Written by PRS at 18:55 19/8-2012
Wow
Despite a very average review pretour results for team PRS were exceptional.
Having struggled in season 20 in the US team PRS took a new approach to the tour with hard working youngster Sten leading the team in both climbing and time trialling.
The prologue was the only success the previous seasons with a couple of guys coming top 10, however, the best that could be managed this year was 14th by Sten. This seemed to show the ways of things to come in the tour, however, it did put Sten in 3rd place for the white jersey.
The second stage was built for a sprint and Idefonso delivered with a second place, also a top 15 for Donald. This left Sten in 14th and Idefonso in second for the SC.
The first climbing stage was always going to be a matter of damage control and showed with idefonso rolling in 23rd and Sten 27th. Sten lost 3mins to the GC but was still within a minute for the young rider jersey with a TT to come, belief started to enter team PRSs ranks.
The next stage, final and king, climbing stage was a wonder for team PRS with Sten dragging himself around the course and coming in 14th. This left him exactly 1 minute behind in the YRC with the time trial to come.
The TT was exceptional not for placement but for time with Sten coming through in 25th but he overturned the minute advantage of Declan Peters (SK12KOTH) to 50 seconds lead and the white jersey for Team PRSs Palmares.
Still there was work to do with the final sprint stage and a possible sprinters jersey up for grabs. idefonso worked hard for it but could only manage second in both the stage and the SC, still more than was anticipated and a particularly good result.
Overall Pete the team manger was very pleased by the teams performance and is now looking forward to working hard in div 3.
Other results of note this season include
1 victory in Al Qasim
and 3 second places
All for Idefonso
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Well done. Always nice to add a jersey to your trophee hall
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