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8 seconds is not much, great start. 
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STAGE 2 (19 February)
1 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO 3h56'42
2 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS s.t.
3 Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
4 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS s.t.
5 Huub Duyn TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
6 Samuel Sánchez CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
7 André Greipel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
8 Jonathan Garcia BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
9 Patrick Calcagni LIQUIGAS s.t.
10 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
11 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC s.t.
12 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC s.t.
13 Gerrit Glomser DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
14 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
15 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t.
16 Chris Wherry TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
17 Fred Rodriguez PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
18 Sébastien Hinault CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
19 Herman Fouché TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
20 Dimitry Kozontchuk RABOBANK s.t.
21 Marcus Burghardt T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
22 Laurent Mangel DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
23 Grischa Niermann RABOBANK s.t.
24 Christophe Brandt PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
25 Aleksandr Kuschynski LIQUIGAS
STAGE 3 (20 February)
1 André Greipel T-MOBILE TEAM 4h40'01
2 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS s.t.
3 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t.
4 Sébastien Hinault CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
5 Henk Vogels LIQUIGAS s.t.
6 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
7 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
8 Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
9 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS s.t.
10 Eric Baumann T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
11 Fabian Wegmann TEAM CSC s.t.
12 Jimmy Engoulvent CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
13 Huub Duyn TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
14 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC s.t.
15 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC s.t.
16 Patrick Calcagni LIQUIGAS s.t.
17 Bobby Lea NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
18 Tom Stamsnijder GEROLSTEINER s.t.
19 Davide Rebellin GEROLSTEINER s.t.
20 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
21 Viktor Rapinski NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
22 Ian MacGregor TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
23 Erik Hoffmann TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
24 Jonathan Patrick McCarty TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
25 Chris Wherry TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
GC (after stage 3)
1 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO 8h42'00
2 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS + 4
3 Marco Pinotti T-MOBILE TEAM + 10
4 Manuel Quinziato LIQUIGAS + 14
5 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS + 15
6 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC + 16
7 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
8 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
9 André Greipel T-MOBILE TEAM + 18
10 Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
11 Samuel Sánchez CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 19
12 Sylvain Chavanel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
13 Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 20
14 Dario Cioni PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
15 Mauricio Ortega DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
16 Huub Duyn TEAM SLIPSTREAM + 21
17 Chris Wherry TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
18 Jan Ghyselinck QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
19 David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
20 Grischa Niermann RABOBANK s.t.
21 Johan Vansummeren RABOBANK s.t.
22 Michael Lange TEAM SLIPSTREAM + 22
23 Nathan O'Neill HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
24 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC + 23
25 Dan Craven TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
U25 (after stage 3)
1 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO 8h42'00
2 André Greipel T-MOBILE TEAM + 18
3 Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
4 Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 20
5 Huub Duyn TEAM SLIPSTREAM + 21
Conclusion
Chris lost his U25 jersey to Boasson Hagen after the 2th stage, because of the time bonuses. We think Chris can take it back in the upcoming mountain stage, but more important is that he improves his GC position in the next stages.
Daryl had two decent performances, with a nice podium place in stage 2.
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Nice 3rd place with Impey, looking forward to rest of TOC and Laigueglia
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Trofeo Laigueglia 1.1 (20 February)
This one day race has 3 climbs. From the top of the last climb it's still more then 30 km to the finish. So different senarios are possible, but it's likely it will end up in a sprint (Either a small group or what is left of the peleton).
Team leader(s):
Hassen Ben Nasser
Juan Van Heerden (Hassen and Juan bith have worked to be top fit in this race)
Free:
Abdelkader Belmokhtar (After his good performance in the Tour Méditerranéen we expect Ab to get in the breakaway or launch an early attack)
Teammates:
Rafaa Chtioui
Pieter Seyffert
Tim Allen
A.Nurani
Dennis Van Niekerk (Their job is to protect Hassen and Juan as long as they can.)
This race is one of our season goals we expect a top 10 finish.
The plan:
1. Get Ab in the breakaway.
2. On the last climb Hassen must try to react to possible attacks, so he can hopefully come over the climb with the favorites.
3. Juan will try to take the climb with the first of the peleton, so if everything comes back together in the descent he has his chance in the sprint.
PART 1
Conclusion (so far)
So far so good.
