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Tomorrow, the great Tour of Beijing will start. We will all follow in the big footsteps of the previous winners ... eh winner
Team Alkworld will of course be there to collect some final World Tour points with the following line-up.

100% there will be:
Benito Salas
Eliseo Alberto
Tupac Amaru
Oscar Romero
Luis Costales
Antonio Narino
They'll maybe be joined by the following riders:
Miguel Cervantes
Jorge CarreraAndrade
Jaime Roldos
Caetano Veloso
Facundo Cabral

Team FL will be there too:

x1 Kenny Banzer, surviver
x2 Stefano Benni, Lombardia-winner
x3 Henri Bienvenu, rider
x4 Niels Hörnö, dentist
x5 Stefan"King" Küng, king
x6 Takashi Murakami, jersey designer
x7 Jean Ollé Ollé, smiler
x8 Xaver Unsinn, Beghelli-winner
x9 Walter "WaWa" Walch, last one

Perhaps the line-up will change a bit, e.g. Hole and Murakami are missing, Arni said he would ride in China too. But in general, this is it. Goals like always: GC, green, red, white, team classement, all stages. Ok, maybe one stage for Salas.

Line-up stands now. Takashi for Victor.

I'm boycotting this shit, ha!

every day from 10h?

I hope to be at your height

Ninetto Ascoli "the difference"
Gerando Colana "the monster"
Luis Advincula "friend of the monster"
Oscar Cardozo "friend of a friend"
Andre Tonkov "like alk riders"
Lauro Costa "pippa"
Priamo Gentile
Xavier Boutain
Amine Kebab "pippa"

Please be nice to ATB, who will sit me tomorrow

Tour of Beijing

The only World Tour race in Asia started today. On start line we could see many good riders, including the best team at the moment Alkworld with his two super stars Miguel Cervantes and Benito Salas who probably aim not only for a couple stage victories but also for winning whole tour. The team who can stop Alkworld riders is rvb sport which has very strong line-up with such riders like Ninetto Ascoli and Gerardo Colana. In case of mass sprint from peloton for stage win the favorites should be Rudy Torres(rastullah) and two poles Kamil Drwal(Radomiak), Jan Flak(Kuman).

Tour of Beijing - stage 1

First stage of chinese tour is very short(only 119km) and completly flat, perfect for sprinter teams. With sunny weather the race started with successful escape try from 1st km. Many of riders were trying to stay in front of peloton but only 8 of them manage to do it: Ian Anderson and Claude Gaudreac from Squeeze, Aller Schnellster and Diego Boneta from Team Radeberger, Kurt Klaus and Mark Mickson from lennylenny, Mario Figueierido from MG Cycling Team, Arthur Ingraham from Everblue Stars. Unfortunately because of bad cooperation in front group and very good controlling of the gap in peloton mainly by Radomiak and rastullah, the highest difference was only 2'21'' which was too small to get the finish line by them in front of peloton. However they manage to win 2 intermediate sprints: first one(47 km): 1. Ian Anderson(Squeeze) 2. Aller Schnellster(Team Radeberger) 3. Arthur Ingraham(Everblue Stars) second inter. sprint: 1. Diego Boneta(Team Radeberger) 2. Mario Figueiredo(MG Cicling Team) 3. Ian Anderson(Squeeze). Thanks to bonifications Ian Anderson won white jersey on todays stage. The escape was catch around 25 km's in front of finish line. After that, there weren't anymore successful attempts to escape and whole peloton crossed finished line together. The best in sprint was Kamil Drwal(Radomiak), who also will wear Yellow jersey on next stage. He is also a leader of point classification. Right after him finished Rudy Torres(rastullah), third was Eric Charpentier(RV Zahna).

Alkworld's favorite check for the Tour of Beijing:

General classement:
*****
**** Miguel Cervantes (Alkworld)
*** Gerardo Colana (rvb sport)
** Benito Salas (Alkworld), Nikita Saidov (RV Zahna), Xaver Unsinn (Team FL)
* Stefano Benni (Team FL), Ninetto Ascoli (rvb sport), Max Bergmann (rastullah), Jakob Svendsen (Team Radeberger)

It's a bit hard this time to name a clear favourite. Cervantes might make as he's hard to drop by the main contenders. rvb sport with his strong team has pretty good chances, if he manages at least once to get rid of Cervantes and Salas. If that wouldn't happen, those two are clear favourites

Points classement:
*** Miguel Cervantes (Alkworld)
** Gerardo Colana (rvb sport), Benito Salas (Alkworld)
* Kamil Drwal (Radomiak), Rudy Torres (rastullah)

If the sprinters make it on stage 4, they may have a chance here.

Mountain classement:
*** the one who wants it
** another rider
* a surprise rider

Youth classement:
*** Jules Maigret, Daniel Neubert (both Squeeze)
** Michael Weiser (Team Radeberger)
* Billy Talent (Team Radeberger)

Will depend mainly on what happens between Alkworld and rvb sport

Don't know what happend during stage 2, but Salas won. Stage 3 was as simple as boring. rvb with his 78-80 and 83-71 was the clear favorite and could celebrate a double victory. Cervantes took the yellow jersey from Salas. Don't know if this will lead to arguments in the team Alkworld...

Funny things happend at stage 4. The group in front with rvb and Zahna gave up against Alkworld, although most probably arriving at the finish in front of Salas. In the meantime, the sprinters in the back missed the Salas group by 11 secs, as there was too much downhill after the last climb and nobody of the sprintteams wanted to sacrifice their classics in front to ride the 5 after the 6. So, Salas back in yellow, Cervantes in reach if tomorrow will be too hard for Alk's hill sprinter.

team fl wrote:Funny things happend at stage 4. The group in front with rvb and Zahna gave up against Alkworld, although most probably arriving at the finish in front of Salas. In the meantime, the sprinters in the back missed the Salas group by 11 secs, as there was too much downhill after the last climb and nobody of the sprintteams wanted to sacrifice their classics in front to ride the 5 after the 6. So, Salas back in yellow, Cervantes in reach if tomorrow will be too hard for Alk's hill sprinter.

I was also seriously confused. The sprinter group I expected a bit stronger, but that might also have been due to the dropped sprinters of GUDE LAUNE and SV Furpach (no helpers for Short? ). Even more surprising was RV Zahna suddenly giving up with the group still more than 3s/km ahead. I already thought of scenarios what to do tomorrow to get back time from the escapers and even considered waiting for the sprinters and riding together because I wouldn't catch the group. But like that, Salas is also fine with another win.

Just go on holidays!!!!! NOW

Whole tour owned by Alkworld, deserved wins for sure. I was lucky to hold white and 3rd place in GC cos of guys in front who waited for me, thank you for that.

@Team FL I am sorry that you felt offended by me in chat. I truly didn't mean to do it I hope you understand my mistake and you will not be mad on me

Radomiak, I don't feel offended anymore. I just don't know you well enough yet. That counts for your humor too. So, next time I know. And I am not mad. I was just very surprised and kind of shocked

For the tour: In the end Cervantes made it. Very unfortunately I had to leave before the end of the stage, which made my options quite useless and also the ones of most of the others. Sorry for that. And Alk deserved it, made was was needed with a team that was not to beat in the end. At least not with what we others rode during the tour .