Volta ao Algarve stage 2

After 37 km ten in the break :-

Dmitry Kozontchuk (Katusha), Sep Vanmarcke (Blanco), Ricardo Garcia (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Manuele Boaro (Saxo-Tinkoff), Bertjan Lindeman (Vacansoleil-DCM), Omar Fraile (Caja Rural), Dalivier Ospina (Colombia), Thomas Metcalfe (Carmine-Tavira), Hugo Sabido (LA-Alumínios Antarte) and Alejandro Marque (OFM-Quinta da Lixa).

Peloton at 1'12"

Seems to be some problems with the race radios due to the mountains

The gap is about 5 minutes

I think Boaro topped the cat 3 first

Lindeman 2nd and Garcia 3rd on the mountain

Sprint 1 was won by Sabido, Lindeman 2nd and Kozontchuk 3rd

1st mountain :-
1.Manuele Boaro (TST)
2.Bertjan Lindeman (VCD)
3.Ricardo Garcia (EUS)

1st sprint :-
1.Hugo Sabido (LAA)
2.Bertjan Lindeman (VCD)
3.Dmitry Kozontchuk (KAS)

Gah! Traded out Lindeman yesterday!

2nd Mountain :-

1. Alejandro Marque (Carmim-Tavira)
2. Manuele Boaro (Saxo-Tinkoff)
3. Ricardo Garcia (Euskaltel-Euskadi)
4. Bertjan Lindeman (Vacansoleil-DCM)
5. Omar Fraile (Caja Rural)

At the top (km 81), the gap was 8'. At 105km now down to 6'30".

At 114km, OPQS driving the chase - down to 5'30"

2nd sprint :-
1. Omar Fraile (Caja Rural)
2. Hugo Sabido (LA-Alumínios Antarte)
3. Manuele Boaro (Saxo-Tinkoff)

only 6 left in front. 11km to go and the gap is 34"

Either Cavendish or Bos win - depends who you believe.

Bos Bossed it

Thanks for the updates Simon - I was semi-following the ticker as well. Loving the google translations, especially with my purist pick Marque in the break riding for that renowned team "Fifth of Sandpaper".

They seem to be reporting Bos, Nizzolo, Sancho, Herrada, Boeckmans but its early days - have you seen Cav reported as winner elsewhere?

1. Theo Bos (Blanco) 4h50m15s (Average: 40, 310 km / h)
2. Giacomo Nizzolo (RadioShack-Lepard), mt
3. Sancho Bruno (Carmine-Prio), mt
4. Jesús Herrada (Caja Rural), mt
5. Kris Boeckmans (Vacansoleil-DCM), mt
6. Thomas Leezer (Blanco), mt
7. Alessandro Bzzana (UnitedHealthcare), mt
8. Pieter Vanspeynrouck (Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise), mt
9. Edwin Avila (Colombia), mt
10º Michael Morkov (Saxo-Tinkoff), mt

GC :-
1. Theo Bos (Blanco) 9h57m30s
2. Paul Martens (Blanco) +4s
3. Giacomo Nizzolo (RadioShack-Leopard), +8s
4. Tiago Machado (RadioShack-Leopard) mt
5. Hugo Sabido (LA-Antarte Aluminium) +9s
6. Eduard Vorganov (Katusha), mt
7. Bruno Sancho (Carmim-Tavira), a 10s
8. Amets Txurruka (Caja Rural), a 11s
9. Sérgio Paulinho (Saxo-Tinkoff), a 12s
10. Bertjan Lindeman (Vacansoleil-DCM), mt

OPQS seemed to think he'd won. Don't know where they got the idea.

1 48 BOS Theo BLA 4:50:15 2 56 NIZZOLO Giacomo RLT m.t. 3 157 SANCHO Bruno PRT m.t. 4 34 HERRADA LOPEZ Jesus MOV m.t. 5 82 BOECKMANS Kris VCD m.t. 6 44 LEEZER Thomas BLA m.t. 7 141 BAZZANA Alessandro UHC m.t. 8 98 VANSPEYBROUCK Pieter TSV m.t. 9 122 AVILA Edwin COL m.t. 10 76 MOERKOV Michael TST m.t. 11 191 CALDEIRA Samuel OFM m.t. 12 148 REIJNEN Kiel UHC m.t. 13 96 SPRENGERS Thomas TSV m.t. 14 68 RADOCHLA Steffen EUS m.t. 15 127 ROMERO Jeffry COL m.t.

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Cavendish not in top 10 in provisional results. #OPQS #VoltaAlgarve

1st,2nd and 5th on the stage plus 1st,3rd,4th and 9th on GC and 1st,2nd 4th on points plus anything for Paulinho in the KOM competition......with 4 transfers for tomorrow

Scores are up everyone

Something tells me Benfica Angola will be withdrawing soon.