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September Rankings Update
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 01-11-2008 00:06
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With just 7 races to go, the continental season is drawing to a close. B&O still lead and after having their lead reduced to less than 100 points after the Rund um den Nurnberger Alsadt, they have began to pull away again. With a lead of 238 over nearest challengers Champion, and 347 over LA/MSS/Pearl Jam - do they now have un unassailable hold of one of the promotion places?
Champion now hold a 109 point lead over Pearl Jam, and with more races to go too, it seems like an uphill struggle for the Portugese team. Procycling and White Bear Steyr currently hold the too remaining Top 5 places and the battle behind.
Less than 500 points separate the 6th place and 15th place teams. Its anyones guess in which order those 10 teams will come.
1 B&O 2335
2 Champion 2097
3 LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 1988
4 Procycling-BBC 1897
5 White Bear Steyr 1678
6 Slipstream 1529
7 Molteni 1511
8 Fed-Ex 1426
9 IrnBru - RBS 1410
10 Gatorade 1279
11 Wiggle - Premier Inn 1239
12 Benfica 1213
13 NVidia 1184
14 Zenmind-Evolution 1087
15 Nippo Corporation 1034
16 British Airways - Cyclingnews 899
17 Dasani - Hincapie Sportswear 760
18 Ernst and Young 573
19 Sony Ericsson B 253
20 Slipstream B 195
21 IrnBru B 176
22 Magenta B 161
23 Virgin Media B 161
24 LA/MSS/Pearl Jam B 148
25 British Airways B 93
26 La Gazetta B 91
27 Gatorade B 81
28 Nintendo B 80
29 Wikipedia B 61
30 France Televisions B 45
31 American Suzuki B 43
32 Fed-Ex B 43
33 The Control Team 8
34 Team Incompetent 7
35 White Bear Steyr B 0
36 SME Cycling 0
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With 35 points separating the lead 4 riders, this could also go right down to the wire! Unlike last season, where Fabian Wegmann dominated. Incidentally, Wegmann is having a poor season, ranked just 55th, with 10 of his 35 race days wasted on the Tour du Faso, which is still to come.
Anyway, back to the battle for number 1. Tom Danielson leads on 550, Edvald Boasson Hagen has 541, Angel Vicioso is on 526, with Juan José Haedo on 515. Hagen and Vicioso have done the best out ot of the 4 considering they have 20 less race days to play with.
Danielson has all but led from the start, with victories in Tachira, Peru and the Tour de Georgia. He now has the Vuelta a Venezuela to come, and a good result good secure the title for him.
Hagen meanwhile will be taking on the Giro dell Emelia and Paris-Tours. He must aim to win at least one of those races to stand a chance. Angel Vicioso has just the 1 race left: the Escalada a Montjuich. Overall victory there could be enough..
Do not count out the 'outsider' JJ Haedo though. With potential victories in both Paris-Tours and the Tour du Faso - can he do it?
1 Tom Danielson USA Fed-Ex 550
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen NOR B&O 541
3 Angel Vicioso ESP Gatorade 526
4 Juan José Haedo ARG Slipstream 515
5 Jimmy Casper FRA Champion 394
6 Heinrich Haussler GER NVidia 371
7 Nuno Ribeiro POR Benfica 364
8 Aitor Perez Arrieta ESP Champion 358
9 Aleksandr Efimkin RUS Champion 344
10 José Chacon VEN Champion 337
11 Aleksandr Pluchkin MOL B&O 328
12 Bernhard Kohl AUT White Bear Steyr 328
13 Leonardo Bertagnolli ITA Wiggle - Premier Inn 322
14 Wes Sulzberger AUS IrnBru - RBS 285
15 Ivan Seledkov RUS IrnBru - RBS 281
16 Daniel Moreno ESP Benfica 273
17 Wim van Huffel BEL LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 261
18 Konstantin Siutsou BLR White Bear Steyr 252
19 Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios ESP Zenmind - Evolution 248
20 Vitor Rodrigues POR LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 237
21 Blaise Sonnery FRA White Bear Steyr 225
22 Martijn Maaskant NED LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 224
23 Bradley Wiggins GBR Procycling-BBC 224
24 Tadej Valjavec SLO Ernst & Young 219
25 Chris Froome GBR Procycling-BBC 214
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| niconico |
Posted on 01-11-2008 00:15
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It's definitely within range now. Luckily I had two good races to round off september, so I bought myself a bit of a margin for error. 
Also, Hagen still stands a nice chance eventhough things would have looked brighter had he won GP Plouay. Danielson will most likely score a lot of points in Venezuela, so it may not be possible after all, but he has definitely had a great season. Hagen that is 
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 01-11-2008 00:47
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6th overall teams and only Haedo in the top 25 individual. That means everyone on Slipstream is scoring points.
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 01-11-2008 00:51
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Well Wiggle is PLUMETTING after a good early season. Here's to hoping that Usov can get over those flat roads in Faso to actually maybe get a top 3 finish on some stages. It's about all the hope I've got left. *weeps*
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 01-11-2008 00:53
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Levi4life wrote:
6th overall teams and only Haedo in the top 25 individual. That means everyone on Slipstream is scoring points.
Apart from Jason Kenny 
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 01-11-2008 00:56
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| rodda |
Posted on 01-11-2008 01:27
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wooo moving up B) good to see we arent just relying on kohl this season.
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| p3druh |
Posted on 01-11-2008 10:46
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No way I'll get 100 points on Champion now. Especially since they are ridding the Vuelta a Venezuela (15 stages) and I'm not.
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 01-11-2008 11:25
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Yeah, but so is every other team. So if their main guy crashes in the first few stages, ya never know, may be a low scoring race for them.
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| p3druh |
Posted on 01-11-2008 11:33
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Yeah, but even if that happens I still have to get the 100 points somewhere, and seeing as how we are ridding almost the exact same races from now on, I don't see how it's going to happen.
But hey, SotD said I would finish between 15th and 20th in the teams classification and I'm looking solid for a top-5 so I'm happy
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| mattiasgt |
Posted on 01-11-2008 11:37
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Don't forget the B-team fight. Go Sony B! 
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 01-11-2008 18:35
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Mattias, it won't last long
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