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Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team rider Tony Martin came into Tour of Belgium with his eyes on both the GC, and the 15km ITT of Tour of Belgium Stage 3 on Friday. Thanks to a top performance despite rainy conditions, Martin won the time trial by 40″, and also had more than enough of a gap to take over the red jersey for the race lead. Martin’s finishing time of 17’42″ meant he was the only rider who finished the course in less than 18 minutes. He came into the stage down in the GC by 20″ on Andre Greipel (Lotto-Belisol). He now has a 40″ GC lead. Information from Team Omega Pharma – Quick-Step website used in the report. Race Results Tour de Belgique (2013) - Stage 3 (ITT) Beveren to Beveren (15km) 24 May 2013 Stage 3 (ITT) | Stage 2 | Stage 1 Stage Position Name Nationality Team Time 1 MARTIN, Tony GER OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP 17:42 2 DUMOULIN, Tom NED ARG 40 3 OVECHKIN, Artem RUS RUSVELO 43 4 SEROV, Alexander RUS RUSVELO 46 5 HERMANS, Ben BEL Radioshack Leopard 6 VANDEWALLE, Kristof BEL OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP 53 7 GAUDIN, Damien FRA TEAM EUROPCAR 56 8 BOONEN, Tom BEL OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP +1:00 9 CLARKE, Will AUS ARG 10 TERPSTRA, Niki NED OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP +1:01 11 BOOM, Lars NED Blanco +1:03 12 GILBERT, Philippe BEL BMC RACING +1:07 13 SPILAK, Simon SLO KATUSHA +1:09 14 QUINZIATO, Manuel ITA BMC RACING +1:11 15 DEVOLDER, Stijn BEL Radioshack Leopard 16 STEELS, Stijn BEL Crelan-Euphony 17 SANCHEZ GIL, Luis Leon ESP Blanco +1:16 18 TSATEVITCH, Alexey RUS KATUSHA +1:17 19 KOHLER, Martin SUI BMC RACING +1:19 20 VELITS, Martin SVK OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP 21 KLÖDEN, Andreas GER Radioshack Leopard 22 VAN EMDEN, Jos NED Blanco 23 NERZ, Dominik GER BMC RACING +1:20 24 RABON, Frantisek CZE OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP 25 GOOS, Marc NED Blanco +1:21 26 TURGOT, Sébastien FRA TEAM EUROPCAR 27 VAN OVERBERGHE, Arthur BEL TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN - MERCATOR +1:22 28 IGNATIEV, Mikhail RUS KATUSHA +1:23 29 BOECKMANS, Kris BEL VACANSOLEIL-DCM 30 POELS, Wouter NED VACANSOLEIL-DCM +1:24 31 MONFORT, Maxime BEL Radioshack Leopard +1:26 32 PETIT, Adrien FRA COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE +1:27 33 ROELANDTS, Jurgen BEL LOTTO BELISOL 34 VANTOMME, Maxime BEL Crelan-Euphony +1:28 35 FENN, Andrew GBR OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP 36 GATE, Aaron NZL AN POST - SEAN KELLY +1:29 37 LAGUTIN, Sergey UZB VACANSOLEIL-DCM 38 PREMONT, Christophe BEL Crelan-Euphony +1:32 39 ROHREGGER, Thomas AUT Radioshack Leopard 40 KOLOBNEV, Alexandr RUS KATUSHA +1:33 41 HUFFMAN, Evan USA ASTANA 42 SLAGTER, Tom Jelte NED Blanco +1:34 43 HOFLAND, Moreno NED Blanco 44 VAN HOECKE, Gijs BEL TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN - MERCATOR +1:35 45 O SHEA, Glenn AUS AN POST - SEAN KELLY +1:36 46 SINKELDAM, Ramon NED ARG +1:38 47 LAMPAERT, Yves BEL TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN - MERCATOR +1:39 48 GREIPEL, André GER LOTTO BELISOL 49 HUGUET, Yann FRA ARG 50 ERSHOV

