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A Journey of Two | Postponed indefinitely
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| Schleck96 |
Posted on 22-09-2012 12:33
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Already winning. Classic! |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 22-09-2012 13:06
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TimoCycling: Yeah, he's in a great shape, Turgot  Thanks
fcancellara: Thanks!
ventoux: Thanks, it's definitely something nice on his palmares so early on.
wackojackohighcliffe: As long as he doesn't shoot the pianist, he'll be fine. 
alex valceanu: Turgot is doing extremely well!
JuanMotr: Thanks you didn't smell that, did you? 
PCM rulezz: Thanks!
Raggieman: I believe in fast starts to get a story going good Thanks!
Miguel98: Thanks
Schleck96: He should win with this field if he wants to be able to compete top 10 in a Tour stage |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 22-09-2012 13:34
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 François Truffaut
Tour de Normandie - Stage 6
I get blocked again, and end up 3th. I should be getting better results in a field like this, but the inexperience of many (including myself) make for chaotic circumstances so the sprint is always hectic and dangerous.
Spoiler game crashed before I could export. No real changes in the classification
 Fréderique Chapin
The first of three stages, the flat one (then a TT, then a mountain stage).
My mission is completed: stay with the pack.
Result
| 1 | Samuel Dumoulin | Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne | 1h30'53 | | 2 | Geoffrey Soupe | FDJ-BigMat | s.t. | | 3 | Leonardo Duque | Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne | s.t. | | 4 | Alex Rasmussen | Team Garmin-Barracuda | s.t. | | 5 | Stéphane Poulhies | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 6 | Michel Kreder | Team Garmin-Barracuda | s.t. | | 7 | Raymond Kreder | Team Garmin-Barracuda | s.t. | | 8 | Jean-Luc Delpech | Bretagne-Schuller | s.t. | | 9 | Geoffroy Lequatre | Bretagne-Schuller | s.t. | | 10 | Davy Commeyne | Landbouwkrediet-Euphony | s.t. | | (...) | | 78 | Fréderique Chapin | Team Europcar | s.t. | IanButler |
In other news: Turgot didn't impress in E3 prijs, unfortunately.
Result
| 1 | Fabian Cancellara | Radioshack Nissan Trek | 5h01'56 | | 2 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | + 29 | | 3 | Matti Breschel | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Alessandro Ballan | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 5 | Stijn Devolder | Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 6 | Björn Leukemans | Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 57 | | 7 | Thor Hushovd | BMC Racing Team | + 1'19 | | 8 | Jürgen Roelandts | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 9 | Juan Antonio Flecha | Sky Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 10 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | (...) | | 32 | Vincent Jérôme | Team Europcar | + 3'04 | IanButler | | (...) | | 35 | Sébastien Turgot | Team Europcar | + 3'25 | IanButler |
See you tomorrow for the time trial! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 22-09-2012 13:46
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Both guys have had decent starts to their respective seasons |
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| fred947a |
Posted on 22-09-2012 14:32
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It's a pretty good story so far. Hope that there is no odd lost twins and deaths. Much better starting stats than Stijn and Eric. Wish you the best of luck making the Tour de France  |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 22-09-2012 14:40
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sutty68: I think so, too. But they have to prove themselves more if they want to start at TDF
fred947a:I'll try to keep it more conventional just to be clear: there never was a lost twin brother if there was, he's still lost  Thanks! |
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| GodSlayer248 |
Posted on 22-09-2012 19:47
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Great story man! And I just wanted to ask since people are bitching about it to me on pm's, is it okay for you that the layout on my story look quite similar to yours? I'm trying to keep it as unsimilar as possible, but use something that looks like yours cause I like it and it looks good
RIP Wouter Weylandt, Xavier Tondo, Victor Cabedo.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 22-09-2012 22:31
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I'm flattered that you want to use my layout, so go ahead I don't hold copyright or anything on the layout. Good luck with it |
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| GodSlayer248 |
Posted on 22-09-2012 23:09
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Ian Butler wrote:
I'm flattered that you want to use my layout, so go ahead I don't hold copyright or anything on the layout. Good luck with it
Thanks for that mate, It's the best layout out there atm tbh!
RIP Wouter Weylandt, Xavier Tondo, Victor Cabedo.
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| kimiopn |
Posted on 22-09-2012 23:37
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Good luck Ian. Europcar is a very attractive team to play |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 23-09-2012 08:24
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GodSlayer248: Thanks a lot
kimiopn: Thank you, I think so, too. A very prominent team |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 23-09-2012 09:09
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François Truffaut
Tour de Normandie - Stage 7
The one but last chance for another win.
We set up quite an impressive lead-out train. With 7/8 U25 riders, that's quite an achievement.
Pelucchi leads me out.
But once again, I do not impress. However, I'm quite young and new to the professional milieu, so I still have some time left to get used to it. Hope it's soon, though.
