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| Smowz |
Posted on 08-08-2016 18:18
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Cannot help but be pleased for tsmoha and his Oz cycling mob - that was a really typical type T-A semi fav type attack. He has ridden this race before under Red Bull colours and no doubt my managerial input had a massive effect on him.
Nice pleased with M and M - Cav crashing is not ideal, though if not injured no biggie. Hagen negates the chrono with those seconds also is interesting sub plot.
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| matt17br |
Posted on 08-08-2016 18:23
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I always thought Bobridge would have a breakthrough season this year much ala Ponzi but to a smaller extent, but boy is this win impressive! Congrats tsmoha, great report danny!
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| Scorchio |
Posted on 08-08-2016 18:24
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cio93 wrote:
Scorchio wrote:
Trofimov way out in front as favorite imo on this course. Surprised to see such top sprinters here, hard to see how they can gather worthwhile PPRD vs. other opportunities throughout the season? Hope for aggressive racing - stages 4, 5 and 6 all look to have great potential for excitement.
In Ciolek's case, after assigning his must-attend races, he had enough RD left for some stage races, but not for a GT, so there wasn't a more profitable way to spend them.
Thanks for feedback mate - I've obviously not had the pleasure of PT race planning (yet!), but still surprises me that other better options are not possible.
Few surprises for me in the prologue - Izagairre and Clarke overperforming in strong positions for a start (although Izagairre then let himself down in following stage.
Not so much surprises in stage 2, but in the lower reaches, riders like Golas and Abreau did stonking well for relatively low level rated hill riders given many hyped puncheurs finished considerably behind them.
Interesting racing at any rate!
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| beagle |
Posted on 08-08-2016 18:29
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Loosing almost 4 minutes in last hill? I hope this awful result means we´re gonna see very agressive Izagirre in upcoming hilly stages!
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 08-08-2016 19:23
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Aha, I knew Kwiatek could deliver on PT level - he always seems to defy his stats. A great ride, which sets him up for a high GC placing and a good points haul here. I really think he could keep us up by providing points in races without Ponzi.
Good to see Kebede up there as well, hopefully we are in for a good race here after a quiet start to our debut PT season. |
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| knockout |
Posted on 08-08-2016 19:39
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The Oz show continues ... congrats tsmoha!
Skujins decent on this stage. Considering his horrible prologue i would have prefered an attack from him but nothing lost yet..
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| tastasol |
Posted on 08-08-2016 19:51
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Another great win for tsmoha, congrats! Surprisingly huge gaps. As expected, none of our riders made the first splits, but decent enough. Hope they can get in a break later on if there's a decent opportunity.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 08-08-2016 21:16
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Awesome to see an amazing start for tsmoha and Oz, freshly trained Bobridge with a nice daring attack 
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 08-08-2016 21:16
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Double Oz win, congrats!
Decent prologue for us, but stage 2 was pretty disappointing. Monfort drops ridiculously early and finishes 5 minutes behind the winner together with Koren who has fallen.
Only Kangert did an ok job; hope he can keep it up.
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 08-08-2016 22:30
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What a tasty start for OZ, bouncing greatly back from that weak season opener, gz tshoma!
EBH looks pretty strong aswell, he will get tough to match on the harder stages.
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| CountArach |
Posted on 08-08-2016 23:09
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Congrats tsmoha.
Claeys in the front group and Serry around 30th is solid for us and hopefully Claeys can just remain consistent like that.
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| ember |
Posted on 08-08-2016 23:11
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Promising stage from EBH. A stage win would obviously have been nice, but happy to see Bobridge and tsmoha run away with it, congrats!
Froomedog must be happy as well, clever little attack from Kwiatkowski. Hopefully EBH being strongest of the rest is a hint of what is to come on the tougher hilly stages.
Thank you for the report, sgdanny. The pace of the game in general, all three divisions, is amazing so far this season |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 08-08-2016 23:59
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Ian Butler wrote:
Maybe it's time SanCor started thinking about such one trick ponies  
they seem to pick up valuable victories!
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24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| Eden95 |
Posted on 09-08-2016 02:32
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Awesome to see Bobridge ride away and win like that, De Bie would be kicking himself that he dropped back. Congrats tsmoha!
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 09-08-2016 05:08
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Abreu finishes as our best rider in 16th (doesn't make any sense at all...) and Maksimov starts his hell tour with a crash. Brilliant. Just brilliant PCM.
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| OlegTinkov |
Posted on 09-08-2016 06:13
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Good to see Chernetskiy and Pokidov close to Trofimov
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 09-08-2016 07:13
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Great job from Ignatiev to hold in the first bigger group and thus jumping to 3rd in GC. That is the reason why he was sent here, shame that two guys escaped the group. But very well deserved win for Bobridge, Jaycoz are on the fire here in Italy.
In next stages i hope for agressive racing from Ignatiev and Tanovitchii, as hard hills are not their most favourite terrain where they could climb with the best.
Thanks for the report sgdanny! Few more shots from other angles then front shot would be lovely though.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 09-08-2016 08:43
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Nice start by Machado. Perhaps he could do something of relevance here.
Bobridge, the legend, congrats!
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 09-08-2016 09:51
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Being in 5th already is great news, a pleasing start. Nice to see tsmoha doing well too. Thanks danny for all these reports.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 09-08-2016 11:45
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Looks like Van Poppel just isn't strong enough. Had quite a good position today but still failed to deliver a decent result.
Good to see Boswell staying out of trouble and we finally have some action with Sinkeldam grabbing the KoM jersey. Make he can take a shot at that classification
Also, I'm pretty sure I had a rider in the original breakaway.
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