | | 4 | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 20 | | 5 | BMC Racing Team | + 23 | | 6 | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 7 | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 8 | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 9 | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 25 | | 10 | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. |
Stage 3 - Dukhan to Al Gharafa Stadium
Another flat stage today and, unless a breakaway stays away, the stage should be won by a sprinter.
Favourites: Bozic (Astana), Hutarovich (FDJ), Galimzyanov (Katusha)
A 6-man break was established today containing Dupont (AG2R) and Tiernan-Locke (Endura). They were allowed a maximum of 4 min lead and unluckily Tiernan-Locke was caught with 5km to go but because of crosswinds and the high pace of the peloton to bring him back the peloton split into groups with 52 riders up front with all FDJ riders there. But Bozic managed to win it on the line from Hutarovich with Galimzyanov 3rd. The Top 57 gained 2min26sec on the rest of the pack today.
| 1 | Borut Božic | Astana Pro Team | 3h07'21 | | 2 | Yauheni Hutarovich | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 3 | Denis Galimzyanov | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 4 | Daniel Oss | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 5 | Andrea Guardini | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 6 | Tom Leezer | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 7 | Roberto Ferrari | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 8 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 9 | Danilo Hondo | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 10 | Dominique Rollin | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. |
| 1 | Denis Galimzyanov | Katusha Team | 6h26'20 | | 2 | Mark Renshaw | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 10 | | 3 | Tom Slagter | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Jos Van Emden | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 13 | | 5 | Borut Božic | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 6 | Tom Leezer | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 15 | | 7 | Vladimir Karpets | Movistar Team | + 22 | | 8 | Rüdiger Selig | Katusha Team | + 26 | | 9 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 10 | Mikhail Ignatiev | Katusha Team | s.t. |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 20-03-2012 06:11
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Just stoped by to read the story
Nice start result wise, FDJ is cool team and i would certainly follow this nice story...
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Posted on 20-03-2012 16:06
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Avin Wargunnson wrote:
Just stoped by to read the story
Nice start result wise, FDJ is cool team and i would certainly follow this nice story...
Glad to have you onboard! Thanks! |
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Posted on 20-03-2012 19:45
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Nice 2nd place !  |
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Posted on 20-03-2012 20:25
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Al Thakhira to Madinat Al Shamal
Another flat stage that should be won by a sprint here.
Favourites: Bozic (Astana), Galimzyanov (Katusha), Hutarovich (FDJ)
After the stage had settled down, 14-men were up the road in 3 separate groups, containing the likes of Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare) and Sella (Androni). They were allowed a maximum of 5 mins and were caught relatively early with 50km to go but the winds would play another crucial role today as the peloton split again, most FDJ riders were in the front group. Surprisingly, Oss (Liquigas) won today from Bozic and Hondo (Lampre), it was a weird sprint as many sprinters didn't have the legs to contend the sprint due to the pace being at such a high pace throughout the day.
| 1 | Daniel Oss | Liquigas - Cannondale | 3h07'11 | | 2 | Borut Božic | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 3 | Danilo Hondo | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 4 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 5 | Denis Galimzyanov | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 6 | Tom Leezer | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 7 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 8 | Mark Renshaw | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 9 | Boris Shpilevski | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 10 | Robert Förster | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
Stage 5 - Camel Race Track to Al Khor Corniche
Once again we have another flat stage for the sprinters to do battle on.
Favourites: Bozic (Astana), Galimzyanov (Katusha), Hutarovich (FDJ)
On what was a relatively actionless stage today, a 17-man break went away containing no one really worth mentioning. They were never allowed more than 3 mins advantage and were caught with around 50km to go again. Bozic won again for Astana, Hutarovich was 2nd and Galimzyanov 3rd.
| 1 | Borut Božic | Astana Pro Team | 3h25'48 | | 2 | Yauheni Hutarovich | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 3 | Denis Galimzyanov | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 4 | Danilo Hondo | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 5 | Robert Förster | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 6 | Andrea Guardini | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 7 | Tom Leezer | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 9 | Roberto Ferrari | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 10 | Boris Shpilevski | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. |
Stage 6 - Sealine Beach Resort to Doha Corniche
The final stage of this years Tour of Qatar and it could possibly throw up a few surprises with the hills over the last half of the stage.
