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| Schleck96 |
Posted on 13-08-2012 00:21
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Costa!!!! Fuc* YEAH! Good result for Gerald  |
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| PCM rulezz |
Posted on 13-08-2012 11:49
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@ TomC: He really was too strong. 3rd is a very good result.
@ Ian Butler: We can't win this race with boni seconds. As krzychu92 said there aren't enough in the last stage. But we can still win another sprint 
@ krzychu92: I think you are correct about the boni's Our second place in GC is surely something to be proud off.
@ Schleck96: I can image that you are happy with Costa as you live in Portugal
I will play the last stage later today so you can expect the report and the preview of The tour of San Luis in the evening.
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
It's difficult not to be happy when you're surrounded by Belgians. - Mark Cavendish
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 13-08-2012 13:47
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If you finish the race with the three riders in the top ten, then it will have been a great race for the team
I cannot see Ciolek gaining the 24s back on the last stage, but you never know though |
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| PCM rulezz |
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Stage 6: Adelaide City Council Street Circuit (93.3 km)
Profile and situation before the start
The last stage of this year Santos Tour Down Under. The fight for the leader jersey is over so our main goal is to win this stage and to take home at least one jersey.
The race
There were a lot of attacks in the first kilometres of the race, too much to mention actually. But after the first climb (where Brammeier took 6 points and secured his Skoda KOM jersey) there was a stable situation. S. Langenveld was in the front followed by H. Clarke who was chased by a group of 5 (P. Urtasun, S. Pauwels, H. Haussler, M. Brammeier and R. Ferrari).
M. Brammeier wasn’t able to take any points at the sprints.
On the last mountain sprint he rode away with Haussler and reached H. Clarke. On the climb, Brammeier took another 6 points. But the trio wasn’t able to reach Langenveld. The 3 other were quickly back in the peloton.
With 10 km to go everything was back together.
That was again to moment to start our lead-out train. The tempo was extremely high.
And that causes a big crash. Luckily, there were no injuries and to 10 ten of GC escaped unhurt.
But this time we were not so lucky. Cavendish won the sprint with ease, Ciolek only becomes 3rd after Y. Hutarovich.
But at least we won 2 jerseys: the Jayco points jersey and the Skoda KOM jersey. That’s is a well deserved present for M. Brammeier who rode almost every stage in the BOTD. Good job.
Concusion
Today’s result is still great. But when you have won 2 stages you always want to win a 3rd. But that’s is cycling, you can’t order a victory.
We are extremely happy for M. Brammeier, what a race for him. He was involved in an accident in November 2007, when he was struck by a cement mixing lorry whilst training. He broke both his legs. And now he has won 2 jerseys in a world tour race, congratulations man.
With 2 stage wins, 2 jerseys and 3 riders in the top 10 of GC it’s a become a much better week than we could expect.
Top 10
Full results
Spoiler | 1 | Mark Cavendish | Sky Procycling | 2h02'27 | | 2 | Yauheni Hutarovich | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 3 | Gerald Ciolek | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Borut Božic | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 5 | Juan José Haedo | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | 6 | Elia Viviani | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 7 | Mark Renshaw | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 | Allan Davis | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 9 | Daniele Bennati | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 10 | Anthony Ravard | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 11 | Theo Bos | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 12 | Jürgen Roelandts | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 13 | Tiziano Dall'Antonia | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 14 | Rui Costa | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 15 | Jimmy Casper | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 16 | Graeme Brown | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 17 | Marcel Sieberg | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 18 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 19 | Fabio Sabatini | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 20 | Anthony Roux | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 21 | Tony Gallopin | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 22 | Simone Ponzi | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 23 | Benoît Vaugrenard | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 24 | Francesco Gavazzi | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 25 | Nicki Sørensen | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | 26 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 27 | Adam Hansen | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 28 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 29 | Vladimir Gusev | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 30 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 31 | Aidis Kruopis | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 32 | Dmitriy Gruzdev | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 33 | Andrew Fenn | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 34 | Andriy Grivko | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 35 | Daniel Oss | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 36 | Jan Bakelants | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 37 | Ben Swift | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 38 | Iván Gutiérrez | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 39 | Jos Van Emden | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 40 | Steve Chainel | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 41 | Tom Leezer | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 42 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 43 | Alexander Kristoff | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 44 | William Bonnet | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 45 | Christopher Sutton | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 46 | Hayden Roulston | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 47 | Heinrich Haussler | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 48 | Jakob Rathe | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 49 | Yohan Offredo | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 50 | Matteo Trentin | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 51 | Xavier Florencio | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 52 | Dimitriy Muravyev | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 53 | Sebastian Langeveld | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 54 | Jeremy Hunt | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 55 | Sander Cordeel | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 56 | Roberto Ferrari | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 57 | Chris Horner | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 58 | Enrique Sanz | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 59 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 60 | Jonathan Cantwell | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | 61 | Kristof Vandewalle | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 62 | Alexander Porsev | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 63 | John Degenkolb | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 64 | Daniele Ratto | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 65 | Julien Vermote | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 66 | Matthew Wilson | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 67 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 68 | Kenny Dehaes | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 69 | Matthew Brammeier | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 70 | Leigh Howard | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 71 | Robert Förster | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 72 | Kai Reus | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 73 | Martin Mortensen | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 74 | Nathan Haas | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 75 | Marco Marcato | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 76 | Christophe Riblon | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 77 | Sep Vanmarcke | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 78 | Sébastien Minard | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 79 | Tomás Gil | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 80 | David Tanner | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | 81 | Egoi Martínez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 82 | Luke Roberts | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | 83 | Tom Veelers | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 84 | Yukiya Arashiro | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 85 | Koen De Kort | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 86 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 87 | Alessandro De Marchi | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 88 | Kenny Van Hummel | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 89 | Lars Ytting Bak | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 90 | Raymond Kreder | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 91 | Manuel Quinziato | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 92 | José Serpa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 93 | Pim Ligthart | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 94 | Serge Pauwels | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 95 | Giairo Ermeti | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 96 | Yohann Gène | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 97 | Imanol Erviti | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 98 | Hilton Clarke | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 99 | Carlos Barredo | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 100 | Mathieu Perget | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 101 | Roy Curvers | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 102 | Danilo Wyss | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 103 | Michael Schär | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 104 | George Hincapie | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 105 | Klaas Lodewyck | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 106 | Taylor Phinney | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 107 | Ronan Van Zandbeek | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 108 | Jérôme Cousin | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 109 | Romain Sicard | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 5'02 | | 110 | Víctor Cabedo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 111 | Rubén Pérez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 112 | Dimitri Krivtsov | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 113 | Adriano Malori | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 114 | Matthew Lloyd | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 115 | Ion Izagirre | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 116 | Danilo Hondo | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 117 | Grega Bole | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 118 | Ricardo García | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 119 | Vladimir Isaychev | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 120 | Robbie McEwen | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 121 | Pablo Urtasun | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 122 | Barry Markus | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 123 | David Veilleux | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 124 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 125 | Manuele Boaro | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | 126 | Jesse Sergent | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 127 | Vincent Jérôme | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 128 | Jens Voigt | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 129 | Arnaud Demare | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 130 | Sébastien Chavanel | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 131 | Michael Matthews | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 132 | Kris Boeckmans | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 133 | Ben Day | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 134 | Boris Shpilevski | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 135 | Luca Paolini | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 136 | Murilo Fischer | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 137 | Karl Menzies | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 138 | Federico Canuti | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 139 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 140 | Rory Sutherland | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 141 | Davide Viganò | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 142 | Angelo Tulik | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 143 | Fabian Wegmann | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 144 | Mauro Santambrogio | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 145 | Jonathan Monsalve | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 146 | Francisco Javier Moreno | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 147 | Manuele Mori | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 148 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 149 | Jason McCartney | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 150 | Tom Stamsnijder | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. |
GC
| 1 | Rui Costa | Movistar Team | 19h53'47 | | 2 | Gerald Ciolek | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 20 | | 3 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | + 54 | | 4 | Mark Cavendish | Sky Procycling | + 1'02 | | 5 | Marco Marcato | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 1'11 | | 6 | Elia Viviani | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 1'35 | | 7 | Julien Vermote | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 | Koen De Kort | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 9 | Tiziano Dall'Antonia | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 1'36 | | 10 | Andrew Fenn | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | Matteo Trentin | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 12 | Daniel Oss | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 13 | Aidis Kruopis | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 14 | Kristof Vandewalle | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 15 | George Hincapie | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 16 | Imanol Erviti | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 17 | Simone Ponzi | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 18 | Christopher Sutton | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 19 | Jeremy Hunt | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 20 | Yukiya Arashiro | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 21 | Taylor Phinney | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 22 | Iván Gutiérrez | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 23 | Sébastien Minard | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 24 | Serge Pauwels | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 25 | Roy Curvers | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 26 | Enrique Sanz | Movistar Team | + 2'53 | | 27 | Matthew Brammeier | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 4'06 | | 28 | Pim Ligthart | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 4'25 | | 29 | Lars Ytting Bak | Lotto Belisol Team | + 4'38 | | 30 | Carlos Barredo | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 31 | Egoi Martínez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 32 | Anthony Ravard | AG2R La Mondiale | + 4'58 | | 33 | John Degenkolb | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 34 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Procycling | + 4'59 | | 35 | Sebastian Langeveld | Orica - GreenEdge | + 5'00 | | 36 | Óscar Freire | Katusha Team | + 5'03 | | 37 | Anthony Roux | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 38 | Daniele Bennati | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 39 | Nathan Haas | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 40 | Francesco Gavazzi | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 41 | Borut Božic | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 42 | Yohan Offredo | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 43 