Jacobs creek Tour down under.

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Eldrack

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20 January 2006, 20:46 UTC #1

A tour thats not the Tour de France is going on at the moment, and you know what, its getting pretty exciting. Two stages left, one of which is a criterium (last stage) and the one tomorrow (/today) has a hill of about 300 metres ascent that will shape the GC.

1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prevoyance 11.11.32
2 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 0.07
3 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 0.18
4 William Walker (Aus) United Water-Australia U/23 0.46
5 Gene Bates (Aus) UniSA-Australia 1.45
6 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 1.48
7 Simon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS Cycling 3.19
8 Chris Jongewaard (Aus) UniSA-Australia
9 Sebastien Chavanel (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.41
10 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Team Milram 4.18

Is the current GC. Sanchez Gil is last years winner, and I think, the better climber of the first two. Will he be able to get head of Gerrans, after all if he wins the stage he is guaranteed pole position on the last day.

Interesting article about Sanchez and his team mate Contador:

velonews.com9083.0.html

Enjoy!!

limerickman

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20 January 2006, 21:10 UTC #2

Good man Eldrack and thanks for the links :

I've been following the race with interest and I was delighted to see the AG2R
Gerrans move to the top of the pile.
Robbie is the master blaster - there's no doubt about that, but Gerrans has fought bravely to retain the leaders jersey.
Willunga-Willunga is the shortest stage of the TDU, so Robbie will be itching to
claw back any times that he can.
Final day around Adelaide (Oz's nicest city, I think) could throw up some surprises too.

Not a bad start for Team Milram either with Visconti in 10th place.

whiteboytrash

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21 January 2006, 15:14 UTC #3

[font=Verdana]I've been watching it on Sky Sports Xtra and it has been an interesting race.... its well run race.... they have been riding through the wine region of the Barrosa valley which has some very nice scenery..... Cadel Evens rode well yesterday but a 23 minute split in the bunch on stage sorted out the GC early on....
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limerickman said:
Good man Eldrack and thanks for the links :
I've been following the race with interest and I was delighted to see the AG2R
Gerrans move to the top of the pile.
Robbie is the master blaster - there's no doubt about that, but Gerrans has fought bravely to retain the leaders jersey.
Willunga-Willunga is the shortest stage of the TDU, so Robbie will be itching to
claw back any times that he can.
Final day around Adelaide (Oz's nicest city, I think) could throw up some surprises too.
Not a bad start for Team Milram either with Visconti in 10th place.

Eldrack

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21 January 2006, 18:31 UTC #4

Cadel Evans should take the mountain classification, at least he won't go away empty handed. Big question is can either Sanchez or McEwan can get enough time bonus tomorrow to go past Gerrans on the GC. Its not likely but Ag2r will have to be in control tomorrow.

KennyCartman

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21 January 2006, 19:30 UTC #5

I see the live text of stage 4 (Willunga - Willunga) in oficial web site of the race and AG2R team make a good work for catching Luis Sanchez after willunga Hill Climb!

Dead Star

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21 January 2006, 19:40 UTC #6

Kenny, make that signature smaller please? It's kinda taking the mickey to have one that large.

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