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Tour of Southland Discussion
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| roturn |
Posted on 16-12-2019 14:59
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The Tour of Southland has 5 previous editions with 2012 being the first edition and obviously some gap years in between. The profile changed quite a bit from being a puncheur event towards a climber event and later a time trial heavy race. This resulted in lots of different winners while 2019 goes back to the roots by being a puncheur event again.
Other than that it was always a good race for the sprinters as it had plenty of opportunities for the fast men to get a stage win or two and it`s not surprising to see PCT known sprinters such as Cavendish, Maksimov, Nelson, Guillen, Serebriakov on the winner lists. Only Maksimov of those is back here in 2019 though and so he might become the lone most successful stage hunter of the race.
GC wise some of the very best top puncheurs of the PCT are in Southland to perform well on those two untypical ______/ hill finishes.
 Claeys,  Di Maggio and  Schreurs are the top riders and surely hope for stage wins and GC.
The group of challengers is big though and  Gautier,  Borges or  Vakoc in especially already have shown their class this season while  Jensen and  Betancourt also aren`t far from the best.
Lots of outside riders then as well, such as Bellis, Bilbao or the strongest CT rider in Edmondson, who had a good start to the season.
| Hi | Sp | Acc | | Hi | Sp | Acc | | Claeys | 83 | 67 | 73 |  Bilbao | 79 | 71 | 75 | | Di Maggio | 82 | 65 | 75 |  Edmondson | 79 | 70 | 76 | | Schreurs | 81 | 71 | 74 |  Paulinho | 79 | 68 | 75 | | Borges | 80 | 71 | 81 | Gebrezgabihier | 79 | 67 | 69 | | Vakoc | 80 | 71 | 74 |  Bellis | 78 | 74 | 75 | | Gautier | 80 | 68 | 77 | Barbin | 78 | 71 | 76 | | Betancourt | 80 | 67 | 74 | Boily | 78 | 68 | 74 | | Jensen | 80 | 66 | 76 |  Quevedo | 78 | 65 | 75 | | Vogt | 80 | 62 | 63 |  Pichon | 78 | 62 | 74 |
Sprinter wise TdU stage winner Ciolek might be the best followed by Vanderbiest. Almost as fast though record hunting Maksimov, Enger,  Saber or several others making the 3 sprints very open.
And with such easy looking hills, you never know, if one of them on a good day could find some unknown climbing legs to contest the puncheurs.
| Hi | Sp | Acc | | Hi | Sp | Acc | | Ciolek | 65 | 82 | 78 | Drapac | 53 | 80 | 79 | | Vanderbiest | 64 | 82 | 77 |  Pelucchi | 68 | 79 | 77 | | Enger | 69 | 81 | 78 | Mezgec | 67 | 79 | 77 | | Saber | 68 | 81 | 79 | Stallaert | 67 | 79 | 76 | | Maksimov | 60 | 81 | 84 | Von Hoff | 66 | 79 | 77 |  Thorsen | 53 | 81 | 83 | Selig | 65 | 79 | 81 |  Moser | 67 | 80 | 79 | Havik | 64 | 79 | 76 | | Manninen | 66 | 80 | 80 |  Bennett | 63 | 79 | 79 | | Kupfernagel | 64 | 80 | 80 |  Suryadi | 62 | 79 | 76 | | Lavoine | 60 | 80 | 78 | Peeters | 62 | 79 | 77 |
Interesting riders to mention are Feng, Stallaert, Van der Haar, Hermans, Mraouni, Aaltio or Bellis due to their great roleur skills combined with decent hill or sprint skills, which could be handy on such profiles.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 16-12-2019 15:01
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This looks like a sprinters race to me. No van Asbroeck? 
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| viking90 |
Posted on 16-12-2019 15:02
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Yeah! Debut for KHJ as a 80 rated hill rider, will be fun to see what he can do now  Stallaert fighting for decent stage result as well?! |
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 16-12-2019 15:13
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Maybe I made a mistake there, but I thought those hill finishes would be too hard for him.
I'm relying on Cerny instead, but so far the AI hasn't treated him well. Pelucchi would be great to have a decent finish somewhere.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 16-12-2019 16:02
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Man, I just continue to avoid racing early in the year. 
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 16-12-2019 16:15
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Hopeless in all important terrains, so we need to repeat our breakaway festival from TDU! Aaron Gate should be the one to try so, riding on home soil should definitely make for the motivation, I guess.
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| redordead |
Posted on 16-12-2019 16:35
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Looking at that startlist this might be the first and only time we manage to pull together a train for Ciolek
Bilbao also has some making up to do for his blunders in Slovenia. This is a big race in our battle to survive!
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 16-12-2019 17:44
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First real race for Claeys, Grand Duche was decent so I'm expecting more of the same here.
Drapac for the sprints, hoping for a few points.
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| ryant |
Posted on 16-12-2019 18:07
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Interesting race here, if I had any hope in Enger then a couple of podiums would be good here. Bellis is also a good underdog as well so a top 10 GC is very much in grasp here as well.
Good luck everyone!
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 16-12-2019 19:21
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Campari clearly the underdog in this race, no matter what any points will be welcome , best option i would guess is Kadri going for the KoM / breakaway win.
Then again Rocchetti have done it before. hope he will turn out to be crazy again.
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 16-12-2019 20:05
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Should be a very interesting race!! Good luck everyone!!
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| fintas |
Posted on 16-12-2019 22:03
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No high hopes for this race as Vogt is there to spoil any team strategy
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 16-12-2019 22:30
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High expectations for Borges here. On paper he should be a strong contender, but we'll see.
Thanks for the preview roturn!
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 17-12-2019 05:01
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Took a risk not bringing Kelderman here and instead having Saber as the leader hoping for the hills to not be decisive. If not a great GC placing, hoping for three good sprint stages from Saber, who also has decent flat and leadout support.
Thanks for the preview
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| MacC |
Posted on 17-12-2019 12:18
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maybe a breakaway ? |
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 17-12-2019 15:38
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Good sprint from Drapac. He seems to be performing consistently on this game.
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| viking90 |
Posted on 17-12-2019 15:42
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Woop woop! What a nice surprise to get a stage win here
Really good tactic sprint from Stallaert there! |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 17-12-2019 16:36
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Nothing to see here  breakaways, guys. Don't want to see the first Jayco mention on position 100+ in the results list!
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 17-12-2019 16:57
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Well, at least we're doing breakaways again. Good try & congrats Volvo!
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 17-12-2019 17:18
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I guess we are in that race somewhere near the back of the pack
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