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| Heine |
Posted on 15-10-2015 08:34
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Thansk for all the congratulations. I nearly screamed in joy here now.
What a sprint by Zabel, different from all year where his positioning has been great, but he hasn't been strong enough against the likes of Bewley and Swift. This time he was the strongest!
Also great to see my riders Egger, Zepuntke and Tirolino doing a great job. Shown strenght by getting the breakaway back (something we lacked last year...). Tirolino was signed for this race alone. Totally worth it!
However, doing all that work made it though with setting up a train, I kinda hope that Zabel sits on Grosu or Groenewegens wheel in the next sprint, can't expect him to be this strong every stage.
And to end this: Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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| Heine |
Posted on 15-10-2015 08:35
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knockout wrote:
Sending Zabel to a race like this is just straight up cheating.
I qouted this as I love the comment 
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 15-10-2015 08:40
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Totally agree, compared to my 70 odd rated talents
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| roturn |
Posted on 15-10-2015 08:45
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Heine wrote:
Thansk for all the congratulations. I nearly screamed in joy here now.
What a sprint by Zabel, different from all year where his positioning has been great, but he hasn't been strong enough against the likes of Bewley and Swift. This time he was the strongest!
Also great to see my riders Egger, Zepuntke and Tirolino doing a great job. Shown strenght by getting the breakaway back (something we lacked last year...). Tirolino was signed for this race alone. Totally worth it!
However, doing all that work made it though with setting up a train, I kinda hope that Zabel sits on Grosu or Groenewegens wheel in the next sprint, can't expect him to be this strong every stage.
And to end this: Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Nah. You better make your own train soon?
My team is half GC based and so I would prefer to only work and sit behind Zabel next time.  |
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| Heine |
Posted on 15-10-2015 08:50
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roturn wrote:
Heine wrote:
Thansk for all the congratulations. I nearly screamed in joy here now.
What a sprint by Zabel, different from all year where his positioning has been great, but he hasn't been strong enough against the likes of Bewley and Swift. This time he was the strongest!
Also great to see my riders Egger, Zepuntke and Tirolino doing a great job. Shown strenght by getting the breakaway back (something we lacked last year...). Tirolino was signed for this race alone. Totally worth it!
However, doing all that work made it though with setting up a train, I kinda hope that Zabel sits on Grosu or Groenewegens wheel in the next sprint, can't expect him to be this strong every stage.
And to end this: Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Nah. You better make your own train soon?
My team is half GC based and so I would prefer to only work and sit behind Zabel next time.
My riders can work and Groenewegen can be the train for Zabel? :-p
I actually bet on Olivier as winner (no need to bet on the biggest favorites with only 10$), so he better do well ;-)
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| OlegTinkov |
Posted on 15-10-2015 11:58
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I'm sure Arslanov gave his all to support Van Poppel, too bad he didn't win, but the GC lead is getting closer!
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 15-10-2015 13:03
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Nice podium for Grosu and good team work (but maybe, as Selwink suggest, Räim would do better to save himself for the lead-out).
Congrats to Heine, what a rocket speed from Zabel here. Thanks for the report SN!
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 15-10-2015 14:56
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Tame start for our boys as expected. Hopefully they will go into the break at some point. Congrats heine! Impressive sprint from Zabel!
Also gratz to Avin for the TT win, didnt realise his team was that awesome before
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 15-10-2015 16:08
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Impressive victory, what a powerful sprint! Congrats Heine!
A couple of nice victories from two of the most interesting prospects in the peloton.
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| matt17br |
Posted on 15-10-2015 20:19
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GazTavisRali with an impressive team result 
5th, 17th and 19th is pretty awesome for us, we need this kind of results!
Ikibe is a real beast, surely a name for the future, looking forward to see if he can keep up his solid performances through the whole race.
And congrats Dippo! McCarthy is an astounding talent
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 15-10-2015 20:26
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Ewan is a useless piece of sh***
Definitely a shocker. Glad the lads brought him back. Now hoping for no injury suffered. But his stage result indicates that he didn't...
McCarthy with a nice win. Three stages, three favorites deliver! Let's all (!) hope the same happens in the mountains 
Thanks for the reports so far!
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| knockout |
Posted on 15-10-2015 20:27
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I hope Morton fully recovers from his crash. Would be a shame to lose him this way.
Nice to see Mohoric attacking at some point and congrats to Dippo.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 15-10-2015 20:30
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Cerny showed himself, well done lad!
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 15-10-2015 20:31
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Cool, you won't want to buy him them With BLK having an interest in some French riders there are reports of Lecuisiner hanging around the team bus pre-race and that some money have exchanged hands... just rumors of course
Lutsenko greatly showing off our colors with a good strong ride. Hope we can give him and wacko some more support later in the race
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| roturn |
Posted on 15-10-2015 20:38
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Quite a weird stage in terms of gaps as even Groenewegen was inside the peloton here.
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 15-10-2015 20:39
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Our riders are so bad. I'm just hoping they join the break or something.
Thanks for the report SN.
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| tastasol |
Posted on 15-10-2015 20:43
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Bad crash for "us". Luckily Watson & co managed to get Morton back in it, while also getting in that front group himself.
Same goes for Skjerping, but a real shame with Holst Enger. Could open up the race a bit for Skjerping, though.
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 15-10-2015 20:59
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2nd Avenir stage for us in our 2nd outing here, but McCarthy is the first who is actually a rover! Great showing there, now hoping he can continue like that. Also nice to see Mullen and Carsi getting top tens on their stages, always nice for the team to be in the mix.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 15-10-2015 21:14
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Thrilling stage, with an epic ending there. Congrats Dippo!
Dario Antonio already in possession of the lanterge rouge. Hang in there boy!
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| Selwink |
Posted on 15-10-2015 21:15
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As anonymous expected. Räim surprisingly strong here, which is a good sign
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