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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 28-11-2014 13:33
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Excellent preview,Shonak 
Hoping for a good result from Nibbles with the season he is having
The user formerly known as 'The Schleck Fan'
Gracias Alberto.
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| mvhoogdalem |
Posted on 28-11-2014 17:41
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knockout wrote:
mvhoogdalem wrote:
How dare you Mr. Previewer. Accusing Sagan of being horribly overrated. See you in court. 
In ICL Sagan got a -1HI stat decrease because he was so overpowered. Would not that be a possibility here, too?
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| Shonak |
Posted on 28-11-2014 19:17
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Sagan isn't the only overpowered in the DB though. Since there havn't been any transfers to this point and people ony chose a pre-existent team, I'd consider it a legit method to adjust the DB.
Anyway, might upload the U23 road race soon because I'm flooed with work for tomorrow.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 28-11-2014 19:28
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Shonak wrote:
Anyway, might upload the U23 road race soon because I'm flooed with work for tomorrow.
Please do so
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Posted on 28-11-2014 19:43
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World Championships
U23 Road Race
Welcome to Tuscany once more. We start in Lucca and will head then onto a circuit course through Firenze. With around 96 riders at the start, the U23 Road Race hosts a nice number of talent and future greats. With a little bit delay, the race finally starts.
We havn’t even left Lucca yet and the first attack already happens. It’s Boivin from Canada. Italy’s Agostini and the American Jakob Rathe are about to follow. Nowak from Poland and dutch rider Van Drenthe complete the five men group until Bobridge makes a late effort to bridge the gap and join as well.
Ospina, Lander and Sanz are other riders who want to get into the break today. Germany and France have taken a loose control of the race yet. Some control, but little chasing obviously. It’s a long way to Firenze still.
As they ride up the first climbs of the day, they continuously increase their lead. With roughly 4 minutes lead, they have a great lead and can work together without any hassle. Spaniard Sanz might be the fastest man in the bunch but regardless of that, neither of those riders has the legs for such a hilly, very long classic route. But hey – maybe it’s their turn to get lucky. Either way, with them being at front, their countrymen have to invest little energy at this point.
Delfi Cervero got the Number One on his pack. And some really class him as a favourite here today. Nonetheless, he got 10th at Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Firenze isn’t all too different for Delfi. However, similar to Po-Ding Kim or Riquelme, who have to be named as favourites too, he lacks teammates as well. As such it is up to France, Germany, Belgium and Great Britain to keep the peloton in check.
His countryman is up front and he’s all at the end: Hugo Houle up-ended himself, lying on the floor now. Still a bit dizzy, he will continue the race and surely has no problem to catch up with the peloton again.
Thomas Schwabe, Dermot Walker and Peter Pal are amongst the riders who do the pace early on.
Over 10 minutes lead at the moment but it’s still 190 kilometers to go. I swear if the AI fucks this up… grrr.
Regardless of this, the race has arrived in Firenze now and the circuit will be raced 11 times if I havn’t miscounted. Long way and with the Fiesole climb it won’t be easy at any point.
Italian Drago Di Silvestro has crashed too now. Hopefully the last one for today. He will continue the race though. Meanwhile, Germany and Belgium have taken up responsibility and decrease the gap ever so slightly.
Belgium and Germany really do some work back there. Especially Van Keirsbulck does major pulls. As a result the gap reduces to 8 minutes. The two guys from Team Tirol are even about to get lapped.
Hanzen even has his fans in Italy. Or maybe they came over. We hit the 100 kilometers mark. 6 minutes left for the group upfront. Slowly the faces get more and more tired. The endurance effect comes to kick in. Germany and Belgium still do all the work back there.
Almost 200 kilometers are in the legs of those youngsters. Some begin to tremble. The peloton stretches long, Russell from USA has been already dropped.
The break hits magic number 200. This is maybe the most for some that they have covered in a race. Or it will be at the end of the day. The break has clearly lost its momentum, as Nerz and Wellens pace remorseless back there. Under 5 minutes with still 69 kilometers to go.
