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Dominik Nerz: The Next Level
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| valverde321 |
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Mresuperstar wrote:
I like keeping the reports in chronological order by date, but I also feel like keeping the stages together it is easier for the readers to follow the action. IMO 
Agree, its what I usually do!
But do whatever seems the best to you!
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Thanks for the feedback guys. Then I'll do what I intended to do, so here's the second part of the report.
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 January 24, 2012 – Santos Tour Down Under
Seeking to defend his mountain jersey, Cameron Wurf joins the morning break. And luckily, no one challenges him and he can take the full 16 points. So far so good for Liquigas.
The last ascent is probably the reason why this stage is classified as hilly. And indeed the peloton splits on that climb. A seven men group around the overall leaders Pellizotti and Cunego gets loose from the peloton which later reuniteds with 8 others to a large leading group.
A sprint will decide today's winner. Mauro Finetto leads out his captain Cunego and that works fantastic! Finetto pulls away with two kilometers to go and Cunego overtakes him within the last 800m to take an easy win. Pellizotti on four misses valuable bonus seconds.
With his first win for Liquigas, Damiano Cunego is only 9 seconds behind Pellizotti now.
| 1 |  Damiano Cunego | Liquigas - Cannondale | 3h25'06 | | 2 | Daniele Pietropolli | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 3 |  Gerald Ciolek | Team T-Mobile | s.t. | | 4 | Franco Pellizotti | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 5 | Mauro Finetto | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. |
Today's the day. The traditional Willunga Hill shall decide the overall. But as usual, it's first time for the daily breakaway. A relatively strong group around Pablo Urtasun (Euskaltel) and Coen Vermeltfoort (Skil) quickly gained 5 minutes but is well controled by Liquigas and back in the pack on top of the Willunga Hill.
With 8km to go, Mauro Finetto followes an attack of Sébastien Rosseler and breaks free. He soloes for the rest of the stage and saves 11 seconds into the finish, scoring Liquigas' second stage win. The pack behind him finished complete, so no chance for Cunego to attack Franco Pellizotti.
One stage win last year, one now: Mauro Finetto really likes the Tour Down Under.
| 1 | Mauro Finetto | Liquigas – Cannondale | 3h43'06 | | 2 | Daniele Pietropolli | Lampre – ISD | + 11 | | 3 |  Jan Bakelandts | Omega Pharma – Lotto | s.t. |
Liquigas obviously wants to try everything today. They hold everything together and Cunego attacked and took three bonus seconds on the intermediate sprint. Still he would have to collect some bonus seconds in the finish. Cunego also takes the bonus seconds on the second sprint which means that he would need to finish at least third.
But a last desperate attack didn't succeed so Cunego will have to make do with his second place. In the bunch sprint, GreenEdge and Lampre were again predominant but it was Yauheni Hutarovich (FDJ) who jumped from Petacchi's wheel to the stage win. Mauro Finetto finished on a decent sixth spot.
Hutarovich grants FDJ a good start into World Tour.
