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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 28-02-2013 08:40
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Hope he can do something big in the Time Trial with this form! |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 28-02-2013 16:01
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 Vuelta a Mallorca Stage 2
The second stage of the Vuelta a Mallorca is hillier and longer than the first but it is still flat and one for the sprinters. The favourites must be the ones who did well yesterday like Kristoff (Katusha), Bennati (Saxo Bank) and Farrar (Garmin).
We will take another smooth day in the pack while the race moves towards stages 3 and 4’s hills.
Bennati wins another mass sprint followed by Reynes in second and Duque third. Kristoff finishes fourth and retains his leaders jersey which will surely be lost tomorrow.
All the GC favourites stayed safely within the peloton including Tiernan-Locke. The only rider that could do anything tomorrow that lost time was Kiryienka who fell with 10kms to go.
| 1 |  Daniele Bennati | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | 3h54'57 | | 2 |  Vicente Reynès | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 3 |  Leonardo Duque | Colombia | s.t. | | 4 |  Alexander Kristoff | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 5 |  Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. |
 Etoile de Besseges Stage 6
The final TT is 10kms long and finishes on a steep hill which reaches 9%. This is the stage that will decide the GC after the five sprinters stages. Degenkolb shouldn’t be too hard to catch for the best time-triallists because he is only 32” ahead. Favourites include Sylvain Chavanel (OPQS), David Millar (Garmin) and Taylor Phinney (BMC). We are hoping to put in a good performance with Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg.
La Pomme Marseille’s youngster Yoann Paillot sets the first competitive time of the day. His time is 17’12” which looks like a good benchmark.
Ruben Plaza soon overtakes that time by 20”! The Movistar rider sets an extremely fast new best time of 16’52”.
Ex TT World Champion Bert Grabsch sets a new best time for OPQS. He beats Plaza’s time by 5” meaning the time for the rest to aim for is 16’47”. The good time-triallers are coming thick and fast now.
Christophe Riblon then beats Grabsch’s time by 1” meaning he is now leading for AG2R. With 40 riders to go the top 5 times look like this:
| 1 | Riblon | 16'46" | | 2 |  Grabsch | 1" | | 3 | Plaza | 6" | | 4 | Astarloza | 10" | | 5 |  Day | 14" |
Then pre-stage favourite Sylvain Chavanel comes in 3” faster than Riblon for OPQS. David Millar meanwhile finishes in provisional fourth which he will be disappointed with. The only real time-trialists left to come are Janse Van Rensburg and Phinney, the rest are sprinters.
Phinney finishes fourth for BMC, 5” behind Chavanel meaning if Janse Van Rensburg does not beat his time, he the Frenchman will win the stage.
Very disappointingly Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg stops the clock at 16’54. He is 11” behind Chavanel and is only ninth on the stage. Looks like this race will be one to forget for us.
Race leader John Degenkolb finishes 56th on the day, 35” behind Chavanel. That means Chavanel just wins wins the GC with Riblon second and Degenkolb third! Janse Van Rensburg eventually finishes an ok 9th overall.
So here are the final standings:
| 1 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 16'43" | | 2 | Christophe Riblon | AG2R La Mondiale | + 3" | | 3 | Bert Grabsch | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling | + 4" | | 4 |  David Millar | Garmin - Sharp | + 6" | | 5 | Taylor Phinney | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 6 | Rubén Plaza | Movistar | + 10" | | 7 |  Niki Terpstra | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 11" | | 8 | Julian Vermote | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 9 |  Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Standard Bank - Aegon | + 12" | | 10 | Ian Stannard | Sky Procycling | + 13" |
| 1 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 16h49'37" | | 2 | Christophe Riblon | AG2R La Mondiale | + 3" | | 3 | John Degenkolb | Team Argos - Shimano | + 4" | | 4 | Taylor Phinney | BMC Racing Team | + 6" | | 5 | David Millar | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 6 | Sébastien Turgot | Team Europcar | + 7" | | 7 | Julian Vermote | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 11" | | 8 | Niki Terpstra | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 9 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Standard Bank - Aegon | + 12" | | 10 | Marco Marcato | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | + 13" |
| 1 | John Degenkolb | Team Argos - Shimano | 70pts | | 2 | Sébastien Turgot | Team Europcar | 52pts | | 3 |  Greg Henderson | Lotto - Belisol | 52pts | | 4 | Michel Kreder | Garmin - Sharp | 50pts | | 5 | Marco Marcato | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | 49pts |
| 1 | Bjorn Leukemans | Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team | 66pts | | 2 | Florian Vachon | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | 22pts | | 3 | Daniel Oss | BMC Racing Team | 22pts | | 4 | Greg Van Avermaet | BMC Racing Team | 18pts | | 5 | Tosh Van der Sande | Lotto - Belisol | 16pts |
| 1 | John Degenkolb | Team Argos - Shimano | 16h49'41" | | 2 | Taylor Phinney | BMC Racing Team | + 2" | | 3 | Julian Vermote | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling | + 7" |
| 1 | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 50h29'06" | | 2 | BMC Racing Team | + 41" | | 3 | AG2R La Mondiale | + 48" |
Edited by FroomeDog99 on 28-02-2013 16:03
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 28-02-2013 16:04
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Hmm... Considering the start list, I don't think 9th is bad for Van Rensburg. He was very close to the guys above him in the GC though, a few seconds would have made a big difference...
