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| weirdskyfan64 |
Posted on 15-08-2016 18:44
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Croatia14 wrote:
I feel your pain mate 
Tennant standing on a podium with these two guys is horrible. How on earth is Posthuma able to finish on a podium?
Charming. I admit that it's certainly a turn up for the books, but Joost is still 74 TT.
Very pleased with that result, and the one in San Marino. Good Tour all-round for us.
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"... Because he (me) has a sound tactical mind in general..." jandal7, at 9:30 am GMT on 12th May 2016
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| matt17br |
Posted on 15-08-2016 19:05
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Great effort by Garby to keep his 2nd place away from the most undewhelming Anton in the entire race - gotta feel for Croatia there, first 12 wasted RDs for Tennant pretty much now he can't even get 2nd place and only just hang in to stand on the podium. What a month for Ticos, incredible luck. Congrats!
And ofc thanks for the last 2 reports TR, top coverage of every happening.
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 15-08-2016 19:31
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Always fun to see the impact of a long time trial, even though we didn't have any up there today. Great covered TR! |
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 15-08-2016 19:33
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weirdskyfan64 wrote:
Croatia14 wrote:
I feel your pain mate
Tennant standing on a podium with these two guys is horrible. How on earth is Posthuma able to finish on a podium?
Charming. I admit that it's certainly a turn up for the books, but Joost is still 74 TT.
Well, that was no offense against you or your rider, but I just was surprised how good riders with no back-up stats (65 RES) (-12) and 74 TT (-4 TT) can keep up with Tennant and beat the likes of Steensen...and I still am, but great to see your team going good! 
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 15-08-2016 20:47
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Now, with all those bad stages for our team, since stage 3, I really hope on Geschke or Vanderaerden to perform in the last stage.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 15-08-2016 20:47
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After destroying both my phone and computer, luckily my television managed to survive 
Great TT for Barton, didn't expect the win. Martinez also good, but if he was just a little bit better in the two previous stages he would've been in the top 5 for sure, maybe even podium...
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| The Rider |
Posted on 15-08-2016 21:12
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Pan flat TT and Barton winning it with 65 FLT! Things like that shouldn't shock us now, still would have been nice for FLT stat to somewhat matter in a TT like this. Taking nothing away from the winner!
One stage to go. Will post the rankings points each team got from this race when the final stage comes tomorrow: because = why not! |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 15-08-2016 21:17
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Ffs Salinas...
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."
[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT]  Xero Racing
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 15-08-2016 22:06
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Croatia14 wrote:
ryant wrote:
thats a big f*cking joke
-5 form every fucking day yay!
I feel your pain mate
Tennant standing on a podium with these two guys is horrible. How on earth is Posthuma able to finish on a podium? I feel even more bad for Steensen, who should've been the toughest opponent for Tennant. Wasted race days.
Anton on the bright side managed to jump on a podium he only hardly deserved, maybe his brave attack on the first mountain stage was the curse for a semi-happy end. Hacecky unexplainably bad, sad for D2B but 5th might be where he belongs.
All in all the race was a desaster for us. We won't come back with a squad like this I guess.
The AI gods were against you guys for sure.
I am very happy with 5th in GC for Hacecky, this long ITT was always going to find him out. Pleased with 4th from Bontenackels and 4 in the top 20 means our TTT in Bulgaria might go well.
We have made the top 10 in 10 out of 11 stages, keeps the points ticking along, can we do it again on the flat?
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| matt17br |
Posted on 15-08-2016 22:47
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The Rider wrote:
Pan flat TT and Barton winning it with 65 FLT! Things like that shouldn't shock us now, still would have been nice for FLT stat to somewhat matter in a TT like this. Taking nothing away from the winner!
One stage to go. Will post the rankings points each team got from this race when the final stage comes tomorrow: because = why not!
Flat doesn't count in any tt
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| The Rider |
Posted on 16-08-2016 09:33
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And we're done. That's my MG coverage done for a time, there we go!
Here are the points each team takes from the ToME:
| Team Ticos Air Costa Rica | 167 | | Carlsberg - Danske Bank | 151 | | Löbauer Stadtwerke - Etixx | 85 | | New Balance | 73 | | MOL - OMW Petrom | 61 | | Kraftwerk Man Machine | 60 | | Isostar - Adriatic | 59 | | Chiquita - Universal | 49 | | cycleYorkshire s/b ASDA-Savers | 48 | | Sauber Petronas Racing | 44 | | KAYAK-Clas Ohlson | 43 | | Xero Racing p/b Octagon | 43 | | Compal - Merida | 3 |
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 16-08-2016 09:36
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Very nice to be fourth, that ranking gives me more happiness as I am having some kind of good and bad sensations. Thanks for the reporting The Rider!
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 16-08-2016 09:50
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slow clapping for my team on the last stage...brilliant, to get in the breakaway in every stage but the successful one
points out of this are shocking for us...if we continue like this we'll have nothing to do with promotion...
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 16-08-2016 09:51
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matt17br wrote:
The Rider wrote:
Pan flat TT and Barton winning it with 65 FLT! Things like that shouldn't shock us now, still would have been nice for FLT stat to somewhat matter in a TT like this. Taking nothing away from the winner!
One stage to go. Will post the rankings points each team got from this race when the final stage comes tomorrow: because = why not!
Flat doesn't count in any tt
which is horrible...
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 16-08-2016 09:57
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Ffs we finally do some amazing work... To get 7th. Waste of RDs, under 4pprd is terrible
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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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 16-08-2016 09:58
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Scary last stage still, Martinez not in the best op shape in the last days. What could've been...
Thanks for the reports TR, and congrats to all the winners and those who were more successful than us.
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 16-08-2016 10:08
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Xero doing exactly what we did on the final stage of the TDU.
Congrats Ste on the win and thanks TR for the great reports!
"What done is, is one." - Benji Naesen
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 16-08-2016 10:16
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Thx the rider for covering this! Despite resulting very bad for us it were some quality reports, also thy for the "points scored" table that even hurt me more...
Can you tell me if Juodvalkis crashed somewhere or was he just that bad? I mean 40th without trying a break would be stunningly bad as he didn't had to work the whole tour 
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 16-08-2016 11:09
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Finally we were able to do something! And it's awesome to see our young recruit Getachew Sendeku taking a podium in his debut race. It's our only 3 points of the tour, but it was 3 really fun points!
Thank you so much for covering this huge stage race in such pace TR. Brilliant! |
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 16-08-2016 11:25
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Nice to get the top 10 GC but I was hoping to add a few more points to that then what we did, especially as this has been a good race for us in the past.
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