| 1 |  Yauheni Hutarovich | FDJ | 2h02'35 | | 2 | Alessandro Petacchi | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 3 |  Theo Bos | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | ... | | 6 | Mauro Finetto | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Franco Pellizotti | Katusha Team | 19h29'54 | | 2 | Damiano Cunego | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 3 | | 3 | Jan Bakelants | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 17 | | 4 | Mauro Finetto | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 42 | | 5 | Alessandro Bertolini | Androni Giocattoli | + 49 | | 6 | Daniele Pietropolli | Lampre - ISD | + 51 | | 7 | Gerald Ciolek | Team T-Mobile | + 59 | | 8 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Pro Team Astana | + 1'03 | | 9 |  Leonardo Duque | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 10 |  Luis León Sánchez | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | Iván Gutiérrez | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 12 | Matthew Lloyd | GreenEdge Cycling | s.t. | | 13 | Alessandro Petacchi | Lampre - ISD | + 1'47 | | 14 | Sergueï Ivanov | Katusha Team | + 1'50 | | 15 | Florian Stalder | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 16 | Michael Barry | Sky ProCycling | + 1'59 | | 17 | Cameron Meyer | Team Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. | | 18 | Yauheni Hutarovich | FDJ | + 2'36 | | 19 | Hayden Roulston | Team T-Mobile | + 2'40 | | 20 | Mickaël Buffaz | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 2'44 | | 21 | Cyril Gautier | Team Europcar | + 2'46 | | 22 | José JoaquÃn Rojas | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 23 | Marc De Maar | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 24 | Markel Irizar | Unicef - Oracle | s.t. | | 25 | Chris Horner | Unicef - Oracle | s.t. | | 26 | Jure Golcer | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 27 | Matthieu Ladagnous | FDJ | s.t. | | 28 | Vasil Kiryienka | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 29 | Sergey Lagutin | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 30 | Raffaele Ferrara | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 31 | Tejay Van Garderen | Team T-Mobile | s.t. | | 32 | Yohan Offredo | FDJ | s.t. | | 33 | Harald Morscher | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 34 | Carlos Barredo | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 35 | Andriy Grivko | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 36 | Matthew Hayman | GreenEdge Cycling | + 3'12 | | 37 | Leigh Howard | GreenEdge Cycling | + 3'13 | | 38 | Kenny Van Hummel | Skil - Shimano | + 3'14 | | 39 | Sébastien Rosseler | Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 40 | Lieuwe Westra | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 41 | Aleksandr Kuschynski | Katusha Team | + 4'01 | | 42 | Frédéric Guesdon | FDJ | s.t. | | 43 | Juraj Sagan | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 44 | Kevyn Ista | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 45 | Henry Frusto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 46 | Dmitriy Fofonov | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 47 | Luca Solari | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 48 | Mark Renshaw | Team T-Mobile | + 4'19 | | 49 | Francisco José Ventoso | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 50 | Robbie McEwen | Unicef - Oracle | + 5'06 | | 51 | Davide Appollonio | Sky ProCycling | + 5'11 | | 52 | Marcus Burghardt | BMC Racing Team | + 5'16 | | 53 | Danilo Hondo | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 54 | Kirk O'Bee | Team Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. | | 55 | Fabio Sabatini | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 56 | Alan Marangoni | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 57 | Matej Mugerli | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 58 | Jack Bobridge | GreenEdge Cycling | s.t. | | 59 | Mauro Santambrogio | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 60 | Luca Paolini | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 61 | Michael Schär | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 62 | Travis Meyer | Team Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. | | 63 | Carlo Favini | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 64 | Franck Bouyer | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 65 | Rubén Pérez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 66 | Adriano Malori | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 67 | Rodrigo GarcÃa | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 68 | Michael Matthews | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 5'22 | | 69 | Graeme Brown | GreenEdge Cycling | + 6'17 | | 70 | Gatis Smukulis | Team