Tour of Qatar
Haussler is not joke, he doubles-up in Mesaieed and bests Renshaw, Bennati, Rollin, and Boom for an easy one in the win colum. With Tyler cleaning up in Mallorca and Haussler in the Middle East Garm-elo looks like they are going to have the team to beat in the the Classics. Haussler is showing some impressive riding after such a, shall we say bad year last year. Can you say San Remo? Boonen is out of contention and lost the leader's jersey today with a puncture with 40k to go. The winds once again filtered out the strongmen and left the peloton in pieces @ 32:50 off of the lead. That is wind folks, ride in that for 150k and call me in the morning.
1 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) Team Garmin-Cervelo 3:28:04
2 Mark Renshaw (Aus) HTC-Highroad
3 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Leopard Trek
4 Dominique Rollin (Can) FDJ
5 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team
6 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Lampre - ISD
7 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Garmin-Cervelo
8 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Sky Procycling
9 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep Cycling Team
10 Denis Galimzyanov (Rus) Katusha Team
Challenge Mallorca
I will start by saying that I really like the Movistar kit, the paint job on their Pinarello, and the day-glo green on the Catlike helmet. Thank you for not using black and white, or red and black. Ok, Movistar is fo' real people. I'll be honest, I don't know that much about the Spanish cell phone sponsored team, other than they were evident at the TDU and are making a name for themselves. Rojas pulled off the bunch sprint after the field caught the escapees. Once again Ryder is in the top ten. Garm-elo is poised to have a Classics team that can, and will crush. I was perusing the results and I just saw that Linus Gerdemann is riding for the Schleck's Leopard team. If he goes to le Tour in support of Andy, watch out on the climbs. Linus can rip your legs off.
1 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team 3:18:59
2 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
3 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Geox-TMC
4 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team
5 Tony Martin (Ger) HTC-Highroad
6 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Movistar Team
7 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Team Garmin-Cervelo
8 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Katusha Team
9 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Katusha Team
10 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quickstep Cycling Team
Other News
Ricco. Really? I was never a fan of Ricco. The dude could ride, he tore up the Giro and had some impressive rides at le Tour. Now, with hindsight we know he was on high octane and the super human feats are just that -super human. Riders dope for a reason, I would like to walk in Ricco's shoes for a while just to see what makes this guy "the Cobra". The big question that we all want to know... is WHY? Is is purely to win? Is it for a paycheck? It is easy for us to point fingers, make accusations, and have all the answers; but not know anything. Why risk it? You have already been caught and suspended, but yet it happens again. This case is baffling and the answers that we need will never be known. I said it before and I will say it again -don't screw up a second chance. There is no need to test the system once you have been caught, you should probably stop, or quit. This is a black eye, but it is almost like we all saw it coming. Don't hate Ricco -you have no right (unless you are a Pro in the UCI peloton). Feel disappointment, feel sorry for a guy that just does not get it. Cheaters do get caught. Applaud those who ride clean.
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