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Posted on 24-11-2024 22:19
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 04-09-2022 07:57
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Old dog Breschel showing himself in the botd, you love to see it. Thanks for the quick coverage indeed 
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 04-09-2022 18:48
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Another great race from the team in the Capital Tour! Opening with 5th on a stage from Fraile before a massive stage win from Verona! In the end holding on for 2nd and 7th in the GC between the 2 Spaniards!
In the Rankings, it’s looking really good with us 11th in the Prestige at the moment. Obviously a long season and we still have a lot of work to do with quite a few CT teams ahead of us.
Thanks for the speed of reports and updates
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 04-09-2022 18:53
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Love to see former rider Nerz doing well!
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 04-09-2022 19:08
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Dev team continues to disappoint in non-U23 races, while others score pretty well... Guess we just haven't been too lucky so far; especially Ollero was really bad given his stats. Well...
San Luis final stages haven't been posted yet btw, so won't even look at the rankings currently 
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 04-09-2022 19:59
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I hope the bad positions in the rankings are due to not having raced that much, otherwise we need to improve pronto.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 04-09-2022 20:08
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Fabianski wrote:
San Luis final stages haven't been posted yet btw, so won't even look at the rankings currently
Yeah I made that mistake.
Okay performance by us in the National Capital Tour. Desjardins with an awesome win, very unexpected. Of course, what was expected was Mullen not wasting his race days with a horrendous performance, but just a bad day I guess. Boily rode a good enough TT to stay top 5 on GC at the end, but not the performance we hoped for in the mountains.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 04-09-2022 20:26
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We couldn't take the win, but it was an awesome race in the Pais Vasco for us. Also only two seconds down in the TC, so close  Rankings look good early but we started with some of our best races...
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| Shonak |
Posted on 04-09-2022 20:27
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Ah thanks for pointing that out Fabianski, San Luis final two stages also posted now
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 04-09-2022 20:38
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Okay finish in San Luis too. Boily in 5th place. Obviously when you have the leader's jersey with your GC leader, you want to keep it, but he clearly just lost too much time to the better climbers. At least he's consistent. And Houle in 14th in a good depth result too.
Trying not to make too much of out the rankings this early in the year since we've had our leaders riding a lot already, but I'm pleased to have score a lot of points already.
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 04-09-2022 20:46
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Thanks
In the end, Mendes' 10th place in the GC (San Luis) is about OK-ish, but given that we didn't send our best two stage racers, I guess we have to be happy with that. Sepulveda and Zabel in 13th and 16th make it a great depth result, but obviously no big GC points...
Zabel losing out on the points jersey despite having 3 podium results (vs. Cav with only 2) definitely hurts; I'm still wondering how that was possible. And he didn't even try on the last stage; beating Cav would've been enough to secure the jersey I guess...
Instead, Huamán got a nice 2nd place from the breakaway, also finishing 2nd in the U25 standings - definitely can't complain about this. And the win of the team classification shows that it was a very good race overall - 2 stage wins, a total of 5 stage podiums in 7 stages, 10th, 13th and 16th GC, 2nd points, 2nd U25, best team - I guess we had a pretty successful focus race
Unfortunately, that doesn't really show in the current rankings. On one hand, the really bad Vuelta a Mallorca clearly hurt our total score. On the other hand, both Indonesia and San Luis - races where we did well - are CT.2 races, so rather low points at stake.
But we only raced 17 RDs in the first two months - don't know about the other teams' calendars, but I guess we're in the bottom third there. Let's see what March brings us, as especially in Tachira lots of points are available.
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| Ripley |
Posted on 04-09-2022 22:16
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Thanks for all the hard work, Shonak!
Just 5 points in February, our worst monthly performance ever, but we didn't expect more.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 04-09-2022 23:59
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Please can some CT teams start racing WT races so we can move out of the promotion spots while still competing in our beloved CT rankings please and thank you
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."
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| krisa |
Posted on 05-09-2022 17:51
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Great to see Michal started the season really Well. After the first results in toowoomba it didn't look to good GC whise. TTT simply arent made for Qatar
Good to see Battaglin take a stage win out of the Blue. Kwiato winning a stage + GC in Pais Vasco is brilliant and a little unexpected.
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| Shonak |
Posted on 12-09-2022 20:44
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Was busy the last few days even after the conference and the company seminar but now we are back on track, I'd expect to finish March easily this week.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 12-09-2022 22:58
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Shonak wrote:
Was busy the last few days even after the conference and the company seminar but now we are back on track, I'd expect to finish March easily this week.
That's ok, if you just want to skip over March, particularly the cobbled races we will be OK.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 12-09-2022 23:08
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Not much racing for us in that batch, but very happy for Langlois to snag some more World Cup points with 5th in Tirrreno.
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| jaxika |
Posted on 13-09-2022 04:42
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Woww, Stefan almost done it |
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 13-09-2022 07:43
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Phinney 's run to the WC with mixed feelings
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| Ripley |
Posted on 13-09-2022 07:55
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Fine result for Sagan in the Omloop, pretty good in the other races, a bit passive in Strade maybe. But the man who always disappoints is Dibben, ever since he joined the team.
So close for Stefan, but still a fantastic result for him.
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| krisa |
Posted on 13-09-2022 08:56
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About the omloop: not much to say. Was hoping for a place between 5-10 so 12th is not to bad nor great.
Strade: Kwiato winning is so awesome. Hope it was a focus race of mine. Great following Yates attack and in the end luckily he could pass the early breakaway guy
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