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Ian Butler

#61

Posted on 03-12-2013 09:03

Tour de France Champion

Posts: 21854
Joined: 01-05-2012
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cunego59 - Yeah, I must admit it was one of the nicest victories in my PCM history. I never saw it coming up until the final meters! 66 sprinter against 78 sprinter as Modolo. Indeed a decent way to start a career. That's 'chess' to Caleb Ewan, your turn

sutty68 - Couldn't have asked for a better start

welker3257 - Thanks for the bananas

The Hobbit - I'm with you. Not really sure how Modolo blew that perfect chance for him, but he did it

Thanks for the support! I'm a little behind schedule so if I'll play the next stage, it'll be much later today or one of the next days!

Ian Butler

#62

Posted on 03-12-2013 16:54

Tour de France Champion

Posts: 21854
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Hi!

Your good friend Henry here! Today was the day in yellow for me, let's see how it was!

Tour MÃ©diterranÃ©en - Stage 2

It's a time trial, but a vicious one. The first 22 kilometers are flat, pan cake flat. But the final 2 kilometer will decide how high up you finish. With percentages up to 20%, only those who have saved some energy will have a chance of getting up there alive.

Plan of the Day: I'll put everything on a good climb, so I'll save enough energy for the final 2 kilometers!

The Race

"Are you ready?" They asked me. How could I be ready, I wondered. I'm about to march straight into my death in a time trial. At least give me a chance to defend my yellow jersey in a good old battle in the mountains. Of course I wasn't ready.

But I was away nonetheless. Gone for about 38 minutes with just me and my bike. Well, 38 minutes was my goal, if I could make that, it'd be a successful time trial, said the DS. But who are we kidding? Saving yellow will be a success, the rest is nothing now.

I can't say my time trial was bad. I mean it is only still my second time trial. But it wasn't good, either

The audience was just amazing. I've never seen anything quite like it. There were people cheering, shouting my name, taking pictures. I even saw a fat guy with a T-shirt with my face on it. Thanks for coming, dad!

I enjoyed my day in yellow, though. My legs were burning, but I was loving it. This is why I became a cyclist. I was putting my body to the ultimate test, trying out its limits! I felt like a gladiator.

The final climb was a death trap. It were the longest 2 kilometers of my life. However, I won 48 seconds back from the winner of the day. It still wasn't enough to hang on to the yellow jersey, though.

Result

1	Vasil Kiryienka	Sky Procycling	35'29
2	Fredrik Kessiakoff	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
3	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	+ 5
4	JÃ©rÃ©my Roy	FDJ.fr	+ 34
5	Michael MÃ¸rkÃ¸v	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 47
6	JesÃºs Herrada	Movistar Team	+ 50
7	RubÃ©n Plaza	Movistar Team	+ 51
8	Anthony Roux	FDJ.fr	+ 55
9	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	+ 57
10	Damien Gaudin	Team Europcar	+ 58
(...)
60	Henry Vergnaud	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 1'45

General Classification

1	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	3h47'22
2	JÃ©rÃ©my Roy	FDJ.fr	+ 35
3	RubÃ©n Plaza	Movistar Team	+ 52
4	Damien Gaudin	Team Europcar	+ 53
5	Anthony Roux	FDJ.fr	+ 56
6	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	+ 58
7	Alexsandr Dyachenko	Astana Pro Team	+ 59
8	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ.fr	+ 1'00
9	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Sky Procycling	+ 1'01
10	Alberto Contador	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 1'04
(...)
19	Henry Vergnaud	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 1'26

Points Classification

1	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	31
2	Vasil Kiryienka	Sky Procycling	27
3	Henry Vergnaud	Citigroup Pro Cycling	25
4	Fredrik Kessiakoff	Astana Pro Team	24
5	Sacha Modolo	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	20

Analysis & Daily Thoughts

I could tell you that I expected to lose the yellow jersey, and that I enjoyed the time I had in it. That I should be immensely proud to have even worn it at all in my second pro race ever. I wouldn't be lying, don't think that. But that's not what I'm thinking now, that's what I'll be thinking in a week or so.

Right now, I'm disappointed to the bone. I did my best, my utmost best, but it wasn't near enough. I lost way too much time on 24 kilometers. If I ever want to win a Grand Tour, my ultimate goal, I can't afford days like this.

However, I'm still in the top 20 here. I've won my first pro race and worn the leader's jersey. My Tour Med is already a success, no matter what happens next. I think I'll see where I can finish in the GC now. I'll try to race smart and try to keep that top 20 place, which would be a good result, given my age, the competition and that I'm still very inexperienced.

Thanks for being here,
Henry

Jesleyh

#63

Posted on 03-12-2013 16:56

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Great win in the previous stage, and well, at least he already knows how a yellow jersey feels this early in his career

Edited by Jesleyh on 03-12-2013 17:18

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Ian Butler

#64

Posted on 03-12-2013 17:39

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Jesleyh - Let's hope he can use that experience in the Tour later on

thanks! Glad that you're following this, hope you like it!

I must admit I'm loving this at the moment. I'm having some great gameplay, exciting stages and even though I'm riding on Hard and Vergnaud' stats aren't that high, I'm getting some great results.

It's been a long time since I've enjoyed playing this much, same goes for writing the reports, hope the quality reflects that!

Next stage was another fun ride!

Ian Butler

#65

Posted on 03-12-2013 17:39

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Hi there,

Time for stage 3 of Tour Med. An interesting day, this will be my first real hilly stage.

Tour MÃ©diterranÃ©en - Stage 3

Like I said, this is my first hilly stage. A few local laps as a finish, this isn't to be underestimated. A bad day can result in losing minutes, quite easily. So I'm prepared to give everything today!

The Race

What's up with these races in the professional circuit? It seems like the peloton never takes it easy. You have to pay constant attention and it never slows down, a high pace all the time. Keep this up and I'll be burned up by the time I'm 25!

Three laps from the finish, the first attacks came. I couldn't understand it. What, these guys really had too much energy? I was just happy I could follow the pace of the peloton at this point.

Two laps from the finish, Quintana went in the attack. Once again, I didn't have a singly calorie to spare, so I waited.

But then the pace dropped. BMC was starting to get tired from riding at the front all day long. I was no longer riding on my reserves, but I was actually quite comfortable.

The leaders were building up quite a lead. On the final slope in the final lap, I attacked! It was risky, and once again my DS's stomach turned when he saw me going, but I was doing it, and that's what counted!

I got about 10 seconds, and then it stayed like that. I started to think, something a cyclist should almost never do while racing. Am I doing the right thing? Am I wasting my chances by wasting this energy?

But suddenly, the 10 seconds went up dramatically. BMC had lost its final chasing man!

When I saw my lead growing, it looked like I grew a pair of wings! I cruised downhill like a king and the finish line was close! I came very close to the front group, maybe a sprint would put me in the same time as them?

Quintana took the victory on the line, beating Daniel Martin by only about one inch. I finished 7th in the same time, winning more than a minute and a half on the peloton!

Result

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	3h38'26
2	Daniel Martin	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
3	Carlos Betancur	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
4	Jonathan Hivert	Sojasun	s.t.
5	Miguel Rubiano	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
6	Oscar Gatto	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
7	Henry Vergnaud	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
8	Igor AntÃ³n	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
9	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ.fr	s.t.
10	Romain Bardet	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
11	Julien Antomarchi	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
12	Kevin Seeldraeyers	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
13	Kristijan Durasek	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
14	Fredrik Kessiakoff	Astana Pro Team	+ 1'33
15	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar Team	s.t.

