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GP Moscow Discussion Thread
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| roturn |
Posted on 02-02-2012 23:01
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Russia invites you to another sprinter classic. The focus in the only Russian race is surely on the home team  Tinkoff, who send all 5 of their Russian sprinters here. Best chances might have Markov and with his 4 country men he will have a nice support.
But the big favourites are others. Best chance surely for  Daniele Bennati. The Italian was already successful this season and wants another win. Being maybe the best sprinter in the world he is obviously the top favourite.
His biggest opponent is another Italian. Venchi`s  Corioni will try to beat him here.
Also  Haussler will try to perform well here. The German showed his good form in Dunkerque with 2 stage wins.
 Hushovd had some bad luck in the early Dunkerque stages but found his rhythm towards the end, so you must expect him here.
Other sprinters having a good chance here are  Borrajo,  Feillu,  Docker and  Van Loocke.
Priamo, Haedo, Lorenzetto and Nishitani have outside chances so these teams might try to go into the break,
Koppert surely will try as they don`t really have a guy for a sprint finish.
Startlist Spoiler Puma
1. D. Bennati
2. J. Bol
3. M. Delage
4. E. Gasparotto
5. T. Kvist
6. G. Meersman
7. M. Vogt
Venchi
11. C. Corioni
12. M. Corti
13. P. Haugard
14. S. Marinangeli
15. B. Monterastelli
16. F. Reda
17. P. Sagan
Focus
21. R. Feillu
22. K. Elissonde
23. B. Feillu
24. B. Jungels
25. A. Kirsch
26. T. Skujins
27. T. Thill
Trilux
31. H. Haussler
32. P. Bercz
33. H. Duyn
34. S. Forke
35. T. Fothen
36. R. Weissinger
37. R. Zepunkte
UniCredit
41. A. Borrajo
42. P. Andersen
43. M. Lorenzetto
44. S. Puccio
45. N. Quintana
46. A. Signego
47. T. Van der Sande
Saab
51. T. Hushovd
52. N. Aistrup
53. M. Brammeier
54. T. Gudsell
55. J. Lindgren
56. K. Van Hummel
57. M. Westling
Tinkoff
61. A. Markov
62. D. Galimzyanov
63. A. Khatuntsev
64. P. Korzh
65. B. Shpilevski
66. A. Timofeev
67. N. Trusov
Cyclevox
71. M. Docker
72. L. Holohan
73. D. O'Loughlin
74. E. Oliphant
75. C. Opie
76. K. Pauwels
77. J. Perry
Red Bull
81. M. Priamo
82. J. Cooper
83. A. Hansen
84. A. Jelloul
85. M. Mori
86. B. Sonnery
87. G. Tzortzakis
Bpost
91. J. Van Loocke
92. F. Frison
93. M. La Lavandier
94. J. Stallaert
95. R. Stenuit
96. W. Van Den Eynde
97. G. Van Keirsbulck
Aker Solutions
101. L. Haedo
102. H. Duenas Nevado
103. O. Hirschlein
104. J. Jørgensen
105. J. Le Bon
106. A. Lund
107. J. Rojas Gil
Meiji
111. T. Nishitani
112. T. Hayakawa
113. M. Kikuchi
114. HT. Kwok
115. J. Murakami
116. T. Scully
117. C. Shikai
Koppert
131. A. Kamyshev
132. J. Dieteren
133. J. McCarthy
134. T. Slagter
135. J. Thomson
136. J. Venter
137. P. Vlatos |
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| CountArach |
Posted on 02-02-2012 23:08
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Expecting nothing but a top 10 would be perfect. Bennati is my tip.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 03-02-2012 02:11
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Whoops Maksimov would love to be in this race, to bad my aweful preparation over looked this race 
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| viking90 |
Posted on 03-02-2012 05:16
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I could take a win here, don't have anything against that 
Are my team to weak or may we see a Saab train?
We had some races early in the season with trains and that was not so much better team. |
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| ember |
Posted on 03-02-2012 05:31
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My goal in this race is to join the breakaway, I've no expectations if it comes down to a bunch sprint. Hopefully my team will sprint for Jørgensen then, I'll be happy if he manages a top 15. |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 03-02-2012 06:13
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I'll be honest I saw the profile and I thought breakaway, but then I went and picked Tzortzakis who will probably be nominated as my breakaway rider.
Looking at the field it is not as laden with sprinters as I thought it would be so I expect it to be quite volatile.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 03-02-2012 12:37
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OlegTinkov wrote:
Yep, Maksimov clearly made a wrong decision, not riding for T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft, but you can't blame him, € 350.000 is a crazy salary XD
Well worth it  At 24 he is a great investment for me. Well really my only good investment. After some training in the off season I got me a sprinter 
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| cio93 |
Posted on 03-02-2012 13:23
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Actually, I expected a much stronger lineup for this race.
Well, it increases Bennati's chance of a sprint win quite a bit. But I guess there won't be many teams interested in helping us with the chase.
Theoretically, we should have enough powerful riders to that on our own, but we'll see.
Certainly a race we need to perform well in to not loose contact to some teams I'd like to finish ahead in the CT rankings.
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| roturn |
Posted on 05-02-2012 13:44
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Here finally the report.
Had a unexpected day off from home yesterday, so no time to post it.
Hope you enjoy. |
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| ember |
Posted on 05-02-2012 13:49
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Nice report, roturn!
And wow, that was nice, Jørgensen 4th and 4 riders in the top 18, looks promising ahead of Rogaland GP. Great to see the team being so active through the race, though, I suspect we were a bit lucky thanks to the chaotic finish.
Congratulations to Puma - SAP, Bennati was in his own league, untouchable it seems.
Edited by ember on 05-02-2012 13:58
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| Smowz |
Posted on 05-02-2012 13:57
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Bit of a mess of a race that one really, worked out great for Puma who are set up around Bennati really well I have to say.
It looked like we good snap something a bit better than 10th, but that is all that we deserved really. Not the worst race really by the team we just didn't have the quality.
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| viking90 |
Posted on 05-02-2012 13:57
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Strong result by Brammeier, but hello?
Hushovd and Van Hummel I expected more from you two with help from Lindgren...
Great Report and nice race by Puma! |
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 05-02-2012 14:01
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Puma did what they were expected to do but a big fail for me. I hope Haussler will show something better in Berlin.
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| cio93 |
Posted on 05-02-2012 16:47
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Thanks for all the kind words
That was really a strange sprint, I feared Bennati would get blocked, but it seems he is really worth the money.
Also a great race from all my riders, pulling back the break and still having 4 additional points scorers.
Especially Delage seems to have finished 4th of the "fresh" riders, which is another great result from him.
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| CountArach |
Posted on 05-02-2012 22:49
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Van Loocke is surely better than his 17th?!
Ah well. Congratulations to Bennati and co.
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| Sykkel_Freak |
Posted on 09-02-2012 13:22
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Nice 2nd by Corioni. Bennati was impossible to beat in this race, it seems.
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