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Vuelta al Tachira Discussion
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| Smowz |
Posted on 01-08-2011 13:56
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First mountains always exciting, I guess it is fitting the the mountain climber of the CTour takes it, I like other would have guessed that Alarcon could have taken minutes out of the others. This suggests to me that Alarcon may not be the hot pot favourite that we may have thought. We'll see it Castano, Eastman and Ratiy can make gains in up to an including that TT.
You have to say the three behind fought well and going to be an ulmighty tussle for the last podium place. That stage proved an initial sorting out but with so much more to come there will be twists in the tale.
Guess there are some more tactical mountain stages in the last six stages, stage 6 does not look like a steep decisive one, but stage 7 will be a test. We saw the rather isolated Ratiy a little out of position he'll need to be more careful.
Stage five looks to me the last pure sprinters stage... can anyone stop the Aker juggernaut?
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| Heine |
Posted on 01-08-2011 14:02
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I'm afraid Ratiy will keep being isolated, had a hard choise here and went maybe a bit too much out for a TTT-win (that I ended up loosing...). Anyway, hopefully he will keep doing okay. I can live with a top 5 considering the field.
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 01-08-2011 14:14
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Good enough from Carrara hanging in there. Pity he couldn't have saved some energy for the top of the climb though. |
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 01-08-2011 14:26
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Really surprised the former Red Bull Julian Rodas beat our main climber Colorado. Perhaps a change in team leader.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 01-08-2011 15:05
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This is looking too easy for Aker 
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| viking90 |
Posted on 01-08-2011 15:18
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Gustavovskiy wrote:
This is looking too easy for Aker
Yeah I guess he´s playing on easy! |
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| ember |
Posted on 01-08-2011 15:38
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viking90 wrote:
Gustavovskiy wrote:
This is looking too easy for Aker
Yeah I guess he´s playing on easy!
You'll better start playing on easy you too
Seriously though, great report, once again SN!
For Alarcon, I need more time. I fear both the MTT and the last hilly stage. The problem is where he is going to take that time. Stage 6 looks like the obvious one, but the gradients won't be very steep there, stage 7 isn't likely to give huge time differences, most likely a perfect stage for a breakaway. That leaves only stage 9 and 11 back, and with 8 days of racing before then, I'm not sure Alarcon will be able to leave the other favourites behind. Eastman in particular looks strong, he will do better than Alarcon in MTT too, I think.
But still, that's probably me being pessimistic, and with 3 stage wins already, and all jerseys in my team, this has been a dream tour for my team, so far  |
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| beagle |
Posted on 01-08-2011 15:45
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I have no experience with playing PCM11, but I really doubt Alarcon will loose a lot of time (if any) at MTT. I gues only bad luck (fall) in last stage can deprive him of overall win
very impressive start for new Aker team 
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| viking90 |
Posted on 01-08-2011 17:05
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Finally the train paid off, deserved win for Cerne! |
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| roturn |
Posted on 01-08-2011 17:07
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Was about time for Cerne to take a win and also the jersey now.
Aker missed the power after the first mountain and the support of Haedo. |
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| ember |
Posted on 01-08-2011 17:10
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That was a truly deserved win for Cerne and Santos. Judging by Jørgensen's bib, he did great job ahead of the mountain on stage 4, he probably suffered from that on this stage. Though, the obvious explanation is that he wasn't strong enough, he didn't have that final kick this time
Well done Cerne, dominant sprint train for the third sprint stage of three possible. |
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 01-08-2011 17:19
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Congrats Cerne, I'm only wishing I would have bidded more for Santos in the Free Agent period, letting him go for 55,000 what was I thinking. 
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 01-08-2011 17:20
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roturn wrote:
Was about time for Cerne to take a win and also the jersey now.
Aker missed the power after the first mountain and the support of Haedo.
Haedo has been oddly invisisble on the flat stages
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 01-08-2011 17:22
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Finally a win for Cerne and again a perfect train. Congrats!
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| Christer |
Posted on 01-08-2011 17:24
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Congrats goes to Cerne. At least Txurruka tries something after that horrible time loss on stage one.
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| rycadinho |
Posted on 01-08-2011 17:24
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So Akers dominance has for a short moment been breached, though Alarcon could very well start on yet another winning streak with mountains to come.
Impressive and well deserved win for Cerne, Santos finally got it all right though I agree that Jørgensen looked a bit tired out there.
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| ember |
Posted on 01-08-2011 17:29
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SportingNonsense wrote:
roturn wrote:
Was about time for Cerne to take a win and also the jersey now.
Aker missed the power after the first mountain and the support of Haedo.
Haedo has been oddly invisisble on the flat stages
And that bothers me. I sent Rojas Gil, Haedo and Jørgensen here to try to do good leadouts, fair enough, Jørgensen has done amazing on his own, but Haedo should have been more visible. Hopefully he's saving energy for stage 10, but as long as Jørgensen is in the peloton, it seems like he doesn't want to work for him nor himself. I'll have a talk with him now, after the talk, he should know that cycling is all about the team, expect to see him work his ass off for Alarcon in the rest of the stages! |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 01-08-2011 17:33
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Congrats to Cerne. Well-deserved stage win.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 01-08-2011 17:34
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ember wrote:
SportingNonsense wrote:
roturn wrote:
Was about time for Cerne to take a win and also the jersey now.
Aker missed the power after the first mountain and the support of Haedo.
Haedo has been oddly invisisble on the flat stages
And that bothers me. I sent Rojas Gil, Haedo and Jørgensen here to try to do good leadouts, fair enough, Jørgensen has done amazing on his own, but Haedo should have been more visible. Hopefully he's saving energy for stage 10, but as long as Jørgensen is in the peloton, it seems like he doesn't want to work for him nor himself. I'll have a talk with him now, after the talk, he should know that cycling is all about the team, expect to see him work his ass off for Alarcon in the rest of the stages!
Hey at least he knows who the GC leader is. My climber Rodas is fight Colorado to be the team leader. Only at CSC.
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| dave92 |
Posted on 01-08-2011 18:08
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Good to see two of my loanees in one break.
I can't really see Alcaron losing this, but Eastman and Castano could well round out the podium.
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