Some of the polish riders have to let go, certainly not to the pleasing of Owniak. Di Silvestro gets dropped too after his previous crash. The American squad has had to endure some losses already as well. In total 3 riders have dropped by them, King is the latest.
Walker and many others ride with their heads buried deep. They really have to fight to keep the pace of the peloton, the Fiesolo shows little mercy at this point and neither do the leading teams.
Hintermüller and Schwabe make excellent teammates for Schröder, they really deliver some pain. The lead of the breakaway is down to 2 minutes by now. Yet still 50 kilometers left to race. Hopefully we see some early attacks.
With the breakaway in catching distance, Delfi Cervero takes position behind the pacers. Very little of a fighting heart is in the Costa Rican, but he still has a natural talent for those hilly, very long races. Riquelme comes close behind him. Kakhi is prominent featured at the front of the peloton too throughout the race.
Walker and Brookes get dropped this time around at the Fiesolo. They are not built for these kind of races.
But don’t linger too much at the back with your cameras! Muriel from Colombia is the first to attack now! About 40 kilometers out. Cervero and Riquelme follow! However none of those guys are particularly great at downhills and I guess they overestimated their talents there a bit. Or have never heard particularly much about tactics. Warren Barguil shortly thereafter makes the same move. All are to be caught by – a fantastic as usual - Tim Wellens.
Over the Ponte Alla Badia, the peloton gets closer to the breakaway. Each passing kilometer just features a time loss for them. Those guys upfront are at their limits, whilst Germany and Belgium can really clap themselves on the backs for their performance so far. What is important now is for their captains to perform.
Van Drenthe, Owniak, Boivin and Lander don’t just want to give up yet and try a late dash to make a miracle happen. As a result numerous attacks happen in the breakaway. Every rider seems to try it at some point. But all of those guys are rather wasted by now.
With two laps to go, 62 riders are still featured in the peloton. Quite a number. The work is still not done for Germany and Belgium. With their late attacks, the breakaway gained some ground. All too typical. It’s important to stay concentrated now and work consequently. Belgium and Germany have the numbers on their side. Little help is to expected at this point from other nations though.
Rajesh Kakhi comes to the front and attacks easily from the pack. He seems a bit like he’s flying up Fiesolo at this point, compared to all those tired faces. Hintermüller must be rolling with his eyes a bit at least. Although Cervero has in theory the perfect shot at following Kakhi’s wheel, he prefers not do anything, until…
Until there, Cervero goes! The breakaway is well within sight. Barguil and Hanzen are close to the Costa Rican. Owniak appears too and has even a teammate upfront who might be of help later on.
With Cervero’s move, Kakhi has been caught, but whilst the Costa Rican sees that as a reason to stop, Owniak goes full throttle into the downhill and rushes by his EPIC rivals. A wide variety of riders react though, almost anyone with winning aspirations is quick enough to cover the moves at this point. Especially Kakhi looks particularly strong in this downhill. Eventually though, Wellens and Nerz take control of the peloton – yet again.
Wow, horrible for Belgium. Verboven has crashed. We see his countrymen immediately pulling back but the race must be almost over for the young Flemish rider under Euskaltel – Euskadi’s guidance. Meanwhile with ALL of Belgium pulling back to help Verboven, Germany tasks is clearly cut out for them: Get the breakaway. Those guys are still ahead!
There goes the typical scene again! Muriel attacks this time around, followed by Schröder and Hanzen. Riquelme, Kakhi, Cervero are right there too. Hinault gets into the action too. Slagter and Barguil chase a bit later.
Bimm! Bimm! Bimm! Of all people, Cervero catches the break. The bell rings for the final round. 9 riders are in this group of favourites, who will want to decide the victory behind them. Po-Ding Kim tries to bridge over to the group with a late effort. Prominent names missing are of course Verboven, but also Owniak missed the jump. De La Montagne, De Las Campos and Löwenherz are all back in the peloton.
