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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 12-01-2018 19:18
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At last some drama.
Well deserved victory from Dombo, congrats wacko! He keeps initiating every attack and finally has managed to take his win. Schleck still cool with his team controling the race, but the american has surely ignited some interest for the overall victory. Madrazo also consolidating himself in the podium places, while Pluchkin is just mindblowingly weak here... what a shame.
Machado again turning the tide to take a good result and clawing back some time from Kritskiy and Abal. However with both of them being better TTists there is definitely pressure on us to chase that elusive top5.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 12-01-2018 20:03
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Too bad the breakaway couldn't make it to the finish line. Lammertink still very active despite having already bagged a stage win.
Brambilla seems to be performing worse after his puncture. Saving himself for the third week or the 12th stage? I can certainly dream, but I doubt that's the explanation.
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Posted on 12-01-2018 20:51
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Pluchkin 
Would love to see him coming back towards pink as this race is supposed to be the season highlight for Nemiroff.
Vosekalns drops a bit from his strong GC position but since this is still a bit above expectations i will focus on MA Lopez' strong performance leading home group Vosekalns-Guldhammer instead of moaning about Vosekalns losing 1-2 minutes on most direct rivals. 
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 12-01-2018 22:19
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A fun fact about Schleck win in S9. Andy has now the same number of MG wins as his brother Frank, both with 48 in their careers, and with the same "balance": 44 wins in PT races and 4 in Nationals/Continental/WC 
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| ember |
Posted on 12-01-2018 22:24
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Dombro showing Schleck is beatable Congratulations, wacko!
Guldhammer is starting to become very annoying with his riding style, just dropping several minutes in a couple of kilometers, like he's a 78 mountain rider. Galta with another decent stage, but obviously not more seeing riders like Arndt and Olivier gain more than a minute. But surprising to see him extend his lead in the youth classification. I'm starting to belive he can actually win it now  |
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 12-01-2018 22:36
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Right.
Fuck this race, Pluchkin will get either a huge wagecut of the sack.
HELLO PCT! I HAVE MONEYS TO SPEND!
Time to continue getting increasingly drunk.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 12-01-2018 22:52
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So far, so good, Jack Haig. 18th in the GC, fine enough. It's time to think about joining breakaways soon, though 
Lowe and Canty may add some further depth, but I guess they will need breakaways as well. Maybe Lowe to start first? Can't always rely on Gunman or Oram here.
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| roturn |
Posted on 13-01-2018 05:34
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Aquarius97 wrote:
A fun fact about Schleck win in S9. Andy has now the same number of MG wins as his brother Frank, both with 48 in their careers, and with the same "balance": 44 wins in PT races and 4 in Nationals/Continental/WC
This is an awesome stat.
Seeing Andy is 32 and might have 1-2 seasons with wins still, he obviously is the greatest of all time.
Well next to Boonen/Bewley and maybe Trofimov this is. |
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 13-01-2018 09:36
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Yep, Ulanowski is worthless in this race too. Great.
Good thing Young is worth following this race though. Good sign he at least tried something to brighten my mood.
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| tastasol |
Posted on 13-01-2018 09:45
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First of all great to see the team actually working together to catch the breakaway on a sprint stage again. Very happy to see our former rider and fellow Norwegian with a great win here, surely the best of his career. Congrats to ember on that victory!
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| viking90 |
Posted on 13-01-2018 09:56
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Congrats ember.
It´s kinda frustrating to see us work as much as we do when I know before the sprint that Stallaert is not as good as the other and the podium is very hard for him to reach. Well, atleast we had a great traing. But the plan was to have that in the Giro where we sent 2 leadout guys, here we did not sent any leadout guys...
How much energy have Abal wasted before the mounatins on the next stage? |
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| roturn |
Posted on 13-01-2018 09:59
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Congrats to ember for this win. Much deserved one even though Spotify had the best leadout today.
Must say I was a bit surprised to not win seeing Groenewegen in the perfect position and actually expected to see him going around. Hence shows how fast Enger must have been in the end.
Though I`d prefer to see Groenewegen save his energy for the finish instead of the sprints in between. No chance to beat Schleck anyway and likely neither Madrazo/Dombrowski.
Regarding my sprint train, the missing support for Groenewegen became obvious today. Keizer-Koep-Olivier. Can`t remember a more ironic leadout. 
And thanks for yet another great report and the nice extra sprint picture. |
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 13-01-2018 10:27
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Very attacking ride by the team to have Duchesne in the break all day and then Hughes going for the KOM points as well is perfect.
Houle with another 6th not the worst and iin the sprint his positioning is dreadful though seems to always be randomly placed no where near the top sprinters |
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| SotD |
Posted on 13-01-2018 10:40
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Emerson Santos clearly the big revelation of this race for us. I guess it bodes well for the future when he get's +2 FL, SPR and ACC while Coquard is also being trained.
It is quite worrying to see Lecuisinier finishing this far down, and definately not usual stuff from him. He is almost always in the top 20-25 even in the flat stuff, so I suspect that he might be carrying a small injury with him, which also explains his poor performances.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 13-01-2018 10:47
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Congrats, ember, finally your sprinter delivers in the big stage!
Spotify though what a crazy season so far in the sprints department. All this trouble with the sprint train when they don't have Ahlstrand is weird, especially given how things went in the Giro. Not to mention Abal who despite having a stellar position in the top10 is still riding hard in these stages. Bonkers.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 13-01-2018 11:23
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It's good somehow, to see the sprinter teams deliver. Even though it hurts a bit when reading the report and seeing O'Shea and Gunman trying to go for breakaways.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 13-01-2018 13:16
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Aquarius97 wrote:
A fun fact about Schleck win in S9. Andy has now the same number of MG wins as his brother Frank, both with 48 in their careers, and with the same "balance": 44 wins in PT races and 4 in Nationals/Continental/WC
Good spot! Got to be worth a HQ post...
And nice to see the sprinters get another win on Stage 11, with Schleck the Sprinter picking up some more points. He did win a bunch sprint in his 2010 Vuelta victory!
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| ember |
Posted on 13-01-2018 15:28
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Brilliant! 
Thought Holst Enger had the perfect position early in the leadouts, behind Groenewegen, but when Spotify had the only leadout, Groenewegen looked difficult to beat, which I must admit made it even better when I saw he held on on the final hundred meters.
The win surely also made it well worth it to see Galta work at the front, eventhough I'd rather see Guldhammer there, as Galta actually has something to defend in the GC
And thank you, tastasol, viking90, roturn and Gustavovskiy for your congratulations. |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 13-01-2018 18:48
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Again no words for Arndt's performance in GTs.
Since the opening TTT loss, he's ridden this race faster than Velits (+4mo!!), Monsalve, Lecuisinier, Keizer etc...and now has a Top5 after his stage podium recently as well.
I thought his TdF was a fluke, but it obviously wasn't, and I struggle trying to figure out why.
Not gonna complain though, and fingers crossed I didn't jinx it. That crash could've been very costly.
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| SotD |
Posted on 13-01-2018 18:55
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For fucks sake! What is this crap by Lecuisinier underperforming every fucking stage!
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