I'll try to do the first months fast, I think. I am a noob then, so results are quite bad in the start,
My first race was Ruta de San Luis, where my tactic about sending Cancellara into a one-man breakaway 6-10 km before finsih
Then GP de Bessenges came, triple victory, cuz of my tempo riders
Now I jump over a lot of races and a lot of vitories, into Milano-San Remo, where Peter Sagen beats Bunatti with 1 inch, Kreuziger attacked at last climp, but didn't make it to the finish
And in vuelta ciclista a Andalucia, you can see my climbing skills, I am a defensiv rider in mountains, even Wout Poels was leading before the two last stages
Then it was Ronde Vlaanderen and Cancellara, the cobbelstone specialist, who was going to win
Then, GP al Pais Vasco, now I started to understand climbs, but still not perfect
Paris-Roubaix, who else than Cancellara? Yes, Sagan, but he started a little to early with his with his sprint, so Cancellara took his second "inch-win"
Amstil Gold Race, my best riders were on a training camp I think. So my captain was going to be L.P. Nordhaug, who finished 9th
Then it was La Fleche Wallone, a dissapointing 16th place to Nordhaug. But great job to Valverde, second classic victory.
Another dissapointing day for Diadora, 16th for Poels. BUT, Valverde is now in the history books after winning Liege-Bastonge-Liege.
Then, GP the Romandie, took the jersey at stage five with Kreuziger, but he needs more then two seconds at the tempo specialist, his teamate, Trialongo Manchado, also passed him at last stage
And now, the Supergiro de Italia, first stage.
Herning-Herning
My "machine" did his work and took the pink jersey, but my jersey favourite, Pozzovivio, was 46 sec behind, together with Nieve, Pinot and Uran
Stage 2, time for the sprinters:
Herning-Herning
No one opened the sprint, so Sagan started it, and win with about 20 metres.
before the start: Pozzo is an outsider, since PCM was unable to "lay down", you only get finish results.
De Gendt attacked late, but he didn't get any seconds to the others, without bonus seconds. And Hesjedal(Hispedal) lost 1.21 to leaders,
Dupont lost 1:21
Tell me if you wan't to know someones postion.
Edited by kqyt on 19-09-2012 17:56
Stage 10 in giro, a medium moutain stage. After an amazing breakaway, who won with 12 minutes to the peleton, my rider Manchado, have the pink jersey. Even with an amazing Movistar the last 20 km, he held out, but came last in the breakaway group, because of his hard work the 15 last kilometres and his bad sprint, but that was yesterday. Now, it is today that counts. Here is the standings before start:
Here are the profile
If I listen to the favourite-marker, I got best chance with Pinot, as an outsider. "Pozzo" and Nieve is outsiders. While Liquigas is strongest, with Nibali and Basso as favourites
Movistar is controlling the peleton, but lets a six-man breakaway go.
The most dangerous riders in the breakaway, are Marcato and Lofquist, 36 minutes behind
With 100 km to go, the breakaway got a lead about 11 min.
50 km to go, the breakaway have 16 min to the peleton.
Gonnani wins in front of Marcato ang Rest.
well, there is a long time since last update. I have done some races, so you might don't have completely right reports, but the results will be right.
Stage 13 From Savona to Cervere
A pretty flat stage.
Since the jersey contest are resting for tommorows hill stage. There would be no one who were driving the peleton hard up the mountain. The breakaway was caught, so it was time for the sprinters, or...
Sagan won the sage, in fornt of Buenatti, in a sprint. But at third place came(!)Brambilla, in front of Pozzo. And Visconti at 5th. My worst placed rider was Bart De Clercq, at 54, and Uran at 17th.
Well, during this period I have signed 3 young riders, the one I hope the most for is Tom Erik Hasselstrøm, a stage-race rider. (19 years from Norway)
But, back to Giro
Stage 14 from Cherasco to Cervinia, a real mountain stage.
This was a deciding mountain stage in the Giro.
I might not remember completely right. But I think it was 13 riders in a breakaway, who was caught up the first mountain. But in the breakaway, I had Carbonara(Cancellara) and Sagan, who took the sprint-points. No one made the escape up the first mountain. But up the second hill, Manchado early got problems, but tried to get up into the pack with the OF(Overall Favourites) but he didn't make it. My riders where falling of, and with 7-8 km to got, It was Cobo, Froome, Pozzo, Basso, Scarponi, De Gendt, Nieve, Nibali and Gadret. Froome attacked, and took Cobo, Basso and Pozzo with him. Cobo won the sprint in front of Froome and Pozzo. Basso "lost" the sprint.
As you see, it was here Nieve lost his third place :/
I became a double-post, so I'd better edit this one
Stage 17 Falzes-Cortina D'Ampezzo
This was a really hard stage, 9 riders broke the race. At the end, there was a breakaway finished first, it was Moreno that won. It was two, of 14 riders, who held out over the mountains in the breakaway. The last man finished from the breakaway was "Carbonara", 19 mins(!) behind Moreno. In the OF, Gadret gained one min to Pozzo, Cobo, Nieve and Froome, while Scarponi took 22 sec to them.
Stage 18 San Vito di Cadore - Vedelage.
A flat stage. Ended with a mass-sprint victory to Peter Sagan. But the most important thing, Dupont felt down, and AG2R only sent down one rider to help him. But they couldn't fight Carbonara and Bart de Clercq. So they ended up five mins behind the rest. Dupont lost his great place in the OF.
Stage 19 Treviso - Alpe di Pampeago Val di Fiemme. A real mountain stage
After 70 km, the breakaway(14 riders, including Climb-Jersey) got 21 mins to the peleton, who seems to not be chasing the breakaway, Carbonara wins the sprint. Moreno, takes the climbing points. Jump to the end.
Moreno wins, 11 mins before Froome and Pinot 15 sek before Pozzo, who was 12 sec before Cobo.
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