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 44 | Xavier Florencio | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 45 | Vladimir Gusev | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 46 | Jan Bakelants | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 47 | Matthew Wilson | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 48 | Chris Horner | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 49 | Nicki Sørensen | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | 50 | Benoît Vaugrenard | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 51 | Christophe Riblon | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 52 | Andriy Grivko | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 53 | José Serpa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 54 | Manuel Quinziato | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 55 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 56 | Kai Reus | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 57 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | + 6'13 | | 58 | Federico Canuti | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 6'38 | | 59 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 60 | Yohann Gène | Team Europcar | + 7'06 | | 61 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R La Mondiale | + 7'11 | | 62 | Steve Chainel | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 63 | Mark Renshaw | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 7'48 | | 64 | Heinrich Haussler | Garmin - Sharp | + 7'49 | | 65 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Procycling | + 7'52 | | 66 | Ben Swift | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 67 | Allan Davis | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 68 | Jakob Rathe | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 69 | Adam Hansen | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 70 | Tony Gallopin | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 71 | William Bonnet | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 72 | Roberto Ferrari | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 73 | David Tanner | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | 74 | Manuele Mori | Lampre - ISD | + 9'22 | | 75 | Kris Boeckmans | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 9'24 | | 76 | Boris Shpilevski | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 77 | Yauheni Hutarovich | FDJ - BigMat | + 9'35 | | 78 | Luke Roberts | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | + 9'44 | | 79 | Jürgen Roelandts | Lotto Belisol Team | + 9'49 | | 80 | Tom Leezer | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 81 | Leigh Howard | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 82 | Martin Mortensen | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 83 | Luca Paolini | Katusha Team | + 10'02 | | 84 | Michael Matthews | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 10'05 | | 85 | Pablo Urtasun | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 86 | Ion Izagirre | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 87 | Ricardo García | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 88 | Jens Voigt | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 89 | Fabian Wegmann | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 90 | Rory Sutherland | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 91 | Klaas Lodewyck | BMC Racing Team | + 10'36 | | 92 | Tom Veelers | Team Argos - Shimano | + 10'38 | | 93 | Dimitriy Muravyev | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 94 | Kenny Van Hummel | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 95 | Alexander Porsev | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 96 | Juan José Haedo | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | + 10'39 | | 97 | Theo Bos | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 98 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 99 | Daniele Ratto | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 11'06 | | 100 | Ronan Van Zandbeek | Team Argos - Shimano | + 11'17 | | 101 | Davide Viganò | Lampre - ISD | + 12'09 | | 102 | Jérôme Cousin | Team Europcar | + 12'37 | | 103 | Grega Bole | Lampre - ISD | + 12'49 | | 104 | Vladimir Isaychev | Katusha Team | + 12'51 | | 105 | David Veilleux | Team Europcar | + 12'52 | | 106 | Ben Day | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 107 | Rubén Pérez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 12'54 | | 108 | Matthew Lloyd | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 109 | Murilo Fischer | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 110 | Mauro Santambrogio | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 111 | Jimmy Casper | AG2R La Mondiale | + 13'16 | | 112 | Jos Van Emden | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 113 | Alexander Kristoff | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 114 | Marcel Sieberg | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | 115 | Dmitriy Gruzdev | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 116 | Hayden Roulston | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 117 | Sep Vanmarcke | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 118 | Mathieu Perget | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 119 | Hilton Clarke | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 14'03 | | 120 | Sander Cordeel | Lotto Belisol Team | + 14'06 | | 121 | Fabio Sabatini | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 122 | Raymond Kreder | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 123 | Robert Förster | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 124 | Alessandro De Marchi | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 125 | Michael Schär | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 126 | Danilo Hondo | Lampre - ISD | + 14'51 | | 127 | Vincent Jérôme | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 128 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Team Argos - Shimano | + 15'29 | | 129 | Jesse Sergent | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | 130 | Romain Sicard | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 15'40 | | 131 | Arnaud Demare | FDJ - BigMat | s.t. | | 132 | Robbie McEwen | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 133 | Tomás Gil | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 16'35 | | 134 | Jonathan Cantwell | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | + 17'06 | | 135 | Giairo Ermeti | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 17'16 | | 136 | Danilo Wyss | BMC Racing Team | + 17'17 | | 137 | Kenny Dehaes | Lotto Belisol Team | + 17'19 | | 138 | Sébastien Chavanel | Team Europcar | + 18'18 | | 139 | Víctor Cabedo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 140 | Karl Menzies | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 141 | Angelo Tulik | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 142 | Manuele Boaro | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | 143 | Jason McCartney | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 144 | Adriano Malori | Lampre - ISD | + 19'08 | | 145 | Jonathan Monsalve | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 146 | Francisco Javier Moreno | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 147 | Graeme Brown | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 21'37 | | 148 | Tom Stamsnijder | Team Argos - Shimano | + 21'47 | | 149 | Barry Markus | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 22'11 | | 150 | Dimitri Krivtsov | Lampre - ISD | + 28'20 |
Points classification
| 1 | Matthew Brammeier | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 38 | | 2 | Gerald Ciolek | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 36 | | 3 | Mark Cavendish | Sky Procycling | 32 | | 4 | Rui Costa | Movistar Team | 16 | | 5 | Yauheni Hutarovich | FDJ - BigMat | 14 | | 6 | John Degenkolb | Team Argos - Shimano | 10 | | 7 | Anthony Ravard | AG2R La Mondiale | 10 | | 8 | Yohann Gène | Team Europcar | 10 | | 9 | Luke Roberts | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | 10 | | 10 | Davide Viganò | Lampre - ISD | 8 |
Spoiler | 11 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | 6 | | 12 | Luca Paolini | Katusha Team | 6 | | 13 | Sebastian Langeveld | Orica - GreenEdge | 6 | | 14 | Heinrich Haussler | Garmin - Sharp | 6 | | 15 | Klaas Lodewyck | BMC Racing Team | 6 | | 16 | Hilton Clarke | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 6 | | 17 | Manuele Mori | Lampre - ISD | 4 | | 18 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Procycling | 4 | | 19 | Grega Bole | Lampre - ISD | 4 | | 20 | Mark Renshaw | Rabobank Cycling Team | 4 | | 21 | Ben Day | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 4 | | 22 | Elia Viviani | Liquigas - Cannondale | 2 | | 23 | Koen De Kort | Team Argos - Shimano | 2 | | 24 | Julien Vermote | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 2 | | 25 | Tom Veelers | Team Argos - Shimano | 2 |
