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| ivaneurope |
Posted on 16-12-2020 21:51
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7th for Kristoff - could've been better, but not everyone can be a winner.
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 16-12-2020 23:42
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Selig in 25th is what I feared but also kinda expected. Unfortunate, but it almost doesn't matter because Didier Munyaneza is a wonderful wonderful rider!! Just like Samuel Mugisha in Ras Tailteann and Moise Mugisha in Columbo, our young guys are making our race by scoring points from breakaways and honestly, everything else aside, that is the best case for our season, which is development-focussed anyway. Hopefully he can keep the lead in at least one of the two classifications for a few more days. Either way, this takes a lot of pressure off our sprinters to perform in this frenzy.
Congrats to Heine for the win, good couple of days for you  And as always, thanks for the report!
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 17-12-2020 00:09
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What's the deal this year with sprinters just letting a gap go in the final few km for no reason? For all the stuff that happened last year, I don't remember that being so common. Commiserations to TMM.
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| redordead |
Posted on 17-12-2020 06:11
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8th place is better than nothing and at least a few bonus seconds, but we need to see more from Saber in the coming stages.
Congrats to Heine, Mapei are really performing at the moment
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 17-12-2020 07:19
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Once again, Reinhardt was on the lucky side of sprint AI - don't ask me why, but so far the game seems to like him this season...
I^m definitely very happy with 3rd, as this almost ensures a few GC points at the end - barring any splits, of course... Still, the rest of the team is invited to actively participate in the race as well. Munyaneza showed them how it's done today.
Thanks for another nice sprint report to SN, and congrats to Heine
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 17-12-2020 08:19
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Another top 10 for Cav is very encouraging for a decent GC place. The AI seems to like him for some reason, its not down to any leadout from the team who were all way down the results again.
The lottery aspect is not good for the game and I feel for managers of sprint favourites who are not being given a chance due to AI behaviour.
Thanks for the report SN and congrats to Heine.
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| quadsas |
Posted on 17-12-2020 08:38
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Disgustan
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| ivaneurope |
Posted on 17-12-2020 20:39
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And yet another 7th. Meh.
PS: Another brilliant report and congrats to the winner today
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 17-12-2020 20:40
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Eventhough we once again didn't take part in the sprint, it's super cool to see a train actually working as intended, two even. Should give Podium Ambition a bit of hope  Congrats to Sykkel!
I'm of course very hyped that Munyaneza is still in the lead in both white and the polkadots, but he should better get into a breakaway again on one or two of the next stages to secure it. Maybe he's far enough behind in the GC at 16 now to be allowed.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 17-12-2020 20:41
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Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| quadsas |
Posted on 17-12-2020 20:43
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good? Should guarantee Dzervus scores some depth GC points too if not higher than Guerao if dude doesn't get his shit together
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 17-12-2020 20:52
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Nice to be in the break again and do quite well. A second KoM-place between stages is worth one point, and iirc a shared second place (even if the rider is "third" ) also gives you the same amount of points as the rider in second place? Then this race at least won't be a zero-pointer, couldn't be happier 
Congratz Sykkel!
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 17-12-2020 20:57
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absolutely pathetic, sprint races is not our forté
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 17-12-2020 21:06
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Well, I guess it can't be a podium every day. Still hoping to see Reinhardt picking a better wheel tomorrow - or the team finally setting him up something like a train.
At least, they tried to attack today, already much better than on stage 1. Still not enough, though.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 17-12-2020 22:12
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I... just... sprinting is such a f*cking lottery i just don't get how we don't win that match-up? We were legitimately more successful in the PT against stronger opposition in less advantagous positions.
God i want to keep Ewan in the CT to see how badly that can go 
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 17-12-2020 22:21
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When I said you don't have to build a train, I didn't mean sit at the back and plummet down the teams classification...
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 18-12-2020 00:06
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TheManxMissile wrote:
I... just... sprinting is such a f*cking lottery i just don't get how we don't win that match-up? We were legitimately more successful in the PT against stronger opposition in less advantagous positions.
God i want to keep Ewan in the CT to see how badly that can go
Even weirder to me is how both Ewan and Guarnieri actually lost ground on almost everyone behind after launching their sprints.
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| redordead |
Posted on 18-12-2020 05:53
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Better from Saber on stage 2. Have to keep that up to achieve a decent GC in the end.
Congrats on another win Sykkel
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| Heine |
Posted on 18-12-2020 08:11
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Even though stage 2 wasn't even close to stage 1 we are still happy. Winning the first stage means a lot of extra points from GC positions through the race so I would say we have gotten more from this than expected already
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 18-12-2020 12:33
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Cav still managing to surf the wheels and gets a fantastic (in the fantasy sense) result.
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