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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 23-01-2014 10:03
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I agree about the Andy Schleck part. It was like Chocolate Mud Cake every day of the year 
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 23-01-2014 16:15
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Jakstar22 - Exactly  I'd like for Henry to have a more successful career than Schleck Well, he has a nice career, but it could've been much better. |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 23-01-2014 16:15
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The Wedding Crashers - Part III I opened the message Becca had sent me.
"You're not getting cold feet, are you?
Love you."
I answered with a simple smiley, there was no time for something else. Meanwhile Warren had returned with my parents. After a quick hug with mother, we got ready to leave for the church.
I was going to pull this off!
 Tour de Suisse - Unfortunate Chain Reaction
The Tour de Suisse was lost for me anyway, I'm just here to warm up for the Tour, so I can live with that.
In the next stages, I lost some time and took some Mountain points. In the end, I conquered the Mountain Jersey and finished 15th.
Valverde came out on top, with Nibali in 2nd, Froome in third. They seem in good shape.
Warren, my best man, ended up 11th, good for him!
Despite the bad luck, I leave Switzerland with a good feeling towards the National Championships and the Tour de France. Not battling for the GC allowed me to sit back and observe my competitors for the next four weeks.
Next up, the National Championships!
Henry
Edited by Ian Butler on 23-01-2014 16:18
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 23-01-2014 16:36
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Lets hope Henry can become the National Champion  |
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| duxili |
Posted on 23-01-2014 16:55
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Only one way to the revenge: French Champion!
(oh Top 3 in le Tour can do it as well  )
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 23-01-2014 17:18
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sutty68 - Your wish is my command
duxili - I will have my revenge! Top 3 in the Tour seemed far off at the start of the season. But I'm not sure it's impossible anymore |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 23-01-2014 17:18
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All eyes on the National Championships this time of the year!
 French National Championships - Road Race 2015
This is one of the only races where only Gold is good enough for me. I didn't come here to be 2nd or 3rd. I wanted to win, and to win only!
Le Bon and Offredo would both work for me.
The Race Le Bon broke from the peloton and was the strongest at the front. A good move by him, forcing Europcar and AG2R to do the work.
As I said, we need to get rid of the sprinters. We can't take them to the line. About 23 kilometers from the finish, Offredo launched me into a long attack. It was a big risk, but I needed to take it!
I kept the peloton at a distance but didn't gain much.
Le Bon dropped out of the front group and took over a lap later.
I still wasn't gaining much, but I knew the peloton was ready to crack. Europcar and AG2R must've been out of domestiques. The leaders would come out to play soon!
The final 10 kilometers I was on my own. It was too much of a risk to let the chasers join me. It was 6 against 1!
Heading into the final lap, I was starting to doubt my decision to attack from far out. I was still only at 20 seconds. But then it happened. Behind me, the game of hesitation began, they started fighting for a second and a third place. I kept going. 30 seconds, 40 seconds.
For five laps, I had been fighting like a demon to keep my 20 seconds. In the final lap, I suddenly had a minute to spare. Which was great, gave me time to celebrate the victory! They had cracked, at last!
And so I'm halfway Magne's record of 4 road titles. Today's victory was the final percentage and morale boost I needed for the Tour. Starting with a 3 km prologue on Corsica, I'm ready to start in my very first Tour de France, nobody will stand in my way now. I will ride the biggest annual sports event in the jersey of my home country. What could be greater?
Result
| 1 | Henry Vergnaud | Team Celesio - Macquarie | 4h19'15 | | 2 | Arthur Vichot | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 54 | | 3 | Pierre Rolland | Team Europcar | + 1'02 | | 4 | Romain Hardy | Atlas Personal - Jakroo | s.t. | | 5 | Romain Bardet | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 6 | Benoît Vaugrenard | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 7 | Hubert Dupont | Sojasun | s.t. | | 8 | Jonathan Hivert | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 2'06 | | 9 | Thibaut Pinot | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 10 | Julien Simon | Rapha Condor - JLT | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | Yohan Offredo | Team Celesio - Macquarie | s.t. | | 12 | Tony Gallopin | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 13 | Julien Antomarchi | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 14 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 15 | Maxime Bouet | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 16 | Guillaume Levarlet | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 17 | Yannick Martinez | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 18 | Jérôme Coppel | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 19 | Brice Feillu | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 20 | Johan Le Bon | Team Celesio - Macquarie | s.t. | | 21 | Romain Sicard | Nutrixxion - Abus | s.t. | | 22 | Matthieu Ladagnous | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 23 | Thomas Damuseau | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 24 | Axel Domont | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 25 | Alexandre Geniez | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 26 | Warren Barguil | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 27 | Cyril Gautier | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 28 | Arnold Jeannesson | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 29 | Anthony Roux | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 30 | Romain Feillu | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 31 | Guillaume Malle | BigMat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 32 | Johan Mombaerts | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 33 | Christophe Riblon | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 34 | Clément Koretzky | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 35 | Sébastien Turgot | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 36 | Rémy Di Gregorio | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 37 | Stéphane Poulhiès | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 38 | Jérémy Roy | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 39 | Aurélien Passeron | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 40 | Christophe Kern | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 41 | Christophe Le Mével | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 42 | Sylvain Georges | BigMat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 43 | Fabrice