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Tour of Romandie Discussion
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 30-11-2017 19:53
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May sound absurd to celebrate 14th, but was expecting to lose more time and did not drop anyone important, so I’m fine with this.
Congrats to Bushwackers 
I feel bad for those that got leader drop's - stuf like that should never happen truely unreal and stupid.
Edited by Tamijo on 30-11-2017 19:59
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 30-11-2017 19:54
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Pretty good ride from us. The leaders stayed with the rest and not far behind the other contenders. Seems like the best way to do TTT's is send similar riders.
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| Shonak |
Posted on 30-11-2017 20:30
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Gratz to bushwackers. Howeve rjust weird that Roglic couldn't keep up with his teammates. PCM you so weird.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 30-11-2017 21:48
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Ninth in a TTT is definitely better than I expected, great stage until...
I realised Pantano was dropped and lost three minutes. I had hope he would finish in the top twenty but that seems down the drain. Haga and Martinez would be too weak to challenge but at least we have a strong team for a possible breakaway.
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| tastasol |
Posted on 30-11-2017 22:43
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PCM continues to be poor on TTTs. Unlucky for Schelling and Roglic, among others. Seems like the best strategy for these kind of things might be to be around the 5th-8th best team if you have a GC man that's a decent time trialer. Oh well. Sicard an even bigger favourite after that.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 30-11-2017 22:49
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I guess couldve been worse
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 30-11-2017 23:03
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Decent. All 3 GC ambitions played it out perfectly, so that they together with Stan and Ramunas found a decent TTT result. Now let's hope for some slow ass racing on hils and mountains, so that we can keep up with the best.
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 01-12-2017 07:43
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Pretty pleased to see Zardini mixing it up at the front in the sprint.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 01-12-2017 08:19
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Drapac dropped, yay. And at least I see there was an attempt on our side to get in the breakaway.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 01-12-2017 08:44
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Potocki in white, nice. I don't understand why we haven't been in the break, but I guess that's to save energies to support our captains. Hopefully we can keep white till the end, and on top Brändle and Brajkovic stay with the best. Congrats to Carlsberg, they are incredibly successful so far.
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 01-12-2017 08:46
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Pretty decent showing from the team and Lavoine who I after last season ruled out and was on the verge of leaving. Just shows that with a proper leadout he can be miles better than last year.
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 01-12-2017 10:02
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At least there was an attempt by Prado to get in the BotD 
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| Selwink |
Posted on 01-12-2017 10:08
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No time lost, joined the break, got KoM. Couldn't expect much more of this stage, so that's good
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 01-12-2017 13:40
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Well, that's why we brought Appo! Absolutely textbook leadout by the team, and a great win. That'll definitely be more points than like 12th on an HC stage. Hopefully we're up for a similar stage tomorrow! But if not, I'm still happy. Looks like sending our two best sprinters here might have ben good planning after all!
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| tastasol |
Posted on 01-12-2017 13:45
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Congrats on the win bbl. A win here might have been expected, but a really good season so far for Appo.
Edited by tastasol on 01-12-2017 16:20
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 01-12-2017 15:59
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Wow, perhaps the best pointless stage we've ever had.  Mørkøv with his 74 sp and 70 acceleration decides to sprint, taking 10th, Kwiatkowski takes keeping safe to the next level in 13th and Pedersen also decides that today is a good day for a top 20.
Otherwise, youth doing nice as well with Kaspa and Peda trying to get into the break, while Kanepejs and Kaspa move to 2-3 in the U25. But, wow, I still can't get over Mørkøv sprinting.
Thanks for the fantastic report tsmoha and congrats on the win BBL, nice to see Appo racing well!
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 01-12-2017 17:16
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Could've been a stage for Navardauskas, hasn't been sadly :/ had too much effort to catch up with them - but the team looks set well in terms of GC riders positioning
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 01-12-2017 17:34
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The boring flat disappointments are over for us, I expect some attacking spirit from us in the next stages.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 01-12-2017 17:34
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Ok Simon, good way to get over a crash. Hopefully the AI now actually uses him to go after the KoM, where he'll be a big threat. Otherwise still a pretty low-key race so far, just waiting...
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 01-12-2017 17:47
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3 in the top 20 again, not even going to question that, cool result.
Uphill sprints are always interesting, congrats Bjarnte, also a nice stage for Meiji and Lobauer showing some nice strength this race.
Thanks for another great report tsmoha!
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