Spoiler

16	Sacha Modolo	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
17	JÃ©rÃ©my Roy	FDJ.fr	s.t.
18	Romain Feillu	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
19	Domenico Pozzovivo	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
20	Andrea Palini	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
21	Adam Blythe	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
22	RubÃ©n Plaza	Movistar Team	s.t.
23	JosÃ© Herrada	Movistar Team	s.t.
24	Sonny Colbrelli	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
25	Ricardo GarcÃa	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
26	Alberto Contador	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
27	Salvatore Puccio	Sky Procycling	s.t.
28	Jure Kocjan	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
29	Michael MÃ¸rkÃ¸v	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
30	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
31	Manuel Quinziato	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
32	Manuele Mori	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
33	JosÃ© JoaquÃn Rojas	Movistar Team	s.t.
34	Joseph Dombrowski	Sky Procycling	s.t.
35	AmaÃ«l Moinard	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
36	Rinaldo Nocentini	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
37	Nicki SÃ¸rensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
38	Sebastian Lander	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
39	Yukiya Arashiro	Team Europcar	s.t.
40	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
41	Emanuele Sella	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
42	Mads Christensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
43	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Sky Procycling	s.t.
44	Chris Anker SÃ¸rensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
45	Vasil Kiryienka	Sky Procycling	s.t.
46	Julien Simon	Sojasun	s.t.
47	Anthony Roux	FDJ.fr	s.t.
48	JosÃ© Serpa	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
49	Cyril Gautier	Team Europcar	s.t.
50	Mikel Nieve	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
51	Samuel Dumoulin	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
52	Matthias Frank	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
53	Fabio Felline	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
54	Timothy Duggan	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
55	Damien Gaudin	Team Europcar	s.t.
56	Mikel Astarloza	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
57	Steve Morabito	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
58	Maxime Bouet	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
59	Fabian Wegmann	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
60	Alex Howes	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
61	Alexsandr Dyachenko	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
62	Matteo Rabottini	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
63	Francisco JosÃ© Ventoso	Movistar Team	s.t.
64	Tomasz Marczynski	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
65	Matthieu Ladagnous	FDJ.fr	s.t.
66	Egoi MartÃnez	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
67	John-Lee Augustyn	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
68	Guillaume Levarlet	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
69	Andrey Zeits	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
70	Yohan Offredo	FDJ.fr	s.t.
71	Warren Barguil	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
72	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ.fr	s.t.
73	Mauro Finetto	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
74	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ.fr	s.t.
75	Rafael Valls	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
76	Alessandro Proni	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
77	Johan Vansummeren	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
78	Anders Lund	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
79	Florian Vachon	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
80	Pablo Lastras	Movistar Team	s.t.
81	Peter Kennaugh	Sky Procycling	s.t.
82	Rob Ruijgh	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
83	Marco Frapporti	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
84	JesÃºs Herrada	Movistar Team	s.t.
85	Valerio Agnoli	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
86	JÃ©rÃ©mie Galland	Sojasun	s.t.
87	Luke Rowe	Sky Procycling	+ 3'34
88	Kenny Van Hummel	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
89	Alexandre Pichot	Team Europcar	s.t.
90	Martijn Keizer	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
91	CÃ©dric Pineau	FDJ.fr	s.t.
92	Guillaume Bonnafond	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
93	Lachlan Morton	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
94	Jimmy Janssens	Team 3M	s.t.
95	George Preidler	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 4'32
96	Thomas Peterson	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
97	Koen De Kort	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
98	Sibrecht Pieters	Team 3M	s.t.
99	Marcus Burghardt	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
100	Miguel MÃnguez	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
101	Rick Zabel	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
102	Thomas Damuseau	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
103	Anthony Ravard	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 5'02
104	Tom Veelers	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
105	Alessandro Bazzana	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
106	ClÃ©ment Koretzky	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
107	Jean-Marc Marino	Sojasun	s.t.
108	Brice Feillu	Sojasun	s.t.
109	Matthew Lloyd	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
110	Fabien Bacquet	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
111	Rafael de Mattos Andriato	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
112	Nico Sijmens	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
113	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
114	Jonathan Monsalve	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
115	JÃ©rÃ´me Cousin	Team Europcar	s.t.
116	Luca Mazzanti	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
117	Willem Wauters	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
118	JosÃ© GonÃ§alves	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
119	Matteo Bono	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
120	Jon Aberasturi	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
121	Luca Dodi	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
122	Martijn Maaskant	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
123	Pierre-Luc PÃ©richon	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
124	Gabriel Rasch	Sky Procycling	s.t.
125	Jan Ghyselinck	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
126	Ian Boswell	Sky Procycling	s.t.
127	Noboru Okamoto	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 6'11
128	Kiel Reijnen	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 6'56
129	Geoffroy Lequatre	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
130	Cyril Bessy	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
131	Jonas Aaen JÃ¸rgensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
132	Filippo Fortin	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
133	Arnaud Labbe	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
134	Angelo Tulik	Team Europcar	s.t.
135	Jean-Luc Delpech	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
136	Mathieu Drujon	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
137	Luka Mezgec	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
138	Benjamin Giraud	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
139	GaÃ«l Malacarne	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
140	Mattia Gavazzi	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
141	Nicola Boem	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
142	SÃ©bastien Chavanel	Team Europcar	s.t.
143	Kevin Reza	Team Europcar	s.t.
144	Francesco Chicchi	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
145	Julien Fouchard	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
146	Omar Bertazzo	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
147	Steven Tronet	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
148	Marco Canola	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
149	Yann Huguet	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
150	Jonathan Clarke	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
151	Guillaume Faucon	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
152	Jean-Marc Bideau	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
153	Yannick Talabardon	Sojasun	s.t.
154	Yoann Bagot	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
155	ThÃ©o Vimpere	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
156	Patrick Facchini	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
157	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
158	GrÃ©goire Tarride	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
159	Evan Huffman	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
160	Kevin Lalouette	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
161	Cristian Delle Stelle	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
162	Nicolas Bazin	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 8'56
163	John Murphy	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
164	Wouter Mol	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
165	Marco Coledan	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
166	Robert FÃ¶rster	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
167	Alessandro Malaguti	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
168	Anthony Delaplace	Sojasun	s.t.
169	Kess Heytens	Team 3M	s.t.
170	Carter Jones	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
171	Dadley Mitchell	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
172	Ryan Eastman	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
173	Thomas Vaubourzeix	La Pomme Marseille	+ 10'32
174	Romain Lemarchand	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 11'28
175	LoÃ¯c Desriac	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
176	Cyrille Patoux	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
177	Andrea Di Corrado	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
178	Joop De Gans	Team 3M	s.t.
179	Hilton Clarke	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
180	Adrian Hegyvari	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
181	Yoann Paillot	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
182	Christopher Jennings	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
183	Eduardo Sepulveda	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
184	Alister Ratcliff	Team 3M	s.t.
185	Daniel Summerhill	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
186	Thomas Rostollan	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
187	Boris Zimine	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 12'06
188	Fabien Schmidt	Sojasun	+ 12'42
189	Tom Goovaerts	Team 3M	+ 13'58
190	Maxime Le Montagner	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
191	Timothy Vangheel	Team 3M	+ 15'17
192	Julien Duval	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
193	Lewis Rigaux	Team 3M	s.t.

General Classification

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	7h26'26
2	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ.fr	+ 22
3	Carlos Betancur	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 31
4	Daniel Martin	Garmin - Sharp	+ 46
5	Henry Vergnaud	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 48
6	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	+ 55
7	Jonathan Hivert	Sojasun	+ 1'00
8	Igor AntÃ³n	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 1'12
9	Oscar Gatto	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 1'24
10	JÃ©rÃ©my Roy	FDJ.fr	+ 1'30

