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Hello ,

Team Liquigas-CND has just arrived in Catalunya hoping for a spectacular tour.
The most dominant team in the history of RSF will align the following riders to start this tour:

1.Don Massimo Croce
2.Matias Delgado
3.Walter Dries
4.Carlos Murillo
5.Wouter Mathijssen
6. Dejan Markovic
7. Krasimir Tonev
8. Alessandro DeMarco
9. --------------------------surprise, will be known only tomorrow morning



PFFF missed by stupid mistake 10H, see you at 15:00

The main event of this tour will be of course the participation of Don Massimo Croce, the most dominant climber in RSF for many seasons who will retire in glory after this tour.

you forgot your 9th rider, eh?

Yep...f...k i had a lot of work to do in the morning in the office.

Lenny SnakeCycling will also start here although the team doesn't like a tour without a TT
x1 Jermaine Wattimena
x2 Dimitri vandenBergh
x3 Sascha Stein
x4 Cristo Reyes
x5 Gerwyn Price
x6 Jamie Lewis
x7 Scott Kirchner
x8 Paul Balto
x9 Kyle Anderson

Goal: getting money and seeing if we can maybe win a jersey

9th Rider, Dario Malacarne!!!

A. Three stages already passed from Catalunya 2016 and the most dominant team in the history of RSF leads the GC but it's going to be extremely difficult against Liberty, Rasmussen and Kernabaten. Tulpen still has good chances because he has a lot of classics + Uffe but lack of downhill may have a bad impact...
Yesterday Tulpen tried a nice move with Uffe but it seems it was not enough and Sir Massimo Croce easily followed him.

In my opinion Kiell Leonard is the GC favourite because showed a lot of power yesterday when he had to control the Uffe Bech escape, then at KM 168 he had the force to attack.
Dario Malacarne attacked at the same KM but it seems Kiell leonard was too strong and both ended the 3rd stage with the same time even if Dario Malacarne was fresh before that attack.
But Let's see, when 2 riders are fighing the 3rd or 4th one may win even if they have 13, 20, 22 ore even more seconds delay.

The GC looks as below after 3 stages:
1. 00:00 Dario Malacarne (Liquigas-CND)
2. 00.04 Kiell Leonard (Liberty Sartene)
3. 00:13 OscarBorje Leander (Rasmussen)
4. 00:20 Osvaldo Montero (Kernabateam)
5. 00:22 Francisco Belmonte (Quickstep)
6. 00:22 Uffe Bech (Tulpengeneral)
7. 00:22 Edwin Garcia (Kernabateam)
8. 00:22 HHHH hhhhh (Celteam)
9. 00:33 Massimo Croce (Liquigas-CND)
10. 00:46 Shankar Sampingiraj (Tulpengeneral)
11. 00:46 Tessa Folwler (Tulpengeneral)

B. 3 riders are fighting a lot for Mountains calssification but Enrico has a good advantage already:
1. Enrico Battaglin (Mercatone Uno) 55 points
2. Oscar Torres (Kernabateam) 25 points
3. Elend Venture (Distraught Divas) 23 points

The fight is still opened for other riders...

C. Sprinters Classification
1. Edouard Maillard (Tulpengeneral) 32 points
2. Alberto Celades (Liberty Sartene) 29 points
3. Enrique Caicedo (Kernabateam) 26 points

IMO Alberto has the best chances but the fight for GC where team Liberty is involved may bring help Tulpen to win with Maillard.

D. Young riders Classification.
Here it seems Dario malacarne has no real rival.

E. Teams Classification
Tulpen is leading and probably is going to win this.

Liberty and you have the stronger team than kerbateam an me. Normally you dont have a problem to beat us...and i think i'm also satisfied with the 3th place.

Nice stage today and a deserved win for Francisco Belmonte (Quickstep)

Francisco Belmonte takes the yellow but Kiell needs only 7 seconds to win the GC, may be possible mainly in the last stage but I doubt Liberty will be able to control so the GC might be opened for many other classics.


1. 00:00 Francisco Belmonte (Quickstep)
2. 00:07 Kiell Leonard (Liberty Sartene)
3. 00:09 Dario Malacarne (Liquigas-CND)
4. 00:44 OscarBorje Leander (Rasmussen)
5. 00:49 HHHH hhhhh (Celteam)
6. 00:51 Osvaldo Montero (Kernabateam)
7. 00:53 Uffe Bech (Tulpengeneral)
8. 01:04 Massimo Croce (Liquigas-CND)

For next 3 stages we intend not to ride in the peloton, the main goal being to keep the white and go in escapes.

Finally Catalunya 2016 is over, Team Liquigas-CND winning almost everything mainly due to the superior experience and tactic planned by Team Manager and well respected by riders.

GC:
1. Dario Malacarne (Liquigas-CND)
2. Kiell Leonard (Liberty Sarténe)
3. Francisco Belmonte (Quickstep)


Bergtrikot: Pedro Gaudencio (PG Force)

Sprinttrikot: Dario Malacarne (Liquigas-CND)

Jungfahrertrikot: Dario Malacarne (Liquigas-CND)

Mannschaftswertung: Liquigas-CND

One of the greatest climbers ever, Don Massimo Croce ended his prodigious career helping the new star "Dario Malacarne".

Good bye Massimo Croce!

Congratulations Liquigas. Deserved win against Quickstep, although this has also tried a lot and drove aggressively. With better form I might also get involved in the fight for GC victory. But under these circumstances, I am satisfied with a stage victory and fourth place.

Etwas schade, dass es nie eine Gruppe gewonnen hat.