Martin Hvastija: This is a completely wide open race for us. We will support Lahcen the best we can with our main goal being the three sprint stages.


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Great season so far with all three leaders performing to their potential. Cheshire should be another favourable race for Saber, as has been the case historically. Glad the team turned around the disappointment from last season

Pos	Last		Team	Total	RD	PpRD	Proj
1	5		Bralirwa - Stevens	1506	81	18,59	3253
2	1		Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff	1442	78	18,49	3236
3	3		Red Bull Zalgiris	1376	83	16,58	2902
4	9		Binance Cycling	1252	83	15,08	2639
5	12		Aker - MOT	1223	53	23,08	4039
6	21		Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam	1134	53	21,4	3745
7	7		cycleYorkshire	1067	61	17,49	3061
8	4		Team UBS	1019	63	16,17	2830
9	23		Cedevita	984	55	17,89	3131
10	15		Carlsberg - Danske Bank	970	61	15,9	2783
11	20		Minions	954	73	13,07	2287
12	6		Carrefour - ESPN	951	71	13,39	2343
13	2		Duolingo	950	54	17,59	3078
14	18		Assa Abloy	926	71	13,04	2282
15	13		Sauber Petronas Racing	910	66	13,79	2413
16	8		Project: Africa	866	70	12,37	2165
17	11		Los Pollos Hermanos	825	77	10,71	1874
18	25		Kraftwerk Man Machine	808	54	14,96	2618
19	10		Podium Ambition	799	63	12,68	2219
20	16		Polar	754	44	17,14	3000
21	19		Philips - Force India	733	69	10,62	1859
22	17		Tryg - Ritter Sport	696	64	10,88	1904
23	22		Indosat Ooredoo	651	49	13,29	2326
24	14		Eurosport x GCN	633	56	11,3	1978
25	26		Jura - Fiat	530	67	7,91	1384
26	24		Voyagin - Bird	506	62	8,16	1428

Ranking update #3 covers the entire month of march as well as a large portion of april. We used many race days in comparison to february and with good success we made a big jump in the rankings. For the moment we sit in 9th with a good ppRD, albeit not yet using any of our C2 race days. So how did we do it?

Lahcen Saber started his season in Barbados and Juarez and was the main reason we scored close to a 100 pts from those races. Pais Vasco was a debut race for Pogacar in which he won the U25 classification and we scored nicely as a team considering we had none of our leaders there. What were solid results for us to start the month, continued to improve with a 5th place for Eddy Beltran in Strade Bianche and 3rd place by Jose Alarcon in his first race in Eritrea.

Our results kept improving in april as Saber scored his first win of the season and 2nd place overall at the Baltic Chain Tour. We even won the team classification there thanks to some great performances in the opening prologue. We then followed that up with a whopping 299 points scored in Poland. Beltran won two stages and the points classification en route to finishing 2nd overall. Pogacar also added another U25 win to his "palmares" and we accomplished our first sponsor goal of the season.

This might have been our best stretch of any season so far. It won't be easy to keep up this level, but we have moved away from the relegation spots and we look forward to trying to stay in the top 15.

Eduard Alexander Beltran		Cedevita	479
Lahcen Saber		Cedevita	222
Jose Alarcon		Cedevita	83
Tadej Pogacar		Cedevita	74
David Gaudu		Cedevita	47
Michael Christodoulos		Cedevita	15
Ivan Siric		Cedevita	14
Andres Camilo Ardila		Cedevita	13
Havard Blikra		Cedevita	10
Matic Groselj		Cedevita	9
Abolfazl Gilanipoor		Cedevita	7
Santiago Buitrago		Cedevita	4
Miha Poljanec		Cedevita	3
Jefferson Cepeda Hernandez		Cedevita	2
Juan Pedro Lopez		Cedevita	2

Bostjan Mervar,
team representative and general manager of Cedevita

Yes, we've had a few very successful races already this season. Beltran looks really good so far. We'll see if he can keep it up.
Pogi has really done the best he could do in his first two races


I have my doubts Cheshire will be good for Saber after seeing the startlist
Early signs suggest we'll have a better season this time, but there is still a long way to go. I can't really complain so far

Cedevita were determined to get rid of the bad taste they got from this race last year. As such Miha Poljanec made his way into a breakaway of 17 riders. He was one of the strongest in the breakaway, still resisting the peloton in the final 25 km. Lots of individual attacks followed, but Eduard Beltran and David Gaudu were both well placed in the leading group. Gaudu helped to reel in the final attack and led the group on the final climb. The Frenchman followed every attack to the best of his ability and continued to do so all the way to the finish line. With that he finished a fantastic 8th on the day, while team leader Beltran wasn't quite as strong and was 12th. A great all round performance by the team. Last year's result is now out of the system, punctuated by David Gaudu's first signature result for Cedevita!

Goal	Outcome	Rider	Result
Top 15	Success	David Gaudu	8th
Top 15	Success	Eduard Alexander Beltran	12th

Race score: 9/10

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Gorazd Stangelj: This is a race to give the young riders more experience. A breakaway appearance would be nice, but there is no pressure on the lads here.


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Gorazd Stangelj: Our main focus is on stage 2 and we've brought most of our support riders to help Eddy Beltran win that stage. Hopefully that can set us up for a good GC result.


