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Donoratico, Italy - Saturday, February 04, 2006
Balearic Islands, Spain
February 05-09, 2006
Andalusia, Spain. February 12-16, 2006
Valencia Community, Spain
February 21-25, 2006.
* Stage 1: Kolobnev on the attack, the group trying to chase him down, but the Russian holds onto a small lead to win the stage and take the yellow jersey. Ventoso outsprints Petacchi for second place.
* Stage 2: With Lampre and Milram driving the bunch, it all couldn't help but coming down to a sprinting duel between their top fastmen, with Petacchi pipping Napolitano at the line. And with Kolobnev one more day in yellow.
* Stage 3: Lablacher and Palomares break away, Gorka González (Euskaltel) and Nacho Gutiérrez (Phonak) join them, but in the end it is a sprint again, and you should know well the name of the winner. Kolobnev holds onto his GC leadership.
* Stage 4: The stage starts in Alzira, but the battle breaks out as the riders hit the final climb. Kolobnev gives up the jersey. A Valenciana rider attacks but in the end it's Toni Colom that powers to victory (after catching and dropping green-jerseyed Palomares) and to the yellow mantle. David Bernabeu wins the small bunch sprint for second place in front of fellow Valencian Palomares.
* Stage 5: The final stage Drama. The clash between teammates Ongarato and Sacchi, Bennati's timely attack, and his first success so far this season. All the big guys on the podium. (05m34s: 29 MB ca.).
WARNING: if you are offended by some strong language, or simply don't like those Green Day guys … then just turn down the volume control (if you have one) on your loudspeakers, eheh …
Belgium, Saturday - February 25th, 2006 
Belgium, Sunday - February 26th, 2006.
Spain, March 01-05, 2006.
Italy, Saturday March 04th 2006.
France, March 05th-13th 2006.
Details: The "Man of the Day" (Tom Boonen aside), Nicolas Crosbie (Fra - Agritubel) on a solo breakaway. The Cofidis' chasing pair Thierry Marichal (Bel) and Ivan Parra (Col). The South American gives up the chase, and is "replaced" by Johan Van Summeren and Aitor Osa. Franzoi (Lampre) and Leblacher (FDJ) also tried to join the first chasing group, but were brought back by the bunch, led by the orange warriors of Euskaltel, that met some snowy landscapes today. The other chasers will be chased down too. The efforts start taking their toll, and at the top of he last difficulty of the day, Col Fot d'Avenas, Crosbie helds only a slender margin over the pack. On the last slopes of the same climb Andriy Grivko (Milram) and Samuel Dumoulin (AG2R) attack and make the gap. They go fast in the descent too (while some other rider is having a flat) and catch Crosbie, whose legs are not good enough for him to be able to follow them. The Agritubel rider is soon back into the bunch (he'll finish a couple minutes behind the winner) while the French-Ukrainian combo stays up front. But even if talented TTist Grivko and occasional ally Dumoulin work well with each other, they can't break the "law of the chasing peloton", especially if such peloton is driven by the Quick Step-Innergetic guys. The pair is brought back, but not before shaking hands. A roundabout, a flambe rouge ... and here's the sprint, with Tom Boonen enjoying a helluva leadout from Petacchi's former domestiques Trenti and Tosatto, and giving a further display of his power. Allan Davis comes second again; Napolitano and Ventoso avoid a fall in the final straight, but cannot be a match for the Belgian sensation. (03m40s; 20.4 MB ca.)
Italy, Monday March 06th 2006.
The Coppa San Geo ran in the Garda Lake area (Brescia province of Lombardy) Saturday, February 18th 2006, and was won by Roberto Ferrari under adverse weather conditions - so bad that only 14 out of more than 160 starters finished the race. Usually a good sprinter, the boy, maybe extra-motivated as he was racing on the home roads of his province, soloed to the line after attacking with 4 laps to go, and his Trevigiani Dynamon team got even more reasons to smile also thanks to the fourth place finish by Denmark's Jan Almblad and the sixth place result scored by cyclocross specialist Derik Zampedri, whilst the race podium was completed by former professional rider Antonio Bucciero (Pagnoncelli) as well as Salvatore Mancuso of the local team Unidelta.
