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La Pomme Marseille - Bye for now!
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 12-05-2013 22:40
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Amazing Summary of the Giro. Simple yet its very effective with the layout.
Great results in France too!
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 12-05-2013 22:42
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Ion Izagirre was a pretty nice surprise! |
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 12-05-2013 22:46
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Giro report was nice to read, and my two favorite riders (except for Sagan) Cancellara and Nibali won a combined 7 stages! 
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 18:50
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Thanks, all!
I'll probably use something similar for reporting from the Tour later in the season. 
 GP de Plumelec-Morbihan
Boucles de l'Aulne
Two classics over two consecutive days closes down our spring season racing block. Both of these are fairly hilly, meaning that we're going all in for Clement with the same squad for both races. After this, we'll be off training for a couple of months before returning to the stage again in August.
We appeared to be the only team trying to avert a sprint finish, so we figured there was no choice but to take a risk towards the end. After an attack from Toms, Clement jumped across on the penultimate climb of Côte de Cadoudal, only to push clear himself just moments later.
Having flewn both down the following descent and the final climb up the Cadoudal, there was nothing anyone could do to deny us victory!
Almost a minute and a half later, the sprint for 2nd was won by Netapp's Blaz Jarc, with Laurent Pichon (FDJ) completing the podium. The other puncheurs made a big mistake not to attack as well.
Moving on to Boucles. With the previous success fresh in mind and a well recovered Clement in the squad, we tried the same tactic once again. Unfortunately, this time the other teams organised the hunt much better and opening a gap proved to be far more difficult than earlier.
Clement still held off the chasers incredibly well, but unfortunately lost the lead with just 200m left to the finish. Completely exhausted, he could only watch as Yannick Talabardon (FDJ) flew past to take the victory out of our hands.
AG2R's Hugo Houle and Evaldas also overhauled him in the end, meaning a 3rd and a 4th place for us. No victory of course, but still a solid finish and a good example of our squad's depth. Now, time for the hiatus!
Edited by Pellizotti2 on 15-05-2013 19:12
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 18:56
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Great win for the team. And nice racing with 3rd and 4th. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 18:57
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Great win for Clement  |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 18-05-2013 22:13
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Just like last year, our squad isn't at all prepared to race the national championships. Therefore, we decided to skip them once again in favour of preparations for the remainder of the season. Here are the NC results:
Time trial:
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd |  | Kristof Vandewalle | Julien Vermote | Kevin De Jonghe |  | Ryder Hesjedal | Svein Tuft | Ryan Roth |  | Carlos Betancur | Rigoberto Urán | Winner Anacona |  | Frantisek Rabon | Zdenek Stybar | Leopold König |  | Mads Christensen | Christopher Juul-Jensen | Lars Bak |  | Alberto Contador | Jonathan Castroviejo | Beñat Intxausti | | Sylvain Chavanel | Romain Sicard | Johan Le Bon |  | Tony Martin | Jasha Sütterlin | Patrick Gretsch |  | Bradley Wiggins | Geraint Thomas | Christopher Froome |  | Daniele Bennati | Dario Cataldo | Marco Coledan |  | Sebastian Langeveld | Dylan Van Baarle | Tom Dumoulin |  | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Stian Remme | Vegard Breen |  | Adrian Kurek | Maciej Bodnar | Robert Radosz |  | Nelson Oliveira | José Goncalves | Rui Costa |  | Anton Vorobyev | Timofey Kritskiy | Petr Ignatenko |  | Fabian Cancellara | Mathias Frank | Michael Albasini |  | Alexander Kvachuk | Oleg Chuzhda | Yaroslav Popovych |  | Tejay Van Garderen | Andrew Talansky | Joseph Dombrowski |
Road race:
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | | Tom Boonen | Björn Leukemans | Nick Nuyens | | Guillaume Boivin | Ryan Anderson | Francois Parisien | | Nairo Quintana | Sergio Henao | Winner Anacona | | Zdenek Stybar | Leopold König | Frantisek Rabon | | Sebastian Lander | Michael Morkov | Kasper Jebjerg | | Alejandro Valverde | Daniel Moreno | Luis León Sánchez | | Nacer Bouhanni | Arnaud Demare | Steven Tronet | | Marcel Kittel | André Greipel | John Degenkolb | | Luke Rowe | Geraint Thomas | Joshua Edmondson | | Giacomo Nizzolo | Daniel Oss | Jacopo Guarnieri | | Bobbie Traksel | Stefan Van Dijk | Tom Stamsnijder | | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Alexander Kristoff | Lars Petter Nordhaug | | Przemyslaw Niemiec | Michal Golas | Robert Radosz | | Samuel Caldeira | Fabio Silvestre | Hugo Sabido | | Igor Boev | Alexander Porsev | Alexey Tsatevich | | Danilo Wyss | Grégory Rast | Fabian Cancellara | | Anatoliy Pakthusov | Vitaliy Popkov | Maksym Averin | | Tyler Farrar | Taylor Phinney | Gavin Mannion |  | Werner Riebenbauer | | |  | Tanel Kangert | | |  | Alexey Lutsenko | | |  | Gediminas Bagdonas | | |  | Tom Kohn | | |  | Borut Bozic | | |  | Johan Lindgren | | |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 19-05-2013 00:01
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Two silver medals for Geraint |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 19-05-2013 09:08
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Boonen always wins Belgian NC  |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 19-05-2013 13:39
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Tour de France
Following the recently reported Giro, the Tour de France has now also come to an end. Much like it's Italian counterpart, it included a rather dramatic first week with plenty of big names falling out of contention early.
