knockout wrote:
And too much yellow in the peleton

Fast foward to the end of the of the stage where Eddie Stobart would take yet another win


But a big attack by Wyss near the end would give him a second place on the stage and the GC lead



Robert would hang on to the pack and stay 3rd in the GC and Gaimon would take a nice 8th place



stage Results:

1	Neil Van der Ploeg	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	4h29'36
2	Marcel Wyss	Team Vontobel	+ 28
3	Florian Bissinger	Evonik - Signal Iduna	+ 55
4	Bjorn Selander	Team Chiquita - Universal	+ 1'50
5	Nebojsa Jovanovic	Team Nordeus	s.t.

...

8	Phillip Gaimon	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	+ 2'08
39	Robert Sweeting	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	s.t.
59	Alexandre Aulas	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	s.t.
61	Jean-Lou Paiani	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	s.t.
89	Cyril Lemoine	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	+ 7'14
94	Antoine Matteau	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	s.t.
135	Tesfay Abraha	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	+ 11'02

GC:

1	Marcel Wyss	Team Vontobel	21h41'54
2	Cedric Lebris	Team TomTom	+ 32
3	Robert Sweeting	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	+ 1'28
4	Hayden Roulston	Fletcher - Garneau	s.t.
5	Bjorn Selander	Team Chiquita - Universal	+ 1'42
...
6	Alexandre Aulas	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	+ 1'43
7	Jean-Lou Paiani	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	+ 2'00
13	Phillip Gaimon	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	+ 4'38
58	Cyril Lemoine	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	+ 10'53
74	Antoine Matteau	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	+ 13'31
134	Tesfay Abraha	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	+ 27'58

Farabaugh takes a break away win in front of P. Van der Ploeg of Eddie Stobart



Not much else reallly

Stage Results

1	Adam Farabaugh	Wounded Warrior Racing	4h24'01
2	Paul Van der Ploeg	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
3	Aleksandr Kolobnev	Grupo Nutresa	+ 58
4	Niki Østergaard	Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank	+ 1'56
5	Shengjun Wu	Team ASDA-Savers	s.t.

(Not important GC changes)

Points

1	Robert Sweeting	In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	0	55
2	Grega Bole	Team Nordeus	0	52
3	Valentin Iglinski	Team Ameriabank-Novatek

Team

Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	78h47'43 (1)
Grupo Nutresa	+ 2'48 (2)
In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan	+ 3'03 (3)

sutty68 wrote:
Great to see your Team at the top of the Rankings

But Eddie Stobart is breathing down your neck

maxime86 wrote:


if you keep taking these breakaway victories, then you'll pass me real soon

This is Part 3 of interrogations and today we are going to be interviewing Phillip Gaimon, the american hill specialist





(PG = Phillip Gaimon, INT = Interviewer)

INT = For our third Interrogation, we are here with Clasico San Cristobal winner Phillip Gaimon

PG = Really happy to be here!

INT = We're really happy to have you here, now as I called you the Clasico San Cristobal winner, I was wondering, without any team mates in that front group, why did you attack so early?

PG = Well since I didnt have anyteam mates I knew a top finish without a lead out or something I wouldnt be able to win.

INT = So a high chance of a top 10 finish is worse then having a chance to win?

PG = Yup, go hard or go home!

INT = Now during that solo for 11 kms, the peleton got awfully close, even near 15 seconds but you kept pushing

PG = Honestly, knowing that I had no team mates in the peleton made me realise that I had do push through

INT = Now you just got back from Luxembourg where you stayed after the BeNeLux Challenge

PG = Yup, really beautiful place

INt = Of course, now let's not forget your 15th place in the GC in that stage race, and you also took a nice 8th place on stage 5, what are your thoughts on that race?

PG = Are you seriously going to ask me about my thoughts on my preformance? Go interview Robert Sweeting right now if you want to talk about that race, he completely dominated, he won a stage, took second on a stage, finished third in the GC and took home the points jersey.

INT = He did certainly have a great race, now I've been meaning to ask, what races do you have coming up?

PG = well im going to the Tour de Langkawi for my next race, but after that im going to quite a few one day hilly races before going to the tour of America where there are a bunch of hilly stages

INT = Sounds exciting, I wish you luck

PG = Thank you

INT = And that's all we have time for now, so thank you

PG = my pleasure

This is our first one day Cobbled race of the season, and with Aulas and Paiani coming off a great BeNeLux Challenge, we were expecting to surprise people

We also brought on Cyril Lemoine who is a good CT cobbler, but we had to keep in mind the PCT teams wouldn't let us take a victory easily

Our Loanee Abraha got into the break of the day along with quite a few others



The peleton was really relaxed for most of the race and wasn't making much ground on the break



Eventually a few riders bridged the gap and got to the break



But it was all down hill from there for us, with all our riders missing key break ups in the peleton



Eisel would take the win after a late attack from the front group, our one good thing from this race was Abraha's 29th place after being reeled in by the peleton

For our third CT race we are going to head to Argentina for the Tour de San Luis where our main climber Julian Rodas is going to start his season.

