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Tour of Northern Europe Discussion Thread
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| tyriion |
Posted on 11-12-2013 16:14
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alexkr00 wrote:
With the time-trials before the cobbled stage, I think Posthuma will be leading the team here, not Trentin.
SShhhh. I should have asked for Trentin to lead one race in the contract 
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| ember |
Posted on 11-12-2013 16:25
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Cancellara in beast mode!
That win sets him up perfectly for the rest of the race, that's for sure. Congratulations, Smowz!
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 11-12-2013 16:30
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tyriion wrote:
alexkr00 wrote:
With the time-trials before the cobbled stage, I think Posthuma will be leading the team here, not Trentin.
SShhhh. I should have asked for Trentin to lead one race in the contract
What about the cobbled classics and his result from Ronde?
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| Smowz |
Posted on 11-12-2013 19:21
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Cancellara got the best of the conditions there by the looks. A perfect start to the race, he us just bang on where we could hope to be before what appears to be the hardest of the hilly stages. Schumacher, Pozzato and Gilbert are the obvious dangers.
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| viking90 |
Posted on 11-12-2013 20:11
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Nice riding in our homecountry, and with a good result by Lindgren at 11th. |
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 11-12-2013 20:22
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I'm ok with this result.
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| Roman |
Posted on 11-12-2013 22:59
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Happy with results, 2nd and 6th, good start really. And that hopefully means Bewley will be still my main leader.
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| roturn |
Posted on 12-12-2013 10:59
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Smowz wrote:
Cancellara got the best of the conditions there by the looks. A perfect start to the race, he us just bang on where we could hope to be before what appears to be the hardest of the hilly stages. Schumacher, Pozzato and Gilbert are the obvious dangers.
I guess Coppel just had a awful day.
Otherwise he should be closer to Cancellara I guess.
Cancellara with the same wind conditions might have done more than ~10s on guys like Schumacher, Bonnet etc. |
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 12-12-2013 15:35
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I kind of expected that... weirdly didn't detract from a good report though. I'm going for stage results then! That was definitely the plan...
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| tyriion |
Posted on 12-12-2013 15:51
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Hard racing, but in the end the big favorites didn't get the maximum result here. And Cancellara did great on his worst terrain.
Too bad Trentin lost so much, maybe room to grab a stage?
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| viking90 |
Posted on 12-12-2013 16:09
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Great to see that we ain´t just there we actually doing something in this race aswell 
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| dave92 |
Posted on 12-12-2013 16:57
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Very aggressive stage for my team and Van Garderen. Have to be pleased with the 2nd place and causing some losses for the cobbled specialists. Additionally, Summerhill only lost 40 seconds which isn't too bad considering the number of riders gapped.
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 12-12-2013 19:06
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Mmm... Really thought Schumacher was gonna win that one. Either way he's sitting perfectly, I only expect a top-10 by the end of this.
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| ember |
Posted on 12-12-2013 22:16
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That turned out as a really nice stage. Congratulations to Venchi and Sykkel_Freak, no doubt Di Maggio has what it takes to win i against some of the big guys as well.
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| niconico |
Posted on 12-12-2013 22:36
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Not too bad from Kruijswijk, Guldhammer and Vandborg. Unfortuneately Kruijswijk has been very anonymous this season. I'm hoping he can get a good result here!
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| Smowz |
Posted on 12-12-2013 22:37
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Acceptable, depends now on whether Fab can claw back time on the chrono on stage 5. Would have lived to been still in the lead but I guess it could give the team a break.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 12-12-2013 23:13
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A bit surprised Trentin lost so much time. He's not a bad puncheur.
But Posthuma and Sinkeldam are still there. The first one will struggle on the cobbles and the second on in the time - trial, but hopefully, in the end, one of them will be in the top 10 
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| Smowz |
Posted on 13-12-2013 16:06
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Nice to see a lead out attempted, JVH is actually sprinting decently cannot complain about finishing behind swift Boonan and Benny.
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| beagle |
Posted on 13-12-2013 19:25
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Great to see Tommeke in good shape again
However I don´l like the fact that in general my sprint train doesn´t work as it could through the whole season. I would expect to see something like Kluge-Holloway-Boonen green machine, totally destroying all opponents
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| Roman |
Posted on 14-12-2013 01:21
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Great riding Coppel, fantastic effort in that stage 2... Keep it up Milka boys!
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