It's the last stage of the Vuelta a Mallorca and Cobo just wants to make it through the stage without any problems.
Attack
A small break has gone but the peleton has not reacted considering the highest placed rider is 6 min down in the GC.
Caught
That break disbanded after only 10 k together, now Saunier-Duval starts to control the pack for Cobo.
Attack
A new break has gone containing 7 riders but once again no panic for the GC.
Bad news, Cobo has a -3, signaling weakness for the other GC riders.
Attack Cobo has had enough and attack on the last hill, he hopes to stay away from the other for 18 more k.
Caught
The peleton has upped the pace and brings back Cobo, but no worries as Ventoso looks to be able to settle a mass sprint if we can reel in the early break. They still have 1:30 over the peleton with 12 k to go.
Win
The early break held on and Galparsoro of Euskatel out sprinted Flores for the stage win.
But the fight is on to real in Carlos Barredo (look at the dark blue in front of the peleton), he has a 30 second deficet before the stage so the peleton is mad scrambling to catch him.
Finally Barredo did hold of the peleton but not by enough to take the GC, Juanjo Cobo has won the Vuelta a Mallorca.
Results
Rank Name Team Time 1 Dioni Galparsoro EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI 3h51'05
2 Iker Flores FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM s.t.
3 Carlos Barredo QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 47
4 Stefan Schumacher GEROLSTEINER s.t.
5 Jaume Rovira VIÑA MAGNA - CROPU s.t.
6 Markus Zberg GEROLSTEINER s.t.
7 Igor Astarloa TEAM MILRAM s.t.
8 Diego Milán GRUPO NICOLÁS MATEOS s.t. 9 Fran Ventoso SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
10 David Muñoz FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM s.t.
11 Diego Gallego VIÑA MAGNA - CROPU s.t.
12 Juanma Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
13 Toni Colom TEAM ASTANA s.t.
14 Igor Antón EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
15 Joaquim Rodríguez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
16 José Iván Gutiérrez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t. 17 Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
18 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS s.t.
19 José Ruiz ANDALUCÍA - CAJASUR s.t.
20 Bram Tankink QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
21 Mikel Astarloza EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
22 Jorge Ferrio ANDALUCÍA - CAJASUR s.t.
23 Antonio Olmo ANDALUCÍA - CAJASUR s.t.
24 Fran Pérez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
25 Paco Lara ANDALUCÍA - CAJASUR s.t. 26 Juanjo Cobo SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t. 27 Guido Trentin SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
28 Andriy Grivko TEAM MILRAM s.t.
29 Michael Barry T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
30 Pavel Padrnos DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
31 Luis Pérez Rodríguez ANDALUCÍA - CAJASUR s.t.
32 Rodrigo García FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM s.t.
33 Pieter Weening RABOBANK s.t.
34 Oliver Zaugg GEROLSTEINER s.t.
35 Steve Morabito TEAM ASTANA s.t.
36 Santos González KARPIN GALICIA s.t. 37 David De la Fuente SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t. 38 David Cañada SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
39 Benjamin Noval DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
40 Michael Boogerd RABOBANK s.t.
53 Iker Camaño SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
63 Rubén Lobato SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
96 Piotr Mazur SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
GC
Rank Name Team Time 1 Juanjo Cobo SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 18h04'36
2 Luis Pérez Rodríguez ANDALUCÍA - CAJASUR + 10
3 Stefan Schumacher GEROLSTEINER + 30
4 Carlos Barredo QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
5 Jaume Rovira VIÑA MAGNA - CROPU s.t.
6 Manuel Beltrán LIQUIGAS s.t.
7 Alberto Martínez AGRITUBEL s.t.
8 Ezequiel Mosquera KARPIN GALICIA s.t.
9 Toni Colom TEAM ASTANA + 1'25 10 Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t. 11 Fran Ventoso SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 1'45
12 Juanma Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
13 Igor Antón EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
14 Markus Zberg GEROLSTEINER s.t.
15 Diego Gallego VIÑA MAGNA - CROPU s.t.
16 Joaquim Rodríguez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t. 17 Guido Trentin SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
18 Michael Barry T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
19 Mikel Astarloza EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
20 Fran Pérez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
21 David Muñoz FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM s.t.
22 Pieter Weening RABOBANK s.t.
23 Rodrigo García FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM s.t.
24 Michael Boogerd RABOBANK s.t.
25 Bram Tankink QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
26 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS s.t.
27 Marco Pinotti T-MOBILE TEAM s.t. 28 David Cañada SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
29 David Bernabéu FUERTEVENTURA - CANARIAS TEAM s.t.
30 Joost Posthuma RABOBANK s.t. 31 Iker Camaño SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
32 Andrea Noè LIQUIGAS s.t.
33 Benjamin Noval DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
34 Benoit Salmon AGRITUBEL s.t. 35 David De la Fuente SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
36 Beat Zberg GEROLSTEINER s.t.
37 Jesús Tendero VIÑA MAGNA - CROPU s.t.
38 Carlos Castaño KARPIN GALICIA s.t.
39 Matej Mugerli LIQUIGAS s.t.
40 Cédric Vasseur QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
"We all know that wasn't the real footage of the Worlds anyway. That was just the staged footage to perpetuate the coverup that it was actually Vinokourov that won the race."
The first stage of the Tour of California will come underway with a short 5 k prologue that suits riders like Fabian Cancellara, or Voigt, both of CSC and both are ready to start their season.
Our team working for Cobo again as Simoni and Ricco are a bit out of shape, we didn't bring a sprinter to this race so that Ventoso could rest for Paris-Nice.