Spoiler

11	Romain Bardet	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 1'39
12	RubÃ©n Plaza	Movistar Team	+ 1'47
13	Damien Gaudin	Team Europcar	+ 1'48
14	Anthony Roux	FDJ.fr	+ 1'51
15	Alexsandr Dyachenko	Astana Pro Team	+ 1'54
16	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Sky Procycling	+ 1'56
17	Alberto Contador	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 1'59
18	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar Team	+ 2'03
19	Mikel Astarloza	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 2'08
20	Mads Christensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 2'10
21	Domenico Pozzovivo	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 2'19
22	Joseph Dombrowski	Sky Procycling	s.t.
23	Matthias Frank	BMC Racing Team	+ 2'22
24	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana Pro Team	+ 2'23
25	Chris Anker SÃ¸rensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 2'27
26	JosÃ© Herrada	Movistar Team	+ 2'29
27	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ.fr	+ 2'30
28	Tomasz Marczynski	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 2'33
29	Yohan Offredo	FDJ.fr	s.t.
30	JosÃ© Serpa	Lampre - Merida	+ 2'36
31	Alex Howes	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
32	Maxime Bouet	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 2'40
33	Matthieu Ladagnous	FDJ.fr	s.t.
34	Johan Vansummeren	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
35	Egoi MartÃnez	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
36	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ.fr	s.t.
37	Mauro Finetto	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
38	Emanuele Sella	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 2'48
39	Rinaldo Nocentini	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 2'50
40	Ricardo GarcÃa	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
41	Nicki SÃ¸rensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 2'56
42	Fabian Wegmann	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
43	Alessandro Proni	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 3'00
44	Sonny Colbrelli	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 3'01
45	Andrea Palini	Lampre - Merida	+ 3'04
46	JosÃ© JoaquÃn Rojas	Movistar Team	s.t.
47	Mikel Nieve	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 3'09
48	Francisco JosÃ© Ventoso	Movistar Team	+ 3'20
49	Julien Simon	Sojasun	+ 3'23
50	Rafael Valls	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 3'25
51	Romain Feillu	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 3'27
52	Florian Vachon	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
53	Jure Kocjan	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 3'30
54	Samuel Dumoulin	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
55	Fredrik Kessiakoff	Astana Pro Team	+ 3'37
56	Vasil Kiryienka	Sky Procycling	+ 3'39
57	Adam Blythe	BMC Racing Team	+ 3'45
58	Kevin Seeldraeyers	Astana Pro Team	+ 3'46
59	Sacha Modolo	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 3'53
60	Martijn Keizer	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 4'05
61	Kristijan Durasek	Lampre - Merida	+ 4'15
62	Julien Antomarchi	La Pomme Marseille	+ 4'30
63	Guillaume Bonnafond	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 4'35
64	Salvatore Puccio	Sky Procycling	+ 4'52
65	Miguel Rubiano	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 4'58
66	Lachlan Morton	Garmin - Sharp	+ 5'06
67	Marcus Burghardt	BMC Racing Team	+ 5'12
68	Kenny Van Hummel	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
69	Michael MÃ¸rkÃ¸v	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 5'15
70	Luke Rowe	Sky Procycling	+ 5'16
71	JesÃºs Herrada	Movistar Team	+ 5'18
72	Rob Ruijgh	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 5'28
73	Manuel Quinziato	BMC Racing Team	+ 5'29
74	Koen De Kort	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 5'40
75	George Preidler	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 5'42
76	Peter Kennaugh	Sky Procycling	+ 5'55
77	Thomas Damuseau	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 5'57
78	Rick Zabel	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 6'00
79	Steve Morabito	BMC Racing Team	+ 6'05
80	Yukiya Arashiro	Team Europcar	+ 6'12
81	AmaÃ«l Moinard	BMC Racing Team	+ 6'13
82	Matteo Rabottini	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
83	John-Lee Augustyn	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 6'14
84	Pablo Lastras	Movistar Team	+ 6'22
85	Timothy Duggan	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
86	Warren Barguil	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 6'23
87	Fabio Felline	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 6'27
88	Cyril Gautier	Team Europcar	+ 6'28
89	Tom Veelers	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 6'31
90	Martijn Maaskant	Garmin - Sharp	+ 6'34
91	Valerio Agnoli	Astana Pro Team	+ 6'40
92	Alessandro Bazzana	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 6'43
93	Sebastian Lander	BMC Racing Team	+ 6'47
94	Andrey Zeits	Astana Pro Team	+ 6'49
95	Guillaume Levarlet	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 6'59
96	Anders Lund	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 7'00
97	Marco Frapporti	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 7'12
98	JÃ©rÃ©mie Galland	Sojasun	+ 7'13
99	Rafael de Mattos Andriato	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 7'26
100	Manuele Mori	Lampre - Merida	+ 7'29
101	Anthony Ravard	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 8'20
102	Filippo Fortin	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 8'46
103	Jimmy Janssens	Team 3M	+ 8'47
104	JosÃ© GonÃ§alves	La Pomme Marseille	+ 8'55
105	Cristian Delle Stelle	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 9'06
106	Marco Canola	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 9'09
107	Alexandre Pichot	Team Europcar	s.t.
108	Thomas Peterson	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 9'10
109	CÃ©dric Pineau	FDJ.fr	+ 9'19
110	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 9'24
111	Jan Ghyselinck	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 9'37
112	JÃ©rÃ´me Cousin	Team Europcar	+ 9'43
113	Luca Dodi	Lampre - Merida	+ 9'50
114	Willem Wauters	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
115	Ian Boswell	Sky Procycling	+ 10'04
116	Matthew Lloyd	Lampre - Merida	+ 10'09
117	ClÃ©ment Koretzky	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 10'10
118	Pierre-Luc PÃ©richon	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 10'19
119	Jonathan Monsalve	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 10'21
120	Miguel MÃnguez	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 10'23
121	Sibrecht Pieters	Team 3M	+ 10'24
122	Brice Feillu	Sojasun	+ 10'26
123	Luca Mazzanti	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 10'31
124	Fabien Bacquet	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 10'32
125	Nico Sijmens	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 10'34
126	Gabriel Rasch	Sky Procycling	+ 10'35
127	Matteo Bono	Lampre - Merida	+ 10'45
128	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Pro Team	+ 10'49
129	Evan Huffman	Astana Pro Team	+ 10'58
130	Jon Aberasturi	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 11'06
131	Geoffroy Lequatre	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 11'10
132	Jean-Marc Marino	Sojasun	+ 11'29
133	Kevin Lalouette	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 11'35
134	Omar Bertazzo	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 11'45
135	Luka Mezgec	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 11'51
136	Jonathan Clarke	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
137	Nicola Boem	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 11'52
138	Kevin Reza	Team Europcar	+ 11'53
139	Jean-Marc Bideau	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 11'57
140	Cyril Bessy	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 12'01
141	Arnaud Labbe	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 12'04
142	Francesco Chicchi	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
143	Yann Huguet	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 12'05
144	Patrick Facchini	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
145	GaÃ«l Malacarne	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 12'08
146	ThÃ©o Vimpere	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 12'12
147	Jean-Luc Delpech	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 12'20
148	Kiel Reijnen	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 12'22
149	Angelo Tulik	Team Europcar	+ 12'25
150	Jonas Aaen JÃ¸rgensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 12'26
151	Mathieu Drujon	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 12'27
152	Benjamin Giraud	La Pomme Marseille	+ 12'31
153	Julien Fouchard	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 12'34
154	Guillaume Faucon	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 12'39
155	Yannick Talabardon	Sojasun	+ 12'46
156	GrÃ©goire Tarride	La Pomme Marseille	+ 12'48
157	Noboru Okamoto	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 12'49
158	Mattia Gavazzi	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 12'50
159	Yoann Bagot	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 12'53
160	Dadley Mitchell	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 13'02
161	SÃ©bastien Chavanel	Team Europcar	s.t.
162	Steven Tronet	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 13'04
163	Wouter Mol	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 13'36
164	Carter Jones	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 13'43
165	Marco Coledan	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 14'06
166	John Murphy	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 14'07
167	Anthony Delaplace	Sojasun	+ 14'09
168	Ryan Eastman	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 14'18
169	Alessandro Malaguti	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 14'24
170	Kess Heytens	Team 3M	+ 14'48
171	Robert FÃ¶rster	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 14'52
172	Thomas Vaubourzeix	La Pomme Marseille	+ 15'27
173	Nicolas Bazin	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 15'47
174	Yoann Paillot	La Pomme Marseille	+ 16'04
175	Eduardo Sepulveda	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 16'10
176	Adrian Hegyvari	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 16'44
177	Andrea Di Corrado	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 16'49
178	Thomas Rostollan	La Pomme Marseille	+ 16'52
179	Alister Ratcliff	Team 3M	+ 17'22
180	Daniel Summerhill	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 17'23
181	Hilton Clarke	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 17'24
182	Cyrille Patoux	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 17'25
183	LoÃ¯c Desriac	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 17'27
184	Christopher Jennings	La Pomme Marseille	+ 17'32
185	Boris Zimine	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 18'16
186	Fabien Schmidt	Sojasun	+ 18'31
187	Maxime Le Montagner	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 19'33
188	Tom Goovaerts	Team 3M	+ 20'01
189	Romain Lemarchand	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 20'06
190	Julien Duval	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 21'02
191	Timothy Vangheel	Team 3M	+ 21'15
192	Joop De Gans	Team 3M	+ 21'45
193	Lewis Rigaux	Team 3M	+ 26'53

Points Classification

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	40
2	Henry Vergnaud	Citigroup Pro Cycling	34
3	Daniel Martin	Garmin - Sharp	32
4	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	31
5	Vasil Kiryienka	Sky Procycling	27

Mountain Classification

1	Julien Antomarchi	La Pomme Marseille	40
2	Miguel Rubiano	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	34
3	Romain Bardet	AG2R La Mondiale	28
4	Warren Barguil	Citigroup Pro Cycling	26
5	Kristijan Durasek	Lampre - Merida	22

Analysis & Daily Thoughts

I'm totally loving this! I made a tough call and it turned gold! I'm moving up the GC again and looking at who's surrounding me there, I'm not doing too shabby! With two more tough stages this race is far from over. But I'm feeling better every day, and I'm ready for more! I can start dreaming of a top 10 finish.

Stay tuned,
Henry

Edited by Ian Butler on 03-12-2013 17:40

duxili

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Posted on 03-12-2013 18:53

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Poor Sacha beaten by a newbee in the sprint

Good race so far, it looks as if Mont Faron will be decisive again... As usual

Edited by duxili on 03-12-2013 19:05

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duxili - You shouldn't say poor Sacha, but great Henry

Though I get what you mean

Mont Faron will be a tough challenge!

Shonak

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Posted on 03-12-2013 23:14

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If I ever want to win a Grand Tour, my ultimate goal, I can't afford days like this.

Just won his first stage and already thinks about winning a Grand Tour. Chapeaux.

I even saw a fat guy with a T-shirt with my face on it. Thanks for coming, dad!

Great 3rd day for Henry. He is really surrounded by amazing riders and it's impressive how he manages to take time out of them by riding brave as on this last stage or by riding smart, like when he won his stage or the mountain jersey. I suppose he really has the instinct for such races.

And yeah, it really shows in the reports how much you enjoy this right now. Really dig the emotional set-up for Henry so far and it's written in a very fine way. I do like this story a lot.

Edited by Shonak on 03-12-2013 23:15

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"Itâ€™s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V

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Shonak - Well, winning a Grand Tour is a dream right now, not an option

I think Henry's doing so fine partly because he's riding around in his home country, that probably stimulates him to push harder

I'm very happy to read you're enjoying this story! And thanks for commenting as often as you do!

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Henry obviously doesn't like the time trial, but he is fighting back on the GC

Ian Butler

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sutty68 - TT isn't his favorite discipline at the moment, but he never gives up fighting

Ian Butler

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Posted on 04-12-2013 13:13

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Hi!

The one but last day here at Tour Med. I'm hoping to hang on to a top 10 place, which would be an amazing achievement for me!

Tour MÃ©diterranÃ©en - Stage 4

Mont Faron. Can't stress enough how important today is. On a climb like this, minutes will be won and lost. After today, only a few will still be in competition for the overall victory.