Ab has put a lot of energy in getting in the breakaway, but he succeed. Luckily it is a large breakaway, so he has been able to spare some of his strength so he can help out Hassen if needed. Their are also no favorites or outsiders in the breakaway so he should not have any trouble staying with them on the last climb.
The rest of the team delivered Hassen and Juan on the last climb perfectly. Hassen is still fit enough to counterattack Ricco and Juan doesn't seem to have to much trouble with the pace so far.
How will this end? More tomorrow
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My excuses that tomorrow has become a few days later. I had almost finished it and then my computer had enough of it.
Today I have had the time to finally finish it. I think I'm going to step over to simple cut-out screen shot, because the way I'm doing it now asks to much time and to much memory of my PC.
Well enough about that, back to the rest of the race.
Trofeo Laigueglia 1.1 (20 February)
PART 2
PART 3
RESULTS
1 Jurgen Roelandts LIQUIGAS 4h56'56
2 Abdelkader Belmokhtar TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
3 Vincenzo Nibali LIQUIGAS s.t.
4 Pedro Horrillo RABOBANK s.t.
5 Maurizio Bellin TEAM LPR s.t.
6 Mikhail Ignatiev TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
7 Riccardo Riccò SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
8 Maarten De Jonge TEAM MILRAM s.t.
9 Leonardo Moser SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI - SELLE ITALIA s.t.
10 Ermanno Capelli KIO-ENE - TONAZZO - DMT s.t.
11 Steve Morabito TEAM ASTANA s.t.
12 Klaas Vantornout MICHE s.t.
13 Leonardo Giordani AURUM HOTELS - SAPORE DI MARE s.t.
14 Hassen Ben Nasser TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
15 Alexandr Bazhenov TEAM VORARLBERG - VOLKSBANK s.t.
16 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
17 Juan Van Heerden TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
18 Simone Bruson OTC DOORS - LAURETANA s.t.
19 Nick Nuyens FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
20 Gerben Löwik RABOBANK s.t.
21 Luca Mazzanti FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
22 Leon Van Bon RABOBANK s.t.
23 Matteo Carrara BARLOWORLD s.t.
24 Héctor Guerra BARLOWORLD s.t.
25 Valerio Agnoli AURUM HOTELS - SAPORE DI MARE s.t.
TEAM
1 TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 14h50'48"
Conclusion
Well of course we are satisfied with the team's performance. We achieved our goal and our tactics worked. If Ab hadn't joined the breakaway, we now would be disappointed about Hassen's performance, while it is no shame that a young rider like him can't follow riders like Ricco and Nibali jet.
Ab did a good job to pick out Roelandts wheel in the final. Roelandts was to strong for everybody today, so Ab can be proud of his 2th place.
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Very nice 2nd place with Ab, I love this story about African cyclists, keep up the good work !
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Amgen Tour of California 2.HC (18-25 February)
A little recap. Our goal here is to get Chris Froome into a top 10 spot in the GC. He opened with a 8th place in the prologue. The following to stages ended up in a mass sprint where Daryl Impey picked up a 3th and 8th place. Chris is now 10th overall due to other riders picking up bonus seconds.
STAGE 4 (21 February)
Stage 4 is a mountain stage, but it is a relative easy mountain stage with only one real obstacle and the top is 26 km before the finish. Chris is our man of course.
The breakaway consists out of 7 riders.
Crédit Agricole controls the peleton for Samuel Sánchez.
The final climb and the first to attack is from Saul Raisin (NIC). Chris feels good and jumps after him together with Julich (CSC). Chris is in the U25 leaders jersey, because Boasson Hagen (PRL) wears the overall leaders jersey.
Chris can't catch up with Raisin, who is now on his own in pursuit of the breakaway. Behind Raisin a group forms with Chavanel (TMO), Julich (CSC), Joly (RABO), Sánchez(C.A), Lange (TSL), Ortega (DSC) and Chris. Dan and Erik also catch up with Chris.
In the front Jurgen van Goolen (DSC) pulls the breakaway apart and reaches to top on his own. Raisin is the 5th rider the come over the top.
Efimkin (QSI) and Hesjedal (HNM) also reach Chris' chase group, where Dan and Erik take the lead in the descent to keep the gap to the peleton, which contains race leader Boasson Hagen. David and Jay are also in the peleton.