Mountain classification
| 1 | Matthew Brammeier | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 48 | | 2 | Sebastian Langeveld | Orica - GreenEdge | 32 | | 3 | Serge Pauwels | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 22 | | 4 | Kai Reus | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 20 | | 5 | Luke Roberts | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | 20 | | 6 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R La Mondiale | 18 | | 7 | Leigh Howard | Orica - GreenEdge | 18 | | 8 | Koen De Kort | Team Argos - Shimano | 16 | | 9 | Manuele Mori | Lampre - ISD | 16 | | 10 | Carlos Barredo | Rabobank Cycling Team | 16 |
Spoiler | 11 | Heinrich Haussler | Garmin - Sharp | 16 | | 12 | Pablo Urtasun | Euskaltel - Euskadi | 14 | | 13 | Lars Ytting Bak | Lotto Belisol Team | 12 | | 14 | Davide Viganò | Lampre - ISD | 12 | | 15 | Roberto Ferrari | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | 12 | | 16 | Hilton Clarke | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 12 | | 17 | Christophe Riblon | AG2R La Mondiale | 8 | | 18 | Grega Bole | Lampre - ISD | 8 | | 19 | David Veilleux | Team Europcar | 8 | | 20 | Tom Veelers | Team Argos - Shimano | 8 | | 21 | Klaas Lodewyck | BMC Racing Team | 8 | | 22 | Luca Paolini | Katusha Team | 6 | | 23 | Jesse Sergent | RadioShack - Nissan | 6 | | 24 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | 4 | | 25 | Imanol Erviti | Movistar Team | 4 | | 26 | Mauro Santambrogio | BMC Racing Team | 4 |
Young rider classification
Spoiler | 1 | Elia Viviani | Liquigas - Cannondale | 19h55'22 (1) | | 2 | Anthony Roux | FDJ - BigMat | + 3'28 (11) | | 3 | Tony Gallopin | RadioShack - Nissan | + 6'17 (16) | | 4 | Simone Ponzi | Astana Pro Team | + 1 (6) | | 5 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Astana Pro Team | + 9'04 (23) | | 6 | Andrew Fenn | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 1 (3) | | 7 | Daniel Oss | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 1 (5) | | 8 | Ben Swift | Sky Procycling | + 6'17 (14) | | 9 | Alexander Kristoff | Katusha Team | + 11'41 (28) | | 10 | Jakob Rathe | Garmin - Sharp | + 6'17 (15) | | 11 | Matteo Trentin | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 1 (4) | | 12 | Sander Cordeel | Lotto Belisol Team | + 12'31 (30) | | 13 | Enrique Sanz | Movistar Team | + 1'18 (8) | | 14 | John Degenkolb | Team Argos - Shimano | + 3'23 (10) | | 15 | Daniele Ratto | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 9'31 (24) | | 16 | Julien Vermote | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 0 (2) | | 17 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Procycling | + 6'17 (13) | | 18 | Leigh Howard | Orica - GreenEdge | + 8'14 (18) | | 19 | Nathan Haas | Garmin - Sharp | + 3'28 (12) | | 20 | Sep Vanmarcke | Garmin - Sharp | + 11'41 (29) | | 21 | Raymond Kreder | Garmin - Sharp | + 12'31 (31) | | 22 | Pim Ligthart | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 2'50 (9) | | 23 | Klaas Lodewyck | BMC Racing Team | + 9'01 (22) | | 24 | Taylor Phinney | BMC Racing Team | + 1 (7) | | 25 | Ronan Van Zandbeek | Team Argos - Shimano | + 9'42 (25) | | 26 | Jérôme Cousin | Team Europcar | + 11'02 (26) | | 27 | Romain Sicard | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 14'05 (34) | | 28 | Víctor Cabedo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 16'43 (36) | | 29 | Adriano Malori | Lampre - ISD | + 17'33 (39) | | 30 | Ion Izagirre | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 8'30 (20) | | 31 | Ricardo García | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 8'30 (21) | | 32 | Barry Markus | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 20'36 (42) | | 33 | David Veilleux | Team Europcar | + 11'17 (27) | | 34 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Team Argos - Shimano | + 13'54 (32) | | 35 | Manuele Boaro | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | + 16'43 (38) | | 36 | Jesse Sergent | RadioShack - Nissan | + 13'54 (33) | | 37 | Arnaud Demare | FDJ - BigMat | + 14'05 (35) | | 38 | Michael Matthews | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 8'30 (19) | | 39 | Kris Boeckmans | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 7'49 (17) | | 40 | Angelo Tulik | Team Europcar | + 16'43 (37) | | 41 | Jonathan Monsalve | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 17'33 (40) | | 42 | Francisco Javier Moreno | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 17'33 (41) |
Team classification
Spoiler | 1 | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 7'32 (12) | | 2 | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 1'41 (7) | | 3 | FDJ - BigMat | + 5'08 (9) | | 4 | Astana Pro Team | + 5'08 (10) | | 5 | AG2R La Mondiale | + 1'41 (4) | | 6 | Lotto Belisol Team | + 10'59 (13) | | 7 | Sky Procycling | + 1'05 (2) | | 8 | RadioShack - Nissan | + 12'02 (14) | | 9 | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 1'05 (3) | | 10 | Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | + 16'10 (19) | | 11 | Katusha Team | + 12'02 (15) | | 12 | Orica - GreenEdge | + 5'08 (11) | | 13 | Movistar Team | 59h44'28 (1) | | 14 | Garmin - Sharp | + 14'51 (18) | | 15 | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 23'04 (21) | | 16 | Team Argos - Shimano | + 1'41 (6) | | 17 | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 4'05 (8) | | 18 | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 14'51 (17) | | 19 | Team Europcar | + 12'40 (16) | | 20 | BMC Racing Team | + 1'41 (5) | | 21 | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 21'41 (20) | | 22 | Lampre - ISD | + 25'08 (22) |
So, this were my first reports ever. Are there some issues that I have to better? Is my reporting style good? .... I'm open for every point of improvement.
I know I said that the preview for San luis was for yesterday, but I promisse that it will be up today. Probably after the Clasica San Sebastian (irl ).
Edited by PCM rulezz on 14-08-2012 09:43
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I have to say that i have totally enjoyed your reporting style for the Tour Down Under
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Young rider classification and team class are little messy... Movistar who won team class is on the 13th place and second Sky is on 7th...it's probably class from last stage.
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It's very good, I like it.
Maybe put names of (your) riders in bold or in a color?
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@ sutty68: Glad you enjoyed my reporting style. I'm not good in languages at all so it's sometimes a problem to express myself in english. Thanks for the thumb
@ krzychu92: you are correct about the classification. But I don't know how to correct them  
@ Ian Butler: I copy my reports form MS Word so I don't read them here, that's why all is in black. It takes too much time (and I don't have much time) to re read everything and make some names blue, I hope you don't mind. Yeah I realy like the KOM jersey (in every race) so that's why Brammeier was so much in the breaks. The sprint jersey is nice extra, and it's even better that he won it without winning a stage. Ooh yeah, you know what to do in your story now to make me happy Just kidding, your story is awesome.
Preview: Tour de San Luis
The Tour de San Luis is a 7 day stage race in Argentina more actually in the province San Luis (where else ). This is only the 6th edition of this race and the V. Nibali is the only well-know name between the previous winners, the others are Jorge Giacinti (ARG), Martín Garrido (ARG), Alfredo Lucero (ARG) and Marco Arriagada (CHI). But this year, there is chance for another famous name as winner. We will sent a strong squad to argentina to fight for the GC. Here is our selection:
For those who noticed it: it’s the same team as irl)
Sportdirectors:
1st: D. Bramati
2nd: Thomas (me)
Leiphemer and Chavanel will fight for the GC, Boonen and Chicchi will contest the sprints and Rabon and Grabsch will do most of the hard work to make this possible.
But there are other riders who will try to win this race. The biggest name is without doubt J. Brajkovic. He is a good climber and TT’er, so he is a man to look after. In the sprints we will look after O. Gatto and M. Cardoso, they are both fast in the last 100m of a race. But there are some other sprinters who will try to beat Boonen, like M. Kreder, M. Abel Richeze, ...
