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| matt-hoy |
Posted on 19-03-2011 18:31
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After reading Pellozotti2 story with Leopard I decided that i would stop with Katusha as i was having some poor results.
The New Look
Press Confrence
Thanks you all for attending, We are Very excited to be joining the cycling world and hope for some great results. However we have unfortunatly had some last minute contract problems with some riders but have filled their spaces with a young British sprinter Chris Opie, Portugese sprinter Edgar Pinto, Spanish Climber Gomez Marchante and Luxembourg climber Kim Kirchen.
The Team Leaders
Fabian will lead the team in Time trials and Cobbled races. He will make up a key character in Sprints and Grand tours.
Andy Will lead us in stage races and will make the Tour de france and some bigger races his aims. He will also hope to be in form for the World Champs.
Frank Will make the Giro his main season objective and will work for Andy in the Tour. Other major stage races and one day races will be key in His Giro prep.
Daniele will be the man for the sprints and will lead us in the Giro and Tour De france. Early season prep will be Tour down under and the Tour of Oman.
Our sponsors will be revealed at the end of the month and we wish all the luck for Stuart in Australia. |
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| matt-hoy |
Posted on 19-03-2011 19:00
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The first race of the season was the Australian Time Trial Championships, Could Cameron Meyer Defend his title?
Spoiler | Rank | Name | | Time | | 1 | Richie Porte | | 44'10 | | 2 | Michael Rogers | | + 35 | | 3 | Brett Lancaster | | + 46 | | 4 | Cameron Wurf | | + 1'07 | | 5 | Heinrich Haussler | | + 1'08 | | 6 | Zakkari Dempster | | + 1'34 | | 7 | Cadel Evans | + 1'54 | | 8 | Adam Hansen | | + 2'04 | | 9 | Simon Gerrans | | + 2'12 | | 10 | Michael Matthews | | + 2'22 | | 11 | Matthew Wilson | | + 2'33 | | 12 | Jack Bobridge | | + 2'41 | | 13 | Dale Parker | | + 2'43 | | 14 | Stuart O'Grady | | + 2'49 | | 15 | Baden Cooke | | + 3'00 |
Cameron was no where to be seen today and a very fast pace by Lancaster was enough until Porte and Rogers can along. Evans was last across the line 1'54 down but there was no way the time would stand when rogers beat it but just 2km behind him Porte was finishing like a train. Stuart's good performance got him 14th place but he would have a greater chance at the road race.
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| matt-hoy |
Posted on 19-03-2011 19:28
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Today's race was the Australian Road Race Championships from Buninyong to Buninyong on a circuit that the riders will become very familiar with as they travel around it 17 times.
The Favourites -
Heinrich Haussler - Team Garmin - Cervélo
Cadel Evans - BMC Racing Team
Richie Porte - Saxo Bank SunGard
Michael Rogers - Sky ProCycling
Many riders attempted to breakaway early on, But No one could get away from the peleton as Sky policed everything.
Eventually Stuart O'Grady made a Brave attempted on the sixth circuit. He was joined a cicuit and a half later by Dickeson (Jelly Belly) and Munro (Rapha Condor).
40 km to go and Porte (Saxobank) and Mcdonald (Fly V Australia) joined up to make 5, they flew past the original trio and Only O'Grady could follow but diaster struck when O'Grady clipped Porte's wheel and hit the deck. With 30 km to go he had lost only 25 seconds, Could be get back with them?
The Peleton was closing quickly and with O'Grady in the perfect position for the sprint, only for Mcdonald to make one more attack that O'Grady and Porte both couldn't match.
Good win for Mcdonald and Fly V, O'Grady sprinted in for second but that was the best he could do.
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Peter McDonald | V Australia | 5h16'29 | | 2 | Stuart O'Grady | Leopard Trek | + 18 | | 3 | Simon Gerrans | Sky ProCycling | s.t. | | 4 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 5 | Matthew Lloyd | Omega Pharma - Lotto | + 36 | | 6 | Casey Munro | Rapha Condor - Sharp | s.t. | | 7 | William Dickeson | Jelly Belly p/b Kenda | s.t. | | 8 | Richie Porte | Saxo Bank SunGard | + 54 | | 9 | Simon Clarke | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 10 | Rory Sutherland | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 11 | Jack Bobridge | Team Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. | | 12 | Matthew Goss | HTC - Highroad | s.t. | | 13 | Cameron Meyer | Team Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. | | 14 | Mark Renshaw | HTC - Highroad | s.t. | | 15 | Allan Davis | Pro Team Astana | s.t. |
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 19-03-2011 19:48
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Good luck. Already nice start in the Aussie Champs RR.
By the way, seeing you edit the images before uploading them, you could also change them to .jpg? Makes the file a lot less big, therefore makes the page faster to load.
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| matt-hoy |
Posted on 19-03-2011 20:13
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lluuiiggii wrote:
Good luck. Already nice start in the Aussie Champs RR.
