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| Kami |
Posted on 11-08-2015 20:01
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Not as good as i had hoped, but i guess i can't complain to much if i look at what happened to Amador & Gesink. Phinney looking pretty strong, i guess we'll have to hope on a bad day from him in one of the mountain stages, or his lead might grow even bigger.
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| SotD |
Posted on 11-08-2015 20:04
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Top performance by Lecuisinier who was 8th in terms of the GC riders on this mountainstage. Very surprising, and clearly well ahead of some of the top GC favorites, who will end up far ahead of him. Only rival I lost out to was Kenaith, and I have to respect that he is just better.
Some GC rider-managers will be extremely unhappy with this result.
I really miss having a proper guy in the BotD on these mountainstages. Riders like Campero and Grmay haven't been in a single attack all season, and they would have been perfect for this stage.
Lecuisinier up to 2nd in the U25 competition. I hope he can stay there all the way to the finish, and if he can stay aproximately where he is now in the GC I will be very happy.
For stage 9 I would highly appreciate it if one of the aforementioned riders would attack - or Paillot, as he could then take a day in the Polka dot jersey.
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 11-08-2015 20:07
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Interesting first mt stage here. Phinney looking superior but still think he will struggle in the harder mountain stages. It remains to see if he will have enough time to defend it then. Slightly dissapointed by Tenorio here, probably just a bad day. And wow, Cunego really impressive again. Could be another great GT for him. Lots of people doing bad, but Kritskiy again biggest underachiever.
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| ember |
Posted on 11-08-2015 20:10
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That was not as good as hoped for from Guldhammer, thought he should be at least able to follow Pozzovivo and Lecuisinier, but it's probably just fair that he has one of those days after his Giro 
Feel sorry for alexkr00, Gesink most likely putting himself out of contention for the overall podium on the very first mountain stage. Cunego on the other hand.... That was super impressive! Congratulatons, valverde321!
And thanks for the report, tsmoha. |
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| OlegTinkov |
Posted on 11-08-2015 20:45
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Great to see my team is capable of actually listening to the manager and switching tactics fast when needed, youngster Pomoshnikov always delivers, after winning Stage 12 of the Giro d'Italia this year, he again takes a GT stage win!
7 more chances for stage wins now and I still believe Kritskiy can gain at least 1 GC-place in every one of those stages+2xitt, should get him close to top-5
Team and KoM could become interesting later on as well.
Thanks for the report!
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| Smowz |
Posted on 11-08-2015 21:09
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Phinney looking strong there, Pluichkin you feel is biding his time. It feels like Tenorio attacked more times on that climb than he did the entire 2014 Vuelta but still lost time to flatnose himself phin.
Someone needs to call Cunego and tell him it is 2015 already. Some major GC favourites PSM type fails there. Amador, Gesink most notably for me Vuelta win chances gone completely in one day.
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 11-08-2015 21:51
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Brilliant to get a stage win here - Scarponi is just a superb rider for grabbing me so many points every season. Massive overperformer. Love it. The fact he's so far up on GC too? Sweet.
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| beagle |
Posted on 11-08-2015 22:58
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Keinath looked surprisingly strong in first real mountain test, question is if he can maintain this kind of performance for several stages in a row. Frankly, I really doubt
Looking forward to upcoming brilliant reports!
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 12-08-2015 06:47
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Nice job by Pluchkin to not let Phinney and Cunego have a gap in the end. He moved closer to GC podium and distanced some of the biggest climbing rivals like Amador and Tenorio.
Phinney is starting to look dangerous really, when he is at least on par with Aleksandr on the first mountain stage. I just can hope that he will crack in some of the hardest mountain stages.
Great job from Cunego, but he should be beatable thanks to TT and he cant have good days forever, still we need to watch out for him.
Thanks for the nice report tsmoha and congrats Oleg!
Bring on the next mountain test. 
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 12-08-2015 09:27
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What a crazy stage. Massively bad day for Phinney, and Cunego obviously tired from the previous day, hopefully this was a bad day for him though, and the day before wasn't a good day, but just his norm.
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| SotD |
Posted on 12-08-2015 09:30
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Great job by Lecuisinier to moving one up here. Still some guys behind that will clearly jump ahead, and none of the riders ahead of him can be catched.
As long as he stays clever, and not allow the breakaway riders to gain much then top 15 should be doable. Still I really would like to see one of my climbers joining these attacks. If for nothing else, then just for the show.
Now for a Swift win, before getting into a difficult TT - I suspect Gesink might win that one.
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| roturn |
Posted on 12-08-2015 09:31
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Nice comeback Mr. Gesink!
Loved the team work of Project 1t4i and Meiji on this stage.
Tenorio, Pluchkin, Amador in one group as the game should see those 3 as best climbers easily.
Gesink though with the perfect move after yesterdays bad day. He surely needs those early attacks as he otherwise misses the right moves too often.
Kritskiy with a Vuelta to forget. No idea, why he is weak on every single stage. He surely is one for a 3rd week attack I guess.
Phinney. Wow. Surely overperformed yesterday and was too exhausted today. Still he has top5 chances if this is the only bad day of the Vuelta for him. |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 12-08-2015 09:41
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Perfect day for Pluchkin and Metinvest here! 
Phinney was destroyed, Cunego distanced and Pluchkin stayed with his biggest climbing opponents in form of Tenorio and Amador. Gesink with a great effort and win, congrats Alex, but i have to hope he will have some more bad days in high mountains in next week,after expected strong hilly TT, where he can attack GC position of Pluchkin.
Thanks for the great report!
Edited by Avin Wargunnson on 12-08-2015 09:42
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| Sykkel_Freak |
Posted on 12-08-2015 09:41
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This is just plain ridiculous. How do you go from being best of the favorites to losing 9 minutes in one stage? So, so dissapointing.
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| OlegTinkov |
Posted on 12-08-2015 09:44
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@Richie Porte
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 12-08-2015 09:46
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Also known as reversed Landis.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 12-08-2015 09:47
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Gesink, you brilliant motherfucker.
Needless to say, I was not expecting this. At first I was just happy Van der Velde was in the breakaway since he looked strong enough to win the stage if the break was to survive.
But when I saw what was happening I could not believe my eyes. Fantastic team work. I didn't know PCM was capable of that.
Hopefully this was not a one time thing by Gesink and he'll be strong for the remaining mountain stages and be able to hold on to the podium. Like SotD, the next TT is really interesting given it's hilly so I'm really looking forward to that one now.
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| The Rider |
Posted on 12-08-2015 09:47
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roturn wrote:
Kritskiy with a Vuelta to forget. No idea, why he is weak on every single stage. He surely is one for a 3rd week attack I guess.
What about someone who has a better hill stat, a better acc. stat, a better fighter stat and someone who is more Spanish than Kritskiy finishing even further behind on every stage (from a team who doesn't have other mountain goats to get in the way). 4 minutes down on this.
For heavens sake we have appeared in one screenshot on the firs --- AHHHHHH.....
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 12-08-2015 09:51
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Going pretty well for Valv.piti so far, let's see how long it can last.
Love the mad AI.
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| ember |
Posted on 12-08-2015 09:56
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Solid from Guldhammer, around 10th place in this Vuelta seems to be his level, and looking at the GC it's good he was able to gap Pozzovivo and Lecuisinier.
Great to see Gesink bounce back, congratulations alexkr00! He's definitely back in it after that show of power. Phinney on the other hand... Definitely a huge surprise, which doesn't really make sense. Difficult to see the American get back in contention, as he'll struggle to take back two of those five minutes in the TTs left. |
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