We see here Calzone riding next to the Belgium team. Hardly any hope of coming back there. Weird move by the Belgiums though, but when you invest everything in one rider, it’s maybe the only card you can play. To let all your riders work even harder.
As Po-Ding Kim has caught up with the group, Schröder almost naturally takes over the pace as if this is the thing he is demanded to. Cervero looks at him, some words exchange between the two puncheurs and Delfi takes first position behind the German. Various riders prefer to be at the back of the group now. For example, Kakhi, Hanzen, Riquelme or Owniak.
The race isn’t over for the peloton yet as De Las Campos works for Spain to bring the big bunch back. Schröder meanwhile maybe doesn’t know himself if it’s really up to him to make all the work. The only nations to feature two riders are Netherlands and France. However, only France have with Hinault and Barguil two relatively fresh riders.
And Schröder sees how Riquelme wants to attack, but he prefers to do it himself. As a reaction, only HInault, Muriel and Hanzen follow. This could well be the decisive move as Cervero – always in second position – just did not react at all to this move.
The only initial reaction follows a bit later from Tom Jelte Slagter who is followed by an ambitious Po-Ding Kim, who lacks the acceleration at this point in the race. Kakhi looks without orientation but may still have the legs to make something happen.
It’s all close now. Slagter’s move has proven good enough to almost get hold of Schröder & Co. Po-Ding Kim leads a second group then right after Slagter. Owniak, Kakhi and Barguil are featured there. Cervero demands for a water bottle at this mark. Fischer from Denmark leads the peloton. Landa and Herrada from Spain may have energy left. Ratto might try something as well. But maybe little can be expected at this point still.
Verboven is at the end of the peloton and thus has caught up. He quickly passes a ton of rider, flying up there. Is that anger at his own crash that makes him fly? Probably. If he manages to get in front in the next kilometers, maybe he can still get a good result.
Schröder leads the bunch over the Fiesolo. Slagter has caught up for good and with a late punch by Kakhi the second group might make it too. Hanzen is doing a great Gerrans impersonation by doing shit nothing all throughout the race but probably really outsprinting everybody in the end. Riquelme takes the lead in the downhill.
But wait – that’s actually an attack! Kakhi has joined the small group now too alongside Slagter by the way. The others are quite behind though. Verboven is in a small group with Barguil and Owniak.
No one else than Schröder was willing to close the gap. As a revenge move, Schröder directly attacks! But those are quickly responded by many counterattacks. Kakhi is the first one to lose it here though. Hanzen, Hinault and Slagter are in the group close to chase Schröder. Muriel and Riquelme managed to hold Schröder’s wheel. Cervero and Po-Ding Kim ride together to get back to the front but they already have 20 seconds onto Kakhi.
The last 5 kilometers, the group is back together. Schröder just can’tkeep himself from attacking. Over and over he tries it. Again and again he fails though. Maybe the Ponte Alla Badia will bring more luck to him.
There is the gap he always demanded and he forced himself over and over again. At over 10% gradient, Schröder breaks free, but… BUT…
Shortly thereafter, he makes THE look to the ground. Shit! He has been racing in the red zone for almost 10-15 kilometers, approximately. Figures. Riquelme back there may take successfully advantage of that. If he makes it to Schröder. The German still has a few meters lead and at this stage, few meters make all the difference.
Hinault is the third over the Passo Alla Badia. Hanzen then shortly thereafter finally has to take some initiave if he wants Gold today. Crazy too, Cervero has caught up with this group in the Badia climb! Kakhi looks down for good,whilst Slagter may get Cervero’s wheel and makes a comeback too as well. Stunning ride by Muriel.
Three kilometers, never going to stop. Riquelme and Schröder can’t wait to fight it out and start damn early. Schröder must feel the lack of power, Riquelme passes him easily. Now it’s up to the Chilean to show how much he got left in his tank. Hinault is in third position, he played it wonderfully cool and may surprise the two fighting cats there.
