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Tour of the Middle East Discussion
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 13-08-2016 19:40
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So close for Guillen 
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 13-08-2016 20:03
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Nizzolo finally taking a win it seems. Great effort from Guillen yet again, looks like he will have another great season in CT.
Will be pleasant to watch the GC-battle again though.
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| weirdskyfan64 |
Posted on 13-08-2016 20:30
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Another day, another break. We'll get a win eventually.
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"... Because he (me) has a sound tactical mind in general..." jandal7, at 9:30 am GMT on 12th May 2016
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 13-08-2016 20:36
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What on Earth is wrong with Clarkey...
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 13-08-2016 21:00
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We´re the most active team of the whole race, yet we stand there with 0 points out of this. Great to see Laas, Katrasnik, Tennant and Kaasa all agressive and Anton too agressive...
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| matt17br |
Posted on 14-08-2016 00:43
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Ha now that was a win-win situation for New Balance, rare enough to see riders get caught on the line, even more absurd to see a teammate get him covered!
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 14-08-2016 01:13
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roturn wrote:
matt17br wrote:
Shit backup stats in CT still manage to win races. Rowe is the best example in the MG as for fatty sprinter, and yet he can dominate those 2-3 sprint stages all year. Could be a not mediocre season for him if well planned, and sending him here is smart as no top ct sprinters can be found. He could still snatch another win I guess. Congrats Ryan, great reporting as always Rider
You seem to forget Nizzolo as one of the best sprinters in CT heavily underperforming at the moment.
Even in CT I never had thought Rowe would do any good as all those 78/78 or 79/79 I had expected a lot stronger.
I think Salleh is Underperforming his 80/80 aswell, that said Awang has been a killer leadout for him but his other leadout rider Manan has always been nowhere to be found, I'm not really sure why he hasn't just closed up on Awang's wheel instead though but it does seem to have cost him.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 14-08-2016 09:48
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FML Salinas can you please be good for once. Good to see Hirschlein in the mood even though he managed to go from attacking the GC guys to 34th without note.
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| jaxika |
Posted on 14-08-2016 09:57
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Bad, bad stage for us...Hoping for better stages  |
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 14-08-2016 10:13
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Patience rewarded 
Kraftwerk on the front for Hacecký who delivered another strong performance exceeding expectations, just as well, he will need lots of time before the ITT.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 14-08-2016 11:45
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Martinez moves up one position, podium is in sight 
And Drapac survived, just 
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 14-08-2016 12:00
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Hopefully Garby can keeps his lead here, would be nice for my personal Danish pride
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 14-08-2016 12:48
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First time, we were in a break(well, Geschke killed one break on stage 2). Sadly Thill couldn't match his companions. Then we tried with Vervaeke, but he couldn't match his companions, and De Clercq manifesting his 11th place. Get that Top10 Bart!
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 14-08-2016 13:14
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De la Cruz with the stronger TT, hoping to keep that gap less than 30 seconds going into it.
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 14-08-2016 14:21
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Just had a good catch up on the ToME - well done to all the stage winners and nice GC lead for Garby.
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| ryant |
Posted on 14-08-2016 14:36
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I dont get how Tvetcov is so underwhelming here? He has great backups so I dont know where its gone so wrong for us, we shouldn't be in 9th and I hope he can improve somehow... :/
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 14-08-2016 15:02
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Few of the top riders really underwhelming here, odd
Anyway, Delacruz in a great position now, seems like a great race for the costa rican team, will be interesting to follow their seasons development.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 14-08-2016 15:36
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Another great stage for Garby here, at least for the top 5 goal. But De La Cruz is well within striking distance still to take the jersey either in the mountains or the TT. We have to put more time into him the next two stages to avoid that.
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| weirdskyfan64 |
Posted on 14-08-2016 17:17
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YES! I don't care that Kim Magnusson ignored the prospect of sprint stages later on to flog himself in the break, I don't care that Poorseydi had 4 minutes at one point yet still tanked and ended up at 6'46 down, I don't care that this is as good as it's going to get, I don't care that I'm still not quite sure which order Songezo Jim's name goes in- to channel my inner Bjorge Lillelien, Ticos, Carlsberg, Kraftwerk, New Balance, MOL, Isostar, your boys took one hell of a beating!
(Having said that, I'm fully aware that the gap was brought down to 1'01 by the end, and Poorseydi was dropped comfortably, so it was more like 'Your boys took a narrow defeat while making sure to peg back our boys in order to preserve GC positions and take out our team as a long term threat!)
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"... Because he (me) has a sound tactical mind in general..." jandal7, at 9:30 am GMT on 12th May 2016
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| weirdskyfan64 |
Posted on 14-08-2016 17:18
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Superb report!
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"... Because he (me) has a sound tactical mind in general..." jandal7, at 9:30 am GMT on 12th May 2016
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