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| hillis91 |
Posted on 23-01-2026 14:30
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2 guys inside the top 5 as we end the 7th stage is not to shabby.
Would be nice to finish the entire thing like this - maybe a few spots up aswell 
Awesome reporting so far, keep up the great work! 
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 23-01-2026 15:30
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Absolutely calamitous stage 6 from Buitrago, no idea what happened to cause such an implosion but it wasn't pretty. Better from him on stage 7 but realistically he'll need a lucky breakaway or something to get back into a good position in the GC fight. On a positive note, glad to see we've regained the KoM jersey. Should have more of a chance to keep it as well, but let's see.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 23-01-2026 19:05
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Great ride from Raileanu. Another strong result for his team. Congrat. Glad to ser Sunderland on the break. We need more of that!
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 23-01-2026 23:31
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Another very solid stage for Yates on a parcours that was probably less to his liking. I am not going to complain about consistency given some of the issues others have had.
Novak with a nice recovery. Pike's peak is a completely different kind of challenge tomorrow, should suit Novak very well.
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| seancoll |
Posted on 24-01-2026 02:50
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Very, very quiet from the Turtles in the first section of racing with a whopping... 0 points so far!
Main should be in it for another breakaway or two and stage 8 might be the only stage that could really suite Merchan.
Rachid holding his own in the 15-20 spots and would hope that he can maintain that or push forward just a tad with some good days.
Let's see how everyone goes on this huge climb at the end of the day!
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 24-01-2026 13:12
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Really going well as a team so far that's now our 7th stage in a row we have scored a top 8 finish and some stage points and our 4th podium of the tour so far by our 3rd different rider really strong stuff. Smith has some issues coming up we will lose at least 3 mins to Jorgensen et all on the TT so he's going to drop a bit in GC but our target top 10 looks in reach and the panache the team has shown so far that could be a really good points finish |
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 24-01-2026 14:38
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Nice work from Matteo, just chipping away. I still believe!
And that's win #16 for Jorgenson... tying the team record!
Mresuperstar's All-Time Program Win List
| RIDER | YEARS | WINS | PT | PCT | CT | NATS | U23 | OTHER |  Justo Tenorio | 2018-20 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |  Matteo Jorgenson | 2022-25 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 1 |  Simon Yates | 2019-22 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | Tejay Van Garderen | 2015-17,24 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | | Omar Fraile | 2013-20,23 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 24-01-2026 15:33
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Think I could repost my last comment. Not sure about putting Kuss in the break but didn't work out too badly, although also chasing seems ill-judged. I want to be greedy and say we need one stage where Yates is strong at the end but am hesitant because one stage where he was bad would be a disaster.
9 and 11 are flat and assuming 10 will go to a break, the next 3 stages are a respite and then it will all be in play in the last 3 stages, probably still 10 riders who could win. Feels like Jorgenson is definitely one of them but it will be much closer than expected, which is nice for everyone except MRE.
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 24-01-2026 19:55
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Another 40 seconds of time loss and it's looking increasingly unlikely that Misbah will be able to bounce back into the top 10 GC when we reach the TT
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 24-01-2026 20:18
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All we could hope for here, was to get a rider within top 50 to at least salvage some points. Our best climber Gebremedhin was 10 minutes away, but is now only 40 seconds behind 50th. Maybe we can get points here after all?  |
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| Caspi |
Posted on 24-01-2026 22:29
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Choi still looking good.
Team classification could perhaps go our way with a bit of luck.
Exciting race still!
Can gjensidige get two in the top 10? How far can Jorgenson climp in the GC?
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 25-01-2026 09:01
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We seem to be loving 6th place here at the ToA…still it is points so that’s what matters. Afewerki won the sprint home which is a good thing. Not sure what stages remain for sprinters but hopefully he can improve on that position next time. Thanks for the report!
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 25-01-2026 09:12
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Bjartne wrote:
All we could hope for here, was to get a rider within top 50 to at least salvage some points. Our best climber Gebremedhin was 10 minutes away, but is now only 40 seconds behind 50th. Maybe we can get points here after all?
Well. Our youngster sealed a stage win for you atleast! haha.
Congrats man, that is awesome.
Not many more stages to do it in now lads, let's see what happens.
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 25-01-2026 09:12
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The CT strikes back after their cobbles campaigns got ruined by PCT team 
Congrats on the win Bjartne!
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| Jajajasper |
Posted on 25-01-2026 09:53
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Holding on to the top 10 is good, lee'ts hope we can climb some more. |
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| Caspi |
Posted on 25-01-2026 09:55
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Hamza getting lazy. Understandable as the points classification is out of reach.
Probably a pretty quiet day for us again tomorrow.
Nice to see a(nother) CT stage win. Enjoy the unexpected points, Bjartne 
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 25-01-2026 15:20
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Nice of Zhao to produce his best sprint on the day we didn't catch the break, at least he proved he can do it. Congrats to Bjartne.
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 25-01-2026 16:08
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Love to see even more CT stage wins!
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 25-01-2026 16:10
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Not a clue what's happened to Dion there as you can see him in the group even on the downhill so maybe a puncture
The flip side to that is Langellotti has negated any points dropped with an awesome stage win our 5th podium in 10 stages and given an outside chance of some KOM points awesome!
Added to Conti up to 16th in GC and 3rd for us in team classification an exciting few stages to come
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| Imladrik |
Posted on 25-01-2026 16:33
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And another 2nd place, the 3rd I think, and at least the 2nd 3rd place. The stage win still eludes us...
Still; finally we take a dig at the KoM. We won't be in the next break with Lafay I guess, but then we should lose enough in the ITT to continue the chase after that, and maybe catch a decent GC also.
Nice work from Armirail in the break!
And Royan continues his good rides with us, I hope he'll do good when he's back in his team.
Thanks for the report, congrats JT and Bjartne for the stage wins!
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