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Windhoek ITT Discussion
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 02-01-2018 11:25
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 [C2] Windhoek ITT
Welcome to the 5th edition of Windhoek ITT.
The Venue
Nomadic Khoisan tribes has inhabited the area for thousands of years, in the 1840 Oorlam people leader Jonker Afrikaner, emigrated from South Africa and developed the village constructing a stone church.
In 1890 Imperial German Army Major Curt von François set up headquarters in Windhoek, laying the foundations for what was to become the capital of Namibia, today a city of about 325.000 people.
Windhoek ITT is a 40.3 km long mainly flat route, with just a short punchy climb up to the 1 km banner, max 6%.
Last year’s winner Kiril Yatsevich is now on PT team Tinkoff Sport Academy and for obvious reason not here this year. 2015 winner Manuele Boaro not here either.
Last year’s 2nd  Freddy Cruz will be here, so will last year’s 3rd  Ian Stannard, the only previous winner attending he won the race in 2014.
The Favorites
 Kai Reus will be the top favorite to beat, strongest on all parameters. In-n-Out p/b Carrefour also with Kreuziger able to make a top 10
Just below him we got  Tony Martin and  Hugues Mottin both also very likely to take a win here on the right day. Andorra Cycling Project also with Laizer able to top 10 on a good day.
And then we got cycleYorkshire, they are attending with a killer squad Stelly Robert, Ian Stannard and
Andrew Tennant, if not able to take a win then at least safe to secure a great result, likely to have 2-3 riders in top five or better.
 Hofer and  Bookwalter if not able to podium, at least strong enough to hope for a top five, anything outside top ten would be disappointing.
Kulczyk – DMTEX, with  Mullen and Hacecký also a team able to hope for a top 5-10 with two shots in the barrel.
Philips – Continental with  Grabovski and Wiggle p/b Boardman Bikes with  Christian, also able to look for a top ten or better.
| Rider | TT | RE | HI | | Rider | TT | RE | HI | | Reus | 79 | 79 | 74 | | Kreuziger | 77 | 73 | 72 | | Martin | 79 | 75 | 72 | | Grabovski | 77 | 73 | 71 | | Mottin | 79 | 74 | 61 | | Christian | 77 | 71 | 69 | | Robert | 79 | 70 | 60 | | Laizer | 77 | 71 | 58 | | Stannard | 79 | 70 | 55 | |  Kneisky | 76 | 75 | 67 | | Tennant | 78 | 76 | 69 | | Bouet | 76 | 73 | 67 | | Mullen | 78 | 74 | 70 | |  Hamza | 76 | 73 | 63 | | Hofer | 78 | 72 | 65 | |  Goddaert | 76 | 72 | 60 | | Bookwalter | 78 | 70 | 71 | | Van Zandbeek | 76 | 71 | 69 | | Hacecký | 77 | 74 | 63 | | Cruz | 76 | 70 | 62 |
Startlist:
| Mottin | Laizer | Kireva | . | Martin | Meersman | Centrone | | | | | | | | | Robert | Stannard | Tennant | . | Grabovski | Van Zandbeek | Van Emden | | | | | | | |  Joeaar | Van der Ploeg | Doull | . | Kneisky | Agostini | Beyer | | | | | | | | | Hamza | Larue | | . | Hofer | Zoidl | Ahmad Zamri | | | | | | | |  Roe | Flens | Petrus | . | Bookwalter | Daniel | Jacobsen | | | | | | | | | Reus | Kreuziger | Bouet | . | Goddaert | Vandewalle | Reijnen | | | | | | | | | Mullen | Hacecký | Hollenstein | . | Christian | Offredo | Cuming |
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| Vien |
Posted on 02-01-2018 11:30
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Nomadic Khoisan tribes has inhabited the area for thousands of years, in the 1840 Oorlam people leader Jonker Afrikaner, emigrated from South Africa and developed the village constructing a stone church.
In 1890 Imperial German Army Major Curt von François set up headquarters in Windhoek, laying the foundations for what was to become the capital of Namibia, today a city of about 325.000 people.
Damn, I wasn't prepared for this information. Thanks for enlightening me.
Not even gonna predict who's gonna win this, I'm just here to see how the AI will f*ck up this time  |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 02-01-2018 11:33
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Vien wrote:
Nomadic Khoisan tribes has inhabited the area for thousands of years, in the 1840 Oorlam people leader Jonker Afrikaner, emigrated from South Africa and developed the village constructing a stone church.
In 1890 Imperial German Army Major Curt von François set up headquarters in Windhoek, laying the foundations for what was to become the capital of Namibia, today a city of about 325.000 people.
Damn, I wasn't prepared for this information. Thanks for enlightening me.
I like to setup a short insight to where we are racing, knowing very well that it is compleetly unimportant to most people.
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 02-01-2018 11:44
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Tamijo wrote:
Vien wrote:
Nomadic Khoisan tribes has inhabited the area for thousands of years, in the 1840 Oorlam people leader Jonker Afrikaner, emigrated from South Africa and developed the village constructing a stone church.
