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| quadsas |
Posted on 15-10-2024 16:52
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Adomaitis opens up his point tally, we likey
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 15-10-2024 17:51
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Goodness! Expected Walscheid to be overtaken after hitting the front. Amazed and delighted he hung on for the win. Kraftwerk seem to like the Aussie air 
Got the season off to a great start.
Thanks for the report roturn and for the congrats.
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 15-10-2024 18:43
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First stage as expected not inovlved.
But really happy with stage 2 with Moscon grabbing a top 10 and us getting 4?! riders in the front group which would be incredible if we could hold 4 guys in the top 30 overall come the end of the race. Also in with a shout in the team classification which would be another great way to score here. |
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| seancoll |
Posted on 15-10-2024 19:27
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Some interesting stages so far. Love that the breakaway riders are getting more than a day at the front and a breakaway win is always fun (but understandably frustrating for those with the favorites).
Demare and Lagane leading some of the GC considerations brings me some personal joy as it shows that the mid-level alternative classification settings make some sense at a race like this. After some doubts about their positioning and whether their combination of skills would still work this year, I'm glad for the first positive signs for those teams.
Great result by Walscheid to take stage 1.
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| quadsas |
Posted on 15-10-2024 19:57
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Sagan opens up his tally as well. Disappointed that Adomaitis and Januskevicius missed the split, we've scored a good amount of points in this race past two years by having both the puncher and sprinter making the cut. I'll settle for Sagan GC win I guess
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Posted on 16-10-2024 11:39
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 15-10-2024 20:02
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Two top tens seems good, but ninth and tenth doesn't really bring much bonus seconds. Hoping for better results in the next stages
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 15-10-2024 20:17
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Two good stages so far. Still very much in contention and Lagane seems up for the challenge, and encouraging signs i made the right choice to split his training between HL and SP.
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 15-10-2024 20:26
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A little disappointing stage for us, would have liked to see a bit more fight from the boys but cannot be too unhappy.
Does seem like Demare is unable to really do it on his own for the individual stages and with the weakish squad around him from Tryg it does seem like they're unable to really control the race here.
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| liefwarrior |
Posted on 15-10-2024 21:31
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Disappointed by somewhat unsurprised by the results so far. It is nice to see that Lagane is doing well, bodes well for Démare even after another decline. Thank you for the reports roturn. Here is hoping things pickup for us from this point forward.
@whitejersey: I made the mistake of worrying that Démare might be selected for a sprint train so brought along the necessary pieces. As it happens, that the engine thinks that Pedersen is meant to have a go on the flat while his leader's positioning is left up to chance. Not sure what is going on regarding the hill stages, as both Hellemose and Honoré should be around to help out on the Corkscrew...
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 15-10-2024 21:40
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Go Lotto!
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 15-10-2024 22:16
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Hindley 125th is woeful. Didn' t expect us to be that much crappy. Congrats on a brilliant win to Lotto!
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 15-10-2024 22:38
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Laurens147 wrote:
Not a good start for us, Christen as a LVL1 loanee is our first man in the results column. Hopefully we can turn it around in the next stages!
I guess you'll still be happy with Christen being your first man on stage 2 
Holy moly, what a debut for Fabio! Already very present in DUC and netting his first career points in his first race, he pulls off a fantastic show on S2 of TDU, on the 3rd day of his career - not sure he'll ever do better than that in his entire career  Stage win and the lead in all classifications, wow!
But please, Laurens, give him some rest as well - I mean, his current paycheck is big enough, I don't want to give him a raise next year
More generally speaking, obviously a potentially crucial stage for KHJ and Boswell. Démare remains the top favourite, as he could win every stage, and Lagane also looks well set. But with the two "pure" puncheurs gapping everyone else, it's surely looking good for a GC podium.
And late congrats to Kraftwerk on a great Walscheid win on S1, feels weird to see two riders related to my team winning on the same (RL) day 
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 15-10-2024 23:07
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Yates staying with the favourites and not looking like he was coming off the back or anything at any time so good work from him. Happy with how today went. Interesting to see Thompson and Mudgway in the second group ahead of much strong riders in the team but that’s okay.
Congrats on the win Lotto and another great report!
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 15-10-2024 23:11
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Glad to see Christen taking the surprise win here. Congrats to Laurens and Fabianski.
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 16-10-2024 01:02
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Oof. If Narvaez can't stay in the front group there that is a bad sign not just for this race but for his season. He may be missing the other leaders we had last year to pull him through. Bagioli and Boswell both in the front group reinforce that. Boswell has done more in 2 race days this year than he did all last year.
On a brighter note love to see Walscheid already scoring for Kraftwerk (he loves this race, won a stage last year as well) and Milesi with a nice run on day one for some miinor points, pity he couldn't stay with Christen to fight for the stage result.
Thanks for the reports
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| Eden95 |
Posted on 16-10-2024 04:42
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Good to see Bagioli at the front in most shots towards the end, but disappointing that he couldn’t do better with his abilities. Congrats Laurens and thanks for the report
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| Caspi |
Posted on 16-10-2024 08:23
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Corruption! Why only KOM points twice on S3?
A bit worrying that Nikiema threw away all chances of a GC result already on S2, but nice to see both him and Mundle very active in the breakaways.
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 16-10-2024 08:32
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Hatem Ben Ameur second on stage two, love to see him do well at Bralirwa
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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 16-10-2024 08:41
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Fabianski wrote:
Laurens147 wrote:
Not a good start for us, Christen as a LVL1 loanee is our first man in the results column. Hopefully we can turn it around in the next stages!
I guess you'll still be happy with Christen being your first man on stage 2
Holy moly, what a debut for Fabio! Already very present in DUC and netting his first career points in his first race, he pulls off a fantastic show on S2 of TDU, on the 3rd day of his career - not sure he'll ever do better than that in his entire career Stage win and the lead in all classifications, wow!
But please, Laurens, give him some rest as well - I mean, his current paycheck is big enough, I don't want to give him a raise next year
My post aged well Great victory in S2, what a performance! This combined with the jersey points, already a big haul for us. Also good to see Wouters in the mix in S3. Didn't expect Calmejane to be totally absent, but we can't have it all.
Curious to see how the GC will play out for the other teams! Thanks roturn for the reports.
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 16-10-2024 09:10
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Not ideal, fun stage anyways, thanks for the report!
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