Grégoire hangs on to the overall race lead Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ) pushed across the line in second ahead of Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën Team) Cosnefroy and Askey bumped in the final right-hand corner with the Frenchman complaining with a raised arm for the disruption in his momentum that left him in third position I got blocked in the sprint and hit the barriers with my front wheel There were bonus seconds in play at the finish I am frustrated because I had the legs to win it is still a podium," a frustrated Cosnefroy said Race leader Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) finished safely in the front group to retain the yellow jersey now 19 seconds over Cosnefroy and 26 seconds over Michael Storer (Groupama-FDJ) in third A breakaway controlled the stage for 150km but the remaining trio from a five-rider lead group withered away just 4.5km from the finish to set up the bunch sprint Wednesday’s flat run from Excideuil to Trélissac included four intermediate sprints and a trio of small third-category climbs where organisers provided KOM points The distance between the two cities is only 30km but the route looped through the narrow country roads of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region for 185.6km the composition of the breakaway was set with Johan Jacobs (Movistar Team) Andrea Pietrobon (Eolo-Kometa Cycling Team) and the Van Rysel-Roubaix Lille Métropole pair Tom Mainguenaud and Kenny Molly Arkéa-Samsic Groupama-FDJ beginning to add a higher pace at the front of the peloton circuitous route the five worked together well until Dorn accelerated with 30km to go and sprinted to claim the Corrèze trophy sprint in Cornille Pietrobon was then dropped from the front group and rejoined the peloton with 25km to go Race leader Grégoire remained protected by Groupama-FDJ riding at the front of the peloton and bringing the margin down to 1:55 On the clockwise loop across the final 2.4km climb at Côte de Sarliac the four leaders saw their margin dissolve to under 40 seconds Intermarché-Circus-Wanty driving the peloton With 13km of flat terrain remaining until the final uphill kick in Trélissac the peloton had the remaining trio in their sights and made the catch with just under 4.5km to go. Results powered by FirstCycling a sports marketing and public relations agency which managed projects for Tour de Georgia a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast) Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France) On Wednesday, Abou Diaby played in a football match Following 17 months sidelined with the latest of a laundry list of injuries, angular midfielder Diaby returned to first-team football during Marseille's 2-0 victory over fourth-tier amateur side Trelissac FC at the Stade Chaban-Delmas and considering the tattered condition of Trelissac's pitch though the sight of him on Marseille's bench was just another step towards a highly anticipated return The round of 16 victory sees the south coast side advance to the quarterfinals to face Granville with Michel's lot looking to win a record 11th Coupe de France trophy Football's equivalent of a mannequin constructed with kindling running through traffic two questions have become synonymous with Diaby's career: when and for how long Wednesday was Diaby's third competitive match in three years on the heels of missing the entirety of last season for Arsenal, with the Auxerre academy product's return to fitness the symbol of a conquest for footballers whose careers have been cut short by injury whose decorated career was halted prematurely when the Dutch practitioner of Total Football retired at 31 with ankle issues This is for France’s first football legend who hung up his 13-goal World Cup boots a month short of his 29th birthday with injury where he singed a two-year-deal in June 2014 and has since made 42 appearances for the Owls This is for Spurs legend and Arsenal rival Ledley King only to nix a career at 31 with chronic knee issues There’s a certain helplessness associated with recurring ailments an ambassador for Tottenham both as a level-headed centre-half and in retirement was the poster boy for a career sidetracked by injuries spoke highly of his skipper with a tone of resignment knowing there was only so much effort the London-born international could muster "There's no cure. There's no cartilage, nothing to operate on. It's just bone on bone. So it's just a question of managing it,” Redknapp told the Guardian in 2012 he mostly just goes to the gym to keep himself ticking over.” And that’s what presumably drives a footballer mad Diaby's career has become a venture coupled with pain and patience a hybrid of the Invicibles midfield wall of Gilberto Silva and his fellow angular tradesman of robust tackles Diaby was in the Wenger mould upon joining the club in 2006 "It’s one of the saddest moments for us at Arsenal not to have had the opportunity to get the best out of Abou Diaby because of injury," Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger said in July While some may confuse Wenger's words for that of a self-serving statement putting club first the Frenchman's relationship with the 16-time capped international was anything but Diaby, like current Gunner and fellow frequenter of the treatment table, Jack Wilshere has received the gaffer's support during long-term spells on the sidelines amid calls from some supporters to cut the debilitated loose "I’m very sad because this boy is a massive and a huge talent It’s sad as well because he didn’t deserve what he got It’s sad as well because he’s a very serious player." more concerned with exacting revenge on the Black Cats defender than his own health No other moment in Diaby's career was as emblematic of his stubbornness and fight and winger Georges-Kevin Nkoudou paired with the emergence of star striker Michy Batshuayi gave promise Vincent Labrune signed Diaby and his friend and countryman Lassana Diarra the last week of July two players whose careers were different versions of the same arc divided by parallel multiverse the other by trading the fringes of Europe’s biggest for the near-obscurity of Russia Diarra has been Marseille's midfield lynchpin appearing in 22 matches in all competitions for the Cote D'Azur outfit Two players who in the summer of 2015 were desperate for another chance: Diarra, playing five-a-side in his native Paris following a disastrous spell with football's answer to failed start-ups Anzhi Makhachkala and Lokomotiv Moscow a link finally severed from his decade-served footballing surrogate Wenger at the Arsenal For every dizzying dribble and incisive pass the modern footballer is a cliche of steadfastness and resolve where ambitions travel only as far as the body will allow and the lanky purveyor of panache and languid midfield movements may very well be approaching that moment himself "Did I consider quitting? Yes, sometimes it crossed my mind but my love of football is so big that I just couldn't quit," Diaby told reporters in 2014 Since his maiden brush with first-team football with Auxerre in 2004 Diaby has become synonymous with the plight of the oft-injured An autobiography that reads like a medical school textbook each stanza of Diaby's story is divided by convoluted descriptions of how bones heel and how ligament damage is repaired Football fans are hopeful that there is yet another episode in the narrative of the 29-year-old that Diaby's career has yet another chapter that ends for once not with heartbreak Abdoulaye Diaby scored for the hosts after 20 seconds following a goalkeeping howler by Yohann Pele and France midfielder Dimitri Payet equalised after 20 minutes for the visitors who had Japan right-back sent off in the closing stages of normal time. Pele made up for his early mistake by saving Diakhaby and Gnaleko's efforts before Lucas Perrin slotted the winning penalty. Marseille were knocked out of the competition by Anrezieux at the same stage last season. je suis satisfait et la qualification est quand même méritée" En vidéo : le résumé de la qualification du TFC contre Trélissac (1-3) Nos partenaires.cls-1{fill:#fff}Contact La rédaction Mentions légales Flux RSS Copyright © 2022 LesViolets.Com - Tous droits réservés.