T-Mobile | + 6'21 | | 71 | Mirko Selvaggi | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 72 | Jos Van Emden | Skil - Shimano | + 6'27 | | 73 | Alan Pérez | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 6'30 | | 74 | Wim Stroetinga | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 6'31 | | 75 | Maarten Wynants | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 76 | Jens Debusschere | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 77 | Juan José Oroz | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 78 | Adam Blythe | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 79 | Theo Bos | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 7'17 | | 80 | Manuel Cardoso | BMC Racing Team | + 7'26 | | 81 | Valentin Iglinskiy | Pro Team Astana | + 7'32 | | 82 | Damien Gaudin | Team Europcar | + 7'33 | | 83 | Sébastien Turgot | Team Europcar | + 7'35 | | 84 | Christopher Sutton | Sky ProCycling | + 7'36 | | 85 | Martin Pedersen | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 86 | Pablo Urtasun | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 87 | Enrico Franzoï | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 88 | Alex Dowsett | Sky ProCycling | s.t. | | 89 | Joachim Tolles | Team T-Mobile | s.t. | | 90 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 91 | Emanuele Sella | Androni Giocattoli | + 7'45 | | 92 | Beñat Intxausti | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 93 | Roger Hammond | Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 8'47 | | 94 | Coen Vermeltfoort | Skil - Shimano | + 8'48 | | 95 | Roger Kluge | Skil - Shimano | s.t. | | 96 | Arkimedes Arguelyes | Katusha Team | + 8'49 | | 97 | Daniel Lloyd | Team Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. | | 98 | Tristan Valentin | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 99 | Danilo Wyss | BMC Racing Team | + 8'51 | | 100 | Jason McCartney | Unicef - Oracle | s.t. | | 101 | Gert Steegmans | Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 102 | Gorik Gardeyn | Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 103 | Mickaël Delage | FDJ | s.t. | | 104 | Alexander Porsev | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 105 | Jens Keukeleire | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 106 | Kevin Van Impe | Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 107 | Michał Kwiatkowski | Unicef - Oracle | s.t. | | 108 | Vincent Jérôme | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 109 | Marcello Pavarin | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 110 | Gerben De Knegt | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 8'54 | | 111 | Mikhail Ignatiev | Katusha Team | + 9'01 | | 112 | Maxim Gourov | Pro Team Astana | + 9'58 | | 113 | Gerben Löwik | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 10'18 | | 114 | Jesse Sergent | Unicef - Oracle | + 10'28 | | 115 | Joost Posthuma | Leopard Trek | + 10'31 | | 116 | Tony Gallopin | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 10'44 | | 117 | Nikolas Maes | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | + 10'58 | | 118 | Cédric Pineau | FDJ | + 11'03 | | 119 | Alexandre Aulas | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 120 | Robert Wagner | Leopard Trek | + 11'14 | | 121 | Brett Lancaster | Team Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. | | 122 | Cameron Wurf | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 11'22 | | 123 | Gert Dockx | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 11'30 | | 124 | Job Vissers | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 125 | Ronan Van Zandbeek | Skil - Shimano | + 11'31 | | 126 | Michal Golas | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 11'45 | | 127 | Roman Kireyev | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 128 | Unai Iparragirre | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 129 | Karsten Hess | Team T-Mobile | s.t. | | 130 | Aaron Kemps | Sky ProCycling | + 11'49 | | 131 | Gerrit-Jan Soepenberg | Rabobank Cycling Team | + 12'37 | | 132 | Francesco Chicchi | Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 12'57 | | 133 | David Tanner | GreenEdge Cycling | + 12'59 | | 134 | Ben Swift | Sky ProCycling | + 13'53 | | 135 | Dimitri Krivtsov | Lampre - ISD | + 14'08 | | 136 | Fang Han | Skil - Shimano | s.t. | | 137 | Enrique Sanz | Movistar Team | + 14'20 | | 138 | Wouter Mol | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 14'22 | | 139 | Bart Vanheule | FDJ | + 14'25 | | 140 | Luke Durbridge | GreenEdge Cycling | + 14'33 | | 141 | Hilton Clarke | Team Garmin - Cervélo | + 15'12 | | 142 | Gabriel Rasch | Team Garmin - Cervélo | + 15'19 | | 143 | Eloy Teruel | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 15'37 | | 144 | Tom Stamsnijder | Leopard Trek | + 16'12 | | 145 | Harald Starzengruber | Leopard Trek | + 16'41 | | 146 | Kevin Reza | Team Europcar | + 16'44 | | 147 | José Belda | Movistar Team | + 17'57 | | 148 | Spencer Patterson | Unicef - Oracle | + 19'14 | | 149 | Nicholas Walker | Sky ProCycling | + 20'22 | | 150 | Iljo Keisse | Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 20'50 | | 151 | Omar Bertazzo | Androni Giocattoli | + 22'05 | | 152 | Alessandro De Marchi | Androni Giocattoli | + 24'02 | | 153 | Jochen Summer | Leopard Trek | + 26'59 | | 154 | Carsten van Boven | Skil - Shimano | + 32'46 |
