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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 05-03-2025 23:41
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Better stuff from Haller a few feet from 2nd. Just building form for the TOA.
We have been pretty confused about who we are riding for but Warbasse seems to be the best choice so lets hope he doesn't just give up tomorrow, which is certainly possible.
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| MacC |
Posted on 06-03-2025 09:02
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Thanks for the reports Roturn
As expected here from Glanbia, making an effort on the break but to little avail. Another Stage race where our lack of a clear leader is just destroying us
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 06-03-2025 09:21
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Thanks for the great reports, roturn!
After the interlude yesterday the GC fight is finally on and Ranaweera looked good today, adding his first podium for the team. The gaps to Rodrigues and THJ are just small enough to give us some hope he can overcome at least one of them in the TT but just big enough to not expect this to happen. It will be an exciting last stage!
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 06-03-2025 09:23
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Defeated again, I'm kinda worried for the TT now..
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| quadsas |
Posted on 06-03-2025 11:52
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Lasinis survived without any major time losses, time to get 1-2-3 in the TT
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| SotD |
Posted on 06-03-2025 13:00
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Ioannidis too far back, and Mavrikakis with too little gaps. It will be a poor race unfortunately...
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 06-03-2025 20:26
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 06-03-2025 20:29
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Thrilling stage, but not too much to our liking. Joahnessen again winning with all bonus points evading Rodrigues isn't ideal. Was hoping the long hard climbs could prove to be grueling enough to make it a more selective stage. Anyway this creates some suspense for the final day. Oomen should have this one secured but the rest of the podium should be an open battle I guess. Thanks for the report, roturn.
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| seancoll |
Posted on 06-03-2025 22:30
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Keough a decent stage 5 sprint for a few more points and then got to watch a great GC battle without me on stage 6. Nice to see Ranaweera find some success after watching a number of challenging performances throughout the year.
Alex Frame doing Alex Frame things in last. We love it. he did his part and now he cries over the mountains.
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 07-03-2025 00:01
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I can live with being uncompetitive in the GC, it wasn't unexpected although frustrating that our best placed GC guy was our 5th best finisher on this stage. The real pain is that we had nobody in the break - missing a 12-man break is totally inexcusable given our team, specially when if Hecht takes 1 more point he is 2nd on KOM.
The worst ToC in team history. Which was mostly a planning choice but was hoping the home roads might inspire a little over-performance.
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 07-03-2025 06:58
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Quite the collapse from Ndayisenga on that mountain stage. Bit unfortunate as a Top 20 GC finish would've been in the cards, but Velasco winning the KoM makes up for that. Good to see him finally do what we signed him to do. Overall, considering our squad here, that makes this race a moderate success.
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 07-03-2025 08:19
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Phenomenal performance from Habtom to get on the podium in the sprint relative to what we would've expected. Sending a B team to a HC race, any kind of result is a bonus. It does make me wonder about our sprinting in general - could Gibbons have done one better if he had been here? Or could Habtom have secured similar results to Gibbons regularly for a fraction of the price? Happy to also see Berhane with a somewhat decent placing on the stage, it's been a dissapointing farewell tour (?) for him so far otherwise.
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| quadsas |
Posted on 07-03-2025 11:17
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Now das what I'm talking about. Two stage wins, Lasinis in 8th, Budi with some depth. Damn good race for us
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 07-03-2025 11:29
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Good that we ended up with a stage podium at least. Had hoped for more, when I saw Gebremedhin joined the break on stage 6, but it wasn't to be.
Thank you roturn for amazing reporting and congrats to all the winners!  |
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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 07-03-2025 13:05
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We're happy with Min hanging on to 10th. We were solid all race long, without a great outlier (the performance from Zingle aside).
Thanks roturn for reporting and congrats Ollfardh with the win!
Everesting also scoring good here in terms of staying up.
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| Blasing |
Posted on 07-03-2025 14:28
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Not what we had hoped for concerning hill stages, GC and the TT. But overall an ok stage race as we had a stage win with Boudat and some points for KoM and points rating.
Thanks for the reports!
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| SotD |
Posted on 07-03-2025 14:41
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Not quite as bad as feared, but not ideal either. We hoped for a bit more.
It's always nice to win the Team GC though!
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 07-03-2025 17:14
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Cattaneo should have been top ten minimum this race. Losing time on the hilly stage was a disappointment but somewhat expected, but his performance on the mountain stage was beyond shocking.
Kalaba did redeem himself with two great sprints.
Thanks for the reports roturn and congrats Ollfardh!
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 07-03-2025 20:34
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Great result for us. Best stage race of the season. Rodrigues 2nd, Orosco 2nd in U25 and 3rd in Teams GC makes this an unparalleled moment. Kind of makes me hope for a successful relegation battle.
Thanks for the great reports roturn and congrats on the win Olfardh!
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 07-03-2025 20:39
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Thanks for the reports to roturn and congrats to quadsas for the final 1-2 as well as Ollfardh for another Oomen win!
We're more than happy with Ranaweera in 3rd, that's only our third GC podium ever. The depth scoring by Hadi, Pinot and Garibian is a nice addition, making this one of our best scoring races of the season.
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