Tour de Langkawi *spoiler*

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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    gpreeves wrote:
    Not sure what to make of that result tbh. Iranians climbing better than Colombians and WT riders.

    I think the look on Brammeier's face makes his feelings on the matter fairly clear. Especially given some of his past views on the Asia Tour.

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    Not just the Asia Tour, the TPT team in particular against whom he and Champion Systems had the pleasure of racing at TdQL last year
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
    So, proof Iran does have nuclear programme.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    UHC rider totally buried himself:
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Chaves 4th.
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... ced-116672

    Its what I've been saying for ages - get Conti teams onto the passport
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    UHC rider totally buried himself:
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    Good effort!
  • LutherB
    LutherB Posts: 544
    ^that's a great pic!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Stage 6 Results
    NED 1 VAN HUMMEL, Kenny Robert (ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI) 4:29:46
    LTU 2 KRUOPIS, Aidis (ORICA GreenEDGE)
    USA 3 HANSON, Ken (UNITEDHEALTHCARE)
    GER 4 FÖRSTER, Robert (UNITEDHEALTHCARE)
    SVK 5 KOLÁR, Michal (TINKOFF-SAXO)
    ITA 6 CHICCHI, Francesco (YELLOW FLUO)
    ITA 7 GUARDINI, Andrea (ASTANA)
    ALG 8 REGUIGUI, Youcef (MTN - QHUBEKA)
    FRA 9 LAMOISSON, Morgan (EUROPCAR)
    MAS 10 MANAN, Anuar (TERENGGANU)
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    The result is impressive enough on its own, and even more so when you consider that Chaves was involved in a huge crash at the Trofeo Laigueglia early last year and missed an entire year of racing.

    “I am really happy. It’s incredible this result, after one year with no races and no good training. I want to say thank you to the guys [at Orica-GreenEDGE], Shane, Alvaro, Neil for the opportunity in this team. This is one to say thank you,” Chaves said to Cycling News after stage 4.

    The crash last February left Chaves with a long list of injuries — including a compound fracture to his right collarbone and several facial injuries — and required multiple surgeries before he was able to get back on the bike.

    Last year he received an offer to ride with Orica-GreenEDGE — an offer that helped spur him on, to get back to his best.

    “I was really surprised and it is one very important reason that I continued to fight. There were days when I thought ‘no more’, but the contract was on the table and it was the main reason to continuing to fight, to work and to work on my shoulder.”

    And now the young Colombian is keen to repay the faith Orica-GreenEDGE showed in him.

    “I want a result for Orica-GreenEDGE, because they helped me and maybe in the future I can repay them.”
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Jack Bobridge epic fail:
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited March 2014
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Still love the way cyclists dont try and hold themselves apart in tents or something:
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  • Crozza
    Crozza Posts: 991
    Still love the way cyclists dont try and hold themselves apart in tents or something:
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    and check out how many fags they've gotten through. is the guy on the right rolling another?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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  • The words "Compound fracture of the collarbone" make me shudder
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Theo Bos wins that last two stages.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Nice angle:
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Check out the tanlines:
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    The photos from this race are generally excellent - high quality and lovely scenery.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Team BSE keeping it bullish.
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    have to day, find it impossible to be engaged by a 10 day race where every day except the Genting Highlands stage is like Groundhog Day
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Yeah it is a bit of an odd race.
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  • gpreeves
    gpreeves Posts: 454
    have to day, find it impossible to be engaged by a 10 day race where every day except the Genting Highlands stage is like Groundhog Day

    To enforce your point, Bos took the Stage 9 sprint ahead of Guardini and Kruopis.

    1 Theo BOS NED BEL 2:32:21
    2 Andrea GUARDINI ITA AST +0
    3 Aidis KRUOPIS LTU OGE +0
    4 Francesco CHICCHI ITA YEL +0
    5 Robert FöRSTER GER UHC +0
    6 Michal KOLÁR SVK TCS +0
    7 Leonardo Fabio DUQUE COL COL +0
    8 Omar BERTAZZO ITA AND +0
    9 Daniel KLEMME GER BCP +0
    10 Youcef REGUIGUI ALG MTN +0

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Guardini wins the final stage.

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    GC winner:
    “I promise that I and all other riders on our team are clean. We are clean and we work hard and we do hard training always,” said Pourseyedi Golakhour in the post race conference. “Now I am training and doing a lot of hard work. Before we came here we did a training camp in Iran and other big countries. At the moment our country is cold so we went for some hot weather. Right now I am doing a lot of hard work and hard training. I am in a strong team and I will do my best for cycling and to keep cycling every day.”
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  • frenchfighter
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  • Touch and go for the break. 1:20 gap with 12 km to go. Vladimir Gusev in the breakaway along with Jonathan Clarke and 4 others.
  • Or maybe not, within sight with 4 km to go.
  • Meh, caught with 2 km to go.

    Guardini takes the sprint easily.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,137
    Guardini's career to date.

    Wins in the Tour of Langkawi: 16
    Wins in all other races: 14
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • And most of those 14 in Asia too, no?

    Aldi Kittel