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| Alakagom |
Posted on 20-06-2013 09:45
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I think that went almost perfect for us!
Very happy with 2nd in this field, this gives us bonus seconds as well. And Berard surprised me the most, damn and 8th would be a big bonus here, although he can easily loose it in the hilly stage, still we were the only team with 2 riders in the last group, so another nice sign 
So Marquez needs to do what he did in Tour of Japan, and win the race on a hilly stage 
Gratz to Marchante and ING on the win.
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| Smowz |
Posted on 20-06-2013 10:10
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ING seem to have pulled off a few nuggetty little results like this one.
Nice try by Serpa there to rescue Evian's race.
I think stage 4 is tougher than it looks by the way, it's short stage stretching out those hills which are probably quite steep.
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 20-06-2013 10:41
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Bah, bad stage for us, but kinda expected. On the positive note, it gives more room for breakaways later in the race.
Almost a genius tactic by Evian, but congrats to ING!
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 20-06-2013 11:36
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Epic stage to read. I appreciate all the effort you're putting with the reports. Thank you very much for that ember 
And congrats rycardinho, great win. But it's still anyone's game for the top5.
Also loved the stage, kudos to the stagemaker.
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 20-06-2013 17:43
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Decent, not great. Hoping for a breakaway win on the coming stages. |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 20-06-2013 19:20
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lol THAT HILL??
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| rycadinho |
Posted on 20-06-2013 19:23
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Stage 2: Thanks a lot guys for the kind words, what a great performance overall by the team to keep things under control and Marchante timing his sprint perfectly to catch our old friend Serpa in the final meters!
Stage 3: Thank god that Marchante didn't get caught in that random split though I'm sad to see that something so random can still occur. PCM 12 when showing it's true colors 
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 20-06-2013 19:29
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No surprise that Lay missed the split. First bad race from him this season
I'lll lookt to it from the bright side: more time lost for Blazquez to go in a break in the next stages and to surprise.
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 20-06-2013 19:33
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Schinker  wtf is up with his form? I thought he had that for a second.
Feel sorry for GC riders caught behind the split, but it moves Ndbri up to seventh overall. Points are looking good from this race. |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 20-06-2013 19:39
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I guess it is always details we like to know with those sorts of splits.
Is it the wind? - I am not unconvinced that splits cannot happen in pcm12 because of the wind.
The second pack didn't sit up at first either, but did end up losing a huge chunk of time near the end.
Splits do happen in flat stages in stage races sometimes - I wish that pcm would model it a little better though. It does seem random where some of the GC favourites end up sitting in the pack.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 20-06-2013 19:40
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I want to punch something! 
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| Christer |
Posted on 20-06-2013 19:43
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Team WWE rode like champs this stage. I feel like Greipel really deserved that stage. Hopefully, they'll keep the strong riding up, and Greipel reaps the rewards.
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| jph27 |
Posted on 20-06-2013 19:44
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Feel sorry for Mre and Fenian, less so for Die Berg. It helped Serpa, but its still stupid and I'd rather be 6th on merit rather than 9th due to splits like that - as I'm sure others agree! |
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| jph27 |
Posted on 21-06-2013 09:03
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So close for Champas, hopefully he can continue his run of winning every mid-stage KoM in stage 5 and win the classification. Congrats to HTC, shame the final climb was unselective though. |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 21-06-2013 09:24
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This is going to perfection so far, although last stage could be a tricky one, splits could happen easily on those laps..
To today's stage, wow, Goos was really strong, did not expect him to take a win there, great to see our talents already performing nicely. And even better, Berard survived the stage with his really crappy hill stat, so there's a chance for us to gain some unexpected points in that 5th in GC We might be top scoring team here in a race where we needed points most, good to see the team performing well under pressure!
Edited by Alakagom on 21-06-2013 09:25
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 21-06-2013 17:28
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Good that we kept 7th overall anonymously, hoping to keep that tomorrow. |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 21-06-2013 17:53
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Brilliant 2nd and 5th are more than I hoped for combined. A stge win added to it further.
Overall, great Tour for us, can't complain and will helps us loads to achieve our last goal.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 21-06-2013 17:56
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First win of the season!  Who would have thought it would be Gil...
Abal finishes 14th overall.
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| Christer |
Posted on 21-06-2013 18:04
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At least I got the point jersey. Not too bad.
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| jph27 |
Posted on 21-06-2013 18:08
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Meh.
Great, fast paced reporting ember |
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