Martin Hvastija: We can't expect to compete with the best from PT and PCT, but we'll try to be aggressive and score a few points.


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Marko Polanc: Our goal for this race is quite simple. Win and have fun! I'm sure Osorio, Ruiz and Primozic will have no problems integrating into the team for this race.


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Goal	Outcome	Rider
Breakaway appearance	Success	Juan Pedro Lopez

Race score: N/A

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Marko Polanc: We come here fully behind Lahcen to compete for stage wins and to try and win the points classification. Winning the opening stage is our goal and would set us on our way. Izidor and Matic will target the stage 3 time-trial. Finally Tadej, Abolfazl and Andrea are free to attack the hilly and mountain stages.


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Very cool lineup! Sending Saber is bold, but could really pay off. There have been some dominating sprinter's performances in ToA history, and one from Saber could be huge for your promotion push. Multiple stage wins and green are very possible, as I doubt many are sending as high quality a sprinter as Saber there. I know I'm not. Of course, it's definitely risky though with how fickle sprints can be.

Personally, I'm happy to see you're not bringing a true GC guy. Although with how well Pogocar has raced, he has to be a dark horse for white.

Yes, spending 21 RDs sending Saber to ToA is a risk. I think he should be the #1 sprinter at the race, which is the complete opposite of every other race. So I'm putting a lot of faith in my lead out riders.

I definitely struggled with the idea of sending Alarcon, but in the end he's had a good season anyway, so I don't think I made a big mistake. Pogacar for sure won't win white, but he might be 2nd there. In any case I hope he goes for breakaways.

Second bbl in thinking that it's an interesting line up for sure with certain riders filling niches which might be empty. Hope Saber can score big on the flats and think Pogacar is a fair shout for the U25s. Gilanippor and Zordan should be decebt breakaway contenders as well.

Gorazd Stangelj: This is our 3rd sponsor goal of the season. The whole squad is behind Eddy in order to achieve a good GC result. Gasper and Miha will try to get in the breakaway on the two flat stages.


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A race (partly) on home soil, this has to give a boost to the squad. Curious to see how Beltran will cope with the expectations

Ideal race for EAB, always nice to have one of those in your focus region. Hope he delivers

It's Saber, you know the story


I hope so. I certainly consider this a home race ahead of a certain french named race. I'd take a repeat of what Beltran did the last two years here, but it's daunting going up against PT teams.


I wouldn't go as far as saying it's ideal. It's pretty good, but the competition is always top notch. Hopefully he does well enough to hit the sponsor goal

Cedevita didn't make a good start to the race with both Izidor Penko and Matic Groselj not doing well in the opening prologue. No breakaway appearance on stage 2 which went to the sprinters. Matija Mestric entered the breakaway in stage 3. He had a good ride and managed to finish in one of the bigger groups with some favourites. Him and Miha Poljanec were the only Cedevita riders in the top 50. Stage 4 was labeled as the harder of the two cobbled stages, but it didn't work out that way. It was a quiet stage, Matija and Miha both finished in the main group.

Stage 5 was the hilly one and with David Gaudu and Olivier Le Gac far behind in GC, both got into the breakaway. Le Gac supported his compatriot as Gaudu collected many KOM. Enough in fact to win that classification. Gaudu continued solo as the last survivor from the original breakaway in search of a stage win to boot. He finished 2nd in the end. The final stage was a sprint stage where Cedevita riders missed the split and lost some GC place. Still the race was a big success due to Gaudu's highlight of winning the King of the Mountains, the first in the team's history!

Goal	Outcome	Rider	Result
Top 50 GC	Success	Miha Poljanec	27th
Top 50 GC	Success	Matija Mestric	40th
Top 3 KOM	Success	David Gaudu	1st
Top 3 Stage	Success	David Gaudu	2nd (Stage 5)

Race score: 8/10

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Pos	Last		Team	Total	RD	PpRD	Proj
1	2		Aker - MOT	3147	137	22,97	4020
2	1		Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff	2940	155	18,97	3320
3	11		Los Pollos Hermanos	2870	160	17,94	3140
4	9		cycleYorkshire	2816	162	17,38	3042
5	10		Polar	2793	142	19,67	3442
6	3		Bralirwa - Stevens	2698	150	17,99	3148
7	5		Binance Cycling	2657	164	16,2	2835
8	12		Duolingo	2656	123	21,59	3778
9	7		Red Bull Zalgiris	2404	157	15,31	2679
10	6		Cedevita	2296	122	18,82	3294
11	13		Team UBS	2207	136	16,23	2840
12	8		Assa Abloy	2196	151	14,54	2545
13	4		Carlsberg - Danske Bank	2160	128	16,88	2954
14	14		Project: Africa	2136	145	14,73	2578
15	15		Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam	2092	133	15,73	2753
16	17		Minions	1954	154	12,69	2221
17	24		Kraftwerk Man Machine	1946	135	14,41	2522
18	18		Sauber Petronas Racing	1802	141	12,78	2237
19	19		Jura - Fiat	1793	142	12,63	2210
20	16		Philips - Force India	1693	141	12,01	2102
21	22		Podium Ambition	1663	139	11,96	2093
22	25		Voyagin - Bird	1492	127	11,75	2056
23	23		Tryg - Ritter Sport	1488	129	11,53	2018
24	20		Indosat Ooredoo	1445	127	11,38	1992
25	21		Carrefour - ESPN	1365	130	10,5	1838
26	26		Eurosport x GCN	1174	141	8,33	1458

Update #5 covers a total of 8 Cedevita races through July and August. We drop down from 6th to 10th in the ranking with some of the period's races not best suited to our riders. Here is how it went.

