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Tour du Faso Discussion
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| jaxika |
Posted on 01-03-2015 15:47
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Congrats to Boeing  |
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 01-03-2015 16:16
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Vanderbiest holding strong in the top 10 hoping for bonus seconds final day and a chance to move up overall |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 01-03-2015 18:37
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Guess valv can be happy with Napo here. Gratz to DD and cio for some good races, too.
Sulzberger unlucky today, but a ridicolous strong GC for Oz anyway. Crushing the TTT definitely paid off Goss doing okay with his one stage-win. Three stage-wins in total, great stuff. Kinda funny to miss out on the team's classification though.
Thanks for the reports and a great pace!
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| jph27 |
Posted on 01-03-2015 18:41
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Now I wait nervously to see if I've managed to keep Meiji behind...
Thanks Rider, great pace and great reports  |
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 01-03-2015 18:41
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I don't even know where to begin after this race. The Man-Game has finally broken me with a truly crushing result. I know survival wasn't exactly in our hands, relying heavily on Hornbach not scoring, but now we just have to sit back and pray to the MGUCI gods for a miracle.
Just enough time to re-group before Japan. Get our heads together and go out with pride... or finish 1-2 with another Top10 and still pull out survival (guess i'm not quite broken yet!)
Grashev was mental in this race and deserved so much more than he got. Some nice other attacks. Couldn't ask more from Thomas considering the AI overall. We just deserved so much more than a single stage win come the end.
Congrats to Oz on a great points haul. Congrats to Gazelle who are always up there. Thanks to The Rider for the reports.
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| cio93 |
Posted on 01-03-2015 18:52
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Well it kinda paid off to stop posting here, didn't it? 
In the end I gotta be happy with this. Could've been better GC-wise and especially with that stupid last stage where we lost 30 points to Meiji alone, but it could've been way worse with a very decisive cobbles stage or Ciolek pulling a Vantomme here too.
Congratulations to Meiji for probably staying ahead for good after this and I can't help but feel really bad for Boeing, this is terrible.
Thank you for the great and fast-paced reports The Rider!
Edited by cio93 on 01-03-2015 18:52
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 01-03-2015 18:56
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Nice 9th from Vanderbiest overall he gets a thumbs up along with Cataford for being in 5 breaks nice race overall and only 2 more left this season now |
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| Selwink |
Posted on 01-03-2015 18:57
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A quiet stage in the end concludes a decent race for us.
Thanks a lot for the good reports and great pace as usual!
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 01-03-2015 19:02
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Thanks for the great reports Rider, great stuff.
Race went perfect I think we scored minimum points possible, riders listened well. Vantomme finishes the season quite a bit behind last year's total making me quite happy ahead of renewals now.
Commiserations Boeing, some performance by Grashev. Literally in break on all stages, which in end cost him the GC.. Hoping for crazy Japan all no lost.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 01-03-2015 19:22
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Alakagom wrote:
Race went perfect I think we scored minimum points possible, riders listened well. Vantomme finishes the season quite a bit behind last year's total making me quite happy ahead of renewals now.
As if your season wasn't already perfect enough 
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 01-03-2015 19:33
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See these are the type of results I was hoping to get in a majority of my races this year, considering my sprint team. It was a good result, and Im happy to leave with the points and a couple stage wins as well as Top 5 GC. Thanks to Puma for making the flat stages more interesting and sorry to Boeing. And finally, thanks for the reports!
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 01-03-2015 20:06
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FroomeDog99 wrote:
Gazelle get ridiculously lucky again... goal of winning the Africa Tour seemingly over for us with that. Shame the AI wasn't up the the cobbles, it's a similar result to last year iirc.
Yeh, the AI just can't handle this sort of cobbled stage anymore it seems - so Faso may have had it's last hurrah.
Ciolek and Napolitano really dominated the sprints, but such a crushing cobbles stage for Boeing. A bit of restraint from Grashev on earlier stages and he could easily have won GC, instead we are stuck with a crappy Hornbach win.
I never really expected Boeing to get so close to evading relegation, but they really came close. I guess not close enough to catch up with Kenya, given that Hornbach look out of reach, and Allianz started Beijing with a bang.
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| cio93 |
Posted on 01-03-2015 20:50
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Wouldn't be surprised if this was the last installation with this weird stage indeed, although I'd be sad as this race always was kind to us even off-cobbles, and I'd certainly contemplate returning with my A squad to have something to look forward to at the end of the season again.
SN will there be another rankings update before the end of the season or are we just gonna wait the remaining 5 race days and remain excited?
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 01-03-2015 22:02
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TTT + the only other selective stage having broken AI = Tour du Farce
We got incredibly lucky to still score many points, but this doesn't feel good at all.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 01-03-2015 22:35
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cio93 wrote:
SN will there be another rankings update before the end of the season or are we just gonna wait the remaining 5 race days and remain excited?
The Rider has sent me the Faso rankings file, so there will be an update shortly
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 02-03-2015 06:21
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Yeh, the AI just can't handle this sort of cobbled stage anymore it seems - so Faso may have had it's last hurrah.
It is really sad, that because latest PCM installments are complete crap, we had to give up these unique and funny races. Soon we will only have mountain stages + sprints left as any sign of decent AI...
Very active tour from Metinvest, especially Tanovitchii and Sosnitskiy. but i did not result in many points and our rivals scored a bunch, so not a good race for us.
Congrats to Oz,Puma, Meiji for great Faso and Gazelle for luck.
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| aidanvn13 |
Posted on 02-03-2015 17:01
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Maksimov in 14th and Lay in 12th (or something) pretty much sums up our tour: absolutely shit. At least now I know relegation is certain
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