And it's said already, but I love the layout with the banners 
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 28-02-2013 16:07
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Jesleyh wrote:
Hmm... Considering the start list, I don't think 9th is bad for Van Rensburg. He was very close to the guys above him in the GC though, a few seconds would have made a big difference...
And it's said already, but I love the layout with the banners
I guess so, but I am usually better at TT's and I got Markus (who can't TT very well at all) into 13th.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 28-02-2013 16:38
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A fairly decent result. It could've been better but still, 9th ain't bad |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 28-02-2013 17:54
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Nice time trial from Reinardt |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 01-03-2013 20:13
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Vuelta a Mallorca Stage 3
Today is a very hilly stage which should suit the hilly riders. The road is always going up or down which means there will probably be big gaps at the finish line. The main riders who will look to do well today include World Champion Phillipe Gilbert (BMC), Enrico Gasparotto (Astana), Chris Froome (Sky, Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin) and Jurgen Van den Broeck (Lotto). Don’t rule out Daniele Bennati though with the leader’s jersey bonus. Our leader Jonathan Tiernan-Locke will look to move up the GC and we hope for a top 10 today.
110kms to go
The break is formed with the very first attacks of the day. It is a large group of nine. Simon (Sojasun) is the instigator while Fuglsang (Astana), Fenn (OPQS), Bravo (Euskatel), Arroyo (Caja), Huzarski (Netapp), Fernandez (Garmin) and Ochoa (Andrioni). They pull out a gap of 3’00” very quickly over a peloton controlled by Saxo Bank for Race leader Bennati.
55kms to go
Sky pushes the pace at the front so much that Bennati gets dropped. He looks like he is having a bad day. Meanwhile at the front the break has been brought back to a reasonable distance. The gap is 2’35”, but riders in the 78-man peloton are now starting to attack. Nothing serious yet though.
30kms to go
We have gone over today’s main climb and the break is still ahead. The break has split but the gap to the furthest riders in front is still 1’40”. Lotto-Belisol and Movistar are chasing hard at the front of the peloton, which has been reduced to 58 men. Tiernan-Locke is safely in the main men’s wheels.
There is only one more climb to go today for the favourites to make a move on or the stage will end in a selective-sprint out of the peloton. First though they have to catch the break.
15kms to go
The final climb starts and most of the break has been caught. However there is still a small group up the road consisting of attackers Kelderman (Blanco) and Atapuma (Colombia). The third rider is breakaway survivor Bravo. The gap back to the peloton is 45”, which is controlled by Movistar.
9kms to go
Over the top of the climb and the gap has swelled to 1’18”! Bravo has been dropped by the two fresh riders on the climb and they are pulling away. The couple are both 59” in front of the highest paced rider in the peloton, so could one of them be riding into a race lead?
Not one of the favourites attacked over the main climb and it is downhill all the way to the finish. Movistar are still pulling hard on the front but the gap seems to not be closing.
5kms to go
Tiernan-Locke attacks! No-one in the peloton responds and the pace has slowed. The group up front is 1’15” ahead of Tiernan-Locke and the peloton is 20” behind him. It remains to be seen whether he can catch the group up the road.
3kms to go
Gilbert realizes the seriousness of the attack and pulls Tiernan-Locke back. The front two now have been pulled back to 48” meaning that even if they get the stage win they won’t get to lead the race tomorrow.
Finish
Atapuma takes the win which should his Colombia team very happy, just in front of Kelderman. Their attack looks to have been a smart move.
Lastras leads home the peloton, who are given the same time as the two in front. The bonus seconds gained by his third position move him into third overall, with his team mate Duque now leading the GC. which is deserved after Movistar chased all day. Tiernan-Locke finishes safely behind in 17th, which moves him into 23rd overall. But what’s happened during the sprint!