We had great success last year in Torshavn with a late attack last year, but barely featured this time. Vineyards was an up and down, mostly down race. Abolfazl Gilanipoor saved us with his best race of the season, while Jose Alarcon barely made the top 50. Lithuania was the big race of the month. The sponsor goal was a top 5 place and Eddy Beltran did that by finishing 4th, but it was a worse result than the two previous years. Betonexpressz was another missed opportunity as we can't seem to make our mark on flat classics. But Alarcon finished the month on a high note with 5th place in the mountains of Andorra.

August has us start in Benelux, a race with little expectations, but we came away with a good return mostly thanks to David Gaudu winning the KOM classification. Sakartvelo was a nice race for us last year, but Gilanipoor wasn't at his best and finished outside the top 10. The one chance to make a big impact this month was the Clasica San Sebastian. Beltran was on his best form on the hard Basque climbs as he finished 4th in a group of elite puncheurs.

Given the races remaining the team's ppRD looks great, but we know that's a misleading number. However finishing in the top 15 of the ranking which is our goal is well within our capabilities. That's what we have to strive for in the last part of the season.

Eduard Alexander Beltran	Cedevita	852
Jose Alarcon	Cedevita	375
Lahcen Saber	Cedevita	303
David Gaudu	Cedevita	190
Tadej Pogacar	Cedevita	159
Izidor Penko	Cedevita	98
Abolfazl Gilanipoor	Cedevita	67
Dusan Rajovic	Cedevita	54
Havard Blikra	Cedevita	29
Miha Poljanec	Cedevita	28
Matej Vysna	Cedevita	20
Michael Christodoulos	Cedevita	19
Ivan Siric	Cedevita	17
Andres Camilo Ardila	Cedevita	17
Gasper Katrasnik	Cedevita	16
Andrea Zordan	Cedevita	11
Matija Mestric	Cedevita	10
Matic Groselj	Cedevita	9
Olivier Le Gac	Cedevita	8
Santiago Buitrago	Cedevita	4
Jefferson Cepeda Hernandez	Cedevita	4
Juan Pedro Lopez	Cedevita	2
Goran Antonijevic	Cedevita	2
Alexander Evans	Cedevita	2

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Gorazd Stangelj: Matej feels he's underperformed and underdelivered this season. This is a unique opportunity for him to lead the team and score a good result. We also have hopes that the younger riders do well in the U25 classification.


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Goal	Outcome	Rider
Top 15	Failure	Gasper Katrasnik	19th

Race score: 4/10

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Balkans! A race Cedevita can't "escape" from, neither would they want to. It's always an important race for the team and its sponsors.

Stage 1 which often went to the breakaway actually ended in a reduced sprint this time. Eduard Beltran didn't sprint, but made sure he was comfortably in the main group, thanks to some great work by Miha Poljanec. Cedevita were without a sprinter so not involved in stage 2. The fireworks came on stage 3. The favourites started attacking each other on the penultimate climb. A reduced group came to the top of that climb and there is where Miguel Angel Lopez and Beltran attacked over the top. Beltran was the more aggressive rider as he gapped Lopez on the small downhill, going solo onto the final uphill. From there the Colombian accelerated again, no one was catching him. He won his first stage at Balkans International and took the GC lead!




Stage 4 was a long undulating stage that Cedevita and others were happy enough to give to the breakaway. In stage 5 the breakaway was caught before the final hill in Dubrovnik. Beltran responded to an early attack from Sagan, but he ended up paying for that effort as he couldn't keep up with the favourites. He had to drop back to limit his losses as Lopez won the stage and took over the GC. Beltran dropped down to 4th, 21'' behind. Stage 6 was an easier stage with some small bumps near the end. Beltran tried to surprise with another attack on a downhill, but was caught about 1 km from the finish and finished 13th on the stage.




Stage 7 was a flat stage won from the breakaway last year by Poljanec. Cedevita kept their rider back this time and the stage ended in a sprint finish. The final stage is the longest and hardest of the race. A strong breakaway looked good for a while, but they didn't stand a chance with attacks from the peloton already starting at around 20 km from the finish. Beltran was active from the off, first following a move by Padun. Beltran also tried to attack with Formolo, then Lutsenko tried, but all these attacks were brought back. Padun attacked again, but only succeeded in catching the final breakaway riders. Things calmed down until Lopez attacked for good with 600 m left, Beltran in his wheel. It became clear these two were the strongest and would battle it out for the stage win. Lopez had a small edge and kept that edge until the finish to win the stage. Beltran was 2nd and still with a 10'' gap to Buchmann and Kwiatkowski. That along with the bonus seconds propelled Beltran to finish 2nd in the GC behind Lopez. A tremendous race with two stage podiums and 2nd place overall!

Goal	Outcome	Rider	Result
Top 10 GC	Success	Eduard Alexander Beltran	2nd
Top 3 Stage	Success	Eduard Alexander Beltran	1st, 2nd (Stages 3, 8)

Race score: 10/10

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Goal	Outcome	Rider	Result
Top 10 GC	Failure	Matej Vysna	14th
Top 5 U25	Success	Santiago Buitrago	1st
Top 5 U25	Success	Andres Camilo Ardila	3rd
Top 5 U25	Success	Juan Pedro Lopez	4th
Top 5 U25	Success	Kristjan Hocevar	5th

Race score: 5/10

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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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Martin Hvastiija: We will try our best to look after Lahcen and hope the race comes down to a sprint finish. We would also like to send a rider in the breakaway.


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Gorazd Stangelj: The late season hilly classics are always an important part for us and our leader Eddy. We have a young team here, but we will try to support him well as we build form towards our final goal, Giro dell'Emilia.


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