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| knockout |
Posted on 24-01-2026 13:19
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I'm not particularly excited with the racing here so far. A few more stage results for Lopez would be nice ... No fan of giving up the GC lead to the breakaway either. But obviously he is still in a good position for now.
Also it looks like our depth is once again not showing up too strongly. Arndt might be able to improve a bit more on the final stage but for now it looks like its once again only Lopez who can show our jersey.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 24-01-2026 15:23
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Great team effort today, too bad Formolo couldn't snatch some bonus seconds.
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| knockout |
Posted on 24-01-2026 15:34
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Good effort today. Controlled some dangerous attacks and got the stage podium with Adria who is easily the best suited guy for this sort of stage. Appreciate him being there in the final!
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| quadsas |
Posted on 24-01-2026 15:39
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Oh yeah, we in bidness. Barring a disaster, this should set up a real nice GC finish
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 24-01-2026 16:12
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At least we showed ourselves and didn't lose any time. Riabushenko up tomorrow, would help a lot if he would produce a good stage.
Congrats to Quad on the win.
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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 24-01-2026 18:04
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Congrats quadsas with the win!
Super active this stage with Oliveira, Finkler and Vakoc all going for KOM points. Unlucky that we lose so much time with Min on that kind of stage, seems avoidable.
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| ember |
Posted on 24-01-2026 19:52
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Strong attack by Valter in the finale. Had hope it could stick too, but looked difficult once they became three with Sosa joining, maybe because the co-operation didn't work out? Still a strong sprint by him to land inside the top 10.
JP Lopez following Adria was a fun surprise! There is a world where he starts the sprint in Adria's wheel to give himself a chance for the stage podium, but being probably forced to start the sprint, that looked very difficult under the kite. Happy with 5th place from him on such a stage 
Congratulations, quadsas! |
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 24-01-2026 19:58
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Time to see if Zijlaard wants to sprint on the flat stage before we get to the final stage and the one that should suit Hirschi best of them all
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 25-01-2026 17:19
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Congrats to all the stage winners so far and thanks to Imladrik for the nice reports!
It's not been a good race for us so far, we've been active in most breaks, but Pringle just isn't the right rider to get us much from breaks on this level. Hopefully APP can still climb some places in the GC so we get at least 10+ points from this race.
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 25-01-2026 18:57
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Good to see Lutsenko do well!
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 25-01-2026 23:27
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Well that was a disaster. One of the few races where I felt like we had one of the top sprinters and could have formed a train and instead we follow at team with a terrible one and end up getting beaten mostly by weaker guys. Guessing we used up our team in the chase.
Need something tomorrow to prevent this race from being a total fail.
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Posted on 27-01-2026 15:21
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| ember |
Posted on 26-01-2026 07:34
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And now, the hype for the Queen stage! Not ideal to drop another place in the GC, but assuming these small changes won't matter much, as it "always" come down to this final stage. Let's go again, Valter! |
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| Bikex |
Posted on 26-01-2026 08:34
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Now it's up to the last stage to save this race for us. I really need something from Gidich. |
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| Blasing |
Posted on 26-01-2026 09:04
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Some more points by DeBie in Stage 4 and Grosu in Stage 5. Had hoped for more by Grosu, another stage win would have been nice. But we take every point we can get!
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| Caspi |
Posted on 26-01-2026 09:42
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Fantastic leadout by Meurisse, and Sureda finishes the job 
Other than that, it has been nice to see us very active in breakaways, but we could still do a little better. On S3 e.g., we had both Carapaz and McKenna in the breakaway, but we only managed to finish in 5th and 8th place.
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 26-01-2026 13:05
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Nice to see Sureda doing well, someone I really wanted to pick up as a free agent. Congrats Caspi, some very welcome points in the relegation fight I'm sure.
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| quadsas |
Posted on 26-01-2026 21:26
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3rd GC, 2nd in green and a stage win is a great result for us here, letsago
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 26-01-2026 21:38
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What a disaster of a race for us. Really have to consider some things if this is what hill-focused stage racing is now.
Congrats to Puma on a huge result and thanks Imladrik for managing to pull some good reports out of fairly turgid racing.
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| SotD |
Posted on 26-01-2026 21:49
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Strange race really. But massive win for Puma here! Congrats mate!
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| Bikex |
Posted on 26-01-2026 22:01
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Cannot believe how bad this went. Not even Chaiyasombat could keep his 20th place after sacrificing himself to catch the break.
Generally really weird how the race turned out. |
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