Gerald Ciolek (MTN) won Stage 3 of 2013 Bayern-Rundfahrt. Race Results Bayern-Rundfahrt (2013) - Stage 3 Viechtach to Kelheim (197km) 24 May 2013 Stage 3 | Stage 2 | Stage 1 Stage Position Name Nationality Team Time 1 CIOLEK, Gerald GER MTN QHUBEKA 5:10:15 2 DEMARE, Arnaud FRA FDJ-BIG MAT 0 3 HAUSSLER, Heinrich AUS IAM Cycling 4 SWIFT, Ben GBR SKY PROCYCLING 5 CIMOLAI, Davide ITA LAMPRE - ISD 6 KRUOPIS, Aidis LTU ORICA-GREENEDGE 7 LEMOINE, Cyril FRA SAUR - SOJASUN 8 WAGNER, Robert GER Blanco 9 KREDER, Raymond NED Garmin-Sharp 10 GÈNE, Yohann FRA TEAM EUROPCAR 11 JANORSCHKE, Grischa GER NUTRIXXION ABUS 12 DOWNING, Russell GBR TEAM NETAPP - ENDURA 13 IMPEY, Daryl RSA ORICA-GREENEDGE 14 SCHWARZMANN, Michael GER TEAM NETAPP - ENDURA 15 HUTAROVICH, Yauheni BLR AG2R LA MONDIALE 16 DROSTE, Jan-Niklas DEU TEAM HEIZOMAT 17 LOBATO DEL VALLE, Juan Jose ESP EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI 18 ARNDT, Nikias GER ARG 19 DANIEL, Maxime FRA SAUR - SOJASUN 20 KLUGE, Roger GER TEAM NETAPP - ENDURA 21 THOMAS, Geraint GBR SKY PROCYCLING 22 RASMUSSEN, Alex DEN Garmin-Sharp 23 BOS, Theo NED Blanco 24 STAUFF, Andreas DEU MTN QHUBEKA 25 SÜTTERLIN, Jasha GER THÜRINGER ENERGIE TEAM 26 DIETEREN, Jan DEU Team Stölting 27 WEGMANN, Fabian GER Garmin-Sharp 28 CLARKE, Simon AUS ORICA-GREENEDGE 29 OFFREDO, Yoann FRA FDJ-BIG MAT 30 WYSS, Marcel CHE IAM Cycling 31 VERSCHOOR, Martijn NED TEAM NOVO NORDISK 32 MALORI, Adriano ITA LAMPRE - ISD 33 KREDER, Michel NED Garmin-Sharp 34 BARDET, Romain FRA AG2R LA MONDIALE 35 BARGUIL, Warren FRA ARG 36 ELMIGER, Martin SUI IAM Cycling 37 REINHARDT, Theo DEU Rad-Net Rose Team 38 WERDA, Maximilian GER Team Stölting 39 VON HOFF, Steele AUS Garmin-Sharp 40 BARTA, Jan CZE TEAM NETAPP - ENDURA 41 GAUTIER, Cyril FRA TEAM EUROPCAR 42 KONOVALOVAS, Ignatas LTU MTN QHUBEKA 43 HERKLOTZ, Silvio DEU Team Stölting 44 MARINO, Jean Marc FRA SAUR - SOJASUN 45 BOUET, Maxime FRA AG2R LA MONDIALE 46 ULISSI, Diego ITA LAMPRE - ISD 47 RIBLON, Christophe FRA AG2R LA MONDIALE 48 STANNARD, Ian GBR SKY PROCYCLING 49 LELAY, David FRA SAUR - SOJASUN 50 KLEMME, Dominic GER IAM Cycling 51 SCHACHMANN, Maximilian DEU THÜRINGER ENERGIE TEAM 52 HOLLER, Nikodemus GER THÜRINGER ENERGIE TEAM 53 SCHELLING, Patrick SUI IAM Cycling 54 GESCHKE, Simon GER ARG 55 CUNEGO, Damiano ITA LAMPRE - ISD 56 SUTTON, Christopher AUS SKY PROCYCLING 57 SCHILLINGER, Andreas GER TEAM NETAPP - ENDURA 58 GADRET, John FRA AG2R LA MONDIALE 59 CHEREL, Mikael FRA AG2R LA MONDIALE 60 ABERASTURI IZAGA, Jon ESP EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI 61 GRAD, Alexander DEU TEAM HEIZOMAT 62 FRÖHLINGER, Johannes GER ARG

Script (not verbatim, contains typos, and sometimes I go off-book) Yes, it’s another delayed Cyclocosm Rantcast—but I’m not sorry, because last weekend I was temporarily relocated to the redwoods and hoppy, delicious ales of Sonoma County to ride bikes with fun and interesting people, and watch a little event you might have heard of called the Tour of California. It seems an odd juxtaposition, really, because the topic of this rant is Beinsport’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Or rather, it was supposed to be. But I can’t in good conscience complain about something more or less sight-unseen. While I did manage—at long last—to catch a bit of actual BeIn TV coverage, it was during stage 14’s fog obscured nightmare. But I’ve heard, actually, and from several sources, that BeIn’s broadcast commentary is quite