|
Tour of Qatar Discussion
|
| beagle |
Posted on 18-04-2014 15:03
|
Grand Tour Specialist
Posts: 4235
Joined: 06-10-2007
PCM$: 200.00
|
Roman wrote:
Yeah, I was lucky, you was unlucky, but this is how it goes... if I should count how many times I was unlucky and lucky in the last season... It is part of this game and it is good for you, you will 99% win this race, you deserve it. 
I would hate that scenario, really! Hopefully yellow jersey does not gives so big wings as gives Red Bull to their great time trialists. 
I was joking 
Now safely survive last stage and first season goal is done!
Manager of Polar in Man-Game
|
| |
|
|
| alexkr00 |
Posted on 18-04-2014 17:42
|
World Champion
Posts: 13564
Joined: 05-08-2008
PCM$: 400.00
|
Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
Too bad Joost missed the overall podium though
|
| |
|
|
| jph27 |
Posted on 18-04-2014 17:47
|
Team Leader
Posts: 7374
Joined: 20-03-2010
PCM$: 900.00
|
12th on GC isn't too bad for Reus here. Bit disappointed to see Posthuma win the stage and Reus do badly by comparison though as they're quite similar.
Thanks for fast paced and quality reporting FroomeDog |
| |
|
|
| roturn |
Posted on 18-04-2014 17:53
|
Team Manager
Posts: 22045
Joined: 24-11-2007
PCM$: 3900.00
|
That really went disappointing...
GC 10th, 17th, 18th seems solid in the end.
But how bad was that ITT result?
Schädlich behind Mottin, Steensen, Bonnet was probably a bad form.
Boom that late must be a bad form.
Dumoulin was okay.
So at least solid GC points but no single stage top10 is a huge disappointment.
Not too unhappy with the points in the end, but had hoped for a bit more before the ITT report.
And 4th in team rankings quite unlucky as well.
Thanks for the nice and fast reports, froomedog.
Edited by roturn on 18-04-2014 17:54
|
| |
|
|
| Smowz |
Posted on 18-04-2014 18:00
|
Team Leader
Posts: 6386
Joined: 09-04-2009
PCM$: 200.00
|
I'd have taken 5th on GC before the tour started, in fact I'd have bitten your arm off. Of course it could have been better but the short TT normalises the top end of the chrono guys a bit. Given that I sent only my second best TT man here then that is what I get. We got a few top 10's on stages also so a nice little earner, obviously well behind Becharovka and Pokerstars but still about what I had hoped for I think.
Fiedler was well down which is a surprise.
|
| |
|
|
| beagle |
Posted on 18-04-2014 18:16
|
Grand Tour Specialist
Posts: 4235
Joined: 06-10-2007
PCM$: 200.00
|
Thanks for fast and nice reporting, Froomedog!
This was absolutely amazing race for my team, bringing about 600(?) points on our account. Definitely better result I was ever hoping for!
I believe Becherovka will be satisfied as well, right Roman?
Manager of Polar in Man-Game
|
| |
|
|
| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 18-04-2014 18:19
|
Team Leader
Posts: 6178
Joined: 20-07-2008
PCM$: 200.00
|
Great to get another podium result. Pretty lucky for us so far, can't complain on that side of things.
Congrats to the winner. It's good to see Boonen could make up for that late puncture on stage 5.
Also thanks for the fast reports Froomie 
Also rain in Qatar? PCM knows nothing about meteorology!
|
| |
|
|
| ember |
Posted on 18-04-2014 18:23
|
Team Leader
Posts: 7061
Joined: 27-03-2008
PCM$: 900.00
|
Thanks for the fast reports, FroomeDog!
For our racing, it's another bad race, but chapeau to Kruijswijk for landing a 24th place overall. Together with Sibilla's aggressive racing, that's the only thing we can take from this year's race in Qatar, as both Van Heerden and Impey were very disappointing. |
| |
|
|
| Ad Bot |
Posted on 09-12-2025 04:49
|
Bot Agent
Posts: Countless
Joined: 23.11.09
|
|
| IP: None |
|
|
| admirschleck |
Posted on 18-04-2014 18:25
|
Team Leader
Posts: 6566
Joined: 11-10-2010
PCM$: 200.00
|
Woah, pretty bad results this season for Aker and B&O so far (that's what I could notice, correct me if wrong).
