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| Addy291 |
Posted on 07-08-2007 16:47
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tough decision, but great victory
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| Crommy |
Posted on 07-08-2007 16:57
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Great stuff, only 2 more stages left to hold onto 3 seconds - tough, but very doable
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| JustinWK |
Posted on 07-08-2007 17:37
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well I dont fear the final flat stage, but the next stage is a hilly one and since Muller has 74 and Fukushima 66 in Hills its gonna be tough
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 07-08-2007 17:45
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you'll have to attack Muller with Rous then, maybe
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Posted on 07-08-2007 17:49
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well, im gonna play it now, didnt see the stage yet, maybe its not that hard and Fukushima could hold onto the lead (would be nice for the Japanese crowd if he would win )
Edited by JustinWK on 07-08-2007 17:50
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| JustinWK |
Posted on 08-08-2007 14:30
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well the moment of truth, will the Tour of Japan get a Japanese , a German, or a French winner?
The toughest stage, today we would try to make sure that every Muller got neutralized, but we didnt want to control the whole time and so when Simone Masciarelli takes off by himself Wu follows him and thats all he does...
Masciarelli determines the pace as Wu sits in his wheel
They have a nice lead and because of the weak Sparkasse team it looks like one of these 2 is going to win today! In the back a group of 8 is chasing with Rous, Muller and Fukushima. With 20 kms to go Masciarelli has to let go and now Wu is on his own, but then, on the wet roads Wu smacks to the ground and so while he is lying on the ground he sees a win slipping away
 
Left: Disaster strikes for Wu! Right: Masciarelly shows no mercy and rides past him
In the back Muller has already attacked twice but twice Rous got wheeled him back in with Fukushima in his wheel, but then Muller attacks again and this time he has a gap...the whole group chases and then Wu makes himself useful even though he's injured, he sits in Muller's wheel and then drops back to Fukushima's group to grab Muller on the final climb, 2 kms from the finish. Masciarelli wins here today while Sulzberger wins some seconds thanks to an attack he placed in the descent. Will Muller grab the 8 boni seconds to grab the win?!?
 
Left: Masciarelli stayed on this bike and wins, Right: Fukushima ends 3rd and is safe now...
Result:
1.  Simone Masciarelli ACQUA & SAPONE - CAFFÈ MOKAMBO 3h33'29
2.  Wes Sulzberger SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS + 25
3.  Shinichi Fukushima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA + 47
4.  Andrei Kunitski ACQUA & SAPONE - CAFFÈ MOKAMBO s.t.
5.  Dirk Müller TEAM SPARKASSE s.t.
6 Ivan Seledkov MOSCOW STARS s.t.
7 Ghader Mizbani GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
8 Tiaan Kannemeyer TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
9 Didier Rous NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
10 Kin-San Wu NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
11 Philipp Mamos TEAM SPARKASSE + 2'40
12 Aleksandr Arekejev ACQUA & SAPONE - CAFFÈ MOKAMBO s.t.
13 Andrea Masciarelli ACQUA & SAPONE - CAFFÈ MOKAMBO s.t.
14 Kazuhiro Mori AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
15 Bradley White DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
16 Denis Vorontsov MOSCOW STARS s.t.
17 Seyed Rezaei Khormizi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
18 Tonton Susanto LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
19 Yukihiro Doi SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
20 Siros Hashemzadeh ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
21 Evgeni Jakovlev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
22 Pieter Seyfert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 3'52
23 Takeaki Ayabe AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
24 Budi Santoso POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
25 Farshad Salehian ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
The last stage of the Tour of Japan which went well for Nippo, they gave Shinichi Fukishima 1 minute and 17 secs on the first stage, many thought he would lose the jersey but in the end he survived every stage, and won with 11 seconds. But there was work to do and to show his teammates how much he appreciated their work Fukushima was the one working today for Serebriakov and Miyazawa...Fukushima was so strong that he broke loose with Serebriakov, Miyazawa, Santoso and Korzh in his wheel! Would Nippo Teamwork pay off?
 
