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Tour of Norway Discussion
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Posted on 25-11-2024 13:20
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 19-01-2018 06:00
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Stachowiak has a history of break success in Norway, real nice to get a 2nd place! Especially when I was already ecstatic about him joining the break in the first place.  Nice bonus with 3rd in the KOM, means we take 72 points home from a race were I expected more like 20, not bad.
Thanks for the excellent reports throughout Abhishek! Congrats as well to Sotd on the win as well as Croatia and valverde on big results for PCT!
"What done is, is one." - Benji Naesen
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| viking90 |
Posted on 19-01-2018 06:25
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Ridiculous.
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| SotD |
Posted on 19-01-2018 06:36
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A good final stage aswell. Too bad we couldn't reel back the break for a 4th consequtive win, but 4th here by Coquard also claiming the points jersey is really good.
It has been a very strong ride by our riders landing a good amount of points. Obviously Coquard as the big winner in terms of what was expected, but also Koretzky took a decent amount of points - yet still below his actual 11 PpRD, which will see his estimate drop yet again. That was to be expected though.
Thanks for some nice and very swift reporting. I always love waking up to a race!
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 19-01-2018 07:41
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So, if I understand the report correctly, Drapac was dropped with around 10 kilometers to go, which is fine because it was quite a hilly route. But then we send three riders including Betancourt back to help him, who now all lost seven minutes and therefore drop from +- 50 to outside the top 100. Shit AI.
Selander and Mraouni deserve credit for this race, the others will be send to build the World Cup stadiums.
Congrats Valio on the stage win, and congrats Festina on the GC victory. And of course many thanks to AbhishekLFC.
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| roturn |
Posted on 19-01-2018 08:03
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Ouch. Shit.
Boom being hugely injured after the crash, who had liked such basically flat hills.
De Bie had needed hard ridden hills.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 19-01-2018 08:34
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More disappointment from Grousu. At least Boswell was able to snatch a third place in the hilly stage, while Walsleben somehow managed to finish 11th in the GC which is not too bad
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| cio93 |
Posted on 19-01-2018 09:16
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Thank god this is over. It went from promising to awful really quick. "At least" my predictions of this break and Coppel winning were right. Too bad the ones about my team weren't. Thanks for the reports and we won't be back here.
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 19-01-2018 09:24
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A slightly disappointign TT from Gautier but he made up for it with some great racing the last couple of days somewhat salvaging a race and cementing that he is the big star of the team this season.
Great to see Manninen being 3rd best sprinter on the last stage as well. Really looking forward to seeing him maxed!
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-01-2018 09:29
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We make it through the last stage unscathed, to end what has turned into a really great race for Eritel. It will almost certainly be our best PTHC race of the season, delivering some very useful ranking points. The classification win for Hadi is very cool too.
All this in quite a stealthy performance, with practically no mentions in the reports.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 19-01-2018 10:41
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Marcovdw wrote:
Selander and Mraouni deserve credit for this race, the others will be send to build the World Cup stadiums.
I love this idea
Not for our riders this race, who played the race almost to perfection. Nice depth, great leader, a Quevedo that is at least not crashing. That was a gamble race, and it turned out huge for us. Awesome!
Also amazing race for Eritel, Meiji and UBS, and also Ticos doing really well. Congrats to them as well as SotD, who had a massive race.
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 19-01-2018 12:18
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Thank you AbhishekLFC for the quality race, and congrats to SotD for the win.
I really couldn't be happier with ending up 4th, 12th, and winning the teams classification. I thought we'd be relying on Reichenbach to try to crack the top 10, but Goncalves surprises with possibly the best race of his career.
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| Selwink |
Posted on 19-01-2018 13:36
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Decent ending for us here, but no real points haul. Thanks for the reports
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 21-01-2018 00:58
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Great job by Kuboki to get 3rd in the end here. Quite a nice result for us, and Nonaka in 13th as well! Kwok really did fall out of it here, but Nonaka's result somewhat makes up for it, and considering some of the other managers luck, I will take this result!
Thanks a lot for the reports!
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