Was great race to follow, FDog. Few good reports there!
|
| |
|
|
| tsmoha |
Posted on 18-04-2014 18:25
|
Directeur Sportif
Posts: 11786
Joined: 19-07-2010
PCM$: 300.00
|
Nice to see Li grabbing some points for Wiki here. Always great to see loanees doing well in PT, even though it's more like a lucky result. But this race will ever suit him, so it ain't totally senseless
Congrats, P'stars and B'rovka! Huge race for both.
|
| |
|
|
| CountArach |
Posted on 18-04-2014 18:29
|
Grand Tour Champion
Posts: 8205
Joined: 14-07-2008
PCM$: 200.00
|
Congrats to beagle for the win and thanls for the quick reports FroomeDog.
A great race for us with 2 inside the top 10 on GC and 2nd in the team classification. Also a top 30 for Stallaert was unexpected at the start of the race but even more welcome points. We gave got on to the right foot from the start here, so we have to push this on from here!
|
| |
|
|
| roturn |
Posted on 18-04-2014 19:14
|
Team Manager
Posts: 22045
Joined: 24-11-2007
PCM$: 3900.00
|
Scored about 170 points here, which is okay I think.
So in total this is about 30 PPRD so far, which will pretty quickly start to reduce I guess.
As soon as the mountains come. |
| |
|
|
| SotD |
Posted on 18-04-2014 20:00
|
World Champion
Posts: 12632
Joined: 29-11-2006
PCM$: 2980.00
|
Saved by my favorite talent, Koretzky... A really poor Qatar as usual for me. Not since Hushovd was my main rider have I had any sort of succes here. A stagewin is nice.
|
| |
|
|
| beagle |
Posted on 18-04-2014 20:13
|
Grand Tour Specialist
Posts: 4235
Joined: 06-10-2007
PCM$: 200.00
|
Gustav, tsmoha, Count - thanks!
Manager of Polar in Man-Game
|
| |
|
|
| niconico |
Posted on 18-04-2014 20:50
|
Classics Specialist
Posts: 3926
Joined: 09-07-2007
PCM$: 200.00
|
Dissapointing by Dempster, but seeing a 78TT guy like Boom finish so long down the ranks with Steensen in 5th place must mean that there is some randomness with these short ITTs.
Overall good for us
|
| |
|
|
| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 18-04-2014 20:52
|
Grand Tour Specialist
Posts: 4461
Joined: 07-10-2012
PCM$: 200.00
|
niconico wrote:
Dissapointing by Dempster, but seeing a 78TT guy like Boom finish so long down the ranks with Steensen in 5th place must mean that there is some randomness with these short ITTs.
Overall good for us
I think those who went earlier had a bit of an advantage, but the wind speed was pretty constant. Maybe the direction swung around and gave the later starters more of a headwind. |
| |
|
|
| Roman |
Posted on 19-04-2014 02:17
|
Grand Tour Specialist
Posts: 4279
Joined: 29-05-2007
PCM$: 200.00
|
@beagle Yeah, I was joking as well. I am happy with final results as much as you are. Sergent and Howard could do a little bit better, but they had a good race indeed too. Relegation places should be way behind me now, hopefully I will never come close to that in this season again, you probably as well!
@tsmoha Thanks!
|
| |
|
|
| dave92 |
Posted on 19-04-2014 19:10
|
Classics Specialist
Posts: 2856
Joined: 21-04-2007
PCM$: 200.00
|
tsmoha you're right, valuable performance from Li and Bookwalter here to get a couple decent GC results. Interesting race, particularly with the wind playing a major role.
|
| |
|
|
| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 21-04-2014 20:54
|
Team Manager
Posts: 31706
Joined: 08-03-2007
PCM$: 200.00
|
Not a good race at all for Swift, but wow Kittel, amazing
So damn close to a first ProTour victory for him, but far more importantly, taking 3rd overall. Against the odds, that is the first sponsor goal (Top 3, Qatar) completed 
|
| |
|
|
| CrueTrue |
Posted on 21-04-2014 23:16
|
Tour de France Champion
Posts: 27880
Joined: 20-10-2006
PCM$: 200.00
|
Nothing noteworthy by Vueling here. Fairly forgetable performance by Kennaugh, but then again, he's not a top-top-top sprinter. |
| |
|
