Mallorca Challenge *spoilers*

Day two saw [EDIT]My Man[/EDIT]Stephen Cummings take the win for Qhubeka 
Even better than that, he beat Valverde to do it


Even better than that, he beat Valverde to do it



“Road racing was over and the UCI had banned my riding positions on the track, so it was like ‘Jings, crivvens, help ma Boab, what do I do now? I know, I’ll go away and be depressed for 10 years’.”
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2. Valverde st.
3. Formolo +6s
4. Mollema
5. Konig
6. Inxuausti +13
7. Siutsou +15
8. Visconti
9. Boswell
10. Wellens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_xWR4ry7iY#t=15
Bloody great. Attacking from an already fierce pace - then out Valverde-ing Valverde...
Valverde threatens his revenge - and with a swish of his cape, flash of lightening and plume of smoke, is whisked away by his chariot pulled by red-eyed Hell hounds...
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#ChallengeMallorca2015: 1. Valverde, 2. Wellens, 3. König, 4. Rojas, 5. de Maar, 6. Visconti, 7. Bole, 8. Benoot, 9. Schleck, 10. Kudus.
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My man Formolo 3rd in day 2. Great job Cummings.
My man Valverde, SOLOS FOR MILES AND MILES FOR THE WIN. Valverde haters, put that in the bag of numerous long range attempts from Valverde. Winner from start of the season to the end, as always.
Team Sky lucky they have new guy Konig to show face for them.
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Great racer...
As well as Kosta and Boswell 15 seconds behind him, 3 in the top ten. :roll: Idiot
Nice. And just noticed Schleck is there. Formolo was 3 secs behind Kudus in 11th.
On stage 2? Am talking about the last stage. 2nd placed Sky rider is Deignan at 18mins back.
That being said, Konig may have missed the original break at 40km into the race so Sky may have been chasing the whole time and are therefore toasted. If thats the case they did a great job chasing victorious Valverde as Konig was able to place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5wQc5r_nj0
1. Pelucchi
2. Greipel
3. Swift
Only 46 riders of 176 starters finished the stage, and only 12 of those were within five minutes of Valverde.
The opening 100km of the hilly route (there were seven categorised climbs including Puig Major, the biggest on the island) were run at such pace that some riders reported riding too hard to be able to eat.
Most dropped out well before the finish, and a good number crashed on the Mallorcan mountain roads that are notoriously greasy in the cool, damp conditions. Rory Sutherland (Movistar) came off worst, fracturing his collarbone.
The organisers even chose, bizarrely, to put the finish line 100m after a speed bump. When he rounded the final bend, Valverde raised his hands in celebration, quickly put them down to hold his bars over the bump, and then raised them again.
He wasn’t the first to reach the finish however; several small grupettos ended up taking a shortcut through the hills to the team buses waiting at the line in the small town of Deia. For them the race had turned into a training ride with timing chips and race numbers.
Other riders ended up in the broom wagon, the small chartered coach barely having a seat spare when it reached the finish.
Read more at http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... m74RrUW.99
The finish was more like 5m after the speed bump. Luckily the riders arrived one by one.
Bennett in fourth
Nice.
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Two out of two.
Pelucchi to become FF's man in 3............2...........1
The trouble is, he only does this in chippers. When it comes to major races, any aggression goes out the window and he sits in the wheels, waiting. This lack of initiative has cost him time and time again.
He has also won more races than just about any rider in the pro peloton today, excluding sprinters whose wins are significantly less valuable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuzUvSUtw8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7UtZXNFB_A
Name me three World Tour ranked races where Valverde has ridden the last 10 kms or more alone in the lead and won.