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Tour of Taiwan Discussion
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| roturn |
Posted on 21-11-2011 10:44
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The Tour of Taiwan appears for the first time in the calendar, but nevertheless some big names made the long way.
Starting with a very short prologue and 3 easier stages the 5th and first mountain stage might mix the overall quite a bit.
The 2nd half starts with a hilly uphill sprint and some sprinter stages again.
The final decision might probably come at the very last day on the hardest stage.
Two riders share the big favourite role:
 R. Kiserlovski
 J. Gadret
While first one still waits for a big win, Gadret as former Tour podium and two time winner of the Dauphine has the biggger experience.
They will be challenged by Emu Export`s Augustyn, Vespa`s Carrara, Focused`s Sicard or Meiji`s Sano.
Aker Solution and Oz Cycling send lots of their climbing goats, that will try to survive the hillier stages for a good overall in Jaramillo/Ortega and Lewis.
Krasnoperov (Emu) and Moreno (Jayco) might also be able to do well, too depending on the work they have to do for their leaders.
For the sprint stages Pirelli with Bazajev and Meiji`s Park are the biggest bets due to their team support. But also Sonnery, Haidar Anuawar, Feillu, De Fauw, Gavazzi or L.S.Haedo will look for their chance.
Puma - SAP is starting with a very young team aiming for some breakaway successes.
Startlist Spoiler Hollister
1. R. Kiserlovski
2. R. Caminiti
3. Y. Monsalve
4. J. Pantano Gómez
5. P. Pereyra
6. A. Proni
7. S. Scheirlinckx
Red Bull
11. J. Gadret
12. S. Calzati
13. D. Moreno
14. M. Priamo
15. B. Sonnery
16. G. Veloso
17. KS. Wu
Focus
21. R. Sicard
22. K. Elissonde
23. B. Feillu
24. R. Feillu
25. B. Jungels
26. T. Meyer
27. F. Morizot
Export
31. JL. Augustyn
32. D. De Fauw
33. D. Kairelis
34. M. Krasnoperov
35. F. Montenegro
36. V. Orozco
37. K. Seeldraeyers
Vespa
41. M. Carrara
42. N. Arndt
43. M. Cattaneo
44. M. Gavazzi
45. M. Kwiatkowski
46. E. Luzi
47. M. Quinziato
Meiji
51. J. Sano
52. Y. Doi
53. Y. Hiratsuka
54. HT. Kwok
55. A. Manan
56. S. Park
57. Y. Suzuki
Aker Solutions
61. M. Ortega
62. H. Duenas Nevado
63. L. Haedo
64. R. Jaramillo
65. A. Roux
66. E. Viennet
67. J. Zrimsek
Oz
71. M. Khalmuratov
72. K. Cheung
73. W. Ford
74. A. Haidar Anuawar
75. A. Laidler
76. S. Lewis
77. P. Thuaux
Pirelli
81. M. Busche
82. A. Bazajev
83. G. Cheula
84. D. Di Nucci
85. A. Flaksis
86. N. Kinney
87. E. Murgoitio
Puma
91. W. Kelderman
92. N. Bouhanni
93. T. Dumoulin
94. M. Egger
95. O. Le Gac
96. J. Sütterlin
97. M. Vogt
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 21-11-2011 10:48
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Wow, it doesn't happen too often, that some Oz-riders are mentioned as possible favourites in the race-preview  Definitely hope for a stage-win here, but the big favourites should be clear, like you said.
Nice to see you reporting some ManGame-races, rotun 
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| Heine |
Posted on 21-11-2011 10:57
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I had this race on my calender, but decided to use Ratiy for some shorter ones :/ I will regret that if Gadret score alot here I beleive
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| ember |
Posted on 21-11-2011 10:58
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This race is one of them I really can't tell why I entered 
Would be very nice to see Zrimsek sneak away with the leader's jersey on the prologue, but Laidler should be stronger. For the hilly stages, I hope Haedo can hang on and sprint well, and Roux might try himself in a late attack. And for the Queen stage, I hope for a top 10 from either Ortega or Jaramillo, that would be great.
But our biggest hope is probably that Duenas Nevado gets himself in the right breakaway, resulting in a good overall placing from him.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to the reports, and I hope we can surprise. Good luck to everyone else involved! |
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| beagle |
Posted on 21-11-2011 11:21
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great to see roturn as a reporter
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| CountArach |
Posted on 21-11-2011 11:49
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Good lukc roturn, I'm sure your writing will be great
Another excellent race choice for Red Bull by the looks of things. If Gadret can pull off the win here they might start challenging Rapha's dominance.
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| ltt |
Posted on 21-11-2011 12:16
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Looks like i basically sent Kiserlovski and no help for the mountains at all, whcih is a little odd even for me. Don't really understand why i didn't send someone who can sprint either.
