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| mb2612 |
Posted on 06-06-2009 19:25
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Wow, awesome,
now aim for le tour?
and a win in the Vuelta next year 
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| Bosskardo |
Posted on 06-06-2009 19:28
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Very nice
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| kirosha |
Posted on 06-06-2009 19:39
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Congrats! Very well done! |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 06-06-2009 19:40
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awesome win - finally a big victory in the ardennes
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 06-06-2009 19:55
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Great win! Can we see Denifls stats?
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| MrContador |
Posted on 06-06-2009 20:00
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Congrats! Great win! |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 06-06-2009 21:05
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Great that the tactics worked out in the end |
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| ursul |
Posted on 06-06-2009 21:45
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Nice win, Liège - Bastogne - Liège! |
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| niconico |
Posted on 06-06-2009 22:33
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Thank you for the comments guys
Coming up next, Jonas' final race of the spring, Henninger Turm, and then soon his schedule for the remainder of the season will be revealed.
Stefan Denifl:
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| ember |
Posted on 06-06-2009 22:45
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Congratulations so much!
Can we please see the stats of the newborn king of LBL? |
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| niconico |
Posted on 06-06-2009 23:00
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ember wrote:
Congratulations so much!
Can we please see the stats of the newborn king of LBL?
I don't think they have change radically since the beginning of the season. I have his stats from that point a few pages back.
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| ember |
Posted on 06-06-2009 23:07
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Nice, and I have to say that I hope you continue this story until you are a main contender for Tour de France |
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| niconico |
Posted on 06-06-2009 23:13
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ember wrote:
Nice, and I have to say that I hope you continue this story until you are a main contender for Tour de France
I think you might be stretching it now, eventhough that would be quite cool. I am training him as a climber now actually, so let's see. La Vuelta is down the road sometime. 
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 06-06-2009 23:24
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ah we'll turn a blind eye if you give him a stats boost or change his speciality and put xp back to level 3
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 06-06-2009 23:35
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A_Schleck wrote:
Thank you for the comments guys
Coming up next, Jonas' final race of the spring, Henninger Turm, and then soon his schedule for the remainder of the season will be revealed.
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| niconico |
Posted on 07-06-2009 15:34
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Rund Um Den Henninger Turm
I’m finally at the end of what I would like to call a rather successful spring season. Eventhough I would have like to finish it off in GP Copenhagen which is raced today aswell, I was told to take part here. I guess it’s because it’s bigger and therefore fits a La Doyenne Winner somewhat better. It’s incredible to have that line on your resume. The past couple of days have been quite hectic. I almost haven’t been training because of all the media attention I’m receiving right now, so my form is not as good as it was when I won in Ans. Actually I might end up riding for Kirchen today, if he feels up for it. I won here two years ago. It was my first victory after signing for High Road and I remember beating the likes of Velits, Schleck and Pellizotti. That was no doubt a key day in my career. I don’t think today will though. I might post a decent result, but as said I’m likely to be working for Kirchen today, and after my big win a few days ago, a win here seems less significant.
Let’s turn to the finale. With 70 kilometres to go on the penultimate of the big climbs, Cherel, Kvasina and Costa attacked and quickly got a considerable gap. On the next climb they caught and dropped the three early attackers and they were looking quite good at this point with 2 minutes on the pack, where no team wanted to take initiative. Me and Kim attacked on this hill though to commence what would turn out to be a furious chase on the leaders.
Julien Simon, who did a Top 10 in Paris-Nice earlier this season and Vincenzo Nibali came across to me and Kim and we finally made the junction to the leaders with 11 kilometres to go. At this point I was pretty beat having put in some serious relays for Kirchen on the flat to haul in the three leaders. Luckily I didn’t do all the work in vain as we were now part of the 7-man group that would settle this edition between us.
Nibali, me, Costa, Kirchen, Simon, Kvasina and Cherel.
I led out Kirchen for the sprint and I’m surprised with myself that I even had the strength to do so considering how incredibly tired I was at this point. Kirchen was diamond legs today and we wouldn’t let that go to waste, so I hit the front with none of the 5 others being able to follow us at all.
Looking good for High Road – I had put Kirchen in a great position.
Kirchen would take the win though I blew up as I had finished my lead-out. Apparently though I had busted open so big a gap that I would hold on to take 2nd place, while Cherel took 3rd.
The ever so familiar taste of victory!
I actually enjoyed this race a lot after finishing. Not during obviously as it turned out be insanely tough with all the work I had to put in. Kirchen is a great rider, but he had no luck in the Ardennes, so I’m happy I could him win this one. Now I’m off home for a while to do relaxing. I’ll watch the Tour de Romandie on the telly and not train too hard these next couple of weeks. I have, again, had a tough spring, and rewarding aswell of course, but now I’m going to take myself a small break from racing and find out which big races are coming up for me in the coming months.