Movistar and Garmin – Sharp has both a great team at the start. They could also go for the GC with G. Visconti and D. Zabriskie
Starlist
Spoiler Quick·Step
1. L.Leipheimer
2. T.Boonen
3. S.Chavanel
4. F.Chicchi
5. B.Grabsch
6. F.Rabon
Movistar
11. G.Visconti
12. J.Castroviejo
13. J.Herrada
14. Á.Madrazo
15. J.Moreno
16. N.Quintana
Astana
21. J.Brajkovic
22. A.Bazayev
23. A.Dyachenko
24. V.Iglinskiy
25. T.Kangert
26. E.Silin
Garmin
31. D.Zabriskie
32. J.Bauer
33. T.Dekker
34. A.Klier
35. M.Kreder
36. R.Navardauskas
Andalucía
41. G.César Veloso
42. A.Cabello
43. J.Chacón
44. A.Palomares
45. J.Rosendo
46. J.V.Toribio
UnitedHealthcare
51. M.De Maar
52. P.Deignan
53. D.Frattini
54. A.Hegyvari
55. J.Louder
56. B.Van Poppel
Caja Rural
61. M.Cardoso
62. J.Aramendia
63. F.Ferrari
64. A.Galdos
65. J.Moyano
66. A.Piedra
Saur - Sojasun
71. D.Le Lay
72. J.Engoulvent
73. J.Hivert
74. C.Lemoine
75. S.Poulhiès
76. J.Simon
Farnese Vini
81. O.Gatto
82. L.Ascani
83. P.De Negri
84. F.Failli
85. E.Favilli
86. L.Giordani
Androni
91. M.Rubiano
92. F.Felline
93. C.J.Ochoa
94. J.Rodríguez
95. A.Santoro
96. M.Ubeto
Argos
101. A.Geniez
102. B.De Backer
103. J.Fröhlinger
104. S.Geschke
105. Y.Huguet
106. T.Hupond
Endura Racing
111. P.Voss
112. I.Bibby
113. A.Blain
114. R.Downing
115. R.Mandri
116. I.Wilkinson
Differdange
121. C.Poos
122. C.Bihel
123. R.Broers
124. J.Coenen
125. G.Kaupas
126. J.Ljungblad
Colombia
131. E.Chavez
132. J.Atapuma
133. J.Forero
134. J.Gonzalez
135. L.Laverde
136. M.Rodriguez
SpiderTech
141. D.Boily
142. C.Fairly
143. R.Künzli
144. K.Lacombe
145. J.P.McCarty
146. B.Selander
Nippo
151. T.Hayakawa
152. J.Arredondo
153. H.Frusto
154. R.Komori
155. A.M.Richeze
156. M.A.Richeze
Itera - Katusha
161. S.Chernetskiy
162. K.Baranov
163. P.Kochetkov
164. M.Pokidov
165. S.Pomoshnikov
166. A.Vorobyev
WIT
171. D.Tamayo
172. F.Fognini
173. M.Merlo
174. E.Montanari
175. G.Pizzaballa
176. L.Zanasca
Champion
181. M.Ojavee
182. G.Gardeyn
183. J.Kirsipuu
184. A.Manan
185. S.Wong
186. C.Wurf
RusVelo
191. M.Zubov
192. A.Arguelyes
193. A.Ershov
194. A.Mironov
195. I.Savitsky
196. N.Trussov
Hello everybody
I don’t know how late it is in your country but here in Argentina is time to go to the start of the race. I’m so excited to start this race, it’s my first for the team. Our web designer has already posted our selection on the site so you can see that we have a very strong team. But I have to tell you that Leipheimer isn’t in his best shape. We hope he can survive the second stage and do a good TT. Chava, on the other site, has showed some good form on the training rides, nobody was able to follow him when the terrain goes up. Maybe he is our best hope for the GC. But we chose Leipheimer as our leader because he had more experience.
Today we will work for Tommeke (Boonen) or Chicchi. Chicchi has won this stage back in 2010, it was the same arrival as today. We will decide in the race who will do the sprint.
I have an nice extra for you guys: I will send some small interview to our web designer so he can post them for you. Hope you like them.
But for now I have to go, Bramati is waiting for me.
I will do another blog after the 3rd stage.
See you then.
Thomas
Stage 1: San luis – Justo Daract (166.0 km)
Profile
This is an “easy” stage to start this race. We can only go for one thing: the stage victory. As said before we will decide in the race who will do the sprint. We are not interested to be part of the BOTD because we will have to use all our riders in the sprint (preparation)
The race
All our riders are together at the start of the race. You can see our 3 stars in the center of the picture. Chava in the French champion, beside him is Boonen and in front of them is Leipheimer.
The BOTD is formed at the feet of the climb. It are 9 riders and only one of them is a world tour rider: A. Bazajev. Another rider who is part of this break is the Estonian champion M. Ojavee. He will win the first intermediate sprint later on the stage. The mountain sprint goes to C. Fairly, he will were the mountain jersey tomorrow.
In the peloton, we and Movistar are doing the pace. The riders for Movistar are N. Quintana, J. Moreno and A. Madrazo, for our team it’s F. Rabon.
Meanwhile, we had decided that Boonen would be our sprinter today (because of his better form of the day).
But when we came closer to the finish B. Grabsch started to help. This is a picture taken with 46 km to go, the gap is 3’48”.
For the record, Bazayev wins the 2nd sprint.
With 15 km to go, we had to sacrifice Leipheimer because the break was still in front.
With 4 km, the alliance between Movistar and OPQS was over. We are working for Boonen and Movistar for Visconti. But there are still 2 riders in front with a 20” lead.
But it wasn’t enough. In the last kilometres they were reeled back in and the sprint started (don’t know if this sentence is correct). Chicchi was leading out Boonen but there came a lot sprinter from behind. Boonen get boxed in but he found a small hole, dived in it and WON.
Boonen was very happy with his first win of the season as you can see on the picture.
Conclusion
Good result today. Boonen showed the world that he is still a sprinter. When he was boxed in, he took a massive risk to dive in that hole but he did it very well. Boonen is also the first who will wear the leader jersey but if he can hold it is another question. We hope he can give it to Chava or Leipheimer.