The Race includes two very nice climbing stages and one Time Trail stage, let's not forget the hilly finish on stage 3. The GC winner must either pick up a lot of time in the mountains, or constantly have high finishes on the TT stage and the mountain stages.

Last year David Zabriske won the tour by putting in a great time-trail preformance, but this year with less great time-trailers who can climb, the winner will most likely be a climber.

Favorites:
Nicacio
Schwab
Rodas
Castano
Ardila

Nicacio is a very good tt-ist and climber so he should be able to make a lot of time in the Time-trail, will it be enough to hold on to a good spot in the GC after the mountains?
Schwab is going to be surrounded by a very nice team and is the best climber in the peleton, however his inablility to understand how the hell to time-trail my cause him some problems.
Our man Rodas is one of the top 5 climbers, but contrary to them, he may be able to limit his losses in the time-trail
Castano and Ardila are both pretty much in the same boat as Rodas as in they can climb well and limit losses in the ITT


Here to help Rodas is our young guy Vincent Butts, Rousseau and Di Gregorio. Robert Sweeting is gonna do all he can to take a victory on the hilly stages and the sprint stages. Rousseau hopes to take a very good place on the Time-Trail.

Hopefully our race in Argentina ends well!

This is the longest stage race in the continental tour with 8 flat stages and 2 mountain stages.

There are basically four favorites, Maxim Iglinsky, Arroyo, Rodriquez and a random person who gets into the break. But many teams are here just for the sprints. Meyer, Vingerling and Guillen are the best sprinters in a huge field of them.


For us, we have some really nice riders here looking for some results, those main guys are Benoit Sinner and Christophe Kern. Our two Loaned riders Abraha and Beatse are here in support of our leaders. Sylvain Chavanel and Alexandre Aulas are going to be are main helpers for Kern and Sinner respectively. Our free element is Classico San Cristobal winner Phillip Gaimon.

Hopefully this is going to be a nice stage race for us!

fast foward to the end of the stage where everyone was starting to sprint. Our train of Butts and Sweeting were near the front but Azteca has the top 3 spots



But no one can contest Azteca and they take a 1-2-3

Stage 2

Another fast foward to the end, but this time Azteca isn't dominating



But there goes Drapac to take the win

Stage 3

Really it was a stage full of a bunch of attacks throughout the whole stage and Valencia takes the win as Julian Rodas takes 9th and moves up to 8th on the GC

First flat stage of many results in Guillen taking the victory







Another flat stage and one of or of season targets Cam Meyer takes the victory







The first mountain stage of three in this whole tour, Beatse is able to get into the break of the day



A third of the race left, and 5 riders attack out of the peleton



Eventually the riders got to the break and dropped the riders from the original break



In the end Masuda takes the win as Kern does not lose any time on the favorites







Another Sprint Stage and Guillen takes the win

Stage 5

in the second mountain stage of the tour of Langkawi, a break was formed but at the base of the climb Phillip Gaimon attacked



Eventually it got all back togeather



And a late attack gives rodriquez the win

Stage 6

Another Flat Stage and Chavanel gets into the break



But it ends up in another sprint and Awang takes the win







another flat stage as you can guess but Vingerling wins this one



really not much so far from us, Kern is 22nd and we have not had a top 10 finish but hopefully that will change

It sure has been a while since I lied by saying "Update coming up in the HQ!" on May 19th 2014. Well since then, Julian Rodas finished 6th in San Lewis, Benoit Sinner finished on the podium on the last 3 stages of the tour de langkawi and Phillip Gaimon continued his great season finishing 3rd in the seskin classic and 7th overall in the tour de beauce.

The Team will now be looking toward the Tro-Bro Léon where Jean-Lou Paiani will try to battle for the win!

This is our last race before our first objective, Alexandre Aulas and Jean-Lou Paiani would lead the team into france looking for a continuation of our fantastic season so far.

A big break left at the beginning of the race, unfortunatly we weren't able to pull them back, even with some attacks from Alexandre Aulas, the break still ended up finishing the race with the win.

Due to the team's recent success, In-n-Out has decided to continue to sponsor the team for another year after this one. Their role with the team is uncertain at the moment as they are not sure weather to continue their role as a main sponsor or not.

At the moment Maxime Oget has said that Auchan will not continue to sponsor the team. Oget has only hinted to a French sponsor replacing Auchan, "With all our French riders it would be a mistake to not make an attempt to find a french sponsor"

Trek will continue to sponsor the team when it comes to equipment and things of the sort, with former team bike sponsor Lapierre completely stopping their sponsorship of the team.

Our movement in our HQ has been very slow, with our main HQ writer having many things to do, so there will only be updates for the tour of America, and one final season update

sorry for the lack of updates