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USA Pro Cycling Challenge Discussion
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| Heine |
Posted on 20-08-2013 19:37
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Well done by Keizer, though I whised for Kascheskin to be a bit slower... Anyway, can't complain about youth jersey, 2nd GC and 2nd on the stage. Gives quite a good haul
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| roturn |
Posted on 20-08-2013 19:39
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A 0 pointer in the GC. Not that I expected a lot but expect for two successful breakaways without any of my riders being able to take a podium in there, I had not much success here.
Most likely this will bring teams like Tinkoff, Volkswagen etc. taking over the lead in the standings.
Together with East Java a pretty disappointing two races. |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 20-08-2013 20:02
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Forgot to say: thanks for the quality reports, S23! Glad to have you on board for this 
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 20-08-2013 22:42
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I can't complain about this race, having taken the KoM competition and a stage-win. The thing is that with the season coming to its final months, and with only Tour of America as a major point provider in the America Tour calendar, it becomes clear that our GC results have come shorter than what we needed and expected here. I can see WWE reaching the top places, and Repsol becoming a very threatening team after USPCC in the America ranks.
Anyway this was a hard race for everyone (look even Kritsky couldn't fight for the win!). So congrats to the winner and everyone who did something of note. And thank you Spilak for the magnificent work you put for this interesting race.
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 20-08-2013 22:49
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Not bad from Morabito 11th is good in this kind of field! |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 20-08-2013 22:51
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roturn wrote:
Together with East Java a pretty disappointing two races.
+1 
Not happy with this, since I think I brought a pretty strong team here. Zaini was active, but didn't end up with anything to show and Stetina kinda lost it all on stage 6.
I also think Spilak has done a great job of reports, like others have said, thanks for doing these!
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| brownwm |
Posted on 20-08-2013 23:27
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Finally a win, really happy with this race and hopefully this can kick-start my season. I am going to need a few more of these kind of performances to avoid relegation, but this has really boosted my chances.
Thanks for the great reports Spilak.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 21-08-2013 05:49
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I can only add to those praising you Spilak23 for reports, i really enjoyed them, good job!
Fantastic race from our young puncher/climber Oleksandr Grygorenko. 8th in GC,5th in KOM and 3rd best young rider, that is a reward for his agressive riding, we could finally see some break success from our team this season.
I cant be more happy with his performance, big boost to stay in top10 also after July. Also good to see that we have some nice depth in squad already, this is fourth rider able to achieve nice points from the stage race in our team.
Congrats to Tsmoha for the stage win and Repsol for the big relegation battle boost. This was a nice race overall.
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| Mhaley45 |
Posted on 21-08-2013 12:30
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American Fans Pump up AMEX
Chavanel holds on to a podium spot (3rd) with a solid TT effort on the final stage. Patrick Gretsch rides well but just misses the TT podium and veteran Carlos Barredo picks up some GC points finishing 19th.
AMEX was also pleased with Jake keough's ride. It looks like he will be in peak form for the American races. 1st year pro Jan Dieteren continues to show why he was highly recruited. 6th in the mountains and a really stellar effort in a breakaway.
The team was #2 overall for the race.
It is always nice to come home. Hopefully the six North American races left on our schedule will go as well.
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 31-08-2013 13:06
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While doing the points file, saw that Kritskiy is in 2nd on the U25 classification on the last stage. Born in 1987, he is ofcourse too old. |
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