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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 19:23
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Tour de San Luis – Stage 7
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Today was already the last stage of the Tour de San Luis. We want to attack one more time, to get the points in the sprints. We think today’s gonna be a mass sprint, but we’ll see what’s gonna happen.
Sobczyk attacked immediately after the start. He’s already in a good form so it’s a good cycler to have in the breakaway.
And yes, Sobczyk took the points at the two immediate sprints. He didn’t get an opportunity to take the mountain points, so we don’t have that points.
Sobczyk was caught and the peloton was accelerating for the mass sprint. We were with four cyclers in good position. Watson was looking good and he followed the other sprinters very easy. Maybe he can drive a decent result today!
But in the final kilometres there was a very big crash. Many riders were involved in this crash. Sevilla (7th) and Gonçalves (12th) had to leave the race.
Brambilla won the final stage. Watson took a 9th place, which is very good for him. Rogers gained a lot of places in the classification. He went from 41st to 25th, which isn’t very bad. But the Tour de San Luis has finished now. Florian Guillou wins the general classification, Downing wins the points jersey, Blain the mountain jersey and Alizadeh the youth jersey. Lampre was the best team in this year’s Tour de San Luis. We’ve got a lot of experience in the Tour de San Luis. We’re satisfied with our results.
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Posted on 16-05-2013 19:05
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January has finished and our début wasn't that bad. We rode a decent race in San Luis, and we had a great result in Marseille. So now we'll start at the second month for our team, February. To give you some information, we'll ride these races. Tour of Qatar and Tour du Haut Var are sponsor goals. But we'll skip some sponsor goals because we think we don't have a chance in that race, for example at the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. What do we have to do there without cobbles cyclers? Nothing, so we'll skip that race. We hope at some good results in the races which we will ride.
February
| 05/02 – 10/02 | Tour of Qatar (6 stages) | Qatar | 2.HC | | 18/02 – 19/02 | Tour du Haut Var (2 stages) | France | 2.1 | | 24/02 – 05/03 | Le Tour de Langkawi (10 stages) | Malaysia | 2.HC | | 26/02 | Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche – Souvenir Francis Delpech | France | 1.1 |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 17-05-2013 00:02
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Good Luck for February  |
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 17-05-2013 14:38
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sutty68: Thanks mate! 
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| The Rider |
Posted on 17-05-2013 14:52
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Yep good luck, can't think of a more appropriate place for hot wheels to be racing than Qatar  . |
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Posted on 17-05-2013 20:15
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The Rider: Thanks! Yeah, Qatar is also one of the sponsor goals (top 10), so they wanted to ride here.
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 17-05-2013 21:08
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Tour of Qatar – Stage 1
Stage Preview
The first stage of the Tour of Qatar was a flat stage of 142 kilometres. We wanted to attack, of course. That’s our plan for this tour and it might also be the plan for a big part of the season.
There were a lot of attacks at the start of the stage. It seemed that a lot of teams wanted to be in the breakaway. This breakaway had 21 riders. The last ones were caught already after the first immediate sprint.
After that, there came a new breakaway with first seven, and later eight riders. Hill was there from our team and he took a second place at the second immediate sprint.
The breakaway was long at the head of the race, but the peloton was already chasing it.
So with 16,6 kilometres to go, Hill and a few others decided to attack. But the peloton was riding a very high pace, so it’s seemed impossible.
And it was impossible. Around ten kilometres before the finish, the breakaway was caught.
The teams with sprinters were working very hard. We tried to get behind a sprinter and to stay at the front of the peloton.
And then, around 3,8 kilometres before the finish, there was a very big crash. A lot of riders were involved in that crash. 3 riders had to give up. One of them was the Irish road champion Brammeier. None of our riders were involved in that crash, so that was very good news for us.
We got a sprint with a group of 39 riders. Samuel Dumoulin was the fastest of them and took the win in the first stage of this year’s Tour of Qatar. Our best rider finished around P18, but we got all our eight riders at the top 39 of the general ranking. The biggest obstacle is the team-time-trial of tomorrow, but we have a gap of 1”29 to the number forty in the ranking.
This was a big surprise for us. We didn’t realised that Hill took the bonification seconds at the second immediate sprint, so he took the lead in the young rider ranking! This is great for us. He’s also fourth in the general classification. We’ll see what we can do in the Team-Time-Trial tomorrow.
