Season 8 :
BATTLES IN THE MOUNTAINS
In the last tours of this season it seems that the climbers of
TeamEuroscalt are the most fierce competition in the mountains.
Although, not according to the favourites lists of the mountain stages, but often the same counts for my climbers.
Ares is doing great in the mountains too, with so far 3 mountain stage victories.
In this
stage 4 Tour de Suisse only
Basov(4th fav) and Rossland(5th fav) finished on 0:00"
In
stage 2 both our teams had no favourites, but
Rossland won the sprint of a leading group of 5 cyclists on 0:00"
Among them Palmer(HTC,2nd) and my teamcaptain Miorlin (3rd) who had not a good tactic because his helpers were not good.
And because I decided that Basov had to ride in a free role, he finished as 6th on 0:15"
Also in the
Dauphiné it was a battle between SPORTLIFE and TeamEuroscalt ;
stage 4 ;
Barbot won, Adorján 2nd on 0:00", the other rivals finished later.
stage 3 ;
Palmer(HTC) won, Adorján 2nd on 0:00", and 2 climbers on 0:09", Martinussen(Flyvende,3rd) and Barbot(4th).
But I'm happy with these 2nd places of not-favorite Adorján, who has just a silver climb icon (although his helper has gold).
In the
Giro d'Italia again Agtxla proved to be a hard to beat CFF manager :
stage 8 ;
Zinikov won, Adorján 2nd on 0:00",
and only Ros(C.Orange,3rd on 0:08") and Giro-victor Lorenzetto(Marcatone,4th on 0:16") were not far behind.
stage 1 ; solo victory of
Crouzel, this time no real competition of TeamEuroscalt, his climber Picazo finished as 4th on 0:39"
Behind Morris(Aurora,2nd on 0:08") and Bing(Ares,3rd on 0:20").
In
Romandie ;
stage 3 ; solo victory of
Zinikov, Miorlin 2nd on 0:21" and Kühne(C-Crushers) 3rd on 0:43"
stage 1 ; solo victory of
Zinikov and 4 cyclists on 0:46" No SPORTLIFE climbers, because not really suited and the tactics were bad.
The climb stages in
Catalunya were a different story ;
stage 5 ; victory of
Bing(Ares) and Montero(Plopsala) 2nd on 0:00",
behind them 3 cyclists on 0:11", 3rd Blaak(Peachy), 4th Basov and 5th Ulvestad(Flyvende).
Rossland(EuroScalt) enjoined the scenery and finished as 17th on 0:55"
stage 4 ; more a flatclimb but I will count this stage too as a real climb stage,
Vandborg(Ares) won the sprint á deux on top of the Vallter2000 from Niklitschek(Rekutxut).
Basov 23rd and Rossland 30th. Well, at least I won the battle between SPORTLIFE and TeamEuroscalt, so this stage is worth to mention.
Tirreno ;
stage 5 ; the podium on 0:00" = 1st
Bing (Ares), 2nd Ulvestad (Flyvende) and 3rd Kühne (C-Crushers).
Calero (EuroScalt) finished as 6th, and Basov finished as 9th in a free role.
Paris-Nice ;
stage 3 ; stage victor
Kühne (C-Crushers) and 2nd Martinussen (Flyvende) both on 0:00" The 3rd place was for Palmer (HTC) on 0:06"
Rossland 8th and Basov 14th in a free role.
After reading this text, the question is :
Who will be the king of the mountains in the Tour de France ?Good luck everyone !^^
