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Tour de Pain
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| rontgen |
Posted on 18-07-2008 19:56
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Great riding by Stubbe. If he get's the mountain jersey I'll be very satisfied. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 18-07-2008 20:04
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Time for part 3!
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 18-07-2008 20:09
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YES!!! post it now!!!!
BenBarnes wrote:
Thor wears a live rattlesnake as a condom.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 18-07-2008 20:49
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Tour de Pain - Stage 3 - Embrun - Alpe d'Huez - Part 3 (Alpe d'Huez)
The breakaway attack each other in the approach to Alpe d'Huez
Rebellin gets a gap on the rest
But at the first turn of the Alpe, the break is over - let the real battle commence
Contador attacks first
Kirchen, Valverde, Menchov, Sastre, and Sanchez counter him
But the group is all brought back
The reason? Yaroslav Popovych grinding away at the front
Many riders are starting to get dropped (the peleton was 101 riders big at the foot). Including points leader Marco Pinotti
After 2.5km of Popovych leading the peleton, Samuel Sanchez attacks
Kirchen, Pellizotti, Contador and Menchov counter
Nothing from Evans as Popovych still chases. Pereiro is now on his wheel
Sella becomes the first major casualty, suffering for his earlier work
Popovych finally pulled over after over 5km of work, Pereiro takes over as Kirchen and Pellizotti are caught
At the back of the peleton, Frank Schleck, Thomas Lovkvist and Stijn Devolder amongst others
Pereiro looks set to bring the attackers back, but Samuel Sanchez attacks once again
The rest counter and start to pull away so Valverde and Di Luca make their moves
Andy Schleck then goes and finally! Its Cadel Evans!
Valverde moves into the lead
But then Contador comes past him
Now Di Luca takes to the front
Here comes Cadel Evans now, alongside Di Luca
Damiano Cunego finally attacks from the peleton!
While Contador makes another move to take back Cadel Evans
Valverde and Sastre both come back to the front
Riccardo Ricco has been anonymous over the last few kilometres of attacks, but he makes a big move now
Ricco rounds the bend and into the final kilometre
The charge to the line!
But what's this? Valverde is coming back at him!
Valverde is edging closer and closer - but the line is also coming closer and closer
Line astern - and there is the line!
Valverde does a great big Gorilla impresssion
For he has won on Alpe d'Huez! Ricco 2nd, Contador keeping yellow in 3rd.
Sastre faded in the last kilometre and Evans beats him to 4th
Cunego attacked too late and takes 6th ahead of Di Luca
Samuel Sanchez is further behind the front 7 in 8th ahead of Andy Schleck and Denis Menchov, Menchov was completely anonymous in the last few kilometres
Piepoli 11th, Dekker 12th
Leipheimer makes a very late attack from the peleton for 13th, Pellizotti is 14th with Kloden rounding out the top 15
The first Grupetto of 41 came in led by Jelle Vanendert and Stefan Schumacher
Group Cavendish was next, led in (surprisingly) by two decent climbers in Alex Efimkin and Lampre's Marzano. Bradley Wiggins was hanging off the back of the group.
8 minutes later came Mario Cipollini, resisting the urge to abandon
And here is the final group, including Baden Cooke, Julian Dean, Magnus Backstedt and Robbie McEwen. LPR's Luca Celli was the last over the line
(Full results will come later tonight at some point)
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| Wiggo |
Posted on 18-07-2008 20:52
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14th? Dman |
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 18-07-2008 21:09
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Ricco was so close, bullshit. (thats what Ricco drives on, not EPO btw.)
BenBarnes wrote:
Thor wears a live rattlesnake as a condom.
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 18-07-2008 21:18
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Cunego failed, just like i thought  |
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| Immortal |
Posted on 18-07-2008 22:25
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No what the heck was the point of that Rebellin?  Stupid guy, using lots of energy on the day BEFORE the stage he has actually targeted
I suspect the two Gerolsteiner-riders in the last group was our two sprinters Förster and Haussler (and thereby counting on that Lang and Zberg finished somewhere longer up). And that there are still 9 men-in-skyblue in the race.
No riders inside the top 20... or so it seams anyway. But that`ll be different tommorow.  |
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 18-07-2008 22:29
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Sastre and Schleck!
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 18-07-2008 22:32
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Valverde owned, also it looks like the same stage that is on the end of the PCM trailer |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-07-2008 00:40
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Immortal, it was Forster and Lang in the last group for Gerolsteiner. Zberg and Haussler were in the same group as Schumacher.
Here are the more detailed results:
Stage
GC
Points
KoM
Young Rider
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| matt493 |
Posted on 19-07-2008 00:42
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Evans in second yay.
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| snoep_de_hond |
Posted on 19-07-2008 01:30
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An annoyed Astana manager;
"3th, 2nd, 3th. Yes, we're disappointed AGAIN. This should have been OUR stage."
"Of course Contador held on to the jersey today, no surprise there."
"I think the stage to Alto de L'Angliru is our last realist chance to win a stage. Tomorrow will be hard to win. Valverde showed today he is in great shape and tomorrow is his terrain. Our goal tomorrow is to hold on to the jersey." |
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| dave92 |
Posted on 19-07-2008 03:36
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Chavanel is in good position to move up after the cobbles 
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| Stijn_vranken |
Posted on 19-07-2008 11:25
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Stijn Devolder is still looking good.
i bet he can get a top 5 due to the cobbles
prevent hangovers --> stay drunk
pozzato, basically the most stupid cyclist around
RIP WW. Gone but not forgotten
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| raar1991 |
Posted on 22-07-2008 10:34
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waiting for more  |
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| helGn |
Posted on 22-07-2008 13:00
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looking good here. seems like kirchen was too eager in his attacks, but he came in just behind leipheimer so its ok. now for the hilly stages there might be a chance at getting some time back and get into the spotlight again? Columbia is pleased sofar with the tour. |
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| snoep_de_hond |
Posted on 23-07-2008 08:39
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SportingNonsense? Do you know when you will ride/post the next stage? Or aren't you going to finish this? I don't hope so, because I was enjoying this. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 23-07-2008 09:37
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Why would I not finish this? Dont ask stupid questions
I have raced the next stage, I just havent found the time to post it up yet
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| snoep_de_hond |
Posted on 23-07-2008 10:37
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That's a relief, but there’s no such thing as a stupid question …… only stupid answers.
Well then I'll just go back to waiting. |
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