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"Vuelta a Andalucia": Oscar Freire wins the third stage
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Great performance for Katusha Team in "Vuelta a Andalucia" third stage, a 157-km long one from Montemayor to Las Gabias: after yesterday's second place from Denis Menchov, Oscar Freire took his second victory of the season after the one in "Tour Down Under". The Spanish champion took advantage of the great work of the whole team, which as soon as the daily breakaway was neutralized, with 15 kilometres to go, imposed its pace to the group:
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TOUR OF TAIWAN: 21 TEAMS REGISTERED WITH SAXO BANK
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The organizers of the Tour de Taiwan, an event recently promoted to level 2.1 on the UCIAsia Tour calendar and will be held from March 10 to 16, have announced the teams entered for the 10th edition, we note the presence of a team of World Tour (Team SaxoBank) and is divided into three formations professional continental (Androni Giocattoli,Rusvelo and Champion System Cycling team).
"Vuelta a Andalucia": Menchov is 2nd in the first uphill finishing line
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Today it took place the second stage of "Vuelta a Andalucia - Ruta del Sol", a 150-km long one from Malaga to Alto Santuario de Nuestra Senora De Araceli. In the first stage with a uphill finishing line, a 1st category climbing with an 18% highest pendence in the last kilometer, and three other mountains during its course - one more 1st category, one 2nd and one 3rd - the new Katusha Team's Russian rider Denis Menchov reached the second position, right behind Alejandro Valverde (Movistar).
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WIGGINS: THE SKY PRO "A GOOD SIGN FOR PARIS-NICE"
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Good week for Sky Pro Cycling. General victorious from the Tour of Algarve with RichiePorte, the British team also won last time with Bradley Wiggins. The latter wanted to measure their form before taking part in the first races of the calendar: "I do not know what it was the way the tour starts," he admits. "I trained very hard before coming here inPortugal. However, when the season starts, you never know at what level you are." TheLondoner is confident for the rest of 2012: "It is encouraging to get the win here always good to win, especially when you beat a certain Tony Martin does not happen every day .." he continues. "The work has taken this winter This is a good sign for the Paris-Nice and therest of the season.".
Peter Velits Wins Tour of Oman
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Peter Velits had a one second general classification lead going into the final stage of Tour of Oman after battling Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) on Green Mountain at Stage 5 of Tour of Oman. The flat Stage 6, which finished in a circuit on Sunday, played out exactly as the team wished, finishing with a field sprint and giving Velits the overall victory.
Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team chased down a three rider break consisting of Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Barracuda), Johan Van Summeren (Garmin-Barracuda) and Laurens Ten Dam (Rabobank), which had as much as a one minute, 30 second gap with 7 km out of the 130.5km race covered. Furthermore, knowing the break had the potential to stay away, the team also chased down sprint points. Tom Boonen took lap points just before three laps to go on the course. It was a complete team effort to keep Velits in the red leader's jersey on Sunday.
Ciolek, Trentin Go 1-2 in Big Day for the Team
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"The sprint was fantastic because the team controlled the race in every moment from the beginning," Ciolek said after his victory. "Then the final with the entire team — it's unbelievable how all the riders know their jobs really well, and their position. Everyone knows what they have to do at whichever moment of the race. I don't want to say it was easy to win, but it was a big help to have riders like these together. In the last kilometer I think it was Tony (Martin) who pulled the sprint. Then there was a roundabout at about 450 meters from the finish. At that time I asked Matteo to pull for my sprint and he did it perfectly."
The Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team leadout train dominated the front of the peloton for the last several kilometers, while the leftover of a breakaway — about five riders including Dries Devenyns — hung onto a 15 second gap. Once the break was finally absorbed after being away since approximately kilometer 25, the train for Ciolek went to work.
"This is an incredible feeling," Ciolek said. "It's been a long time without a victory for me."
This makes win number 16 for Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team this season. Martin is also in general classification contention going into tomorrow's final time trial stage. He is in 10th place, 50 seconds out. He won the race in 2011.
"It won't be easy for Tony to to win the race because the gap between Richie Porte (Team Sky) and Tony is big," Sport Director Rik Van Slycke said. "But Tony will ride 100 percent to try and win the race."
Vuelta a Andalucia": the Katusha Team's roster
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From Sunday 19th to Thursday 23rd, Katusha Team will take part to "Vuelta a Andalucia-Ruta del Sol", an UCI Europe Tour stage race, 2.1 category. For the Russian Team there will be Oscar Freire, general classification's winner in 2007. The complete roster will be as follows:
Oscar Freire, Denis Menchov, Daniel Moreno, Luca Paolini, Simon Spilak, Yuriy Trofimov, Eduard Vorganov. Sports Directors: Dmitriy Konyshev, Uwe Peschel.
Volta ao Algarve, Stage 1: Van Avermaet Runner-Up
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Sobre la base de una ventaja enorme a cabo por el equipo BMC Racing, Greg Van Avermaet corrió hasta el miércoles segundo puesto en la primera etapa de la Volta aoAlgarve.
Tremendo trabajo en equipo
Steve Cummings y Tejay Van Garderen establecer un fuerte ritmo hasta la última subidaen los últimos kilómetros de la carrera de 151 kilometros a la posición de Van Amermaetpara el sprint cuesta abajo. Sin embargo, el ganador del París-Tours no pudo superar aganador de la etapa Gianni Meersman (Lotto-Belisol). "Meersman fue con 250 o 200metros para la meta, lo que yo pensaba que era un poco demasiado pronto, pero que era cuesta abajo", dijo Van Avermaet. "Fue bueno el trabajo en equipo a por mí desde el principio." BMC Racing Team Subdirector Rik Verbrugghe estuvo de acuerdo. "Estoy muy contento de que el equipo es así, con Tejay y Steve - dos propios líderes, haciendoel plomo para Greg", dijo Verbrugghe. "Eso significa que el espíritu del equipo es muy bueno." Van Garderen, segundo en la general en esta carrera el año pasado, dijo queayudó a conocer el final. "Esta es mi quinta vez haciendo esta carrera", dijo. "Estoy empezando a sentir como George Hincapie hace cuando se trata de la Tour de Francia".
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