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21 and Done - April Draft
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 30-04-2021 09:21
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FreitasPCM wrote:
Nooooo damn it I wanted Pira.  Now I have to go look for somebody else all over again. 
Yeah he got his Caja Rural Contract right after I decided I can leave him for next draft and hope nobody finds him |
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| DarkWolf |
Posted on 30-04-2021 12:16
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Croatia14 wrote:
FreitasPCM wrote:
Nooooo damn it I wanted Pira. Now I have to go look for somebody else all over again.
Yeah he got his Caja Rural Contract right after I decided I can leave him for next draft and hope nobody finds him
I thought of selecting him with my 3rd pick but then I decided against it. I made the right choice.  |
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 30-04-2021 14:18
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Please let me know if he's already taken, didn't get a lot of time to search...
Spoiler  Markus Pajur
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| jaxika |
Posted on 01-05-2021 21:20
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Quick pick:
 Anders Halland Johannessen |
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 01-05-2021 22:56
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I choose this guy called...
Spoiler Arnaud de Lie
(he won a medal so he should be decent, I hope ) |
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| redordead |
Posted on 02-05-2021 06:52
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I pick:
Spoiler Ben Healy
"I am a cyclist, I may not be the best, but that is what I strive to be. I may never get there, but I will never quit trying." - Tadej Pogačar
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| DarkWolf |
Posted on 02-05-2021 17:10
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With my 3rd pick, I select...
Spoiler Jarrad Drizners
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 02-05-2021 20:19
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I'll go with
Spoiler
Didier Merchan
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| DarkWolf |
Posted on 03-05-2021 05:05
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With my 4th and final pick, I select...
Spoiler Nicolas David Gomez
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| Shonak |
Posted on 04-05-2021 10:11
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Alan Boileau. Won on the Huye today. In Rwanda.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 04-05-2021 13:09
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Won again today, instant profit. |
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| Shonak |
Posted on 04-05-2021 19:37
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finally a real winner on my squad
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| DarkWolf |
Posted on 06-05-2021 12:55
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Like the Italians say, "Non c'è due senza tre", he won again today. |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 07-05-2021 00:08
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 Alessandro Baroni and  Thomas Champion
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
[PT]  Xero Racing
5x  x5
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 07-05-2021 11:05
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Round 14 and 15 of "21 and Done" opened the 2021-year of drafting. We've seen some World-Class talents being picked alongside some huge flyers, from big time talents to exotic u23-riders.
| 163 | redordead | Luke Plapp | | 164 | FreitasPCM | Andrii Ponomar | | 165 | jaxika | Mattias Skjelmose Jensen | | 166 | Shonak | Florian Lipowitz | | 167 | DarkWolf | Abner Gonzalez | | 168 | valverde321 | Valentin Paret-Peintre | | 169 | AbhishekLFC | Matis Louvel | | 170 | jandal7 | Alessandro Baroni | | 171 | df_Trek | Idar Andersen | | 172 | Croatia14 | Daniel Arroyave | | - | | | | 173 | Croatia14 | Raúl García Pierna | | 174 | df_Trek | Jacob Hindsgaul Madsen | | 175 | jandal7 | Thomas Champion | | 176 | AbhishekLFC | Markus Pajur | | 177 | valverde321 | Rait Ärm | | 178 | DarkWolf | Yesid Pira | | 179 | Shonak | Alan Boileau | | 180 | jaxika | Anders Halland Johannessen | | 181 | FreitasPCM | Arnaud de Lie | | 182 | redordead | Ben Healy | | - | | | | 183 | DarkWolf | Jarrad Drizners | | 184 | valverde321 | Didier Merchan | | 185 | DarkWolf | Nicolas David Gomez |
First up redordead picked the jackpot: Luke Plapp, strongest on Willunga Hill this year and projeted to pick up some olympic medals on the track, will ride in Ineos-colours in 2021. Ponomar at pick 2 will be the youngest rider in almost 100 years to ride the Giro, while #3 Skjelmose already is a solid WT rider after dominating juniors right before a 10-month doping ban. Lipowitz is known as the next big thing, with the formet Biathlet being pre-contracted to Bora for 2022 already. DarkWolf closes the Top5 by picking WT-revelation Abner Gonzalez, which closes picking the Top5 best available riders as accurately as it probably could get.
Then we have a couple of good picks, where the French market got raided. Paret-Peintre is a pure climber and could become very good, Louvel and Champion are already WT-material. Pajur and Ärm, back to back picked Estonians ( ), both ride in France and enjoy tougher sprints. Baroni is more of an unkown one, while df_Treks picks of Andersen and Hindsgaul show how UnoX emerges on the cycling scene. Croatia14 picks another Colombian in Arroyave as well as track/road hybrid Raul Garcia.
Then we have another very interesting 3 colombians picked, surprisingly many compared to previous times. New Addition DarkWolf picks two of them, finding promising Caja Rural-climber Yesid Pira and young sprinter Nicolas Gomez alongside WT-ready Jarrad Drizners from HBA. The other colombian picked is Didier Merchan, a young climber doing well on the domestic scene.
Further than that Freitas picks the most exciting Belgian from the 2002-year in Arnaud de Lie. Other than that some great climbers were picked: Almost-locked Ineos-signing Ben Healy, the masterful domestique for u23-Giro winner Pidcock. Anders Johannessen, a CX-Guy climbing like a madman out of nowhere, and Alan Boileau, triple-stage winner at the Tour of Rwanda already.
What a class of April 2021, let's see how they progress over the next years. You can find a summary of all picks here and of all teams here. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 07-05-2021 16:22
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Didier Merchan seems to have a lot better results than Pira (its how I came across him in the first place), and he's supposedly had World Tour interest leading up to the Tour of Colombia, which I think he crashed on a long downhill stage, so hopefully he's still on track to move to Europe.
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| Shonak |
Posted on 12-05-2021 21:52
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Thanks Croatia. Happy with my two picks, especially the new cannibal Boileau.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 19-05-2021 16:13
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Officially a Grand Tour stage winner on my team
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 19-05-2021 20:06
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So close for my boy Covi. Congrats though 
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
[PT] Xero Racing
5x x5
1x x1
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 27-05-2021 23:04
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Stage win at Tour de la Mirabelle
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