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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 26-10-2008 19:20
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go Flecha 
Looking at the riders in top 10, 15th and 16th are realy good places
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 26-10-2008 19:21
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Thanks Alex Next up is Paris Nice, I have already raced 4 stages.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 26-10-2008 19:28
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I hope you'll post some of them soon
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 26-10-2008 21:03
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I think I will race both Paris Nice and Tirreno Adriatico first and then post both.
I have a quetion for you readers:
Which GT will Rujano be the leader, the Giro or the Tour? I don't think I can make him in good form at both.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 26-10-2008 21:06
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I think that Giro will be better 'cause in the Tour will be harder to make some good results
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 26-10-2008 22:20
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I have now raced both Paris Nice and Tirreno Adriatico and they will be posted tomorrow, i'm to tired to post them tonight.
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 27-10-2008 07:51
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Paris Nice
Stage 1
It's time for the first Pro Tour race, Paris Nice. Fantastic! It starts off with a small prologue. We have sent Matteo Carrara (who is in great form) as leader. Casper are here because he wanted and he maybe can sprint on the stage tomorrow. The rest are here for experience and as teammates.
The prologue went pretty well, Carrara lost only 23 seconds to the winner, Vladimir Gusev.
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 27-10-2008 08:01
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Paris Nice
Stage 2
Todays stage is the flattest stage of the tour, so this is the only stage where Casper can finish a top 10, and that's our goal for today + that Pieter wants to try to take the KOM jersey.
Piotr Mazur started the early attacks and of course, Pieter answered fast.
Attack!
That attack became succesfull, and the riders in the break today was Mazur, Portal, Vanspeybrouck, Berges and Auger.
BOTD.
With 100 km left of the stage, Piotr Mazur can't follow his breakaway companions, he has to give up.
Bye Bye!
So it's time for the KOM sprint, and Vanspeybrouck attacks, and wins it!
He will wear the jersey tomorrow.
Mazur got caught with 50 km to go and Pieters group were caught with 40 km left of the stage.
So it came down to a sprint.
3 km to the line!
Casper were there, but with 1 km left, he did look like he wont take a top 5 spot.
1 km to go.
Casper accelerated good in the last km and finished 5th, while Bernhard Eisel won the stage.
Gusev is still leading the GC.
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 27-10-2008 08:16
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Paris Nice
Stage 3
A pretty hard stage today, Casper can't hang on the peleton, that's for sure.
But maybe Carrara can do something today?
Of course there was an early attack and Pieter countered it.
Attack!
Many more riders than the riders on the picture, also decided to attack, and at the end they were to many so they got caught.
Instead a group of 8 riders became todays break: Berthou, Auge, Van Hecke, Brouzes, Kozontchuk, Knaven, Franzoi and Ladagnous. But as expected they got caught with 45 km to go.
Then Franco Pellizotti and Thomas Voeckler decided to atk, but none of them gets a gap. After that nothing happened until it was just 13 km left of the stage. Who is it? It's Matteo Carrara who attacks on the hill!
Matteo!
Nobody counters him and he fast gets a 45 seconds lead over the pack. When the sprint starts he has got a nice gap, is he going to win this?
Let's sprint for your life!
We can now see that he is going to win, but with how much?
Carrara collects the first PT points for Unibet.com!
After a while the peleton crosses the line, lead by Vladimir Gusev.
Carrara wins with 47 seconds! Amazing!
He now leads the GC and tomorrow he will wear the yellow leaders jersey!
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 27-10-2008 08:46
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Posted on 27-10-2008 10:34
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Paris Nice
Stage 4
Our tactic today was to send Pieter on the break so we didn't need to relay in the peleton.
So he attacked.
Pieter attacking.
He won the KOM sprint in the beginning easy.
Pieter celebrating.
After the KOM sprint he got caught. So this time Gil Suray tried an attack.
Attack again!
This time it worked, after a while they settled down and started to work out. They were 12 riders then.
Todays break.
But they got caught with 30 km left of the stage.
So it was time for the sprint. Every sprinter was on Carraras wheel, so the only one that Matteo could follow was Guesdon.
Time to sprint!