In the background we see the other group, but those don’t matter now. Riquelme leads the race with a clear gap to Schröder and Hinault. Two kilometers to go.
Riquelme on his way to U23 Road Race World Championship GOLD! Schröder and Hinault have nothing left than to fight for the remaining podium spots, whilst Hanzen comes out of the last turn with some amazing punch and may surprise one of the two others on the line!
There it is, Gold for Chile and Belkin and most importantly, Cristobal Riquelme. The young, promising rider has set an example today by riding both cleverly and aggressive at times but ultimately prevailing with a late attack against the onslaught of Germany’s Schröder.
The rainbow jersey has to wait for now but we are sure there’ll be enough shots of Riquelme in the future hopefully! Hinault outsprinted Schröder on the line to take Silver, whilst the ever so active German takes bronze. Considering his race strategy, it’s hard to imagine that anything else than Gold counted for Schröder today. Hinault crowns France very good overall team performances meanwhile with his silver medal.,
Hanzen gets the same time as the three podium spots, however has finished a bit behind. This also marks the first competition without medal for Great Britain. Luigi must be happy to see Slagter coming 5th after a decent run. The Dutch leads the next group consisting of Muriel, Cervero, Kakhi and Verboven! Whilst Kakhi has been probably the most featured and daring rider next to Schröder, huge credits go to for Verboven for his stunning comeback ride from the late crash. Po-Ding Kim eventually completes the Top 10.
U23 World Championships Road Race, Results
| Rank | Name | Team | Time |  | Jorge Cristobal Riquelme | Chile | 7h10'55 |  | Thomas Hinault | France | s.t. |  | Christian Schroder | Germany | s.t. | | 4 | Adrien Hanzen | Great Britain | s.t. | | 5 | Tom Slagter | Netherlands | + 49 | | 6 | Christian Muriel | Columbia | s.t. | | 7 | Delfi Cervero | Costa Rica | s.t. | | 8 | Rajesh Kakhi | India | s.t. | | 9 | Rudy Verboven | Belgium | s.t. | | 10 | Po-ding Kim | North Korea | + 1'31 |
Spoiler | 11 | Alex Fischer | Denmark | s.t. | | 12 | Warren Barguil | France | s.t. | | 13 | Damian Owniak | Poland | s.t. | | 14 | Daniele Ratto | Italy | + 2'50 | | 15 | Arnaud Demare | France | + 3'59 | | 16 | Lue Khamse Khamphan | Laos | s.t. | | 17 | Sebastian Lander | Denmark | s.t. | | 18 | Peter Pal | France | s.t. | | 19 | Naveed Alinejad | Iran | s.t. | | 20 | Silvio Pennarossa | San Marino | s.t. | | 21 | Jens Debusschere | Belgium | s.t. | | 22 | Salvatore Puccio | Italy | s.t. | | 23 | Nicky Van Drenthe | Netherlands | s.t. | | 24 | Jesús Herrada | Spain | s.t. | | 25 | Pierre De la Montagne | France | s.t. | | 26 | Guillaume Boivin | Canada | s.t. | | 27 | Mario Guido | Italy | s.t. | | 28 | Richard Löwenherz | Austria | s.t. | | 29 | Mitchell Birt | Australia | s.t. | | 30 | Joseph Dombrowski | USA | s.t. | | 31 | Rüdiger Selig | Germany | s.t. | | 32 | Mikel Landa | Spain | s.t. | | 33 | Dominik Nerz | Germany | s.t. | | 34 | Ian Boswell | USA | s.t. | | 35 | Nikias Arndt | Germany | s.t. | | 36 | Erik McDermott | Denmark | s.t. | | 37 | Jordan Birtles | Great Britain | s.t. | | 38 | Enrique Sanz | Spain | s.t. | | 39 | Julian Kern | Germany | s.t. | | 