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| Smowz |
Posted on 21-01-2011 22:33
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The Brixia Tour starts and Red Bull's expectations here are very limited - Williamson once again gives his best as does the team.
Our best hope is probably Drapac doing something on the last stage - but we wait to see the profile before deciding that - besides this race is about Bacardi and whether they can make up for a so so U23 performance so far.
The top three in the team standings overall seem safe - I would imagine that Pokerstars brilliant belgian should also keep them up in the top five - the last place is up for grabs but El Al have a french classic for Bar to cash in on.
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| Kami |
Posted on 22-01-2011 12:03
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Nice ride, and nice win.
A bit off-topic but Brixia Tour would be a nice race to have in CT.
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 22-01-2011 12:14
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hmm, mini-Santander not covering themselves in glory
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| Smowz |
Posted on 22-01-2011 12:58
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All fairly equal on mountain stats led to that finish type we saw a bit in the Vuelta.
Not that these riders are comparable of course  Casey Munro was disappointing there are being named as one of the favourites I suddenly had my hopes up... he then does poorly.
It piles the pressure on Drapac on the flat stage which may well be more suited to a breakaway.
If Brixia was in the CTour - I wonder which Italian would be racing it for sure Kami!? It is probably a pretty good one where it is though as a sort of Baby Giro type of race (without taking over the U23 division!)
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| Kami |
Posted on 22-01-2011 13:09
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Smowz wrote:
All fairly equal on mountain stats led to that finish type we saw a bit in the Vuelta.
Not that these riders are comparable of course Casey Munro was disappointing there are being named as one of the favourites I suddenly had my hopes up... he then does poorly.
It piles the pressure on Drapac on the flat stage which may well be more suited to a breakaway.
If Brixia was in the CTour - I wonder which Italian would be racing it for sure Kami!? It is probably a pretty good one where it is though as a sort of Baby Giro type of race (without taking over the U23 division!)
That is, if i don't promote (hopes)  . Nah, it's a nice race compared to Giro del Trentino which are races i like in general.
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| mattiasgt |
Posted on 22-01-2011 13:22
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Didn't have a single rider that could keep up with the peleton on the first stage. Now thats a lousy perfomance.
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| jack888 |
Posted on 22-01-2011 13:25
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Some of these finishes are mental.
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 22-01-2011 15:24
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Still going great. Let's hope we do this well in the real thing. |
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| Heine |
Posted on 22-01-2011 16:05
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My team is going to set a new record, most reports without showing up in pictures! Gogogogo!
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 24-01-2011 13:29
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So, updated rankings after Brixia. Gilannipoor takes back the lead, just ahead of Sgrigna and then an ever present Vandoussellaere.
| 1 | Abolfazl | Gilanipoor | IRN | Mercedes-Benz | 73 | | 2 | Pier Graziano | Sgrigna | ITA | Bacardi - Colt | 70 | | 3 | Sven | Vandousselaere | BEL | Team Pokerstars.com | 66 | | 4 | Mohd Shahrulnizam | Che Samsudin | MAS | Team Falcon-Husqvarna | 64 | | 5 | Hillary | Kiprotich | KEN | Pendleton's Twicer | 62 | | 6 | Charles | Anguilet | GAB | Pendleton's Twicer | 57 | | 7 | Jocelyn | Bar | FRA | EL AL - IDF | 43 | | 8 | Behnam | Khalilikhosroshani | IRN | Mercedes-Benz | 40 | | 9 | Matej | Vysna | SVK | Milka | 39 | | 10 | Ondrej | Belohoubek | CZE | Team Pokerstars.com | 28 | | 11 | Yves | Da Luz | LUX | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 26 | | 12 | Gianchiglio | Tieri | ITA | Bacardi - Colt | 24 | | 13 | Jan | Van Epoel | BEL | Festina - Corona | 23 | | 14 | Alberto | Jeanneret | SWI | UBS - Annie Chun's | 23 | | 15 | Andrés | RodrÃguez | COL | Yamaha - Greenpeace | 23 | | 16 | James | Williamson | NZL | Red Bull | 21 | | 17 | Johan | Nystrand | SWD | Sony Ericsson | 20 | | 18 | Robel | Tedros | AUT | Domina Vacanze | 18 | | 19 | Ramiro | Cabrera Gonzalez | URU | Cillit Bang - IT-Factory powered by The Moon X | 17 | | 20 | Frederic | Boivin | CAN | Quiksilver-Kraft | 17 | | 21 | Christian | Schaffer | SWI | UBS - Annie Chun's | 17 | | 22 | Jarno | Gmelich | NED | Jack Wolfskin | 17 | | 23 | Vasco | Pereira | POR | Pearl Adidas | 16 | | 24 | Vyacheslav | Fedorov | KAZ | Lipton Ice Tea | 14 | | 25 | Nathan | Brown | USA | Wikipedia | 14 | | 26 | Kévin | Reza | FRA | EL AL - IDF | 14 | | 27 | Damion | Drapac | AUS | Red Bull | 12 | | 28 | Christopher | Juul-Jensen | DEN | UBS - Annie Chun's | 12 | | 29 | Elijah | Hubert | USA | Wikipedia | 11 | | 30 | Maxim | Toporishchev | RUS | Tinkoff Credit Systems - Rosneft | 10 | | 31 | Marco | Haller | AUT | Domina Vacanze | 9 | | 32 | Patrick | Bercz | GER | Milka | 8 | | 33 | Casey | Munro | AUS | Red Bull | 8 | | 34 | Andrew | Hunt | CAN | Quiksilver-Kraft | 8 | | 35 | Matt | Green | GBR | YouTube - Twitter | 8 | | 36 | Roman | Dronin | UZB | Cillit