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| jandal7 |
Posted on 02-08-2016 09:11
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Not good from Clarke but Diggle with a cheeky top 10 to keep himself up with the other potential GC guys and Davison bumping up to 3rd overall.
GC-wise pretty wild day, some cobble/hill riders hit which is good but feel sorry for Naesen and Pozzato especially. Solid stage in the bigger picture for us but dissapointing on the whole.
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 02-08-2016 09:20
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De Vreese, De Marchi and Lovik the only guys who crossed the line with the peloton... Taborre lost about 6 minutes and a half so I don't think we'll do good in this race 
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| knockout |
Posted on 02-08-2016 10:48
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Geschke 
Very glad he starts his season with a bang.
Congrats Paul!
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| weirdskyfan64 |
Posted on 02-08-2016 11:53
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Glad Gaimon nicked a sixth, although Giaux continues to gloriously stuff things up.
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"... Because he (me) has a sound tactical mind in general..." jandal7, at 9:30 am GMT on 12th May 2016
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 02-08-2016 12:42
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Damn. Had high hopes for Pozzato but he's done for. Doubt he'll get healthy again this race.
Hopefully Navardauskas can mix it up for GC but I think he'll need to take the leaders jersey on stage 3 to be competitive in the cobbled stage.
Edited by Spilak23 on 02-08-2016 12:50
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 02-08-2016 13:02
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Come back from a wedding, hungover as hell and I get the delight of Bille taking stage 1, Ngandamba taking a podium on Stage 2, and others battling it out at the finish!
Came for a stage win, and now really hoping Bille could finish with a high GC place.
Thanks for the reports trek and congrats Paul for the stage 2 win!
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| ivaneurope |
Posted on 02-08-2016 14:48
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Honestly I didn't expect my team to be a factor, buth Vivacom is 6th in the team, our loanee is 4th in the young riders standings and Nieve - our leader - is performing well. However the cobbles will be an challenge
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Posted on 24-11-2024 04:44
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 02-08-2016 15:21
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I was really scared when De Maar fell, and I'm still scared that it will have lingering effects, but at least he still managed to stay in the front group and not lose time. That is very important as we go into the deciding stages. Another top 10 for Mygind which would be nice most instances, but I'm starting to become afraid that PCM might get some bad ideas about his high placing on GC, so it worries me.
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| ryant |
Posted on 02-08-2016 15:42
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JTL the only GC hope left
hope we can perform better in the rest of the race
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 02-08-2016 15:46
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Kamberaj in the break is amazing, great to see him doing well at Vivacom
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 02-08-2016 15:52
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knockout wrote:
Geschke
Very glad he starts his season with a bang.
Congrats Paul!
SIMOOOON! Thank you very much, for selling him! Really nice to see him win a stage so early in the season.
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 02-08-2016 18:15
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Trek, you didn't give me good news 
Too ba our best guy is De Marchi who is still far
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 02-08-2016 18:15
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Good news for Clifford!
Needs more puns though.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 02-08-2016 18:17
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I knew it. The fricking stupid ass PCM AI is going for Mygind. And of course De Maar is hurt by his crash even though he recovered fine yesterday.
I really don't want to be bitter because so many others were hurt by these crashes too, but this has been a really shit start to the season and it's only gotten worse thus far. I thought maybe De Maar wouldn't be brilliant here again but I was hoping for at least something. Now we will get crap from our win goal.
Good reporting at least.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 02-08-2016 18:20
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Badnews De Haes couldn't join up with Goodnews, but nice to see him active after his double crash yesterday. The Minions managed to avoid the crashes nicely today with Kinney and Marcos still good near the front.
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| ryant |
Posted on 02-08-2016 18:22
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well is this crash ratio set at 5000? 
JTL crashes again and we do naf all yet again...
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 02-08-2016 18:23
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Wow, so many crashes here..
Nice to see Lloyd at the front grabbing bonifications. Tough race, hard to control a break. Lame stuff from Klemme and co though.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 02-08-2016 18:30
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ryant wrote:
well is this crash ratio set at 5000?
JTL crashes again and we do naf all yet again...
You would think but I think PCM 15 might just be generally more unpredictable in these type of instances.
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 02-08-2016 18:32
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The number of crashes are strange but it was definitely set at 100% crash frequency, Roturn and I were discussing it, it might be down to the stages having a lot of short descents and corners, combined with the rain, not much can be done about that though.
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 02-08-2016 18:38
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Cant remember ever seeing some many crashes in one single stage (or race for that instant) but this is pretty absurd. Now it will just come down to whoever of the favourites who dont hit the ground to win
Nevertheless nice tactic from WCC to send two guys in the break in such a hectic stage and their tactic definetely succedet, gratz!
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