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Sarthe ITT: Christian wins! 2nd in GC by 1"!

Christian Vande Velde, Circuit Cycliste Sarthe time trial This is a very cool feeling. My roommate Christian (left and below on podium) won the time trial today and just got back to the hotel. Actually, he didn’t just win it, he smashed everyone else. A ten-second difference over 9 km is a hell of a lot. To be honest, I think Voekler did a really good ride to only lose 20 seconds to our “motorbike”.

Now it’s up to DS Lionel to make a master plan to steal 1″ and the yellow Christian Vande Velde, Circuit Cycliste Sarthe podium from the French guy. We’re going to make Voeckler work for it that’s for sure.

Slipstream stage 2b ITT results
1. CHRISTIAN VANDE VELDE 10’00″ (53.95 kph)
15. Kilian Patour +25″
55. Julian Dean +45″
58. Dan Martin +47″
75. Chris Sutton +1’00″
81. Pat McCarty +1’04″

Slipstream GC after stage 2b
1. Thomas Voeckler 7:23’51″
2. Christian Vande Velde +1″
58. Julian Dean +46″
60. Dan Martin +48″
95. Chris Sutton +10’49″
96. Pat McCarty +14’00″

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  • yeg

    Congrats to CVV and the team. I am sure this will be the first of many to come. . .

  • nikki

    WAY TO GO C!!!

  • http://guinilingonline.com brian

    atta boy!

  • Mike Friedrich

    Way to go Slipstream and our homeboy Christian! I guess all those one-legged leg presses paid off! Keep it up!

  • http://www.radsport-glinde.de Michael

    Congratulations! Great race by Christian :-)
    Really hope that he can keep his form for the Giro.
    Now lets hope for the last 2 stages!

  • http://sarthe sunday67

    top man , christian good ride , just two days to go , top job , my be pay rise my boy .

  • Lozy

    Heck yeah!! I got the update from Twitter at work and I about flipped out! Great work today!! Let’s bring it home the next 2 days guys!! Congrats Christian!!

  • Joe Christian

    Great Job! Just like J.V. has said, “the wins will come” . Now you guys need to pull a rabbit out of the hat and find a way to get the G.C. win.

    Keep charging………………….

    Joe

  • Josep

    Congratulations Christian !!!.

  • shelby111

    AWESOME JOB CHRISTIAN!!!

  • Craig

    Nice! Good to see CVV on the podium! Looking forward to seeing what happens over the next stages. Well done!

  • http://www.tadashitamura.com Kevin Tamura

    Lordy, he just served everyone a plate of Argyle kick-ass.

  • http://www.webtrainer.nl Adrie

    Christian, congratulations with your victory in the individual time trail. I’m glad the weights, time trail training, improved TT position (thanks to Allen Lim) and your race schedule did bring you to this result. The best luck in the fight for the last seconds in the General Classification.

  • Jeff

    Outstanding. We all know Voeckler has heart from his time in TdF yellow a few years ago, but get the Argyle dancing around him like concentric circles and I bet he gets dizzy and falls off his bike.

    No mercy and Give ‘em Hell Boys.

  • J. Schafer

    Very proud of CVV and all the boys! Go get that 1″!!!

  • D Vaughters

    Hey,Hey Christian !

  • Jagged Jeff

    Ride on with your bad self! Who’s Lean? Who’s Mean? Who’s a GC crushing machine? Nice Ride!!

  • Kelly U

    This is so cool I’d be swearing if I didn’t think that it’d get my comment moderated.

  • http://www.chaoscyclingclub.com/forum Jamie Naragon

    Awesome job by VV! He’s really coming into great form and is on the way to some great victories throughout the season!

  • Kenneth Harry

    ooohhh rrraaaayyyy!!!giddyup-n-go!!!!!

  • Robbie

    You guys are awesome! I ate chipotle today in your honor! Way to kick ass, take names, and whoop that trick.

  • Gianni A

    Outstanding! Way to go Christian. It’s time for the Argyle to get medieval on Voekler. Do it!!!
    Victory is yours.

  • http://www.sambrower.com Sam

    way to go CVV from another kid from the chi-town suburbs…good luck in grabing the overall victory, we’re rooting for you!

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  • Tom

    Great job, CVV! You continue to make us Lemonters proud!