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Posted on 24-11-2024 13:41
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| The Rider |
Posted on 15-01-2015 19:23
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Yes Yes Yes! The sweat was on, but the team pulled through as expected. Brilliant.
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| tastasol |
Posted on 15-01-2015 21:11
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Not a victory, but I'll take it. Congrats, The Rider
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Posted on 15-01-2015 21:24
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Not really surprising outcome there. Bonsucro takes the win easily and hopefully, they can use this to build up a great GC result. I'd like if they could score big enough so that others won't get as many points from here as they would propably like 
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Posted on 15-01-2015 21:59
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Mmm. Not too bad, not great either for Nutresa; we'll take it. Overall the TTT has set this race up for a good GC battle betwwn a raft of interesting contenders - a strong CT-level field.
Thanks as always for the report, nice to see each team feature in an image in the TTT, as it demonstrates well that there are a lot of creative and attractive jerseys in this peloton. Especially like catching a glimpse of Ibanez's national jersey as it doesn't get too many outings, reminds me of what a fantastic job aidanvn13 did for us  .
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| Kentaurus |
Posted on 15-01-2015 22:05
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Okay now that the bad day is out of the way, let's get on to the fun stuff. Seriously looking for a Jackson Rodriguez sprint win on stage 2.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 15-01-2015 22:46
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Last place  , but at least the time gaps are not massive though |
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| Bikex |
Posted on 16-01-2015 16:54
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6th is okay for my team but Rodrigues loosing contact to his team mates sucks. Seems like he still has a bad form. I really hope he soon gets back to his form of the early season races. |
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| Stromeon |
Posted on 16-01-2015 17:54
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Well we weren't expecting anything from that TTT, and we didn't get anything, surprise surprise! The deficit might be handy as it could encourage our riders to attack to make up some time, we shall see.
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| The Rider |
Posted on 16-01-2015 19:14
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Interesting climax there. With the favourites coming over the top together I thought the GC would be retained, but there you go, great effort nevertheless.
Interesting stage coming up, after Paulinho/Losada showed well today, it would be great to see them contest the finish on stage 3 as they have to be amongst the top puncheurs here.
knockout - It really is in the balance if Evonik will promote (With disbandments I reckon at least 8 teams will promote), if Siam continues well here then that is another team in the mix for the places 6th - 10th. Good viewing for the neutral! |
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Posted on 16-01-2015 19:24
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I didn't even know i was in this race and we haven't done much either... 
Tomorrows stage is a big one for me and I hope we will win it at least with JTL in the race. Richardson theoretically can get a decent GC result still but I'm not too hopeful, he'd need to attack a lot earlier like he did in Guatemala and that is not too likely :/ (another low scoring race again I guess)
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 16-01-2015 19:37
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Not particular impressed by the boys and especially CAS's tactical sense...
Not that I expected much else, but hopefully someone gets a good idea in the coming days.
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 16-01-2015 20:02
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It was nice to see Zoidl in the break, hopefully he can add to his tally of KOM points later in the race and challenge for the jersey. I don't think we will get anything out of the race GC wise now as we lost too much time in the TTT. Breaks or the freedom for someone to make a late attack and get a stage win is all we can hope for now.
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 16-01-2015 21:43
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Rodrigues  You never know where you have him!
Got too admit this was not the result I was hoping for.. and loosing time to Rodrigues is the worst rider too lose time too aswell..
It will be tough to challenge Rodrigues for the GC win but we will definetely not give up without a fight!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 16-01-2015 23:14
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We were really looking forward to racing in Azerbaijan, now we just want to go home  |
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 17-01-2015 03:42
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Surprisingly decent in the TTT. Also a good stage 2.
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| Selwink |
Posted on 17-01-2015 11:04
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Slightly disappointed to see all my riders drop, that should hopefully improve during the next stages.
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| Kentaurus |
Posted on 17-01-2015 16:36
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sutty68 wrote:
We were really looking forward to racing in Azerbaijan, now we just want to go home
I second this opinion. Maybe stage 5 can still salvage this for us in a sprint, but getting everyone dropped was not good.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 17-01-2015 18:02
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Kentaurus wrote:
sutty68 wrote:
We were really looking forward to racing in Azerbaijan, now we just want to go home
I second this opinion. Maybe stage 5 can still salvage this for us in a sprint, but getting everyone dropped was not good.
Totally agree, i will look forward to stage 5 with eagerness |
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| Selwink |
Posted on 17-01-2015 18:50
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Another very, very, very disappointing and anonymous stage. Firsanov being dropped again is just very bad and below his normal level.
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 17-01-2015 19:00
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Breaks, breaks breaks, Arroyo would actually have gotten a win here if it werent for them..
Ill take the fact that Arroyo was best of the favourites here and only 1 min to GC-leader now should be no match in the final mt stage.
Only benifit by giving the stage to a break-away here is that Rodrigues lost the jersey meaning he got no extra bonus in the final mountain stage! Looking forward to a thrilling battle tomorow (hopefully)!
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