The Race

Two teams were pushing the pace all day long, both for different reasons. Contador must've been planning something, putting his team to work. Quintana was looking to defend his lead, without a doubt.

Saxo Bank is famous for its tactical masterminds. Contador went quite early. Nobody reacted. I thought about it for a second, but in cycling that's what kills you. You have to react right away. But it probably was for the best, I was putting my money on Mont Faron today!

The peloton seemed anxious by this attack and Quintana himself blasted away, leaving the two strongest in the race at the front. The peloton was decapitated and anarchy found its way to the pack. It rained attacks. I tried to drift along at the front without losing too much energy. Augustyn was a major help here!

We all arrived at the foot of Mont Faron in little groups. This is a dangerous climb to overdo yourself and find yourself losing minutes in the final kilometer alone. I decided to go at my own pace, not looking at any other rider. Some sprinted by me, but I tried to ignore them.

Quintana took the win overly obious. What a rider!

As I headed in the final kilometer, I had my sights on a group of riders. About 200 meters from the finish, I was able to overtake them. Not to my surprise, they were the ones who sprinted past me earlier on the climb.

I finish the stage within the first 10, which is more than I hoped to do! Another good day for me!

Result

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	3h41'23
2	Fabian Wegmann	Garmin - Sharp	+ 58
3	Alberto Contador	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 1'13
4	Valerio Agnoli	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
5	Carlos Betancur	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 1'25
6	Michael MÃ¸rkÃ¸v	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 2'12
7	Matteo Rabottini	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 2'20
8	Daniel Martin	Garmin - Sharp	+ 2'36
9	Henry Vergnaud	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 2'45
10	Igor AntÃ³n	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 2'56

Spoiler

11	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ.fr	s.t.
12	Rafael Valls	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
13	Vasil Kiryienka	Sky Procycling	s.t.
14	Domenico Pozzovivo	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
15	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ.fr	s.t.
16	Jonathan Hivert	Sojasun	s.t.
17	RubÃ©n Plaza	Movistar Team	s.t.
18	Rinaldo Nocentini	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
19	Matthias Frank	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
20	Egoi MartÃnez	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
21	Mikel Astarloza	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
22	John-Lee Augustyn	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 3'45
23	Joseph Dombrowski	Sky Procycling	s.t.
24	Romain Bardet	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
25	Guillaume Bonnafond	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
26	Steve Morabito	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
27	Chris Anker SÃ¸rensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
28	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar Team	+ 4'12
29	Jure Kocjan	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 4'20
30	Emanuele Sella	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
31	Kevin Seeldraeyers	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
32	Alexsandr Dyachenko	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
33	Andrey Zeits	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
34	AmaÃ«l Moinard	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
35	Jonathan Monsalve	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
36	Guillaume Levarlet	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
37	Mikel Nieve	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
38	Maxime Bouet	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
39	JosÃ© Herrada	Movistar Team	s.t.
40	Warren Barguil	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
41	Matthieu Ladagnous	FDJ.fr	s.t.
42	JosÃ© Serpa	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
43	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
44	Anthony Roux	FDJ.fr	s.t.
45	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Sky Procycling	s.t.
46	Julien Simon	Sojasun	s.t.
47	Rob Ruijgh	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
48	Peter Kennaugh	Sky Procycling	s.t.
49	Oscar Gatto	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
50	Brice Feillu	Sojasun	s.t.
51	Ricardo GarcÃa	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
52	Alex Howes	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
53	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ.fr	s.t.
54	Thomas Peterson	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
55	Johan Vansummeren	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
56	Samuel Dumoulin	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
57	Yohan Offredo	FDJ.fr	s.t.
58	Sonny Colbrelli	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
59	Tomasz Marczynski	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
60	Lachlan Morton	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
61	Luca Mazzanti	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
62	Francisco JosÃ© Ventoso	Movistar Team	s.t.
63	Pablo Lastras	Movistar Team	s.t.
64	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
65	Fabio Felline	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
66	JÃ©rÃ©mie Galland	Sojasun	s.t.
67	Miguel MÃnguez	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
68	Florian Vachon	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 6'07
69	George Preidler	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
70	Cyril Gautier	Team Europcar	s.t.
71	Mauro Finetto	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
72	JosÃ© JoaquÃn Rojas	Movistar Team	s.t.
73	Matthew Lloyd	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
74	Jean-Marc Marino	Sojasun	s.t.
75	Anders Lund	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
76	Julien Antomarchi	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
77	Rafael de Mattos Andriato	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
78	Yannick Talabardon	Sojasun	s.t.
79	Manuele Mori	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
80	Nicki SÃ¸rensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
81	JosÃ© GonÃ§alves	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
82	Kristijan Durasek	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
83	JesÃºs Herrada	Movistar Team	s.t.
84	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
85	Jonathan Clarke	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
86	Manuel Quinziato	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
87	Marco Frapporti	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
88	Cyril Bessy	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
89	Timothy Duggan	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
90	Fredrik Kessiakoff	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
91	Evan Huffman	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
92	Marcus Burghardt	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
93	CÃ©dric Pineau	FDJ.fr	s.t.
94	Mads Christensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
95	Alessandro Proni	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
96	Ian Boswell	Sky Procycling	s.t.
97	Pierre-Luc PÃ©richon	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
98	Damien Gaudin	Team Europcar	s.t.
99	Koen De Kort	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
100	Yukiya Arashiro	Team Europcar	s.t.
101	Anthony Ravard	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
102	Martijn Keizer	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
103	ClÃ©ment Koretzky	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
104	Luke Rowe	Sky Procycling	s.t.
105	GaÃ«l Malacarne	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
106	Nico Sijmens	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
107	Salvatore Puccio	Sky Procycling	s.t.
108	Adam Blythe	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
109	ThÃ©o Vimpere	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
110	Marco Canola	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
111	Matteo Bono	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
112	Romain Feillu	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
113	Jonas Aaen JÃ¸rgensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
114	Willem Wauters	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
115	Geoffroy Lequatre	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 7'27
116	Luka Mezgec	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
117	Filippo Fortin	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
118	Sebastian Lander	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
119	Jan Ghyselinck	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
120	Yann Huguet	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
121	Yoann Bagot	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
122	Alessandro Bazzana	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
123	Patrick Facchini	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
124	Arnaud Labbe	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
125	Luca Dodi	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
126	Kenny Van Hummel	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
127	GrÃ©goire Tarride	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
128	Nicola Boem	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 8'12
129	Julien Fouchard	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 8'46
130	JÃ©rÃ´me Cousin	Team Europcar	+ 9'45
131	Kiel Reijnen	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
132	Nicolas Bazin	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
133	Wouter Mol	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
134	JÃ©rÃ©my Roy	FDJ.fr	s.t.
135	Kevin Lalouette	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
136	Alessandro Malaguti	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
137	Benjamin Giraud	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
138	Andrea Palini	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
139	Sibrecht Pieters	Team 3M	s.t.
140	Kess Heytens	Team 3M	s.t.
141	Miguel Rubiano	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
142	Anthony Delaplace	Sojasun	s.t.
143	Sacha Modolo	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
144	Dadley Mitchell	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
145	Tom Veelers	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
146	Angelo Tulik	Team Europcar	s.t.
147	Carter Jones	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
148	Fabien Schmidt	Sojasun	s.t.
149	Jimmy Janssens	Team 3M	s.t.
150	Jean-Marc Bideau	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
151	Alexandre Pichot	Team Europcar	s.t.
152	Cristian Delle Stelle	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
153	Marco Coledan	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
154	Thomas Damuseau	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
155	Mathieu Drujon	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
156	Omar Bertazzo	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
157	Fabien Bacquet	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
158	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
159	Francesco Chicchi	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
160	Martijn Maaskant	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
161	Kevin Reza	Team Europcar	s.t.
162	Ryan Eastman	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
163	John Murphy	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
164	Rick Zabel	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
165	Thomas Vaubourzeix	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
166	Thomas Rostollan	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
167	Yoann Paillot	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
168	Noboru Okamoto	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
169	SÃ©bastien Chavanel	Team Europcar	s.t.
170	Jean-Luc Delpech	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
171	Guillaume Faucon	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
172	Gabriel Rasch	Sky Procycling	s.t.
173	Daniel Summerhill	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
174	Eduardo Sepulveda	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
175	Robert FÃ¶rster	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
176	Steven Tronet	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
177	Christopher Jennings	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
178	Jon Aberasturi	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
179	Cyrille Patoux	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 11'41
180	Adrian Hegyvari	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 13'27
181	Andrea Di Corrado	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
182	Alister Ratcliff	Team 3M	s.t.
183	Mattia Gavazzi	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
184	Tom Goovaerts	Team 3M	s.t.
185	LoÃ¯c Desriac	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
186	Romain Lemarchand	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
187	Boris Zimine	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
188	Timothy Vangheel	Team 3M	s.t.
189	Julien Duval	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
190	Joop De Gans	Team 3M	+ 14'01
191	Maxime Le Montagner	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
192	Lewis Rigaux	Team 3M	+ 14'15
193	Hilton Clarke	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 15'31

