Cricket Web Cycling Team

[Johnners]

Kennett, WAG

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Hakon, when will be riding the Tour de France? I like these tours and all, but when I came up with the idea I was hoping we'd all be on the tour after a couple of months?

Of course, I'm not running it and you are, so it's up to you and I appreciate you doing all the work. it's been fantastic so far

Sorry for not replying. I'm a ****.

Seriously, deepest apologies for the month's laziness: I had exams and my life was a bit shocking the past month and a half. Will try to drag myself up by the neck: aiming to have the season up and running again over Christmas, with the aim to reach the Giro around February and the Tour around Easter-time.

Does that sound okay? I mean, it's not exactly the hottest cycling season at present.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

And for those forgetful: a summary of the grand moments from January through to mid-March...

Davis: 1 stage win, Tour of Wellington
Dunn: Three runners-up spots in Australian races
Dwyer: Australian champion RR; winner of Vuelta a Andalucía, with 2 stage wins, 2nd in GP d'Ouverture la Marseillaise
Fensome: Tour of the Cape winner with 2 stage wins, mountain jersey and 5th overall in Etoile de Bessèges, runner-up in stage 3 of Tirreno - Adriatico
Forner: Winner of Tour de Langkawi with two stage wins, third in Giro del Capo
Gelman: Mountain jersey in Three days of West Flanders, 3rd in Australian ITT championship
Gray: 3rd Clasica de Almeria
Hoy: 2nd Omloop Het Volk, 4th Etoile de Bessèges
Kearsley: 3rd, Down Under Classic
Kennett: Stage win, Tirreno - Adriatico
Malone: Won Tour Down Under with 1 stage win, 5th Paris - Nice (best U25)
Pares: Stage win, Giro del Capo
Pickup: Four stage wins + points jersey Etoile de Bessèges
Reddlapalli: Stage win Giro del Capo
Rose: 2nd Tour of California (best U25)
Gr. Thomas: Stage win + mountain jersey Tour of California

 

[Craig]

19 wins, good effort thus far.

 

[pinchy81]

yea nice effort for us and yay Hak is continuing with this

 

[bugssy]

going well guys!

 

[Neil Pickup]

Go Hakon.

 

[Josh]

Loving the CW Cycling team

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Paris - Nice, Final Stage

Nice - Nice, 129 km

The leading group racing down to Nice

The hilly stage around Nice was the stage of champions; Valverde broke free with 30 km to go, and despite Gray attempting to catch him on the downhill, that was impossible. The leaders in the rested peloton tried to attack, but only Moncoutié managed to come back to him, only to be beaten in the sprint.

Valverde too strong again

Stage result:

1 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE 3h40'20"
2 David Moncoutié COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
3 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM + 1'03"
4 Stefan Schumacher GEROLSTEINER s.t.
5 Sandy Casar FRANCAISE DES JEUX s.t.
6 Chris Horner PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1'43"
7 Juan José Cobo SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
8 Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
9 Antonio Colom ASTANÁ s.t.
10 Cyril Dessel AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
11 Bugs Malone TEAM CASSON DAIRY s.t.
17 Jens Voigt TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 3'22"
22 Steffen Wesemann TEAM CASSON DAIRY s.t.
24 Håkon Mørk TEAM CASSON DAIRY s.t.
78 Jamee Gray TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 4'42"
156 Heath Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangi Davis TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 21'11"
157 Neil Pickup TEAM CASSON DAIRY s.t.
160 Mathew Mitchell TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 23'51"

Final standings:

1 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE 30h20'59"
2 David Moncoutié COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 35"
3 Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 2'24"
4 Jerôme Pineau BOUYGUES TELECOM + 3'21"
5 Bugs Malone TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 3'26" (best U25)
6 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM + 3'34"
7 Stefan Schumacher GEROLSTEINER + 3'51"
8 Sandy Casar FRANCAISE DES JEUX + 4'08"
9 Bradley McGee FRANCAISE DES JEUX + 4'26"
10 Koos Moerenhout RABOBANK + 4'30"
19 Jens Voigt TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 6'10"
57 Steffen Wesemann TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 10'08"
63 Håkon Mørk TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 11'41"
73 Jamee Gray TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 17'17"
143 Neil Pickup TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 1h8'21"
145 Heath Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangi Davis TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 1h10'44"
153 Mathew Mitchell TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 1h20'41"

