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Crossroads (The Vino Diary) - June - Tour de Luxembourg
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 14-11-2016 14:06
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I fear it is too late, there is only a tiny hill finish left 
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 15-11-2016 18:18
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Tamijo wrote:
I fear it is too late, there is only a tiny hill finish left
Don't give up until that fat lady sings  |
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| Tamijo |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 16-11-2016 17:56
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 9/3-15/3 2016 Tirreno-Adriatico
14/3 Stages 6/7 Teramo - Frontone 215.8 km
The original breakaway is Katusha’s Sven Erik Bystrøm and Lotto Soudal’s Thomas De Gendt, this suits Astana fine, they have no chance getting the KoM.
Near the first climb Jarlinson Pantano Gomez from IAM and Tinkoff’s Michael Valgren takes off and quickly joins the break, with Gomez winning the first KoM sprint, he can in theory take the KOM if he wins on every top.
Things get from bad to worse, over the top Martin Elmiger and Merhawi Kudus also manages to slip away, Elmiger just down 9 points in the KoM forces Astana to react, they have to get those two back in the peloton.
The pace gets higher and higher, due to Astana’s increasing acceleration to bring Elmiger and Kudus back, also group Valgren has to set a high pace to keep the gap open. Over the last KoM Elminger is almost caught and never gets contact to the first group.
The pace was very hard on some riders, just to name one Pierre Rolland (Cannondale) is now 18’04 behind and other are even further back, with another 90 km to go.
The breakaway gets caught and the pace slows down a little, some of the riders left behind is able to catch up with the peloton before they hit the final uphill towards the finish, the first group is about 100 riders.
The attacking between the best puncheus begin, a group of 9 takes the lead.
It is Philippe Gilbert (BMC) taking the stage in front of Julian Alaphilippe (Quick Step) and Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha), The bunch get in at 52”.
Evaluation:
Overall:
This was Philippe Gilbert first win of the season, the 32 years old Belgian is not what he was back in 2010-2011 but he still has the urge and capabilities to win.
Even though many riders was in the peloton right before the finish, it was a hard race, Boeckmans Lotto Soudal) and Josef Cerny (CCC) gave in hanging very far back and 38 rider lost more than 10 minutes.
Astana: The Team kept Rosa in the KoM jersey, but with both Nibali and Fuglsang down 52 sec today, the GC is gone.
Stage
| 1 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | 5h02'40 | | 2 | Julian Alaphilippe | Etixx - Quick Step | s.t. | | 3 | Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 4 | John Degenkolb | Team Giant - Alpecin | s.t. | | 5 | Daniel Martin | Etixx - Quick Step | s.t. | | 6 | Peter Sagan | Tinkoff | s.t. | | 7 | Michal Kwiatkowski | Team Sky | s.t. | | 8 | Thibaut Pinot | FDJ | s.t. | | 9 | Tejay Van Garderen | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 10 | Giovanni Visconti | Movistar Team | + 43 |
Spoiler | 13 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:52 | | 33 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +00:52 | | 64 | Gatis Smukulis | Astana Pro Team | +00:52 | | 79 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +00:52 | | 83 | Valerio Agnoli | Astana Pro Team | +00:52 | | 85 | Diego Rosa | Astana Pro Team | +00:52 | | 94 | Eros Capecchi | Astana Pro Team | +00:52 | | 114 | Davide Malacarne | Astana Pro Team | +03:50 |
GC
| 1 | John Degenkolb | Team Giant - Alpecin | 24h39'53 | | 2 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 3 | Peter Sagan | Tinkoff | + 6 | | 4 | Julian Alaphilippe | Etixx - Quick Step | + 10 | | 5 | Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver | Team Katusha | + 12 | | 6 | Michal Kwiatkowski | Team Sky | + 16 | | 7 | Daniel Martin | Etixx - Quick Step | s.t. | | 8 | Thibaut Pinot | FDJ | s.t. | | 9 | Damiano Cunego | Nippo - Vini Fantini | + 37 | | 10 | Tim Wellens | Lotto Soudal | + 55 |
Spoiler | 18 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +01:08 | | 20 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +01:08 | | 42 | Eros Capecchi | Astana Pro Team | +03:15 | | 43 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +03:43 | | 76 | Valerio Agnoli | Astana Pro Team | +09:24 | | 93 | Diego Rosa | Astana Pro Team | +13:59 | | 94 | Davide Malacarne | Astana Pro Team | +14:08 | | 97 | Gatis Smukulis | Astana Pro Team | +14:41 |
Points
| 1 | John Degenkolb | Team Giant - Alpecin | 40 | | 2 | Mark Cavendish | Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka | 28 | | 3 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | 26 |
KoM
| 1 | Diego Rosa | Astana Pro Team | 25 | | 2 | Christophe Riblon | Ag2r La Mondiale | 23 | | 3 | Stefano Pirazzi | Bardiani - CSF Pro Team | 21 |
Team - Etixx-Quick Step
Young - Julian Alaphilippe, Etixx-Quick Step
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 19-11-2016 08:31
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9/3-15/3 2016 Tirreno-Adriatico
Stages 7/7 Civitanova Marche - Civitanova Marche 150 km
Location: Macerata, Marche
Description: Sprinter stage, with two small climbs
Media Favorites:
