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Tour of South China Sea Discussion
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| jph27 |
Posted on 30-01-2013 21:45
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@Bjartne So are most snails  |
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 30-01-2013 21:56
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Haha, nothing would be better than Lo Cicero silencing the silly Mongolian humour at our expence tomorrow  |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 30-01-2013 22:41
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This race kept wanting to be rated as a hilly race. It took a few edits to finally get it to accept a flat rating. It doesnt look that hard, but maybe it will be.
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| CountArach |
Posted on 30-01-2013 23:00
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A top 10 from Feillu is what I'm after, and will pretty much be his goal in all the sprint classics. But if the hill really does count for something then a top 5 should be possible as that plays to his strengths.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 31-01-2013 05:59
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Last year this was a strange race, hopefully with slightly changed parcour this will be more interesting. But i think sprinters like LoCicero aand Cavendish can be pretty empty in the finishing line, lets wait for it. I am glad Asia tour is interesting for many good sprinters...why? Because they will have less race days in Europe where it matters for us.
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| roturn |
Posted on 31-01-2013 10:32
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Avin Wargunnson wrote:
Last year this was a strange race, hopefully with slightly changed parcour this will be more interesting. But i think sprinters like LoCicero aand Cavendish can be pretty empty in the finishing line, lets wait for it. I am glad Asia tour is interesting for many good sprinters...why? Because they will have l ess race days in Europe where it matters for us.
Europe has top priority for me as well. But I couldn`t find another suitable race for Vantomme there.
I think I start in all but 3? European C1 races. |
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| Vien |
Posted on 31-01-2013 22:31
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No real hope of getting a top 5 here even though I have four 76+ sprinters. I only chose the race because some others were full. My only chance would be if the course is hillier than I thought and Duque would be one of the only sprinters to survive, but I don't see that happening.
Bring it on!
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 01-02-2013 12:00
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Vueling back on the roads - this time with a podium candidate. Hopefully, it will be the first positive sign in the mission to get back to Pro Tour.
And even if the route proves to be too tough for the sprinters, Reimer is ready to take over |
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| viking90 |
Posted on 01-02-2013 18:24
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Once again we had hoped for more... |
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| Firefly21 |
Posted on 01-02-2013 18:30
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Um, wow. So that happened...
Bizzare, Bizzare race there. Vaitkus takes a nice victory - always good to reward attacking, but where were the sprinters teams? It's like they all gave up at once!
Great result for JK Cycling and Risa, getting a podium and top 5 respectively.
Cya logic strikes again?
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| jph27 |
Posted on 01-02-2013 18:40
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I hear the CT is nice. Horrible race for us, going to be a long season at this rate. |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 01-02-2013 18:42
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I had a feeling something like that would happen!
A real shame that none of my riders got into the breakaway, because they could've picked up some unexpected points here.
Congrats, ANFreeman!
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 01-02-2013 18:45
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I must admit I wasn't expecting much although I would have expected someone to be in the break for us as the route was clearly too hilly for our sprinters.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 01-02-2013 18:47
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Sickening. |
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| tastasol |
Posted on 01-02-2013 18:47
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Dyrnes is just fantastic. Certainly loves to get in the break  Very good result for the team, but the rest was quite crap.. Congrats to ANF, very exciting race.
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 01-02-2013 18:47
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Same thing happened this year as it did last year just a LOT more dramatic this year! unlucky for the sprinting teams but great points for JK and Armavia and of course AirBaltic |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 01-02-2013 18:57
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Kinoshita!!!!!!
Shame I let Masuda go though, could have been a 2nd Turned out much better than I thought, although this wont help me reduce Kinoshita's wages too much at this rate.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 01-02-2013 19:14
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Nice race. I somehow have a feeling that this is Oz's way of scoring points this year: finishing not too high, but still okay, especially as Ford continues to deliver. Definitely the kind of race i was hoping for, so i will take this result too bad Visconti couldn't sprint for more, but i like his attacks so far this season.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 01-02-2013 19:22
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PCM logic for the win. IA bug strikes again. |
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 01-02-2013 20:01
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This season has started with a lot of surprise results in the PCT, especially in the sprints. If this continues like this I reckon we will see a seriously awkward Team Ranking at the end of the season. This is probably the most unpredictable season in this division ever, these kind of results will only shuffle and turn the rankings more and more exciting.
A big blow for some, a huge surprise for others. Congrats to Airbaltic, Vaitkus continues to prove himself.
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