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Staying in the World Tour - Argos Shimano - season start
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| alex344 |
Posted on 25-04-2013 07:19
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Nice podium for Degenkolb. Puts him in great position to challenge the overall. |
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| maxime86 |
Posted on 25-04-2013 14:55
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nice strt, but don't but flags on every single rider in the results |
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| harry |
Posted on 25-04-2013 19:09
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Thanks for the comments. I'm making a couple changes to the format. The flags will stay though as I like them... |
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| harry |
Posted on 25-04-2013 22:18
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Santos Tour Down Under
Stage 1: Mt Barker - Rostrevor 113 km
 John Degenkolb -  Will Clarke -  Tom Dumoulin - Simon Geschke -  Cheng Ji - Koen de Kort - Tom Stamsnijder
In the second stage of the Santos Tour Down Under, Bakelants, Wurf, Tjalingii and Dumoulin escaped and quickly took 4 minutes on the pack. Since it was a very short stage, the pack did not let the gap grow much more.
Bakelants took the Jayco sprints at Echunga and Onkaparinga road before Tjalingii and Wurf, and Dumoulin and Wurf. This brought him to the second place in the point standings after Gallopin. With only 10 kilometers to go the escapies were caught by the pack. Gavazzi and Ventoso immediately attacked, and also Geschke showed his face in front of the race.
Gavazzi won the Skoda King of the Mountain sprint but due to the energy that it costed him to get away from the pack, he lost all chances of an excellent finish. The pace of the pack was too high in the downhill section for any of the riders to get or stay away. The pace in the downhill section was also too high for the sprinters to get all the way to the front of the pack, and it mostly were climbers who competed for the victory today. Eventually it was Kocjan who barely took the victory before Geschke and Lowe.
Full race results:
| 1 |  | Jure Kocjan | Euskaltel - Euskadi | 2h41'07 | | 2 | | Simon Geschke | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 3 |  | Luke Rowe | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 4 | | Jens Voigt | RadioShack - Leopard | s.t. | | 5 |  | Peter Velits | Omega Pharma | s.t. | | 6 | | Koen De Kort | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 7 |  | Martin Kohler | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 8 |  | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 9 |  | Tony Gallopin | RadioShack - Leopard | s.t. | | 10 | | Michael Schär | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 11 | | John Degenkolb | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 12 |  | Manuele Boaro | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 13 |  | Lars Ytting Bak | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 14 | | Rory Sutherland | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 15 | | Marko Kump | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 16 |  | Taylor Phinney | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 17 | | Jonathan Cantwell | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 18 |  | Jan Bakelants | RadioShack - Leopard | s.t. | | 19 | | Nicki Sørensen | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 20 | | Karsten Kroon | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 21 | | Francesco Gavazzi | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 22 | | Imanol Erviti | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 23 |  | Guillaume Boivin | Cannondale Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 24 |  | Assan Bazayev | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 25 | | Alex Dowsett | Movistar Team | s.t. |
General Standings:
| 1 | | Tony Gallopin | RadioShack - Leopard | 6h07'02 | | 2 | | Jure Kocjan | Euskaltel - Euskadi | s.t. | | 3 | | Anthony Geslin | FDJ | + 1 | | 4 | | Francesco Gavazzi | Astana Pro Team | + 4 | | 5 | | Simon Geschke | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 6 | | Jan Bakelants | RadioShack - Leopard | s.t. | | 7 | | Simone Ponzi | Astana Pro Team | + 5 | | 8 | | John Degenkolb | Team Argos - Shimano | + 6 | | 9 | | Luke Rowe | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 10 | | Matthew Lloyd | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 11 | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Argos - Shimano | + 8 | | 12 | | Maarten Tjallingii | Blanco Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 13 | | Cameron Wurf | Cannondale Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 14 | | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | + 10 | | 15 | | Taylor Phinney | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 16 | | Lars Ytting Bak | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 17 | | Koen De Kort | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 18 | | Kris Boeckmans | Vacansoleil | s.t. | | 19 | | Rory Sutherland | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 20 | | Jakob Rathe | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 21 |  | Marco Haller | Katusha Team | s.t. | | 22 | | Andrea Palini | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 23 |  | Miguel Ubeto | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 24 | | Assan Bazayev | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 25 | | Nathan Haas | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. |
Point Standings:
| 1 | | Anthony Geslin | FDJ | 18 | | 2 | | Jan Bakelants | RadioShack - Leopard | 12 | | 3 | | Simone Ponzi | Astana Pro Team | 10 | | 4 | | Tony Gallopin | RadioShack - Leopard | 8 | | 5 | | Matthew Lloyd | Lampre - Merida | 8 | | 6 | | Jure Kocjan | Euskaltel - Euskadi | 8 | | 7 | | Francesco Gavazzi | Astana Pro Team | 6 | | 8 | | Simon Geschke | Team Argos - Shimano | 6 | | 9 | | John Degenkolb | Team Argos - Shimano | 4 | | 10 | | Luke Rowe | Sky Procycling | 4 | | 11 | | Tom Dumoulin | Team Argos - Shimano | 4 | | 12 | | Maarten Tjallingii | Blanco Pro Cycling Team | 4 | | 13 | | Cameron Wurf | Cannondale Pro Cycling | 4 |
Mountain Standings:
| 1 | | Anthony Geslin | FDJ | 16 | | 2 | | Francesco Gavazzi | Astana Pro Team | 16 | | 3 | | Simone Ponzi | Astana Pro Team | 12 | | 4 | | Karsten Kroon | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | 12 | | 5 | | Matthew Lloyd | Lampre - Merida | 8 | | 6 | | Simon Geschke | Team Argos - Shimano | 8 | | 7 | | Iván Gutiérrez | Movistar Team | 6 | | 8 | | Jérémy Roy | FDJ | 6 | | 9 | | Nathan Haas | Garmin - Sharp | 4 | | 10 | | Marcus Burghardt | BMC Racing Team | 4 |
Edited by harry on 25-04-2013 22:29
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| alex344 |
Posted on 25-04-2013 23:40
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Nice second with Geschke. Surely after a third in Stage 1 and second in Stage 2 you will manage to grab that win in Stage 3. Though I don't see many of the top sprinters here in Tour Down Under. |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 26-04-2013 08:33
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Geschke very close! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 26-04-2013 13:47
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That is a very Good start for the team in Australia  |
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| harry |
Posted on 27-04-2013 20:14
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I'm going to quit this game and restart with another team and another database. Taking victory in OZ was too easy, partly due to the poor lineups of the other teams and partly because "hard" is not hard enough. I will switch to extreme with another team. This will be a team which is more competitive in more races than only the flat sprints.... |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 27-04-2013 23:22
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Sad to see you end this so soon 
Lets hope the new team will be better for you to play with  |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 28-04-2013 11:09
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Do what you feel is right |
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