General Classification

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	11h07'29
2	Carlos Betancur	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 2'16
3	Alberto Contador	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 3'24
4	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ.fr	+ 3'38
5	Daniel Martin	Garmin - Sharp	+ 3'42
6	Henry Vergnaud	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 3'53
7	Fabian Wegmann	Garmin - Sharp	+ 4'02
8	Jonathan Hivert	Sojasun	+ 4'16
9	Igor AntÃ³n	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 4'28
10	RubÃ©n Plaza	Movistar Team	+ 5'03

Spoiler

11	Mikel Astarloza	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 5'24
12	Domenico Pozzovivo	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 5'35
13	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
14	Matthias Frank	BMC Racing Team	+ 5'38
15	Romain Bardet	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 5'44
16	Egoi MartÃnez	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 5'56
17	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ.fr	s.t.
18	Oscar Gatto	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 6'04
19	Rinaldo Nocentini	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 6'06
20	Joseph Dombrowski	Sky Procycling	+ 6'24
21	Anthony Roux	FDJ.fr	+ 6'31
22	Chris Anker SÃ¸rensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 6'32
23	Alexsandr Dyachenko	Astana Pro Team	+ 6'34
24	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar Team	+ 6'35
25	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Sky Procycling	+ 6'36
26	Rafael Valls	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 6'41
27	Vasil Kiryienka	Sky Procycling	+ 6'55
28	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana Pro Team	+ 7'03
29	JosÃ© Herrada	Movistar Team	+ 7'09
30	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ.fr	+ 7'10
31	Tomasz Marczynski	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 7'13
32	Yohan Offredo	FDJ.fr	s.t.
33	JosÃ© Serpa	Lampre - Merida	+ 7'16
34	Alex Howes	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
35	Maxime Bouet	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 7'20
36	Matthieu Ladagnous	FDJ.fr	s.t.
37	Johan Vansummeren	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
38	Emanuele Sella	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 7'28
39	Ricardo GarcÃa	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 7'30
40	Sonny Colbrelli	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 7'41
41	Michael MÃ¸rkÃ¸v	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 7'47
42	Mikel Nieve	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 7'49
43	Francisco JosÃ© Ventoso	Movistar Team	+ 8'00
44	Julien Simon	Sojasun	+ 8'03
45	Jure Kocjan	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 8'10
46	Samuel Dumoulin	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
47	Valerio Agnoli	Astana Pro Team	+ 8'13
48	Damien Gaudin	Team Europcar	+ 8'15
49	Kevin Seeldraeyers	Astana Pro Team	+ 8'26
50	Mads Christensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 8'37
51	Guillaume Bonnafond	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 8'40
52	Matteo Rabottini	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 8'53
53	Mauro Finetto	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 9'07
54	Nicki SÃ¸rensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 9'23
55	Alessandro Proni	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 9'27
56	JosÃ© JoaquÃn Rojas	Movistar Team	+ 9'31
57	Lachlan Morton	Garmin - Sharp	+ 9'46
58	Romain Feillu	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 9'54
59	Florian Vachon	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
60	Fredrik Kessiakoff	Astana Pro Team	+ 10'04
61	Rob Ruijgh	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 10'08
62	Steve Morabito	BMC Racing Team	+ 10'10
63	Adam Blythe	BMC Racing Team	+ 10'12
64	John-Lee Augustyn	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 10'19
65	Martijn Keizer	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 10'32
66	Peter Kennaugh	Sky Procycling	+ 10'35
67	Kristijan Durasek	Lampre - Merida	+ 10'42
68	AmaÃ«l Moinard	BMC Racing Team	+ 10'53
69	Julien Antomarchi	La Pomme Marseille	+ 10'57
70	Pablo Lastras	Movistar Team	+ 11'02
71	Warren Barguil	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 11'03
72	Fabio Felline	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 11'07
73	Salvatore Puccio	Sky Procycling	+ 11'19
74	Andrey Zeits	Astana Pro Team	+ 11'29
75	JÃ©rÃ©my Roy	FDJ.fr	+ 11'35
76	Marcus Burghardt	BMC Racing Team	+ 11'39
77	Guillaume Levarlet	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
78	Luke Rowe	Sky Procycling	+ 11'43
79	JesÃºs Herrada	Movistar Team	+ 11'45
80	JÃ©rÃ©mie Galland	Sojasun	+ 11'53
81	Manuel Quinziato	BMC Racing Team	+ 11'56
82	Koen De Kort	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 12'07
83	George Preidler	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 12'09
84	Yukiya Arashiro	Team Europcar	+ 12'39
85	Timothy Duggan	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 12'49
86	Cyril Gautier	Team Europcar	+ 12'55
87	Kenny Van Hummel	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 12'59
88	Andrea Palini	Lampre - Merida	+ 13'09
89	Anders Lund	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 13'27
90	Marco Frapporti	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 13'39
91	Thomas Peterson	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 13'50
92	Rafael de Mattos Andriato	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 13'53
93	Manuele Mori	Lampre - Merida	+ 13'56
94	Sacha Modolo	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 13'58
95	Alessandro Bazzana	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 14'30
96	Sebastian Lander	BMC Racing Team	+ 14'34
97	Anthony Ravard	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 14'47
98	Jonathan Monsalve	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 15'01
99	Miguel Rubiano	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 15'03
100	Miguel MÃnguez	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
101	Brice Feillu	Sojasun	+ 15'06
102	Luca Mazzanti	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 15'11
103	JosÃ© GonÃ§alves	La Pomme Marseille	+ 15'22
104	Marco Canola	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 15'36
105	CÃ©dric Pineau	FDJ.fr	+ 15'46
106	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 15'51
107	Thomas Damuseau	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 16'02
108	Rick Zabel	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 16'05
109	Willem Wauters	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 16'17
110	Ian Boswell	Sky Procycling	+ 16'31
111	Filippo Fortin	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 16'33
112	Tom Veelers	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 16'36
113	Matthew Lloyd	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
114	ClÃ©ment Koretzky	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 16'37
115	Martijn Maaskant	Garmin - Sharp	+ 16'39
116	Pierre-Luc PÃ©richon	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 16'46
117	Nico Sijmens	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 17'01
118	Matteo Bono	Lampre - Merida	+ 17'12
119	Jan Ghyselinck	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 17'24
120	Evan Huffman	Astana Pro Team	+ 17'25
121	Luca Dodi	Lampre - Merida	+ 17'37
122	Jean-Marc Marino	Sojasun	+ 17'56
123	Jonathan Clarke	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 18'18
124	Cyril Bessy	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 18'28
125	GaÃ«l Malacarne	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 18'35
126	ThÃ©o Vimpere	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 18'39
127	Jimmy Janssens	Team 3M	+ 18'52
128	Jonas Aaen JÃ¸rgensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 18'53
129	Geoffroy Lequatre	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 18'57
130	Cristian Delle Stelle	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 19'11
131	Yannick Talabardon	Sojasun	+ 19'13
132	Alexandre Pichot	Team Europcar	+ 19'14
133	Luka Mezgec	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 19'38
134	JÃ©rÃ´me Cousin	Team Europcar	+ 19'48
135	Arnaud Labbe	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 19'51
136	Yann Huguet	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 19'52
137	Patrick Facchini	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
138	Nicola Boem	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 20'24
139	Sibrecht Pieters	Team 3M	+ 20'29
140	GrÃ©goire Tarride	La Pomme Marseille	+ 20'35
141	Fabien Bacquet	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 20'37
142	Gabriel Rasch	Sky Procycling	+ 20'40
143	Yoann Bagot	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
144	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Pro Team	+ 20'54
145	Jon Aberasturi	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 21'11
146	Kevin Lalouette	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 21'40
147	Julien Fouchard	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
148	Omar Bertazzo	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 21'50
149	Kevin Reza	Team Europcar	+ 21'58
150	Jean-Marc Bideau	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 22'02
151	Francesco Chicchi	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 22'09
152	Jean-Luc Delpech	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 22'25
153	Kiel Reijnen	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 22'27
154	Angelo Tulik	Team Europcar	+ 22'30
155	Mathieu Drujon	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 22'32
156	Benjamin Giraud	La Pomme Marseille	+ 22'36
157	Guillaume Faucon	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 22'44
158	Noboru Okamoto	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 22'54
159	Dadley Mitchell	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 23'07
160	SÃ©bastien Chavanel	Team Europcar	s.t.
161	Steven Tronet	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 23'09
162	Wouter Mol	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 23'41
163	Carter Jones	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 23'48
164	Marco Coledan	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 24'11
165	John Murphy	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 24'12
166	Anthony Delaplace	Sojasun	+ 24'14
167	Ryan Eastman	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 24'23
168	Alessandro Malaguti	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 24'29
169	Kess Heytens	Team 3M	+ 24'53
170	Robert FÃ¶rster	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 24'57
171	Thomas Vaubourzeix	La Pomme Marseille	+ 25'32
172	Nicolas Bazin	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 25'52
173	Yoann Paillot	La Pomme Marseille	+ 26'09
174	Eduardo Sepulveda	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 26'15
175	Mattia Gavazzi	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 26'37
176	Thomas Rostollan	La Pomme Marseille	+ 26'57
177	Daniel Summerhill	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 27'28
178	Christopher Jennings	La Pomme Marseille	+ 27'37
179	Fabien Schmidt	Sojasun	+ 28'36
180	Cyrille Patoux	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 29'26
181	Adrian Hegyvari	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 30'31
182	Andrea Di Corrado	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 30'36
183	Alister Ratcliff	Team 3M	+ 31'09
184	LoÃ¯c Desriac	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 31'14
185	Boris Zimine	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 32'03
186	Hilton Clarke	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 33'15
187	Tom Goovaerts	Team 3M	+ 33'48
188	Romain Lemarchand	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 33'53
189	Maxime Le Montagner	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 33'54
190	Julien Duval	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 34'49
191	Timothy Vangheel	Team 3M	+ 35'02
192	Joop De Gans	Team 3M	+ 36'06
193	Lewis Rigaux	Team 3M	+ 41'28

Analysis & Daily Thoughts

The top 10 is still very much within my grasp and I will do anything to get that. Tomorrow is another tricky stage, everyone will have a final battle plan ready. I'd better get started on mine! Though first I should tell you something else that happened right after the race!

