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| jph27 |
Posted on 30-06-2021 23:24
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Van der Sande's season continues to be totally bizarre - wins the GC of the first race he enters, then barely a stage top 10 from that point on. Hopefully he can find some form here in what will be his last race in Farfetch colours. |
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 01-07-2021 06:16
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Happy for Aegon, finally Groenewegen does something!
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Posted on 06-12-2025 23:28
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| ember |
Posted on 01-07-2021 06:47
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Congratulations, roturn! |
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| roturn |
Posted on 01-07-2021 08:38
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Thanks to all.
@ember. I still think it will be close till the end anyway, no matter this race here. In Lombardia, big points could go to you I guess. In especially as I don`t have Olivier there and not sure if De Bie will perform there despite huge support.
Tasmania could also go into your favour I guess. I basically have Groenewegen for the one flat stage there only.
Not sure if the Maroc PTHC points can close the gap and extend it enough to avoid a last race relegation in Lombardia. |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 01-07-2021 11:23
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I'm impartial in this relegation fight as I hold both teams in high regard, but that's a strong first showing from Aegon!
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 01-07-2021 22:04
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Congrats, roturn! Must feel really great to have such an amazing start after all those disappointments - it's definitely yours to lose now!
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| roturn |
Posted on 01-07-2021 22:15
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Indeed a great start to this race. One of the greatest in team history as except for Swift I never really won a lot of stages. Doing 2 in one race already is huge.
Hopefully Olivier can go on like this. The team was a bit weak today as he looked to be isolated early but let's see. |
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| ember |
Posted on 01-07-2021 22:49
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roturn wrote:
@ember. I still think it will be close till the end anyway, no matter this race here. In Lombardia, big points could go to you I guess. In especially as I don`t have Olivier there and not sure if De Bie will perform there despite huge support.
Tasmania could also go into your favour I guess. I basically have Groenewegen for the one flat stage there only.
Not sure if the Maroc PTHC points can close the gap and extend it enough to avoid a last race relegation in Lombardia.
I'd say you're very much on your way to make it! Looking at our points scoring in Balkans, which was kind of a similar race, I'd say you'll definitely bring in the points, especially now that you've scored heavily already on both stages. Congratulations again! With the early yellow jersey and two stage wins, I'd say you're looking good to score more than our Balkans score, which should be impossible to catch in Lombardia, as I struggle to see Kwiatkowski as a heavy points scorer in Tasmania.
Also thank you for the reports so far, redordead! I'm obviously following this one closely, and both stages have been exciting to read  |
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| SotD |
Posted on 02-07-2021 07:07
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Argh darn it. This was the stage for Boily to see if he could steal a stagewin.
Stage 3 and 6 are much too difficult, and stage 7 probably too.
Fingers crossed that Zoidl will look for the break tomorrow and fight for the KOM. I guess that is our chance to come away from this race with something, albeit a very small chance.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 02-07-2021 07:36
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Nice to see Bennett keep his powder dry and on the same time if that’s what it’s going to be about for now 
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
[PT]  Xero Racing
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| OlegTinkov |
Posted on 02-07-2021 09:00
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Both Moser and Chernetskiy very close to the podium on the first two stages, time to stop chasing in the peloton and instead get into attacking mode.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 02-07-2021 09:12
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Well, that's Aegon saved 
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| SotD |
Posted on 02-07-2021 20:16
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Oh my god, Nizzolo you worthless piece of ....
Boily best of the rest, shows he had a good day. Too bad he couldn’t get any sort of positive time gap from that...
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 02-07-2021 20:17
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Aegon crushing it. I predict 5 stage wins at least!
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 02-07-2021 20:18
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I'm gonna miss these amazing Brambilla rides.
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| roturn |
Posted on 02-07-2021 20:39
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To be honest, I had preferred 3rd and the 2-3 min gap to the rest as now the GC is still open.
But winning yet again is of course brilliant and all expectations are already exceeded.
First I thought, he is on a rather weak day looking to struggle but still top3. His attack then was strong but unfortunately the end of the trio as afterwards they stopped riding. At least was enough to recover to use his decent kick from small groups to perfection.
Thanks for the report and from now on, I'd like to always get you for my main races reports. |
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 02-07-2021 21:15
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Oh come on.
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| cio93 |
Posted on 02-07-2021 21:29
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Well, we certainly can't complain that this relegation fight will be fought on positions 20-30 in Lombardia as we've seen in the past!
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 03-07-2021 02:54
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4th is a pretty solid result for Martin and he’s still in a strong position to go for a good GC result.
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| jph27 |
Posted on 03-07-2021 11:19
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Absolutely dreadful from Carthy, giving me yet more reasons to think he won't be with the team next season. How he went from being 4th on the stage at one point to losing almost 3 minutes is beyond me, especially seeing the riders who finished ahead of him. Yet another top 5 goal failed thanks to his random off-days. |
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