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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 22-08-2008 09:06
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Its a mostly flat race in Ireland but with hilly stages and a 24 km TTT to potentially decide the race.
Procycling-BBC may well be the popular team amongst the Irish supporters in the race, with Irish National RR Champion Nicholas Roche, Irish National TT Champion Stephen Gallagher, and also Daniel Martin, in their lineup. They also bring Ben Swift and Magnus Backstedt.
Other than Procycling, Sprinters such as Manan, Wong (British Airways), Bacquet (Dasani), Hendersen (IrnBru), Haselbacher (Nippo), Haussler (NVidia), Haedo (Slipstream), Sonnery, Corioni (White Bear Steyr) and Usov (Wiggle) will look for stages, while the likes of Bellis (British Airways), Seledkov (IrnBru) and Cummings (Wiggle) will be amongst those going for the tougher stages, or into the breakaways. We also have the TT powerhouses from Slipstream and 8 B Teams.
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| Cristi M |
Posted on 22-08-2008 09:09
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Magenta B team is here but i don't expect big things because very strong sprinters are present..
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 22-08-2008 10:20
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I brought six riders with over 70+ SP. And i think Bellis got 70+ too. Now if only i had remembered the TTT when we were planing our seasons...
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 22-08-2008 10:33
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I think it's the same here Waghlon... Cummings may be the only guy who can TT well...
Usov hopefully may actually score a point here. Maybe. if not, his lead out man Gajek has a slight chance. Matt Hayman is another lead out man for Usov.
Looking at my squad, i actually have brought Kaisen along, with his 75 TT, Cummings with 73, Hayles with 74, and Tom Diggle rounds off the squad. He performed well at a previous GB race, so i'm hoping he gets involved.
I also noticed, or should i say, failed to notice, any hills in this stage race. Woopsy! Cummings and Diggle are tied for the best hill stat...at 68!
Edited by rjc_43 on 22-08-2008 10:34
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 22-08-2008 18:54
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Thats appaling. How did my team of breakaway specialists miss the break! At least Usov finally scored some points.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 22-08-2008 18:55
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Fortunately, Dan Martin made the break for me. He should get a good overall position now since I have a decent TTT team
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 22-08-2008 18:58
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Now thats more positive. Only 54 seconds away from the overall. Hopefully Diggle will be able to both claim the KoM overall, and move up a bit if he can hang with my TT specialists. Usov is probably out of it from now on after a crash i guess.
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WOW! Awesume. Obviously he heard me and was fired up for today. First win of the season for Usov! 
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| Cristi M |
Posted on 23-08-2008 02:21
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great stage win for that hong kong rider..unfortunately hes not in top 10 gc but i'm satisfied.
May month is over, now a lot of races in the start of the June month and after that again pro tour races
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| rodda |
Posted on 23-08-2008 03:35
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 terrible race for us
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 23-08-2008 06:40
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Not bad for us.
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| rodda |
Posted on 23-08-2008 08:46
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and gets worse. about 3 top ten placed riders in each stage and not one podium. too many chefs in the kitchen i guess.
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 23-08-2008 10:15
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7 Ghader Mizbani BRITISH AIRWAYS - CYCLINGNEWS + 1'30
You are a genius sir. Combined with a few top tens from Manan, a stage win from Bellis (and partly Hoffmann), this tour looks like a sucess. A minor one, but still a sucess.
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 23-08-2008 14:58
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Same. Two stage wins from Usov, Diggle creeps into the top 10 with 9th overall. Many thanks to those riders who crashed  and lost time. Plus a 2nd in the points jersey, and another KoM jersey, but this time we get to keep it. Smashing stuff i say!
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 23-08-2008 18:55
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1st and third! and Points!
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 23-08-2008 22:54
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assuming that points are awarded on the TTT so that Slipstream are awarded points for first and Procyling second and Irn bru third etc etc my tally, according to my calculations comes out to 253 points. I haven't seen a standings update in a while but I assume Slipstream is top 3.
We also scored points every single stage of the race!
Edited by Levi4life on 23-08-2008 22:56
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 24-08-2008 08:42
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I think we scored roughly 94 points, but i suppose thats ok still. Keeps the points ticking in still. Plus i'm seeing how many mistakes ive made this year choosing the right squad for the terrain, so next season i'll be better than ever.
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| stuartmcstuart |
Posted on 25-08-2008 23:12
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Mohs
Terpstra, on the final stage!!!
That's not the way it's meant to happen! To be fair, its the first race where we've had really bad luck all season. At least we scored a few points anyway!
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