Apparently Grischa Janorschke the NetApp rider who crashed spectacularly just as he entered the Arenberg Trench during last Sunday's Paris-Roubaix, didn't come out unscathed as was originally thought. Unfortunately, Grischa sustained a some shattering of his left elbow and a fracture of his left ulna (arm) near the elbow. This was his thrid major crash of the year after crashing out of the Ronde van Drenthe just over a month before P-R with a broken collarbone, and then as a result of the finish line mayhem at the Scheldeprijs crashed and got three stitches in the back of his head. Also, in contrast to speculation about the crash being a result of slipping on the damp cobbles, the current reason for the crash is Janorschke's tire blowing out

Here: is a link to the original article by Chris, and the video that goes along with it (by Chummy93)

Crash Paris Roubaix 2012 Trouée d´Arenberg (via alfredorodiaz)

Notice how in this video you can see the NetApp rider hold his left arm.

Dear Superted, Ursula, and other to whom it may concern,

The VDS game, and the road cycling season has been over for about a month now. During this month I've been thinking about some changes to the VDS points system. These new points systems, don't have to be adopted to the letter, or even adopted at all.

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This shall be the second installment of the five riders series that Chris challenged us to write. Therefore, I responded with a post about David Moncoutie, Johnny Hoogerland, Romain Feillu,Thomas Voeckler, and Jimmy Casper.

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First Weeklong Stage-race, . Anyways, First You breed a lot of Hamsters has a total of 9 riders starting:

Samuel Sanchez

Luis Leon Sanchez

Bjorn Leukmans

David Moncoutie

Stijn Devolder

Romain Feillu

Lieuwe Westra

Chris Sorensen

Jussi Veikannen

Personally I suspect that I won't do too much, maybe a stage win, and 5 placings, plus one maybe two top ten placings in the GC.

And now for everybody else's teams!

Startlists: Here, and Here

Nibali: pop  Jrod: POP  Menchov: BOOOOOM. This basically sums up the stage for you except for Mosquera's big attack and a few other minor things, so below join me for some more speculation disguised as analysis.

First, does anyone here understand why Rabo put in all that work for nothing, personally I would think that Menchov might start feeling the knee before the official start of the climb. Second, ANTON IS THE MAN TO BEAT at this point at least and if not it's only because he spent too much energy. Anyway on the subject of the Menchov explosion, he finished in 55th 5:05 down on Anton and even more pathetic Gustav Larsson finished 2:06 ahead of Menchov. Third, Tondo looked really good, although I hope he doesn't do a Giro again. While I'm on the subject of solid performances why not talk about Tommy D who last year puked on Sierra Nevada (correct me if I'm wrong), but this year is hanging in eleventh twelfth  place. Lastly, give it up for Marzio Bruseign, he was hanging around at xorret del cati and got fourth today and I predict it will be another top ten grand tour finish for him.

If there's anything to add I'll add, if there's anything to subtract I'll do that

Results below the fold.

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And so they have reached the end of the first Mountain stage of the Vuelta with a normal winner David Moncoutie, who put an attack just at the right time to shed everybody. Whereas last year there was the enourmous blow up of Rein Tarrame who finished 9:00 minuets down and Gustavo Veloso's suprise win. Look below the fold for some sundry analysis

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First all of this is based off of cycling news so if the information I have based these conclusions off of is false or inaccurate do say so.

David Moncoutie has been having good results on all of the mountain stages finishing in the final group on each of them and he got third on gc only five seconds out of first. Seems to me like he's starting to get on form for a run at a third straight kom jersey.  Darn good timing considering the vuelta starts two weeks from today. Also, Marco Pinotti did the same except he flopped on the final day. However, he still might regain his Giro form and quietly get a top fifteen on GC.  In non-vuelta prep analysis Vacansoliel has continued to win shit small races with Wouter Poels nearly getting 1st place on GC with the same time as Haimar Zubeldia and a stage. Also, Romain Felliu got a stage and the points classification. Nice bit of vindication for Vacansoliel.

You can read the articles: prolouge  stage 1  stage 2  stage 3  stage 4

Oscarito is Gone or so says CN! I guess this means that so many VDS teams are so screwed for the Giro at least, and if you had Pelli or Benna or Tadjec all I am able to say to that is Oy Vey!! Not good, but probably means that Ale-Jet is the big favorite to win the Maglia rosse passione, although Greipel could mount a good challenge if he doesn't leave early, and then there is Farrar. (All analysis is just to fill up the 70 word requirement.)

So, who do you want to be the next person to have a live chat with. If Chris and/or Gavia take this seriously then the winner will be invited to have a live chat with us. Notice there will be no options for people like Fabian Cancellara, and Tom Boonen, Alberto Contador, Andy and/or Frank Schleck, or Cadel Evans, because unfortunately being realistic it's very unlikely that they would have a live chat here.