Grand Tours 2010 Bbox Bouygues Telecom season




1 grand tours

1.1 giro d italia
1.2 tour de france
1.3 vuelta españa





grand tours
giro d italia

bbox 1 of 22 teams in giro d italia. sent squad headed voeckler , there express goal of trying stage wins. team not competitive in giro s opening stages in netherlands. did not have riders contesting sprint finishes first 2 road race stages, , highest-placed man in overall standings prior transfer italy bonnet in 40th place. fortunes changed little in stage 4 team time trial, when finished 17th.


in stage 5, arashiro instigated day s principal breakaway 25 km (16 mi) stage. , 2 of 3 riders first broke away him stayed away finish line, coming home 4 seconds ahead of fast-charging peloton had mistimed catch. arashiro last of 3 in sprint stage win, received praise combativity on stage in starting break , in pacemaking, helped them stay away. next day s stage featured depleted group sprint high stage placings available peloton after two-man breakaway stayed away finish. bonnet took sixth in stage.


the team quiet until stage 12. field sprint seemingly shaping stage neared conclusion, counterattack made day s principal breakaway caught got ten riders finish line 10 seconds ahead of peloton. voeckler made split, missed out on stage win, finishing second filippo pozzato in sprint. voeckler said after stage satisfied ride though narrowly missed victory, stating pozzato better sprinter. next day s stage featured winning morning breakaway. claude part of group, though seventh out of 9 in sprint stage win.


the team claimed win of giro in queen stage, stage 20. tschopp , gilberto simoni day s principal escape group. after tschopp beat simoni top of passo di gavia prize money went along winning cima coppi, giro s tallest climb, rode aggressive descent of mountain , out front entirety of stage. tschopp climbed passo del tonale alone en route victory 16 seconds ahead of cadel evans in second place. first swiss rider win stage @ giro since alex zülle in 1998. team s highest-placed rider in final overall standings voeckler in 23rd. finished tenth in trofeo fast team standings , 15th in trofeo super team.


tour de france

the bbox team car @ start of stage 1 in rotterdam.


voeckler led squad sent tour de france, again seeking stage wins. squad combative in tour s flat stages, making morning breakaways in stages 2, 3, 4, , 6. turgot took fifth place in back-to-back field sprints, in stages 5 , 6. after taking mountains points in morning breakaways in several previous stages, charteau took polka-dot jersey after stage 9, again making breakaway. 1 stayed away decide stage, though charteau did not contest sprint, finishing in fifth place 2 seconds behind sandy casar, luis león sánchez, , damiano cunego. lost jérôme pineau next day, took again after stage 12. point on, there not competition in mountains classification. race s elite riders took of more difficult climbs, col du tourmalet, while other breakaways involving riders had not yet scored many points took place on other climbs. christophe moreau came close challenging charteau jersey, charteau clinched after stage 17 when , moreau both failed score further – none of stages after 17 had categorized climbs, charteau needed finish race win classification, did.


the team had consecutive stage wins in race s final week. voeckler soloed victory in stage 15 port de balès , arrived in bagneres-de-luchon comfortable margin of minute , half on remnants of morning breakaway had left behind , 3 minutes on race s elite riders. next day, fédrigo won in pau on stage had been targeted lance armstrong. 8 of 9 riders breakaway, fédrigo , armstrong among them, finished after riding on hors catégorie col du tourmalet , col d aspin climbs. charteau team s highest-placed rider in paris, finishing tour in 44th place, @ deficit of 1 hour, 24 minutes, , 12 seconds tour champion alberto contador. squad tenth in teams classification.


vuelta españa

bbox attended vuelta españa, shut out of noteworthy results. tschopp s third place breakaway in stage 8 on xorret del catí time finished in top ten of stage. squad s highest-placed rider in final overall standings sprick in 54th, @ deficit of hour , 45 minutes vuelta champion vincenzo nibali. squad 19th in teams classification, better small spanish teams andalucía–cajasur , footon–servetto–fuji.








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