Sorry about not posting for a bit while I was away.
TONE has been amazing so far, can't believe how well Kwiatek has gone so far! Especially with Terpstra being strangely uninvolved it's good that he can make up for it.
Well I argue Gallopin could do better in theory in ToNe but why should he really. Awesomesauce by Kwiatek. And also Sevilla with another big push for promotion, exceptional races for them lately.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
Stage 7 kind of sucked, as there were no gaps given, the field was more than 2 minutes apart and some of the time trialists in the top 10 would have dropped quite a lot. This kind of ruins the race in overall I think. When designing the route I hoped the hilly stage would shake up the GC quite a bit.
For Italo the race was very disappointing Roelandts, Lutsenko, Vandenbergh all sub-par for basically the entire race. At least 2 stage podiums could be achieved in the end.
Another race Vegeta scores 0 in.
I will now upload the stage files for the coming races, in case someone wants to report some.
15th for Boom in Northern Europe, the best placed non-WT rider if I'm not mistaken. Was hoping for a top 10 but this is ok I guess. Vermote missed the KOM by a single point . I think promotion is beyond us now. Time to start planning for next year's promotion push I think...
Great race for us! A stage win, several top 10 positions in stages and 6th place in GC (very close to 5th, too!) is something I would accept any day. We gain points I believe on all 3 teams below us, sadly apparently not on TVM but well.
Kwiat with a great performance as usual, I wish I would have offered 5 more to take him away from trek :/
4th in the GC is definitely something I'll take. Hadn't expected anything like this at the start of the race. Too bad Durbo lost so much time in the first TT, prolly should've done better with 81TT in this field (though ofc I've had my share of luck already and I'm in no position to complain )
Kwiat was on top form so pretty happy with 2nd in GC and 3rd in Points is good stuff from Blythe who obviously enjoyed a few days off his lead out duties.
Go Kwiatek! Was a goal race iirc so very good to see at least one of them go very well for us, especially as I was very worried Kwiatek's cobble stat wouldn't stand up to 8 days - but in the end he managed a stage win narrowly missing one by less than a second, 5 top tens and no result worse than 16th, Also 5th in points. Maybe more cobble races for him next season!
Pretty happy with Nordhaug and Chavenal too, 2nd in teams is a good result, despite weird under performances from our cobblists (Terpstra 55th!).
Especially with Terpstra being strangely uninvolved it's good that he can make up for it. 
. I think promotion is beyond us now. Time to start planning for next year's promotion push I think...
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