Favourites: Bozic (Astana), Hutarovich (FDJ), Galimzyanov (Katusha)
A 13-man break went away today featuring Sella and Urtasun (Euskaltel). They managed to hold a pretty decent lead coming into the final 30kms with a 3 min advantage. But the stage was not without controversy though, as with around 20km to go a huge crash happened in the peloton we lost Mourey, Delage and Veikkanen but the big loser here was Galimzyanov who was out of contention for the overall and the stage victory. 41 riders made it through unscathed to determine the win.
The brekaway was caught within the last 2km and it was Freire with the win, as he was relieved from leadout duties to become Katusha's main sprinter. Bozic was 2nd with Leezer (Rabobank) 3rd. Hutarovich could have come higher as he was blocked by the breakaway just as he launched his sprint  . Bozic easily wins the race here as he was dominant in about every single sprint and his main competitor was wiped out in the crash.
| 1 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | 2h40'54 | | 2 | Borut Božic | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 3 | Tom Leezer | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Andrea Guardini | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 5 | Danilo Hondo | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 6 | Yauheni Hutarovich | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 7 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 8 | Boris Shpilevski | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 9 | Assan Bazayev | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 10 | Filippo Pozzato | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. |
| 1 | Borut Božic | Astana Pro Team | 15h39'42 | | 2 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | + 37 | | 3 | Tom Leezer | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 38 | | 4 | Mark Renshaw | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 41 | | 5 | Rüdiger Selig | Katusha Team | + 57 | | 6 | Gatis Smukulis | Katusha Team | + 1'02 | | 7 | Boris Shpilevski | AG2R La Mondiale | + 1'04 | | 8 | Maxim Iglinskiy | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 9 | Enrico Gasparotto | Astana Pro Team | + 1'06 | | 10 | Danilo Hondo | Lampre - ISD | + 1'08 | | 11 | Dominic Klemme | Project 1t4i | + 1'09 | | 12 | Francesco Gavazzi | Astana Pro Team | + 1'10 | | 13 | Andrea Guardini | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | + 1'11 | | 14 | Filippo Pozzato | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | + 1'13 | | 15 | Cristiano Benenati | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. |
| 1 | Borut Božic | Astana Pro Team | 99 | | 2 | Denis Galimzyanov | Katusha Team | 69 | | 3 | Tom Leezer | Rabobank Cycling Team | 59 | | 4 | Danilo Hondo | Lampre - ISD | 59 | | 5 | Yauheni Hutarovich | FDJ - BigMat | 59 |
| 1 | Rüdiger Selig | Katusha Team | 15h40'39 | | 2 | Gatis Smukulis | Katusha Team | + 5 | | 3 | Andrea Guardini | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | + 14 | | 4 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Team Nippo | + 19 | | 5 | Thibaut Pinot | FDJ - BigMat | + 42 |
| 1 | Rabobank Cycling Team | 46h33'27 | | 2 | Katusha Team | + 16 | | 3 | Astana Pro Team | + 23 | | 4 | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | + 32 | | 5 | FDJ - BigMat | + 58 |
(In terms of the GC, it wasn't a great race for us here and we only came higher because of all the crashes that happened but nonetheless, we are pleased with the results Hutarovich has brought us even if we still do not have the stage win and we can now look forward to the Tour of the Mediterraneen where Casar and Demare may gain us a victory!) |
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| CLURPR |
Posted on 23-03-2012 11:12
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(Have been caught up with work for the past few days! Sorry about not posting!)
The 2012 race will be the 39th edition of the Tour of Méditerranéen and it is a race that is big in French cycling.
