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| Tamijo |
Posted on 18-04-2019 15:30
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Mark Padun doing good in the smaller stage races, great job. 
Quite small gaps in UEA this year  , anyway a fine podium and some stage wins can’t be bad 
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| BenjiNaesen |
Posted on 18-04-2019 22:55
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Great story so far. (And obviously thanks for using the WorldDB. The team behind it supports you wise choice  ) |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 19-04-2019 13:04
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Mark Padun is on some good form of late |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 21-04-2019 04:59
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@ batista - Thanks, I am as well, it should be good hopefully!
@ tamijo - Indeed, he has been great for us so far, probably our 2nd best early season rider after Ala!
@ Benji - Thanks, nice to see you drop by! Glad that I was able to use it
@ sutty - Indeed hes been great!
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 23-04-2019 03:48
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 Omloop Het Niewsblad (1.UWT) 2020
The front group of 25 riders
Early in the race, Deceuninck put on the pressure to try and reduce the riders in the lead group. It took some work but eventually the group is limited to a very select group. Some top riders in the group include: Sagan, Trentin, Moscon, Van Avermaet, Stuyven, Jungels, Naesen and Gilbert.
Deceuninck head to the front on the last major climb/cobble sector of the race
The added pace helped reduce the pack even more with now a flat run in to the finish.
3 riders attack!
Valgren, Vanmarcke and Trentin make a move! They get a good gap of about 25seconds, and keep the pace up, but the chasing group begin to coordinate a chase.
All back together with just 1km to go, its looking like a sprint finish
Sagan takes the win in the sprint
It was always going to be tough for Stuyven to win in a sprint, and the race never ended up being as selective as the team had hoped, although it wasnt for lack of trying.
| 1 | Peter Sagan | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 2 | Matteo Trentin | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:00 | | 3 | Sep Vanmarcke | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +00:00 | | 4 | Jasper Stuyven | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 5 | Greg Van Avermaet | CCC Team | +00:00 | | 6 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 7 | Silvan Dillier | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:00 | | 8 | Philippe Gilbert | Trek - Segafredo | +00:00 | | 9 | Oliver Naesen | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:00 | | 10 | Michael Valgren | Team Dimension Data | +00:00 | | 11 | Tiesj Benoot | Team Sky | +00:00 | | 12 | Nils Politt | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 13 | Niki Terpstra | Total Direct Energie | +00:00 | | 14 | Gianni Moscon | Team Sky | +00:00 | | 15 | Kasper Asgreen | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +01:50 |
Kuurne - Brussel - Kuurne (1.HC) 2020
Deceuninck try to break the race apart
After yesterdays failure, the team want to come home with one win this weekend! 4 of our riders get clear, Keukeleire, Asgreen, Stuyven and Keisse. The move is made nearly 80km out though, and it will be tough to keep this advantage for the rest of the race.
All back together with 40km to go
Unfortunately the gap could not be held. The largest group of 20 riders, probably the 6th group on the road eventually started swallowing up the smaller groups ahead, of 2 or 3 riders in each group, until it becomes a group of 40.
Attacks as we near the finish
Despite the efforts to make the race selective again, the race concludes with a big group, nearly 80 riders, coming into the last 5kms. Politt and Stuyven
Now 2 more attack
After Stuyven an Politt are brought back, Keukeleire and Terpstra attack and this time their move looks pretty strong!
Final KM for the leaders
Going under the 1km kite the two leaders still have a gap of about 10 seconds! This could be a great move for the both of them, and in a sprint, Keukeleire could be the favourite, which would be a great result for him.
But only Terpstra is strong enough to hold on and take the win
The bunch catch up to the two leaders but Terpstra has enough of an advantage to take the win!
| 1 | Niki Terpstra | Total Direct Energie | +00:00 | | 2 | Dylan Groenewegen | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:00 | | 3 | Pascal Ackermann | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 4 | Edward Theuns | Trek - Segafredo | +00:00 | | 5 | Jens Keukeleire | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 6 | Arnaud Démare | Groupama - FDJ | +00:00 | | 7 | Elia Viviani | Trek - Segafredo | +00:00 | | 8 | Philippe Gilbert | Trek - Segafredo | +00:00 | | 9 | André Greipel | Trek - Segafredo | +00:00 | | 10 | Max Walscheid | Team Sunweb | +00:00 | | 11 | Mads Pedersen | Team Sunweb | +00:00 | | 12 | Jasper Stuyven | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 13 | Nils Politt | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 14 | Christophe Laporte | Team Katusha - Alpecin | +00:00 | | 15 | Ramon Sinkeldam | Groupama - FDJ | +00:00 |
 Strade Bianche (1.UWT) 2020
The race ran its course and everyone reaches the final kms together, which means it will be a sprint finish! Alaphilippe and Jungels are both very well positioned as they open up the sprint, but Bardet, Thomas and Martin are also in good spots.