Left: Fukushima destroys the other trains! Right: Miyazawa wins, thanks to Fukushima!
Result:
1. Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA 3h38'48
2.  Pavel Korzh MOSCOW STARS s.t.
3.  Budi Santoso POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
4. Aleksandr Serebriakov NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
5. Shinichi Fukushima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
6 Wes Sulzberger SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS s.t.
7 Robin Reid DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
8 Mohammad Rizuan Zainal LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
9 Peter Dawson SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS s.t.
10 Bradley White DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
11 Pieter Seyfert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
12 Sergei Koudentsov DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
13 Dirk Müller TEAM SPARKASSE s.t.
14 Yukiya Arashiro NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
15 Mark Jamieson SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS s.t.
16 Reza Pahlevy POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
17 Farshad Salehian ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
18 Sean Finning SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS s.t.
19 Tonton Susanto LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
20 Amin Saryana LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
21 Takeaki Ayabe AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
22 Stefan Löffler TEAM SPARKASSE s.t.
23 Kazuhiro Mori AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
24 Satoshi Hirose AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
25 Tetsuya Ishida AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
Final GC:
1. Shinichi Fukushima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA 23h22'11
2. Dirk Müller TEAM SPARKASSE + 11
3.  Didier Rous NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA + 35
4.  Tiaan Kannemeyer TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 43
5. Ivan Seledkov MOSCOW STARS + 1'02
6 Wes Sulzberger SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS + 1'08
7 Andrei Kunitski ACQUA & SAPONE - CAFFÈ MOKAMBO + 1'46
8 Ghader Mizbani GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM + 2'47
9 Simone Masciarelli ACQUA & SAPONE - CAFFÈ MOKAMBO + 3'06
10 Denis Vorontsov MOSCOW STARS + 3'28
11 Andrea Masciarelli ACQUA & SAPONE - CAFFÈ MOKAMBO + 3'57
12 Philipp Mamos TEAM SPARKASSE + 4'38
13 Aleksandr Arekejev ACQUA & SAPONE - CAFFÈ MOKAMBO + 5'33
14 Kin-San Wu NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA + 7'07
15 Bradley White DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM + 8'26
16 Tonton Susanto LETUA CYCLING TEAM + 8'34
17 Siros Hashemzadeh ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM + 8'38
18 Seyed Rezaei Khormizi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM + 9'13
19 Kazuhiro Mori AISAN RACING TEAM + 9'19
20 Pieter Seyfert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA + 9'24
21 Pavel Korzh MOSCOW STARS + 9'25
22 Yukihiro Doi SKIL - SHIMANO + 9'29
23 Takeaki Ayabe AISAN RACING TEAM + 9'42
24 Takamitu Tsuji SKIL - SHIMANO + 9'50
25 Tomoya Kano SKIL - SHIMANO + 10'15
Next, the National Championships
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 08-08-2007 14:33
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Great wins looking forward to the national championships  |
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| JustinWK |
Posted on 08-08-2007 14:38
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me2, the chance that the future Japanese champion will be in my team is big, but I only want to win with either S. Fukushima, Miyazawa or Arashiro since they are the only Japanese riders that will probably get a new contract next year;o
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| alex153 |
Posted on 08-08-2007 14:46
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Nice season so far |
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| Crommy |
Posted on 08-08-2007 14:55
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Great win, well ridden
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 08-08-2007 15:01
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I would like to see Fukushima win hes had a good season in RL  |
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 08-08-2007 15:25
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Great stuff JustinB)
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| JustinWK |
Posted on 09-08-2007 11:50
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thanks guys
All the new national champions:
 Denmark -> Glen Bak (Murphy & Gunn)
 Switzerland -> Fabian Cancelarra (Team CSC)
France -> Pierrick Fedrigo (Bouygues Telecom)
 Spain -> Alejandro Valverde (Caisse D'Epargne)
Italy -> Giuliano Figueras  (Lamre - Fondital)*
 Belgium -> Gert Steegmans (Quick Step - Innergetic)
 Holland -> Martijn Lust (Line Lloyd)
Germany -> Linus Gerdemann (T-Mobile)
Russia -> Evgeni Petrov (Tinkoff Credit Systems)
 Portugal -> Vitor Rodrigues (Liberty Seguros)
 Poland -> Sylwester Szmyd (Lampre - Fondital)
 Czech Republic -> Vojtech Hacecky (ASC Dukla Praha)
 Ukraine -> Vladimir Bileka (Discovery Channel)
 Ireland -> Mark Scanlon (Toyota United)
 Norway -> Thor Hushovd (Credit Agricole)
 Great Britain -> Jeremy Hunt (Unibet.com)
 Austria -> Gerrit Glomser (Volksbank)
 Sweden -> Matthias Westling (Cykelcity.se)
 Kazakhstan -> Maxim Gourov (Astana)
 Lithuania -> Thomas Vaitkus (Discovery Channel)
South Africa -> Pieter Seyfert (Konica Minolta)
 Luxembourg -> Kim Kirchen (T-Mobile)
Japan -> Takashi Miyazawa (Nippo Corporation)
 Slovenia -> Janez Brajkovic (Discovery Channel)
 Slovakia -> Martin Prazndovsky (Sparebanken Vest)
Next: Our only race in July before the transfer season begins (not literally but as from late July we can start contacting riders etc. :wink: ), The Tour of Qinhai Lake in China!
* Giulian Figueras stopped cycling for no reason around february in RL...what a comeback!
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| issoisso |
Posted on 09-08-2007 11:57
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JustinWK wrote:
* Giulian Figueras stopped cycling for no reason around february in RL...what a comeback!
I'm pretty sure he stopped because he was being investigated by CONI. |
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 09-08-2007 12:03
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it seems you have pretty much the exact same calendar as my Benteng guys should be good to see how badly we do in comparison
oh and i think a cry of GO JEREMY!!! is in order
congrats on the national champs jersey
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| samtheman |
Posted on 09-08-2007 13:04
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| Crommy |
Posted on 09-08-2007 13:40
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Well done on your national champ
Good luck with your transfers, lets hope for some lovely new Japanese riders
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| JustinWK |
Posted on 09-08-2007 14:02
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well by the looks of it, only Miyazawa and Arashiro will get contract extension, we will try to get Beppu to still have 3 japanese riders, also I still have Rous and Danculovic with me till next year but I actually want to terminate their contracts but since I cant do shit with convertors and jape's editor I might ask someone to help me
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| Crommy |
Posted on 09-08-2007 14:04
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Hope you get Beppu
And I know this is a strange request, but at the end of the season, can I have your save game for the management game - it helps as I don't have to sim a whole season just to get next season's DB
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| JustinWK |
Posted on 09-08-2007 14:08
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ok but I still think you have to do some simming urself since Im off to Greece for 2 weeks next week thursday
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