Kittel (Quick Step), Degenkolb (Giant – Alpecin), Cavendish (Dimension Data)
Secondary Favorites:
Sagan, Modolo, Cimolai
Outsiders:
Sbaragli, Mezgec, Bonifazio, Pelucchi
Astana:
Vincenzo Nibali – Fuglsang
Dario Cataldo - Diego Rosa - Eros Capecchi
Valerio Agnoli - Davide Malacarne - Gatis Smukulis
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 20-11-2016 14:31
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Too bad this TA was a flat one. Good job with Rosa getting the KOM though  . The last stage should be 'normal' enough.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 21-11-2016 14:58
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Yes not the best TA route seen with Astana eyes.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 21-11-2016 16:32
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9/3-15/3 2016 Tirreno-Adriatico
15/3 Final Stages 7/7 Civitanova Marche - Civitanova Marche 160 km
The race starts out with rain, after a bit of fighting in front a relative large breakaway of 10 riders are formed, with no KoM contenders.
After some 50 km, Astana’s Eros Capecchi get the opportunity to slip away, he starts a solo hunt.
The pace is not very hard and after about 10 km he is ready to make contact.
The breakaway gets more than 5 minutes before the peloton react, finally it is Dimension Data hoping to bring Mark Cavendish to victory, they take over the front and the pace get much higher.
Under the 10 km sign the breakaway still has a considerable gap to the peloton, this is going to be close.
It gets very close, but the first 3 is all from the breakaway, the winner is Pirmin Lang (IAM). The fastest sprinter is Mark Cavendish taking 4th. Unfortunately Eros Capecchi runs dry on the last few km, making is in as 12th.
Evaluation Stage:
Overall: After more than 7 years riding as a professional, this was Pirmin Lang’s first win in a World Tour setting, and his 2nd win ever.
Will be hard to get that smile of his face.
Lang is a 31 years old Swiss rider who joined IAM in 2013.
Astana: Eros Capecchi did what he could to make something of the stage for Astana, but he just got some TV time.
Evaluation Race:
Degenkolb last year’s winner of Milan–San Remo and Paris–Roubaix, not to mention a series of other top results, have shown that he is on to more great results again this year, with a surprising win in this prominent World Tour stage race.
In general the race turned out to be more suited for the Sprinter/Puncheur that the true climbers, resulting in bad results for top favorites like Nibali, Contador and also Froome all finishing outside top 10. Only one top favorite Joaquim Rodriguez got inside top 5.
Astana: A very bad result for Astana, only getting the KoM when the sponsor goal was a win.
Stage
| 1 | Pirmin Lang | IAM Cycling | 3h22'32 | | 2 | Tiziano Dall'Antonia | Androni - Sidermec | s.t. | | 3 | Twan Castelijns | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | s.t. | | 4 | Mark Cavendish | Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka | s.t. | | 5 | Davide Villella | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 6 | Sacha Modolo | Lampre-Merida | s.t. | | 7 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 8 | Marcel Kittel | Etixx - Quick Step | s.t. | | 9 | Luka Mezgec | Orica-GreenEDGE | s.t. | | 10 | Jens Debusschere | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
Spoiler | 12 | Eros Capecchi | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 53 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 59 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 62 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 66 | Valerio Agnoli | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 74 | Gatis Smukulis | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 108 | Davide Malacarne | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 119 | Diego Rosa | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 |
GC
| 1 | John Degenkolb | Team Giant - Alpecin | 28h02'25 | | 2 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 3 | Peter Sagan | Tinkoff | + 6 | | 4 | Julian Alaphilippe | Etixx - Quick Step | + 10 | | 5 | Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver | Team Katusha | + 12 | | 6 | Michal Kwiatkowski | Team Sky | + 16 | | 7 | Daniel Martin | Etixx - Quick Step | s.t. | | 8 | Thibaut Pinot | FDJ | s.t. | | 9 | Damiano Cunego | Nippo - Vini Fantini | + 37 | | 10 | Tim Wellens | Lotto Soudal | + 55 |
Spoiler | 17 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +01:08 | | 18 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +01:08 | | 39 | Eros Capecchi | Astana Pro Team | +03:15 | | 43 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +03:43 | | 75 | Valerio Agnoli | Astana Pro Team | +09:24 | | 93 | Diego Rosa | Astana Pro Team | +13:59 | | 94 | Davide Malacarne | Astana Pro Team | +14:08 | | 97 | Gatis Smukulis | Astana Pro Team | +14:41 |
Points
| 1 | John Degenkolb | Team Giant - Alpecin | 40 | | 2 | Mark Cavendish | Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka | 35 | | 3 | Marcel Kittel | Etixx - Quick Step | 28 |
KoM
| 1 | Diego Rosa | Astana Pro Team | 25 | | 2 | Christophe Riblon | Ag2r La Mondiale | 23 | | 3 | Stefano Pirazzi | Bardiani - CSF Pro Team | 21 |
Team - Etixx-Quick Step
Young - Julian Alaphilippe - Etixx-Quick Step
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 21-11-2016 16:35
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Oh well...
