Haussler!

Two posts in one day:isn't it a bit much?

Btw,today's stage of P-N (Saint Brisson sur Loire-La Chapelle Saint Ursin,195 km) was won by Heinrich Haussler,a Cervelo rider .At the beginning of the stage there was a breakaway formed by 4 riders (Aitor Hernández, Aleksandr Kuschynski,Christophe Laurent and Piet Rooijakkers, that started the breakaway immediately after the start of the race).The weather was sunny but windy,and so some riders lost contact with the main group.For example, Saxo Bank’s rider Chris Anker Sorensen managed to join the main group with 15 kms to go after having problems with the wind.Also Cadel Evans and David Moncoutié had problems with the wind.
With 51 kilometres to go there was a crash in which Kevin De Weert,Vladimir Efimkin and José Angel Gomez Marchante were involved.With 22 kms to go the last man from the breakaway (Laurent) was caught.With 2 kms to go there was another crash,in which both Contador and FRANK SCHLECK were involved.Fortunately they didn’t hurt themselves too badly...

"Fortunately for Frank he was not severely hurt, but leaves only one destroyed back wheel to the mechanics", Kim Andersen said."Tomorrow we will again, and hopefully successful, make sure to stay up front, avoiding accidents and save strength for later this week."

The stage’s victory was decided with a sprint,and first (as I already said) came Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo).Second came Mark Renshaw (good rider) and third came Lorenzetto (that has already won some good races this year in front of guys like Bennati and Petacchi).
"It's pretty much a dream come true," said Haussler."We knew there were going to be crosswinds, and there were splits, but the boys did a great job.This is definitely a great season. Even if it ended now, it's already unbelievable. But there are so many great races coming up like Flanders and Roubaix, which are my main goals this season".

Here are the stage results:
Results
1 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 4.45.01 (42.31km/h)
2 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad
3 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - NGC
4 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano
5 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas
6 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux
7 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
8 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis
9 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel
10 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank
11 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence-Lotto
13 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale
14 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Team Milram
30 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream
31 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad
45 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream
48 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas
53 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank
60 Walle Jurgen Van De (Bel) Quick Step
62 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank
68 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Silence-Lotto
69 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
70 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence-Lotto
71 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quick Step
78 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto
97 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana
100 Chris Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank
101 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad
109 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team Saxo Bank
110 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team Saxo Bank
127 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream
128 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank
139 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank
140 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale
142 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank
150 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram
153 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
158 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank
DNF Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Cofidis

For those between you who understand Danish and/or like C.A.Sorensen,he's updated his blog lately.You can use Google Translate if you want to understand what he says.I understood just a few things but they were really funny.For example:"We also had time to do some shopping during the training camp in California,even if it didn’t go as well as last year.In fact now dollars are stronger than euros,so we didn’t buy lots of things.Under another point of view,this made things better than last year:in fact a year ago I had problems with closing my suitcase,this year instead I just had to use little violence to close it”.The link is this one: http://blog.tv2.dk/chris.anker.ol/entry303904.html .

PS: if you want to leave comments after the other post I made today,you can! (Photo from Eurosport).