A 1-2 for Deceuninck
In the sprint, Alaphilippe and Jungels beat out the others and take a big win for the team. The classics campaign to this point hasn't been great, so a 1-2 finish here will hopefully get the team back on track for the rest of the campaign.
| 1 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 3 | Romain Bardet | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:00 | | 4 | Daniel Martin | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:00 | | 5 | Geraint Thomas | Team Sky | +00:00 | | 6 | Thibaut Pinot | Groupama - FDJ | +00:00 | | 7 | Pello Bilbao | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 8 | Roman Kreuziger | Total Direct Energie | +00:00 | | 9 | Jack Haig | Mitchelton - Scott | +00:23 | | 10 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | +00:23 | | 11 | Mark Padun | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:23 | | 12 | Marc Soler | Movistar Team | +00:23 | | 13 | Enrico Battaglin | Team Katusha - Alpecin | +00:23 | | 14 | Rui Costa | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:23 | | 15 | Philippe Gilbert | Trek - Segafredo | +00:23 |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 23-04-2019 15:24
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Seen in the rear view mirror Stuyven was a bit too impatient in Kuurne, that flat is just too long.
A very different story in Tuscany – unbelievable hard puncher profile and Alaphi just love those especially if they got the ugliest uphill finish 
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 23-04-2019 16:08
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Some good results in Omloop and K-B-K, but they were just warm ups for what happened in Italy |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 23-04-2019 19:39
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Tamijo wrote:
Seen in the rear view mirror Stuyven was a bit too impatient in Kuurne, that flat is just too long.
A very different story in Tuscany – unbelievable hard puncher profile and Alaphi just love those especially if they got the ugliest uphill finish
Yeah, I probably should have just held out for the sprint in KBK but I like breaking up the race if my team has the strength to do so. Indeed Alphi is just so good on the hill, and Jungels is getting up there too!
sutty68 wrote:
Some good results in Omloop and K-B-K, but they were just warm ups for what happened in Italy
Yeah, the cobbled classics were disappointing, but Strade was great, after not winning it last year
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 23-04-2019 19:50
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Lots of strongs showings already in the first months, especially from Alaphilippe and Padun. Also, that Strade finish looks really nice in game!
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 24-04-2019 19:34
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Kiserlovski01 wrote:
Lots of strongs showings already in the first months, especially from Alaphilippe and Padun. Also, that Strade finish looks really nice in game!
Thanks, those two have been in good form so far!
I agree, the race is almost as good looking as real life
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 24-04-2019 23:55
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Cool team you built for this season. A shame though that a lot of your young talents, especially Honore, Martinelli, Padun, Johansen and even Lambrecht and Evenepoel look so different from their actual skillsets.
Nevertheless a great story! Though you win a tad too much for keeping me on board closely. Will continue to catch up from time to time though Keep it up!
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 25-04-2019 00:52
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Croatia14 wrote:
Cool team you built for this season. A shame though that a lot of your young talents, especially Honore, Martinelli, Padun, Johansen and even Lambrecht and Evenepoel look so different from their actual skillsets.
Nevertheless a great story! Though you win a tad too much for keeping me on board closely. Will continue to catch up from time to time though Keep it up!
Thanks! I've increased the difficulty, so other than when Alaphilippe rides, I will probably start winning less frequently.
I dont really think any of the stats are all that bad, except for maybe Lambrecht, who is more of a punchuer, but hes not terrible on long climbs either. Lambrecht and Padun both had huge stat increases in MO when they were on AI teams (so were getting trained on MO I guess).