Points classification:
1 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE 120
2 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM 99
3 Markus Zberg GEROLSTEINER 80
9 Jens Voigt TEAM CASSON DAIRY 50

Mountains classification:
1 Christophe Riblon AG2R PRÉVOYANCE 40
2 Jamee Gray TEAM CASSON DAIRY 35
3 Serge Baguet QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC 26

Team:
1 CAISSE D'EPARGNE 91h15'47"
2 DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM + 1'34"
3 COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 1'45"
4 FRANCAISE DES JEUX + 1'53"
5 PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 2'46"
6 TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 3'01"

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Tirreno - Adriatico

Stage Five: Civitanova Marche, 18,5 km Individual Time Trial

Roberts the only Casson Dairy rider high up in the overall and expected to do well. Reddlapalli the early gun.

But, all in all, a horribly disappointing performance. Fair enough, not everyone in top form, but no one within the top 30 was a shocking effort. The overall chances are as good as toast after Kennett got beaten by 3'33 and Hoy finished last; more and more spectacular tactics were tried and all failed miserably. Zabriskie took over second, but Riccó seems unstoppable, now leading by a minute. Roberts was now best placed in the general classification, in 34th.

Hoste catching Kennett by two and a half minutes; the Belgian ITT champion took second place

Stage classification:

1 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC 25'22
2 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 14
3 Dario David Cioni PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 32
4 László Bodrogi CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 41
5 Riccardo Ricco' SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
6 Vincenzo Nibali LIQUIGAS + 55
7 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM + 58
8 Linus Gerdemann T-MOBILE TEAM + 1'00
9 Jason McCartney DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM + 1'04
10 Giuseppe Guerini T-MOBILE TEAM + 1'07
38 Manjunath Reddlapalli TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 1'33
56 Gert Steegmans TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 1'51
95 George Roberts TEAM CASSON DAIRY s.t.
106 David Pares TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 2'26
115 Alex Fensome TEAM CASSON DAIRY s.t.
168 Craig Walsh TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 3'15
177 David Kennett TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 3'34
180 Nathan Hoy TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 3'43

General classification:

1 Riccardo Ricco' SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 18h17'37
2 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 57
3 Dario David Cioni PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 1'29
4 Paolo Bettini QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC + 1'38
5 Vincenzo Nibali LIQUIGAS + 1'52
6 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM + 1'55
7 Linus Gerdemann T-MOBILE TEAM + 1'57
8 Giuseppe Guerini T-MOBILE TEAM + 2'04
9 Dmitri Muravjev ASTANÁ + 2'08
10 Pierre Rolland CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
34 George Roberts TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 3'16
39 David Kennett TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 3'27
52 Craig Walsh TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 4'12
58 Nathan Hoy TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 4'40
77 Alex Fensome TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 8'36
105 Manjunath Reddlapalli TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 16'49
114 Gert Steegmans TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 22'30
156 David Pares TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 49'27

No change in points & mountain jerseys.

 

[Jamee999]

2nd in the Paris-Nice mountains seems like a good effort to me

 

[Magrat Garlick]

2nd in the Paris-Nice mountains seems like a good effort to me

Yeah, well done. Another second-place. Actually, you should have won it, but I kinda forgot that in the chase to stay with Valverde.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Wish I could stay with the leaders past the first sprint.

 

[NZTailender]

Some mountains would be ace.

 

[Craig]

Some mountains would be ace.

Same.