And i have a feeling that Proni and Scheirlinckx will be too busy helping Kiserlovski to actually attempt to win breakaways.
Really, really don't know what i was planning here 
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| roturn |
Posted on 21-11-2011 12:26
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Thanks. Will try to make as high quality reports as the others are doing.
Fun Facts
| - France with the biggest amount of riders (13), followed by Italy (9) | | - Weakest rider: Egon Luzi (Vespa/62,47) | | - Strongest rider: John Gadret (RedBull/76,20) | | - Average average: 70,800 | | - Highest salary: Robert Kiserlovski (Hollister/€ 500.00) | | - Average wage: 109.187€ | | - Youngest rider: Olivier Le Gac (Puma/19) | | - Oldest rider: Staf Scheirlinckx (Hollister/33) | | - Average age: 26,443 | | - Youngest team: Puma - SAP (20,429) | | - Oldest team: Jayco RedBull (30,429) | | - 11 loanies, 5 from Wikipedia | | - 2 National Road Champions: Gadret (Jayco/FRA), Wu (Jayco/HKG) | | -1 National ITT Champions:Wu (Jayco/HKG) |
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| rycadinho |
Posted on 21-11-2011 13:13
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Damn, first race without one of the "three" though I surely hope that Bazajev will give the team something to celebrate - I think stage 2 looks perfect for him
- I can only hope that the team will be on the offensive, on the harder stages and it will be interesting to see how the normal very limited riders will react now that they only have to do any sort of help on the flat stages!
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 21-11-2011 13:19
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beagle wrote:
great to see roturn as a reporter
+1 Looking for his great reports also i nthe man-game now
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 21-11-2011 14:03
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Lets hope I can get a Top 10 Looking forward to this. I haven't had a team goal in ages, or else this is the first of the season, I cant remember
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| jack888 |
Posted on 21-11-2011 15:29
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Looking forward to this one. Hopefully top 5. |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 21-11-2011 15:31
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Nice preview roturn and welcome aboard, like everyone I am excited to see how your reporting transfers to the Man Game.
Looking forward to stage 6's 'hilly uphill sprint', I hope Gadret is the biggger man .
The first stage I am interested to see whether TT or downhill counts the most. Cannot see a super TTist here, so Veloso is pretty good bet from my fairly strong looking squad. That is going to be a tricky one to report on going to have to watch the riders cross that line carefully!
Hoping my team can make the race here and avoid any possible crashes for once.
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| ember |
Posted on 21-11-2011 16:16
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Smowz wrote:
The first stage I am interested to see whether TT or downhill counts the most. Cannot see a super TTist here, so Veloso is pretty good bet from my fairly strong looking squad.
I think you've got an extremely strong team here, compared to the rest of us. It looks more and more like you, like SN, made a masterpiece in the preseason, selecting the right races. Big congratulations on that, promotion seems very realistic for you, 1/3 into your season.
And like everyone else, I'm looking forward to see roturn report from the ManGame aswell. If the screenshots he takes are anywhere near his screenshots in his Garmin story, I'm sure we will see a lot of nice pictures
Edited by ember on 21-11-2011 17:17
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| YvesStevens |
Posted on 21-11-2011 17:43
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Huh? does the opening stage look very similar to the prologue of the Tour of Qatar? |
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 21-11-2011 21:51
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Hope for a decent - Top 5 - performance from Carrara here with a stage win thrown in for good measure. All you can really ask of your second string leaders. |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 22-11-2011 10:16
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Well done with the first report, roturn! I know it's not easy to do those short prologue-reports, like Smowz already said.. but it's well sorted
I'm a bit disappointed by not taking a stage-win here, tbh.. 3rd and 5th is definitely one of our best stage-results so far , but with two of the best timetrialists here, it would have been a great chance for a win.. But I don't want to complain too much as it was really close, as expected.
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| ember |
Posted on 22-11-2011 10:33
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Well done, roturn, that was a nice report from an intense prologue. I'm a bit disappointed Zrimsek was ranked worst of those on+1, but I guess he didn't have the hundredths on his side, can't alway be lucky
Looking forward to the "real racing" now.
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| BoogieBoogie |
Posted on 22-11-2011 11:15
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Nice report roturn!
Looks like the Jayco - Red Bull TT helmet has the wrong .nif file
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| roturn |
Posted on 22-11-2011 11:20
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BoogieBoogie wrote:
Nice report roturn!
Looks like the Jayco - Red Bull TT helmet has the wrong .nif file
Haven`t seen the TT helmet failure. But have seen that they also had no nif file for the road helmet so they ride without helmet on stage 2 like in someone elses early season report if I remember right. Probably the nif files were missing or wrong in the MG graphic files.
I fixed this with the 3rd stage, so that they have the real helmets. |
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