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Definitely looks like Chile is a race you want your GC rider to be able to handle hills well, so Beltran should be the one to beat. I’m just hoping at least one of my losers can hang on to his coattails long enough to finish in a decent gc position

I like the choice of sending EAB to Chile. Well, not from my point of view to score as many points as possible with Spilak, but from a managerial point of view that is

Also a very nice performance by Gaudu in Wallonie, and glad to see Beltran also improved on his performance there compared to last season.

Yeah, in theory Beltran should do well in Chile. We'll see how PCM thinks. Thanks for choosing our HQ as the place to voice your displeasure. We are honored


I guess I could've sent Alarcon to Chile instead, but I hope Beltran's hybrid ability works well. Gaudu's performance was definitely one of the nicest surprises this season so far

The race started with a large breakaway of 18 riders. Cedevita did their part in controlling the race. The breakaway was caught with 17 km to go. The peloton worked well together up to that point, but everything went haywire in the last kilometres. With the sprinter teams not in control the rouleur had their way. Two of them, Konychev and Yzeiraj went all the way to take the top two spots. Saber did his best from a bad situation to finish in 6th place, but perhaps the team needs to provide him with better support next time.

Goal	Outcome	Rider	Result
Top 10	Success	Lahcen Saber	6th

Race score: 8/10

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Goal	Outcome	Rider	Result
Top 10	Failure	Havard Blikra	18th

Race score: 2/10

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Marko Polanc: The first two stages are paramount for Alarcon and our GC goals in this race. Pogacar and Gilanipoor are his mountain domestiques and we hope they can add a bit of depth scoring. Katrasnik has the freedom to attack on the flat stages.


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Goal	Outcome	Rider	Result
Top 25 GC	Success	Lahcen Saber	25th
Stage win(s)	Failure	Lahcen Saber	3rd (Stage 5)

Race score: 3/10

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Goal	Outcome	Rider
Breakaway appearance	Success	Dusan Rajovic

Race score: N/A

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The Tour of Chile started with a breakaway of 4 riders surprising the peloton to take the stage win, when it was expected to go to the sprinters. Stage 2 was the stage Cedevita focused on with their leader Beltran. The team support was focused on this hilly stage with a downhill finish, but going into the final important 30 km of the stage, there was no one there to help the Colombian. Given the situation Beltran played it safe, but missed out on following Moscon's winning move. He finished 2nd on the stage with no time gained on the other climbers.




The key stage of the race is the short mountain stage 3. Similar to stage 2 attacks started from far out with 25 km to go before the main climb. Beltran followed an early move from Latour, before things came back together. This time he had Vysna and Blikra with him in the reduced peloton. Vysna did his best setting the tempo before Frankiny attacked. It was down to the favourites to chase, but with no one fully committing the Swiss rider was able to maintain a gap. With 2.5 km to go Beltran attacked from the group of favourites. No one could follow him, but he just came short of beating Frankiny to the line, having to settle for 2nd place again. The stage win gave Frankiny the GC, but Beltran finished 2nd in the GC and KOM and also won the points classification for his consistency over both stages. A terrific showing from the Colombian once again. Matej Vysna scored his first points of the year with 22nd in GC and David Gaudu finished 5th in the U25s.

Goal	Outcome	Rider	Result
Top 5 GC	Success	Eduard Alexander Beltran	2nd
Stage win(s)	Failure	Eduard Alexander Beltran	2nd (Stages 2, 3)

Race score: 10/10

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01.06 - 06.06		Tour of Japan	C2.1
09.06 - 10.06		Tour of East Java	2.PTHC
12.06 - 14.06		Ras Tailteann	C2.2

June is a lean month for us with 11 race days in total. At the start of the month we make a return to Japan in a bid to improve our results there from last year. Alarcon will lead us there as well as in East Java. It's our 3rd year in a row in Indonesia. We've already been at the top and bottom there, so we would settle for something solid in between this time. We end in Ireland where we'll give a chance to some of our developing riders to ride without pressure.

01.07		Torshavn GP	C1.1
11.07 - 17.07		Tour de Vineyards	2.HC
19.07 - 22.07		Tour of Lithuania	2.HC
23.07		Betonexpressz GP	C1.2
25.05 - 29.07		Tour d'Andorra	C2.1

July seems like the best month of the year to visit the Faroe Islands. We certainly enjoyed the Torshavn GP last year. Tour de Vineyards is a new race for us and the last time where we have to field a team time-trial unit. Then we move to Lithuania for a race we won last year and will be looking to do well in this year also. Betonexpressz GP in Hungary is another mandatory C2 race for us and another one where we don't feel much pressure to get a result. Lastly we go to Andorra to the most mountain race MG has to offer. We haven't been there since 2018 and we will try to do our best with Alarcon.


You can expect one more installment like this as the season progresses and the race calendar becomes fully revealed. This is part 3 of 4.

Bostjan Mervar,
team representative and general manager of Cedevita

Marko Polanc: We don't have a bonafide leader for this race, but some different riders to call upon given the situation. Gaudu could do well on the hills along with Zordan and Blikra. Penko and Christodoulos will focus on the TT, while Pogacar will try to do the best in both. We also want to be present in breakaways.


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Goal	Outcome	Rider	Result
Top 10 GC	Failure	Jose Alarcon	12th
Top 35 GC	Failure	Abolfazl Gilanipoor	38th

Race score: 4/10

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Marko Polanc: Jose Alarcon is our GC leader. We know he'll lose some time in the opening prologue, his crucial stage will be the mountain TT. We've brought support riders to help him on the hilly stages as we can't afford to lose time there.


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