15 km to go and Raisin has caught up with Stetina (TSL) and his teammate Wolf and are half a minute behind van Goolen. Chris' group is about a minute behind Raisin and has about half minute in on the peleton, where Predictor Lotto is trying to protect Boasson Hagen's overall lead.
Dan and Erik do good work and Chris' group is coming closer to Raisin's group, but the finish line is also coming close. With 1 km to go Raisin's group is caught. van Goolen is still in front.
Van Goolen wins it and will also take over the overall lead.
29 seconds later Chris' group comes over the line. Sadly Predictor lotto manages to close the gap with Chris' group in the last km.
RESULTS
1 Jurgen Van Goolen DISCOVERY CHANNEL 3h38'13
2 Saul Raisin NAVIGATORS INSURANCE +29
3 Peter Stetina TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
4 Samuel Sánchez CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
5 Erik Hoffmann TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
6 Dan Craven TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
7 Mauricio Ortega DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
8 Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
9 Sébastien Joly RABOBANK s.t.
10 Sylvain Chavanel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
11 Vladimir Efimkin QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
12 Michael Wolf NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
13 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t. 14 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC s.t.
15 Ryder Hesjedal HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
16 Michael Lange TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
17 Jonathan Garcia BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
18 Giovanni Visconti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
19 Doug Ollerenshaw HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
20 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
21 Dimitry Kozontchuk RABOBANK s.t.
22 Andrea Tonti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
23 Christophe Brandt PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
24 Josep Jufré PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
25 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
34 David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
37 Jay Thompson TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
GC (after stage 4)
1 Jurgen Van Goolen DISCOVERY CHANNEL 12h20'25
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 17
3 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS + 21
4 Saul Raisin NAVIGATORS INSURANCE + 32
5 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC + 33
6 Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 35
7 Samuel Sánchez CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 36
8 Peter Stetina TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
9 Sylvain Chavanel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
10 Mauricio Ortega DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 37
13 David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 38
18 Dan Craven TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 40
22 Erik Hoffmann TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 43
27 Jay Thompson TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
U25 (after stage 4)
1 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO 12h20'42
2 Saul Raisin NAVIGATORS INSURANCE + 15
3 Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 18
4 Peter Stetina TEAM SLIPSTREAM + 19
5 Michael Lange TEAM SLIPSTREAM + 22
Conclusion
Good performance from the team. To bad the stage wasn't more difficult, because Chris was feeling good. The result is that there are still 47 riders within a minute. Stage 6 (a ITT) will probably decide the outcome of this race.
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STAGE 5
This is a hilly stage, because it's never flat. There is no real difficulty in the stage, so it will probably come down to a sprint between the riders who are still fresh enough after a day long going up and down.
After 1/3 of the race a group of 12 riders has a lead of over 4 minutes to the pack, but Discovery Channel is keeping them within range. They are being helped by Liqiugas, who are working for Pozzato.
The breakaway is reeled back in in time for a 'mass' sprint. In the last 5 km there is a little hump that will be decisive for the outcome of the sprint. Erik pulls Daryl to the front. He goes so hard that they get a little gap.
But it also goes to hard for Daryl, who yells to Erik to slow down a little. So at the top of the bump Visconti (QSI) and O'Grady (CSC) have reached Daryl's wheel.
1 km to go Daryl and O'Grady are side by side. Can Daryl hold him of?
No, he can't and Paolini (LIQ) is also closing in on him.
It's O'Grady for Paolini and Daryl finishes 3th.
RESULTS
1 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC 5h03'42
2 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS s.t.
3 Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
4 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS s.t.
5 Davide Rebellin GEROLSTEINER s.t.
6 André Greipel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
7 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
8 Giovanni Visconti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
9 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
10 Fred Rodriguez PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
Conclusion
Daryl was very close. We hope he can win if he gets another chance. However there is some tough competition here. Just have a look at todays top 10.
Now we hope Chris gets a good nights rest and delivers a good TT tomorrow.
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STAGE 6
Decision day! We expect Chris can consolidating his top 10 position. It is not going to be easy. There are a lot of riders nearby like David, Dan, Erik and Jay, who are also within 6 seconds of a top 10 spot.