Points
| 1 | Damiano Cunego | Liquigas - Cannondale | 26 | | 2 | Theo Bos | Rabobank Cycling Team | 18 | | 3 |  Manuel Cardoso | BMC Racing Team | 14 | | 4 | Graeme Brown | GreenEdge Cycling | 12 | | 5 | Daniele Pietropolli | Lampre - ISD | 12 |
Mountain
| 1 | Cameron Wurf | Liquigas - Cannondale | 38 | | 2 |  Mickaël Buffaz | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | 20 | | 3 | Frédéric Guesdon | FDJ | 20 | | 4 | Lieuwe Westra | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | 18 | | 5 | Mauro Finetto | Liquigas - Cannondale | 16 |
Young Riders
| 1 | Cameron Meyer | Team Garmin - Cervélo | 19h31'53 | | 2 | Cyril Gautier | Team Europcar | + 47 | | 3 |  Tejay Van Garderen | Team T-Mobile | + 47 | | 4 | Leigh Howard | GreenEdge Cycling | + 1'14 | | 5 |  Juraj Sagan | Liquigas - Cannondale | + 2'02 |
Teams
| 1 | Liquigas - Cannondale | | 58h35'00 | | 2 |  Pro Team Astana | | + 30 | | 3 | Team T-Mobile | | + 30 |
What a comeback to cycling after one year of absence! Franco Pellizotti provides his new team Katusha with a promising season kick-off after his great win on stage two and holding off Cunego afterwards. Katusha and Liquigas really seem to continue to be the dominating teams.
Second and fourth overall, winning the points, mountain and teams classification plus two stage wins – I guess this Tour can just be considered as a nice success for us. Still we would of course have liked to win this whole thing but it's really a good start into 2012.
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| kitface |
Posted on 19-09-2011 11:41
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Great job by Wurfy to take KoM and unlucky for Cunego not to take the overall. Great job, and reports are terrific.
One question, what's the next race you'll be reporting on, and will it be Dominik's? |
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 19-09-2011 11:42
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Yep, next one is Tour de Langkawi with Dominik participating.
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Posted on 19-09-2011 11:46
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cunego59 wrote:
Yep, next one is Tour de Langkawi with Dominik participating.
Mad, I can't wait! |
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| dienblad |
Posted on 19-09-2011 14:45
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Great 2 wins, too bad you missed the GC-win with 3 seconds, but really great riding! Good luck with Dominik in Langkawi!
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| baia |
Posted on 19-09-2011 17:48
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Great TDU...really close in GC..good luck for Langkawi.
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Posted on 19-09-2011 17:51
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Thank you all. It is indeed quite bitter: Last year, I lost the TdU with Finetto by 2 seconds to Cavendish, now with 3 seconds to Pellizotti... Well it was good nevertheless imo
Hopefully I (or Dominik, if you will) can live up to the expectations in Malaysia. Here's the preview:
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Posted on 19-09-2011 17:55
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 January 22, 2012 – Le Tour de Langkawi - Preview
Being held since 1996, the Tour de Langkawi is Asia's biggest cycling race and the only one with a Hors Catégorie status. In the past, it has had famous overall winners like Chris Horner, José Rujano or last year's dominator Vincenzo Nibali. But of course I hope for a weaker starting field and a chance for a good overall placement.
With 10 stages, the Tour de Langkawi is rather long, but it's only two stages that will decide the overall victory:
After three flat stages, stage four features a very long ascent to the Cameron Highlands. The climb begins already after a bit more than half of the stage and lasts about 60 km, although it's not steady and not that steep. Still it will be a tough challenge for the riders.
On stage 5, the peloton firstly has to ride 102 calm, flat kilometers until it hits the long final ascent. The climb up to the Genting Highlands has a total length of 22km with an average gradient of 7 % and a maximum of 15 %.
