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cervelo test team castelli simon gerrans, News - April 23, 2009

Gerrans 8th at La Flèche Wallonne!

Cervélo TestTeam’s Simon Gerrans provided another top ten finish in the ‘Ardennes classics’ coming in 8th place only 11 seconds after the winner Davide Rebellin (Serramenti PVC). The fast Aussie comment after the race, “Yea, I am pretty happy with a top ten, I sort of sat back and gambled a bit on the groups coming back to the finish because there was a lot of attacking in the last 40 or 50 kilometers. There were a lot of groups going off the front so I just tried to sit back with the favorites. Then coming into the last climb up the Mur, I wasn’t too badly placed though I would have liked to have been a few positions better off, more in front, because I kind of got stuck behind a few guys in the middle of the climb so I couldn’t accelerate when the front guys went. But once I got through that little bit of traffic, I accelerated as hard as I could and moved into eighth position, Ya, so the legs are pretty good, I am fairly happy, As for Liège – Bastogne – Liège, I will see how I recover from today, I think after ...

Claudia Häusler Third at La Flèche Wallonne Féminine

Dutchwoman Marianne Vos (DSB Bank) attacked inside of 200 meters remaining on the Mur de Huy, sprinting to her third-career victory at the La Flèche Wallonne Femenine. Claudia Häusler was the top Cervélo TestTeam finisher in third place. “We were planning to control the race from the start,” said Sports Director, Manel Lacambra, “to save Claudia Häusler and Emma Pooley for a strong finish, but we were forced to change our plans when Emma had a bad crash after only 10km. Unfortunately, the crash took Emma out of the race and she had to be sent to the hospital. “So, instead of controlling the race, we were responding to attack after attack. In the middle of the race, Claudia got away on a break with Luise Keller from Columbia. They got as far as 40s out before Team Nurnberger Versicherung closed the gap. In the end, Claudia Häusler and Christiane Soeder (Cervélo TestTeam) were at the front in a group of 15 riders, and when Häusler attacked, Marianne Vos and Emma Johansson went with her. Vos took the win, with Johansson in second and Claudia Häusler took third in a sprint finish. It was a tough race with only five ...

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cervelo test team haussler uci, News - April 21, 2009

Haussler to retain the top spot of the UCI world rankings as Nummer Eins!

Even though he didn’t race this weekend, Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo TestTeam), retained the top spot as Nummer Eins in the UCI world rankings after a fantastic first few months of the season. Individual rankings as of April 20: 1. Haussler 197 2. Contador 188 3. Davis 183 4. Sanchez 169 5. Colom 145 6. Hushovd 140 7. Pippo 130 8. Cav 110 9. Gilbert 110 10. Scarponi 107

The Netherlands will host the three big Tours in 2010.

The Netherlands will host the three big Tours in 2010. After Germany withdrew its candidacy on Thursday to host the start of the Tour de France, the Dutch cities of Utrecht and Rotterdam were the only two remaining candidates. In October, the organisers will decide which city will host the Tour. The Netherlands is already to host the start of the 2010 Tour of Spain from Assen in August, the first overseas launch of the race in more than 12 years. And, likewise Amsterdam is to host the start of next year’s Giro d’Italia.

Impressive week for the Cervélo TestTeam

The past week has been very very successful for the Cervèlo TestTeam with Hushovd’s podium place at Paris-Roubaix and Haussler’s impressive ride in cycling’s toughest one-day classics which also made him the new leader of the UCI World Ranking list. Canadian Dominque Rollin steered clear of the nasty crash 200m before the finish to earn his first European podium at Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen. If that wasn’t enough, the women’s Cervélo TestTeam had two victories when Claudia Häussler won the Rund um Schönaich (Germany), and the Austrian national TT champion Christina Soeder got her first time-trail victory of the season in Hungary. Both the men and women teams are now ranked second in the UCI wold ranking list. Next one up is the Amstel Gold Race on Sunday, April 19th. The race is characterized by its 31 climbs over the 258.6 kilometers of narrow crazy roads which will be packed with cycling-crazed spectators. The Cauberg comes each time in the three final circuits and leaves the riders with no energy. Another hard one is the Eyserbosweg where the race really develops from there. It is short, but it starts off with a steep gradient of around 20 percent. With there being no ...