First candidate for the stage win is Lang (GST), who beats the best time till then, from Engoulvent (C.A), with half a minute. Lang will end up 4th.
Then it is time for the big favorite for the stage win. Fabian Cancellara (CSC)! He delivers, crushing Lang's time with 41 seconds. No surprise, Cancellara will win this stage.
Before it's time for the top 10 riders, Dan and David both ride a good TT finishing 15th and 16th in the stage. A good performance from David, who is here as a preparation for defending last years win in the Giro del Capo 2.2 (6-11 March).
First candidate for the overall win is Sylvain Chavanel (TMO), who was 8th overall before the stage. He sets the 3th time till now behind Cancellara and Lang, but it's not enough, because he will end up 5th in the stage. Meaning that there are still 2 riders to come that will beat his time.
And the first of those two is Chris. He clocks the 2th time losing only 28 seconds to Cancellara. This also puts him in pole position for the leaders jersey with only 5 riders to come. Can Chris grab the overall lead?
But that hope is soon gone. Voigt beats Chris with 8 seconds. He finishes 2th in the stage. Will that be enough for the lead?
Saul Raisin (NIC) finishes 71th losing 2'08 on Cancellara, Pozzato (LIQ) finishes 32th losing 1'32, Boasson Hagen (PRL) finishes 33th losing 1'32 and leader Jurgen Van Goolen (DSC) even finishes 85th losing 2'19.
This will make Voigt the new overall leader and Chris 2nd on only 10 seconds.
RESULTS
1 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC 33'46
2 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC +18
3 Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +26
4 Sebastian Lang GEROLSTEINER +41
5 Sylvain Chavanel T-MOBILE TEAM +46
6 Manuel Quinziato LIQUIGAS +50
7 Sébastien Joly RABOBANK +53
8 Ryder Hesjedal HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
9 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO +54
10 Nathan O'Neill HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS +56
11 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 58
12 Marco Pinotti T-MOBILE TEAM + 1'01
13 Markus Eichler DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
14 Marc De Maar RABOBANK + 1'02
15 Dan Craven TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 1'03
16 David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 1'05
17 Ben Day NAVIGATORS INSURANCE + 1'06
18 Samuel Sánchez CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 1'09 19
Dario Cioni PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1'12
20 Jimmy Engoulvent CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 1'14
21 Ronny Scholz GEROLSTEINER + 1'15
22 Manuel Medina DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
23 Mauricio Ortega DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1'16
24 Christopher Baldwin TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT + 1'17
25 Rick Flens RABOBANK + 1'18
38 Erik Hoffmann TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 1'36
62 Jay Thompson TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 2'01
GC (after stage 6)
1 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC 17h58'44
2 Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 10
3 Sylvain Chavanel T-MOBILE TEAM + 31
4 Sébastien Joly RABOBANK + 44
5 Nathan O'Neill HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
6 Ryder Hesjedal HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS + 45
7 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 50
8 David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 52
9 Dan Craven TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
10 Samuel Sánchez CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 54
U25 (after stage 6)
1 Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 17h58'54
2 Dan Craven TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 42
3 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 48
4 Tom Stamsnijder GEROLSTEINER + 1'17
5 José Rujano DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1'22
Conclusion
Great performance from the team and especially from Chris; 3th in the stage and 2th overall. 2 stages to go and it should be no problem defending Chris' 2nd place, but on the other hand there is also not a real chance to make it Voigt difficult.
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STAGE 7
Again a hilly stage, which isn't very selective. After the last KOM sprint it is 60 km more or less flat to the finish.
7 riders try there luck in the breakaway, but with CSC controlling the peleton they never get a real chance.
So mass sprint again. Erik pulls Daryl to the front.
But they are a little bit late. Daryl gets boxed in and when he finds a gap the chance for a victory is gone.
CSC shows their power Breshel has launched O'Grady to his 2th and CSC 3th stage victory in 3 days. All that is left for Daryl is 4th.
RESULTS
1 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC 4h08'55
2 Samuel Sánchez CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
3 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC s.t.
4 Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
5 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
6 Giovanni Visconti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
7 Fred Rodriguez PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
8 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS s.t.
9 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
10 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS s.t.