40 | Jakob Rathe | USA | s.t. | | 41 | Kenny Elissonde | France | s.t. | | 42 | Josef Hintermuller | Germany | s.t. | | 43 | Cristiano De las Campos | Spain | s.t. | | 44 | Tim Wellens | Belgium | s.t. | | 45 | Mateusz Nowak | Poland | s.t. | | 46 | Garikoitz Bravo | Spain | s.t. | | 47 | Thomas Schwabe | Germany | s.t. | | 48 | Bert-Jan Lindeman | Netherlands | s.t. | | 49 | Johann Nokkvason | Iceland | s.t. | | 50 | Josh Burton | Great Britain | s.t. | | 51 | David De la Cruz | Spain | s.t. | | 52 | Jelle Wallays | Belgium | s.t. | | 53 | Mattia Cattaneo | Italy | s.t. | | 54 | Stefano Agostini | Italy | s.t. | | 55 | Argiro Ospina | Columbia | s.t. | | 56 | Karol Domagalski | Poland | s.t. | | 57 | Jack Bobridge | Australia | s.t. | | 58 | Carlo Calzone | Italy | + 5'36 | | 59 | Ramon Sinkeldam | Netherlands | s.t. | | 60 | Heimdal Hägg | Sweden | s.t. | | 61 | Tosh Van der Sande | Belgium | s.t. | | 62 | Tom Van Asbroeck | Belgium | s.t. | | 63 | Julien Vermote | Belgium | s.t. | | 64 | Luca Wackermann | Italy | s.t. | | 65 | Hugo Houle | Canada | s.t. | | 66 | Wesley Kreder | Netherlands | s.t. | | 67 | Michel Koch | Germany | s.t. | | 68 | Gorka Nieve | Spain | s.t. | | 69 | Guillaume Van Keirsbulck | Belgium | s.t. | | 70 | Luke Durbridge | Australia | s.t. | | 71 | Joshua Edmonson | Great Britain | s.t. | | 72 | Johan Le Bon | France | s.t. | | 73 | Danny Van Poppel | Netherlands | + 8'23 | | 74 | Tom O'Callaghan | Ireland | s.t. | | 75 | Larry Warbasse | USA | s.t. | | 76 | Nattrapon Miles | Great Britain | s.t. | | 77 | Duber Quintero | Columbia | s.t. | | 78 | Marc Goos | Netherlands | s.t. | | 79 | Evan Huffman | USA | s.t. | | 80 | Fabian Brookes | Australia | + 9'34 | | 81 | Raymond Kreder | Netherlands | s.t. | | 82 | Jon Aberasturi | Spain | s.t. | | 83 | Dermot Walker | Great Britain | + 10'06 | | 84 | Erik Bousche | France | s.t. | | 85 | Łukasz Owsian | Poland | + 12'49 | | 86 | Ben King | USA | + 13'24 | | 87 | Drago Di Silvestro | Italy | + 15'01 | | 88 | Daniel Summerhill | USA | s.t. | | 89 | Josef Cerny | Poland | + 16'08 | | 90 | Piotr Gawroński | Poland | + 17'28 | | 91 | Grzegorz Stepniak | Poland | + 23'49 | | 92 | Stephen Clancy | Ireland | + 25'06 | | 93 | Branden Russell | USA | + 30'10 | | 94 | Clemens Fankhauser | Tirol Cycling Team | s.t. |
See you at the Elites' Race!
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 28-11-2014 19:55
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Great report! 
Alex Fischer just outside the top 10 for Denmark.
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Posted on 28-11-2014 19:57
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Best rider in 29th and best team rider in 70th...
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Posted on 28-11-2014 20:05
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2nd and 4th with +0" time gap... TMM Sports Management is just unmatched in the world of EPIC cycling. Their two riders right in the mix and making up half of the lead group.
Le Faucon surprised a few people there i'm certain. He can add that to his Crit Int victory to cap a solid debut season. Also an excellent validation on his choice to head to Tuscany early and all that training time really counter. Europcar will be very happy to get their hands on him.
