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U23 Sprinter's Classic Discussion
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 18-02-2018 03:35
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Spoiler Sorry sorry sorry for delay 
A prestigious course, Paris-Tours has been contested by the elite sprinters for many years. But the roads from Chartres (I felt lied to as well) to Tours this year will play host to the elite sprinters of the future (and one roided up Aussie who'd win the C2HC version). A long course, it has seen breakaways, late attacks and, of course, mass sprints decide the victor. As young riders many of the contenders could struggle with the length of the race.
| Rider | SPR | ACC | STA | Rider | SPR | ACC | STA |  Ewan | 81 | 79 | 71 |  Kennett | 72 | 71 | 72 |  Wilwohl | 77 | 76 | 69 |  Kalaba | 72 | 72 | 68 | | Bauhaus | 76 | 73 | 69 |  Bohli | 72 | 67 | 74 |  Gaviria | 75 | 80 | 70 | Mareckzo | 72 | 73 | 69 |  Kemboi | 74 | 76 | 72 | Baska | 72 | 73 | 69 |  Lutsyshyn | 74 | 76 | 67 |  Liu | 71 | 73 | 72 | | Nommela | 74 | 74 | 67 | Jiang | 71 | 72 | 66 |  Khamberaj | 73 | 72 | 69 |  Major | 71 | 72 | 70 | | Contreras | 73 | 76 | 71 | Marin | 71 | 71 | 68 | | Silva | 73 | 74 | 66 |  Plackaert | 71 | 71 | 65 |
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 18-02-2018 05:15
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It will be interesting to see how the youngsters handle this route!
Seeing how it often pans out in the "real" version it could be complete havoc with no one able to control anything in the end. That would be fun 
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 18-02-2018 07:46
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Yeah, Ewan won't win
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 18-02-2018 08:35
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Too bad the development gap between Gaviria and Ewan is too big, 6 SPR points are too much to get lucky. I can't see Ewan lose this if it comes to a sprint.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Heine |
Posted on 18-02-2018 09:28
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Gogo Willi!
Strange if anyone except Ewan wins, on the other hand, my experience with Zabel as that he used to win the sprint behind the breakaway...
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 18-02-2018 09:46
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Best possible route choice, let's hope the AI can handle it!
Pedersen and Bengtson can sprint - but I bet they won't bother, so we have Kaspa, Pedersen, Kolev, Rekita, Kanepejs and - most of all - Torkil Vehye, who can make a late attack, please PCM, for once let us make an exciting late attack, we actually have the squad for it.
Thanks Jandal!
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| Selwink |
Posted on 18-02-2018 10:16
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We're here. And that's basically it
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 18-02-2018 10:25
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Let's see how the Ukrainian Theo Bos can compare to real sprinters...
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 18-02-2018 10:46
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A race that should be better for Major's speciality, but he'll likely be used as leadout. Not that I mind, he wouldn't have beaten Ewan anyways.
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| cio93 |
Posted on 18-02-2018 10:49
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Too bad Puma has the #2 and #3 sprinters there, I wanted Herklotz to Top 10 yet again.
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| Vien |
Posted on 18-02-2018 10:49
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Good to see my two loaned in riders here! Hope they'll get some air time  |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 18-02-2018 13:10
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Quite a shame that Wilwohl and Bauhaus have been placed in the same team. Fortunately they wont be for Avenir!
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 18-02-2018 13:12
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Go Matej!
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 18-02-2018 14:31
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Go Gazelle once again
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| tastasol |
Posted on 18-02-2018 14:41
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No big hopes for our riders, but hopefully Kragh Andersen can compete just behind the top 10 or so. Surely a victory for Ewan, anything else would be a big surprise.
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| knockout |
Posted on 18-02-2018 14:52
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Quite a shame that Wilwohl and Bauhaus have been placed in the same team. Fortunately they wont be for Avenir!
The Evonik 2014 sprint talents are united again
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 18-02-2018 17:24
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Oh man, I wish these races existed back when AKA was a tyke. Would have been a fun experience for him.
In any case, just hoping to see the young guns maybe in a breakaway or just showing off their jersey., Always nice to have SKA back in the Carlsberg colors like last year, so hopefully he can maybe slip in a top 10 or even a late race attack.
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 18-02-2018 17:49
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4 riders I can excitingly cheer for 
But it's always fun to see how they run these minor races, and fun to see the U23 on the road
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 18-02-2018 22:44
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That was a super awkward finish to report, didn't expect Kennett to be involved  But super happy he won amongst the confusion, really chaotic finale and proud of his awesome strength and smarts Nice pilot role from Jams to rescue him from the depths. Commiserations to Nych, good effort from him.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 18-02-2018 22:45
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rigged
nice showing by the Isostar-Future!
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