By the way, seeing you edit the images before uploading them, you could also change them to .jpg? Makes the file a lot less big, therefore makes the page faster to load.
Cheers, and thanks good idea but this may sound stupid but how do i change them? |
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| matt-hoy |
Posted on 19-03-2011 22:27
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The 13th edition of the Australian Sprinters race takes place in the last week of january where the defending champion is Andre Greipel. Stuart O'Grady is a two time champion but won't be here due to an injury which will keep him out for 2 weeks.
Leopard Trek Team -
Daniele Bennati
Fabian Cancellara
Andy Schleck
Edgar Pinto
José Ángel Gómez Marchante
Fränk Schleck
Todays Favourites -
Tylar Farrar - Team Garmin - Cervélo
André Greipel - Omega Pharma - Lotto
Alessandro Petacchi - Lampre - ISD
Early Start for the peleton today, There was an early split in which Opie and Frank Schleck were caught in along with other top sprinters Thomas Vaitkus and Gerald Ciolek Though with a momentus effort sky brought it back together meanwhile...........
Roberto Ferrari (Androni), Johnnie Walker (Geox) ,Rick Flens (Rababank), Danilo Wyss (BMC), Sébastien Joly (Saur-Sojasun) were in a breakaway which had a high of 2'10 lead while Ferrari took the Mountain Sprint.
Just over 7km to go and our train was perfectly poised with our preffered Cancellara, Pinto, Opie and then Bennati. All the other Favourites bar Swift (Sky) Were way out of it. Andy Schleck was feeling good and decided to go for the sprint himself.......
Despite developing a couple of bike lengths lead with a Kilometer to go Bennati couldn't stop a charging Cyril Lemoine from taking the stage though we had 6 riders in the top 15 and good sprinting from young guns Opie and Pinto.
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Cyril Lemoine | Saur - Sojasun | 3h21'40 | | 2 | Ben Swift | Sky ProCycling | s.t. | | 3 | Manuel Cardoso | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 4 | Daniele Bennati | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 5 | Fabian Cancellara | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 6 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 7 | Chris Opie | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 8 | Ángel Vicioso | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 9 | Greg Van Avermaet | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 10 | Andy Schleck | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 11 | Russell Downing | Sky ProCycling | s.t. | | 12 | Edgar Pinto | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 13 | Sébastien Hinault | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 14 | Denis Galimzyanov | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 15 | José Ángel Gómez Marchante | Leopard Trek | s.t. |
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 20-03-2011 00:15
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matt-hoy wrote:
lluuiiggii wrote:
Good luck. Already nice start in the Aussie Champs RR.
By the way, seeing you edit the images before uploading them, you could also change them to .jpg? Makes the file a lot less big, therefore makes the page faster to load.
Cheers, and thanks good idea but this may sound stupid but how do i change them?
Well, you do edit basically everything on the screen out of it right? What program do you use? Paint, photoshop? Anyway, in any program you use, when you're going to save the pic, you just change the file type from .png to .jpg. Maybe you'll have to use 'Save as' instead of only 'Save' for that (if you use 'Save' it will overwrite the original file - screenshot - and the menu where you can change file type won't appear).
Another hint: you can press 'Tab' to take the riders names out of their heads, and you can press Ctrl+u to take everything out of scene to take a SS (when playing the stage).
To the stage: great result for Leopard with 3 in Top 7! Cancellara once again with a nice sprint (like today in MSR) 
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| matt-hoy |
Posted on 20-03-2011 11:31
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lluuiiggii wrote:
matt-hoy wrote:
lluuiiggii wrote:
Good luck. Already nice start in the Aussie Champs RR.
By the way, seeing you edit the images before uploading them, you could also change them to .jpg? Makes the file a lot less big, therefore makes the page faster to load.
Cheers, and thanks good idea but this may sound stupid but how do i change them?
Well, you do edit basically everything on the screen out of it right? What program do you use? Paint, photoshop? Anyway, in any program you use, when you're going to save the pic, you just change the file type from .png to .jpg. Maybe you'll have to use 'Save as' instead of only 'Save' for that (if you use 'Save' it will overwrite the original file - screenshot - and the menu where you can change file type won't appear).
Another hint: you can press 'Tab' to take the riders names out of their heads, and you can press Ctrl+u to take everything out of scene to take a SS (when playing the stage).
To the stage: great result for Leopard with 3 in Top 7! Cancellara once again with a nice sprint (like today in MSR)
He did have a good sprint In milan san Remo, was cheering him on to win it but good placing and by the way i use photobucket so i don't know if i can do that ?? And cheers for the pressing tab and Cntl U. |
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| matt-hoy |
Posted on 20-03-2011 19:23
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Stage two would see Cyril Lemoine attempt to add another win to his Palmares, Pre race interviews revealed that Leopard would do everything they could to get Bennati a win while Saur Sojasun revealed that would work hard to keep Lemoine in the Ochre Jersey till the end.
This Morning saw a very excited and chatty peleton start from the small town of Tailem Bend. The days favourites were petacchi, Farrar and Greipel while Benatti, Davis and Swift were the outsiders.