In 1890 Imperial German Army Major Curt von François set up headquarters in Windhoek, laying the foundations for what was to become the capital of Namibia, today a city of about 325.000 people.
Damn, I wasn't prepared for this information. Thanks for enlightening me.
I like to setup a short insight to where we are racing, knowing very well that it is compleetly unimportant to most people.
In that case i'll be looking forward at what you will write in La Vuelta
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 02-01-2018 11:47
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I'm ready for every possible race scenario, from a logical top10 for Kneisky, to a shocking win for the Frenchie, to even not score any point 
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 02-01-2018 11:50
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Aquarius97 wrote:
Tamijo wrote:
Vien wrote:
Nomadic Khoisan tribes has inhabited the area for thousands of years, in the 1840 Oorlam people leader Jonker Afrikaner, emigrated from South Africa and developed the village constructing a stone church.
In 1890 Imperial German Army Major Curt von François set up headquarters in Windhoek, laying the foundations for what was to become the capital of Namibia, today a city of about 325.000 people.
Damn, I wasn't prepared for this information. Thanks for enlightening me.
I like to setup a short insight to where we are racing, knowing very well that it is compleetly unimportant to most people.
In that case i'll be looking forward at what you will write in La Vuelta
Will mention "something" stage by stage
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| Booker |
Posted on 02-01-2018 12:18
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Mullen and Hacecky have been trained on their hilly abilities over the Christmas period by team geriatric, Reto Hollenstein. He will accompany them along the course as well, not really concentrating on his race, solely being in the headset with tips for the young Irishman and prime Czech.
Thanks for the info Tamijo, and the write-up! Looking forward to this opportunity, without WCC here to steal more points 
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 02-01-2018 13:49
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If Reus is on a good day I think there's no beating him. Low HIL may harm Mottin and Laizer so being on the podium would be a great result. Top5, can't complain. Top10 is the minimum.
Great preview Tamijo especially with the historic part  always nice to learn something alongside, and it was something I had no clue
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 02-01-2018 14:02
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Rooting for Tennant. Last year fucked us over so badly though. In-n-Out and Philips with awesome teams, but boy would a win be deserved for cycleYorkshire!
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| ryant |
Posted on 02-01-2018 17:02
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And... I hope that the AI will not screw us over, a podium has to be expected here, maybe even a win but that will be more difficult. We should hopefully bag 3x top 10 placings here at least to continue our good PPRD score so far this season
Dont let me down PCM!!!
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 02-01-2018 17:06
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I can feel it coming in the air this time. Bookwalter will make up for everything and shock the world!
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 02-01-2018 19:36
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We are aiming for a top 5 and expecting a top 10. Hopefully Hofer can deliver but if the hill ends up being decisive then Zoidl should be able to deliver instead as he has a better hill stat then all the guys in the preview who would finish ahead of him.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 02-01-2018 19:59
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Tamijo wrote:
Aquarius97 wrote:
Tamijo wrote:
Vien wrote:
Nomadic Khoisan tribes has inhabited the area for thousands of years, in the 1840 Oorlam people leader Jonker Afrikaner, emigrated from South Africa and developed the village constructing a stone church.
In 1890 Imperial German Army Major Curt von François set up headquarters in Windhoek, laying the foundations for what was to become the capital of Namibia, today a city of about 325.000 people.
Damn, I wasn't prepared for this information. Thanks for enlightening me.
I like to setup a short insight to where we are racing, knowing very well that it is compleetly unimportant to most people.
In that case i'll be looking forward at what you will write in La Vuelta
Will mention "something" stage by stage
Please do Le Tour next year - I'm always missing Phil and Paul whenever I read them Fantastic preview here anyway 
The only C2 race we're not attending because TTs are garbage races and a waste of everyone's time Hope to see Grabovski or an Eritrel rider win here
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT]  Xero Racing
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 03-01-2018 04:57
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We won't win. Hard to predict who will. But pretty sure we'll under-perform again!
Great preview Tamijo! Not surprised having followed your stories
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 03-01-2018 11:32
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Hey, at least we got one point 
Huge race for cycleYorkshire. And really great report Tamijo!
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 03-01-2018 11:55
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cycleYorkshire really aced this one
Edited by Ollfardh on 03-01-2018 16:17
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Vien |
Posted on 03-01-2018 11:58
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cycleYorkshire deserved this after all the weird TTs so far this season. Grats! |
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 03-01-2018 12:04
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That was hopeless! Couldn't even achieve the reduced Top 15 expectation despite having a likely Top 10 contender! The hole we're digging for ourselves keeps getting deeper...
Well deserved win finally for cycleYorkshire! Thanks for the report Tamijo
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 03-01-2018 12:18
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It was about time for cycleYorkshire to finally earn something for it's TT depth. A great result. Congrats, ryant!
Cool report! A kinda new approach, interesting. Thanks for that.
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| roturn |
Posted on 03-01-2018 12:44
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Very happy for cycleYorkshire. Finally the needed TT dominance.
I loved the effort of all the live timing. In especially as it showed the strong final thirds by Tennant and Stannard, while others such as Reus, Zoidl, Martin struggled a lot in this part. |
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