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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 18-02-2026 07:41
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Not so good today, missing out on bonus seconds. 6 riders in top 22, but none in the top 10 
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Posted on 19-02-2026 21:21
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| knockout |
Posted on 18-02-2026 09:00
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2nd stage win and enough of a gc gap that bonus seconds are not enough without an actual gap. Love it! Last stage is probably most likely to lead to those but this is an excellent situation
Thanks guys!
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 18-02-2026 09:23
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I'd be thinking of cancelling whatever streaming subscription I use to watch cycling and catching the last few hundred metres on YouTube at this point.
Congrats again knockout and thanks redordead for what is still good reporting despite bad racing, not an easy task!
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11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| SotD |
Posted on 18-02-2026 11:58
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Well that went from very good to absolutely horrible quickly. The entire team decided to give up. Kinoshita was bored and almost dropped while similar riders were in the top 10.
Strange race with a ton of riders from the same teams clutching up. The race doesn’t really work I Think. Regardless of how we perform.
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 18-02-2026 12:23
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Nemolito wrote:
Thank you for the great preview and first report, redordead!
Very anonymous for our team and Higuita, but in the end seventh is okay. Nothing spectacular, but hopefully around the place where he could finish in the final GC. We'll see how the AI treats the rest of the stages 
Same but second report and sixth on the stage 
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| ember |
Posted on 18-02-2026 13:33
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Must admit I'm kind of surprised to see how poor we are in the decisive kilometers here. Feels like we're not able to prioritize Valter, or maybe even prioritizing Romo, who struggles a fair bit. Really hope we can make use of them on the final stage. Seeing we haven't managed to get any bonus seconds, I suspect we must hope for a selective stage, where Valter is attentive and part of the front of the race, to make this race a good one for us!
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 18-02-2026 13:44
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On one hand I guess I should be happy that Aranburu attacked and showed himself. On the other hand it's a bold and pretty stupid strategy for the worst stamina puncheur in the peloton to try from 60 km out and expect anything good to happen. He hung on to the front group just barely in the end, but he's way way back on the countback for GC now. It seems pretty clear now that we won't get anything out of this race without a miracle. All our other riders got dropped.
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 18-02-2026 13:47
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Lopez came to dominate it seems
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| OlegTinkov |
Posted on 18-02-2026 20:48
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Happy that working in the peloton was awarded with bonus seconds for Toms Skujins, now it's all about holding on during the last stage, which is definitely the hardest one and maybe to much to ask.
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| SotD |
Posted on 19-02-2026 16:12
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Worst race of the season. A complete and utter write off!
Thanks for the reports though :-)
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 19-02-2026 16:23
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Unfortunately Aranburu is truly cooked on any terrain. This engine just wasn't made for him.
Thanks for the reports!
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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| knockout |
Posted on 19-02-2026 17:22
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Lopez with a monster performance against an elite startlist. Very excited about that as he was a bit unlucky in parts of the season so far despite showing his class throughout.
I'm not happy about the whole depth scoring squadron dropping out of the top 30 GC spots on the final stage - particularly with Plapp that hurts. But hard to be angry about that when Lopez delivered this strongly
Thanks for the reports!
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 19-02-2026 17:43
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A clean sweep against Herklotz, you love to see it!
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 19-02-2026 17:52
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I think we didn't get any mention this race (not that we deserved any). Thanks for the reports!
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 19-02-2026 19:39
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Pretty good race for us. Plenty of depth, two in the top 10, first two in the youth rankings. Too bad Remco couldn't keep up with the front group as it would have drastically improved his GC.
Thanks for the reports!
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| roturn |
Posted on 19-02-2026 20:50
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Lopez was in his own league here. No chance beating him.
Vansevenant though wasn't that far off and unfortunately couldn't get that final stage win. Though with two podiums and a 5th he was very consistent and rewards himself with best of the rest and decent scoring.
Good race for the team with Schelling and Denz being top30 and Vliegen a bit behind them as well.
Thanks for the reports and congrats knockout. |
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