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Tirreno - Adriatico discussion
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 17-02-2013 18:44
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Hmmm, a bit of luck is going to be needed to overhaul Cunego. Still, team GC as a consolation - never a bad thing! |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 17-02-2013 18:46
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Things don't look good for Vanendert anymore.
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| SotD |
Posted on 17-02-2013 19:19
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Pellizotti2 wrote:
SotD wrote:
Diego Ulissi is hopelessly passive. Can't use his lowend top 10s for anything. I would rather have him trying to get a result and fail than getting 3 stage top 10s and 11th GC. That is just a waste of racedays.
I'd be happy to take him off your hands for next year to spare you of more races like this. 
Good to see some proper gaps at last. Schleck doesn't seem ready to leave the puncheur throne just yet. Seeing Bakelants and Cunego up there with him is no surprise, but I also expected Hagen to join them. A bit of a disappointment in this race, imo.
He is very likely to be sold next season. I'm trying to get the team more french-based and since Ulissi is quite expensive considering what the best hilly riders get in wages he is probably not suited for the team. So keep that thought for a year or so 
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| ember |
Posted on 17-02-2013 19:44
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Pellizotti2 wrote:
Seeing Bakelants and Cunego up there with him is no surprise, but I also expected Hagen to join them. A bit of a disappointment in this race, imo.
Actually, I think his sprint was pretty good. He isn't even in the picture where Di Maggio attacks, and there was a lot of "traffic" ahead. I suspect he was caught out/blocked down in the group before the sprint. But Smowz might be able to tell.
Lucky to keep 5th when he started his sprint way back, as I thought a gap would be created behind Ponzi.
Now it will be all about keeping that spot, as there are four great puncheurs on the same time, who only needs a couple of better placings than Boasson Hagen or some bonus seconds.
Congratulations to p3druh though, looks like it will be too tough for Hagen to challenge him, Schleck and Cunego in the toughest hilly races.
And thanks for the report, Smowz! It really was another brilliant piece of writing, and some very nice pictures. I definitely enjoyed it. |
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 17-02-2013 20:25
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Useless Nibali, I may as well have just sent Albasini to lead the team.
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 17-02-2013 20:34
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Bushwackers wrote:
Useless Nibali, I may as well have just sent Albasini to lead the team.
Quite odd to see him falling back to the dropped riders behind guys like Kangert, Paterski and Caruso. Probably the attacking taking it's toll.
Great reporting but the racing isn't really exciting yet. Still two hilly stages to come to change that.
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 17-02-2013 22:19
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So far, not bad. Pozzato moving up slowly is an improvement.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 18-02-2013 06:35
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Unfortunately it wasnt possible to fix the narrow roads on this Tirreno stage, but at least they only came at the finish.
A great supporting effort from the squad, with Paterski doing brilliantly to last right up to the final kilometre, and a good result for Schleck to only lose out to Bakelandts and Cunego on bonus seconds.
Plus, very good to see a hilly stage turn out as it should!
I think this maybe can have a connection? Narrow roads = at least believeable result of the hilly stage, while getting rid of all the narrow roads on purpose + stupid hilly AI = strange results and 30-50 riders coming together to the line at 200+ kilometres stage. Hard to say which is worse. 
Congrats to Schleck and Vesuvio, he is still that beast.
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| Smowz |
Posted on 18-02-2013 07:01
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Well a decent selection was made before the narrow road section. But hard to deny the narrow roads influenced more gaps at the end. That said stage 3 also had similar gaps.
Stage 6 had to be changed from narrow roads up all the climbs to more open roads.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 18-02-2013 07:09
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I understand why the narrow roads are the problem, but at least in Chieti it was nice to have them imo, as who ever saw that Chieti streets climb in real, there is simply not room for more than two riders max next to each other.
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 18-02-2013 08:18
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That is good stuff from Ghyllebert. I'm hoping that my team can continue to score points in that fashion, bits here and there. Hopefully it adds up to survival.
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| SotD |
Posted on 18-02-2013 08:20
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Nicely done by Campero. He know he was the worst in the group, so had to take action. Next year he can probably keep away for a little bit longer to actually benefit from the attack. Nice start to the career though.
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 18-02-2013 08:41
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Great win for Jovanovic and only a couple of minutes away from being allowed yellow. Better days for Pendleton's |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 18-02-2013 08:57
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Yeah, no breakaway appearance, especially Delage could've been a dangerous guy, but he didn't even finish in the peloton...
It's not like we need points this season anyway. 
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 18-02-2013 09:51
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Looks like Ten Dam didn't even bother to go for the win.
Smowz, in the report you mentioned he finished 3rd, but in the results he's fourth. Which one is correct?
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 18-02-2013 10:17
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alexkr00 wrote:
Looks like Ten Dam didn't even bother to go for the win.
Smowz, in the report you mentioned he finished 3rd, but in the results he's fourth. Which one is correct?
My vote is for the results
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| Smowz |
Posted on 18-02-2013 10:25
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Now this is interesting, I didn't pick this up at first.
My bad I wasn't looking that closely I did the report by sight rather than the results in the corner. The picture suggests Ten Dam shaded Ghyllebert, could do with a third or fourth opinion guys.
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| p3druh |
Posted on 18-02-2013 10:33
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If this is what racing in the hills is going to be like throughout, it's going to be a looong season for Pearl Adidas.
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| Rin |
Posted on 18-02-2013 10:40
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:S I hoped that Cunego could attack at the last big climb so with his very good downhilling he could have taken the ~30 seconds from F. Schleck but no action well..
At least a 3rd and 7th position if nothing happens at the last stage.
I guess my squads for each of the 3 races are bad, should have gotten here the better domestiques, Catalunya a "I don't care" one and Paris-Nice very much the same.
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 18-02-2013 10:50
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Smowz wrote:
Now this is interesting, I didn't pick this up at first.
My bad I wasn't looking that closely I did the report by sight rather than the results in the corner. The picture suggests Ten Dam shaded Ghyllebert, could do with a third or fourth opinion guys.
Ten Dam stopped sprinting. Nuff said
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