Today's winner
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 17-05-2013 21:13
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Lucky that they could avoid the crash.
Hope Hill can hold on to the U25 jersey, but with that TTT, it's nearly impossible 
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 17-05-2013 22:09
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Jesleyh: Yes, we're very happy about that. That's why we're always at the front of the peleton. It'll be difficult, especially with that TTT, but also with the bonification seconds.
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Posted on 18-05-2013 16:56
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Tour de San Luis – Stage 2
Stage Preview
The second stage of the Tour of Qatar was a team-time-trial of eleven kilometres. We knew it’ll be very difficult for us to keep our good place.
The first team which was the favourite for today’s win was CCC-Polsat. They drove a 14’48”, which was a decent time.
Team NetApp – Endura was another favourite for today. They had Jan Barta, who’s the national time-trial champion of the Czech Republic. They finished in front of CCC-Polsat.
And here we are, with Hill in the youth jersey. Our team was standing third in the team classification, so we were starting very late. It was our first team-time-trial, and we’ve got some nice pictures of it from some photographers.
Our team was really doing their best to put a good time.
Very beautiful in the desert.
Almost at the finish, but we put a disappointed time at the finish. We finished in one-to-last position, so that isn’t very well. We lost a lot of time , but we’re still with all our riders in the top 39.
Sojasun was also one of today’s favourites. They drove a really good third time. RusVelo was leading at that moment.
Only AG2R could beat the time of RusVelo, because they’re the last team. But they didn’t, so Rusvelo won the team time-trial. Dumoulin lost his leader’s jersey to Julien Simon of the Sojasun team. Artem Ovechkin got the stage on his name, so he’s today’s winner. Tomorrow we’ll be there with the third stage of the Tour of Qatar.
Today's winner
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Posted on 18-05-2013 17:08
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That is an achievement not to finish last at that TT.
When I played that stage I came last and had to win the next 4 stages to win GC! |
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Posted on 18-05-2013 20:39
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The Rider: We're happy that we didn't finished last at all. GC is impossible for us, just as stage wins, so we'll go for the mountain jersey. Oops, there isn't one. Just attacking and see what happens.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 19-05-2013 00:45
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Hope the guys get over there TTT performance  |
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 19-05-2013 16:52
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sutty68: I think they will. We already didn't expect very much and it helped that we didn't finished last.
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Posted on 19-05-2013 17:14
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Tour of Qatar – Stage 3
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The third stage was a flat stage. And, as many other times, we decided to attack.
Today we sent Rodrigues into the breakaway. After fifty kilometres and a lot of attacks later, we got a breakaway with nine cyclists.
Here they are, around five kilometres before the first intermediate sprint. We wanted to take some points with Rodrigues.
So we did. Rodrigues took second place in both first and second intermediate sprint. That’s very good for us.
And with a gap of maximum five minutes, the peloton was already chasing the breakaway. And around nineteen kilometres to the finish, six man decided to attack. Rodrigues was one of them.
But they had no chance. The peloton, with the team of the leader Simon, was riding a very high pace. So it was sure that we got a mass sprint.
Dumoulin won the sprint and took over the leader jersey with the bonifications. We drove a decent stage today, but we had no chance in the sprint. So we’ll try to attack every day.
Today's winner
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 19-05-2013 17:18
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Tour de San Luis stage 3? Mistake. Nice to see the team in the break. |
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Posted on 19-05-2013 19:42
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Miguel98: Whoops, little mistake.  I've changed it.
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Posted on 20-05-2013 20:04
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Tour of Qatar – Stage 4
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Today was the fourth stage of the Tour of Qatar, and I can tell you; it was a very strange stage. At the start there were a lot of attacks. And every time we sent another rider with them, so I am a bit confused and I’ve forgotten who of our team were attacking.
So, this was the first attack of the stage with, uhhh, well, I don’t know. So the first attack was with a rider of our team, but they were caught. And the attacks after this one were also caught.
Then Rodrigues did a nice move. He won the first intermediate sprint, and in the background Sobczyk took third place! Very nice for us.
And then, we finally got a breakaway. One of our riders was at that breakaway, don’t know who. Oh, yes, I already know. It was Webb.
