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| Smoothie |
Posted on 03-07-2007 22:18
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Some real decent results congrats hows is Pozzato doing in ProTour after that? |
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| Karl_rab |
Posted on 03-07-2007 23:14
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Great result alex. Gerolstiener are doing quite well in your story, and so is Rab for that matter B) .
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| stemple |
Posted on 04-07-2007 02:30
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great result, can't wait to see how Di Luca does in the ardennes, his form is looking good. And for the Vuelta, how about Beltran. |
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 04-07-2007 07:52
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Is Di Lucas main goal Giro? Naturally! |
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| Crommy |
Posted on 04-07-2007 07:57
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Nope, its not his main goal.
alex153 wrote:
Giro d'Italia is a big goal of the season and Pellizotti will be leader there. Di Luca would be the best choice, but I'm afraid that he wouldn't be able to keep his form all the way after classics... Finally in Tour de France we will, as mentioned, have Di Luca for the yellow jersey, Nibali for the white, Di Luca also for the polka dot and Chicchi and Pozzato will try there best for the green one.
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 04-07-2007 07:58
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Hmm interesting, not sure greens there but the other 2 might be |
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| litllemagnum |
Posted on 04-07-2007 10:03
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Crommy wrote:
How did Pozzato take 2nd 
pozzato is a very good cobblestone rider so when he keeps up with flecha and hincapie he can easily outsprint them |
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| alex153 |
Posted on 04-07-2007 10:19
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@Smoothie, Di Luca for the tour as mentioned earlier, I'm looking forward to see what he can doB)
Pozzato is now leader in the pro tur at 94 points, doubt he will keep it though. Boonen has 70 at the moment.
@Crommy, Pozzato surprised me a little bit, but he was the best hilly rider of them and therefore managed to recuparate on the hills against the others. Then in the sprint is was quite easy, Hincapie could challenge at first, but he got a red moment abut 400 meter from the finish.
@stemple, Beltran for the vuelta is a good thought, I had mainly considered him a helper for the Tour, but I think I'm going to change it a bit there, thanks.
Di Luca is so far only in averege form( 64 points ) so he should be at top form at L-B-L I think, so he should do good in the Ardennes. A personal goal of me is for him to win at least 2 of them. Hopefully he can take all 3, but that will take a lot. |
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| Crommy |
Posted on 04-07-2007 17:42
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litllemagnum wrote:
Crommy wrote:
How did Pozzato take 2nd
pozzato is a very good cobblestone rider so when he keeps up with flecha and hincapie he can easily outsprint them
Yes, but look at his in game stat, he's only cobble 75
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| alex153 |
Posted on 05-07-2007 12:12
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Hill stats means a lot in RvV
Okay, I have played pais vasco and Gent-Wevelgem, report will come later today. The thing I ment to write was that I have bought a new RAM memory with 1024MB that will probably arrive tomorrow, so I'm going to be able to get some better pictures after that |
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| Antharas |
Posted on 05-07-2007 12:55
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Wow, Boonen was outstanding in last Ronde Van Vlaanderen! |
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 05-07-2007 18:51
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can't wait to see your new graphics |
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| alex153 |
Posted on 06-07-2007 13:17
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[size=24]Gent-Wevelgem
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The peleton is split into 3 groups, the Liquigas rider is caught in the wrong ones
Boonen is destroying everyone on the climbs, will he take his 2nd win?
Boonen is solo yet again, the chasers are called Klier and Hoste
But Boonen is way to strong again, the gap just keeps growing
He wins, Boonen takes his 2nd big win in a few days!
Hoste manages to take 2nd place, in a very weird Gent-Wevelgem with big gaps
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Rank Name Team Time
1 Tom Boonen QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC 5h20'20
2 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1'58
3 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM + 2'29
4 Marcus Burghardt T-MOBILE TEAM + 3'09
5 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
6 Peter Van Petegem QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
7 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM + 3'48
8 Gert Steegmans QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
9 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
10 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC + 5'24
11 Juan-Antonio Flecha RABOBANK s.t.
12 Nick Nuyens COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
13 Erik Zabel TEAM MILRAM + 5'52
14 Magnus Bäckstedt LIQUIGAS s.t.
15 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
16 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
17 Frank Høj COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
18 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t.
19 Philippe Gilbert FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
20 Frédéric Guesdon FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
21 Servais Knaven T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
22 Enrico Franzoi LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
23 Karsten Kroon TEAM CSC s.t.
24 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS s.t.
