Dominik Roels: June 2009

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

German National Championships Courses

This Friday's National Championship course for the individual 40.4 km time trial and flat as a pancake with two 180 degree turnarounds.

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Sunday's Elite Men, 220 km Road Course

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Click here for the official race website, to get more information on the race, like the results, start times and more course information.

Danny

Monday, June 22, 2009

Hey lo

Hey everybody, Its me Dom
I#m about to head out for training so just really short:
Next fryday I will start at TT nats and on Sunday At Road Nationals, both in the very east of Germany (I live in the west for all who dont know that...)
well
More later and thanks 4 following my blog!!!
Chears Dom

Friday, June 12, 2009

Dauphiné Libéré Race Update

In Yesterday's stage, the 154 km race finished on the infamous Le Mont Ventoux (map and profile). Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Caisse d'Epargne) attacked about 9 km before the finish and placed 2nd behind Sylvester Szmyd (Liquigas), and moved into the overall lead. Cadel Evans (Silence - Lotto) the previous G.C. leader is now +16 sec, and third in G.C. was Alberto Contador Velasco (Astana). Christian Knees was the top placed rider in the G.C. (18th) for Team Milram at +6.41. Dominik finished the day less than a minute behind the first large group (+17.56).

Today's 106 km stage from Gap to Briançon featured the climb, Izoard (map and profile). Check out Team Milram's report on today's race. The G.C remains unchanged from yesterday and Pierrick Fédrigo (BBox Bouygues Telecom) won the stage. Dominik said that, the peloton "Set a steady peace into the climb and I tried to hang on to the pack as long as possible and when I got dropped I still kept up a decent pace."

Tomorrow will be the last Mountain stage of the Dauphine, starting with climbing the Col du Galibier (hors catégorie) followed by a long descent, and then ascending the Col de la Croix de Fer (hors catégorie), another descent, and finishing with Saint-Fraincois-Longchamp (catégorie 1) (map and profile).

Dom says,

"Tomorrow is gonna be brutal, but after today I'm even looking forward to it a bit... it's gonna be an epic ride..."

Ciao

Danny

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Milram's Niki Terpstra wins stage 3 and moves into overall lead

Todays 182 km stage featured 3 climbs.

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After completing the last climb the 5 man break: Niki Teristara (Team Milram), Ludovic Turpin (AG2R La Mondiale), Yuri Trofimov (BBox Bouygues Telecom), Remi Pauriol (Cofidis, Le Credit en Ligne), and Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Euskaltel - Euskadi), had more than three minutes on the peloton. With about 5 km to go, the break had about 2 min 14 sec on the peloton and the sprinters decided they would not be able to real the break in, leaving Silence - Lotto to set the pace.

The 5 man break worked together until less than 2 km to go, and then they started to get ready for the finish. Niki Terpistra was leading the group with 1 km to go, and watching to see who would go first. It seamed as if all the other riders knew Niki was the man to try and beat. Going into the last slight left hand corner about 300-400 m before the finish, Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Euskaltel - Euskadi) who was in the last position, decided to make it a go. Niki responded immediately while Inigo created a bike length size gap as the group came out of the corner. Niki closed the gap within seconds and passed Inigo while all the other sprinters followed. As the sprint progressed further, Niki opened about a bike length gap on the next rider (Remi Pauriol), When it was clear to Niki that he was going to win, he raised a clenched fist in victory as he crossed the line.

Read Team Milram's news of the race by clicking here.

Danny