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| Tamijo |
Posted on 30-03-2018 08:05
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Contratulations to Bikex, impressive ride.
Not the best result for us. Kinoshita will most likely pass tomorrow so hope to hold at 7th with Cataldo. Not to mention Ssabagwanya out fighting for his KoM.
Thanks for another the great report.
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Posted on 30-03-2018 08:38
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Kwiatek with a huge TT! This could be the momentum changer in the relegation fight!
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 30-03-2018 08:39
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KWIATEK THE FREAKIN GOAT  As knockout says, this could be pivotal, especially if he caps it off...
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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| trekbmc |
Posted on 30-03-2018 10:17
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Awesome Kwiat!
In real life now would be the time to team up with Kinoshia, promise him the stage win if they ride away without Sicard and Denifl...wait, we're playing PCM... 
Incredibly tense now, we'll have to drop Denifl with the leaders jersey bonus and then I'm not sure we'll have any chance to get Sicard. But as I said before, my goal is 2nd and anything could happen in the hills tomorrow. He did put in an awesome TT!
Also, LLS is hillariously bad. 
Congrats bikex on that win and thanks once again for a great report tsmoha! 
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| Selwink |
Posted on 30-03-2018 10:21
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Duarte climbing into the top-10 is good. I'd be very happy if he somehow managed to hang on, but I'm sceptical
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Posted on 30-03-2018 10:39
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Kwiatek looks ready and set to reach that big GC win that could shoot Betis out of the slump, awesome!
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Posted on 30-03-2018 15:54
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Gratz Bikex and thanks tsmoha! Not bad but we're still a long way from getting a good result here.
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 30-03-2018 16:55
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Finally! A good performance from Cunego! But at this point of the race it doesn't even matter, as he is outside Top60 and even behind Roson in GC 
Marcato with a chance to score really minor points sitting now in 30th, and please breakaways in both final stages. I mean, there's not a reason why we shouldn't be in there
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 30-03-2018 19:14
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I could definitely live with a 2nd overall here, but why not go for everything on the next stage? Exciting race so far. Everything still in jeopardy. |
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| Bikex |
Posted on 30-03-2018 20:13
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Finally Denifl gets me a win, but this stage was a must-win considering the opposition. I hope he can defend his lead in the hilly stage. I would've preferred the gap to be a little bigger to both Sicard and Kwiatkowski, whose TT was surprisingly strong.
Great results for Rodrigues and Jang. The latter would be at 12th in GC if he hadn't lost time in the flat stage. Moazemi unfortunately with an off day on the Fuji. |
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 31-03-2018 00:50
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Zardini, Izagirre and Ruben Fernandez looking strong in recent stages. If Zardini hadn't crashed then we could have been looking at a solid Top 10 GC result. Crashes are really getting us in recent races.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 31-03-2018 09:34
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Great race by Kwiatek, but stupid tactics on the final stage sour it a bit given the situation  Grats to SN and Bikex though
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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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 31-03-2018 09:53
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Bitter day for Netia on a stage where they should've taken yellow
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 31-03-2018 10:21
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Fantastic that Roche still can take 5th. Obviously finishing behind Kudus is not okay, but we really need these points
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Posted on 31-03-2018 11:37
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Disapointed for having nobody in the break but at least keeping 2nd in KOM will give us some points..
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| Bikex |
Posted on 31-03-2018 12:05
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jandal7 wrote:
Great race by Kwiatek, but stupid tactics on the final stage sour it a bit given the situation Grats to SN and Bikex though
I won't accept any congrats until the race is done. Even on a flat stage it can still be lost 
Great work by Rodrigues and Moazemi to keep the race together. After all that it still seemed for a moment that Denifl's pathetic sprinting abilities could still loose him the jersey but fortunately he closed the gap. Congrats SN on the stage win! |
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 31-03-2018 13:22
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Seems like there won't be more than a couple of points going from Japan to China after this race
What an absolute disgrace we have been this season.
Thanks for the stages so far tsmoha and congrats with the victory Bikex! |
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 31-03-2018 13:33
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So that's a 0-pointer for us in this race, unless we get in the final stage breakaway, but who i'm going to fool, we won't.
Thanks for the great reports tsmoha!
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| Selwink |
Posted on 31-03-2018 16:43
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Good to see Duarte not losing time here, a good GC for him therefore secured
Serebriakov OTL is not so great though, hopefully Kuznetsov can fluke a stage win
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 31-03-2018 17:21
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Not really sure how Sicard ended up 2nd in this race, but as said before, I'll gladly take it!
Good reports of an exciting races - thanks |
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