1 Kim Kirchen Team High Road 5h01'27
2 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road s.t.
3 Mikaël Chérel Team CSC s.t.
4 Vincenzo Nibali Liquigas s.t.
5 Julien Simon Rabobank s.t.
6 Matija Kvasina Cycle Collstrop s.t.
7 Rui Costa ELK Haus - Simplon s.t.
8 Kevin Seeldraeyers Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner + 1'41
9 Daniele Pietropolli LPR Brakes s.t.
10 Raúl Santamarta Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner s.t.
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 07-06-2009 15:55
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domination!
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| niconico |
Posted on 07-06-2009 17:26
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Jonas’ Corner
– May 2011
Just a small heads up on what’s going on right now. As I promised myself I got to watch the Tour de Romandie, which turned quite sweet for us with Thomas Dekker taking the overall including two stages and Diego Ulissi finishing 3rd overall. He should have a great Giro. I came to the team the same year he did and he is a very strong rider who I’m sure will go on to win Le Tour some day. He’s a great guy and live pretty close by him in Italy and I will surely be arranging my training during the Giro so I can watch the finales of every stage. Should be a great race.
So when I’m not going to Giro d’Italia this year you might wonder if I’m going to race a Grand Tour. I would very much like to ride Le Tour this season and I would say that I have earned a spot now. But also the World Championships route in Cagliari looks very good this year and if I do go to race Le Tour, then I might be too tired by September. I spoke with Stapleton a few days ago and he told me that I of course was in the provisional line-up for the race, but it was more or less up to if I wanted to go for the World Championships and wait another year to race my first Tour de France. I’m 25 now, so I still have a lot of Tours in me, but I’m starting to get too anxious to race it and it’s not completely impossible to aim for a result at the Worlds while also doing Le Tour.
It’s a great time right now anyway with all the recognition I’m getting not only in the peloton but also from great retired riders. Even the one and only Eddy Merckx called me a few days ago to congratulate me on my triumph. I have also been speaking a lot with my old trainer at GLS, Rolf Sørensen, who I owe a lot of credit aswell for the win. Rolf was the first Dane ever to win Liège-Bastogne-Liège and I’m the second now. Maybe I’ll be the first Dane with multiple wins.
That’s it for now. Talk to you soon.
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| niconico |
Posted on 08-06-2009 17:54
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Jonas’ Corner
– Guess what!
The wait is over, after fighting for two and half seasons at Team High Road I have clinched by first ever Tour de France berth! Well after my amazing spring it was more or less secure, and it was up to myself if my Tour debut should come at age 25 or 26. 25 it is though and on July 5 I’m lining up for the Tour de France Prologue in London.
Our final team was announced at a press conference on May 2, the day after the Giro, which I’ll come back to later. Not surprisingly Thomas Dekker is the team captain with Linus Gerdemann being his 1st lieutenant. Mark Cavendish is there for the sprints alongside Hagen, while me, Wiggins, Cornu, van Avermaet and Kirchen will be supporting our captains and sprinters in the three weeks through France. I have already been promised the freedom to chase stage wins however, so naturally I’m really looking forward to this. It just doesn’t get any bigger.
Now to even more good news as my teammate Diego Ulissi stunned the pack in the Giro d’Italia to take 2 stage wins including the overall victory ahead of Ivan Basso and Manuel Medina. I was training at a low intensity during the Giro, so I had some time to watch the stages and what a race it was. I wrote in my last blog that Ulissi surely would go on to the win the Tour de France at some point and now at age 21 he has already won the Giro. Unbelievable.
Next on the schedule for me is Tour de Suisse, where we will bring our entire Tour de France team with the exception of Cornu who will race Dauphine Libere. I don’t expect to do any good results in Switzerland though as my form will be pretty poor and none of the stages are particular fitting for me. That’s also my first doing that race, so I’m hoping it’s going to be a lot of fun.
Jonas out.
I am going to Champs Élysées.
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| niconico |
Posted on 12-06-2009 20:56
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Tour de Suisse
Just these nine stage races and the Danish Championships and then I’m ready for the Tour de France. I really haven’t got any ambitions for this race results wise. This is all about honing my form, which is not where it should be at the beginning of a Grand Tour that is. I have been training at a very low intensity for over a month now, so I’m simply not capable of doing any good results here, unless my form improves A LOT over the first couple of stages. I don’t count on it though. Our captains here are Thomas Dekker and Linus Gerdemann, with the latter looking a bit stronger right now. But Thomas isn’t supposed to be peaking before the Tour, so that’s not important. Also in our team are Cav, Hagen, Kirchen, Wiggins and Greg.
Stage 1/9
First stage was a road race instead of a short prologue. Normally a stage where I would try and annoy the sprinters in the finale a bit, but not today for sure, I don’t have the required top speed yet. Instead we’re banking on Cav and Edvald.