Why do you think I remembered it? Because he took second place in the second intermediate sprint! Yeah, and this was the fifth time I didn’t forgot to export the results. But this was very good for us.
After the breakaway was caught (yes, the peloton was chasing at them and took them back), the peloton broke up into two parts. We had only three riders in the first group, and they were already getting tired by staying in that group. And at the end, all our riders lost the contact to the group.
Simon won the stage, Dumoulin was nowhere today. So Simon took over the leader jersey back again. Our riders all lost time, but they didn’t lose any positions. So that’s good news for us. We’ll be back tomorrow, with the fifth stage of the Tour of Qatar.
Today's winner
Results
| 1 | Julien Simon | Sojasun | 3h07'03 | | | 2 | Michael Van Staeyen | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | | 3 | Bobbie Traksel | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 4 | Roger Kluge | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | | 5 | Martin Mortensen | Concordia Forsikring - Riwal | s.t. | | | 6 | Jimmi Sørensen | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | | 7 | Tomasz Smolen | Bank BGZ | s.t. | | | 8 | Bartlomiej Matysiak | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | s.t. | | | 9 | Samuel Dumoulin | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 10 | Maxime Daniel | Sojasun | s.t. | |
Spoiler | 11 | Michael Kurth | Team Quantec - Indeland | s.t. | | | 12 | Cyril Lemoine | Sojasun | s.t. | | | 13 | Stanislav Kozúbek | Bauknecht - Author | s.t. | | | 14 | Jimmy Engoulvent | Sojasun | s.t. | | | 15 | Morten Øllegaard | Blue Water Cycling | s.t. | | | 16 | Mieszko Bulik | Bank BGZ | s.t. | | | 17 | Dirk Müller | Nutrixxion - Abus | s.t. | | | 18 | Tim Declercq | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | | 19 | Łukasz Bodnar | Bank BGZ | s.t. | | | 20 | Stijn Neirynck | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | | 21 | Grzegorz Stepniak | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | s.t. | | | 22 | Eugert Zhupa | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | | 23 | Adrian Teklinski | Bank BGZ | s.t. | | | 24 | Thomas Zechmeister | Bauknecht - Author | s.t. | | | 25 | Aske Vorre | Blue Water Cycling | s.t. | | | 26 | Ryota Nishizono | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 27 | Hugo Houle | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 28 | Peter Mathiesen | Concordia Forsikring - Riwal | s.t. | | | 29 | Stefan Schumacher | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | | 30 | Markus Eichler | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | | 31 | Christophe Laborie | Sojasun | s.t. | | | 32 | Kristoffer Skjerping | Joker Merida | s.t. | | | 33 | Rick Ampler | Nutrixxion - Abus | s.t. | | | 34 | Morten Høberg | Christina Watches - Onfone | + 1'23 | | | 35 | Frank Hill | Hot Wheels - Porsche | s.t. | ufo87 | | 36 | Jean-Lou Paiani | Sojasun | s.t. | | | 37 | Jonathan Hivert | Sojasun | s.t. | | | 38 | Julien El Fares | Sojasun | s.t. | | | 39 | Igor Sobczyk | Hot Wheels - Porsche | s.t. | ufo87 | | 40 | Will Burton | Hot Wheels - Porsche | s.t. | ufo87 | | 41 | Muhamad Othman | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 42 | Stian Remme | Joker Merida | s.t. | | | 43 | Leopold König | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | | 44 | Adrian Kurek | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | s.t. | | | 45 | Łukasz Owsian | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | s.t. | | | 46 | Mariusz Witecki | Bank BGZ | s.t. | | | 47 | Chan Jae Jang | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 48 | Stefan Schäfer | Team NSP - Ghost | s.t. | | | 49 | Alexander Mironov | RusVelo | s.t. | | | 50 | Sergey Firsanov | RusVelo | s.t. | | | 51 | Michael Schweizer | Team NSP - Ghost | s.t. | | | 52 | Cesar Fonte | Efapel - Glassdrive | s.t. | | | 53 | Leonid Krasnov | RusVelo | s.t. | | | 54 | Christian Moberg Jørgensen | Team Cult Energy | s.t. | | | 55 | Adrian Gjølberg | Joker Merida | s.t. | | | 56 | Alexander Kamp | Team Cult Energy | s.t. | | | 57 | Jan Tratnik | Tirol Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 58 | Rui Sousa | Efapel - Glassdrive | s.t. | | | 59 | Tom Van Asbroeck | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | | 60 | Gediminas Bagdonas | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 61 | Benjamin Sydlik | Nutrixxion - Abus | s.t. | | | 62 | Blaz Jarc | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | | 63 | Oskar Svendsen | Joker Merida | s.t. | | | 64 | August Jensen | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | s.t. | | | 65 | Valentin Iglinskiy | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 66 | Jóni Brandão | Efapel - Glassdrive | s.t. | | | 67 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 68 | Martin Pedersen | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | | 69 | Nuno Ribeiro | Efapel - Glassdrive | s.t. | | | 70 | Jarosław Marycz | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | s.t. | | | 71 | Manuel Belletti | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 72 | Michael Reihs | Team Cult Energy | s.t. | | | 73 | Felix Donath | LKT Team Brandenburg | s.t. | | | 74 | Martin Grøn | Concordia Forsikring - Riwal | s.t. | | | 75 | Kasper Linde Jørgensen | Team Cult Energy | s.t. | | | 76 | Artem Ovechkin | RusVelo | s.t. | | | 77 | Ian Watson | Hot Wheels - Porsche | s.t. | ufo87 | | 78 | Marek Rutkiewicz | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | s.t. | | | 79 | Robert Bartko | LKT Team Brandenburg | s.t. | | | 80 | Alexander Gottfried | Nutrixxion - Abus | s.t. | | | 81 | Alessandro Bazzana | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 82 | Sander Armee | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | | 83 | Aldo Ino Ilesic | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 84 | Sebastian Forke | Team NSP - Ghost | s.t. | | | 85 | Ryan Anderson | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 86 | Sergej Fuchs | Team NSP - Ghost | s.t. | | | 87 | Nicholas Caspersen | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | s.t. | | | 88 | Nikodemus Holler | Thüringer Energie Team | s.t. | | | 89 | Troels Ronning Vinther | Team Cult Energy | s.t. | | | 90 | Karl Menzies | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 91 | Roman Maikin | RusVelo | s.t. | | | 92 | Christoph Springer | Team Vorarlberg | s.t. | | | 93 | Serguei Klimov | RusVelo | s.t. | | | 94 | Davide Appollonio | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 95 | Cristian Jersild Jensen | Blue Water Cycling | s.t. | | | 96 | Rasmus Sterobo | Team Cult Energy | s.t. | | | 97 | Daniele Aldegheri | Christina Watches - Onfone | s.t. | | | 98 | Edward Byrne | Hot Wheels - Porsche | s.t. | ufo87 | | 99 | Florian Bissinger | Team Vorarlberg | s.t. | | | 100 | Federico Pozzetto | Tirol Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 101 | Yuriy Vasyliv | LKT Team Brandenburg | s.t. | | | 102 | Sondre Sörtveit | Joker Merida | s.t. | | | 103 | Jure Golcer | Tirol Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 104 | Hernâni Brôco | Efapel - Glassdrive | s.t. | | | 105 | Adrian Hegyvari | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 106 | Reidar Borgersen | Joker Merida | s.t. | | | 107 | Sebastian Körber | Nutrixxion - Abus | s.t. | | | 108 | Jeff Louder | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 109 | Cheng Siu To | Hot Wheels - Porsche | s.t. | ufo87 | | 110 | Josef Hosek | Bauknecht - Author | s.t. | | | 111 | Valery Kaykov | RusVelo | s.t. | | | 112 | Alex Frame | Thüringer Energie Team | s.t. | | | 113 | Franz Schiewer | LKT Team Brandenburg | s.t. | | | 114 | Daniel Rinner | Team Vorarlberg | s.t. | | | 115 | Maarten De Jonge | Team Vorarlberg | s.t. | | | 116 | Antonio Webb | Hot Wheels - Porsche | s.t. | ufo87 | | 117 | Robert Retschke | Team Quantec - Indeland | s.t. | | | 118 | Christopher Jones | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 119 | Andrey Solomennikov | RusVelo | s.t. | | | 120 | Steve Chainel | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 121 | Alexandre Rodrigues | Hot Wheels - Porsche | s.t. | ufo87 | | 122 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 123 | Frans-Leonard Markaskard | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | s.t. | | | 124 | Jasha Sütterlin | Thüringer Energie Team | s.t. | | | 125 | Alexander Schmitt | Nutrixxion - Abus | s.t. | | | 126 | Sven Forberger | Team NSP - Ghost | s.t. | | | 127 | Bradley White | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 128 | Filip Eidsheim | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | s.t. | | | 