Conclusion
No problems for Chris. Tomorrow a short flat stage. Last chance for Daryl to pick up a stage win, but more important is to bring Chris safe to the finish
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STAGE 8
126 km and flat, so no chance for a breakaway. With 5,5 km to go Chris tries a surprise attack, with the bonus seconds from ending 1st or 2nd in the stage he could win the race. But no surprise he hardly gets a gap.
Erik pulls Daryl to Greipel (TMO) his wheel before the sprint starts.
1 km to go Daryl is trying to pass Greipel. Boasson Hagen (PRL) is not far behind. Can Daryl finish it off?
No, they are to fast. Greipel wins before Boasson Hagen . An other 3th place for Daryl.
RESULTS
1 André Greipel T-MOBILE TEAM 3h02'20
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
3 Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
4 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t.
5 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS s.t.
6 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS s.t.
7 Bobby Lea NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
8 Erik Hoffmann TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
9 Tom Stamsnijder GEROLSTEINER s.t.
10 Eric Baumann T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
GC
1 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC 1h09'59
2 Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +10
3 Samuel Sánchez CRÉDIT AGRICOLE +42
4 Nathan O'Neill HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS +44
5 Sébastien Joly RABOBANK s.t.
6 Ryder Hesjedal HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS +45
7 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO +46
8 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC +50
9 Dan Craven TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +52
10 David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
11 Ben Day NAVIGATORS INSURANCE +58
12 Dario Cioni PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
13 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS +01'02
14 Mauricio Ortega DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
15 Ronny Scholz GEROLSTEINER +01'06
16 Manuel Medina DISCOVERY CHANNEL +01'11
17 Grischa Niermann RABOBANK +01'14
18 Chris Wherry TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
19 Tom Stamsnijder GEROLSTEINER +01'27
20 Erik Hoffmann TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +01'28
21 Jurgen Van Goolen DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
22 Johan Vansummeren RABOBANK +01'34
23 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC +01'38
24 Michael Lange TEAM SLIPSTREAM +01'40
25 Burke Swindlehurst TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT +01'44
26 Saul Raisin NAVIGATORS INSURANCE + 1'49
27 Doug Ollerenshaw HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS + 1'54
28 Jay Thompson TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
29 Bram Tankink QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 1'57
30 Giovanni Visconti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 2'09
31 Alessandro Spezialetti LIQUIGAS + 2'14
32 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC + 2'20
33 Aleksandr Kuschynski LIQUIGAS + 2'48
34 Sylvain Chavanel T-MOBILE TEAM + 3'02
35 Manuel Quinziato LIQUIGAS + 3'08
36 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 3'14
37 Rick Flens RABOBANK + 3'49
38 Sebastian Langeveld RABOBANK + 3'56
39 Gerrit Glomser DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 4'15
40 Matthew Crane HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS + 4'16
41 André Greipel T-MOBILE TEAM + 4'34
42 Huub Duyn TEAM SLIPSTREAM + 4'39
43 Viktor Rapinski NAVIGATORS INSURANCE + 4'40
44 Dimitry Kozontchuk RABOBANK + 4'47
45 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS + 4'55
46 Christophe Brandt PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 5'00
47 Fred Rodriguez PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 5'11
48 Andrea Tonti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 5'13
49 Vladimir Efimkin QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 5'18
50 Jonathan Patrick McCarty TEAM SLIPSTREAM + 5'29
65 Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 8'23
91 Herman Fouché TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 14'02
121 Ahmed Bara TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 38'12
POINTS
1 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC 84
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO 76
3 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS 76
4 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS 75
5 André Greipel T-MOBILE TEAM 74
6 Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 70
7 Samuel Sánchez CRÉDIT AGRICOLE 48
8 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC 45
9 Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 33
10 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 33
U25
1 Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 1h10'09
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen PREDICTOR - LOTTO +36
3 Dan Craven TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +42
4 Tom Stamsnijder GEROLSTEINER +01'17
5 Michael Lange TEAM SLIPSTREAM +01'30
6 Saul Raisin NAVIGATORS INSURANCE + 1'39
7 Jay Thompson TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 1'44
8 Giovanni Visconti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 1'59
9 Rick Flens RABOBANK + 3'39
10 Sebastian Langeveld RABOBANK + 3'46
Always nice to see someone from the team on the podium
TEAM
1 TEAM CSC 75h30'30
2 TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 1'21
3 DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1'58
4 RABOBANK + 2'04
5 PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 2'19
Conclusion
We are very happy with the outcome of the race. It's no shame to lose to a rider like Jens Voigt, who also was here with a goal (Voigt won this race last year, so he managed to successfully defend his title).