Bang - IT-Factory powered by The Moon X | 7 | | 37 | Yannick | Eijssen | BEL | Festina - Corona | 6 | | 38 | Mikkel | Lund | DEN | Team Falcon-Husqvarna | 6 | | 39 | Bob | Jungels | LUX | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 6 | | 40 | Kim | Michely | LUX | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 5 | | 41 | Pablo | Lechuga | ESP | Pearl Adidas | 4 | | 42 | Juan | Cancino | CHL | Yamaha - Greenpeace | 4 | | 43 | Ken Sebastian | VassdÃ¥l | NOR | Team Telenor-SAS | 4 | | 44 | Far Saeed | Navid | IRN | Mercedes-Benz | 4 | | 45 | Salvador | Guardiola Tora | ESP | Santander | 3 | | 46 | Gabriel | Cerveira | POR | Pearl Adidas | 3 | | 47 | Jochen | Engelen | BEL | Festina - Corona | 3 | | 48 | Geert | Van der Sanden | NED | Jack Wolfskin | 2 | | 49 | Marino | Prestia | ITA | Bacardi - Colt | 2 | | 50 | Tullio | Tenzon | ITA | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 2 | | 51 | Michał | Kwiatkowski | POL | Milka | 2 | | 52 | Danilo | Milioni | ITA | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 2 | | 53 | Fonne | Woortman | NED | Jack Wolfskin | 2 | | 54 | Rigido | Moscariello | ITA | Bacardi - Colt | 2 | | 55 | Lluis | Mas | ESP | Lipton Ice Tea | 2 | | 56 | Jesús | Herrada | ESP | Santander | 1 |
Pendleton's take the lead from Mercedes, but only by 2 points, while Bacardi leap up to 3rd. Pokerstars remain 4th, so it is Falcon who slip to 5th - and therefore most at risk of losing out in the final race.
| 1 | Pendleton's Twicer | 119 | | 2 | Mercedes-Benz | 117 | | 3 | Bacardi - Colt | 98 | | 4 | Team Pokerstars.com | 94 | | 5 | Team Falcon-Husqvarna | 70 | | 6 | EL AL - IDF | 57 | | 7 | UBS - Annie Chun's | 52 | | 8 | Milka | 49 | | 9 | Red Bull | 41 | | 10 | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 41 | | 11 | Festina - Corona | 32 | | 12 | Yamaha - Greenpeace | 27 | | 13 | Domina Vacanze | 27 | | 14 | Wikipedia | 25 | | 15 | Quiksilver-Kraft | 25 | | 16 | Cillit Bang - IT-Factory powered by The Moon X | 24 | | 17 | Pearl Adidas | 23 | | 18 | Jack Wolfskin | 21 | | 19 | Sony Ericsson | 20 | | 20 | Lipton Ice Tea | 16 | | 21 | Tinkoff Credit Systems - Rosneft | 10 | | 22 | YouTube - Twitter | 8 | | 23 | Santander | 4 | | 24 | Team Telenor-SAS | 4 |
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 24-01-2011 13:34
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Santander flying past Telenor into 23rd
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 24-01-2011 13:35
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I'm finally beating Sony somewhere
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| Smowz |
Posted on 24-01-2011 13:45
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Well that pretty much confirms my suspicions that we have not quite done enough to guarentee Avenir participation. 29 point gap to Falcon, not likely to be closed down even if Drapac wins the last race.
Brixia - Red Bull had its chances and went for it on every stage all you can ask really. Munro should have done better on the climbing stage all things being said but it was really close between them on paper.
The top nine all from the CTour stock implies that we are upwardly mobile
El-Al (sponsoring France) and Bacardi (Sponsoring Italy) always looked pretty good value. The others are a surprise wacko has a happy knack of picking up riders who look pretty ordinary only to win out. The Iranians.. well we will see what they can do at Avenir.
Bar must be a big favourite for the last race of the U23 season being in France and all - though that Pokerstars Belgian rider could seal the individual rankings.
This has been a nice litte sideshow SN giving some lesser riders a chance in the limelight.
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| beagle |
Posted on 24-01-2011 14:06
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Due to great performance of young Czech Belohoubek in Italy, we are almost surely qualified to Le Tour de l'Avenir! Shame he can´t dress our jersey one more time there...
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 24-01-2011 16:28
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Hey!! I always pick the best riders Smowz. Actually my u23 riders were just the best africans but I picked my pendleton's riders well (you predicting me so low down) |
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| beagle |
Posted on 24-01-2011 22:13
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another great performance of my leader and his overall win in competition 
and if I count well, my team moved up to 2nd by single points ahead of Mercedes and 3pts behind Pendleton´s !!
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 24-01-2011 22:23
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With those two wins Bar earns himself a spot on my team. |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 24-01-2011 22:33
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does that mean that by your calculations i win beagle? |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 24-01-2011 22:34
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A respectable end to the U23 division for the Red Bull clan, chasing down the breaks - but ultimately it was too longer classic for the youngsters to hold it together.
Drapac provided the big glory moment with his win and I enjoyed the new jerseys outing. Guessing Red Bull finished somewhere in the top ten.
Williamson may just be worth a punt when transfer season comes around as a stagiere at least.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 24-01-2011 22:37
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I might look into boosting some of the top performers anyway, as well as giving them their XP for success.
Rankings are ready, will be posted in a bit. Its pretty tight!
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