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| Daggen |
Posted on 09-03-2013 10:04
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 09-03-2013 10:15
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Stijn has put in a good case to be the Leader  |
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 09-03-2013 10:30
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Go for it, Stijn! |
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| rogvi97 |
Posted on 09-03-2013 20:33
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Go Stijn! Give us an adventure!!
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| tovhol |
Posted on 09-03-2013 20:34
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Come on, Stijn!
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 10-03-2013 10:52
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Can't wait for stage 3 
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 10-03-2013 11:28
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Thanks a lot everyone! Good news: yesterday's show was soo exhausting that I won't do anything today but play PCM and watch cycling on tv. So just raced stage 3, will do more today! |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 10-03-2013 11:44
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Eneco Tour - Stage 4
D-Day for the General Classification favorites! A tough terrain with plenty of cobbles. I won this stage last year, it's the exact same route.
The peloton was like an accordion today, paying attention was the key word!
Jan Ghyselinck was doing well in the breakaway. However, with only 25 km left to go, they still had over 3 minutes on us!
We were getting nowhere, so I got out of Cancellara's wheel. Time to repeat last year's win, no? I set a fast pace, people hesitated.
I quickly passed Ghyselinck, who was fighting for his place, and found the front of the race: Pozzato and Visconti.
They had spend an entire day in the breakaway, so they were easy to leave behind. I was just free-wheeling!
Visconti refused to crack. He's incredibly strong, but I kept him at a distance. He couldn't reach my wheel and stayed at about 20 meter for 5 km.
He was drained of energy and he didn't insist by sprinting. Exactly one year later, here I am again! Winner of this stage in the Eneco Tour!
What a brilliant day. This also means I'll be the leader for the rest of the race here. Now it was waiting for the time differences, and they were huge!
Result
| 1 | Stijn Van Gent | Team Argos-Shimano | 5h02'02 | IanButler | | 2 | Giovanni Visconti | Movistar Team | + 32 | | | 3 | Filippo Pozzato | Farnese Vini Selle Italia | + 2'36 | | | 4 | Jan Ghyselinck | Team Argos-Shimano | + 4'06 | IanButler | | 5 | Alessandro Ballan | BMC Racing Team | + 5'05 | | | 6 | Olivier Kaisen | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | | 7 | Bobbie Traksel | Landbouwkrediet-Euphony | s.t. | | | 8 | Mathieu Ladagnous | FDJ-BigMat | s.t. | | | 9 | Preben Van Hecke | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | s.t. | | | 10 | Jürgen Roelandts | Lotto Belisol | + 6'21 | | | 11 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | s.t. | | | 12 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 13 | Fabian Cancellara | Radioshack Nissan Trek | s.t. | | | 14 | Nick Nuyens | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | | 15 | Heinrich Haussler | Orica-GreenEDGE | s.t. | |
General Classification
| 1 | Stijn Van Gent | Team Argos-Shimano | 13h44'12 | IanButler | | 2 | Giovanni Visconti | Movistar Team | + 54 | | | 3 | Filippo Pozzato | Farnese Vini Selle Italia | + 2'38 | | | 4 | Jan Ghyselinck | Team Argos-Shimano | + 4'31 | IanButler | | 5 | Alessandro Ballan | BMC Racing Team | + 5'01 | | | 6 | Bobbie Traksel | Landbouwkrediet-Euphony | + 5'13 | | | 7 | Mathieu Ladagnous | FDJ-BigMat | + 5'19 | | | 8 | Olivier Kaisen | Lotto Belisol | + 5'27 | | | 9 | Preben Van Hecke | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | + 5'38 | | | 10 | Fabian Cancellara | Radioshack Nissan Trek | + 6'15 | |
Fun Fact: I didn't come out of the saddle once since 40 km from the finish!
Wow, things are looking incredibly well! Also a big congratulations to Jan Ghyselinck with his stunning performance!
Until tomorrow,
Stijn
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| tovhol |
Posted on 10-03-2013 11:49
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Come on, Stijn! You can win the gc!
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 10-03-2013 11:52
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That's a GC wrapup!
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 10-03-2013 12:33
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tovhol - We'll definitely try everything to do that! It would be an amazing achievement in this, already perfect, season!
Ollfardh - Stijn looks quite good indeed, but we'll also try to keep Ghyselinck on that 4th place |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 10-03-2013 12:33
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Eneco Tour - Stage 5
For the sprinters, normally.