One who didn't was two-time winner Alberto Contador, who marked the right moves on the Corsican hilly stages and pulled on the Maillot Jaune already after stage 4's team time trial. In previous years, that would mean game over and a rather uninteresting remainder of the Tour - but not this time!
Perhaps somewhat overconfident, the Spaniard rode aggressively as the race hit the Pyrenees, winning the altitude finish in Ax-3-Domaines. However, these efforts turned out to have tired him more than his rivals - as he started to falter badly in the last week's Alpine stages.
After losing time to a number of rivals on several stages, it was an up to that point "just" consistent defending champion Chris Froome who landed the final blow on the multi-mountain stage to Le Grand-Bornand. From there onwards, the Briton had no problems holding the lead all the way to Paris.
Contador hung on for second place, in spite of the fallthrough in the last week. Joining him and Froome on the podium was Alejandro Valverde, who rode consistently through the entire race for the first time ever.
Obviously a very important win for Froome, especially considering that his season up to this point literally hasn't included any results at all. Another man that applies to is Andy Schleck, who as usual has focused his entire season on the Tour. Disappointing for him not to get anything better than 4th.
Finally, the top 5 was completed by home crowds new favourite, Thibaut Pinot. After his 4th place in last year's Giro, this result proves that he has taken yet another step on his way to becoming a real threat for the GTs.
| 1 | Christopher Froome | Sky Pro Cycling | 80h07'46 | | 2 | Alberto Contador | Team Saxo-Tinkoff | + 1'14 | | 3 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | + 4'02 | | 4 | Andy Schleck | Radioshack - Trek | + 4'59 | | 5 | Thibaut Pinot | FDJ | + 7'28 | | 6 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre - Merida | + 8'34 | | 7 | Daniel Martin | Garmin - Sharp | + 8'56 | | 8 | Pierre Rolland | Team Europcar | + 9'24 | | 9 | Beñat Intxausti | Movistar Team | + 11'17 | | 10 | Thomas Voeckler | Team Europcar | + 13'54 |
To wrap this up, the stage results:
| Stage | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | | 1 | Mark Cavendish | Marcel Kittel | André Greipel | | 2 | Alejandro Valverde | Beñat Intxausti | Roman Kreuziger | | 3 | Sylvain Chavanel | Egoi Martinez | Romain Bardet | | 4 | Sky Pro Cycling | Team Saxo-Tinkoff | OmegaPharma Quickstep | | 5 | Mark Cavendish | André Greipel | John Degenkolb | | 6 | Mark Cavendish | Matthew Goss | André Greipel | | 7 | Sylvain Chavanel | Thomas De Gendt | Mark Cavendish | | 8 | Alberto Contador | Joe Dombrowski | Beñat Intxausti | | 9 | JoaquÃm RodrÃguez | Beñat Intxausti | Alberto Contador | | 10 | Mark Cavendish | André Greipel | John Degenkolb | | 11 | Bradley Wiggins | Sylvain Chavanel | Lars Boom | | 12 | Mark Cavendish | Marcel Kittel | Peter Sagan | | 13 | Jérôme Coppel | Rémi Pauriol | Mark Cavendish | | 14 | Mark Cavendish | André Greipel | Marcel Kittel | | 15 | Fabrice Jeandesboz | Sylvain Chavanel | Tomasz Marczynski | | 16 | Sylvain Georges | Christophe Kern | Rémi Pauriol | | 17 | Pierre Rolland | Christopher Froome | Alberto Contador | | 18 | Daniel Martin | Michael Albasini | José Rujano | | 19 | Christopher Froome | Alejandro Valverde | Andy Schleck | | 20 | Brice Feillu | Daniel Martin | José Rujano | | 21 | Mark Cavendish | André Greipel | John Degenkolb |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 19-05-2013 13:41
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Mark Cavendish won the Points Jersey obviously 
A great TDF, it seems. Stage wins of Rolland, Contador, Rodriguez... And overall for Froome, great |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 19-05-2013 13:45
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Froome won.  Feillu won something. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 19-05-2013 16:13
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Froomey |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 19-05-2013 17:52
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Valverde 3rd
Are Schlecks stats still from when he was a top climber? Or did you adjust them to be lower?