Spoiler Europcar
1. T.Voeckler
2. F.Bouyer
3. R.Chtioui
4. C.Gautier
5. T.Hurel
6. V.Jérôme
7. C.Kern
8. S.Turgot
FDJ
11. S.Casar
12. A.Demare
13. A.Geslin
14. F.Guesdon
15. A.Gérard
16. A.Jeannesson
17. B.Vaugrenard
Cofidis
21. D.Moncoutié
22. E.Cammaerts
23. J.Demaret
24. R.Di Gregorio
25. K.Kriit
26. D.Monier
27. A.Petit
28. N.Vogondy
Saur - Sojasun
31. J.Hivert
32. J.Galland
33. F.Jeandesboz
34. C.Lemoine
35. L.Mangel
36. J.Marino
37. S.Poulhiès
38. P.Poux
Team Type 1
41. J.Kocjan
42. J.Antomarchi
43. R.Bertogliati
44. L.Bodrogi
45. R.Cusin
46. J.El Fares
47. K.Reijnen
48. A.Serebryakov
Big Mat
51. J.Mombaerts
52. N.Bazin
53. M.Drujon
54. G.Faucon
55. R.Racault
56. N.Rousseau
Lotto
61. J.Van de Walle
62. G.Bille
63. B.De Clercq
64. K.Dehaes
65. G.Dockx
66. G.Meersman
67. F.Robert
68. M.Sohrabi
Carmim - Prio
71. R.Mestre
72. A.Antunes
73. H.Casimiro
74. T.S.Metcalfe
75. L.Silva
76. N.Vitorino
1t4i
81. A.Geniez
82. T.Bonnin
83. R.Curvers
84. K.De Kort
85. T.Dumoulin
86. Y.Huguet
87. M.Sprick
88. T.Veelers
RusVelo
91. S.Firsanov
92. V.Kaykov
93. A.Khatuntsev
94. A.Markov
95. A.Mironov
96. A.Ovechkin
97. I.Rovny
98. S.Valynin
NetApp
101. J.Baugnies
102. J.Barta
103. C.Benedetti
104. S.Cozza
105. A.Schillinger
106. D.Schorn
107. A.Schulze
Bretagne
111. D.Champion
112. E.Berthou
113. S.Duret
114. A.Fonseca
115. R.Hardy
116. J.Le Bon
117. G.Malacarne
118. L.Pichon
Veranda Rideau
121. F.Bichot
122. K.Denis
123. B.Jarrier
124. J.Jules
125. T.Olejnik
126. M.Olejnik
NSP
131. S.Fuchs
132. J.Fiedler
133. S.Forke
134. T.Fothen
135. R.Heinze
136. Y.Mayer
137. J.Schmeiser
138. S.Schäfer
Landbouwkrediet
141. K.Peeters
142. S.Cohnen
143. S.Delfosse
144. G.Devillers
145. M.Helminen
146. K.Hovelynck
147. E.Juodvalkis
148. J.Stallaert
AG2R
151. S.Georges
152. A.Zargari
Leopard - Trek
161. J.Kern
162. E.Alafaci
163. J.Ezquerra
164. B.Jungels
165. A.Kirsch
166. P.Schlechter
Roubaix
171. K.Lalouette
172. M.Boulo
173. L.Desriac
174. J.Guay
175. M.Kneisky
176. F.Schmidt
Wallonie
181. C.Premont
182. Q.Bertholet
183. T.Dernies
184. L.Evrard
185. C.Patron
186. R.Steenuit
La Pomme
191. G.Tarride
192. B.Giraud
193. C.Koretzky
194. P.Perichon
The GC will be decided in the final 2 stages of the race and will we probably see either Voeckler, Casar or Moncoutie doing well in this race and my money is on 1 of these 3 riders to win the Yellow Jersey. |
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Posted on 23-03-2012 11:18
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TOUR OF MEDITERRANEAN SQUAD
We have brought a fairly good squad here to allow us to challenge for the GC and stage wins at the same time. We have Casar as our overall contender with Jeannesson backing him up and we have the combination of Demare and Geslin again to contend the sprints. |
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Posted on 23-03-2012 11:31
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Stage 1 - Maubec-Coustellet to Pertuis
It is listed as a hilly profile but I think that it will be won by a sprinter as the end is relatively flat.
Favourites: Demare (FDJ), Veelers (1t4i), Baugnies (NetApp)
11 men up the road today split into 2 groups, we had sent Gerard into one of them to try and contend for the mountain points. They had a maximum advantage of 7 mins before we put Jeannesson and Vaugrenard on the front of the bunch to reel them in.
The punishing pace set by our 2 riders had allowed a group of 28 to go clear with all FDJ riders still there. They swept up the breakaway easily and with 3km to go Casar and Jerome (Europcar) found themselves off the front with a gap of around 40 seconds. We told Casar to push like crazy as we had our first stage win in sight!
And HE WINS!! We get our first ever stage victory with Casar managing to hold off the the remains of the peloton to win the first stage! Bertogliati (Team Type 1) was 2nd with De Kort (1t4i) 3rd.
| 1 | Sandy Casar | FDJ - BigMat | 3h06'16 | | 2 | Rubens Bertogliati | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | | 3 | Koen De Kort | Project 1t4i | s.t. | | 4 | David Moncoutié | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 5 | Yann Huguet | Project 1t4i | s.t. | | 6 | Anthony Geslin | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 7 | Jure Kocjan | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | s.t. | | 8 | Arnaud Demare | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 9 | Paul Poux | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 10 | Thomas Bonnin | Project 1t4i | s.t. |
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Posted on 23-03-2012 11:56
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Stage 2 - Saint Cannat to Rousset
Another flat stage here and today's stage should be won by a sprinter.