What follows are again five mostly flat stages with almost no possibility to create time gaps. So the sprinters who managed to survive both hard climbs will get a lot of chances for nice results.
| 1 | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas - Cannondale | | 2 | Haimar Zubeldia | Team RadioShack | | 3 | John Gadret | Ag2r – La Mondiale | | 4 | Carlos Sastre | Geox - TMC | | 5 | Alberto Losada | Katusha Team |
Complete Startlist
Spoiler Lampre
1. P.Niemiec
2. D.Di Luca
3. X.Florencio
4. F.Gavazzi
5. V.Kondrut
6. D.Kostyuk
7. M.Mori
8. D.Ulissi
Movistar
11. D.Arroyo
12. A.Amador
13. J.Aragones
14. I.Erviti
15. J.Hernández
16. D.López
17. R.Plaza
18. J.M.Soler
Liquigas
21. D.Nerz
22. V.Agnoli
23. D.Caruso
24. D.Cimolai
25. T.Dall'Antonia
26. M.Paterski
27. A.Vanotti
Katusha
31. S.Garzelli
32. P.Brutt
33. G.Caruso
34. J.Horrach
35. V.Isaychev
36. A.Mironov
37. A.Ovechkin
38. C.Veronese
AG2R La Mondiale
41. M.Bouet
42. M.Chérel
43. C.Dessel
44. B.Kadri
45. D.Le Lay
46. J.Loubet
47. L.Mondory
48. M.Montaguti
Colombia es Pasión
51. F.Montaña
52. S.Henao
53. D.Ospina
54. H.Paez
55. M.Pérez
56. N.Quintana
57. H.Salazar
58. J.Villegas
Farnese Vini
61. A.Bisolti
62. F.Failli
63. T.Miyazawa
64. D.Ricci Bitti
65. R.Romanik
66. D.Rudnicki
67. A.Sznitko
68. E.Vona
Endura
71. D.Fleeman
72. E.Clancy
73. M.Elliott
74. S.Gaywood
75. R.Hayles
76. L.Holohan
77. K.House
78. E.Oliphant
AndalucÃa
81. D.Bernabéu
82. J.A.BenÃtez
83. J.Cano
84. M.Ortega
85. J.Rosendo
86. E.Ruiz
Nokia
91. J.Veikkanen
92. J.Bellis
93. M.Boaro
94. K.Carlström
95. M.Mørkøv
96. M.Pajari
97. A.Steensen
98. B.Vandborg
D'Angelo & Antenucci
101. F.Baliani
102. S.Campagnaro
103. M.Fedele
104. E.Mazzoleni
105. G.Muraglia
106. B.Riccio
107. D.Torosantucci
108. K.Uchima
NetApp
111. B.Huzarski
112. M.Belka
113. S.Cozza
114. J.Del Nero
115. A.Gottfried
116. D.Impey
117. R.Retschke
118. D.Schorn
Itera
121. A.Shchebelin
122. A.Kholodov
123. P.Kochetkov
124. D.Kosyakov
125. A.Prishpetniy
126. S.Rudaskov
127. A.Tsatevitch
128. I.Yerzov
Spidertech
131. D.Boily
132. Z.Bell
133. G.Boivin
134. J.Desjardins
135. H.Houle
136. S.Lambert-Lemay
137. B.Langlois
138. A.Randell
Type 1
141. A.Bajadali
142. R.Bahati
143. S.Hernandez
144. Benj.King
145. V.Kobzarenko
146. S.Milne
147. K.Reijnen
148. S.Stewart
Saur
151. Y.Talabardon
152. J.Casper
153. A.Coyot
154. A.Delaplace
155. A.Duval
156. J.Engoulvent
157. A.Geslin
158. J.Marino
Landbouwkrediet
161. B.De Waele
162. K.Barbé
163. S.Nys
164. K.Peeters
165. B.Scheirlinckx
166. J.Stallaert
167. B.Traksel
168. G.Verheyen
UnitedHealthcare
171. J.Clarke
172. J.Cooper
173. A.Hegyvari
174. M.Schmitt
175. B.Van Poppel
176. J.Williams
177. S.Zwizanski
Differdange
181. G.Thimmesch
182. F.Dressler
183. M.Knudsen
184. B.Menster
185. M.Pauly
186. N.Schneider
187. J.Zangerle
Dirk Grepdon Wanzele
191. B.Schmitz
192. F.Amorison
193. D.Cappelle
194. S.De Wilde
195. J.Drucker
196. R.Goris
197. J.Vanlandschoot
198. E.Verbist
The field is unfortunatly stronger than expected (or hoped for). Both Movistar and Lampre are here with exceptionally strong squads and will be very hard to beat. But apart from the riders mentioned above, there are few riders who should be able to challenge me in the mountains which is why I aim for a Top 10 minimum. With my relatively good shape, I hope to overtake riders who usually might be better than me.
