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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 25-07-2015 20:21
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Not the outcome I was hoping for. Let's see what happens in the TTT now.
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| Roman |
Posted on 25-07-2015 20:34
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Well, at least Howard sprinted this time.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 25-07-2015 22:07
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| jph27 |
Posted on 25-07-2015 22:12
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That went far better than I expected. Not that it makes much difference to us in the grand scheme of things, what with us having no GC threat  |
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| ember |
Posted on 25-07-2015 22:15
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Wonder if that TTT was just what Phinney needed in his fight for the overall victory. But it will be difficult to keep the leader's jersey on the coming flat stage seeing Mohs only a second behind.
Expected TTT from us, hopefully that allows us to keep trying our luck in attacks/breakaway.
And thanks for the nice pace thinking of the reports in this race as well, SN and Selwink!
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| tastasol |
Posted on 25-07-2015 22:27
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Nice to see Venchi winning the TTT with my rider, Damien Howson, in the team.
Will be interesting to see if Phinney can hold on to that lead.
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| Bikex |
Posted on 25-07-2015 23:43
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That was a great TTT for our team, 12th in a WT field. If my team would've done like that in Vancouver Sella might would've won the GC there. 
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| beagle |
Posted on 26-07-2015 00:14
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Wow, just one second and Mohs could take yellow for one day 
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 26-07-2015 02:41
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Another missed opportunity to gain some time on Phinney. And now he's going into the hilly stage in the yellow jersey. I guess he has this pretty much secured now.
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| Heine |
Posted on 26-07-2015 07:21
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7th in the TTT Thats about 10 places higher than I thought. Did really everyone send their time-trialers to Italy?
Monsalve in a much better position than I feared now then
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 26-07-2015 07:56
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Heine wrote:
Did really everyone send their time-trialers to Italy?
No
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| SotD |
Posted on 26-07-2015 08:06
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Well top 3 was what I asked for, so that is good, but behind Venchi really is not good at all. I had hoped that Spilak could be a few seconds ahead of Phinney by now, not a few seconds behind.
Fingers are crossed, that he loses the yellow on the next stage, to even out the odds a bit.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 26-07-2015 10:09
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What. the. hell.
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| ember |
Posted on 26-07-2015 10:21
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ember wrote:
But it will be difficult to keep the leader's jersey on the coming flat stage seeing Mohs only a second behind.
Missed that this hilly stage was between the TTT and the mountain stage
And what a stage from Trofimov! Suddenly he must fancy himself for the overall win, but Spilak managed to do pretty well in the end, gapping all other GC contenders except for Machado.
And looking at Gesink, his mountain training won't help much if he's this useless on hilly stages, which is a shame.
An expected stage from us seeing the GC riders decided to have a go at it. A pity we missed the breakaway though, but I guess we can't hit it every stage |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 26-07-2015 10:26
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Big moment from Trofitruffle not seen this so often from him this year, but that was demonstration of strength.
Still feel Spilak can wake up on the mosquito flat day, he needs to avoid his usual underwhelm mind you!
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 26-07-2015 10:35
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Decent stuff from Bobridge, definitely. Probably too less to be much of a threat after the mountain stage, but maybe he will at least try to hang. Kinda tricky situation for the AI with Morton as the bigger option for Oz.. Here's hoping both will have ambitions to try something and maybe make the Top-20 here.
Gesink, well. I've already said what might help him to deliver Guess he will bounce back in the mountains though.
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| jph27 |
Posted on 26-07-2015 10:38
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Happy to see Gautier show his face, but with him being dropped on Stage 1 it'll make no difference in the overall. Now for Elissonde to hopefully eke out a top 20. |
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| SotD |
Posted on 26-07-2015 10:47
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Well I dont like losing that much to Trfimov, but its not the end of the World. Now Spilak is slightly ahead of Phinney, which is nice. I so badly hope that Spilak will actually use his climbing strength now to get the stagewin, and gain a minute or so on Phinney, and 2-3 minutes on Trofimov. I hope the fact that our team is very strong here will do the trick, otherwise I guess I cant expect Spilak to win any races this year.
Well done from Coppel and Lecuisinier. I hope the latter will keep fighting to get a good GC resukt also.
Really feel bad for Gesink here, that was not enjoyable at all. I hope that Spilak and him can go crazy on the mountain together.
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| SotD |
Posted on 26-07-2015 10:56
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Are we leading the teams classification btw?
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 26-07-2015 12:12
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Quite a lot of time for Dombrowski to lose... Valverde doing pretty well though. Bring on the mountains!
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