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| Setzel |
Posted on 28-06-2007 23:05
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Nice story mate 
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 28-06-2007 23:08
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Thanks 
Stage 5
Nicholas Roche attacked and took the only climb of the tour, now that's an easy KoM jersey to win!
In a selfless act, similar to one he did in Thailand, Cavendish gave Thomas a perfect leadout for a 1-2-3, Thomas-Cavendish-Gudsell.
1 Geraint Thomas THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS 4h18'34
2 Mark Cavendish THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS s.t.
3 Timothy Gudsell THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS s.t.
4 Romain Vanderbiest AG2R CHAMBÉRY CYCLISME FORMATION s.t.
5 Sergei Koudentsov DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
6 Sascha Damrow THÃœRINGER ENERGIE TEAM s.t.
7 Mahdi Sohrabi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
8 Mattias Westling TEAM CYKELCITY.SE s.t.
9 Lucas Schädlich THÜRINGER ENERGIE TEAM s.t.
10 Tigran Korkotyan AG2R CHAMBÉRY CYCLISME FORMATION s.t.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 28-06-2007 23:23
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Stage 6
2 Sprints within 20km from the finish completely disrupted the stage and going into the final kilometre, Cavendish was about 7th on the road. Somehow though, he worked his way through and took an unbelievable win.
1 Mark Cavendish THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS 4h09'13
2 Sergei Koudentsov DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
3 Romain Vanderbiest AG2R CHAMBÉRY CYCLISME FORMATION s.t.
4 Mahdi Sohrabi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
5 Alexandre Aulas AG2R CHAMBÉRY CYCLISME FORMATION s.t.
6 Tigran Korkotyan AG2R CHAMBÉRY CYCLISME FORMATION s.t.
7 Mattias Westling TEAM CYKELCITY.SE s.t.
8 Benoît Ebrard AG2R CHAMBÉRY CYCLISME FORMATION s.t.
9 Sascha Damrow THÃœRINGER ENERGIE TEAM s.t.
10 Bradley White DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
11 Geraint Thomas THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS s.t.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 28-06-2007 23:30
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Stage 7
When we left Sharm El Sheikh, Helminen was sitting at the back of a semi-large breakaway, and when we re-entered it, he was one of 3 remaining and starting the sprint, Helminen had the weaker stat but had the advantage of coming from behind. With 1km to go I doubted that advantage as Helminen was struggling to round the 2nd placed rider, but his 2 opponents faded leaving Helminen free to take his 3rd stage of the race. (ITT, and leading home the TTT being the other 2.)
1 Matti Helminen THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS 2h56'18
2 Dariusz Wojciechowski MAPAMAP - BANTPROFI s.t.
3 Henric Wilert TEAM CYKELCITY.SE s.t.
4 Romain Vanderbiest AG2R CHAMBÉRY CYCLISME FORMATION s.t.
5 Mattias Westling TEAM CYKELCITY.SE s.t.
6 Geraint Thomas THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS s.t.
7 Tim Meeusen MURPHY & GUNN - NEWLYN - M.DONNELLLY - SEAN KELLY s.t.
8 Sergei Koudentsov DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
9 Brice Jones JELLY BELLY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
10 Mark Cavendish THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS s.t.
No time gaps though ~ despite Cavendish slowing in the hope of Helminen getting a gap (Hence the reason he finished 10th instead of 4th). Wilert and the Mapamap rider were just too slow. This still worked in Cavendish' favour, as he kept the lead.
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| Setzel |
Posted on 28-06-2007 23:33
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Keep going mate don't stope to good for them
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| Crommy |
Posted on 29-06-2007 09:40
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Top racing there SN - have you won every race in Egypt? If you have, try to go for the clean sweep. That would be impressive, even on normal
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 30-06-2007 12:53
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Stage 8
Roche made a do or die attack with 13km to go, and it became the first attack of the whole stage to get a gap. He still had 800m over the front of the peleton when the peleton began to sprint, Thomas was 21st on the road, Cavendish 24th. Disaster struck for Thomas as as soon as he began to sprint, he punctured.
Cavendish meanwhile, had to work hard to catch up with Koudentsov and the 2 Ag2r youth riders, his form was phenomenal though and he was on their wheel with 2km to go, 10th on the road.
Cavendish made his move with 1km to go, he was at 53 kmph, Roche was going at 38kmph, but Roche was surely going to hang on!
And he does! Although by 100metres after the line, Cavendish had passed him.
1 Nicolas Roche THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS 16'55
2 Mark Cavendish THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS s.t.
3 Romain Vanderbiest AG2R CHAMBÉRY CYCLISME FORMATION s.t.
4 Sergei Koudentsov DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
5 Robert Bachraty DUKLA TRENCIN MERIDA s.t.
6 Mahdi Sohrabi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
7 Tigran Korkotyan AG2R CHAMBÉRY CYCLISME FORMATION s.t.
8 Tim Meeusen MURPHY & GUNN - NEWLYN - M.DONNELLLY - SEAN KELLY s.t.
9 Mattias Westling TEAM CYKELCITY.SE s.t.
10 Timothy Gudsell THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS s.t.
Thus ends the clean sweep in Egypt, lets have a look at the overall standings.