For the first time, I will lead a squad for Liquigas in a stage race where I have realistic chances for a good overall placement. With last year's eigth Valerio Agnoli, Damiano Caruso and Alessandro Vanotti, I have some strong mountain helpers with me and although they're in a bad shape, we hope for good sprint results with Davide Cimolai, Tiziano Dall'Antonia or Maciej Paterski, who has the best shape of the three sprinters. |
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Posted on 19-09-2011 18:02
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i cant wait for those mountain stages - good luck dominik!!! |
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| aas169 |
Posted on 19-09-2011 19:15
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That's indeed a strong squad for the tour of malaysia,n ut I think dominik will still make top 5 - good luck! |
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Posted on 19-09-2011 20:04
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Hopefuly you can grab a final top-10. |
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Posted on 19-09-2011 20:13
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Top15 is good too.
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| JuanMotr |
Posted on 20-09-2011 08:22
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Top 20 would be great  |
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Posted on 20-09-2011 09:13
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Thank you all for the nice comments. But I have to say that I would be a bit disappointed with a Top 15 or 20. I really hope for more.
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 20-09-2011 09:16
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January 23, 2012 – Tour de Langkawi
Tour de Langkawi, Stage One
The citerium in Kuah, the capital of the Langkawi District, is pretty flat, the short ascent shouldn't trouble the riders too much. It's most probably going to be a sprinter's decision.
Dominik's Pre-Race Comment
Well, it should be a calm season kick-off for us. The stage is pretty short and not very difficult, so the only task for us is to stay out of trouble and prepare Tiziano and Davide for the sprint. Anyway, I'm very, very happy that I'm back on the bike again! Let's go for a great season!
Km 1: | And here we go, the race is opened: Scott Stewart (Type 1) sets the first attack of this race. | Km 7: | A group around Stewart has now about a minute of advance but the attacks from the pack keep coming. | |  | Km 16: | After the first round of the criterium, 8 riders are about one and a half minute in front. Bert de Waele is the most known among them. | Km 22: | There's movement in the front group: After a couple of riders bridged the gap from the peloton, the group splits! | Km 31: | The race doesn't come to rest – 16 riders are in front now but the pack isn't willing to let such a big group go. | Km 35: | Giuseppe Muraglia (D'Angelo) wins the first intermediate sprint in front of Adam Sznitko (Farnese) and Bert De Waele (Landbouwkrediet). The advance fell below a minute. | Km 42: | Shortly before the first mountain sprint, everything's back together – only De Waele is still a bit ahead. | |  | Km 45: | Ag2r's Michael Chérel attacks and gets the second place on the mountain sprint behind the Belgian. Dominik Nerz reaches third. | Km 56: | Chérel overtook De Waele and leads solo with a bit more than a minute to the pack. | | |  | Km 70: | Towards the second mountain sprint, four riders – among them again Bert De Waele – caught up with Chérel. As De Waele takes second, he is the current King of the Mountain. | | Km 74: | It's mostly the German Team NetApp who does the pace for their sprinter Daryl Impey. Due to their work, the escapees are back in the peloton. 19 km to go. | Km 83: | The hill is passed the last time and the sprint preparations are in full play. NetApp for Impey, Saur for Casper and Liquigas for Cimolai are the predominant trains. | |  | Km 88: | With a late attack, Bram Schmitz (Dirk Grepdon) tries to surprise the sprinters and creates a gap! | |  | Km 90: | But he's caught again and the sprint can begin. Dominik Nerz does a good job and places Dall'Antonia, Paterski and Cimolai close to the front. | |  | Km 91,5: | As Paterski overtakes the lead out, they already fell back a bit. Jimmy Casper is in the front with Bernardo Riccio (D'Angelo) at his wheel! | |  | Km 92,5: | Within the last 500m, four riders fight for the win. Impey (NetApp) and Mondory (Ag2r) are closing up with Casper and Riccio. On the left side of the street, Cimolai fights for a Top 5! | |  | Km 93: | And it's the Frenchman Mondory who has the fastest end speed and takes the win! Riccio and Casper hold on to the podium, Cimolai finishes seventh. |