Top 10
Full results
Spoiler | 1 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 3h44'49 | | 2 | Mauro Abel Richeze | Team Nippo | s.t. | | 3 | René Mandri | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 4 | Oscar Gatto | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 5 | Giovanni Visconti | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 6 | Jonas Ljungblad | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 7 | Keven Lacombe | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 8 | Nikolai Trussov | RusVelo | s.t. | | 9 | Stéphane Poulhiès | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 10 | Michel Kreder | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 11 | Manuel Cardoso | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 12 | Anuar Manan | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 13 | Johan Coenen | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 14 | César Bihel | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 15 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 16 | David Boily | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 17 | Jack Bauer | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 18 | Jonathan Patrick McCarty | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 19 | Francesco Chicchi | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 20 | Josué Moyano | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 21 | Ian Wilkinson | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 22 | Jimmy Engoulvent | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 23 | Ramunas Navardauskas | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 24 | Fabio Felline | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 25 | Jonathan Hivert | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 26 | Gorik Gardeyn | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 27 | José Herrada | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 28 | Davide Frattini | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 29 | Aitor Galdos | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 30 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 31 | Marc De Maar | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 32 | Jackson Rodríguez | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 33 | Antonio Piedra | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 34 | Russell Downing | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 35 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Team Nippo | s.t. | | 36 | Francesco Failli | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 37 | Caleb Fairly | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 38 | Paul Voss | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 39 | Andreas Klier | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 40 | Christian Poos | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 41 | Luca Ascani | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 42 | Javier Chacón | Andalucía | s.t. | | 43 | Cyril Lemoine | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 44 | Gustavo César Veloso | Andalucía | s.t. | | 45 | Pierpaolo De Negri | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 46 | Miguel Ubeto | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 47 | Esteban Chavez | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | 48 | Thomas Dekker | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 49 | Remco Broers | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 50 | Henry Frusto | Team Nippo | s.t. | | 51 | Artur Ershov | RusVelo | s.t. | | 52 | Ivan Savitsky | RusVelo | s.t. | | 53 | Philip Deignan | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 54 | Ariel Maximiliano Richeze | Team Nippo | s.t. | | 55 | Enrico Montanari | Team WIT | s.t. | | 56 | Elia Favilli | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 57 | Alexander Mironov | RusVelo | s.t. | | 58 | Michele Merlo | Team WIT | s.t. | | 59 | Julian Arredondo | Team Nippo | s.t. | | 60 | Sergey Chernetskiy | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 61 | Arkimedes Arguelyes | RusVelo | s.t. | | 62 | Jaan Kirsipuu | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 63 | Julien Simon | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 64 | Mart Ojavee | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 65 | Fabricio Ferrari | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 66 | Leonardo Giordani | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 67 | Alexandre Blain | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 68 | Javier Francisco Aramendia | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 69 | Matvey Zubov | RusVelo | s.t. | | 70 | Cameron Wurf | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 71 | Gabriele Pizzaballa | Team WIT | s.t. | | 72 | Miguel Rubiano | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 73 | Carlos José Ochoa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 74 | Michael Rodriguez | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | 75 | Diego Tamayo | Team WIT | s.t. | | 76 | Levi Leipheimer | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 77 | Simon Geschke | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 78 | Thierry Hupond | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 79 | Bert De Backer | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 80 | Ryohei Komori | Team Nippo | s.t. | | 81 | Assan Bazayev | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 82 | Fausto Fognini | Team WIT | s.t. | | 83 | Johannes Fröhlinger | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 84 | Ángel Madrazo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 85 | Frantisek Rabon | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 86 | José Vicente Toribio | Andalucía | s.t. | | 87 | Alexandre Geniez | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 88 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 89 | Anton Vorobyev | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 90 | Javier Moreno | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 91 | Pavel Kochetkov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 92 | Boy Van Poppel | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 93 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 94 | Javier Gonzalez | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | 95 | David Le Lay | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 96 | Valentin Iglinskiy | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 97 | Ian Bibby | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 98 | Juan Forero | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | 99 | Alexsandr Dyachenko | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 100 | Luis Felipe Laverde | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | 101 | Jeff Louder | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 102 | Kirill Baranov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 103 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 104 | Sergei Pomoshnikov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 105 | Janez Brajkovič | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 106 | Maxim Pokidov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 107 | Adrian Hegyvari | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 108 | Bert Grabsch | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 2'39 | | 109 | Antonio Cabello | Andalucía | + 3'38 | | 110 | Jesús Rosendo | Andalucía | s.t. | | 111 | Raymond Künzli | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 112 | Antonio Santoro | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 113 | Adrián Palomares | Andalucía | s.t. | | 114 | Luca Zanasca | Team WIT | + 9'19 | | 115 | Yann Huguet | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 116 | Egor Silin | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 117 | Steven Wong | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 118 | Gediminas Kaupas | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 119 | John Darwin Atapuma | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | 120 | Bjorn Selander | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. |
GC
| 1 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 3h44'29 | | 2 | Mauro Abel Richeze | Team Nippo | + 8 | | 3 | Mart Ojavee | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | + 10 | | 4 | René Mandri | Endura Racing | + 12 | | 5 | Assan Bazayev | Astana Pro Team | + 14 | | 6 | Caleb Fairly | SpiderTech powered by C10 | + 16 | | 7 | Christian Poos | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | + 18 | | 8 | Enrico Montanari | Team WIT | s.t. | | 9 | Oscar Gatto | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | + 20 | | 10 | Giovanni Visconti | Movistar Team | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | Jonas Ljungblad | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 12 | Keven Lacombe | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 13 | Nikolai Trussov | RusVelo | s.t. | | 14 | Stéphane Poulhiès | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 15 | Michel Kreder | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 16 | Manuel Cardoso | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 17 | Anuar Manan | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 18 | Johan Coenen | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 19 | César Bihel | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 20 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 21 | David Boily | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 22 | Jack Bauer | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 23 | Jonathan Patrick