Sarthe ITT: Christian wins! 2nd in GC by 1″!
Author: Dan Martin9 Apr
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 
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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25 Responses for "Sarthe ITT: Christian wins! 2nd in GC by 1″!"
Congrats to CVV and the team. I am sure this will be the first of many to come. . .
WAY TO GO C!!!
atta boy!
Way to go Slipstream and our homeboy Christian! I guess all those one-legged leg presses paid off! Keep it up!
Congratulations! Great race by Christian
Really hope that he can keep his form for the Giro.
Now lets hope for the last 2 stages!
top man , christian good ride , just two days to go , top job , my be pay rise my boy .
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!!
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
Congratulations Christian !!!.
AWESOME JOB CHRISTIAN!!!
Nice! Good to see CVV on the podium! Looking forward to seeing what happens over the next stages. Well done!
Lordy, he just served everyone a plate of Argyle kick-ass.
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.
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.
Very proud of CVV and all the boys! Go get that 1″!!!
Hey,Hey Christian !
Ride on with your bad self! Who’s Lean? Who’s Mean? Who’s a GC crushing machine? Nice Ride!!
This is so cool I’d be swearing if I didn’t think that it’d get my comment moderated.
Awesome job by VV! He’s really coming into great form and is on the way to some great victories throughout the season!
ooohhh rrraaaayyyy!!!giddyup-n-go!!!!!
You guys are awesome! I ate chipotle today in your honor! Way to kick ass, take names, and whoop that trick.
Outstanding! Way to go Christian. It’s time for the Argyle to get medieval on Voekler. Do it!!!
Victory is yours.
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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Great job, CVV! You continue to make us Lemonters proud!
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