It was a really weird sprint, because when guys like Napolitano and Boonen just follow Matteo something is wrong. Matteo had just to pass Guesdon, and so he did.
1 km to go.
Carrara took an easy win!
Matteo celebrating his second win in this years Paris Nice.
It must have been a bug, really weird..
Vanspeybrouck took back the KOM jersey.
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 27-10-2008 11:38
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Paris Nice
Stage 5
A really tough stage, where Carrara must watch out for riders like Ricco, Di Luca, Sanchez and Rebellin. But hopefully they are not in form.
We sent Khatuntsev in todays break and he worked together with 5 other riders.
Todays break.
After a while Thomas Lövkvist and Gonzalo attacked, they joined the front group.
Lövet trying to catch Khatuntsev co.
But the break was caught with 15 km to go. With 9 km left of the stage Carlos Barredo launched an attack! Carrara, Rebellin and Halgand counters.
Attack by Barredo!
All of them stopped attacking after the KOM sprint, except for Carrara. He just kept going. At the last hill guys like Moreau and Chavanel attacked and tried to catch Matteo.
Carrara leading.
Can Carrara hold on? Moreau is pretty close now.
Carrara close to the finish.
Now Matteo is close to cracking, please not now!
No, he is not cracking before the finish line, what a win from Matteo Carrara!
Moreau and Gusev crosses the line about 40 seconds after Matteo.
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Posted on 27-10-2008 11:50
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Paris Nice
Stage 6
Vanspeybrouck countered the early attackers but it didn't lead somewhere, they got caught.
It's an attack!
Instead a group of 8 riders became todays break.
BOTD.
With 60 km left of the stage Karsten Kroon, Chris Horner, Jerome Pineau and Mauricio Ardila attacks.
Another attack!
But they got caught pretty fast, so did the break.
Matteo took his fourth stage win in this years Paris Nice, domination!
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Posted on 27-10-2008 11:51
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I have decided to change the difficulty level from Normal to HARD.
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Posted on 27-10-2008 11:57
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Paris Nice
Stage 7
BOTD: 10 riders.
Todays break.
They got caught, Fabian Wegmann won the stage in a sprint. Carrara finished in the pack.
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Posted on 27-10-2008 12:09
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Paris Nice
Stage 8
Todays stage is the last stage of this tour. It's pretty tough so todays goal is of course to take home the jersey.
The break consisted of 4 riders.
Todays break.
But as expected they got caught easy. Time for the last mountain/hill. The attacks began and Samuel Sanchez were crushing everyone today. He had a lead with over a minute over the chase group after the hill.
Sanchez alone.
Matteo was in the chase group.
Sanchez took an easy win.
Is it enough to take the jersey? Here comes Carrara!
Carrara takes 2nd.
No, it's not enough. Matteo Carrara has won Paris Nice! Amazing!
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Posted on 27-10-2008 12:18
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Tirreno Adriatico
We sent an unexperienced team here, therefore the report isn't big.
Winner Stage 1: Allan Davis (Discovery)
Winner Stage 2: Robbie McEwen (Predictor)
Winner Stage 3: Filippo Pozzato (Liquigas)
Winner Stage 4: Paolo Bettini (Quickstep)
Winner Stage 5: Fabian Cancellara (CSC)
Winner Stage 6: Michael Boogerd (Rabobank)
Winner Stage 7: Alessandro Pettachi (Milram)
GC:
Laurens Ten Dam was the best place Unibet rider, he finished 24th. (He was just here for the experience.)
Pettachi winning stage 7 of Tirreno Adriatico.
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Posted on 27-10-2008 12:43
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G_Larsson wrote:
I have decided to change the difficulty level from Normal to HARD.
Good choice considering Carrarra's dominance!
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Posted on 27-10-2008 13:52
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SportingNonsense wrote:
G_Larsson wrote:
I have decided to change the difficulty level from Normal to HARD.
Good choice considering Carrarra's dominance!
Yepp It wasn't fun to dominate with him. The reason why I started on normal was that my PC crashed so I haven't played PCM in a few months... So I didn't know how good I was anymore 
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Posted on 27-10-2008 14:44
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GReat riding in FRance, now you are a little closer to staying in the Pro Tour.
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