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Tour of Eritrea Discussion
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 05-08-2016 00:26
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Ugh.
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 05-08-2016 00:51
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Horrible performance by our big hope Matthews, but on the same time a good stage for us with Lowe holding on to his 8th GC. If he can cling on to a top 10 after the final stage it will be banana bonanza here!  |
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 05-08-2016 09:21
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Bad daily form is shit.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 05-08-2016 09:25
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wow Löfkvist!
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| jph27 |
Posted on 05-08-2016 09:28
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Fantastic reporting roturn, great work from a perspective of both pace and quality! Congrats also to UBS
And what a brilliant race for us. Pinot in 3rd, Yates in 11th and winning the U25 rankings, Gallopin and Sisira in 27th and 28th, and the teams classification as well. 220 points here by my calculations, which combined with Bellis finishing 2nd in the Berner Rundfahrt makes February very good to us so far. |
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| Margh Norway |
Posted on 05-08-2016 09:34
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Exciting last kilometres, gratz to UBS!
Ricco and Pinot really make amends for the Tachira losses.
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| matt17br |
Posted on 05-08-2016 09:39
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That was so much closer than expected for the GC, would never have thought Amador could lose so much. That said, that's really about the only race Ricco could have taken away from him in the entire calendar considering the hilly prevalence, but the Costa Rican still resisted which is an excellent signal for UBS.
Nou luck for us in the Kom rankings, mediocre but expected race overall. Congrats to all those who got a lot out of this!
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 05-08-2016 09:45
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Leader Gilanipoor crashes out early in this stage race, but his helper Trent Lowe rolls up his sleeves and finishes 9th in GC, that's unbelievable! 
Trent Lowe! <3
Thank you so much roturn for amazing reporting in a challenging last stage with lots of splits. You covered them all! |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 05-08-2016 09:51
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Wow what a hilly stage that one was, really tough one for Amador and hurt him hard did the Cobra. Cunego falling off the podium is a surprise this type of stage used to be his forte.
Really interesting to see Ricco and Pinot bounce back nicely here, good news for their managers.
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 05-08-2016 09:55
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Another underwhelming result here. Landa finishing 9th on the stage is pretty pointless even though it was a decent effort and another failed slagter attack.
Atleast we had one good stage here!
Appreciate the effort roturn!
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| Selwink |
Posted on 05-08-2016 10:00
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Y u no attack?
Very disappointing race. Rodrigues tried sosomething at least, but Serebriakov will need to start performing a bit better than he did here. Maybe bringing a lead-out would've helped a bit
Thanks for the reports
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| Shonak |
Posted on 05-08-2016 10:03
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Huiiii! Nice stage by Strava, Vanendert wirh a great 2nd place. No beating Ricco here, gratz aidan. Potts a beast again, attacks with the top puncheurs  Would have loved another stage after this one for Modolo hmm..
Great job reporting this race, roturn, and gratz to UBS
Edited by Shonak on 05-08-2016 10:21
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 05-08-2016 10:17
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First of all one of the best reports I've ever seen, ty!
tbf Roche should've been in the group ahead at least, but 7th in the GC is still fantastic, combined with 2 stage wins and the Points Jersey, our rivals did score a lot, but so did we Gratz to UBS and your race planning tactics are already paying off
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| Bikex |
Posted on 05-08-2016 10:34
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Grrr Kiserlovski... How many more times I have to read that he wasn't focused and dropped? I hope the main reason for this is his crash on stage 3 and that this stays his biggest fuckup this season, but I'm not overly optimistic. Denifl will hopefully play a bigger role in his races, he also starts into the season this month at Catalunya.
I have to admit Nepomnyachsniy made kind of up for the lack of performance from our leader here, only closely missing out on the sprinters jersey to Lavoine. |
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| aidanvn13 |
Posted on 05-08-2016 10:34
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GC
| 1 | Andrei Amador | Team UBS | 23h55'19 | | 2 | Riccardo Ricco | Team Telkom for Africa | + 10 |
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 05-08-2016 11:08
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Pretty happy with that final stage. Extremely happy with Herrada getting out on the attack and winning the KOM in the process. 10th in the GC for Valls, a top 25 for Herrada and a couple others in the Top 50 should bring some decent points.
Good race for the team and thanks Roturn for the reports!
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| Stromeon |
Posted on 05-08-2016 11:10
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Good race from Chamorro, again on the attack although this time in the hills, to secure a pleasing 13th place overall. Was a pretty tense GC fight right at the top there, congrats to UBS and commiserations to Telkom. And of course thank you to roturn for the excellent reporting as always
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| Eden95 |
Posted on 05-08-2016 11:44
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Uh fucking seriously? 4th to 16th on the final stage and so continues our awful start to the season.
Congrats UBS on holding off Ricco. I also expected Trent to be a bit Lower in the overall standings, but he had an amazing race!
Thanks for the reports roturn.
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| Scorchio |
Posted on 05-08-2016 11:53
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Great reporting throughout of what proved to be an exciting race with good action pretty much every day. Deserved winner after the rampage on the mountain, but Ricco got close. Very disappointing performances by Wiesenhof - Monsalve definitely the biggest underperformer of the favourites.
Balance of hilly stages vs mtns make this one a potential planning minefield for PCT teams, which is good!
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 05-08-2016 15:02
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Wow, huge ride from Ricco there. He would have done better to attack a little earlier because it looked like Amador was shattered at the end. Either way, 2nd is not bad so congrats aidan for what it's worth. Also congrats to jph for making it onto the podium in the end.
Thank you roturn for the excellent race! This was the one on Amador's schedule that he would have been least likely to win and we just managed to pull it off, so I am thrilled.
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