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ICL16 - Race Discussion
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| jaxika |
Posted on 08-01-2016 06:33
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Coquard, you beatiful pearl 
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 08-01-2016 06:48
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It's a Miracle!!! Nieve came 3rd on stage 17!!!! He is now in the top 20 GC! 
More importantly, Umberto now has a 14 minute lead on Wouters, Timo has to pull out a bad performance. Love the picture of them battling it out though bikex.
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| Shonak |
Posted on 08-01-2016 07:36
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Anton was one the names mentioned in the Porte-crash.
Nibali 
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 08-01-2016 08:10
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What I think is a main issue for the "strange" domination by Nibali and especiallyy Coquard is the fact that they both arae in leaders jerseys. I played a hugge load of PCM 15 and the leaders jerseys team never allows the breakaway to win if they have the strength to catch them 8f.e. the Vuelta on my Schleck career, the only breakaway of the whole tour coming though was a mid-range attack by Porte and Atapuma, in all other uphill races Froomes Astana managed to chase all attacks down.
With the sprinters jersey it´s that this one always seem to be in the perfect position to sit directly behind the strongest sprint train. In my races the team with the strongest leadout hardly (should be Cavs) wins, but mostly the first man sitting behind. That might explain the results of Coquard.
Note that these are only thoughts and in no way it´s sure they´re right, just mentioning it to get a possible explaining.
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| matt17br |
Posted on 08-01-2016 08:13
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Feck you PCM 15 you suck. You just can't make Coquard! and Nibali like that. What the fuck.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 08-01-2016 08:16
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Shonak wrote:
Anton was one of the names mentioned in the Porte-crash.
I thought I clicked on news thread
Nice theory Croatia, I'd support this, maybe not for 100% of the blame but from my PCM15 experience, it's a known issue for me as well.
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| Shonak |
Posted on 08-01-2016 09:28
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And there I was, thinking PCM13 had shitty gameplay. Unbeatable leader boni, breakaway wins at a monument, no break wins in Gts (which makes a GT rather pointless for half of the teams), bunch sprints in cobblez.. at least hilly races are (sorta) okay. This is going to be a problem in MG too.
Can we go PCM11?
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| knockout |
Posted on 08-01-2016 09:46
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Croatia14 wrote:
With the sprinters jersey it´s that this one always seem to be in the perfect position to sit directly behind the strongest sprint train. In my races the team with the strongest leadout hardly (should be Cavs) wins, but mostly the first man sitting behind. That might explain the results of Coquard.
That might also explain why CarbonSports lacks the dominance of last season in the sprints... 
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| The Rider |
Posted on 08-01-2016 09:50
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Three second places!! Well behind the winners, though. Our team has been very over-powered this race: yet still somehow over-shadowed by Coquard/Nibali. Hmmm. These sprints aren't making sense: I could get Cavendish winning 6 (with his great lead-out) but this just wrong.
Bikex - Any chance we could get an update of the teams still in the race for the team classification before the last few stages? |
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| Bikex |
Posted on 08-01-2016 11:57
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@Croatia: That could be part of the reason. I noticed also break away riders loosing massive time on the peloton on the last climb. They often loose one minute per kilometer. Maybe Cyanide went a little overkill after before often breaks even gained on favourites on deciding climbs.
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| matt17br |
Posted on 08-01-2016 12:22
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An U23 race to sweeten up the bitterness (for some?). Rutland - Melton is up.
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 08-01-2016 12:43
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6th by Roinas is positive, I really love this guy
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 08-01-2016 12:45
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Mmm wheelsuckers rule 
Defying my worst fears Bardet didn't loose years of time in the TT! He is having a ding dong battle with Aru for 5th place  .
Even more surprising is Chevrier hanging on to 10th place overall and a solid looking 3rd in Young Rider. Makes up for the disapointment in the sprints.
Meanwhile the Dev team must heave eaten too many Pork Pies at the Rutland-Melton classic .
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 08-01-2016 12:55
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what a fantastic work by Ivar now, my dev team is performing amazingly...the double-threat of Ivar and Martin is working, now the other way round
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| Shonak |
Posted on 08-01-2016 13:27
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Rofl illes balears 6th in team rankings.. shoot me now xD
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| PeterRyder |
Posted on 08-01-2016 14:48
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Shonak wrote:
Anton was one the names mentioned in the Porte-crash.
Nibali
I know, but the terrible results started on stage 9, when he arrived in the grupetto, losing 30 minutes in the next day flat stage and so on and on.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 08-01-2016 15:23
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Glad to see the antern rouge battle getting enough screen time. Stuyven continuing his fight for the supercombativité and Hofland actually getting a decent result
Vanbutsel continues his decent season.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 08-01-2016 15:59
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PeterRyder wrote:
Shonak wrote:
Anton was one the names mentioned in the Porte-crash.
Nibali
I know, but the terrible results started on stage 9, when he arrived in the grupetto, losing 30 minutes in the next day flat stage and so on and on.
it´s often the case that after one crash the next days are -5 or -4 days, at least in normal career mode and rider career mode, unlucky for you as a small team :/
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| Scatmaster111 |
Posted on 08-01-2016 19:23
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There's the Yamamoto I know and love. Now just do that 3 more times and win the KOM.
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 08-01-2016 22:16
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Since my LA-Antarte team has given nothing to shout about the focus goes to the dev team.
Looks like a pretty easy win for Wachter there in the Rutland-Melton which has been unusual for us considering the quality of the competition. Beckinsale also in the Top 10 presumably helped his team mate win.
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