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David Veilleux-The Next Canadian Legend
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 13-12-2011 13:58
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@ Avin - Thanks! I think he will most likely work for Kreuziger, since he has much better stats for hilly races, but you never know...
@ sutty - Yeah, he's doing quite well actually. I think Top 15 would be a reasonable goal, if he can get there.
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| alexanderlens |
Posted on 13-12-2011 15:21
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GL!
Guess who's back? 
Lets see how many friens are still around... |
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| Alastairhufc |
Posted on 13-12-2011 20:29
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Great Thread here Its what I expect from you though
I have been reading through it over the last few days and finally finished it today
A good career with Europcar and even better with Sky  |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 13-12-2011 20:37
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@ alexanderlens - Thank you 
@ Alastair - Thanks a lot man! Glad you've been enjoying it, it always gives me extra motivation when I get new readers like this with such awesome comments 
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 14-12-2011 00:58
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 Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco - Stage 5
April 8th, 2013
Today is the final stage to get any time we may want before the final day, and time trial. The stage is rather lumpy but hopefully Kreuziger can survive and gain time on his rivals!
The opening few kilimetres saw a breakaway of 7 riders including Josh Atkins, but he was later dropped as another group passed them on the road, so Atkins went back to the peloton.
After quite a long time with little action, Sky put three men to the front in order to try and bring back the breakaway who had a gap of 9 minutes to the peloton with 60km left in the race.
Now with 30km left, it is quite clear that the breakaway riders will settle it out for the win, but there are still 7 riders who have the chance!
Even though they cant go for the win, Gerdemann and Kreuziger both attack on the final climb of the day about 13km from the line. However both would get brought back two km's later at the summit of the climb.
Meanwhile, I just cant keep the tempo, and I fall back but I have to keep going because I know I can make up some time in the time trial tomorrow and end off the race in a respectable position.
Now as we go into the final km there are only two leaders who have broken away from the others, Caruso, and Bochman. Bochman starts the sprint off, as we see the other breakaway riders just behind them!
But Caruso uses Bochman's slipstream to gain an advantage and he takes the win! Kreuziger also loses time to some of the favourites like Contador and Valverde so he has fallen down in the GC, but it will be possible for him to make it up tommorow! I had a good descent and stayed inside the Top 25!
 1 | Damiano Caruso | Liquigas - Cannondale | 4h51'20 |  2 | Lasse Bøchman | Saxo Bank SunGard | s.t. | | 3 | Rodrigo GarcÃa | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 44 |  4 | Leonardo Duque | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. |  5 | Daniel Lloyd | Team Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. |  6 | Joost Posthuma | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 7 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | + 1'29 | | 8 | Ion Izagirre | Telefonica - Santander | s.t. | | 9 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - ISD | s.t. |  10 | Ryder Hesjedal | Team Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. | | ... | | 30 | David Veilleux | Sky ProCycling | +2'31 |
GC
| 1 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | 23h58'51 | | 2 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | + 20 | | 3 | Robert Gesink | Rabobank Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - ISD | + 35 | | 5 | Ryder Hesjedal | Team Garmin - Cervélo | + 52 | | 6 | Alberto Contador | Telefonica - Santander | s.t. | | 7 | Cadel Evans | Lotto - Ridley | s.t. | | 8 | Yaroslav Popovych | FDJ | s.t. | | 9 | Michele Scarponi | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 10 | Linus Gerdemann | Saunier Duval - Highroad | + 1'08 | | ... | | 22 | David Veilleux | Sky ProCycling | +2'58 |
Points
| 1 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | 9 | 61 | | 2 | José JoaquÃn Rojas | Movistar Team | 0 | 50 | | 3 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | 1 | 45 | | 4 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - ISD | 7 | 42 | | 5 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Pro Team Astana | 0 | 39 |
KoM
| 1 | Thomas Dekker | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | 0 | 21 | | 2 | Damiano Caruso | Liquigas - Cannondale | 19 | 20 | | 3 | Ivan Basso | Liquigas - Cannondale | 0 | 16 | | 4 | Sérgio Paulinho | Team RadioShack | 0 | 16 | | 5 | Sam Bewley | Team RadioShack | 0 | 16 |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 14-12-2011 01:08
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Awesome screens! You did really well with editing them.. my first thought was, that I love the first two ones, but the screen of Gerdemann attacking and the finish are also great Ah, and David does also well as 22nd in GC!