| 1 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R La Mondiale | 2h03'00 | | 2 | Bernardo Riccio | D'Angelo & Antenucci - Nippo | s.t. | | 3 | Jimmy Casper | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 4 |  Daryl Impey | Team NetApp | s.t. | | 5 | Boy Van Poppel | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 6 |  Ed Clancy | Endura Racing | s.t. | | 7 | Davide Cimolai | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 8 | Francesco Gavazzi | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 9 | Bobbie Traksel | Landbouwkrediet | s.t. | | 10 | Rahsaan Bahati | Team Type 1 | s.t. | | ... | | 14 |  Maciej Paterski | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | ... | | 37 | Dominik Nerz | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. |
Overall
| 1 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R La Mondiale | 2h02'40 | | 2 | Bernardo Riccio | D'Angelo & Antenucci - Nippo | + 8 | | 3 | Jimmy Casper | Saur - Sojasun | + 12 | | 4 | Giuseppe Muraglia | D'Angelo & Antenucci - Nippo | + 14 | | 5 | Mikaël Chérel | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 6 |  Pavel Kochetkov | Itera - Katusha | + 16 | | 7 | Adam Sznitko | Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli | s.t. | | 8 | Bert De Waele | Landbouwkrediet | s.t. | | 9 | Daryl Impey | Team NetApp | + 20 | | 10 | Boy Van Poppel | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | s.t. | | ... | | 42 | Dominik Nerz | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R La Mondiale | 25 | | 2 | Bernardo Riccio | D'Angelo & Antenucci - Nippo | 20 | | 3 | Jimmy Casper | Saur - Sojasun | 16 | | 4 | Daryl Impey | Team NetApp | 14 | | 5 | Boy Van Poppel | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | 12 | | ... | | 7 | Davide Cimolai | Liquigas - Cannondale | 9 |
Mountain
| 1 | Bert De Waele | Landbouwkrediet | 8 | | 2 | Pavel Kochetkov | Itera - Katusha | 5 | | 3 | Mikaël Chérel | AG2R La Mondiale | 4 | | 4 | Dominik Nerz | Liquigas - Cannondale | 1 |
Young Riders
| 1 | Boy Van Poppel | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | 2h03'00 | | 2 | Davide Cimolai | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | 3 | Hugo Salazar | Colombia es Pasión - Café de Colombia | s.t. | | 4 |  Jeremie Desjardins | Team SpiderTech powered by C10 | s.t. | | 5 |  André Steensen | Nokia - SunGard | s.t. | | ... | | 8 | Dominik Nerz | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. |
Alright, first race day of the season is over. It was a strange stage, as often on such a short stage the peloton was unsettled, lots of attacks without a real break of the day, but we managed to get through it well. The sprint could have been better, but we knew that our sprinters, especially Tiziano and Davide, aren't in a decent shape yet. Plus, I'm not a perfect lead out, although I think our train worked quite okay. Maybe Maciej, who has the best shape of our sprinters, might go for himself tomorrow.
Anyway, it felt great to ride again and I'm eager to see what I can do this year. I hope you enjoyed the first live ticker of this year.
Stay tuned,
Edited by cunego59 on 20-09-2011 09:20
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| kitface |
Posted on 20-09-2011 10:41
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Great work cunego!
Great report, and boy do I like that signature! 
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 20-09-2011 16:48
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Nice start. Until then, hope Dominik can keep away from any kind of mess.  |
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 20-09-2011 22:08
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@ kitface: Thanks. I thought that signature would be a nice idea Well, a Top 10 isn't too bad for Cimolai in his current shape... Maybe in the later stages, the results will be better.
@ FreitasPCM: Yep, it could have been worse. I try to keep Dominik close to the front in the sprints as well so he should make it well till the mountains.
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