Shindigs close. He preferes to identify as a sprinter so such a result in possibly the toughest race route on the calendar is a major achievement. He'll never get that U23 medal but it's just further indication of his talent. A measured ride working towards a sprint for the line. It didn't happen but he played it right to suit his skills. BMC will be very happy to get their hands on him.
France were excellent once again! Constantly active, ever present and ultimately successful with a Silver medal. Barguil unlucky to miss the Top10 but his work, and the whole teams work, was trememdous. Lets not forget Pal who put in the kilometers early on. Good signs for the nation and for the Elite race.
Big congrats to Riquleme. He timed that one perfectly and it was a well deserved victory, no-one can dispute that. Unlucky for some of the other active guys like Schroder, Muriel and Cervero. Verboven did brilliant to get back into the top10. Overall a very impressive showing from the EPIC riders.
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 28-11-2014 20:12
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Little disappointed by Damian's performance :c Very great report there Shonak !
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Posted on 28-11-2014 20:18
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What a report! Great coverage of what must be everything that happened. I am delighted for Delfi, 7th here is probably up there with Liège top 10. The result is good but the performance looked even better, since this is the first race where Cervero's name has been mentioned so much at the front. Mind you, I'm not sure if thats Delfi livening up the race or just a fantastic report! |
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Posted on 28-11-2014 20:20
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Great job from Verboven getting back after yet another crash.
Not impressed by Spain though...
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Posted on 28-11-2014 20:41
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The BMC Curse is kinda still there, Owniak was the 11th best custom rider xD
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Posted on 28-11-2014 21:13
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Verboven gets the awards for most crashed EPIC rider this season, and his downhill skill isn't even that bad.. Still great he can get a top 10, same for Po-ding.
As Belgium mananger, I'm disappointed of course. So unlucky..
As Belkin manager, really happy for Jorge! He sure took revenge on Schroder for Tour of Norway. It does however seem like a team isn't needed to win here, which makes me wonder about Sagan in the Road Race.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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Posted on 28-11-2014 21:47
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Shame that a more active rider couldn't win but Hanzen in 4th is good to see for the future.
Great race by Owniak and Nerz, really showing their sterngth and good ride by Lander too. USA sucked balls but that was to be expected with such a dreadful selection of riders. Branden lost the Novo Nordisk battle to Clancy by over five minutes though. Not good.
My riders did as expected, pleased to see Jordan and Josh there at the end. Interesting, though not at all surprising to see that the main group is a mix of realistic riders who aren't great climbers and custom riders who can climb but have terrible secondary stats.
Great race. Great report.
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Posted on 28-11-2014 21:52
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Yeah, great report, forgot to mention that! Just that moment when Verboven crashes, you broke my heart
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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Posted on 28-11-2014 22:20
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Brilliant racing from Schröder! Really showed great passion and offers the fan the spirit of a real fighter!
Although one could argue that his race tactics were not that convincing considering that he propably has the best punch from the podiumed riders.
But he'll get another chance in the Elites RR (if Schwabe does not dominate everything that is!)
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 28-11-2014 22:47
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Only just spotted Demare up in 15th. Terrific from the sprinter, i assume putting his high support stats to use.
And also have to say that was a terrific report. Really detailed with some very nice screenshots. Excited for the Elite RR now 
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 28-11-2014 23:24
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Hanzen rode really well today and it was a shame he ended up without a medal  |
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| mvhoogdalem |
Posted on 29-11-2014 00:10
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Great report. Excited to see Sagan fail in the Elites.
Italy disappointing again, but we did not have a great set of riders for this parcours. Shame di Silvestro crashed so early on. Fischer did great with an 11th place. De las Campos at least showed himself a bit, but nothing great from him.
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Posted on 29-11-2014 00:55
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Muriel
Can't wait to s him lead the Colombia trade team in 2014
Also a brave effort from Nicky Van Drenthe
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