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Tour de San Luis Discussion
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| fintas |
Posted on 05-02-2013 17:39
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very strange stage, but my sprinters were better than expected. yet still no hope for this race.
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| rycadinho |
Posted on 05-02-2013 17:43
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Good start by our sprinter, now let's protect Zabriskie and avoid any stupid crashes please.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 05-02-2013 18:07
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Have been expecting this race eagerly. I brought Plaza here with the intent of getting a top5 but the event is pretty ambiguous as to its hilly stages. The climbs don't seem to be tough enough to let go of Zabriskie or Cornu so it'll be hard for anyone to steal the victory from them imo. Anyway with Mendes and Avelino here I hope I can get a stage victory as well.
Looking at the field I find it a little weird to read the names of Vanspeybrouck and Krasnoperov here, but I guess their managers had already his race days.
Stage 1 is another testimony to the chaos in the sprint area in PCT. My sprinter is clearly unable to score when he wears himself out with intermediate sprints. Here's to hoping a more numerous breakaway gets lucky in the next stages.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 05-02-2013 20:13
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MrDemus wrote:
It is the wrong Eislers representing me!
I have Ingus Eislers, not Sandis...
Why have you waited until now to point this out?
The race planner, which you filled in and submitted, has Sandis rather than Ingus. Yes, this was a mistake - but its just as much your fault for not pointing this out to me at the time.
Ingus will still get the XP for riding in San Luis though.
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| MrDemus |
Posted on 05-02-2013 22:29
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SportingNonsense wrote:
MrDemus wrote:
It is the wrong Eislers representing me!
I have Ingus Eislers, not Sandis...
Why have you waited until now to point this out?
The race planner, which you filled in and submitted, has Sandis rather than Ingus. Yes, this was a mistake - but its just as much your fault for not pointing this out to me at the time.
Ingus will still get the XP for riding in San Luis though.
PM sent to you January 2nd: To SportingNonsense
Date 02. January 2013 11:57
Subject RE: Race Planner
Just to correct a mistake. You have me down for cyclist 3201 Sandis Eislaers. I have bought cyclist 616 Ingus Eislers
To which you replied: Okay, thanks for pointing that out. Easy to fix in the file though, same race day allocation
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 05-02-2013 22:51
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MrDemus wrote:
SportingNonsense wrote:
MrDemus wrote:
It is the wrong Eislers representing me!
I have Ingus Eislers, not Sandis...
Why have you waited until now to point this out?
The race planner, which you filled in and submitted, has Sandis rather than Ingus. Yes, this was a mistake - but its just as much your fault for not pointing this out to me at the time.
Ingus will still get the XP for riding in San Luis though.
PM sent to you January 2nd: To SportingNonsense
Date 02. January 2013 11:57
Subject RE: Race Planner
Just to correct a mistake. You have me down for cyclist 3201 Sandis Eislaers. I have bought cyclist 616 Ingus Eislers
To which you replied: Okay, thanks for pointing that out. Easy to fix in the file though, same race day allocation
Well, you didnt fix it in the file did you 
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 06-02-2013 05:40
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Our sprinter Vasylyuk coming 12th is not very good, i thought he can benefit from some stronger sprinters going early, well maybe he just did the same mistake. Hopefully he can slip into top 10 in the next stages. Nice that leader Popkov is near the front.
Nice report. 
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| MrDemus |
Posted on 06-02-2013 16:44
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SportingNonsense wrote:
MrDemus wrote:
SportingNonsense wrote:
MrDemus wrote:
It is the wrong Eislers representing me!
I have Ingus Eislers, not Sandis...
Why have you waited until now to point this out?
The race planner, which you filled in and submitted, has Sandis rather than Ingus. Yes, this was a mistake - but its just as much your fault for not pointing this out to me at the time.
Ingus will still get the XP for riding in San Luis though.