Finish
Van den Broeck crashes on the final corner! Disaster for the Belgian. He picks his bike up off the floor and sprints over the line and finishes 2’00” behind the peloton, luckily for him the 3km rule is used and he is given the same time.
| 1 | John Darwin Atapuma | Colombia | 4h02'47 | | 2 | Wilco Kelderman | Blanco Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 4 | José Serpa | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 5 |  Ramunas Navardauskas | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 6 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 7 | Maarten Wynants | Blanco Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 |  Sylwester Szmyd | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 9 | Dominik Nerz | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 10 | Eros Capecchi | Movistar Team | s.t. |
| 1 | Leonardo Duque | Colombia | 10h29'22 | | 2 |  Assan Bazayev | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 3 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 4 | Andrew Fenn | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling | + 2 | | 5 | Julien Simon | Sojasun | s.t. | | 6 | Koldo Fernández | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 7 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | + 8 | | 8 | Fabio Felline | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | 9 |  David Veilleux | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 10 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Movistar Team | s.t. |
| 1 | Alexander Kristoff | Katusha Team | 43 | | 2 | Daniele Bennati | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | 37 | | 3 | Vicente Reynès | Lotto Belisol | 34 | | 4 | Assan Bazayev | Astana Pro Team | 29 | | 5 | Leonardo Duque | Colombia | 29 |
| 1 |  Carlos José Ochoa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | 28 | | 2 |  Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | 26 | | 3 | Garikoitz Bravo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | 18 | | 4 | David Arroyo | Caja Rural | 18 | | 5 | Andrew Fenn | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling | 16 |
| 1 | Andrew Fenn | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling | 10h29'24 | | 2 | Fabio Felline | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 6 | | 3 | Ramunas Navardauskas | Garmin - Sharp | + 6 |
| 1 | Movistar Team | 31h28'30 | | 2 | Team Europcar | + 0 | | 3 | BMC Racing Team | + 0 |
Edited by FroomeDog99 on 01-03-2013 20:15
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 01-03-2013 23:10
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Really liking the picture at 55km to go, how do you get that effect |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 02-03-2013 08:09
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JTL did good. VDB lucky with that rule! |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 02-03-2013 16:00
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Vuelta a Mallorca Stage 4
The final stage of the Vuelta a Mallorca is the toughest yet. 152kms of climbing and descending which should really narrow the race down. Race leader Leonardo Duque (Colombia) should lose his yellow jersey today, meaning one of the stronger riders should take his jersey. The main favourites today are Phillipe Gilbert (BMC), Cadel Evans (BMC) and Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin) who will be looking to win the race. Tiernan-Locke should be able to get a top 15 here for us.
120kms to go
After plenty of attacks the break is formed. The highest placed rider GC-wise is Felline (Andrioni) who is 8th, only 8” down on Duque! Other riders in the group who could do something on this terrain are Velits (OPQS), Florencio (Katusha) and Gautier (Europcar). The 10 man group has pulled out a 3’20” lead on the peloton, controlled by Colombia, Lampre and Blanco.
75kms to go
Half way through the race now and Colombia have full control. The whole peloton is still intact, which means that the peloton can’t be pushing that hard. The gap to the break has now started to come down after it peaking at 5’30”. The gap currently stands at 4‘30”.
35kms to go
As we start the day’s main climb the break still have an advantage of 1’35” over the peloton but surely it can’t last. Colombia are still on the front of a peloton depleted in numbers, only 91 riders remain out of the 193 that started the day. No sign of any leaders attacking yet.
25kms to go
Van den Broeck puts in the first serious attack of the day and quickly pulls out a gap of 25”. Meanwhile up the road Jeandosboz (Sojasun) has snuck up the road ahead of his breakaway compatriots. He is 33” ahead of the break, 55” ahead of Van den Broeck and 1’20” ahead of the peloton.
20kms to go
Over the top of the climb and Van den Broeck now has overtaken the break and has a gap of 19” back to Jeandesboz who is now joined by Rogers (Saxo Bank). He doesn’t seem to be feeling the effects of yesterday’s crash! The peloton is a further 40” behind. The rain has started to pour down now as the now 31-man peloton desperately chase. Tiernan-Locke is safely in the wheels.
10kms to go
Van den Broeck is caught by Movistar who will want to set up Lastras for a sprint. The group is now 32-strong as we head down to the finish on the descent like yesterday. Tiernan-Locke looks good in the pack, waiting for his moment. Duque has managed to hold on over the climb and may be able to put in a good sprint.