Michelle, ma belle

After finishing, everyone but those who were needed on the podium had to descend on their own to go to the hotel. When I was at the foot, I still had about 2 kilometers to go to the hotel, no problem. Too bad none of the team mates were around. As a matter of cooling down my muscles (I strongly believe in modern cycling techniques, warming up, cooling down, that sort of stuff), I decided to take a little detour, to have about 5 - 6 kilometers in total.

I was just slowing down to take a sharp corner, it was somewhere between a few houses and some farmer fields, when my front tire blew out. I tried to stay upright, looking quite silly in the process, to eventually fall over anyway, hitting a mailbox before going down completely.

I heard some girlish giggling - oh dear, had anyone seen that? I stood up. Cyclist' instinct: I looked down and checked my legs. No open wounds, nothing was hurting. Okay, so that was all right. Then I looked up and I found myself face to face with the most beautiful girl I've ever seen.

She giggled once again, but quickly added: "Ca va? Tu t'es fait mal?" (all right? Have you hurt yourself?). Man, I was turning red, so ashamed. Suddenly I was aware that my mouth was wide open so I closed it. I swallowed and said I was quite all right.

She approached me and helped me pick up my bike. "Merde," I mumbled as I noticed the front tire. Yup, great vocabulary to use when a lady's present, dumbass. Talk about making a great impression here. I looked up only to notice her smiling.

The gentleman in me finally seemed to wake up. "Hey, thanks." I said (I'll continue in English to make it easier for you!). "It's no problem," she answered. Her voice was sweeter than honey. A small breeze coming from behind her brought her divine scent to my attention. Heaven and bliss, I thought!

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"are you okay?" She asked of me once again.
Okay? I'm super-over the top-fantastic, that's what I am! "Yeah, I'm okay", I answered. "Are y.." - "Henry! There you are!" I was so into this girl that I hadn't noticed a blue car pulling up. My DS immediately picked up my bike. "What's happened here? Your front wheel is totalled. Come on, you're late, I wondered where you were!"

"Well, boss, th.." - "No time for chit-chat now, Henry. Get in the car". He grabbed me at my arm and pushed me in the car. I tried to protest but it didn't matter. He slammed the door close, almost busting my nose, may I add. But never did I take my eyes off of her. She stood there, looking like an angel.

As our DS was putting the broken bike in the car, I opened the window. "Wait a minute, you haven't even told me your name, yet."
"It's Michelle".

Michelle. Wow "It was so nice to meet y.." - "Yeah, yeah, let's go." The DS put his foot on the pedal and we sped off to the hotel. But I was off to another planet altogether.
Everyone at the table was chatting around. But I was just sitting there, singing quietly...

Michelle, ma belle, sont des mots qui vont trÃ¨s bien ensemble...

Edited by Ian Butler on 04-12-2013 13:47

Shonak

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Less banging, more racing, Henry. Otherwise you lose your Top 10 tomorrow for sure.

Nice segment with Michelle, mate! Would be nice if Henry found succees and love in this Tour. The girl certainly knows how to walk through a field of flowers.

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Shonak - You're right, he's losing his focus here

Glad you liked the segment! Though he probably should've asked her for a number or last name or anything

and she sure can walk through a field of flowers. Though being only February, she must be cold!

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Gotta make sacrifices if you want to walk with style in a flower field.

Neither number nor last name makes things indeed difficult. He can't even facebook stalk her now probably, although that facebook magic machine surely could help him out.

Well, if he doesn't see her again, there's only one way to bring her back for good: Win the Tour de France, Henry, and then she will come back to the boy who fell to the floor and you meet again. Seems like a proper plan to me.

"Itâ€™s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V

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Nice report, especially Michelle part. Hope Henry will stay on podium although he is banging too much.

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Shonak - Now there's a proper reason to want to win the Tour

I'm afraid even facebook can't even help him here

admirschleck - Thanks, glad you liked it! I didn't plan it or anything. Just wrote down the report and started writing the Michelle segment

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Either way Henry is going to get a ride

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sutty68 -

nice one!

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Hi!

Final stage of Tour Med! Also the final day that I have a reporter from Radio B following me! Though he'll be over tomorrow to conclude the profile with an interview.

The final day in Tour Med doesn't make for an easy stage. Even though the GC victory is probably gone, most positions are still very interchangable. I'm starting to get tired. I hope I have one more good day in me!

The Race

When the race started, I was more nervous than usually. I immediately took the front and scanned thousands of faces in the crowd, looking for one lady only...

No luck.

But then it was time to refocus. I couldn't dream off when so much was at stake! As expected, Contador attacked!

Once again I fail to react immediately. This time I was badly placed, I should've been more at the front at this time of the race. I was really mad with myself when Augustyn once again proved to be the perfect team mate. Knowing what was at stake, he took me for a ride!

Thanks to his efforts, I came back to 10 seconds on Contador. Quintana was gone, though.

I'm pretty good in the final 1000 meters. Realizing these are the final meters of the Tour Med, I gave it my all one last time!

Quintana confirms his dominance with another victory.

Thanks to a pretty good sprint, I find my way to another top 10 place, outsprinting Contador! More importantly, I'm able to keep my 6th place overall!

And I can't round up here without mentioning the man without whom I would have finished way more back than 6th. John-Lee (Augustyn), I owe you big time, thanks man!

And that's it for Tour Med. Let's take a look at the final standings!

Result

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	5h21'01
2	JÃ©rÃ©my Roy	FDJ.fr	+ 30
3	Mikel Nieve	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
4	Emanuele Sella	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 52
5	Rob Ruijgh	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
6	Carlos Betancur	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
7	JosÃ© Serpa	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
8	Thomas Peterson	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 1'11
9	Jonathan Monsalve	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
10	Henry Vergnaud	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 1'20
11	Alberto Contador	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
12	Vasil Kiryienka	Sky Procycling	s.t.
13	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar Team	s.t.
14	Daniel Martin	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
15	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ.fr	s.t.

