Petacchi 2, Boonen 1

[Argos]

Stage 5 - February 16: Olvera - Sevilla, 172.8 km
Results
1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step - Innergetic 3.50.10
2 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram
3 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.com
5 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank
6 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
7 Rodrigo García Rena (Spa) Kaiku
8 Koldo Fernández De Larrea (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
9 Luciano A Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Prodir
10 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team


Hammond 3rd? Uh, ok. Cool.

[Fixed]

bro it's goin to be a good year of racing i.m.h.o. :beer:
hammond is the english cross champ he won it in a sprint

[Argos]

Oh, I ain't down on Hammond. I just know he has good luck and bad luck and to see him mixing it up is good.

[Dr. Doofus]

hammond is a graduate of the hilaire-hard-azz school...he is propah

why is cooke back in it?

he's got the flemish godfatha behins him now

[bigdeal]

I think Boonen's holding back a bit, trying to not show all his cards before the Classics and Milan-San Remo which he's targetting.

[Grant McLean]

Robbie seems off to a bit of a slow start.
And who's this Enrico Degano dude? The
Barloworld rider beat McEwen twice at the
GP International Costa Azul in Portugal this week.
I had to look the guy up:
http://www.world-of-cycling.com/sites/riders/italien/degano_enrico.htm
Maybe it's those shiny new red 'dales...

-g

[Climb01742]

discovery should be a much more "interesting" team this year. johan could always count on lance getting a tour win, thus assuring sponsor visibility, thus assuring sponsorship. without lance, johan needs more of the boys trying to win in more races to get sponsor visibility to keep the team alive for years to come. seeing hammond mix it up this early is, i think, an indication that johan knows that without his "mealticket" lance, disco's future now is being written in races far beyond the tour. cool.

[Frustration]

I think Boonen's holding back a bit, trying to not show all his cards before the Classics and Milan-San Remo which he's targetting.

He won like 5 in a row in Qatar or some odd number then won again rec. If that's holding back, I wonder what trying looks like?

when things are smooth, Peta is the shiznit... When things are not smooth it's Boonen. They may trade off a little, but it is what it is.

[Argos]

discovery should be a much more "interesting" team this year. johan could always count on lance getting a tour win, thus assuring sponsor visibility, thus assuring sponsorship. without lance, johan needs more of the boys trying to win in more races to get sponsor visibility to keep the team alive for years to come. seeing hammond mix it up this early is, i think, an indication that johan knows that without his "mealticket" lance, disco's future now is being written in races far beyond the tour. cool.

I agree. I love this team, and it's never had anything to do with Lance.. (ok, I did like the first few years)

But with the young Belgium contingent, my boy George, Savo, and Hammond.... All of them really... It's gonna be a year you can REALLY root for this team.