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The European season starts: GP d'Ouverture & Étoile de Bessèges

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Christian said:
lol, funny interview:

Who do you support today?

- Team Europe ... Europa .... what's the team we support again?

(husband): Europcar.

- Europcar. Thomas Voeckler.

So you are not an expert in cycling?

- No, I am an expert!

So who is going to win today?

- Ah, I have no idea, I don't know ...
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From Taaramae blog: "Probably there will be another group finish, but tommorow (today) if I feel good, I´ll try to attack on last hill 9 km before finish. Last year I had exactly same plan, I and Voeckler attacked , but our duo lasted only couple of kilometers."



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Wow this sounds like one big clusterf***. It appears some riders decided to continue racing and some refused. Anthony Ravard attacked twice but got reeled in and cursed out in the peloton for attacking

This would have been a nice cyclosportive ... 60 km flat, 20km/h average
 
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1 Marcel Kittel (Project 1t4i) !
2 Kris Boeckmans (Vacansoleil-DCM)
3 Nacer Bouhanni (FDJ-BigMat)
4 Daniele Colli (Team Type 1-Sanofi)
5 Justin Jules (Véranda Rideau-Super U)
6 Michael Van Staeyen (Topsport Vlaanderen)
7 Jempy Drucker (Accent Jobs–Willems Veranda’s)
8 Sébastien Chavanel (Europcar)
 
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Christian said:
..........
This would have been a nice cyclosportive ... 60 km flat, 20km/h average
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In Aix-en-provence you aren't too far from Bessèges. Did you go for a training ride today? How many km? How fast? What did you think of the weather conditions? Any black ice on the roads?

Classement de la 2e étape :
1 KITTEL Marcel Project 1t4i GER les 58 km en 01h33'29'' (moy. 37.23 km/h) 10''
2 BOECKMANS Kris Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling BEL 01h33'29'' 6''
3 * BOUHANNI Nacer FDJ - Big Mat FRA 01h33'29'' 4''
4 COLLI Daniele Team Type 1 - Sanofi ITA 01h33'29''
5 JULES Justin Veranda Rideau U FRA 01h33'29''
6 VAN STAEYEN Michael Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator BEL 01h33'29''
7 DRUCKER Jempy Accent Jobs - Willems Veranda` LUX 01h33'29''
8 CHAVANEL Sébastien Team Europcar FRA 01h33'29''
9 DUMOULIN Samuel Cofidis Le Crédit en Ligne FRA 01h33'29''
10 * VAN ASBROECK Tom Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator BEL 01h33'29''


Lire la suite sur DirectVelo.com : http://www.directvelo.com/actualite/17053-etoile-de-besseges-et-2-classements.html#ixzz1lFUof2n8
 
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Le breton said:
In Aix-en-provence you aren't too far from Bessèges. Did you go for a training ride today? How many km? How fast? What did you think of the weather conditions? Any black ice on the roads?
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Lol no sorry it was way too cold and I am not at all equipped for that kind of weather. I was thinking about going to see the start in Nîmes but it would have involved taking 2 different trains and taken half a day. It didn't snow here but apparently it did in Nîmes
 
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Lol no sorry it was way too cold and I am not at all equipped for that kind of weather. I was thinking about going to see the start in Nîmes but it would have involved taking 2 different trains and taken half a day. It didn't snow here but apparently it did in Nîmes
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It definitely is too cold to ride right now, wish I would have followed your advice! :p
 
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Sunny, no wind and -1 today.
Non-starters are Björn Leukemans (Vacansoleil-DCM), Evaldas Siskevicius (La Pomme Marseille), Français Thibaut Pinot and Arthur Vichot (both FDJ-BigMat). AV is injured, has broken his shoulder or clavicle.
High speed to begin with and Kittel was dropped immediately, as the stage began with a small col. It's all together at km 8.
 
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These have 1.25

Alexandre Pichot et Davide Malacarne (Europcar
Benoît Vaugrenard et Cédric Pineau (FDJ-BigMat)
Jonathan Hivert et Anthony Delaplace (Saur-Sojasun)
Julien El Fares et Julien Antomarchi (Team Type 1-Sanofi)
Armindo Fonseca (Bretagne-Schuller)
Hubert Dupont (AG2R–La Mondiale)
Kurt Hovelynck (Landbouwkrediet)
Dimitri Le Bouch (Auber 93)
Pierre-Luc Périchon (La Pomme Marseille)

124 km to go
 
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13 riders in front
Alexandre Pichot et Davide Malacarne (Europcar
Benoît Vaugrenard et Cédric Pineau (FDJ-BigMat)
Jonathan Hivert et Anthony Delaplace (Saur-Sojasun)
Julien El Farès et Julien Antomarchi (Team Type 1-Sanofi)
Armindo Fonseca (Bretagne-Schuller)
Hubert Dupont (AG2R-La Mondiale)
Kurt Hovelynck (Landbouwkrediet)
Dimitri Le Bouch (Auber 93)
Pierre-Luc Périchon (La Pomme Marseille)

A 15''
Jérôme Coppel (Saur-Sojasun), Rein Taaramäe (Cofidis) et Pierrick Fédrigo (FDJ-BigMat).

A 25''
Le peloton

A ? (more than 2 minutes)
Le groupe Marcel Kittel (Project 1t4i)

maybe it's already over for Kittel
 
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