I think I will be our version of Michael Rasmussen, except I won't say that I'm in Mexico rather then Italy

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Milano - San Remo



294 KILOMETRES
THE SPRING CLASSIC
LA CLASSICIMA
WILL A GROUP CROSS THE POGGIO?

Alessandro Petacchi claiming the sprint in 2005


The startfield

The field relaxing up Passo di Turchino

The race started slowly, with an insignificant breakaway slipping away after 30 km. They got eleven minutes, but were never really a threat, and the only significant occurrence in the first 225 km was the crash of Erik Zabel and Tom Steels.

Zabel staring at the peloton

The real fun began when Hincapie (Discovery) attacked a second time. Fensome joined in attempting a long attack, and got company from Sergey Ivanov (Astaná). With 40 km to go, the two had amassed a two-minute lead over the pack, with Hincapie hunting close behind.

Into the Cipressa, Fensome leads Ivanov

At the foot of La Cipressa, with 33 km to go, Fensome and Ivanov held a lead of 2'30, and Fensome appeared to be the stronger as he wrested a tiny lead. And though the peloton had a high enough pace to throw off Pickup and Davis, the leading duo worked to gain a near-comfy three minutes as the two crossed the Cipressa.

Steegmans thus appeared to be the only man for the sprint finish, but the peloton trailed by 3'20 with 17 km to go. Ivanov and Fensome's odds were steadily decreasing, and the epic duel began.

Fensome taking the lead again

Fensome took the lead into the Poggio, but decided after a few hundred metres to let the Russian set the pace, before attacking from his wheel to gain a lead in the final kilometre of the Poggio.

Immediate success

Ivanov did not despair after Fensome's early attack, pedalling steadily but losing 30 seconds up to the top, and Casson Dairy's hope had a solid lead as they began the mad descent into San Remo proper. It was, however, the Astaná veteran who wsa the better downhill rider. had his eye set on Fensome's wheel, and the 30 seconds had dwindled to 10 when the two entered the final two kilometres.

Ivanov too close for comfort...

With Fensome already tired after his early attack, he had no choice but to attempt a long sprint, which was hopelessly futile against Ivanov. A runner-up place in a classic is not bad, and Petacchi was denied the victory, but it still tastes sour after such a phenomenal piece of attacking work.

Russian-Kazakh victory

To add salt to the ruins, Pickup crashed in the downhills, sustained a fractured skull and is unlikely to return until late May. The Giro is off, and it is hoped that he will be able to recover some form ahead of le Tour.

Final standings:

1 Sergei Ivanov ASTANÁ 7h06'22
2 Alex Fensome TEAM CASSON DAIRY + 27
3 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM + 56
4 Tom Boonen QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC + 2'29
5 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
6 Robbie McEwen PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
7 Oscar Freire RABOBANK s.t.
8 Gert Steegmans TEAM CASSON DAIRY s.t.
9 Paolo Bettini QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
10 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
11 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
12 Igor Astarloa TEAM MILRAM s.t.
13 Fabio Baldato LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
14 Stuart O'Grady TEAM CSC s.t.
15 Bradley McGee FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
16 Filippo Pozzato LIQUIGAS s.t.
17 Stefan Schumacher GEROLSTEINER s.t.
18 Marcus Burghardt T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
19 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
20 Peter Van Petegem QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
21 Nathan Hoy TEAM CASSON DAIRY s.t.
22 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS s.t.
23 Ruggero Marzoli TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
24 David Kopp GEROLSTEINER s.t.
25 Fabian Wegmann GEROLSTEINER s.t.
44 Håkon Mørk TEAM CASSON DAIRY s.t.
48 Jamee Gray TEAM CASSON DAIRY s.t.
51 Bugs Malone TEAM CASSON DAIRY s.t.
69 riders in same time
88 Heath Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangi Davis TEAM CASSON DAIRY s.t.
Neil Pickup withdrew

 

[Jamee999]

Fractured skull

 

[Chubb]

Ah goddamn it! bad luck Hakon!

 

[Craig]

Lol Neil, unlucky Fensome, still it is pretty impressive you were able to attack and stay away until the end, even if you did tire out.

What's the next race Hak?

 

[Neil Pickup]

Fractured skull

Ouch.