McCarty | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 24 | Francesco Chicchi | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 25 | Josué Moyano | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 26 | Ian Wilkinson | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 27 | Jimmy Engoulvent | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 28 | Ramunas Navardauskas | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 29 | Fabio Felline | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 30 | Jonathan Hivert | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 31 | Gorik Gardeyn | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 32 | José Herrada | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 33 | Davide Frattini | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 34 | Aitor Galdos | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 35 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 36 | Marc De Maar | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 37 | Jackson Rodríguez | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 38 | Antonio Piedra | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 39 | Russell Downing | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 40 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Team Nippo | s.t. | | 41 | Francesco Failli | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 42 | Paul Voss | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 43 | Andreas Klier | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 44 | Luca Ascani | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 45 | Javier Chacón | Andalucía | s.t. | | 46 | Cyril Lemoine | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 47 | Gustavo César Veloso | Andalucía | s.t. | | 48 | Pierpaolo De Negri | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 49 | Miguel Ubeto | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 50 | Esteban Chavez | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | 51 | Thomas Dekker | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 52 | Remco Broers | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 53 | Henry Frusto | Team Nippo | s.t. | | 54 | Artur Ershov | RusVelo | s.t. | | 55 | Ivan Savitsky | RusVelo | s.t. | | 56 | Philip Deignan | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 57 | Ariel Maximiliano Richeze | Team Nippo | s.t. | | 58 | Elia Favilli | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 59 | Alexander Mironov | RusVelo | s.t. | | 60 | Michele Merlo | Team WIT | s.t. | | 61 | Julian Arredondo | Team Nippo | s.t. | | 62 | Sergey Chernetskiy | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 63 | Arkimedes Arguelyes | RusVelo | s.t. | | 64 | Jaan Kirsipuu | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 65 | Julien Simon | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 66 | Fabricio Ferrari | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 67 | Leonardo Giordani | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | 68 | Alexandre Blain | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 69 | Javier Francisco Aramendia | Caja Rural | s.t. | | 70 | Matvey Zubov | RusVelo | s.t. | | 71 | Cameron Wurf | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 72 | Gabriele Pizzaballa | Team WIT | s.t. | | 73 | Miguel Rubiano | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 74 | Carlos José Ochoa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 75 | Michael Rodriguez | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | 76 | Diego Tamayo | Team WIT | s.t. | | 77 | Levi Leipheimer | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 78 | Simon Geschke | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 79 | Thierry Hupond | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 80 | Bert De Backer | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 81 | Ryohei Komori | Team Nippo | s.t. | | 82 | Fausto Fognini | Team WIT | s.t. | | 83 | Johannes Fröhlinger | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 84 | Ángel Madrazo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 85 | Frantisek Rabon | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 86 | José Vicente Toribio | Andalucía | s.t. | | 87 | Alexandre Geniez | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 88 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 89 | Anton Vorobyev | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 90 | Javier Moreno | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 91 | Pavel Kochetkov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 92 | Boy Van Poppel | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 93 | David Zabriskie | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 94 | Javier Gonzalez | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | 95 | David Le Lay | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 96 | Valentin Iglinskiy | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 97 | Ian Bibby | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 98 | Juan Forero | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | 99 | Alexsandr Dyachenko | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 100 | Luis Felipe Laverde | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | 101 | Jeff Louder | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 102 | Kirill Baranov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 103 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 104 | Sergei Pomoshnikov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 105 | Janez Brajkovič | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 106 | Maxim Pokidov | Itera - Katusha | s.t. | | 107 | Adrian Hegyvari | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 108 | Bert Grabsch | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 2'59 | | 109 | Antonio Cabello | Andalucía | + 3'58 | | 110 | Jesús Rosendo | Andalucía | s.t. | | 111 | Raymond Künzli | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 112 | Antonio Santoro | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 113 | Adrián Palomares | Andalucía | s.t. | | 114 | Luca Zanasca | Team WIT | + 9'39 | | 115 | Yann Huguet | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 116 | Egor Silin | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 117 | Steven Wong | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 118 | Gediminas Kaupas | Team Differdange - Magic-Sportfood.de | s.t. | | 119 | John Darwin Atapuma | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | 120 | Bjorn Selander | SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. |
Reaction Boonen
I wanted to test my legs today but I stayed calm until the last 300m. There was a bit of panic when I was boxed in but then I saw that there was some space between Visconti and that guy of Endura Racing (R. Mandri) and the rest is history.
Tomorrow is another stage, an uphill finish. My legs feel good, I will try to hold on as long as possible and we will see where it ends.
Reaction Leipheimer
First of all, when you are with 6 riders in a team it’s hard to control a race. So when the team asked me if I wanted to help Tom I didn’t think twice. He will do the same for me, I think. I glad for him that he won the stage, so we will have a nice evening today.
Tomorrow will be hard, the condition isn’t that good. I hope I can survive so that I can decide after the TT if I go for a good GC.
Sorry for this wall of text but the motivation is actually really high
Edited by PCM rulezz on 14-08-2012 19:02
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 14-08-2012 19:05
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Great win from Boonen today
He will be the first wearer of the Leaders jersey in Argentina, very nice  |
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| krzychu92 |
Posted on 14-08-2012 19:44
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Tornado Tom is back! I don't know why but I really like this guy I hope he can win another stage or two in this race. And I hope the next race leader will be from OPQS too. |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 15-08-2012 07:45
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Great win by Boonen, may he win many more this season  |
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| PCM rulezz |
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@ sutty68: It's always great if Tommeke wins The leader jersey is realy nice. The last time I played San Luis there weren't original jersey in the game, but with this database there are the real jersey so it's even better now (Thanks to the one who made them)
@ krzychu92: I hope he is, i really like him too. You should watch the video in my signature . I will do my best to defend the jersey
@ Ian Butler: Thanks, I hope he will win more this season.
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| janne_837 |
Posted on 15-08-2012 11:12
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good one, enjoyed reading until now. I'll follow for sure (: |
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| PCM rulezz |
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@ janne_837: I'm happy you will follow, thanks
Stage 2: La Punta – El Trapiche (168.5 km)
Profile and situation before the start
Let me start with a fact about the slot climb: 4.3 km at an average percentage of 7.4%. That’s a hard climb so early in the season if you ask me. Chava and Levi are our hopes for the stage victory.
We have the leaderjersey so we will have to control the peloton.
The race
This is a picture taken a few kilometres into the race and like you can even in Argentina there are some supporters for “La machine”.
