Halvorsen as 3rd/4th best sprinter here but his best result in two sprints a tenth place. Ocampo, who could finish top-5 in the GC, with a ninteenth place in the end. That says everything I guess. If we want to stay in PT, this is exactly how not to accomplish that
Nice to see Zmorka get another podium in one of his favourite races
Happy to not meet Aniolkowski next year again, every win makes me wonder more why Groves got nowhere close to his score...
2nd best sprint performance of the season by Szarka with this 5th place, he's nowhere close to last year's level as well. That said, definitely can't be unhappy with 5th in this field, it's other races where I expected (much) more.
Ferreyra with his best performance of the year by a mile, 10th place here is an awesome result. Definitely not the race where I expected a GC Top 10, but I'll take it ^^
Jussaume with a good result as well, Top 30 and 2nd in U25, well done. And Janssen finally gets more than finishing points thanks to 5th in U25, iirc it's only the 2nd race in his career above minimum points. GC-wise, 51st (Fernandes) and 52nd (Janssen) sucks a little bit, but reflects our season - and I won't really complain about our GC result anyway.
Happy for the Kragh win in the prologue! Prasad had rough days in the sprints here, not really finding space and more importantly abilities, I felt, to challenge for top placings. Twice outside the top 10 speaks well about that.
Congratulations to all who did well. Especially Sony and Abhi. Huuuge step towards avoiding relegation!
Nothing for Rodenberg there to finish things, but still a solid race for us with a couple of stage placings and 8th overall from Norsgaard. It could have easily been a minimum points race for us, so happy to come away with a little more than that even if Vesuvio and King Power will have surged well ahead of us here.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
Hofstetter got involved but he's just too weak to compete in this field. Nothing on the last stage for us but the GC being protected is enough for us to go home happy from here. This could be the decisive result for us in the survival race, or at least I hope so!
Congrats to alex on the stage win and thanks for the reports Imladrik