Nice to see Cunego get 6th. I feel he gets under-rated in a lot of DB's.
Very realistic results across the board. Loved the report.
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 19-05-2013 19:14
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The French got three in the top-10! Chapeau for them! |
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 20-05-2013 12:25
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Mark being Mark, so sad that Froome got that.
Awesome , just awesome screenshots in last few reports! |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 25-05-2013 10:04
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Thanks all.
valverde321 wrote:
Are Schlecks stats still from when he was a top climber? Or did you adjust them to be lower?
Slightly lowered, but more importantly I've also set his bonus fitness to (-2) all months except July. Hence why this Tour is his only good race all season - just like in the real world.
Felt like the most realistic option, and it seems to work pretty well.
Paris-Corrèze
Exactly like a year ago, the two-day Paris-Corrèze marks our return to the racing stage. With one flat stage and one in the hills, it feels like the perfect set for building up some racing form again.
*Forgot to take a screen of the squad*
 Andzs Flaksis
Christophe Laporte
Gatis Smukulis
Michal Kwiatkowski
Pierre-Luc Perichon
Thomas Vaubourzeix
Yoann Paillot
Due to the limited form of our riders, we concentrated on the breaks. On the opening stage it was Thomas who took place in the day's long escape, but unfortunately they were brought back inside the final 10 km.
Onto a sprint finish, where no team really managed to claim control. After a messy finish with riders all over the road, it was Vacansoleil's Kenny Van Hummel who took the glory ahead of Ruben Pérez (Euskaltel) and Daniel Schorn (Netapp). Kwiatek surprised with an excellent 6th place.
| 1 | Kenny Van Hummel | Vacansoleil - DCM | 3h53'51 | | 2 | Rubén Pérez Moreno | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 3 | Daniel Schorn | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | 4 | Maxime Vantomme | Team Crelan | s.t. | | 5 | Sébastien Chavanel | FDJ | s.t. |
Into the hills the day after, with Thomas taking part in the early breakaway once again. No success this time either however, as all the escapees struggled to cope with the difficult climbs en route to the finish.
Instead, a rather large group of 17 riders escaped from the main field near the top of the final climb and held on all the way to the finish. We somehow completely missed the move altogether and got caught behind.
Up front, the stage win went to former German champion Fabian Wegmann (Garmin), who showcased an impressive kick by edging out the quick Francisco Ventoso (Movistar) on the line. Julien Simon (Sojasun) followed in 3rd, whereas Van Hummel took the overall on a countback.
| 1 | Fabian Wegmann | Garmin - Sharp | 4h09'57 | | 2 | Francisco Ventoso | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 3 | Julien Simon | Team Sojasun | s.t. | | 4 | Jan Barta | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | 5 | Julien El Fares | Team Sojasun | s.t. |
Final GC
| 1 | Kenny Van Hummel | Vacansoleil - DCM | 8h03'28 | | 2 | Fabian Wegmann | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 3 | Francisco Ventoso | Movistar Team | + 8 | | 4 | Julien Simon | Team Sojasun | + 12 | | 5 | Maxime Vantomme | Team Crelan | + 20 | | 6 | François Parisien | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 7 | Romain Feillu | Vacansoleil - DCM | s.t. | | 8 | Jan Barta | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | 9 | Jens Debusschere | Lotto-Belisol Team | s.t. | | 10 | Guillaume Levarlet | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. |
Not the best of races for us, but as said earlier - this was just a place to build form for later in the season.
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 25-05-2013 10:14
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Still plenty of time for the team to shine again |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 25-05-2013 10:39
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Building up slowly |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 25-05-2013 10:44
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Building up form is very important. |
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