 1 Mark Cavendish THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS 19h45'22
2 Nicolas Roche THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS + 8
3 Matti Helminen THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS + 19
4 Geraint Thomas THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS + 24
5 Adrian Laidler THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS + 45
6 Timothy Gudsell THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS + 50
7 Jason Allan THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS + 1'02
8 Szymon Szafraniak MAPAMAP - BANTPROFI + 2'54
9 Dean Podgornik MAPAMAP - BANTPROFI + 3'24
10 Romain Vanderbiest AG2R CHAMBÉRY CYCLISME FORMATION + 3'26
 1 Mark Cavendish THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS 116
2 Romain Vanderbiest AG2R CHAMBÉRY CYCLISME FORMATION 92
3 Sergei Koudentsov DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM 90
4 Geraint Thomas THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS 79
5 Matti Helminen THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS 70
6 Mahdi Sohrabi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM 65
7 Mattias Westling TEAM CYKELCITY.SE 51
8 Nicolas Roche THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS 50
9 Timothy Gudsell THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS 38
10 Sascha Damrow THÃœRINGER ENERGIE TEAM 34
 1 Nicolas Roche THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS 6
2 Pol Nabben DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM 4
3 Benjamin Justesen TEAM VISION BIKES - LØGSTØR PARKHOTEL 2
Cavendish won the youth jersey, and I dont need to tell you who won the team classification!
Cav now leads the Continental tour, as we close in on 1000 points.
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 30-06-2007 15:32
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Great stuff.
2 things,
1: How many wins do you have in total and are you happy with how many
2: WHY ARE THE TREES IN MID AIR |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 30-06-2007 18:53
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| Crommy |
Posted on 30-06-2007 21:48
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SportingNonsense wrote:
That's all that needs to be said
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 30-06-2007 22:31
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It will get better
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 30-06-2007 22:35
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Roar Many victories.... TREES? |
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| lance_armstrong |
Posted on 30-06-2007 22:38
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Make difficulty harder for more intersting story. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 30-06-2007 22:55
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lance_armstrong wrote:
Make difficulty harder for more intersting story.
SportingNonsense wrote:
It is normal and I will not be changing it
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| lance_armstrong |
Posted on 30-06-2007 22:57
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SportingNonsense wrote:
lance_armstrong wrote:
Make difficulty harder for more intersting story.
SportingNonsense wrote:
It is normal and I will not be changing it
I saw that but you are dominating and it seems to easy. Anyway the decision is yours. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 30-06-2007 23:07
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I have said this enough times, I am dominating because I have the best riders, I am racing against fairly weak oppposition, and unlike most teams I have good early season form as all my Season goals were in January.
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| lance_armstrong |
Posted on 30-06-2007 23:28
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Ok, ok, you don't need to get mad, sorry. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 30-06-2007 23:37
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It's BBC One, it's 3am and with nothing better to show, let's have a 5 minute cycling highlights program, with our cheap commentator: Craig Zygotheme Or 'Cra Zy' as he likes to be called.
Crazy! Those crazy idiots at the BBC think I have the time to get up at 3 in the morning for a 5minutes highlights program of some small Italian race that happened over a week a go, the GP Costa degli Etruschi.
Joining me today is Colin Jackson, the former 110m hurdler - as he likes to be part of every programme the BBC make. So Colin, theres a couple of hills near the start, which if you look at them side on, look kinda like hurdles. Who will win this race? Well Craig, I have no Idea, Chris Boardman maybe? He's retired. Oh, Lance Armstrong? So is he! Oh. You're crazy dude.
Early today, Mattia Turrina, Heath Blackgrove, Michael Pichler, Alessandro Bertolini, Alessio Signego, Luca Pierfelici, Maurizio Varini, Antonio D'Aniello, Diego Caccia. Any of them Brits? No, you crazy fool.
Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy.
Here comes the sprint, those guys.. who are not Brits by the way... yes ... well here they come and its Heath Blackgrove who wins! Robbie McEwen and some other riders were in the sprint. Any Brits. Uh, Ben Swift was 75th and Ian Stannard was 91st.
1 Heath Blackgrove THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS 4h38'37
2 Alessio Signego OTC DOORS - LAURETANA s.t.
3 Mattia Turrina SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI - SELLE ITALIA s.t.
4 Alessandro Bertolini SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI - SELLE ITALIA s.t.
5 Luca Pierfelici AURUM HOTELS s.t.
6 Michael Pichler ELK HAUS - SIMPLON s.t.
7 Maurizio Varini CERAMICA FLAMINIA s.t.
8 Antonio D'Aniello CERAMICA FLAMINIA s.t.
9 Diego Caccia BARLOWORLD s.t.
10 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 56
11 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
12 Robbie McEwen PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
13 Gianluca Coletta CINELLI - ENDEKA - OPD s.t.
14 Jesus Del Nero SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
15 Ivan Stevic THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS s.t.
16 Sebastian Siedler TEAM MILRAM s.t.
17 Hayden Roulston THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS s.t.
18 Enrico Gasparotto THE BRITISH ALL BLACKS s.t.
19 Alberto Loddo SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI - SELLE ITALIA s.t.
20 Adam Wadecki CERAMICA FLAMINIA s.t.
Edited by SportingNonsense on 30-06-2007 23:56
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| LK |
Posted on 30-06-2007 23:45
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You win a lot
great story btw |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 01-07-2007 19:05
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lance_armstrong wrote:
Ok, ok, you don't need to get mad, sorry.
I wasn't mad at all. But I do think it odd that you tell me to increase level when you are absolutely dominating your story on normal.
Preview of my next race is coming up.
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