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Vuelta al Tachira - Discussion Thread
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| brownwm |
Posted on 26-01-2013 12:59
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Very annoying to lose time with two of my big climbers, but I guess that may help to pick one leader, so Agudelo and Vasquez can just become strong helpers.
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| Christer |
Posted on 26-01-2013 16:58
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Hmm. Not too worried about the crash. Hopefully that means Pellizotti does a little bit better in the end! 
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| Roman |
Posted on 26-01-2013 18:08
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roturn wrote:
Vesely 
He will be a great sprinter in 2 seasons.  Unfortunately not in my team.
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Wtf Vesely??? Never have seen such an overperforming on 3 stages in the row.
Pellizotti2 wrote:
The team chef made him a special steak before the start of the race. 
But seriously, he's frickin' awesome so far! 
Wow, just wow! I never thought there could be such a big hype around this guy already in this season. It's really nice that he is already even getting some points now.. He will be a great sprinter one day, especially after some training.. Big thanks to both of you that you help(ed) me getting him on that level.
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| jack888 |
Posted on 27-01-2013 01:54
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hmm, will make for an interesting race but yes this is very annoying. Hopefully my guys attack like hell for the rest of the race to make that time up.
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| tyriion |
Posted on 27-01-2013 10:36
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Weird sprint, but gratz to ING. Maybe this can save their race a bit.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 27-01-2013 10:44
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Looks like Prio could have a frustrating year with Caldeira ruining Avelino's season by not being good enough to leadout
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| miggi133 |
Posted on 27-01-2013 10:45
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What a "gutsy" performance by Popov. We might not be thte rain makers so far, but Popov has shown some solid performances... And even Bogataj has shown that he might have a very bright future...
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 27-01-2013 10:53
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Marquez finished safely so that calls a good day for us. Now comes the stage I worry about most. Marquez hill stat is pretty bad, but surprisingly better than most GC candidates here so I hope we can avoid any time looses to big contenders here. I am also hoping this stage has some mountain ratio in it and is not categorized fully hilly, that would be very useful.
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| Christer |
Posted on 27-01-2013 12:14
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I am quite surprised by the effort Pineau has put in so far. It's been better than expected.
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| cio93 |
Posted on 27-01-2013 12:20
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Finally Kip wins after so many ruined leadouts already this race, it's impressive how much you can do wrong
Very happy Thire is the constant in this scenario, staying level with the other trains or even making up groun.
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 27-01-2013 14:26
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Guess who took the 5th place. 
Hopefully, he can improve his position when the competition gets worser!
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 27-01-2013 14:29
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Nice work for Ghafari, hopefully as the competition disappears in the mountains he can improve on his low top 10's |
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 27-01-2013 15:06
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Looks like Prio could have a frustrating year with Caldeira ruining Avelino's season by not being good enough to leadout
You got that right. If Avelino is to be beaten in every race where he doesn't have more than a leadout man, then it means I've wasted a bucketload of race days. This sure complicates my preparation for next season.
But hey at least this makes for a democratic division of the sprints here in Venezuela. Let's see what the next few stages have in store. Hopefully the climbers won't interfere in the hilly stages.
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| rycadinho |
Posted on 27-01-2013 15:07
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Awesome respons by Kip and the team after last stage that gave a lot of disappointing. Great birthday present to wake up to
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 27-01-2013 15:12
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Nice recovery by Kip. Happy birthday rycadinho!
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 27-01-2013 16:29
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The sprinters sharing victories on the flat stages. Looking forward to the mountains. Will be intresting to see what happens on these first stagesas the hill stats of the contenders here are all quite low.
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| Christer |
Posted on 28-01-2013 00:40
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Can't complain about that result, to be honest.
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| rycadinho |
Posted on 28-01-2013 00:47
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Fantastic display from the team today, too bad it didn't pay off in the end.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 28-01-2013 01:22
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Wow Kenya Airways are really making an impression here. Stage win + overall lead + team's ranking lead + KoM lead for a CT team is an extraordinary feat in such a race! Congrats for them.
On the other hand Bintang have been struck by a lighting twice already. So much bad luck for them...
Nice that Nicácio was the first of the peloton, that kinda gives me some hope for him
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| miggi133 |
Posted on 28-01-2013 01:25
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Pleased with the stage... Tondo in the initial break, Khripta with a strong showing and a Top5 by Izagirre? Hell of a presence by my team...
But Kenya airways have really shown that they are a force to be reckoned with... Congrats...
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