3kms to go
This race will be decided by a bunch sprint. Niemec starts the sprint in front of the others but he has probably gone too early. Tiernan-Locke is sitting nicely in Gilbert’s wheel.
Finish
Lastras takes the sprint by a country mile, which wins him the race overall. Kessiakoff is second for Astana and Scarponi third. Tiernan-Locke is blocked by Menchov and he clearly could have done a lot better than 19th but it wasn’t his fault.
In the overall standings Duque takes second and Scarponi finishes third behind Lastras. Tiernan-Locke finishes 13th for us which is a good all-round performance in a race packed with world class riders.
| 1 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | 4h15'05 | | 2 |  Fredrik Kessiakoff | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 3 | Michele Scarponi | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 4 | Thomas Dekker | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 5 | Ramunas Navardauskas | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 6 | Leonardo Duque | Colombia | s.t. | | 7 |  Denis Menchov | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 8 | Dominik Nerz | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 9 | Christophe Kern | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 10 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | s.t. |
| 1 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | 14h44'07 | | 2 | Leonardo Duque | Colombia | + 20 | | 3 | Michele Scarponi | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 4 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | + 28 | | 5 | Eros Capecchi | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 6 | Ramunas Navardauskas | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 7 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 8 | José Serpa | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 9 | Dominik Nerz | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 10 | Thomas Dekker | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. |
| 1 | Alexander Kristoff | Katusha Team | 43 | | 2 | Pablo Lastras | Movistar Team | 41 | | 3 | Leonardo Duque | Colombia | 39 | | 4 | Daniele Bennati | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | 37 | | 5 | Vicente Reynès | Lotto Belisol | 34 |
| 1 | Carlos José Ochoa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | 28 | | 2 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | 26 | | 3 | David Arroyo | Caja Rural | 18 | | 4 | Garikoitz Bravo | Euskaltel - Euskadi | 18 | | 5 | Andrew Fenn | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling | 16 |
| 1 | Ramunas Navardauskas | Garmin - Sharp | 14h44'35 | | 2 | Dominik Nerz | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 3 | John Darwin Atapuma | Colombia | + 39 |
| 1 | Lampre - Merida | 44h13'45 | | 2 | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 3 | Movistar Team | s.t. |
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 02-03-2013 16:02
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Those colours in your screenshots are sooo pleasing for the eye
A shame that Jonathan couldn't do better than 19th today...
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 02-03-2013 16:04
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Jesleyh wrote:
Those colours in your screenshots are sooo pleasing for the eye
A shame that Jonathan couldn't do better than 19th today...
Thanks
And 13th Overall is as good as I expect for a field as strong as this |
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 02-03-2013 16:10
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FroomeDog, are you increasing vibrance or saturation? Looks great!
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 02-03-2013 16:14
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fcancellara wrote:
FroomeDog, are you increasing vibrance or saturation? Looks great!
Yep, only a little but it makes a big difference for me  |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 03-03-2013 08:28
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Tour du Mediterranean Preview
Kenny Elissionde
Barry Markus
Nolan Hoffman
Dennis Van Niekerk
 Tarik Chaoufi
 Tsagbu Grmay
This is Kenny Elissionde's first race of the season so he will be hoping to build up some form for Oman later this month. He should do well on the hilly stage 4 anyhow because of his home bonus. He is supported by Tsagbu Grmay and Dennis Van Niekerk.
Barry Markus comes for the sprints and should be helped by Nolan Hoffman and Tarik Chaoufi. We hope to pick up a top 5 or two through him.
Edited by FroomeDog99 on 03-03-2013 09:23
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| Selwink |
Posted on 03-03-2013 08:32
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Good luck in the TourMed, hope you can win some stages here.
BTW: is it just me or is there no Tsagby Grmay, but only the flag in the line-up?
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 03-03-2013 08:38
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FroomeDog99 wrote:
fcancellara wrote:
FroomeDog, are you increasing vibrance or saturation? Looks great!
Yep, only a little but it makes a big difference for me
Which one? Vibrance or saturation?
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 03-03-2013 09:24
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Selwink: Thanks, and yes it was a mistake
fcancellara: Saturation
Edited by FroomeDog99 on 03-03-2013 09:24
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| ste_18 |
Posted on 03-03-2013 09:29
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At the end Jonathan did a good race in the GC finishing 13th. The image are very good indeed. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 03-03-2013 09:43
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Good Luck in the Mediterraneen |
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