Result
| 1 | Rony Martias | Saur - Sojasun | 4h22'20 | | | 2 | François Truffaut | Team Europcar | s.t. | IanButler | | 3 | Mathieu Drujon | Auber93 | s.t. | | | 4 | Rens Te Stroet | Cyclingteam Jo Piels | s.t. | | | 5 | Arnaud Molmy | Véranda Rideau U | s.t. | | | 6 | Dean Downing | Rapha Condor - Sharp | s.t. | | | 7 | Benoît Drujon | Auber93 | s.t. | | | 8 | Steven Tronet | Auber93 | s.t. | | | 9 | Fabien Bacquet | Auber93 | s.t. | | | 10 | Maxime Le Montagner | Véranda Rideau U | s.t. | |
Fréderique Chapin
Critérium International
A time trial. Lucky for me, it's quite short. Since I rely on power more than anything else in cycling, I may have a decent result here.
It's great to have the National Champion in the team. However, Kern did not impress today.
I took off a bit too fast and slowed down near the end. No matter, I knew from the start that this wasn't my racket.
Result
| 1 | Alex Rasmussen | Team Garmin-Barracuda | 10'30 | | | 2 | Matteo Montaguti | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 15 | | | 3 | Patrick Gretsch | Team Argos-Shimano | + 16 | | | 4 | Dimitri Champion | Bretagne-Schuller | + 26 | | | 5 | Jérémy Roy | FDJ-BigMat | + 28 | | | 6 | Simon Geschke | Team Argos-Shimano | + 29 | | | 7 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | s.t. | | | 8 | Marzio Bruseghin | Movistar Team | + 30 | | | 9 | Christian Vandevelde | Team Garmin-Barracuda | s.t. | | | 10 | Laszlo Bodrogi | Team Type 1 - Sanofi | + 31 | | | (...) | | 19 | Christophe Kern | Team Europcar | + 39 | IanButler | | (...) | | 50 | Pierre Rolland | Team Europcar | + 54 | IanButler | | (...) | | 53 | Fréderique Chapin | Team Europcar | + 56 | IanButler |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 23-09-2012 09:57
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So close for Truffaut at Normandie |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 23-09-2012 10:35
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François Truffaut
The final stage, I hope I can defend this leader's jersey.
Because of an extremely thick fog, all pictures are useless. Moncoutié avoided the mass sprint. I had another off-day, but I was able to keep the leader's jersey and the points jersey, so I'm not complaining, I still have plenty of time left to get into a great shape!
Result
| 1 | David Moncoutié | Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne | 2h47'10 | | | 2 | Remco Te Brake | CyclingTeam De Rijke | + 31 | | | 3 | Yoeri Havik | CyclingTeam De Rijke | s.t. | | | 4 | Fabien Bacquet | Auber93 | s.t. | | | 5 | Rony Martias | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | | 6 | Maxime Le Montagner | Véranda Rideau U | s.t. | | | 7 | François Truffaut | Team Europcar | s.t. | IanButler | | 8 | Steven Tronet | Auber93 | s.t. | | | 9 | Matteo Pelucchi | Team Europcar | s.t. | IanButler | | 10 | Justin Jules | Véranda Rideau U | s.t. | |
GC
| 1 | François Truffaut | Team Europcar | 25h32'05 | IanButler | | 2 | Rony Martias | Saur - Sojasun | + 8 | | | 3 | Remco Te Brake | CyclingTeam De Rijke | + 35 | | | 4 | Mathieu Drujon | Auber93 | + 36 | | | 5 | Jakob Steigmiller | Thüringer Energie Team | + 46 | | | 6 | Fabien Bacquet | Auber93 | + 47 | | | 7 | Sander Oostlander | Cyclingteam Jo Piels | + 51 | | | 8 | Felix English | Rapha Condor - Sharp | + 52 | | | 9 | James McAllum | Rapha Condor - Sharp | s.t. | | | 10 | Damien Monier | Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne | + 54 | |
Points
| 1 | François Truffaut | Team Europcar | 126 | IanButler | | 2 | Rony Martias | Saur - Sojasun | 120 | | | 3 | Mathieu Drujon | Auber93 | 75 | | | 4 | Arnaud Molmy | Véranda Rideau U | 75 | | | 5 | Fabien Bacquet | Auber93 | 74 | |
KoM
| 1 | Jakob Steigmiller | Thüringer Energie Team | 19 | | 2 | Jure Golcer | Tirol Cycling Team | 16 | | 3 | Martin Wesemann | MTN-Qhubeka | 12 | | 4 | Dennis Van Niekerk | MTN-Qhubeka | 12 | | 5 | Jacques Janse Van Rensburg | MTN-Qhubeka | 10 |
It's actually pretty cool. I only won 1 stage but winning a general classification is something special, I'm glad I did it!
Fréderique Chapin
What a stage. My task of the day is stay with Rolland in the first part of the race. Then I might go in the offense, to put some pressure on the competition.
Charteau managed to get into the breakaway and get many KoM points.