We more then succeeded in our goal;
- We have 3 people in the top 10
- 1 rider on the podium
- With as a result the 2th place in the team classification
- Chris won the U25 jersey.
- We managed a top 10 finish in every stage and
- 4 times a 3th place finish.
The only disappointment is that we were multiple time very close to a win, but didn't get one. Daryl showed great class in a strong field. Perhaps if we had chosen to make this a goal for him, he would have had that little bit extra that he missed this week. But we didn't expect that all the hilly stages would end up in a mass sprint and he would get this much chances.
No reason to be negative. The season is still young and we'll surely get another win.
Edited by snoep_de_hond on 23-02-2009 12:44
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When I got home from our trip to California, I got a lot of good news.
1. With his 3th place in Malaysia and his 2th place in California Chris is now number 1 in the continental rankings. Too bad he now has a period without any race days and probably misses out on racing in the continental leaders jersey.
2. With the good results from the team this month we are now leading the continental rankings. But we wanted to perform well early on in the season. So with this talented team we have this not a very big surprise. However it will not be easy to defend, because the season is long from over.
3. At last I got an very important mail. We have got one of the two wild cards for Paris-Nice!! I'm very happy. I don't know if we can perform there, but it will be a great experience for the team.
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 04-08-2008 11:35
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Great results in TOC, and really good that you're leading the Continental rankings.
Paris - Nice ! That is all I need to say about that 
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| snoep_de_hond |
Posted on 05-08-2008 23:43
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3 Jours du Vaucluse 2.2 (2-4 March)
This is a small 3 day hilly stage race. With mostly smaller continental teams and no ProTour teams at the start the field isn't very strong.
Team leader(s):
Abdelbasset Hannachi
Tiaan Kannemeyer (Bassie and Tiaan are here to pick up some race fitness before the start of Paris Nice next week)
Teammates:
Jean Robben
Bab Kuider
Kacem Frenda
Salvatore Hadrioui (Our young riders are here to learn)
We don't expect much from this race. We hope our young riders manage to get in the breakaway and, because of the field not being that strong, perhaps Bassie and Tiaan can compete for a stage win depending on their form and fitness during the race.
STAGE 1
During this chaotic stage there were a lot of attacks. Also some of our riders tried their luck. Non of the breakaways got any room, so a group of about 60 riders headed towards the finish line. With 3 km to go Ferrara from Team Designa Kokken attacked. Different riders countered and almost the whole pack sprung into action, but no one manged to pass Ferrara in the last difficult kilometers.
Tiaan jumped to place 5.
RESULTS
1 Rafaele Ferrara TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN 3h32'06
2 Andrei Klyuev MOSCOW STARS s.t.
3 Samuel Plouhinec AGRITUBEL s.t.
4 Steven Kleynen CONTINENTAL TEAM DIFFERDANGE s.t.
5 Tiaan Kannemeyer TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
STAGE 2
Kacem Frenda got into the breakaway and picked up some KOM points. With 15 km to go everybody was reeled in.
Tiaan was feeling good and with 4,5 km to go, during a short uphill section, he jumped away and got a small gap.
The pack hesitated to long and Tiaan picked up almost 30 seconds on them. He was going to win! At the finish line he still had 20 seconds left, which also earned him the leaders jersey.
RESULTS
1 Tiaan Kannemeyer TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 3h57'17
2 Frédéric Finot SKIL - SHIMANO +20
3 Victor Hugo Peña NIPPO - MEITAN HONPO - ASADA s.t.
4 Sven Nys RABOBANK CONTINENTAL s.t.
5 Elias Schmäh SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
STAGE 3
Defending the leaders jersey would be a nice test for our young team. It proved to be quit a task for them. The team kept the break within reach for more then half of the stage, but the hilly profile was to much for most of them. We had to ask for help from a few other teams.
Luckily there were some teams that wanted to help us out or were interested in the stage win.
With the pack together again Tiaan's jersey looked secured. To make sure he wasn't surprised Bassie pulled him to the front for the sprint started.