Spoiler

16	Domenico Pozzovivo	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
17	Jonathan Hivert	Sojasun	s.t.
18	Matthias Frank	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
19	Igor AntÃ³n	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
20	JosÃ© Herrada	Movistar Team	s.t.
21	Rinaldo Nocentini	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
22	John-Lee Augustyn	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 1'57
23	Johan Vansummeren	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
24	Fabian Wegmann	Garmin - Sharp	+ 2'59
25	Chris Anker SÃ¸rensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 6'32
26	Warren Barguil	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
27	AmaÃ«l Moinard	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
28	Fabio Felline	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
29	Maxime Bouet	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
30	Valerio Agnoli	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
31	Marcus Burghardt	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
32	Fredrik Kessiakoff	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
33	Michael MÃ¸rkÃ¸v	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
34	Steve Morabito	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
35	Mikel Astarloza	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
36	Matteo Rabottini	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
37	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ.fr	s.t.
38	RubÃ©n Plaza	Movistar Team	s.t.
39	Egoi MartÃnez	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
40	Miguel Rubiano	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
41	Romain Bardet	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
42	Mads Christensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
43	Peter Kennaugh	Sky Procycling	s.t.
44	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Sky Procycling	s.t.
45	Alexsandr Dyachenko	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
46	Matthieu Ladagnous	FDJ.fr	s.t.
47	Nicki SÃ¸rensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
48	Joseph Dombrowski	Sky Procycling	s.t.
49	Francisco JosÃ© Ventoso	Movistar Team	s.t.
50	Manuel Quinziato	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
51	Guillaume Levarlet	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
52	Adam Blythe	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
53	Rafael Valls	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
54	Alex Howes	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
55	Marco Frapporti	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
56	Andrea Palini	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
57	Tomasz Marczynski	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
58	Guillaume Bonnafond	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
59	Mauro Finetto	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
60	Timothy Duggan	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
61	Manuele Mori	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
62	Kevin Seeldraeyers	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
63	Sonny Colbrelli	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
64	Miguel MÃnguez	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
65	Samuel Dumoulin	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
66	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ.fr	s.t.
67	Andrey Zeits	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
68	JosÃ© JoaquÃn Rojas	Movistar Team	s.t.
69	Jean-Marc Marino	Sojasun	s.t.
70	Julien Simon	Sojasun	s.t.
71	Ricardo GarcÃa	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
72	Sacha Modolo	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
73	Pablo Lastras	Movistar Team	s.t.
74	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
75	Kristijan Durasek	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
76	George Preidler	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
77	Nico Sijmens	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
78	Anthony Roux	FDJ.fr	s.t.
79	JÃ©rÃ©mie Galland	Sojasun	s.t.
80	Pierre-Luc PÃ©richon	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
81	Koen De Kort	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
82	Sebastian Lander	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
83	Yohan Offredo	FDJ.fr	s.t.
84	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
85	Anders Lund	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
86	Brice Feillu	Sojasun	s.t.
87	Romain Feillu	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
88	Matthew Lloyd	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
89	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
90	Florian Vachon	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
91	Oscar Gatto	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
92	Ian Boswell	Sky Procycling	s.t.
93	Willem Wauters	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
94	Alessandro Proni	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
95	Jonathan Clarke	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
96	Cyril Gautier	Team Europcar	s.t.
97	JesÃºs Herrada	Movistar Team	s.t.
98	Jan Ghyselinck	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
99	JÃ©rÃ´me Cousin	Team Europcar	s.t.
100	ClÃ©ment Koretzky	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
101	Luca Mazzanti	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
102	Martijn Keizer	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
103	Lachlan Morton	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
104	JosÃ© GonÃ§alves	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
105	Matteo Bono	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
106	Luca Dodi	Lampre - Merida	s.t.
107	Jure Kocjan	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
108	Damien Gaudin	Team Europcar	s.t.
109	Geoffroy Lequatre	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
110	Julien Antomarchi	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
111	GrÃ©goire Tarride	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
112	Ryan Eastman	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
113	Thomas Damuseau	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
114	Yukiya Arashiro	Team Europcar	s.t.
115	Salvatore Puccio	Sky Procycling	s.t.
116	CÃ©dric Pineau	FDJ.fr	s.t.
117	Marco Canola	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
118	Jonas Aaen JÃ¸rgensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	s.t.
119	GaÃ«l Malacarne	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
120	Yannick Talabardon	Sojasun	s.t.
121	Dadley Mitchell	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
122	Patrick Facchini	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
123	ThÃ©o Vimpere	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
124	Yann Huguet	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
125	Rafael de Mattos Andriato	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
126	Luke Rowe	Sky Procycling	s.t.
127	Anthony Ravard	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
128	Cyril Bessy	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
129	Carter Jones	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
130	Yoann Bagot	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
131	Jean-Luc Delpech	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
132	Guillaume Faucon	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
133	Luka Mezgec	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
134	Tom Veelers	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
135	Anthony Delaplace	Sojasun	s.t.
136	Kenny Van Hummel	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
137	Kess Heytens	Team 3M	s.t.
138	Alexandre Pichot	Team Europcar	s.t.
139	Filippo Fortin	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
140	Jimmy Janssens	Team 3M	s.t.
141	Jon Aberasturi	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
142	Kevin Reza	Team Europcar	s.t.
143	Rick Zabel	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
144	Noboru Okamoto	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
145	Evan Huffman	Astana Pro Team	+ 10'16
146	Nicola Boem	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
147	Alessandro Bazzana	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
148	Arnaud Labbe	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
149	Mathieu Drujon	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
150	Fabien Bacquet	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
151	Nicolas Bazin	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
152	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
153	Francesco Chicchi	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
154	Benjamin Giraud	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
155	Julien Fouchard	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
156	Sibrecht Pieters	Team 3M	s.t.
157	Wouter Mol	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
158	Gabriel Rasch	Sky Procycling	s.t.
159	Yoann Paillot	La Pomme Marseille	+ 11'08
160	Fabien Schmidt	Sojasun	s.t.
161	Kiel Reijnen	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
162	Omar Bertazzo	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
163	SÃ©bastien Chavanel	Team Europcar	s.t.
164	John Murphy	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
165	Thomas Vaubourzeix	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
166	Marco Coledan	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
167	Cristian Delle Stelle	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
168	Martijn Maaskant	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
169	Jean-Marc Bideau	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
170	Angelo Tulik	Team Europcar	s.t.
171	Thomas Rostollan	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
172	Steven Tronet	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
173	Alessandro Malaguti	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
174	Kevin Lalouette	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
175	Christopher Jennings	La Pomme Marseille	s.t.
176	Robert FÃ¶rster	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 13'04
177	Romain Lemarchand	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
178	Mattia Gavazzi	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
179	Alister Ratcliff	Team 3M	s.t.
180	Cyrille Patoux	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
181	Boris Zimine	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
182	LoÃ¯c Desriac	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
183	Eduardo Sepulveda	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
184	Andrea Di Corrado	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
185	Adrian Hegyvari	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
186	Daniel Summerhill	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
187	Joop De Gans	Team 3M	+ 15'57
188	Timothy Vangheel	Team 3M	+ 19'16
189	Tom Goovaerts	Team 3M	+ 20'16
190	Maxime Le Montagner	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
191	Julien Duval	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	s.t.
192	Lewis Rigaux	Team 3M	+ 22'08
193	Hilton Clarke	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 23'20

General Classification

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	16h28'10
2	Carlos Betancur	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 3'28
3	Alberto Contador	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 5'04
4	Thibaut Pinot	FDJ.fr	+ 5'18
5	Daniel Martin	Garmin - Sharp	+ 5'22
6	Henry Vergnaud	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 5'33
7	Jonathan Hivert	Sojasun	+ 5'56
8	Igor AntÃ³n	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 6'08
9	Domenico Pozzovivo	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 7'15
10	Matthias Frank	BMC Racing Team	+ 7'18

