Paris-NIMES 9 Uhr

[Samurais]

so das war der 17 Tour sieg des jinis , Leupold ich komme^^

[team fl]

Tour is over and we have an expected winner in the GC: Jinichi Nasawa from Samurais. Also the points classement was not a big surprise when Miguel Cervantes from Alkworld slipped the green jersey over aver the last stage. The same counts for Joe Hill and white as well as the team classement. Very surprisingly though, Wesley Lichtenkiesel, now local hero, won the mountain classement, with the fourth worst mountain skill in the peloton and pretty much uncounsciously.

Somehow, this sounds like a lame tour. In some aspects it was: There was not a big fight about everything. Alkworld tried to challenge Samurais, but it was more a fight for the GC-Podium. Astana was more or less passivly riding. Woddeltown was also not very active, especially during the first half of the tour. Furpach and FL where in the escape most of the time, very predictable. Nevertheless Team FL liked the tour, because at least at the end of each stage, there was an interesting fight for the stage win. And so, there where 8 stages with 8 different winners, only two teams winning more than one stage.

For Team FL, PN was a huge success, as every goal was achieved in the end. Taverna and Biedermann won the two stages for FL, again Taverna was three days in yellow, and, not in the list, Lichtenkiesel won the mountain classement. Thus, it was also a success financially. A success was also the favorite check, in which Team FL was only wrong about the youth classement. Well, finally FL presents the tour stats:

General classement (Top20):

01. 00:00:00 Jinichi Nasawa (Samurais)
02. 00:00:27 Simone Ciuffardi (BsgXtreme)
03. 00:01:36 KiSuk Kwon (GengisKhanBielo)
04. 00:01:38 Abraham Olano (Astana)
05. 00:01:52 Joe Hill (SV Furpach)
06. 00:01:59 Miguel Cervantes (Alkworld)
07. 00:02:19 Rick Tagen (Woddeltown Team)
08. 00:02:47 Guido Megger (Team Krischan)
09. 00:02:53 Manuel Klapfer (Samurais)
10. 00:03:16 Manfred Zischab (BsgXtreme)
11. 00:03:36 Berno Büter (Team Krischan)
12. 00:03:45 Romulo Betancourt (Alkworld)
13. 00:03:45 Hugo Marxer (Team FL)
14. 00:03:47 Ivan Aboukoumov (Woddeltown Team)
15. 00:04:13 Heiner Meyer (Team Krischan)
16. 00:04:16 Nathaniel Biedermann (Team FL)
17. 00:04:20 Thomas Lövkvist (Astana)
18. 00:04:22 Kim TaekJing (GengisKhanBielo)
19. 00:04:42 Tatsuki Nasawa (Samurais)
20. 00:04:45 Pablo Picasso (Alkworld)

Points classement:

- Miguel Cervantes (Alkworld)

Mountain classement:

- Wesley Lichtenkiesel (Team FL)

Youth classement:

- Joe Hill (SV Furpach)

Team classement:

- Samurais

Stage wins by teams:

2 - Samurais
2 - Team FL
1 - Alkworld
1 - Astana
1 - SV Furpach
1 - Woddeltown Team

Stage wins by riders:

1 - Gaudenz Taverna (Team FL)
1 - Paul Mangane (Woddeltown Team)
1 - Miguel Cervantes (Alkworld)
1 - Tatsuki Nasawa (Samurais)
1 - Abraham Olano (Astana)
1 - Nathaniel Biedermann (Team FL)
1 - Mikel Shera (SV Furpach)
1 - Jinichi Nasawa (Samurais)

[Astana]

yes...its true. I rode the tour very passive, but with almost every rider with a bad form it's simply not possible to try sth. especially, because i had no time at 2 interesting stages.
my problem was, that i didn't look at the stages of t-a before i decided to ride p-n, otherwise i had decided to ride t-a.
but the tour was very nice, because of the managers and after this tour i have, for the first time since month, fun playing this game and thats the really positiv thing about this tour.

[Robyklebt]

A success was also the favorite check, in which Team FL was only wrong about the youth classement.

Really? Only the youth classement?

Mountain classement:

*** the one who wants it
** another one
* a suprise rider

Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!!! Wesley wasn't the one who wanted it. He was either "another one" or "a surprise rider". Of course it was a fantastic tactical coup by you that day. Really really impressive, nobody knew you could be that good. FL last saturday, the best FL we ever saw. Even if it made you lose points on your own prediction ranking. But you obviously couldn't imagine riding that well either.