Tiaan ended up in 6th place in the stage and won the race!!
RESULTS
1 Sébastien Minard AUBER 93 3h41'24
2 Ricardo Van der Velde RABOBANK CONTINENTAL s.t.
3 Frédéric Finot SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
4 Sven Nys RABOBANK CONTINENTAL s.t.
5 Benoît Vaugrenard ATLAS - ROMER'S HAUSBÄCKEREI s.t.
6 Tiaan Kannemeyer TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
GC
1 Tiaan Kannemeyer TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 11h10'27
2 Sébastien Minard AUBER 93 +20
3 Frédéric Finot SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
4 Rafaele Ferrara TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
5 Ricardo Van der Velde RABOBANK CONTINENTAL +28
6 Samuel Plouhinec AGRITUBEL +32
7 Victor Hugo Peña NIPPO - MEITAN HONPO - ASADA s.t.
8 Sven Nys RABOBANK CONTINENTAL +40
9 Benoît Vaugrenard ATLAS - ROMER'S HAUSBÄCKEREI s.t.
10 Romain Feillu AGRITUBEL s.t.
Conclusion
A very nice result, especially for Tiaan. We hoped to be at least close to a stage win in one of the stages, but Tiaan surprised us with an impressive win that also proved to be enough to win the GC. We know there are no top riders here, but a win is win.
Next up is the Giro del Capo 2.2 (6-11 March), were we also want to perform well and then Paris - Nice PT.1 (11-18 March).
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| G_Larsson |
Posted on 06-08-2008 10:35
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Great! Is Paris - Nice your next race? Good luck in France !
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Posted on 06-08-2008 11:02
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Nice win for Kannemeyer - good luck in Capo, the biggest African race, and also Paris-Nice!
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Giro del Capo 2.2 (6-11 March)
The only continental race in South Africa and we want to perform for our home crowd. The race consists out of 6 stages and has a pretty hilly profile. David won this race last year and he is back to defend his title. There are no ProTour teams at the start, but Barloworld has come with a strong squad including two fellow South Africans (Robert Hunter and John-Lee Augustyn).
Team leader:
David George (David road a good Tour of California finishing 10 overall and is determined to defend his title)
Sprinter:
Pieter Seyffert (Pieter probably won't get many chances, because of the hilly profile of most of the stages, but without Juan and Daryl he is our main sprinter here.)
Teammates:
Jay Thompson (Jay is David's luxury teammate and we hope he can also finish in decent GC position himself.)
Dion Botha
Jean Robben (Dion and Jean are here to work for David and the team.)
The goal for this race is clear; win it!
STAGE 1 (6 March)
Giro del Capo started off with a 9 km long prologue. David road a strong race, but couldn't take the win. The victory did went to a south African rider. Hunter took already his 5th win of the season.
1 Robert Hunter BARLOWORLD 06'54
2 David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +04
3 Shaun Higgerson SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS +06
4 Jos Van Emden SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS +08
5 Luis Orán Castañeda COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES +11
6 Roman Maximov MOSCOW STARS s.t.
7 Julián Rodas UNE - ORBITEL +12
8 Marcel Kittel THÜRINGER ENERGIE TEAM +14
9 Mauricio Soler BARLOWORLD +15
10 Svein Tuft SYMMETRICS CYCLING TEAM +17
11 Jay Thompson TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
36 Pieter Seyffert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +24
44 Dion Botha TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +25
75 Jean Robben TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 33
STAGE 2 (7 March)
The second stage is hilly stage with a not very steep 10 km long uphill finish.
The first part of the race was very nervous . A lot of riders tried to attack. Even Augustyn tried his luck, with no success.
Eventually a 12 man strong group got away.
This was not good news for our team, because nobody wanted to lead the chase. We took our responsibility and put Pieter, Dion and Jean Robben to work.
They did there best, but at the foot of 10 km climb to the finish the lead group of 4 had a lead of almost 3 minutes on the peleton.
On the climb we finally got some help. Two riders from Barloworld put in a big effort to close down the gap. With 4 km to go they almost had reeled in the first part of the breakaway. This was David (in the green points jersey) his cue and he jumped away.
With the flag of the last km in sight David was very close to the leading quartet, but it looked like was going to be to late. It also looked like he was going to get some company.
