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Vuelta a Andalucía 2013 (17th - 20th February)

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classicomano said:
A 25 kms de meta. El grupo de cabeza:

Valverde, Quintana y Moreno (Movistar), Gesink y Mollema (Blanco), Van den Broeck, De Clercq y Van de Walle (Lotto), Nieve (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Brajkovic, Fuglsang, Ponzi y Seeldrayers (Astana), Armee (Topsport), Maté y Navarro (Cofidis), Spilak (Katusha), Arroyo (Caja Rural), Hivert (Sojasun) y Belda (Burgos-BH)

Igor Anton was fifth over the mountain so surely he must be in the group as well. Or maybe they have mistaken him for Nieve:rolleyes:
 
cineteq said:
What are the gaps?

GC after stage 1 below:

1. Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team) 4:13:36
2. Jurgen Van den Broeck (Lotto-Belisol) a 2
3. Bauke Mollema (Blanco) a 11
4. Simon Spilak (Katusha) a 12
5. Bart De Clercq (Lotto-Belisol) a 17
6. Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) a 19
7. Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team) a 24
8. Jonathan Hivert (Sojasun) a 25
9. Davide Rebellin (CCC) a 30
10. Sander Armee (Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator) a 31

JVDB emerging from post July zombie state pretty early.....
 
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Froome19 said:
1 Hivert 2 Valverde 3 Mollema 4 Ponzi 5 Rebellin 6 Van den Broeck 7 Armee 8 Gesink 9 Fuglsang 10 Nieve

Birdsong in the top 10? Wowzers. Nice to see guys like VDB up there early in the year.
 
FFrenchcyclisme said:
French riders are doing fine :)

numbers can lie, but probably not in this case: from CQ country ranking stats (2013) below.

1. (5) France Europe Riders 1277
2. (1) Spain Europe Riders 1272
3. (6) Great Britain Europe Riders 1142
4. (8) Netherlands Europe Riders 988
5. (7) Australia Oceania Riders 830
6. (2) Italy Europe Riders 828
7. (3) Belgium Europe Riders 779
8. (9) United States America Riders 511
9. (4) Germany Europe Riders 493
10. (32) New Zealand Oceania Riders 294
 
Dazed and Confused said:
numbers can lie, but probably not in this case: from CQ country ranking stats (2013) below.

1. (5) France Europe Riders 1277
2. (1) Spain Europe Riders 1272
3. (6) Great Britain Europe Riders 1142
4. (8) Netherlands Europe Riders 988
5. (7) Australia Oceania Riders 830
6. (2) Italy Europe Riders 828
7. (3) Belgium Europe Riders 779
8. (9) United States America Riders 511
9. (4) Germany Europe Riders 493
10. (32) New Zealand Oceania Riders 294
These numbers kinda lie. Lot of French races done already.

Pretty convincing win by Hivert, BTW.

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Dazed and Confused said:
yep, but I am curious if anybody have info on whether he has done a similar stage and getting a good result.
He won a few races in his carreer. (7) one Stage of the Tour of Romandie once and the general at Etoiles de Besseges. He looks like he is trying harder now that he is with Sojasun
 

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