good. Certainly, if the effort Carlton Kirby made to pump excitement into 40 minutes of staring at an empty road lined by bored, cold Italians is any indication, it couldn’t be that bad. But as the old saying goes, if Dan Lloyd delivers understated quips in his butter-toned British accent and no one’s around to hear them, does it count as good coverage? So today’s rant will be less about coverage in its proper sense, and more about the contracting decisions that get made delivering the content to the people. Let’s start with something everyone can see—at least, in the US. Maybe the mish-mash of rights and geo-restrictions will be prevent a worldwide audience from seeing these, but head on over to beinsport.tv and see what you can see. I’ll be fair here—credit is definitely due for giving cycling and the Giro much more exposure around the site than it used to have. A few months ago, the only cycling story on up was about [Lance] Armstrong getting blocked from racing a tri—now they’ve got an article and a video highlight for every each stage—if you look under the “video” header, that is—and clips even make their way onto the front page occasionally. That said, it’d sure be nice if cycling could have a link under “other sports” or if doing doing a search for cycling brought up more than just 11 articles in some random order. And let’s take a closer look at these race reports—here’s Stage 17, which is currently two sentences long. And the video seems to suffer from the Phil Liggett effect—not that Dan Lloyd does a bad job with it, more that he seems to just kinda be talking over some footage they threw at him. So let’s check out Stage 16…hmm “Intxausti timed a late sprint and fought off the challenges…in a dramatic late finish” good so far…”Intxausti was part of a 22-man breakaway group in the early stages” (huh?) “later managed to gain a five-second advantage” None of that is right. “Nibali…setting a fierce pace at the front of the peloton as he attempted to bridge” No, that’s not really… “ it was not until they entered the final 25 kilometres that the 22 separated.” But you just said that breakaway happened in the early stages? Or did you mean separated from each other? Well, maybe the video will make more sense…nope. Actually, it, uh looks like this one’s just a music video. With some bikes rolling along. And no one talking about the race. Oh, and some guy wins. Nice. Very explanatory. Thanks for that recap. Similar nonsense, weird wording— my favorite was “Uran edged Carlos Betancur by 20 seconds” in Stage 10— and straight-up factual errors pepper most of the BeIn recaps. It’s tempting to blame the network for this mess, but you know, in the grand scheme of things, BeIN is really only a mouldering rusty pipe through which feces flows. You see, nearly all these reports and videos ar

We will publish full results as they become available. 1. Tony MARTIN, Omega Pharma-Quick Step, in 17:42 2. Tom DUMOULIN, Argos-Shimano, at :40 3. Artem OVECHKIN, RusVelo, at :43 4. Alexander SEROV, RusVelo, at :46 5. Ben HERMANS, RadioShack-Leopard, at :46 6. Kristof VANDEWALLE, Omega Pharma-Quick Step, at :53 7. Damien GAUDIN, Europcar, at :56 8. Tom BOONEN, Omega Pharma-Quick Step, at 1:00 9. William CLARKE, Argos-Shimano, at 1:00 10. Niki TERPSTRA, Omega Pharma-Quick Step, at 1:01

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