129 | Thomas Schneider | Team Quantec - Indeland | s.t. | | | 130 | Marcel Barth | Thüringer Energie Team | s.t. | | | 131 | Moritz Schaffner | Thüringer Energie Team | s.t. | | | 132 | Raymond Werst | Team Quantec - Indeland | s.t. | | | 133 | Alexander Nordhoff | Team Quantec - Indeland | s.t. | | | 134 | Clemens Fankhauser | Tirol Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 135 | Jan Barta | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | | 136 | Thomas Bonnin | Team NSP - Ghost | s.t. | | | 137 | Sebastian Deckert | LKT Team Brandenburg | s.t. | | | 138 | Mario Schoibl | Tirol Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 139 | Daniel Jarstø | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | s.t. | | | 140 | Kristian Dyrnes | Team Øster Hus - Ridley | s.t. | | | 141 | Maximilian Bormann | LKT Team Brandenburg | s.t. | | | 142 | Jan Brockhoff | Thüringer Energie Team | s.t. | | | 143 | Dominik Hrinkow | Team Vorarlberg | s.t. | | | 144 | André Benoit | Team Quantec - Indeland | s.t. | | | 145 | Stefan Praxmarer | Tirol Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 146 | Tomáš Bucháček | Bauknecht - Author | s.t. | | | 147 | Gregor Mühlberger | Tirol Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 148 | Andreas Hofer | Team Vorarlberg | s.t. | | | 149 | Patrick Bosman | Tirol Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 150 | Frantisek Padour | Bauknecht - Author | s.t. | | | 151 | Jacob Kjeldsen | Blue Water Cycling | s.t. | | | 152 | Kasper Klostergaard | Concordia Forsikring - Riwal | s.t. | | | 153 | Bartosz Huzarski | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | | 154 | Andreas Miessen | Team Quantec - Indeland | s.t. | | | 155 | Mathias Møller | Blue Water Cycling | s.t. | | | 156 | Michael Schwarzmann | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | | 157 | Jelle Wallays | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | | 158 | Michael Stevenson | Concordia Forsikring - Riwal | s.t. | | | 159 | Mart Ojavee | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 160 | David De la Cruz | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | | 161 | Jasper De Buyst | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | | 162 | Pawel Charucki | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | s.t. | | | 163 | Dominique Cornu | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | | 164 | Josef Maňousek | Bauknecht - Author | s.t. | | | 165 | Piotr Gawroński | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | s.t. | | | 166 | Nikola Aistrup | Concordia Forsikring - Riwal | s.t. | | | 167 | Rasmus Guldhammer | Blue Water Cycling | s.t. | | | 168 | Chad Beyer | Champion System Pro Cycling Team | + 7'34 | |
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Posted on 21-05-2013 19:13
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Tour of Qatar – Stage 5
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Today was a flat stage (of course), and we tried to attack.
So we did. But we had a lot of problems. I don’t know why, but it seems that the peloton doesn’t want us in the breakaway anymore. We had some problems with it already, but today they didn’t want to let us go. So after the first intermediate sprint, we decided to stay in the peloton. It was annoying. Really annoying.
And yes, of course today the peloton let the breakaway go. So they were fighting for the stage win. A rider of the breakaway, Tratnik, decided to attack. Trying to win the stage.
But we were angry, really angry. And Hill was angry too. So he decided to attack. Not for the stage win, but to take back the breakaway. We knew the peloton would chase him, and they did. Sorry Tratnik, but the peloton took you 1600 meters too early. And so there was a mass sprint.
Simon won the sprint, Traksel came really close, but not close enough. The peloton broke in the last kilometre, but we didn’t lose any time. Tomorrow is the last stage, and we hope to be in the breakaway again, but it’ll be difficult.
Today's winner
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Posted on 21-05-2013 19:25
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If anyone would be allowed to get in a break you think it would be Hotwheels.
Rain in Qatar, is that even possible?
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