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Tour of Guadeloupe Discussion
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 09-11-2022 07:33
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Bonifazio is like a neverending cycle of me giving up on him, overperforming, complete trust, disappointment and me giving up on him again. But he's going up at the moment, all is well.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Imladrik |
Posted on 09-11-2022 08:13
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That moment when the only time your team is named, is because your sprinter's dropped (and because the reporter kindly still considers him a good sprinter  )
At least Bonduelle's here to save the honor of French teams! And with Boudat, a rider from Bordeaux'area! Should have gotten him.
Thanks for the entertaining report though. Thanks Alienor, it's nearly finished and we can move on.
Can we come and share the rum? We have good bordeaux wine....
Edited by Imladrik on 09-11-2022 08:41
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 09-11-2022 08:18
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Stage 3 really had the worst possible outcome.
We need a win tomorrow to salvage this race, that's for sure. |
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| GregPeck |
Posted on 09-11-2022 08:29
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Imladrik wrote:
That moment when the only time your team is named, is because your sprinter's dropped (and because the reporter kindly still considers him a good sprinter )
At least Bonduelle's here to save the honor of French teams! And with Boudat, a rider from Bordeaux'area! Should have gotten him.
Thanks for the entertaining report though. Thanks Alienor, it's nearly finished and we can move on.
Can we come and shake the rum? We have good bordeaux wine....
It's a weird feeling. Tesson competes for KoM, Boudat has had two good finshes, we lead the Team Rankings and we have been visible in the breaks, but I would trade it all for a stage win. |
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 09-11-2022 09:47
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Those 16 seconds might end up costing us big time
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| quadsas |
Posted on 09-11-2022 10:50
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Another 7th, but at least Raim has gotten himself into depth points, which eill help alleviate the mediocre return from Halvorsen if he doesnt pop off on stage 4
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 09-11-2022 12:09
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WE GOT IN THE BREAK!!!! Clearly we just needed more rum to get rid of those inhibitions and just go for it #drinkresponsibly
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 10-11-2022 04:40
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Dammit. AKA finally did something today to get 6th. Had the perfect wheel and launch too, but he just doesn't have enough ability going uphill to surge past there. 6th is a fine result there and 11th isn't catastrophic in the end, even if it's a good few points under what I wanted.
But of course, Resell missed the split at the end there, so we trade 12th and 14th overall for 11th. That's a bad trade. We really needed that minor placing, but we couldn't figure out how to keep our guy in the first 70. Disappointing.
AKA needs a break to the reset after the last couple of weeks. Gonna need a huge second half to have any chance of meeting standings expectations cause we've underwhelmed in most of our races so far this year.
Regardless, congrats to LLS and huge thank you to Ulrich on continuing to bring amazing reports!
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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| DarkWolf |
Posted on 10-11-2022 06:51
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Again Ahlstrand loses the wheel of his lead-out man and again we're coming short of our major goal. Right now I am not feeling really good, I know Juarez and Guadeloupe were not disastrous races for us, as a matter of fact they went pretty well, but I was hoping to win at least one of them. Well... damn it all to hell!
Congratulations to LLs and thank you very much for the reports, Ulrich!
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| SotD |
Posted on 10-11-2022 07:34
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New career highlight from Mengoulas to pick up 2nd in KOM here. Great to see he was attentive and climbed one spot.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 10-11-2022 08:20
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Yeah, I'll take that 4th. Thanks for the reports!
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 10-11-2022 08:25
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Nice win for Fabio and another decent race for top favourite Ahlstrand. A shame Sam lost the jersey in the end, but think Zara will still be happy  Also nice to see former rider Quicibal in 12th here.
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| quadsas |
Posted on 10-11-2022 09:26
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Took till last stage for Halvorsen to strike, but better late than never. And with great depth scoring, we are pushing 25pprd, which is definitely a fine result for us
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 10-11-2022 09:28
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The reverse of Juarez, blaming the uphill sprints this time though. If not for that 16 seconds yesterday Vesely would have been fourth which would have been very good, but I'll live with seventh.
Kudos to Kuboki and English as well for some good depth points
Thanks for the reports UU and congrats LLS.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 10-11-2022 10:59
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Just one breakaway appearance in 4 stages, not very good. Clearly the riders were taking our political stance to heart and instigated their own mini-strike.
This is why i tried by damndest to avoid C1 races this season. Should have just not used all my RD allocation 
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 10-11-2022 14:38
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Thank you all for the congrats
Obviously can’t have asked for better than that from Jakobsen. 2nd on the opening stage was a promising start and then 21st on Stage 2 was a worry but bounced back brilliantly with another 2nd and of course a perfect finish by winning the finale! A GC win that we are both happy with and very proud of having placed our faith in him this season on a high wage. Points classification win always a good bonus too.
The only slight blemish on the final stage is my young fellas getting caught out on the wrong side of the split and losing the U25s lead but enjoyed seeing their willingness to join breakaways throughout.
Thank you for the great reports!
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 11-11-2022 13:02
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SotD wrote:
New career highlight from Mengoulas to pick up 2nd in KOM here. Great to see he was attentive and climbed one spot.
Very happy with his performance here as well And nice to see Uhiriwe in the break early as well.
Overall, this was an important bounce back race for Silvestre after a rocky start. Second place is fantastic, exactly what we needed. Congrats LLS, a nice win by Jakobsen.
And thank you for the very good reports Ulrich, I enjoyed them a lot!
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 13-11-2022 20:51
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Wow, this was a race to forget for us!
Bertilsson didn't have the backing he needed in this race unfortunately. We'll come back stronger next year!
Thank you very much for the quality reports as always Ulrich! |
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 18-11-2022 13:05
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Our race was somewhat saved by the time split on stage 3 but how these results are even possible with the setup we brought here is insane. Thanks for the reports.
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