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 21-11-2016 17:16
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Capecchi was close yet so far  |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 22-11-2016 15:55
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Ya, could look like I am up for a challenge playing this on extreme, but as long as we don’t lose (se first page) we will hope for better luck.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 22-11-2016 16:03
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NEXT RACE
17/3-2016 Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
Suno – Stresa 187.5 km
Location: Arona, Novara, Piedmont Italy
Description: Sprinter race with some rather steep hill’s
First Winner:
1997 Dario Andriotto (ITA)
Latest Years Winner’s
2013 Bob Jungels
2014 Simone Ponzi
2015 Giacomo Nizzolo
Media Favorites:
Van Asbroeck (LottoNL-Jumbo), Manuel Belletti (Southeast)
Niccolò Bonifazio (Trek)
Secondary Favorites:
Van Poppel – Bonnet - Bos
Other notable riders:
Theuns – Eisel – Pelucchi - Soupe
Astana:
Andrey Zeits - Davide Malacarne - Dmitriy Gruzdev
Lieuwe Westra - Ruslan Tleubayev - Valerio Agnoli
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 23-11-2016 09:27
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Good Luck ! |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 23-11-2016 12:33
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Thanks
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 23-11-2016 16:32
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17/3-2016 Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
Suno – Stresa 187.5 km
After a few unsuccessful attempts involving amongst others Astana’s Lieuwe Westra, the first to get away is Matteo Bono (Lampre-Merida) in a solo break, a little later Davide Malacarne attacks.
It ends up in a breakaway of three riders, the last is Matteo Busato (Southeast – Venezuela), they have got about 5’30 with 100 km to go.
On the descent after the climb over Massino Visconti, a huge crash takes Dmitriy Gruzdev down, but he is ok to carry on, and joins the peloton before the last climb. At this point the break has 2’12. The pace is now very high, 35 km to the line.
There are some attacks from the peloton on the last climb, forcing the pace up even further and the peloton is thinning out to just 36 riders. Lieuwe Westra is the only Astana rider in this group.
The break is over right after the top. The pace slows down as everyone seems to be at the limit, now more riders can join from behind. It all ends in a sort of mass sprint, but most riders are completely drained and sprints only on the last 500m if they sprint at all.
The Race was won by Geoffrey Soupe over William Bonnet and Matthias Brändle.
Evaluation:
Overall: After a good season start with a podium in Classic Loire Atlantique, this was Geoffrey Soupe first win since winning a stage in La Tropicale Amissa Bongo 2011. Soupe will turn 28 in just a few days. He has been with Cofidis since 2015.
Top favorite Tom Van Asbroeck was struggling with the hard pace on the climbs finishing as far back as 78. Otherwise most of the favorites did fairly well.
Astana: The team had little hope in a race like this, so a bit of time with Davide in the spotlight was an acceptable outcome.
