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La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Discussion
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| MacC |
Posted on 16-05-2025 07:14
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Ooh, going to be close. Farantakis took 2 second off Kennett over 4.5km
Kennett has a 2 second lead but its over 7.8km...
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 16-05-2025 07:24
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This is the expected Kalaba absence, ideally would need to have taken bonus seconds here as well, now it will be difficult against the likes of Kennett and Farantakis.
All balls on Bjerg then to smash it in the final kilometers.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 16-05-2025 08:21
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If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Bonifazio, I would shoot Bonifazio twice.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 16-05-2025 08:27
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Just a waste of RDs here for us but good riding anyway by the guys to make up for my bad planning Grosser doing better then he has any right to in the sprints |
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Posted on 06-12-2025 04:35
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| Jajajasper |
Posted on 16-05-2025 11:10
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nice, KOM win secured! |
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| SotD |
Posted on 16-05-2025 14:41
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Ollfardh wrote:
If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Bonifazio, I would shoot Bonifazio twice.
Makes sense. The others have been dead for years…
*Badum Tisch*
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| quadsas |
Posted on 16-05-2025 14:57
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yas, thats some extra points. Now Kmieliauskas needs to deliver at least top 5, otherwise I will be a very angry man
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| Caspi |
Posted on 16-05-2025 17:57
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SotD wrote:
I wonder if the last TT is short enough for Farantakis to fight for the overall top 5, or if the TT’ers Will smash it.
I think it's going to be close. Exciting finale
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| SotD |
Posted on 17-05-2025 07:26
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Oh wow - I did NOT expect the prologue stat to be that important on the epilogue here. I would have expected most of the top sprinters here to drop quite a long way - most of them outside the top 10. Farantakis with a solid combination of 75 AVR in the TT/PRL stat was a decent fit, but I still would have expected the 78-79-80 AVR guys to put more time into him. I guess the PRL stat was way more important than I expected.
A win here was always in the cards, especially seeing the startlist, but I would have thought it required significantly better sprinting from Farantakis. So this is a very welcoming surprise for us - and catapults us into the title fight I think. We come away from this race with something like 50-100 points more than expected, which gives us a bit of leeway to make atleast one hickup in the final races. I can't do more than one though.
Thanks for the great reports!
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| MacC |
Posted on 17-05-2025 08:25
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Congrats SotD. That non sprint in the 4th stage cost Kennett dear but still a great race from him.
Great reports from Ulrich too
That result gives us some vague hope going into the final races
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 17-05-2025 09:08
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Congrats SotD! And thanks UU for the reports.
Kalaba comes close to the win in the end but just missed that one extra bonus finish position. Still pretty happy with third and eighth from Bjerg.
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 17-05-2025 13:04
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Howson did his thing again and Cataford was better on stage 5. Really thought the former would be challenging for the win here but guess the stage needed to be a couple of kilometers longer!
Congrats to SotD and thanks for the reports Ulrich 
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| quadsas |
Posted on 17-05-2025 13:56
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Not ideal, but a bunch of points from various places should make this a decent scoring race
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| KaiserAdler |
Posted on 17-05-2025 16:37
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Decent ride from Durbridge, stage win and 5th in GC is good enough in my books. Thanks for the report!
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 17-05-2025 19:51
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That should put ELCO back in pole position for the title fight, as well as knock us out of it. Thanks for the reports UU!
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Caspi |
Posted on 18-05-2025 19:29
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As good as we could expect: Two stage wins, top 10 GC, and the points classification 
Thanks for the reports!
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