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| Nemolito |
Posted on 06-10-2022 07:35
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Can't complain with Egsvang in 12th so far in Dunkerque without any real support 
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 06-10-2022 18:59
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Great 2nd place by Yates in Fleche Wallone. Ardennes going quite well so far!
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 07-10-2022 13:37
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Better from Bardet to finish 5th at Fleche, expecting a podium at LBL.
Lietaer going well at 4 Jours de Dunkerque, hoping he can improve to a top 5 finish.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 07-10-2022 20:50
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I swear every hilly classic is just Kwiat attacking solo, everybody chasing, they get back, and Kwiat beats them in a sprint.
We end the classic season with just 1 minor win for GVK, simply not good enough.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Shonak |
Posted on 07-10-2022 21:00
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He is by far the strongest rider HL rider especially with that MT backup, there is no doubt. Next year races might be more differentiate again.
Edited by Shonak on 07-10-2022 21:12
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 07-10-2022 21:19
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Langlois is such a beast. Wow. I am consistently in awe of his strength and versatility. The stuff he pulls off is just out of this world bonkers. GC victory in Dunkerque is amazing, but he amazes me almost every race. I thought with a race that hard it would be Lavery surviving, but Langlois has such strong backups that cobbles are no match. Sucks to just barely get pipped for the win on stage 3, but I'll gladly take the GC win instead.
And on the cobbles at least, we have a team that can offer true support. Lavery has underperformed a little bit, but I'll take that with the Langlois overperformance. Seems like we had enough guys to completely control the race on stage 4, and we end up with a few minor GC placings for our trouble too.
Great start to my weekend!
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 07-10-2022 21:40
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Ehhh Polanc? Mohoric pretty consistent, I like that!
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| Ripley |
Posted on 07-10-2022 22:00
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Considering that Sagan was in 50th position - and isolated once more - with 20 km to go he was very lucky that the front groups slowed to a crawl and he was able to finish 11th. Thank you, Betancur, for that final push to bring the groups back together.
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 07-10-2022 22:40
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20 riders together at the end of LBL is unexpected.
Nothing in the Ardnennes for us which was expectect. A somewhat surprising top 20 from Juul-Jensen in Amstel Gold about as good as it gets. Maybe should send Kittel to that race. Hopefully with another year of development Provost will be competitive.
Rakotonjanahary 11th in LBL Espoir is one of the best road race results our dev team has ever had. Which is kind of depressing really.
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 08-10-2022 06:39
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Another great results for Yates. Great LBL and Ardennes for us
Thanks for the continued coverage Shonak!
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 08-10-2022 06:55
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Happy for Lecomte winning LBL U23 - his manager should be thanking me for that sideways training to keep him eligible  So sad he didn't fit in the cap
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."
[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT]  Xero Racing
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 08-10-2022 08:53
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jandal7 wrote:
Happy for Lecomte winning LBL U23 - his manager should be thanking me for that sideways training to keep him eligible
Thanks!
Great win by our biggest talent indeed. When he attacked at 20 km from the finish line I feared he might blow himself up, but he recovered very quickly the follow the next acceleration. Great working together by him and Ortega to stay ahead of the other favourites, to finish it perfectly at the line
Egsvang 15th in Dunkerque is not too special, but also not the worst. Rather anonymous race for him asexpected.
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 08-10-2022 22:21
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4 Jours de Dunkerque
7th GC from Eliot Lietaer was pretty good and Johan Le Bon winning KOM was a very nice bonus.
Liege - Bastogne - Liege
6th from Bardet not really good enough given his wage which means he needs to win the Giro to earn his keep!
Amiel 23rd in U23 event, give him 2 more years and he will be right up there.
Congrats to the winners and thanks for the reports and videos Shonak.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 09-10-2022 00:55
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CT people please hurry up and score some WT points I don't want to promote
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."
[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 09-10-2022 02:15
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Obviously I'm thrilled about our season so far. It was another good month. Still 1st among CT in WT points, 2nd in Prestige, and 5th in CT. We've only had a couple of true clunkers, and our guys have been very consistent overall. Don't wanna get too enticed by a possible promotion push yet, but we've done well thus far.
Some great stuff in World Cup as well after Trofeo. Still a little confused about some of the rankings work (e.g. Grupo Argos leading team TT rankings), but we've had way more success than I anticipated for sure. Hopefully we can hold it for a nice little bonus at year's end.
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| Ripley |
Posted on 09-10-2022 07:44
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jandal7 wrote:
Happy for Lecomte winning LBL U23 - his manager should be thanking me for that sideways training to keep him eligible So sad he didn't fit in the cap
And me! I helped with that, too!
Still a little confused about some of the rankings work (e.g. Grupo Argos leading team TT rankings),
Here are the rules: "For the team rankings the top 10 teams [per race] will get points. For that the finishing positions of their top 3 riders counts."
In TTs we only have 3 riders so all their positions count. In your case that's 1+5+48=53. Grupo Argos got 4+11+16=31 and Deutsche Bahn 2+3+30=35.
My team has zero depth, so no matter how well Sagan does we won't get far in the team rankings. Maybe the sprint competition because Howard starts in 4/5 races, but it will still depend on a third rider (which can be rather random).
Kwiatkowski and Komisarek rule the rankings. Come on Majka, make it a Polish trio by winning Tour and Vuelta.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 09-10-2022 08:09
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Ripley wrote:
jandal7 wrote:
Happy for Lecomte winning LBL U23 - his manager should be thanking me for that sideways training to keep him eligible So sad he didn't fit in the cap
And me! I helped with that, too!
Haha very true, had forgot that  The dark days of me not having a computer to do ICL development or MG transfers with
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."
[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 09-10-2022 08:43
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Development team Islandsbanki ahead of main team Magnum - Madshus in Prestige ranking Thanks for the continuous stream of updates and results, Shonak.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 09-10-2022 10:03
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Good were the times when we dominated the Colombia Team GP. Rankings are also pretty close, Pintzopoulos is having a screamer of a season.
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 09-10-2022 17:51
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Guess losing to a WT team in Colombia Team GP is no shame; we confirmed last year's 2nd place and did pretty well in our 3rd focus race as well.
Ranking-wise, we dropped a bit as expected, having only 9 out of 48 available RDs. But with 2nd in Columbia, 4th in Trentino and 6th in Rheden, it definitely wasn't a bad month - let's keep up that good PpRD value
However, what's clearly still missing are the big results, the wins. The difference even between 1st and 2nd is so big that without taking a win from time to time (and not talking about stage wins), it's not really possible to stay up in the rankings. Let's see what we can do about that next month...
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