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 14-12-2011 01:55
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tsmoha wrote:
Awesome screens! You did really well with editing them.. my first thought was, that I love the first two ones, but the screen of Gerdemann attacking and the finish are also great Ah, and David does also well as 22nd in GC!
Agreed, some of the better pics I have seen in a while. (Doesn't say much since I haven't really had the time to read any stories lately, but never the less they look nice )
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 14-12-2011 06:32
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Awesome screens Valverde! Especially the first one and that one with Gerdemann and Roman attacking.
Nice ride by Davis, is he close to some riders ahead of him in terms of time?Good luck for the TT.
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 14-12-2011 06:40
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I agree with the others! High quality report plus very decent result, well done Personally, I also like to see Damiano Caruso winning such a prestigious stage. If it's not you, then at least someone from my story's team
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| dienblad |
Posted on 14-12-2011 07:43
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Yep, great screens. Must be some pretty good videocard in your pc/laptop!
Anyway, hope David can improve to a top 20 after the ITT!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 14-12-2011 09:36
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Had to look twice at some of these screens because they look so real, nice work |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 14-12-2011 14:06
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@ tsmoha - Thanks a lot! I'm very happy that my screenshots are getting such nice reviews, as I try to make them look as nice as I can. Yeah, David is still in a fairly nice spot, and he's tied with a couple riders, so he could move into the Top 15.
@ Mresuperstar - Thanks very much! Whenever you make a little change like this and do something different, I always have to wonder if the change was worth it, but in this case it seems very much like it has been!
@ Avin - Thank you so much! Yeah, my favourite is Gerdemann and Roman attackingm, but I also like the one of the peloton chasing. Like I said he is tied with I think 3 other riders on GC time, and the gap is only two minutes to the leader, so if he makes up to 30 seconds, he could move into the Top 15, which will probably be his goal at this point!
@ cunego - Thanks very much, especially coming from you I thought you'd be happy that Caruso won! Exactly, I always have the same motto too
@ dienblad - Thanks a ton! Its really not all that great actually Yes lets hope he can too! He is one of the better TTers but the course is also hilly tomorrow!
@ sutty - Wow, that is such a great compliment. Especially after I have started to edit them a little, it just means that I'm doing the right things obviously
Thank you everyone, but there probably wont be a stage for a few days! I have hockey tomorrow and Friday and I have an assignment due on Friday, and Monday, and I haven't started either of them!
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| Alastairhufc |
Posted on 14-12-2011 20:32
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Great stage there, doing well in GC as well
As the others have said, good writing and pictures |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 14-12-2011 21:30
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Alastairhufc wrote:
Great stage there, doing well in GC as well
As the others have said, good writing and pictures
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying the reports!
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I just wanna say I started the whole signing Kreuziger thing, since he's being signed in everyone elses stories
(Edit: Just remebered, it was actually Squire, in his Discovery Story)
(Its probably just because he's the only cool GT rider available in 2011)
Edited by valverde321 on 14-12-2011 21:30
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| olabj |
Posted on 15-12-2011 09:48
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Sooo. GREAT screens. Especially the Gerdemann one. And good luck for the TT and good luck with signing Kreuz
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| FuglsangxTH3 |
Posted on 15-12-2011 09:54
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Nice screens and also not a bad result I think
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 15-12-2011 14:00
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olabj wrote:
Sooo. GREAT screens. Especially the Gerdemann one. And good luck for the TT and good luck with signing Kreuz
Thanks a lot, haven;t seen you here in a while....
And I was the (2nd) person to sign Kreuz, but now he goes in every story 
And thanks Fuglsang, hopefully he can improve on the position still!
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| tmobile |
Posted on 15-12-2011 14:17
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wow, I dont know how you do, but your screenshots look very real!
I believe that it has not been a bad result, you have to keep on fighting to obtain better positions.
My congratulations for Roman's signing (it seems that now he is fashionable ) he is a big cyclist!
Good luck with the ITT and a greeting.
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 15-12-2011 14:55
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Kreuziger is just awesome
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 15-12-2011 18:56
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Thanks again you two
Editing the photos only takes an extra 2 minutes for each photo, so I feel its worth the time!
And Agree about Roman!
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