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| Tom Veelers |
A necklace of pearls of
different colors: white, yellow, red, blue, green. Intensely watching
you can separate them and apreciate the nuance. Confused in distance
and in the night they are just a bright line between the sky and the
sea. Or better: you see just it and know that over is sky and under
is sea. In the sunset you could get more dettails but they are all
gone. Frte dei Marmi by night, pontile. I watch the night while
around elegantly dressed people walk up and down distractly watching
paesans fishing.
Le Tour has been all in
the sprint. This time Greipel beated Cavendish in a direct clash.
Fabian Cancellara entered – again – the Tour history as the
not-winner who wore the Yellow longer. Sad news: Rob Goris' death
(Accent Job rider, 30 yo, his heart stopped). Annoying news: Lance
Armostrong & co. (USADA/riders deal to get delayed confessions
and a delayed shortned bann?). If you are interested you can find
plenty of infos (or rumors) everywhere.
I am interested in Tom
Veelers. Like a pearl in the peloton you can see if you intensely
watch, Veelers is a very good rider, talented, promising, already
keeping his promises. Dutch, 28 yo, raced for Rabo continental
and in 2006 won U23 Paris–Roubaix. Professional rider with Shimano
since 2008 he collected every year some nice results (check his
palmares on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Veelers).
Last man of Marcel Kittel, he became Argo's first sprinter after
Kittel's abandon and he's doing well: 4th in Stage 2 Visé
(Bel) - Tournai (Bel), 3th in Stage 4th Abbeville – Rouen, 6th in
stage 5 Rouen-Saint-Quentin when he has been violently accused by a
furious Tyler Farrar.
According to
http://blog.thenewstribune.com/adventure/tag/tom-veelers/#storylink=cpy
"U.S. sprinter Tyler Farrar
finished the fifth stage of the Tour de France bloodied and angry,
and had to be pulled away from the rider he blamed for causing his
third crash in as many days. Before stunned onlookers, Farrar dropped
his bicycle and stormed into the Argos-Shimano team bus of rival
sprinter Tom Veelers, shouting “you don’t do that to someone.”
According to
Veelers replied: "I can understand when you crash you're really
upset about it, but I think when he sees the pictures he'll know what
happened. I was sitting there and Alessandro Petacchi (of Lampre) was
steering in and I think Tyler broke his front wheel on the rear
derailleur of Petacchi. In the sprint it's very hectic and
everybody's fighting for his place. Nobody does such things on
purpose, and he knows that as well". Petacchi also confirmed.
Involved in the crash also Sagan, who finally fell, and Greipel, who
managed to stay on his bike and even won the stage. Chapeau! Just one
word about Tayler Farrar: I'm sorry for him, really sorry, beacuse
after Wouter Wylandt's death he is no more the same. He was is best
friend, his training mate. Since that day Farrar can't sprint
anymore. That can maybe explain is rage. Not justify. I really hope
he will find again his way.
About his new, unespected role in the Tour Tom
Veelers said: "It's too bad that Marcel had a problem with his
health but it's given me my chance and I've been encouraged by my
performances. We had no plan B, we never thought Marcel would fall
ill. It's really too bad. I'm in good shape so I'm looking forward to
Saturday's stage. I just hope to be in the grupetto."
So...allez Tom!
BDW
Note the splendid performace of Mollema so far: 11th also in GC.
Stage
| 1 | André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Belisol Team | 4:41:30 | |
| 2 | Matthew Harley Goss (Aus) Orica GreenEdge Cycling Team | ||
| 3 | Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank | ||
| 4 | Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne | ||
| 5 | Mark Cavendish (GBr) Sky Procycling | ||
| 6 | Tom Veelers (Ned) Argos-Shimano | ||
| 7 | Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Katusha Team | ||
| 8 | Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre - ISD | ||
| 9 | Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | ||
| 10 | Yohann Gene (Fra) Team Europcar | ||
| 11 | Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team |
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