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 29-04-2019 20:26
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Paris Nice (2.UWT) 2020
Stage 1
| 1 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | +00:00 | | 2 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:08 | | 3 | Maximilian Schachmann | Team Sunweb | +00:13 | | 4 | Rohan Dennis | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:14 | | 5 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +00:24 | | 6 | Geraint Thomas | Team Sky | +00:29 | | 7 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | +00:32 | | 8 | Michal Kwiatkowski | Team Sky | +00:37 | | 9 | Tejay Van Garderen | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:46 | | 10 | Pierre Latour | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:46 |
Stage 2
| 1 | Elia Viviani | Trek - Segafredo | +00:00 | | 2 | Bryan Coquard | Vital Concept - B&B Hotels | +00:00 | | 3 | Yves Lampaert | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 4 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 5 | Jens Keukeleire | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 |
Stage 3
| 1 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | +00:00 | | 2 | Davide Formolo | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 3 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | +00:00 | | 4 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:26 | | 5 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +00:26 | | 6 | Thibaut Pinot | Groupama - FDJ | +00:26 | | 7 | Adam Yates | Mitchelton - Scott | +00:26 | | 8 | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | +00:44 | | 9 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:44 | | 10 | Daniel Martin | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:44 |
Stage 4
| 1 | Rudy Molard | Groupama - FDJ | +00:00 | | 2 | Dylan Teuns | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:00 | | 3 | Michael Valgren | Team Dimension Data | +00:00 | | 4 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +01:59 | | 5 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +01:59 |
Stage 5
| 1 | Elia Viviani | Trek - Segafredo | +00:00 | | 2 | Fernando Gaviria | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:00 | | 3 | Jens Keukeleire | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 4 | John Degenkolb | Mitchelton - Scott | +00:00 | | 5 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 |
Stage 6
Froome wins on Mont Ventoux, solidifying his GC lead
| 1 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | +00:00 | | 2 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:11 | | 3 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | +00:11 | | 4 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +00:46 | | 5 | Davide Formolo | BORA - hansgrohe | +01:12 | | 6 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Bahrain Merida | +01:46 | | 7 | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | +04:02 | | 8 | Michal Kwiatkowski | Team Sky | +04:19 | | 9 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Team Bahrain Merida | +04:19 | | 10 | Louis Meintjes | Astana Pro Team | +04:48 |
Stage 7
Alaphilippe goes solo with 60km to go, and holds off the peloton
| 1 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Florian Vachon | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | +01:16 | | 3 | Elia Viviani | Trek - Segafredo | +01:16 | | 4 | Pierre-Luc Perichon | Vital Concept - B&B Hotels | +01:16 | | 5 | Mads Pedersen | Team Sunweb | +01:16 |
Stage 8
| 1 | Michael Valgren | Team Dimension Data | +00:00 | | 2 | Simon Spilak | CCC Team | +00:00 | | 3 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +00:00 | | 4 | David Gaudu | Groupama - FDJ | +00:00 | | 5 | Rohan Dennis | Team Bahrain Merida | +01:04 |
Final GC
| 1 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | +00:00 | | 2 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | +00:15 | | 3 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:21 | | 4 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +01:16 | | 5 | Davide Formolo | BORA - hansgrohe | +01:53 | | 6 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Bahrain Merida | +03:27 | | 7 | Rohan Dennis | Team Bahrain Merida | +04:18 | | 8 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +05:22 | | 9 | David Gaudu | Groupama - FDJ | +06:06 | | 10 | Adam Yates | Mitchelton - Scott | +06:34 | | ... | | 18 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +08:08 |
Final Points
| 1 | Chris Froome | Team Sky | 102 | | 2 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | 93 | | 3 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 77 | | 4 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 77 | | 5 | Davide Formolo | BORA - hansgrohe | 71 |
Alaphilippe was our only GC rider here, and he wasn't strong enough in the Mountain stages, but this allowed him to attack on Stage 7 and was not seen as a threat to the GC riders, which helped him hold off the peloton to take a great solo win. Other than that, the race was quite disappointing for the team.
Stage 1
| Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:00 | | Team Sky | +00:17 | | Lotto - Soudal | +00:18 | | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:19 | | Team Sunweb | +00:20 |
Stage 2
Todays break saw brothers, Andrea and Nicola Bagioli get clear, but it would not be their day
Konrad wins the sprint ahead of Enric Mas
| 1 | Patrick Konrad | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 2 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 3 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | +00:00 | | 4 | Romain Bardet | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:00 | | 5 | Enrico Battaglin | Team Katusha - Alpecin | +00:00 |
Stage 3
| 1 | Mark Cavendish | Team Dimension Data | +00:00 | | 2 | Matteo Moschetti | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +00:00 | | 3 | Sam Bennett | Trek - Segafredo | +00:00 | | 4 | Dylan Groenewegen | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:00 | | 5 | Jasper Stuyven | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 |
Stage 4
| 1 | Sonny Colbrelli | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:00 | | 2 | Michael Woods | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +00:00 | | 3 | Pascal Ackermann | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 4 | Magnus Cort Nielsen | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 5 | Jasper Stuyven | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 |
Stage 5
Bardet wins the Queen stage, ahead of Mas and Yates