Jeandesboz | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 44 | Damien Gaudin | Team Europcar | + 2'57 | | 45 | Amaël Moinard | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 46 | Jérôme Cousin | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 47 | Gaël Malacarne | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 48 | Samuel Dumoulin | BigMat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 49 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 50 | Vincent Jérôme | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 51 | Loris Baudouin | Leopard - Trek Continental Team | s.t. | | 52 | Jérémie Galland | Sojasun | s.t. | | 53 | Nacer Bouhanni | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 54 | Jérôme Pineau | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 55 | Dimitri Le Boulch | BigMat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 56 | Antoine Lavieu | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 57 | Brice Bigot | Team Plussbank | s.t. | | 58 | Pierre-Luc Périchon | BigMat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 59 | Laszló Bodrogi | Sojasun | s.t. | | 60 | Kenny Elissonde | AG2R La Mondiale | + 4'37 | | 61 | Cyril Lemoine | Sojasun | + 4'46 | | 62 | Arnaud Courteille | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 4'57 | | 63 | Stéphane Rossetto | BigMat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 64 | Mickaël Delage | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 65 | Steve Houanard | BigMat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 66 | Paul Poux | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 67 | Nadir Haddou | BigMat - Auber 93 | s.t. | | 68 | Alban Brisson | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 69 | Adrien Petit | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 70 | Armindo Fonseca | Roubaix Lille Métropole | s.t. | | 71 | Jean-Christophe Peraud | La Pomme Marseille | + 5'14 | | 72 | Damien Monier | Roubaix Lille Métropole | s.t. | | 73 | Anthony Geslin | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 74 | Jean-Marc Bideau | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 75 | Maryan Hary | Leopard - Trek Continental Team | s.t. | | 76 | Julien Loubet | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 77 | Romain Lemarchand | Team Plussbank | s.t. | | 78 | Julien Duvivier | FDJ.fr | s.t. | | 79 | Léonard Cadot | Team Plussbank | s.t. | | 80 | Florian Vachon | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 81 | Cyrille Monnerais | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 82 | Etienne Tortelier | Sojasun | s.t. | | 83 | Mathieu Chiocca | Atlas Personal - Jakroo | + 5'37 | | 84 | Martial Pignol | Sojasun | + 6'44 | | 85 | Mathieu Sprick | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 86 | Sébastien Minard | Adria Mobil | s.t. | | 87 | David Le Lay | Sojasun | s.t. | | 88 | Yoann Paillot | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 89 | Julien Fouchard | Team Plussbank | s.t. | | 90 | John Gadret | Team Plussbank | s.t. | | 91 | Yannick Talabardon | Team Plussbank | + 8'13 | | 92 | Christophe Laborie | Sojasun | s.t. | | 93 | Maxime Daniel | Comstar | s.t. | | 94 | Kevin Lalouette | Roubaix Lille Métropole | s.t. | | 95 | Perrig Quemeneur | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 96 | Kilian Patour | Team Plussbank | s.t. | | 97 | Maxime Le Montagner | Roubaix Lille Métropole | s.t. | | 98 | Kévin Kempf | Roubaix Lille Métropole | s.t. | | 99 | Aimé Godon | Crelan - Euphony | + 9'22 | | 100 | Yuriy Krivtsov | Roubaix Lille Métropole | s.t. | | 101 | Sébastien Hinault | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 102 | Morgan Kneisky | Roubaix Lille Métropole | + 11'49 | | 103 | Ronan Guillou | Leopard - Trek Continental Team | + 16'04 | | 104 | Yannick Gautron | Crelan - Euphony | s.t. |
Other National Championships.
Bibby has a chance to become British Champion in a few days, though, but don't get your hopes up. The competition is fierce.
Nation: Winner Road Race / Winner Time Trial
France: Vergnaud / Sicard
Belgium: Stuyven / De Gendt
The Netherlands: Slagter / Van Emden
Germany: Greipel / Martin
USA: Talansky / Bickle
Colombia: Henao / Henao
España: Anton / J. Rodriguez
Italy: Gasparotti / Malori
Counting down to the Tour de France!
Henry
Edited by Ian Butler on 23-01-2014 17:20
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| Faillu |
Posted on 23-01-2014 17:19
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Ian Butler wrote:
sutty68 - Your wish is my command
I wish for you to join a French team, or maybe a Russian team later.
Edited by Faillu on 23-01-2014 17:19
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 23-01-2014 17:24
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Yay, Great performance from Henry 
He should look good in the National jersey |
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 23-01-2014 17:42
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Hopefully he will be able to show the jersey with his arms in the air at one of the classic climbs of the Tour...
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 23-01-2014 18:32
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Fine work Ian Henry will look great in the tricolour
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 23-01-2014 18:41
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Faillu - I can see why French, but why should he join a Russian team?
sutty68 - I think so, too! Thanks!
Atlantius - That's the dream. I just checked, though. On his birth day & National Holiday it's a flat stage 
the_hoyle - Thanks!
No more updates today, sorry.
I'll start the Tour tomorrow. Expect the report of stage 1 between 5 and 6 o' clock |
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| duxili |
Posted on 23-01-2014 18:42
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Juste
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| 24sebaf1 |
Posted on 23-01-2014 20:48
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Great!!!, French Champion again  . Would be great if you win the stage of the Bastille Day. |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 23-01-2014 21:51
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duxili - All I need
24sebaf1 - Thank you! I thought about Bastille, too, but I think we have a flat stage that day ASO probably had more faith in Démare and Coquard than in the French climbers... |
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| anderspcm |
Posted on 23-01-2014 21:54
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Great to see Henry getting his jersey back
Edited by anderspcm on 23-01-2014 22:09
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| Shonak |
Posted on 23-01-2014 21:55
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The only true french champ. 
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 24-01-2014 08:57
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anderspcm - Yes it is! Especially after seeing the jersey you made
Shonak - maybe he is for the next decade |
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 24-01-2014 09:05
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Great win. He's really getting better!!
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 24-01-2014 16:59
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Jakstar22 - Still growing Thanks! |
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