With 55km left to go, the breakaway group was narrowed down to 4 riders.
Charteau was the strongest of them all and went solo.
He secured his KoM jersey, another good result for the team there!
As I was moving up in order to try and break away, I got some trouble with my gear, and I tried to fix it quickly.
Unfortunately I had to ask for backup, as I couldn't do it alone.
It was fixed pretty quickly, but the race was over just as quickly for me. I had lost contact with the front group, who weren't waiting for some unknown rider to fix his bike.
It turned out not to be such a big deal, as Rolland went into the attack himself.
He finished solo.
I convinced Sylvain Georges and Samuel Dumoulin to do a little sprint with me, just to test our legs (it was only for the 25th place) I'm happy to say I won!
Result
| 1 | Pierre Rolland | Team Europcar | 4h55'32 | IanButler | | 2 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | + 2'04 | | | 3 | Blel Kadri | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 4 | Christophe Kern | Team Europcar | + 2'22 | IanButler | | 5 | Guillaume Levarlet | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | | 6 | Marzio Bruseghin | Movistar Team | s.t. | | | 7 | Simon Geschke | Team Argos-Shimano | s.t. | | | 8 | Juan Pablo Suarez | Colombia Coldeportes | s.t. | | | 9 | Darwin Atapuma | Colombia Coldeportes | s.t. | | | 10 | Nicolas Vogondy | Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne | s.t. | | | (...) | | 25 | Fréderique Chapin | Team Europcar | + 6'59 | IanButler |
GC
| 1 | Pierre Rolland | Team Europcar | 6h37'29 | IanButler | | 2 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | + 1'47 | | | 3 | Blel Kadri | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 1'59 | | | 4 | Matteo Montaguti | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 2'03 | | | 5 | Mathieu Sprick | Team Argos-Shimano | + 2'14 | | | 6 | Jérémy Roy | FDJ-BigMat | + 2'16 | | | 7 | Simon Geschke | Team Argos-Shimano | + 2'17 | | | 8 | Marzio Bruseghin | Movistar Team | + 2'18 | | | 9 | Nicolas Vogondy | Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne | + 2'21 | | | 10 | Juan Pablo Suarez | Colombia Coldeportes | + 2'26 | | | 11 | Christophe Kern | Team Europcar | + 2'27 | IanButler | | (...) | | 34 | Fréderique Chapin | Team Europcar | + 7'21 | IanButler |
Points
| 1 | Alex Rasmussen | Team Garmin-Barracuda | 39 | | | 2 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | 34 | | | 3 | Samuel Dumoulin | Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne | 27 | | | 4 | Pierre Rolland | Team Europcar | 25 | IanButler | | 5 | Matteo Montaguti | Ag2r La Mondiale | 22 | |
KoM
| 1 | Anthony Charteau | Team Europcar | 24 | IanButler | | 2 | Rémi Pauriol | FDJ-BigMat | 14 | | | 3 | Anthony Delaplace | Saur - Sojasun | 10 | | | 4 | Pierre Rolland | Team Europcar | 10 | IanButler | | 5 | Mathieu Sprick | Team Argos-Shimano | 6 | |
Well, I was pretty useless to the team in this stage race, but I don't let it worry me. I still have plenty of chances left to try and secure my Tour de France-spot. The fact that the manager says you really have to earn that spot is a great thing, in my opinion. It motivates every rider of the team to ride every race as good as possible!
François and Fréderique
The team had a sort of meeting, to evaluate the season so far. The main things said were the stunning performances of Rolland, Voeckler and Turgot. The team is now certain of its goal: top 3 in continental ranking, top 20 in Superprestige ranking and nothing less than promotion to ProTour. Promotion would also be a big step for us, as we would walk into a much tougher competition. So this year is not only about unfolding our potential, but also a preparation for next year.
François' stage win in Normandie also got mentioned, as a great result for a debut rider.
See you later! |
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| JuanMotr |
Posted on 23-09-2012 10:37
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Nice second place by François he still have to learn a lot
Edit: Great GC win for François.
Edited by JuanMotr on 23-09-2012 10:45
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| tovhol |
Posted on 23-09-2012 10:38
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So far, very good! KIU!
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| fred947a |
Posted on 23-09-2012 10:41
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That must have been a +5 day for Rolland. He just smashed the competition |
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 23-09-2012 10:45
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What is it with your riders and bad luck?
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 23-09-2012 10:46
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Really good performances from François, and a great win with Pierre Rolland! Actually, two fantastic wins! |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 23-09-2012 10:46
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JuanMotr: Thanks, at least he won the GC, which isn't bad
tovhol: Thanks man!
fred947a: It was +4, but close enough He also has a great shape, because he's already had over 20 race days
I hope he'll smash the competition in Tour de France as well (that's a long shot )
fcancellara: It's a curse, I tell you
FreitasPCM: Thank you Rolland is on fire this season!
Edited by Ian Butler on 23-09-2012 10:47
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