Having a chat with Garmin’s Johannes Fröhlinger ahead of my first Swiss adventure.
Not surprisingly it all went down in a sprint today. Cav was too exhausted by the finish, so Greg tried to set up Edvald for the sprint. I was just sitting in the background being pretty wiped out physically by the end, as it turned out to be a quite fast-paced stage. Hagen did a good job as he took 3rd. Mathieu Drujon of Milram took the win.
1 Mathieu Drujon Team Milram 4h24'30
2 Daryl Impey Caisse d'Epargne s.t.
3 Edvald Boasson Hagen Team High Road s.t.
4 Coen Vermeltfoort Liquigas s.t.
5 Lucas Haedo Team Milram s.t.
30 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road s.t.
Stage 2/9
Day two and I’m not exactly longing to talk about it as today’s stage was a, you guessed it, time trial, and on top of that it was about 45 kilometres. Heavy loss for me was of course inevitable. Wiggins was our best man on the day and it looked as though he would take the win. Mollema showed that he is gunning for the overall here though as he took the stage almost one minute faster than Wiggins. World Champion Ignatiev took 2nd place.
I lost almost 5 minutes finishing in 94th. Tomorrow we face the first serious uphill finish and I’m not excited.
1 Bauke Mollema Rabobank 56'25
2 Mikhail Ignatiev LPR Brakes + 19
3 Bradley Wiggins Team High Road + 50
4 Brian Vandborg Barloworld + 1'10
5 Tom Stubbe Saunier Duval - Scott + 1'23
6 Stef Clement Acqua e Sapone - Caffè Mokambo s.t.
7 Edvald Boasson Hagen Team High Road + 1'48
8 Adriano Malori Barloworld + 1'51
9 Stefan Schumacher Caisse d'Epargne + 1'52
10 Alberto Contador Team Astana + 2'00
94 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road + 4'46
GC
1 Bauke Mollema Rabobank 5h20'55
2 Mikhail Ignatiev LPR Brakes + 19
3 Bradley Wiggins Team High Road + 50
4 Brian Vandborg Barloworld + 1'10
5 Stef Clement Acqua e Sapone - Caffè Mokambo + 1'23
6 Tom Stubbe Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
7 Edvald Boasson Hagen Team High Road + 1'44
8 Adriano Malori Barloworld + 1'51
9 Stefan Schumacher Caisse d'Epargne + 1'52
10 Alberto Contador Team Astana + 2'00
78 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road + 4'46
Stage 3/9
There was a few climbs before the finale but nothing that compared to the last 18 kilometres at 11,2%!!!! Let’s just skip to the final climb, I was in for an ass-whooping no matter what. I managed to stay with Thomas and Linus pretty well for the first 5 kilometres, but when the big boys began racing I was of course long gone, but so was a lot of other riders, which meant I did reasonably today.
Hanging in there – trying to help Thomas and Linus. I was busy enough just keeping up though.
Thomas was quite strong today and he managed to get himself in the favourites group with riders like Mollema, Di Luca, Contador, Plaza, Efimkin etc. He did have to let go relatively early, but he kept a reasonable pace the rest of the climb and he is well into the Top 10 now.
The stage was contested between Contador and Di Luca as race leader Mollema was dropped a few kilometers from the summit. Contador turned out the strongest as he took the stage and the yellow jersey. Not by much though as Mollema is not at all out of the race yet.
The new race leader – Alberto Contador.
I finished 68th, almost a half an hour back. Wiggins and Greg were too slow today though as they fell outside the time limit. A setback in their Tour preparations. Tomorrow’s stage is flat so I might try and go early to try and push myself a bit.
1 Alberto Contador Team Astana 4h30'54
2 Danilo Di Luca LPR Brakes + 8
3 Bauke Mollema Rabobank + 2'01
4 Rubén Plaza Lampre + 2'31
5 Alberto Losada Caisse d'Epargne + 4'19
6 Vladimir Efimkin Tinkoff Credit Systems s.t.
7 Tom Stubbe Saunier Duval - Scott s.t.
8 Thomas Dekker Team High Road + 4'35
9 John Devine Quick•Step + 6'15
10 Edwin Parra Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni - Androni Giocattoli + 6'45
71 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road + 24'47
GC
1 Alberto Contador Team Astana 9h53'39
2 Bauke Mollema Rabobank + 7
3 Danilo Di Luca LPR Brakes + 1'41
4 Rubén Plaza Lampre + 2'55
5 Tom Stubbe Saunier Duval - Scott + 3'52
6 Alberto Losada Caisse d'Epargne + 5'05
7 Thomas Dekker Team High Road + 5'29
8 Vladimir Efimkin Tinkoff Credit Systems + 6'38
9 Edwin Parra Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni - Androni Giocattoli + 7'42
10 John Devine Quick•Step s.t.
68 Jonas Aaen Jørgensen Team High Road + 27'43
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