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05.04.2007/ De Panne: Bennati won second stage, Team Barloworld ride Lombarda and
Volta ao Alentejo as classics build-up, Liquigas for Settimana Lombarda, Rabobank brings experience to Tour of Flanders
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De Panne: Bennati won second stage,
Daniele Bennati came baback to victory: he took his 5th seasonal success in the 2nd stage (Zottegem-Koksijde,
227 kms) of the Three Days of De Panne: with an outstanding sprint Bennati preceded Brown and Vaitkus.
Guido Bontempi,
Lampre-Fondital's sport director, was very happy: "A Beautiful sprint and deserved victory. At the beginning the team worked
in order to chase the two attackers Lagutin e Van Mingeroet, but when we saw that no one was helping us, we stopped. We're
a little bit sorry for Ballan, who lost 5" in the final because of a gap in the group".
Results stage 2 Three Days of De Panne - Koksijde
1 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital
5.30.32 (41.206 km/h)
2 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank
3 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel
4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.com
5 Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo
6 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas
7 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Wiesenhof-Felt
8 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile
9 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana
10 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt
11 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Intel-Action
12 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Tenax-Menikini
13 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic
14 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Milram
15 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Saunier Duval-Prodir
16 Niko Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen
17 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto
18 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
19 Bert Roesems (Bel) Predictor-Lotto
20 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir
21 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
22 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen
23 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana
24 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
25 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo
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| Daniele Bennati is in a winning mood again (picture: Cyclingheroes) |
Team Barloworld ride Lombarda and Volta ao Alentejo as classics build-up
Team Barloworld will ride two stage races in preparation for the northern classics after getting confirmation
they will ride Fleche-Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege. From Thursday April 5 to Monday April 9, a squad of Claudio Corti's
riders will be at the 37th Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda , the international race held in northern Italy near the town of
Bergamo and Brescia.
The race begins with a prologue time trial on Thursday and continues with four tough stages and
as a result Team Barloworld will field a mixed team suitable for every kind of finish. Directeur sportif Valerio Tebaldi will
be looking for success with Giosuè Bonomi, Diego Caccia, Felix Cardenas, Gianpaolo Cheula, Alexandere Efimkin, veteran Fabrizio
Guidi, Mauricio Soler and Kastantsin Siutsou , who has impressed and shown his form in recent races.
Another Barloworld
squad will also be competing in Portugal at the Volta ao Alentejo between April 11 and 15. This race also includes four stages
and two split stages (with a time trial on Friday), for a total of 756km of racing.
Directuer sportif Alberto Volpi
will have a strong team for the race, including Geraint Thomas , the recently crowned team pursuit world track champion at
the world championships in Majorca. Also in the team will be Pedro Arreitunandia , neo-pro John Lee Augustyn, Ryan Cox - looking
for his first seasonal victory - Enrico Degano, Hugo Sabido and again Kastantsin Siutsou , the only one who will ride both
races.
Liquigas for Settimana Lombarda
"Veteran" Magnus Backstedt will be the captain of the Liquigas Team at the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda,
scheduled from 5 to 9 April, with start and arrival in the centre of Bergamo. In addition to Backstedt and the twentyseven-year
old climber from Bergamo Alessandro Vanotti, the green-blue team, that will be directed by Mario Scirea, includes in fact
the Liquigas "baby riders": Eros Capecchi, Dario Cataldo, Francesco Failli and Roman Kreuziger.
Rabobank
brings experience to Tour of Flanders
Team
leaders Erik Dekker and Frans Maassen will line up an experienced team for this weekend’s Tour of Flanders. The Rabobank
Cycling Team will be composed of: Michael Boogerd, Oscar Freire, Juan Antonio Flecha, Joost Posthuma, Jan Boven, Léon van
Bon, Gerben Löwik and Mathew Hayman.
Pedro
Horrillo and Rick Flens are on the reserve list for the Rabobank Cycling Team.
Léon van Bon is the most experienced rider for Rabobank. Coming Sunday will mark his tenth start in the Tour of Flanders.
All together, the eight riders of the Rabobank Cycling Team carry the experience of 34 starts with them.
Thanks
to Rolf Sørensen of Denmark, the Tour of Flanders is on the roll of honor of the Rabobank Cycling Team since 1997.
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| Juan Antonio Flecha during last years Tour of Flanders (Picture: Cyclingheroes) |
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