Gomez Marchante made an early attack and was joined by 11 other riders. The best of the 11 riders were Vermeltfoort (Rabobank), Sergent (The Shack), Irizar (The Shack) and Sieberg (Omega Pharma) and got a max of 3'30 gap.
After Being Joined by Hayman (Sky) and Cappelle (Quickstep) Gomez Marchante sprinted past Oss (Liquigas) and took the 16 mountain points up for grabs.
25km to go and a 2min advantage back to the peleton Gomez Marchante decided it was time go for it and came from the back to attack. He got away and was the last to be swallowed up from the peleton with just over 8km to go. Due to Sky and BMC providing a very swift pace Bennati couldn't stay up towards the front and couldn't go for the sprint, Luckily Cancellara found Hondo's (Lampre) wheel as the sprint began.
Cancellara sprinted fantastically and was leading with 500m to go, but better sprinters were lining up behind him as Kristof Goddaert (AG2R) took the stage and Gert Steegmans (Quickstep) came into second.
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Kristof Goddaert | AG2R La Mondiale | 3h34'38 | | 2 | Gert Steegmans | Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | Fabian Cancellara | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 4 | Jürgen Roelandts | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 5 | Danilo Hondo | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 6 | Cyril Lemoine | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | 7 | Denis Galimzyanov | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 8 | Nico Sijmens | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. | | 9 | Alexander Kristoff | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 10 | Hayden Roulston | HTC - Highroad | s.t. | | 11 | Ben Swift | Sky ProCycling | s.t. | | 12 | Matthew Wilson | Team Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. | | 13 | Daniele Bennati | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 14 | Allan Davis | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 15 | Edgar Pinto | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 16 | Chris Opie | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 17 | Andy Schleck | Leopard Trek | s.t. |
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| matt-hoy |
Posted on 20-03-2011 20:37
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Stage three starts today in Unley a inner-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The favourites were the familliar faces of Petacchi, Farrar and Davis while Ciolek and Benatti will remain outsiders.
A breakaway formed and Gomez Marchante once more found himself within it, Joined by 6 riders with big riders Bozic (Vacansoleil) and Uratsun (Euskatel). Gomez Marchante took of the sprints on offer and with it took the points and Mountain jersey.
Taking the Mountain sprint.
A fall in the peleton meant our sprint train was pulled apart and we never got it back together,
Lorenzetto saw a gap and pulled away from everyone and took the stage. |
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| matt-hoy |
Posted on 21-03-2011 21:23
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Tour of Oman will be when pics will be changed to JPEG.
Stage 4 should be a bunch sprint with the normal sprinters, where Petacchi and Farrar will try to finally have a good stage.
The race start.
Gomez Marchante celebrating that the king of the mountain jersey is as good as his.
Greipel wins as Benatti has a good sprint for second with Mondory just edging Swift for a podium place.
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | André Greipel | Omega Pharma - Lotto | 3h05'53 | | 2 | Daniele Bennati | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 3 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 4 | Ben Swift | Sky ProCycling | s.t. | | 5 | Gert Steegmans | Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 6 | Russell Downing | Sky ProCycling | s.t. | | 7 | Kristof Goddaert | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 8 | Marcel Sieberg | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 9 | Edgar Pinto | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 10 | Fabian Cancellara | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 11 | Chris Opie | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 12 | Greg Van Avermaet | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 13 | Tyler Farrar | Team Garmin - Cervélo | s.t. | | 14 | Danilo Hondo | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | 15 | Denis Galimzyanov | Katusha Team | s.t. |
General Classement:
Spoiler | Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | José Ángel Gómez Marchante | Leopard Trek | 13h12'26 | | 2 | Cyril Lemoine | Saur - Sojasun | + 3 | | 3 | Kristof Goddaert | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 4 | Manuel Cardoso | Team RadioShack | s.t. | | 5 | Mirco Lorenzetto | Pro Team Astana | s.t. | | 6 | André Greipel | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 7 | Ben Swift | Sky ProCycling | + 7 | | 8 | Daniele Bennati | Leopard Trek | s.t. | | 9 | Fabian Cancellara | Leopard Trek | + 9 | | 10 | Lloyd Mondory | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 11 | Luca Paolini | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 12 | Pablo Urtasun | Euskaltel - Euskadi | + 10 | | 13 | Leigh Howard | HTC - Highroad | s.t. | | 14 | Tristan Valentin | Cofidis, le crédit en ligne | s.t. |
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| AndySchleck |
Posted on 22-03-2011 15:04
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I like your story! Not too long stage reports and you are not winning too much. (At least not so far) |
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| matt-hoy |
Posted on 22-03-2011 17:48
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AndySchleck wrote:
I like your story! Not too long stage reports and you are not winning too much. (At least not so far)
Thanks, Im changing my pics to JPG for the tour of qatar so the page will load quicker 
And yer a mix of poor form and trouble with lead out trains meant not too many easy wins. |
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