Team Slipstream
151. S.Cozza
152. B.Caldwell
153. M.Creed
154. L.Euser
155. M.Friedman
156. B.Huff
157. I.MacGregor
158. J.P.McCarty
Edited by t-baum on 22-10-2007 02:49
Macquet wrote:
"We all know that wasn't the real footage of the Worlds anyway. That was just the staged footage to perpetuate the coverup that it was actually Vinokourov that won the race."
Quinziato of Liquigas comes through with a time of 5'45".
JuanJo Cobo works up a hill on the short course, he comes through with a time of of 5'37", 0 seconds off of T. Ziegler of T-Mobile.
Grabovskyy of Quickstep comes through with a new fast time, the top 3 are still within a 1 second.
Gusev slots in with second fastest time for now, again 0 seconds off.
Millar comes through 3rd, this is close isn't it?
World ITT champ Fabian Cancellara sets a blistering time, 8 seconds faster at 5'29".
Jens Voigt comes just 3 seconds off Cancellara for 2nd.
Results
Rank Name Team Time 1 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC 5'29
2 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC + 3
3 Dmytro Grabovskyy QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 8
4 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t. 5 David Millar SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
6 Thomas Ziegler T-MOBILE TEAM s.t. 7 Juanjo Cobo SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
8 Bert Roesems PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 10
9 Fränk Schleck TEAM CSC + 11
10 John Devine DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
11 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS + 12
12 Bernard Van Ulden NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
13 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 13
14 Nicolas Roche CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
15 Jimmy Engoulvent CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 16
16 Karsten Kroon TEAM CSC s.t.
17 Kirk O'Bee HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
18 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
19 William Bonnet CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
20 Manuel Quinziato LIQUIGAS s.t.
21 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 17
22 Magnus Bäckstedt LIQUIGAS s.t.
23 Kristian House NAVIGATORS INSURANCE + 18
24 Christophe Edaleine CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
25 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
26 Phil Zajicek NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
27 Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
28 Jan Boven RABOBANK s.t.
29 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC s.t.
30 Patrice Halgand CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 19
31 Roberto Petito LIQUIGAS s.t.
32 Koos Moerenhout RABOBANK s.t. 33 Iker Camaño SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 20
34 Mark Cavendish T-MOBILE TEAM + 21 35 Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
36 Christophe Kern CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
37 Johan Vansummeren PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
38 David Galvin BMC CYCLING TEAM + 22
39 John Murphy HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS + 24
40 Julian Dean CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
Macquet wrote:
"We all know that wasn't the real footage of the Worlds anyway. That was just the staged footage to perpetuate the coverup that it was actually Vinokourov that won the race."
It's the seconds stage of the Tour of California today and it seems like a good stage for sprinters, and even better if they can climb.
Attack
A 6 man break has formed containing Steurs, Sullivan, Pinfold, Edaleine, Carlstrom, and Kohl of Gerolsteiner.
They are starting to produce a big gap, and the peleton is taking notice.
Attack
A fresh attack has gone and contains Baguet, Murn, Eisel, Moniger, and Euser of Team Slipstream.
It seems like a bit of a dumb decision by T-Mobile to send what has to be one of the favorites for the sprint, Eisel in the break.
The two breaks have now joined each other creating an 12 man break, they are starting to become dangerous.
KOM
Bageut, Murn, and Eisel are the only ones to make it to the top ahead of the peleton, Voigt, Guerini, Cobo and Hagland make an attack for KOM points but only Voigt and Guerini get points aside from the early break survivors.
Caught
The break is caught like normal and the sprinters start to set-up.
Sprint
We send Ricco up to the front of the small peleton, most sprinters are to tired to contest.
Win Paolini takes it ahead of Moos, and Pozzato.
Results
Stage
Rank Name Team Time 1 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS 3h48'08
2 Alexandre Moos BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
3 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS s.t.
4 Peter Wrölich GEROLSTEINER s.t.
5 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
6 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
7 Patrice Halgand CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
8 Theo Eltink RABOBANK s.t.
9 Enrico Gasparotto LIQUIGAS s.t.
10 Davide Rebellin GEROLSTEINER s.t.
11 Steven Cozza TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
12 Fabian Wegmann GEROLSTEINER s.t.
13 Josep Jufré PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
14 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
15 Gerben Löwik RABOBANK s.t.
16 Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
17 Viktor Rapinski NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t. 18 Riccardo Riccò SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
19 Juan Antonio Flecha RABOBANK s.t.
20 Giuseppe Guerini T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
21 Burke Swindlehurst TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
22 Mike Sayers BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
23 Fränk Schleck TEAM CSC s.t.
24 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC s.t.
25 Tom Stamsnijder GEROLSTEINER s.t.
26 Michael Creed TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
27 Björn Leukemans PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
28 Christian Meier SYMMETRICS CYCLING TEAM s.t.
29 Kristian House NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
30 Andrea Tonti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
31 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
32 Matthew Crane HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
33 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
34 Chris Wherry TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
35 Christophe Kern CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
36 Koos Moerenhout RABOBANK s.t. 37 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t. 38 Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t. 39 Rubén Lobato SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
40 John Devine DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
41 Jeff Louder HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
42 Sergio Paulinho DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
43 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC s.t.
44 Roberto Petito LIQUIGAS s.t.
45 Steven Cummings DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
46 Scott Nydam BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
47 Jacob Erker SYMMETRICS CYCLING TEAM s.t.
48 Stefano Barberi TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
49 Timothy Johnson HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
50 Dmytro Grabovskyy QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
Macquet wrote:
"We all know that wasn't the real footage of the Worlds anyway. That was just the staged footage to perpetuate the coverup that it was actually Vinokourov that won the race."
