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Tour of Japan Discussion Thread
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| Christer |
Posted on 16-01-2012 12:43
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Darn it! Kessiakoff crashing out of the race, basicly!
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 16-01-2012 14:12
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Niemiec is just awesome. Those bonus seconds will be useful. This looks pretty good for the MTT.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 16-01-2012 14:19
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Oh man.. didn't noticed that Lewis abandoned! This is horrible.. hoped for a decent mountain-timetrial by him..
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 16-01-2012 19:08
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Im getting good at this winning business 
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| jack888 |
Posted on 17-01-2012 02:34
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Next stage looks fun  |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 17-01-2012 12:24
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Bad ride for Froome. He should have put in a similar time to Ben Nasser, but lost 30 seconds to him. He needs a Stage 2 like result to have a podium chance - but Im still happy with a Top 5 GC position.
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 17-01-2012 12:55
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Pretty decent result from Niemiec. Not good, but not bad either.
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| jack888 |
Posted on 17-01-2012 13:37
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GC is very tight. I'd be happy with 2nd here, but it's so close you can lose/or gain a lot of spots tomorrow. |
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| Christer |
Posted on 17-01-2012 13:55
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Two riders putting in a result that I can live with. Too bad Kessiakoff crashed last stage, I think he would have been a strong contender for top three in this race.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 17-01-2012 18:32
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Only a stage-win can prevent me from "hating" this race  Or maybe Bobridge to stay on his bike on next days
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-01-2012 18:34
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Top 5 might still be manageable, atleast I didn't go for the Win Goal 
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| Christer |
Posted on 18-01-2012 15:20
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This sucks. Hopefully I'll at least get some points...
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 18-01-2012 15:23
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I'm starting to be terrible angry about Bobridge here.. he's crashing, often caught behind in a split.. well, at least, it looks like the Young Rider-jersey, but definitely expected more.. maybe a good sprint in next stage
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 18-01-2012 15:33
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Can't be unhappy with that. Top 5 from Niemiec is definitely more than I expected, so it's one of our better races so far.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 18-01-2012 15:46
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I'm really starting to hate Chris Froome....
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| Rin |
Posted on 18-01-2012 17:22
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I am starting to hate Rapha Condor, I guess it's jealousness or something 
Is there an PCM.daily award for the most boring Man-Game stage 2012? We have a candidate here..
 Team Bianchi - 2012 Man-Game ProContinental Tour Champions
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| Smowz |
Posted on 18-01-2012 17:42
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Not really the race I had expected, the hilly crits have played out a little differently to how I thought they would.
It looks like another one of those points gathering races from us, far better I suppose than the recent classics disasters and with two stage wins from the sadly crashed out Veloso and the success starved Gadret I can't complain. The King of the Mountains is a nice little bonus too. As for the team award they might as well give it to us before the race begins
The last stage I have outside hopes of something with Sonnery, though Arashiro is surely hot favourite. Shall we help Meiji control it or not? .
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 18-01-2012 19:02
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valverde321 wrote:
I'm really starting to hate Chris Froome....
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 19-01-2012 13:22
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Ahh, I thought those key crashes could have moved Costa up a few GC spots, but no  Overall an average tour for us.
Nice reporting roturn
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 19-01-2012 13:24
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Nice surprise, i never thought i could make a podium placing in Japan. Congrats to Oz.
Once again great reports and a great speed so i guess we´ll see the race in Frankfurt, my win goal soon
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