Today I must thank the entire team! I was surrounded like a president on a float parade!
Kristoff did some brilliant work controlling the breakaway. We had a secret plan though. We would let the breakaway win, so less points remained at the finish and I can also try to keep the Points Jersey!
Appollonio took a nasty fall when someone hit him from behind! What a devil!
The sprinters' teams caught on to our plan way too late! We succeeded, the breakaway won!
I took a decent 7th and am still leading three classifications. Well, four if you count the Team Classification!
Result
| 1 | Vincenzo Demeulenaere | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | 4h58'19 | | | 2 | Staf Scheirlinckx | Accent.Jobs - Willems Veranda’s | s.t. | | | 3 | Gaëtan Bille | Lotto Belisol | + 26 | | | 4 | Vladimir Isaychev | Katusha Team | s.t. | | | 5 | Francesco Di Paolo | Acqua & Sapone | + 1'35 | | | 6 | Mark Cavendish | Sky Pro Cycling | s.t. | | | 7 | Stijn Van Gent | Team Argos-Shimano | s.t. | IanButler | | 8 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | s.t. | | | 9 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | | 10 | Nick Nuyens | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | |
GC
| 1 | Stijn Van Gent | Team Argos-Shimano | 18h44'06 | IanButler | | 2 | Giovanni Visconti | Movistar Team | + 54 | | | 3 | Filippo Pozzato | Farnese Vini Selle Italia | + 2'38 | | | 4 | Jan Ghyselinck | Team Argos-Shimano | + 4'31 | IanButler | | 5 | Alessandro Ballan | BMC Racing Team | + 5'01 | | | 6 | Bobbie Traksel | Landbouwkrediet-Euphony | + 5'13 | | | 7 | Mathieu Ladagnous | FDJ-BigMat | + 5'19 | | | 8 | Olivier Kaisen | Lotto Belisol | + 5'27 | | | 9 | Preben Van Hecke | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | + 5'38 | | | 10 | Fabian Cancellara | Radioshack Nissan Trek | + 6'15 | |
Points
| 1 | Stijn Van Gent | Team Argos-Shimano | 71 | IanButler | | 2 | Mark Cavendish | Sky Pro Cycling | 62 | | | 3 | Peter Sagan | Liquigas-Cannondale | 61 | | | 4 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | 61 | | | 5 | Jürgen Roelandts | Lotto Belisol | 47 | | | 6 | Fabian Cancellara | Radioshack Nissan Trek | 41 | | | 7 | Alessandro Ballan | BMC Racing Team | 40 | | | 8 | Daniele Bennati | Radioshack Nissan Trek | 39 | | | 9 | Vincenzo Demeulenaere | Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator | 39 | | | 10 | Filippo Pozzato | Farnese Vini Selle Italia | 32 | |
See you tomorrow!
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| Bikex |
Posted on 10-03-2013 12:38
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Once again Ian Butler shows his great photoshop skills 
UCI knows Katusha has the devil in its team thats why they refused to give them a world tour licence and I thought they hate russians |
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Posted on 10-03-2013 12:52
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Wow, those timegaps in the Ronse-stage..... Great win.
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| Daggen |
Posted on 10-03-2013 13:14
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Mr Butler. WHAT THE HELL???!!! .
Three classifications for Stijn . And you didn't like him because he was dominating? |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 10-03-2013 14:15
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Bikex - My paint-skills are amazing, aren't they? The Anonymous Devil will one day strike again...
dienblad - Yeah, it was a surprisingly passive stage from yellow jersey Cancellara. That's why I attacked with Stijn, because the pack was not moving at all, they didn't really bother with a decent chase until the final 10 km!
Daggen - It's different now, he's come a long way and he hasn't won any classic yet, so far |
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| Mordekaiser |
Posted on 10-03-2013 14:18
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What are their stats looking like these days? |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 10-03-2013 14:21
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Mordekaiser - Can't tell you that, mate not part of the story Though both got an amazing boost in the Tour. I'd say they will belong in the top of cycling in the next season, at least the season after! |
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| JuanMotr |
Posted on 10-03-2013 14:52
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First of all sorry for not reporting recently
I just read le Tour it was amazing read! what a TT by Willy and of course a win by Stijn! My smell was again right! I will read Eneco later today.
Keep it up! |
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| krisa |
Posted on 10-03-2013 17:07
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Good job by stijn at the fourth stages He can become better then Coppi and Merckx |
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