| 1 | Romain Bardet | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:00 | | 2 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:27 | | 3 | Simon Yates | Mitchelton - Scott | +00:35 | | 4 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | +00:53 | | 5 | Patrick Konrad | Astana Pro Team | +01:04 | | 6 | Miguel Angel Lopez | Astana Pro Team | +02:00 | | 7 | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +02:00 | | 8 | Remco Evenepoel | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +02:15 | | 9 | Diego Ulissi | UAE - Team Emirates | +02:15 | | 10 | Damiano Caruso | Team Bahrain Merida | +02:25 |
Stage 6
Hodeg wins the sprint on Stage 6, from a group of 65
| 1 | Álvaro José Hodeg | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Christophe Laporte | Team Katusha - Alpecin | +00:00 | | 3 | Alexander Kristoff | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:00 | | 4 | Jasper Stuyven | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 5 | Dylan Groenewegen | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:00 |
Stage 7
| 1 | Victor Campenaerts | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 2 | Maciej Bodnar | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:06 | | 3 | Tanel Kangert | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +00:08 | | 4 | Tony Martin | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:08 | | 5 | Patrick Konrad | Astana Pro Team | +00:10 | | 6 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:10 | | 7 | Jos Van Emden | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:13 | | 8 | Diego Ulissi | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:14 | | 9 | Alex Dowsett | Team Katusha - Alpecin | +00:15 | | 10 | Filippo Ganna | CCC Team | +00:15 |
Final GC
| 1 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Simon Yates | Mitchelton - Scott | +00:19 | | 3 | Patrick Konrad | Astana Pro Team | +00:41 | | 4 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | +00:46 | | 5 | Romain Bardet | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:46 | | 6 | Egan Bernal | Team Sky | +02:10 | | 7 | Remco Evenepoel | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +02:14 | | 8 | Miguel Angel Lopez | Astana Pro Team | +02:26 | | 9 | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +02:31 | | 10 | Rui Costa | BORA - hansgrohe | +03:12 |
Final Points
| 1 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 30 | | 2 | Giovanni Visconti | Neri Sottoli - Selle Italia - KTM | 28 | | 3 | Patrick Konrad | Astana Pro Team | 24 | | 4 | Romain Bardet | AG2R La Mondiale | 19 | | 5 | Jasper Stuyven | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 19 |
Up Next
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 29-04-2019 21:39
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Yes baby! Great stuff in Italy and a nice stage win in France as well. Evenepoel looked pretty good in the GC. Might be your leader next year!? |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 30-04-2019 19:07
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Nice: Some fine stages even though no wins, on a side note happy to finally see Michael Valgren with a result after he left MY TEAM.
Tirreno-Adriatico: Stage win and another two podiums, Top 5 in 6/7 stages.
Enric Mas winning the GC and Points. Can't ask for more
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Posted on 30-04-2019 19:34
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Good win with Alaphilippe in P-N, Froome already super strong, maybe time to adjust his stats, lowering a bit? 
Remco rode well in Tirreno, looks interesting for the future. Mas was impecable. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 01-05-2019 13:41
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Mas bossed Tirreno |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 01-05-2019 20:19
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@ Batista - Thanks! Evenepoel still hasnt improved from the beginning of the year, so not sure he will be leader next year yet. One can only hope though
@ Tamijo - Lol thats how it always works though, right? Once they leave they get the results.
@ Freitas - Froomes already been declining, he's at 82 MO now I think, which is only tied for 2nd highest. Evenepoel really surprised me how strong he was, but Im really looking forward to his future.
@ Sutty - Yeah, only really lost time to Bardet the whole race, and knew he would gain that time back in the TT on the final day!
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 02-05-2019 01:42
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Milano San Remo (1.UWT) 2020
Its time to kick off the Monument season with the longest single day of racing of the year! San Remo is often more about endurance than being the strongest at a decisive moment, but at the same time being the freshest at the end will only help improve your chances of winning.
As always the route begins in Milan and is more or less a straight line to San Remo, going along the Lingurian coast after the descent of the Turchino. The largest difficulty is the Cipressa, but it is often the Poggio that is the decisive moment in the race, used as a launch pad for late attacks.
The betting favourite is Dylan Groenewegan, the Dutch sprinter for Jumbo Visma, but Peter Sagan is always a threat, as probably the best allrounder in the peloton in recent years. Gaviria, Stuyven and Viviani are the main challengers to the two main favoruites. Gaviria is maybe the fastest sprinter in the world atm, and will be stronger on the hills than Groenewegan, and Viviani is the 3rd fastest man in the world but even better on the hills.
Deceuninck have many options for the race, Stuyven is seen as the best option, with maybe the best hill ability of all the sprinters, apart from Sagan, but Jakobsen is their strongest finisher, and of course Alaphilippe, who was 2nd last year is always a threat from a late race attack. Two of the newest team members, in Andrea Bagioli and Julius Johansen will be on the squad, as they've been in good form, and will look to support the leaders.
Full Startlist
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Great squad for it with Ala, Stuyven, Jakobsen and then the support (especially Keukeleire). Lots of options tactically, best of luck!
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
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11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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