PM sent to you January 2nd: To SportingNonsense
Date 02. January 2013 11:57
Subject RE: Race Planner
Just to correct a mistake. You have me down for cyclist 3201 Sandis Eislaers. I have bought cyclist 616 Ingus Eislers
To which you replied: Okay, thanks for pointing that out. Easy to fix in the file though, same race day allocation
Well, you didnt fix it in the file did you
Actually, I did. Most likely I did not save it 
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 06-02-2013 18:52
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Great ride by Rollin really happy with the work he put in on that stage looking forward to the report tommorow. |
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| MrOBJ |
Posted on 06-02-2013 19:09
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I´m actually quite happy, even though we didn´t got anything out of today. Both Hansen and Ebsen showed the jersey in the breakaway (Hansen tried, but didn´t succeed). But the race is just a bit to big for us, so we take this as important knowledge, and then the results don´t count! |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 06-02-2013 19:09
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Congrats to Christer it's been an impressive start to te season in te Americas from then.
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| fintas |
Posted on 06-02-2013 19:10
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eighth by Gajek is indeed a pleasant surprise, and we are already doing more than I expected ...
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 06-02-2013 19:19
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Very nice report with the sprint Mre, I particularly enjoyed the WWE references to it. Congrats to Christer, his team have really started the season with the right foot with Greipel in this sort of form. Amex though should be disappointed with Kupfernagel. They've set the sprint really well for him but he couldn't even get a top10.
As jt I'm also very curious about tomorrow. I don't expect time gaps to appear between the favourites for GC, but you never know what this kind of stages may bring you.
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| tyriion |
Posted on 06-02-2013 19:31
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Too bad Lorenzetto couldn't keep the leader jersey as long as Gavazzi, but this way my team gets a bit more rest. Didn't really expect him to be up there anyway, maybe on the final day where the route looks a bit tougher.
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 06-02-2013 19:35
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Gustavovskiy wrote:
As jt I'm also very curious about tomorrow. I don't expect time gaps to appear between the favourites for GC, but you never know what this kind of stages may bring you.
Yeah i'm hoping it has a medium Mo/Hil(on the final climb) ratio which could suit Durasek and obviously Plaza over the pure punchuer but i'm really not sure if there will be gaps to come from it so we will see. |
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| Mhaley45 |
Posted on 06-02-2013 20:34
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What a mixed bag. On the positive side, AMEX riders helped control the race and ultimetly closed down the breakaway. Then Kurth, Keough and Kupfernagel got the sprint train set up (first time ever) but it appears they were too eager. Keough may have left too early for his sprint surprising Kupfernagel, who had to burn energy to catch up. Keough started early and faded early forcing Kupfurnagle to sprint too early and he was overtaken fading to 9th.
This mistake by Keough hurt and we faded out of the stage points, but it is an error that can be corrected and we have 2 more stage here in San Luis to improve.
The sprinters will get a 3 day reprieve as we head first into the hills, then a time trial and back to the hills. Carlos Barredo is AMEX's man on the hills. Stage 3 could be a good opportunity for him to attack and try and steal a stage.
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 06-02-2013 20:41
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Boring stages for me so far, none of my riders in the breakaway and Mezgec didn't get the results i had hoped. Can only get better from now on.
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| CountArach |
Posted on 06-02-2013 22:58
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Feillu has been justifying his rather inflated wage so far this season, so let's hope he keeps that up. He finally learned how to position himself there.
Tomorrow is the real moment of truth.
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| Christer |
Posted on 07-02-2013 00:25
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And Greipel did it again!  He won a stage here last year. He did it again. This is good. I love it when the team is laying the smackdown on the rest of the peloton.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 07-02-2013 05:50
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Vasylyuk 11th, one place better than yesterday, but still quite disappointing when he is beaten with much weaker sprinter like Gajek f.e. He needs to position himself better in the few remaining sprinter stages and fight for more.
Congrats to WWE, Greipel is great so far, like in real life early season.
Now to the decisive three days, i hope Popkov will maintain top 10 position after it, maybe decent mountain skills could help him to gain some time on TT specialists, we need likes of Cornu and Elijzen dropped behind a bit.
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