In the race, 2 groups of 4 riders escaped out the peloton. Not much later they came together. The names are: J. Chacon (Andalucia), D. Boily (SpiderTech), P. De Negri (Farnese), M. Rubiano (Androni), A. Dyachenco (Astana), A. Varobyev (Itera – Katusha), A. Ershov (RusVelo) and P. Voss (Endura).
P. Voss won the 2 intermediate sprints and De Negri won the 2 mountain sprints.
It ware again Movistar and OPQS who were in charge of the peloton. At a certain point, 5 riders of movistar were at the front, they had a lot of faith in Visconte obviously.
In the background, you can see the final climb of today.
Leader our not, Tom Boonen showed that he is a great teamplayer and help his team in the pursuit.
The peloton calcutate correct and they reeled them in at the foot of the final climb. Chava, Leipheimer and Boonen were the first on the climb. Boonen couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the Flemish flag. It gave him a lot of motivation for the rest of the remaining 4km.
Visconti was the first who opened the fire. Chava decide to stay on his saddle and rode his own tempo while Leipheimer hadn’t the legs to follow the top riders and was e few metres back. But Chava made the wrong decision.
He came close but too late. Visconti celebrates his first victory of the season while Chava is 12” behind.
Conclusion
Chava in only 20” back in GC and there are still 2 mountain stages and a TT to come. I would say: we lost a battle but not the war. Leipheimer is also not for behind so with a good TT is everything possible. Boonen did a great job today, he came to the car for water bottles, did his part of the job in the pursuit and finished in the top 10. How strong is he?
Top 10
I could myself hit in the face: first mountain stage and I forget to export the results. Sorry guys
Reaction Chavanel
What a hard climb, so steep. I was happy that it is over. 2nd is good but not good enough. I had the legs to follow Visconti but I decide to rode my own tempo. Now I’m looking forward to the TT, I know I can go 20” faster than Visconti in a normal situation but he is really strong now, so we will see. Other competitors? No It will be a battle between Visconti and me I think. Maybe also Leipheimer if he can ride a good TT, but he isn’t in a good form so we will see.
Tomorrow is back for Tom, and yes, I will help him. He did the same for me today, he really is a great guy.
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
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| TomC |
Posted on 16-08-2012 13:01
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Visconti was too strong for Chava, but it's not the last stage |
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 16-08-2012 13:04
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Great start to the season in Australia. 2 stage wins and a 2nd place in the overal ranking are very good for Ciolek. Keep that level up in San Luis but that won't be hard with such a strong team!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 16-08-2012 13:18
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Three in the top ten on stage two, Great team play |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 16-08-2012 13:21
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Nice going! (You better change your thread title though) |
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| PCM rulezz |
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@ TomC: yes he was/is, there are indeed still some opportunities to take some time.
@ Spilak23: Nice to see you here Australia was really great indeed and here in San Luis the team is doing very well.
Sutty68: Thanks (TT will be better )
@ Ian Butler: Thanks for reminding
Stage 3: Buena Esperanza – Villa Mercedes (163.0km)
Profile and situation before the start
We don’t expect any changes in the GC. Boonen is our bet for the stage win today.
The race
Until the final, nothing special happened. There was 3 man breakaway (E. Montonari, C. Fairly and J. Engoulvent) who rode in front for the entire day. At 15km from the finish they get company from R. Navardauskas. But with 7km to go, nobody could avoid a mass sprint.
Chavanel brought Chicchi and Boonen to the front with 3 km to go. But Mandori (the Endura rider) smashed Boonen out of Chicchi’s wheel. Movistar with Visconti was a bit behind the rest.
But nothing could stop the Tornado today. The last metres were very heavy but Boonen could hold it and celebrates his 2nd victory this week.
Conclusion
It was a boring day, but in the end it turned out as we had planned. Luckely, Visconti didn’t take any boni second in the sprint.
Top 10
Stage 4: San Luis ITT (19.5km)
Profile and situation before the start
The only thing that we can do today is to take as much as possible time away from Visconti. We also can try to win this TT. With men like Leipheimer, Chavanel and Grabsch we have rider who can do well on this course.
The race
B. Grabsch was the first one for our team out on course. As a the German TT NC and ex world champion he can do very well.
At the finish he was 41” faster than the previous besttime. He sets a team of 25’33”.
The time stands a long time on the tables.
But Zabriskie was the first who broke it. He was 21” faster then Grabsch
Also J. Brajkovic came really close but he wasn’t faster than Zabriskie.
But J. Castroviejo was the strongest today, he sets the fastest time at the 1st time check and at the finish. Could he hold it?
Leipheimer was our next hope for a new best time. But he failed, only came 6th.
Chavanel had another problem. Visconti was faster than him at the first time check.
But with a fantastic 2nd part of the race, he was 14” faster than the GC leader. Not enough to take the lead but the gap is only 6” now.
Castroviejo is the winner of the first TT of the year (Australian NC TT not in count)
Conclusion
No stage win today, but with only 6” in GC is everything still possible. We saw also a brilliant Tom Boonen, he was faster than Visconti so he extends his lead in the point competition.
Top 10 (1st time check and finish)
3rd blog
Hallo to all.
I’m really enjoying me week here in Argentina. I have drunk a lot of champagne thanks to Tom. He is masterful in the sprints. Yesterday was close but he did it and he looks really motivated.
Chavanel is only busy with one thing: “how can a beat Visconti”. But we have a plan and Chave said that he will give it a try.
Did you notice how strong movistar is at the beginning of the season? Costa in Australia (2 stages and GC) and 2 stage here (Visconti and Castroviejo), were does this end.
I know I told you that my 2rd blog would be after the 3rd stage. But I didn’t had the time, I got a strange phone call out Belgium. But I’m not allowed to tell you what is was, it was top secret they said. But I can tell you that I’m really proud that they called me.
This is it for now.
See you guys later
Thomas
I forgot to export the result of the 2 stages again. I really need to find something to help me remember it.
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
It's difficult not to be happy when you're surrounded by Belgians. - Mark Cavendish
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 17-08-2012 17:20
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Forgetting to export can be a real pain in the ass. I exported every stage of the Giro in my story, but I forgot to export the 21th stage! what a bummer |
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