Bucciero took his revenge 24 hours later as he clinched first place in the other early season classic held in the Brescia area: the Trofeo Caduti di Soprazzocco, which he won - courtesy of another winning breakaway - with a margin of nineteen seconds over Cristiano Fumagalli and Simone Stortoni.
Both race reports are "solid" (many MBs involved), and consequently "split" into four different clips each. All of them put together in the WINRAR files (hosted by the Rapidshare service) which you can find and download below. In case you don't have the WINRAR archiving and compression program, just type the same word winrar in any search engines you know (Google in particular), and you'll find out plenty of sites providing you with the opportunity to download it.
The audio of both clips comes from the voices of the RAI commentators. But even if you don’t speak Italian, you can always find details of both clips below.
Coppa San Geo Report - Rapidshare Link (54.6 MB - WinRar Needed)
Video 02: The orange-jerseyd boys of the mighty team Pagnoncelli drive the bunch as it winds through the streets of (cobbled) downtown Brescia and its province, and the rain doesn't stop falling. 01'13": Roberto Ferrari makes the winning move with 4 laps (about 32k) to go. Orange-jerseyed Bucciero and Unidelta's Mancuso attack the bunch and start their own chase of the leader. A vain effort
Video 03: More skirmishes and attempts to join the front of the race come. Alex Crippa (Palazzago) and Simone Stortoni (Team Lucchini) are the next ones who try to regain the wheels of Ferrari - or at least Buccerio and Mancuso - as they attack on the Cisano climb. But Roberto Ferrari keeps a good margin, and crosses the line - under the rain - for the penultimate time. The Bucciero-Mancuso pair comes next, some 35" back. Then come eight more riders (Crippa and Stortoni included). The battle between the frontrunner and his two closest chasers - with Bucciero doing most of the work on the uphill section - continues throughout the final lap. Roberto Ferrari under the red pennant signalling the final km.
Video 04: After three successful sprints in the 2005 season, Ferrari can finally raise his arms in triumph and celebrate his first solo victory. Bucciero easily beats Mancuso for second place. The smiling winner can have his bottle of Spumante and celebrate with the two other podium place getters at last.
Trofeo Caduti Soprazzocco Report - Rapidshare Link (54.5 MB ca. - WinRar Needed).
Video 01: the race - whose course is slightly easier than the previous Coppa San Geo - kicks off Sunday around midday, with 177 riders at the startline. Most of the bunch comes all the way from Saturday contest, but with one significant absence: that of the winner of Saturday contest himself, Roberto Ferrari, and his Trevigiani team, busy racing in the nearby region of Veneto. The weather is as bad as 24 hours earlier anyway. The Rain and previous day efforts were the reasons that kept the bunch together thru most of the early part of the Trofeo. With one exception to the rule: Pagnoncelli's Bruno Rizzi. The man in orange made his move after 25k and was able to stay clear for about 60 km, opening a maximum lead of 02'30''.
Video 02: Rizzi continues his solo adventure, but the efforts start taking their tolls on his legs, and the peloton start lifting the pace. The man will be caught, but another orange warrior of Pagnoncelli takes his place up front: the ''mudded'' Antonio Bucciero, on the move with Mattia Vaccari of the GS Marco Pantani-Rosini (formerly Grassi-Pantani) and the Brazilian Sidoti. Their move will be chased down.
Video 03: Bucciero, having the same great legs as yesterday, attacks again, in another uphill section, with 2 laps to go. He's chased down by Unidelta's Mancuso (again!), but as a results a smaller leading group of mudded guys forms. And once Bucciero attacks again (once more as the road tilts upwards) … this is the good one! Nobody can follow the guy with 137 as his back number.
Video 04: After making the gap, the former Saeco and Acqua & Sapone pro continues his ride towards his first win of the season. On the way to the finish, he finds the time to give a big thumbs-up to the camera, the jersey of team who believed in him, and to himself. Bucciero raises his arms, comes across the line, and is cheered by team boss Paolo Pagnoncelli. Fumagalli wins the small bunch sprint for second place, but looking at his reaction, you can say he must not have been that satisfied …
