The big one: Tour of Poland, Aug 1st -7th

[ingsve]

Domestique for whom? Löfkvist?

Whoever...Who knows where and for who he might ride in the future, that's not the point.

 

[tgsgirl]

Awesome... I forgot to record the stage but looks like a great result for the Dutchies! Is that enough for top10?

acf lost a bet?

At the moment, yes. But with Vattenfall counting as well it's likely Germany'll jump back over you. If you manage to sneak 5 more points somewhere you jump over Luxembourg though, and they won't be scoring any more points most likely. Switzerland has Albasini in fourth in Poland, so they're good. Kazakhstan got points with Vino in San Seb.
On the up side - Veelers scored a couple of points in the third stage, which makes him the ninth Dutchie to score points on the indiv ranking, so if you manage the top ten you'll get to send 9 instead of 8.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

The point is, Vattenfall doesn't count.

The UCI uses the ranking at exactly 15 august.

The ranking after Vattenfall is made the day after (16 august). Like with all PT/HIS races, the ranking is made up the day after...

 

[tgsgirl]

The point is, Vattenfall doesn't count.

The UCI uses the ranking at exactly 15 august.

The ranking after Vattenfall is made the day after (16 august). Like with all PT/HIS races, the ranking is made up the day after...

It doesn't? Interesting. I wasn't sure on that, and as always, couldn't find info on the uci site. Looking good for Holland if that's true!

 

[sublimit]

Then for European teams not finishing in the top 10, it is determined by your position based on riders *only* riding from Pro Conti teams - so UK get to send 3 riders as the likes of Cavendish, Swift, thomas, Wiggins, Millar et al are all at ProTour teams, so none of their results in *any* race count, whereas, for instance, Poland/Lithuania/Estonia all are higher than the UK as their riders are at PRoConti teams (despite not necessarily doing as well as the British riders in general).


Another instance of how mad it is is that the UK are actually 14th in the World Tour, marginally behind France and Slovenia, yet are *21st* in Europe (marginally ahead of Austria, (who out of their 310 points, over 100 points were from their national champs, wherreas Britain received just 27)?!?! (France, due to their teams having guarantteed entrance to the tdf and becoming proconti, are actually 2nd!, with Slovenia 7th)

Well yeah. I totaly agree. its a dumb system thought up by an imbecile/imbeciles at the UCI. It does tend to devalue the competition in my eyes.

UCI need to sort the individual rankings system out and make it more like the tennis system. Every pro rider should have some sort of ranking and then from that you can figure who goes to the Worlds.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Awesome... I forgot to record the stage but looks like a great result for the Dutchies! Is that enough for top10?

acf lost a bet?

what bet?
Maybe I should remind my dutch friends of a few things
CQ Country ranking
1. (1) Spain Europe Riders 12785
2. (2) Italy Europe Riders 10352
3. (5) Belgium Europe Riders 7673
4. (4) Australia Oceania Riders 7335
5. (3) Germany Europe Riders 5913
6. (9) United States America Riders 5795
7. (6) France Europe Riders 5730
8. (7) Netherlands Europe Riders 5324

CQ Individual ranking
1. (3) EVANS Cadel BMC 2517
2. (2) CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto AST 2092
3. (5) GILBERT Philippe OLO 2005
4. (7) SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel EUS 2004
5. (36) RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin KAT 1973
6. (8) CANCELLARA Fabian SAX 1911
7. (10) GREIPEL Andre THR 1755
8. (139) VINOKOUROV Alexandre AST 1676
9. (9) FARRAR Tyler GRM 1648
10. (21) GESINK Robert RAB 1512

nah, gesink is doing pretty good for his age. I am just unsure of how bauke is not in the top 10?

 

[tgsgirl]

never mind, I can't read.

 

[Ferminal]

what bet?

An avatar bet...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Wow the finish is deadly

there is a corner on cobblestones that is impossible to steer through.
expect mass falls

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Omg this finish will cause people to die

 

[jens_attacks]

omg they are pedalling on ice

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Cool it's a water bike race

 

[Jamsque]

Hello and welcome to the 2010 Krakow rowing regatta!

 

[sublimit]

Looking like a bunch gallop,

 

[Jamsque]

Inside the final 3km, Dan has got this in the bag!

Sky hitting the front well too early AGAIN.

 

[Sneekes]

Was just about to post that - Sky too early

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Greipel wins

 

[Faserr]

f***! Have you seen Greipel at the 2km banner at this corner. He totally was over his handlebar and out of his pedals.
Watch the replays at youtube.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

1 GREIPEL André 42 THR - 10s 03h 51' 58'' 20p
2 HUTAROVICH Yauheni 155 FDJ - 6s + 00' 00'' 19p
3 FORSTER Robert 112 MRM - 4s + 00' 00'' 18p
4 BENNATI Daniele 21 LIQ + 00' 00'' 17p
5 WEYLANDT Wouter 68 QST + 00' 00'' 16p
6 KRISTOFF Alexander 4 BMC + 00' 00'' 15p
7 HINAULT Sébastien 102 ALM + 00' 00'' 14p
8 SWIFT Ben 128 SKY + 00' 00'' 13p
9 DAVIS Allan 172 AST + 00' 00'' 12p
10 VITORIA David 147 FOT + 00' 00'' 11p
11 GALDOS ALONSO Aitor 131 EUS + 00' 00'' 10p

 

[sublimit]

Well done Dan Martin, A stage win and overall.

Grieple a flat track bully against no hopers to increase his win column again.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

top 5 GC

1 MARTIN Daniel 73 GRM 30h 38' 48''
2 BOLE Grega 11 LAM 30h 38' 56'' + 00' 08''
3 MOLLEMA Bauke 57 RAB 30h 38' 58'' + 00' 10''
4 ALBASINI Michael 41 THR 30h 39' 08'' + 00' 20''
5 BALLAN Alessanandro 1 BMC 30h 39' 09'' + 00' 21''

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

lol CN ****-up on the main page

completely the wrong GC result up there

 

[Moondance]

Good job Martin... Quality performance and win

 

[Kwibus]

lol CN ****-up on the main page

completely the wrong GC result up there

lol thank god. I didn't see the stage. Just got back home and checked the stage result
*...ah nice Greipel wins.. makes sense. Well seems like a bunchsprint so no changes in the GC. Great that makes THE GREAT Mollema keep his 3rd place in the GC.*
*WHAT?! No Mollema.. oh damn he must've crashed*

Till I read your post. The posts before yours are about a part in the track which looks like ice so I was only getting more worried

 

[Mellow Velo]

Quote of the Eurosport day, from David Harmon.
.......and of course, Ballker Molleema, Rabo's climbing sensation!

A bit hairy with all that surface water. Good job there wasn't a major pile up.
Well done, Dan and Andre the Giant.