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| The Rider |
Posted on 25-09-2015 14:10
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Fantastic effort with the whole tour, SN, I bet that stage 20 took some doing in itself.
The prize pig of Avin's Ukrainian juggernaut could not be stopped - being the main headline I guess. Big show of dominance from him. When Taaramae won the prologue I thought we could be in for a closer battle, but not.
A great GT for both wildcards, after our anonymous GT I have to stop myself from being too envious there. Euskaltel always seem to over-perform and Nutresa were in the break countless times - at one stage it looked as if they would take home a jersey.
A few pleasant surprises, the biggest for me being the stage 21 break win as the MG rolls on.  |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 25-09-2015 16:43
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As expected, our worst GT of the year. Still, I feel that a stage win or a top 10 wouldn't have been too much too ask for.
Both Henao and Vanendert were weaker than I expected them to be. Vanendert went into breakaways but he didn't give the impression that he actually wanted to be there (being dropped from a winning breakaway on a hilly stage ?! or the last stage are perfect examples of this).
On the bright side, I'm glad Van Poppel managed to finish. I was scared that this will be a problem in the future where he will actually count in the sprints (hopefully) but it's good to see that he can reach the last stage in such a hard GT. And Lammertink aggressive as always. Can't wait to see him maxed out.
Thanks for the reports, SN.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 25-09-2015 17:16
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Back from vacation, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the last reports of this race.
The fight for the win was pretty boring, but I'm sure Avin felt nervous anyway  Huge congrats on the amazing feat - making history like that in your first season is just incredible.
I also enjoyed the breakaway win on Champs-Elysees. Just a shame I didn't get it
Sicard... gutsy performance all the way. It was pretty evident that he was cooked and only got worse as the race went on. I'm just happy he managed to cling on to that top-5, although I had slight hopes of making podium.
Now, we await the rankings and hope for the best  |
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 25-09-2015 18:06
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CrueTrue wrote:
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The fight for the win was pretty boring, but I'm sure Avin felt nervous anyway Huge congrats on the amazing feat - making history like that in your first season is just incredible.
I also enjoyed the breakaway win on Champs-Elysees. Just a shame I didn't get it
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Now, we await the rankings and hope for the best
Ditto, ditto and ditto. 
Can't complain about how our team performed. Pretty much expected.
Posted at start of race:
Fothen: Top 15
Maksimov: Stage Top 10
Garby: One mention... Show your face young lad!
De la Cruz, Newton, Simon and Altur: Breakaways
Young: Bottle carrier and maybe help Maksimov if he deserves it
I think that's rather realistic to ask for.
As for the winner... Has to be Pluchkin to make it 9 different winners.
Let's see. Looks like Garby was the only one not to pull his weight. 
Thanks for the reports SN and for another successful GT in the books.
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| SotD |
Posted on 25-09-2015 18:27
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Good stuff from Pichon there.
Congrats to Metinvest for a massive succes. 2 GTs in one season is pretty amazing. Especially from a newly promoted team. The Pluchkin gamble really paid off and that calls for some applauds imo.
I am sorry that Becherovka didnt do better here, as I would have enjoyed a strong battle for the overall win, but Vesuvio just seems to be too strong. I did enjoy to see Frank Schleck win a stage, though. If any rider deserves a good final showing it is him.
Thanks for the efforts of running th race, reporting steadily and with quality.
Now I look anxiously forward to the l'Avenir! :-)
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| viking90 |
Posted on 26-09-2015 09:37
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Congrats Avin, huge to win TdF in your first year in PT! |
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 26-09-2015 10:13
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What an amazing tour to follow
Alak finally gets some luck, sweet!
Great reports by SN as usual. And pretty happy with the agressive racing Tjs have been putting up with
Pliuchkin won as expected, but still a hugely impressive ride by him and he's making history! Massive congratz avin !
Great fight for 2nd between two riders i really like! Also gotta say this has been another really succesfull GT between wildcards teams, aswell nice to see
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| Smowz |
Posted on 27-09-2015 12:39
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Plenty of things to say here about yet another fabulously reported GT.
First thing thanks SN. At times a one sided GC battle made entertaining by reports enjoyed watching the cannibal pukekin's assassin like mugging if Morton.
Pointskin is like point grabbers wet dream dominating TdF from start to finish. The gutless othe 85 ite cowards rather awarded soft podiums to small country heroes. I mean honestly the flags of the podium are Moldova, Estonia and Costa Rica and two sprint dominators are GB and NZ. Come on France, Italy, Germany and Spain what are those nations doing!
Sad that Jose made a mess really if stage 20 but podium was still a long shot. Amador rode a fine race and Taaramae is a very solid stage rider indeed. These two certainly have GT high finishes in them. Still 4th place is cool, I have to consider where to go next year with Jose.
No doubt bug planning boo boo with guerao in buying him and indeed expecting anything but pretty much f all out of him. Here at tour sprint field was strong, vuelta was pathetic with only the Giro providing some joy.
Plenty of lean scorers in race I suspect, met invest should be very high and mighty. Great work avin!
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| jph27 |
Posted on 27-09-2015 19:23
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Just back from a week away and then moving into uni so I'll keep it brief. Thanks SN for the reports, a fantastic job as ever, and also congratulations to Avin on a huge win for Pluchkin.
From my perspective, a pretty diabolical race. I'm glad its over, and while 21st was about what I expected from Elissonde everyone else massively underperformed. Not looking forward to the next rankings update, which I expect will kick the PCT planning into gear. |
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| OlegTinkov |
Posted on 01-10-2015 15:42
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Thanks SN for those last three stage reports, especially stage 20! Has there already been an ranking update since the Tour?
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