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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 18-09-2022 08:51
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Lutz Berg you legend! Already a win in the Roubaix Velodrome in the CV 
Not great from Vanmarcke so far. Struggling even in C1.
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 18-09-2022 15:28
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Juris Eisaks repaying his training with a second win. Hope he can inspire the rest of his Renault teammates.
Daniil Detenyshev's 4th place in Paris - Roubaix U23 is a fantastic result for a 20 year old!
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| Shonak |
Posted on 18-09-2022 19:19
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Wrapping it up March today. Next week will be a bit slower as I have a marathon race on the weekend and also need do some more races for May to increase the backlog.
Spoiler If I saw it rigt, GVK is the first rider to have won all big cobble races - Omloop, E3, Gent, Roubaix and Ronde, and even Dwars. Congratulations to making history, Ollfardh! |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 18-09-2022 20:20
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Huge finish to March for us! When we we sent several big guns to Criterium International, we knew they all needed to execute to justify those race days. Mullen did his job perfectly with the stage win, and Boily was perfect throughout. Winning the mountain stage is unexpected and amazing, and of course even better to win the GC. His time trialing comes up clutch again, as did his attentiveness on stage 1 to make that first group.
Exciting race in Gent Wevelgem too! 8th for Langlois is good considering the stacked startlist. Going into the final few km's I really thought he had a shot at the podium, but he was positioned too far back and kept having to work his way around cracked riders,w hich led to an early sprint. Absolutely insane wind all day too, so that didn't help.
Looking at the rankings, I can't be disappointed with what we've done so far. It doesn't feel like we've actually raced that much, but we're executing at an awesome rate - an unsustainable rate, for sure, but one I love to see. 2nd best CT team in WT rankings and Prestige, 5th in CT. All works for me. Plus Langlois might actually place decently in the World Cup. We'll ignore the fact that my U23 team hasn't scored a point yet. Doesn't matter.
Thanks for the results and videos Shonak, and good luck with your marathon! 
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 18-09-2022 21:55
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Should I call Criterium International funny or just ridiculous? Don't know... No clue what happened to Chamorro there, he must've been riding with one leg only ^^ No way he should lose 3'30 to Boily or Ospina. Feels really random...
At least Nogueira somewhat salvaged the race by winning the KoM and taking 9th overall, but still, 3 wasted RDs for Chamorro.
At least Romero Martinez showed up in DdV, 8th is a good result for him. Gorriarán taking 7th in U23 P-R is nice as well
The standings still don't look great for us, but at least our Tachira participation makes us the highest scoring CT team in WT so far. Moving up to 7th in the prestige rankings (among the CT teams obviously) is good, although I was definitely hoping for more points in Criterium International. Let's see where we'll end up - hopefully Chamorro can step up in CT races a bit.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 18-09-2022 21:58
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Good team performance in CritInt. Jumps us up nicely in the rankings
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 18-09-2022 22:49
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jandal7 wrote:
Please can some CT teams start racing WT races so we can move out of the promotion spots while still competing in our beloved CT rankings please and thank you
Nice podium from Argiro in CritInt and enjoying leading the CT rankings But yeah, sure we'll fall off and other CT teams will come up in WT races especially, but worrying to be promoting as of now 
Bit sad to only be 2nd in Roubaix Espoirs for Astier but it's ok 
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 18-09-2022 23:39
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We drop to 14th in a month that included multiple cobbled classics plus MSR, theoretically a strong month. Not looking good.
It would be nice if Senechal could actually do well in a a small group sprint on occasion. So far 3 out of 4 in Dwars, 10 out of 11 in E3 and 16 out of 26 in Omloop. OK he loses to the guys who are better than him but he also loses to the guys who are the same and the guys who are worse than him. Vanmarcke who is noticeably worse outsprinted him in both Omloop and E3. Not sure if it is bad luck or because he uses too much energy trying to get separation earlier.
Then how he manages to finish outside the top 50 in MSR and over 4 minutes behind in Gent Wevelgem is beyond me.
Of course I have only myself to blame, the writing was on the wall from last year that he exists in some kind of Bermuda Triangle of PCM15 badness. And I threw a bunch of money at him anyway.
Thanks for the pace Shonak, lets hope Senechal is saving all his luck for Paris Roubaix, the one race where he really ought to have a chance.
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| Ripley |
Posted on 19-09-2022 08:03
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@Shonak: Wow, a marathon! Good luck!
Two more good results for Sagan to wrap up March. I certainly wish it had been Dibben instead of Howard pulling the group in Gent-Wevelgem, but three riders in the top 14 is pretty impressive.
Sagan is still without a win and might well lose the World Cup jersey, but so far he scored more WT points than last season, and that season was amazing.
Grupo Argos already with a frightening lead in the teams ranking.
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 19-09-2022 08:34
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Vanmarcke much better in Omloop with 5th but back struggling again in GW, which is a sprinter favoured cobbles races tbh. Consistent Top 10s is all I ask from hum really.
Thanks for the continued coverage Shonak and all the best for the marathon!
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| dominox |
Posted on 19-09-2022 18:42
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I'm very happy with Komisarek results in march. Glad to see him leading in World Cup and having a decent lead. We all tho know it's one race where he isn't scoring or finishes far from podium and all that lead is gone. Looking forward to next WC races.
And good luck Shonak in marathon mate! |
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 22-09-2022 20:46
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Welter was disappointed to not go for U23 victories this season when we chose Lecomte, but the Luxembourgian showed the world he can already compete at the highest level Winning the KoM in Paris - Nice is great for him and the team, with a decent eighth and tenth place from Niemi as well.
Butenko sixth in Paris - Roubaix U23 is not amazing, but also not the worst, as he definitely likes some hills on the parcours opposed to a pure flat cobbled race. Congratulations to our friends from Deutsche Bahn over there
Then great to see Hoelgaard doing so well in the Criterium International with a stage win and a day in yellow, with Hovland and a decent second place in the time trial a day after. Former rider Nerz finishing second in GC is nice to see as well.
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| Shonak |
Posted on 22-09-2022 21:50
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forgot to upload the stage 3 of crit int https://youtu.be/...
also started tour of south africa |
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 22-09-2022 22:18
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Wadsworth winning our home U23 race!! that's for sure the highlight of our development team's history!!! This win worth full season efforts.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 22-09-2022 22:41
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Thanks for the Crit video Shonak. Really was awesome to see Boily play it so perfectly there. Definitely a weird day of form for riders who both over and underperformed though. Luckily for the lattter it was only 3 race days.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 23-09-2022 06:53
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Love the two wins for Appo in South Africa! And the run in white for Maini of the dev team. Hope Peiffer can do well here on GC, we've won the other two CTGTs I believe but never even podiumed here!
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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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 23-09-2022 06:59
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Was hoping for better in RVV Espoirs, but its ok after Roubaix I guess.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 23-09-2022 09:24
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Marc Herder is my man!
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 23-09-2022 18:51
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Fantastic results from Renault's 20 & 21 year olds to finish 5th, 10th and 11th at Ronde van Vlaanderen Espoirs.
Not sure how 56 Cob 57 Spr Amiel came 5th???
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 26-09-2022 22:38
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Phinney bad positioned from Oude Kwaremont till the last km, 4th is quite a miracle looking where he started to sprint. The podium was more than possible
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