Ramirez beat England in the sprint and would also take over the overall lead.
David finished in 6th place as second of a stretched out peleton.
RESULTS
1 Alejandro Ramírez KIO-ENE - TONAZZO - DMT 3h12'32
2 Justin England TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
3 Jairo Salas COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES +15
4 Gabriel Rasch TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI s.t.
5 Rubén Pérez CINELLI - ENDEKA - OPD +34
6 David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
7 Jaume Rovira PSK WHIRLPOOL HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ s.t.
8 Luis Orán Castañeda COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES s.t.
9 Marco Osella KIO-ENE - TONAZZO - DMT s.t.
10 Joao Cabreira BARLOWORLD s.t.
27 Jay Thompson TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
GC
1 Alejandro Ramírez KIO-ENE - TONAZZO - DMT 3h19'21
2 Justin England TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT + 15
3 Robert Hunter BARLOWORLD + 39
4 David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 43
5 Jairo Salas COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES + 44
6 Shaun Higgerson SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS + 45
7 Jos Van Emden SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS + 47
8 Luis Orán Castañeda COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES + 50
9 Julián Rodas UNE - ORBITEL + 51
10 Gabriel Rasch TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI s.t.
13 Jay Thompson TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 56
Conclusion
Great work from the team. They did their best to minimise the damage. Too bad David's effort did not earn him some time on other riders (In the sprint to finish no gaps where recorded by the race organisation between the first 50 to 60 riders of the peleton).
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Great that this story is back! Good luck with the rest of the stages in SouthAfrica.
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Posted on 07-09-2008 00:46
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STAGE 3 (8 March)
For stage 3 the riders needed to ride 6 laps of a 20 km long course, with a 3 km long climb and a short uphill section to the finish.
Again the first half of the race was very nervous with a lot of attacks. With less then 60 kms to go Ljungqvist (front) and Ghisalberti got a gap of half a minute on some other escapees and almost 2 minutes on the peleton.
Ghisalberti couldn't follow Ljungqvist on the next climb and dropped back to (from left to right) Ford (the Australian champion), Cabreira (BAR) and Mares. Besides Ljungqvist, who kept gaining ground, they would all be reeled in by the peleton before the penultimate climb.
On the penultimate climb with less then 30 km to go David (still in the green jersey) felt good and made his move in an effort to reach Ljungqvist, who still had a gap of more then 3 minutes.
David road away on his own, but over-estimated himself and on the last climb the peleton caught up with him again.
With only 6 km to go and almost a 2 minute lead Ljungqvist could see the finish line.
On the uphill section to the finish Ljungqvist had difficulty keeping his pace, but he could just hold off the peleton that nearly caught up with him. What a performance!
Jay finished in the top 10 and David could only manage 14th after his solo chase effort.
RESULTS
1 Marcus Ljungqvist MOSCOW STARS 3h09'58
2 Rubén Pérez CINELLI - ENDEKA - OPD s.t.
3 Mauricio Soler BARLOWORLD s.t.
4 Marcel Kittel THÜRINGER ENERGIE TEAM s.t.
5 Julián Rodas UNE - ORBITEL s.t.
6 Marcel Wyss ATLAS - ROMER'S HAUSBÄCKEREI s.t.
7 Jaume Rovira PSK WHIRLPOOL HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ s.t.
8 Robert Hunter BARLOWORLD s.t.
9 Jay Thompson TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
10 Daniel Foder TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
14 David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
GC
1 Alejandro Ramírez KIO-ENE - TONAZZO - DMT 3h19'21
2 Justin England TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT + 15
3 Robert Hunter BARLOWORLD + 39
4 David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 43
5 Jairo Salas COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES + 44
6 Shaun Higgerson SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS + 45
7 Mauricio Soler BARLOWORLD + 46
8 Jos Van Emden SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS + 47
9 Luis Orán Castañeda COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES + 50
10 Julián Rodas UNE - ORBITEL + 51
14 Jay Thompson TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 56
Conclusion
A bit of a disappointing day for the team. David said he felt really strong, but misjudged the situation and spilled a lot of energy in a fruitless escape. But nothing is lost. There is still a difficult hilly stage and a TT on the program the next two days. |
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