Result
| 1 | Geoffrey Soupe | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | 4h13'45 | | 2 | William Bonnet | FDJ | s.t. | | 3 | Matthias Brändle | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 4 | Paul Martens | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | s.t. | | 5 | Alexis Gougeard | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 6 | Igor Antón Hernandez | Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka | s.t. | | 7 | Danny Van Poppel | Team Sky | s.t. | | 8 | Marco Marcato | Wanty - Groupe Gobert | s.t. | | 9 | Manuel Belletti | Southeast – Venezuela | s.t. | | 10 | Jean-Pierre Drucker | BMC Racing Team | s.t. |
Spoiler | 22 | Lieuwe Westra | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 90 | Davide Malacarne | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 91 | Dmitriy Gruzdev | Astana Pro Team | +02:54 | | 100 | Ruslan Tleubayev | Astana Pro Team | +02:54 | | 138 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +06:09 | | 181 | Valerio Agnoli | Astana Pro Team | +07:30 |
Team - FDJ
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 24-11-2016 10:18
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NEXT RACE
19/3-2016 Milano – Sanremo 288.2 km
Location: from Milan, Lombardy to Imperia, Liguria
Description: Sprinters Classic (Monument of cycling)
First Winner:
1907 Lucien Petit-Breton (FRA)
Latest Years Winner’s
2013 Gerald Ciolek
2014 Alexander Kristoff
2015 John Degenkolb
Media Favorites:
Kristoff (Katusha), Degenkolb (Giant – Alpecin),
Kittel (Etixx - Quick Step)
Secondary Favorites:
Greipel – Bouhanni – Cavendish
Other notable riders:
Boasson Hagen – Sagan – Matthews - Démare
Astana:
Andrea Guardini - Lars Boom
Jakob Fuglsang - Luis León Sánchez
Laurens De Vreese - Matvey Nikitin - Andrey Zeits - Ruslan Tleubayev
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 24-11-2016 11:23
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Now its the time to show what the team is made of  |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 24-11-2016 13:09
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Bubblegum and Tampoos 
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 24-11-2016 16:38
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19/3-2016 Milano – Sanremo 288.2 km
So many riders would like to get TV time in this very important race, time after time riders attack often in big groups, but the peloton keep a high pace and they are reeled back in. Astana has decided not to attack early.
This continues for almost 50 km before the breakaway of the day is allowed to go. It is Laengen (IAM), Puccio (Sky), Selvaggi (Androni – Sidermec) and Lindeman (LottoNL – Jumbo), they get about 7 minutes but the peloton is definitely not looking for a breakaway win, with 70 km to go the distance is down to 3’28.
It is Katusha, Trek and especially Cofidis pulling in front of the peloton.
On the Cipressa climb (5,6km 4% - 25km to go) the breakaway breaks over, now Lindeman and Selvaggi is alone in front, but with just 1’27 to the peloton the adventure seems to be over.
Over the top everyone who expects something from the race is fighting to stay up front, the pace gets more and more frantic heading for the last climb “Poggio” (3.6 km 3.7%), the breakaway is over. While Guardini can’t keep up with the front Lars Boom is having a great day, with the help of Fuglsang Boom is first over the top, having a small gap to the sprint trains behind him.
The sprint trains are getting closer, when Boom starts his sprint 700m out they are right behind him. Victory is out of the question, but he should be in for a good result.
The race was won by André Greipel over Nacer Bouhanni and Jens Debusschere. Lars Boom got in as 9th. 102 riders got the same time as the winner.
Evaluation:
Overall: This was the 33 years old German’s first Monument win, a day to remember in any riders life. André Greipel also had a stage win in Paris–Nice, looks like a great season for him.
The top favorites did fairly well all in top 10, but it was the Secondary Favorites day with 1st, 2nd and 4th place. The surprise of the day was Greipel’s lead-out man Jens Debusschere squeezing himself into the podium, a brilliant day for Lotto Soudal.
Astana: Even though the goal was a top 5, it was very unrealistic considering the competition and the riders Astana has for this kind of races. A top ten can’t be anything less than a perfect result and Vino is very pleased with the teams efforts .
Result
| 1 | André Greipel | Lotto Soudal | 6h34'04" | | 2 | Nacer Bouhanni | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 3 | Jens Debusschere | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 4 | Mark Cavendish | Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka | s.t. | | 5 | Marcel Kittel | Etixx - Quick Step | s.t. | | 6 | John Degenkolb | Team Giant - Alpecin | s.t. | | 7 | Alexander Kristoff | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 8 | Sam Bennett | Bora - Argon 18 | s.t. | | 9 | Lars Boom | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 10 | Sonny Colbrelli | Bardiani - CSF Pro Team | s.t. |
Spoiler | 72 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 75 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 76 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 109 | Luis León Sánchez | Astana Pro Team | +03:02 | | 123 | Matvey Nikitin | Astana Pro Team | +03:02 | | 188 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +09:18 | | 198 | Ruslan Tleubayev | Astana Pro Team | +15:32 |
Team - Team Sky
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Posted on 25-11-2016 12:35
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 20/3-2016 Cholet-Pays de Loire 1.1
Cholet – Cholet 214.2 km
Location: Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
Description: Sprinter race, but with many small hill’s
First Winner:
1978 Jacques Bossis (FRA)
Latest Years Winner’s
2013 Damien Gaudin
2014 Tom Van Asbroeck
2015 Pierrick Fédrigo
Media Favorites:
Boom (Astana), Lobato (Movistar), Breschel (Cannondale)
Secondary Favorites:
Ladagnous - Bonnet – Wegmann
Other notable riders:
Turgot – Barta – Sénéchal - Ventoso
Astana:
Lars Boom
Michele Scarponi - Alessandro Vanotti
Maxat Ayazbayev - Dmitriy Gruzdev - Ruslan Tleubayev
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