25 Antonio Cruz DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
26 Tom Steels PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 8'15
27 Steven De Jongh QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
28 Roger Hammond T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
29 Gianni Meersman DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM + 9'19
30 Stijn Devolder DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM + 9'51
31 Robbie McEwen PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
32 Serge Baguet QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
33 Stefano Zanini PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 11'51
34 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
35 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC + 12'39
36 Jean-Patrick Nazon AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
37 Stefan Schreck T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
38 Sergei Ivanov ASTANÁ s.t.
39 David Kopp GEROLSTEINER s.t.
40 Rik Verbrugghe COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 13'27
41 Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
42 Bert Roesems PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
43 Sébastien Minard COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
44 Fred Rodriguez PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 14'47
45 Anders Lund TEAM CSC s.t.
46 Joost Posthuma RABOBANK + 15'19
47 Roberto Petito LIQUIGAS + 15'43
48 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
49 Wesley Van der Linden CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN + 16'39
50 Fumiyuki Beppu DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
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Stage 1
Astarloa
Stage 2
F.Schleck
Stage 3
Sanchez Gonalez
Stage 4
Sanchez Gonalez takes his 2nd
Stage 5
Astarloa takes his 2nd
Stage 6
Di Luca takes the TT and the GC
[size=9]Rank Name Team Time
1 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS 20h56'58
2 Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 15
3 Frank Schleck TEAM CSC + 20
4 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC + 40
5 Dario David Cioni PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 44
6 Davide Rebellin GEROLSTEINER + 53
7 Matthias Kessler ASTANÁ + 1'09
8 Patxi Vila LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 1'13
9 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 1'15
10 Chris Horner PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1'17
11 Patrik Sinkewitz T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
12 Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 1'21
13 José Ivan Gutiérrez Palacios CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 1'22
14 Igor Astarloa TEAM MILRAM + 1'23
15 Kim Kirchen T-MOBILE TEAM + 1'26
16 Juan José Cobo SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 1'41
17 Sergio Ghisalberti TEAM MILRAM + 1'46
18 Koos Moerenhout RABOBANK + 2'03
19 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 2'18
20 Björn Leukemans PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 2'37
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Paris-Roubaix[/size]
Liquigas has winning this race as a season goal, and considering our riders isn't good enough we have to be on the attack. Therefore we decided to try and break the peleton with 140km left, almost succeeded
With 80 km left there is still 28 riders fighting for the win, including Pozzato and Bäckstedt
A while later and it's down to 15......Bäckstedt is the last Liquigas rider and is already having problems. This can't end well
Boonen solo again, nothing can stop him it seems. Bäckstedt is still hanging on in the group behind
Boonen only have a few km left before he will have his 3rd race win in a week
Of course he stays away, even if the chasers get closer
Bäckstedt falls behind a little bit, not even a top 10 day for us. A complete failure
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Rank Name Team Time
1 Tom Boonen QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC 7h08'50
2 Alessandro Ballan LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 31
3 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
4 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
5 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
6 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
7 Peter Van Petegem QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
8 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
9 Juan-Antonio Flecha RABOBANK s.t.
10 Marcus Burghardt T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
11 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM + 2'15
12 Magnus Bäckstedt LIQUIGAS s.t.
13 Max Van Heeswijk RABOBANK + 4'48
14 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t.
15 Martin Elmiger AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
16 Erik Zabel TEAM MILRAM s.t.
17 Enrico Franzoi LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
18 Nick Nuyens COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 6'08
19 Roger Hammond T-MOBILE TEAM + 7'20
20 Frank Høj COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
21 Fabio Baldato LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 9'44
22 Servais Knaven T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
23 Frédéric Guesdon FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
24 Stijn Devolder DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
25 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 11'20
26 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS + 12'32
27 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS + 13'12
28 Tom Steels PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
29 Bert Roesems PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
30 Steven De Jongh QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
31 Oscar Freire RABOBANK s.t.
32 Leon Van Bon RABOBANK s.t.
33 Stefano Zanini PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
34 Gert Steegmans QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
35 Sergei Ivanov ASTANÁ + 14'00
36 Serge Baguet QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC + 14'48
37 David Kopp GEROLSTEINER s.t.
38 Stefan Schreck T-MOBILE TEAM + 17'28
39 Matthé Pronk UNIBET.COM + 18'16
40 Roberto Petito LIQUIGAS s.t.
41 Andy Flickinger BOUYGUES TELECOM s.t.
42 Markus Eichler UNIBET.COM + 20'00
43 Robbie McEwen PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 20'24
44 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 21'12
45 Frederik Willems LIQUIGAS + 21'52
46 Gorik Gardeyn UNIBET.COM s.t.
47 Johan Vansummeren PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 22'40
48 Benoît Joachim ASTANÁ + 23'52
49 Gennadi Mikhailov ASTANÁ s.t.
50 Wouter Weylandt QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
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| Crommy |
Posted on 06-07-2007 18:00
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Nice win with Di Luca, shame about Paris - Roubaix, but its a harsh season goal.
Boonen was unstoppable though, taking 3 is immense
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| Karl_rab |
Posted on 06-07-2007 18:48
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Lol your too danm right
Unlucky with that but i cant brag, i dont have a good record with season goals, in my gerolstiener career i have to get a TDF top 5
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 10-07-2007 19:07
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great win with Di Luca |
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