Favourites: Demare (FDJ), Veelers (1t4i), Turgot (Europcar)
A 3-man break went up the road today containing Ovechkin (RusVelo), they had a maximum of 3 minutes and were caught with 30km to go. We setup our leadout perfectly and under 1km to go banner Demare launched his sprint from behind Geslin.
Demare wins! Our second win in a row! Baugnies (NetApp) was 2nd with our leadout man, Geslin, hanging on for 3rd place.
(I thought I'd taken a picture of the podiums but I could not find it )
| 1 | Arnaud Demare | FDJ - BigMat | 2h51'57 | | 2 | Jérôme Baugnies | Team NetApp | s.t. | | 3 | Anthony Geslin | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 4 | Steven Cozza | Team NetApp | s.t. | | 5 | Tom Veelers | Project 1t4i | s.t. | | 6 | Kenny Dehaes | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 7 | Jonathan Hivert | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 8 | André Schulze | Team NetApp | s.t. | | 9 | Alexei Markov | RusVelo | s.t. | | 10 | Yann Huguet | Project 1t4i | s.t. |
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Posted on 23-03-2012 13:07
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Stage 3 - Carnoux-en-Provence to La Farlede
Today should be another victory for a sprinter but it is still possible for a breakaway to succeed.
Favourites: Demare (FDJ), Veelers (1t4i), Baugnies (NetApp)
The day was relatively quiet and we had 7 men up the road and we controlled the gap all day. We began to shut the gap down and there was a minor crash at the back of the peloton with 16km to go but it didn't contain anyone major.
We underestimated the breakaway and with 5km to go Racoult (BigMat) still held a 1 minute advantage. Fortunately, we caught him going under the 1km to go banner.
We thought we had this stage won until Veelers finished strongly and took the win here. Demare came 2nd with Poulhies (Saur) in 3rd
| 1 | Tom Veelers | Project 1t4i | 3h07'50 | | 2 | Arnaud Demare | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 3 | Stéphane Poulhiès | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 4 | Sébastien Turgot | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 5 | Alexei Markov | RusVelo | s.t. | | 6 | Adrien Petit | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 7 | Ronan Racault | BigMat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 8 | Jonathan Hivert | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 9 | Kenny Dehaes | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 10 | André Schulze | Team NetApp | s.t. |
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Posted on 23-03-2012 17:55
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La Londe Les Maures to Biot
We come to the penultimate stage of the race and it should give a chance to the GC contenders to put time into each other. The hill at the end will mean that a puncher will win today.
Favourites: Voeckler (Europcar), Casar (FDJ), Moncoutie (Cofidis)
Strangely, no break was allowed to go away today with FDJ and Project 1t4i setting a punishing pace. It wasn't fast enough for Voeckler though as he attacked with 18km to go and took Moncoutie with him. We sent everyone to the front to bring this attack back.
We managed to catch them and in the final few kilometres Casar and Voeckler increased the pace and they sprinted for the line. It was so close but the win was given to Casar, his 2nd win of the race, with Voeckler an impossibly close 2nd and Mombaerts came home behind in 3rd.
| 1 | Sandy Casar | FDJ - BigMat | 3h42'35 | | 2 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 3 | Johan Mombaerts | BigMat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 4 | Jérôme Baugnies | Team NetApp | s.t. | | 5 | Jürgen Van de Walle | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 6 | Jonathan Hivert | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 7 | Laurent Pichon | Bretagne - Schuller | + 22 | | 8 | Arnaud Demare | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 9 | Jean-Marc Marino | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 10 | Paul Poux | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. |
| 1 | Sandy Casar | FDJ - BigMat | 12h47'58 | | 2 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | + 28 | | 3 | Jérôme Baugnies | Team NetApp | s.t. | | 4 | Arnaud Demare | FDJ - BigMat | + 30 | | 5 | Johan Mombaerts | BigMat - Auber 93 | + 32 | | 6 | Jonathan Hivert | Saur - Sojasun | + 40 | | 7 | Jürgen Van de Walle | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 8 | Tom Veelers | Project 1t4i | + 42 | | 9 | Rubens Bertogliati | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | + 50 | | 10 | Anthony Geslin | FDJ - BigMat | + 54 |
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