Spoiler

11	Fabian Wegmann	Garmin - Sharp	+ 7'21
12	Rinaldo Nocentini	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 7'46
13	Giovanni Visconti	Movistar Team	+ 8'15
14	JosÃ© Serpa	Lampre - Merida	+ 8'28
15	Mikel Nieve	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 8'31
16	Vasil Kiryienka	Sky Procycling	+ 8'35
17	Emanuele Sella	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 8'40
18	JosÃ© Herrada	Movistar Team	+ 8'49
19	Johan Vansummeren	Garmin - Sharp	+ 9'37
20	Rob Ruijgh	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 11'20
21	RubÃ©n Plaza	Movistar Team	+ 11'55
22	JÃ©rÃ©my Roy	FDJ.fr	+ 12'13
23	Mikel Astarloza	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 12'16
24	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	+ 12'27
25	Romain Bardet	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 12'36
26	John-Lee Augustyn	Citigroup Pro Cycling	s.t.
27	Egoi MartÃnez	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 12'48
28	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ.fr	s.t.
29	Oscar Gatto	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 12'56
30	Joseph Dombrowski	Sky Procycling	+ 13'16
31	Anthony Roux	FDJ.fr	+ 13'23
32	Chris Anker SÃ¸rensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 13'24
33	Alexsandr Dyachenko	Astana Pro Team	+ 13'26
34	Kanstantsin Siutsou	Sky Procycling	+ 13'28
35	Rafael Valls	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 13'33
36	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana Pro Team	+ 13'55
37	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ.fr	+ 14'02
38	Tomasz Marczynski	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 14'05
39	Yohan Offredo	FDJ.fr	s.t.
40	Alex Howes	Garmin - Sharp	+ 14'08
41	Maxime Bouet	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 14'12
42	Matthieu Ladagnous	FDJ.fr	s.t.
43	Ricardo GarcÃa	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 14'22
44	Sonny Colbrelli	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 14'33
45	Michael MÃ¸rkÃ¸v	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 14'39
46	Francisco JosÃ© Ventoso	Movistar Team	+ 14'52
47	Julien Simon	Sojasun	+ 14'55
48	Jure Kocjan	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 15'02
49	Samuel Dumoulin	AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
50	Valerio Agnoli	Astana Pro Team	+ 15'05
51	Damien Gaudin	Team Europcar	+ 15'07
52	Kevin Seeldraeyers	Astana Pro Team	+ 15'18
53	Thomas Peterson	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 15'21
54	Mads Christensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 15'29
55	Guillaume Bonnafond	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 15'32
56	Matteo Rabottini	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 15'45
57	Mauro Finetto	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 15'59
58	Nicki SÃ¸rensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 16'15
59	Alessandro Proni	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 16'19
60	JosÃ© JoaquÃn Rojas	Movistar Team	+ 16'23
61	Jonathan Monsalve	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 16'32
62	Lachlan Morton	Garmin - Sharp	+ 16'38
63	Romain Feillu	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 16'46
64	Florian Vachon	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	s.t.
65	Fredrik Kessiakoff	Astana Pro Team	+ 16'56
66	Steve Morabito	BMC Racing Team	+ 17'02
67	Adam Blythe	BMC Racing Team	+ 17'04
68	Martijn Keizer	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 17'24
69	Peter Kennaugh	Sky Procycling	+ 17'27
70	Kristijan Durasek	Lampre - Merida	+ 17'34
71	AmaÃ«l Moinard	BMC Racing Team	+ 17'45
72	Julien Antomarchi	La Pomme Marseille	+ 17'49
73	Pablo Lastras	Movistar Team	+ 17'54
74	Warren Barguil	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 17'55
75	Fabio Felline	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 17'59
76	Salvatore Puccio	Sky Procycling	+ 18'11
77	Andrey Zeits	Astana Pro Team	+ 18'21
78	Marcus Burghardt	BMC Racing Team	+ 18'31
79	Guillaume Levarlet	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	s.t.
80	Luke Rowe	Sky Procycling	+ 18'35
81	JesÃºs Herrada	Movistar Team	+ 18'37
82	JÃ©rÃ©mie Galland	Sojasun	+ 18'45
83	Manuel Quinziato	BMC Racing Team	+ 18'48
84	Koen De Kort	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 18'59
85	George Preidler	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 19'01
86	Yukiya Arashiro	Team Europcar	+ 19'31
87	Timothy Duggan	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 19'41
88	Cyril Gautier	Team Europcar	+ 19'47
89	Kenny Van Hummel	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 19'51
90	Andrea Palini	Lampre - Merida	+ 20'01
91	Anders Lund	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 20'19
92	Marco Frapporti	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 20'31
93	Rafael de Mattos Andriato	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 20'45
94	Manuele Mori	Lampre - Merida	+ 20'48
95	Sacha Modolo	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 20'50
96	Sebastian Lander	BMC Racing Team	+ 21'26
97	Anthony Ravard	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 21'39
98	Miguel Rubiano	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 21'55
99	Miguel MÃnguez	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
100	Brice Feillu	Sojasun	+ 21'58
101	Luca Mazzanti	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 22'03
102	JosÃ© GonÃ§alves	La Pomme Marseille	+ 22'14
103	Marco Canola	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 22'28
104	CÃ©dric Pineau	FDJ.fr	+ 22'38
105	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 22'43
106	Thomas Damuseau	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 22'54
107	Rick Zabel	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 22'57
108	Willem Wauters	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 23'09
109	Ian Boswell	Sky Procycling	+ 23'23
110	Filippo Fortin	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 23'25
111	Matthew Lloyd	Lampre - Merida	+ 23'28
112	Tom Veelers	Team Argos - Shimano	s.t.
113	ClÃ©ment Koretzky	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 23'29
114	Pierre-Luc PÃ©richon	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 23'38
115	Nico Sijmens	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 23'53
116	Matteo Bono	Lampre - Merida	+ 24'04
117	Jan Ghyselinck	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 24'16
118	Luca Dodi	Lampre - Merida	+ 24'29
119	Jean-Marc Marino	Sojasun	+ 24'48
120	Alessandro Bazzana	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 25'06
121	Jonathan Clarke	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 25'10
122	Cyril Bessy	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 25'20
123	GaÃ«l Malacarne	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 25'27
124	ThÃ©o Vimpere	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 25'31
125	Jimmy Janssens	Team 3M	+ 25'44
126	Jonas Aaen JÃ¸rgensen	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	+ 25'45
127	Geoffroy Lequatre	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 25'49
128	Yannick Talabardon	Sojasun	+ 26'05
129	Alexandre Pichot	Team Europcar	+ 26'06
130	Luka Mezgec	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 26'30
131	JÃ©rÃ´me Cousin	Team Europcar	+ 26'40
132	Yann Huguet	Team Argos - Shimano	+ 26'44
133	Patrick Facchini	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
134	GrÃ©goire Tarride	La Pomme Marseille	+ 27'27
135	Yoann Bagot	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 27'32
136	Evan Huffman	Astana Pro Team	+ 28'01
137	Jon Aberasturi	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 28'03
138	Martijn Maaskant	Garmin - Sharp	+ 28'07
139	Kevin Reza	Team Europcar	+ 28'50
140	Jean-Luc Delpech	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 29'17
141	Guillaume Faucon	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 29'36
142	Noboru Okamoto	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 29'46
143	Dadley Mitchell	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 29'59
144	Arnaud Labbe	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 30'27
145	Cristian Delle Stelle	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 30'39
146	Carter Jones	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 30'40
147	Nicola Boem	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 31'00
148	Sibrecht Pieters	Team 3M	+ 31'05
149	Anthony Delaplace	Sojasun	+ 31'06
150	Fabien Bacquet	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 31'13
151	Ryan Eastman	Citigroup Pro Cycling	+ 31'15
152	Gabriel Rasch	Sky Procycling	+ 31'16
153	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Pro Team	+ 31'30
154	Kess Heytens	Team 3M	+ 31'45
155	Julien Fouchard	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 32'16
156	Francesco Chicchi	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	+ 32'45
157	Kevin Lalouette	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 33'08
158	Mathieu Drujon	BigMat - Auber 93	s.t.
159	Benjamin Giraud	La Pomme Marseille	+ 33'12
160	Omar Bertazzo	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 33'18
161	Jean-Marc Bideau	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 33'30
162	Kiel Reijnen	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 33'55
163	Angelo Tulik	Team Europcar	+ 33'58
164	Wouter Mol	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	+ 34'17
165	SÃ©bastien Chavanel	Team Europcar	+ 34'35
166	Steven Tronet	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 34'37
167	Marco Coledan	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 35'39
168	John Murphy	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 35'40
169	Alessandro Malaguti	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 35'57
170	Nicolas Bazin	BigMat - Auber 93	+ 36'28
171	Thomas Vaubourzeix	La Pomme Marseille	+ 37'00
172	Yoann Paillot	La Pomme Marseille	+ 37'37
173	Robert FÃ¶rster	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 38'21
174	Thomas Rostollan	La Pomme Marseille	+ 38'25
175	Christopher Jennings	La Pomme Marseille	+ 39'05
176	Eduardo Sepulveda	Bretagne - SÃ©chÃ© Environnement	+ 39'39
177	Mattia Gavazzi	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 40'01
178	Fabien Schmidt	Sojasun	+ 40'04
179	Daniel Summerhill	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 40'52
180	Cyrille Patoux	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 42'50
181	Adrian Hegyvari	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 43'55
182	Andrea Di Corrado	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	+ 44'00
183	Alister Ratcliff	Team 3M	+ 44'33
184	LoÃ¯c Desriac	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 44'38
185	Boris Zimine	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 45'27
186	Romain Lemarchand	Cofidis, Solutions CrÃ©dits	+ 47'17
187	Joop De Gans	Team 3M	+ 52'23
188	Tom Goovaerts	Team 3M	+ 54'24
189	Maxime Le Montagner	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 54'30
190	Timothy Vangheel	Team 3M	+ 54'38
191	Julien Duval	Roubaix Lille MÃ©tropole	+ 55'25
192	Hilton Clarke	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	+ 56'55
193	Lewis Rigaux	Team 3M	+ 1h03'56

Points Classification

1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	90
2	Henry Vergnaud	Citigroup Pro Cycling	47
3	Carlos Betancur	AG2R La Mondiale	42
4	Daniel Martin	Garmin - Sharp	42
5	JÃ©rÃ©my Roy	FDJ.fr	35
6	Vasil Kiryienka	Sky Procycling	34
7	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	31
8	Alberto Contador	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	26
9	Fredrik Kessiakoff	Astana Pro Team	26
10	Michael MÃ¸rkÃ¸v	Team Saxo - Tinkoff	22

Mountain Classification

1	Julien Antomarchi	La Pomme Marseille	48
2	Miguel Rubiano	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	34
3	Thomas Peterson	Team Argos - Shimano	32
4	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	28
5	Romain Bardet	AG2R La Mondiale	28
6	Kristijan Durasek	Lampre - Merida	28
7	Valerio Agnoli	Astana Pro Team	26
8	Warren Barguil	Citigroup Pro Cycling	26
9	Fabian Wegmann	Garmin - Sharp	20
10	Thomas Vaubourzeix	La Pomme Marseille	20

Analysis & Daily Thoughts

I don't know what to say. I've only been a pro rider for 2 races but it feels like I've been doing it forever. I'm very comfortable in the peloton and I even get a lot of respect from a lot of my collegues. Besides the time trial, I finished top 10 in every stage, which is just amazing. More so, I took my first professional victory. There are better riders who go their whole career without winning even 1.

Right now I'm happy. But most of all I'm tired. I'm also a little sad that I didn't see that girl again. I returned home to Brittany after the race, so it feels like I've missed a big chance.

Oh well...

Wildcard

Citigroup isn't doing too bad. We're by far the strongest ProContinental team at the moment. But nonetheless, we have failed to get any wildcard so far. Our only pending requests and our only hope remains the Ronde, Paris - Roubaix, the Vuelta and the Canadian Classics.

It's really a shame we couldn't get any of the Spanish stage races or one of the Ardennes. But we can't let our heads hang, we have to try and become stronger. If we make that promotion, we're guaranteed all those races next year!

Current Evaluation

A quick look to how we are doing at the moment!

CQ Ranking (Teams)

Well, this graphic shows we are well on our way to that promotion. But the season's only started, though. It's nice to have started so well, though!

Continental Ranking (Individual)

This certainly was a surprise to see! I'm doing good, too! I'm very happy to see that.

My next race will be, once again, in France! Tour de Haut Var will see a strong start list including Quintana. Two hilly stages, that's it. I will see you there!
Henry

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