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| quadsas |
Posted on 22-01-2026 15:19
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A stage that happened that's for sure
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Posted on 24-01-2026 10:57
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 22-01-2026 18:42
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Congrats Blasing. Weird final. Missing some breakaway time.
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| Caspi |
Posted on 22-01-2026 19:54
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Great to see Holzer motivate Rodriguez to join the breakaway and fight for KoM.
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 22-01-2026 21:35
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Obviously not the best of starts for Hirschi but at least there are harder stages coming for him to make his mark
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 22-01-2026 22:20
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At least we are up into the top 10 now, maybe Hirschi is slowly starting to remember he's supposed to be good
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 23-01-2026 03:10
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Stage 1 was never going to be for Sosa but good to see him active in Stage 2 and safely in the front group.
Congrats to Blasing and Ember on the wins.
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| Caspi |
Posted on 23-01-2026 08:46
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Damn, we are weak. No one in the top 100. Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
Assman should be able to top 30 IMO but looks like he got an unlucky puncture or perhaps Carapaz was prioritized? But then it doesn't make sense, that Carapaz isn’t even in the top 100, I think.
Nevertheless, we look to be very active in the breakaways, and we didn't expect much scoring here anyway. A lucky stage win from a breakaway or perhaps the KoM can save the race for us. Seibeb seems to be on a good run, however, so it will be difficult to knock him off the throne.
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| Bikex |
Posted on 23-01-2026 08:57
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Not great from Gidich so far but he's there. Everyone else from the team unfortunately lost time already. |
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| ember |
Posted on 23-01-2026 10:07
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Brilliant win by Valter!  Going head to head with MAL, and then beating him in the sprint, is a massive result for him and us. Love it! Even a stronger result considering he was all on his own in that front group. Must have been played and timed perfectly by him.
Thank you for the report, Imladrik!
Stage 3 also looks to have a finish that could see gaps form. If so, fingers crossed Valter hasn't been exhausted prior to the final hill due to us as a team running out of firepower, like we've seen in a couple of other stage races this season. |
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| Sykkel_Freak |
Posted on 23-01-2026 10:45
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A huge team effort, but not rewarded in the end. Seemed like Gesbert actually had a good finish but fell too far back in the pack after the attack he was part of was brought back. Fingers crossed for better results on the next stages!
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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 23-01-2026 11:06
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Congrats ember! And thanks for the reports Imladrik 
Solid performance from Min. And a good depth so far, with a 2nd place in teams classification. Fingers crossed for the next ones
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| TinxiaS |
Posted on 23-01-2026 11:26
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I'm not sure what my team is doing but I think is better just not to see the result of rest of the stages. Complete dissapointment.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 23-01-2026 12:22
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Congrats, ember!
Not much for us so far. At least we still got Formolo in that main group, but Kron lost the GC today.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 23-01-2026 19:08
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A random Seba Henao cameo in the BOTD with a podium place for show. Pretty happy with that. Congrats on the win cio!
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| ember |
Posted on 23-01-2026 19:26
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Happy days for Puma!
A pity to give away the jersey like that, especially as the next stage looks like a breakaway, and then the sprint stage. With 15 riders a minute or less behind Valter, the final Queen stage really should decide the race. Guess we can prepare to pray for good RDC already  |
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| quadsas |
Posted on 23-01-2026 20:59
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Holdin on, not bad so far
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 23-01-2026 23:37
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Kind of what I feared from Sosa but didn't completely give up so that is something. Maybe he will get aggressive later.
Thanks for the reports and congrats to Ember.
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| jph27 |
Posted on 24-01-2026 10:13
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Solid but unspectacular so far. The hope I had was that Errazkin and Burke would Zubeldia their way to two in the top 20 on GC, and as it stands they seem to be on track. Could do with other riders (Mansouri perhaps?) joining the break as otherwise we won't score much else here. |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 24-01-2026 10:44
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What a shame Kron lost time in the second stage as today he was able to stay with the favorites. At least Formolo is still in for the top 10. A nice surprise to have Sossa in white.
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