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Tour of Ireland Discussion
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Posted on 23-11-2024 18:48
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 15-10-2008 16:29
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Who will win this Irish stage race? The only certainty is that it will be a rider from one of the following teams:
British Airways - Cyclingnews
Champion
Dasani - Hincapie Sportswear
Fed-Ex
IrnBru-RBS
LA/MSS/Pearl Jam
Molteni
Nippo Corporation
NVidia
Procycling-BBC
Slipstream
SME Cycling
Ernst + Young
White Bear Steyr
Wiggle - Premier Inn
Zenmind - Evolution
Fed-Ex B
Wikipedia B
Magenta B
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| p3druh |
Posted on 15-10-2008 17:28
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C'mon "whoever I brought to Ireland"! Kick some Champion but!
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| niconico |
Posted on 15-10-2008 17:30
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As long as you shut Champion down, I don't mind LA/MSS winning this 
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| p3druh |
Posted on 15-10-2008 17:38
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Oh, thank you A_Schleck. That's awfully nice of you 
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| p3druh |
Posted on 15-10-2008 23:10
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Not a good start. Champion already wining...
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 15-10-2008 23:17
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Good way to start the race. Haedo has had quite a long break and needs to ease in to the racing.
Edited by Levi4life on 15-10-2008 23:18
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 16-10-2008 08:04
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I feel for Rjc, just missed out on a stage! |
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 16-10-2008 10:49
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 16-10-2008 10:52
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I'm surprised that Champion has been doing so well. The manager sold his absolutely best rider, Pozzovivo, to me. And the riders he got from me, Roche and Boogerd (one more?), he also decided to send away to another team (Boogerd back to me where he ended up winning one of the major classics and finishing in top 3 in several others).
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 16-10-2008 11:03
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Looking at their team, they still have by far one of the strongest sprinters squad out there. And the majority of their sprinters (in fact the best three) can all get over the hills. Not only that, but Champion STILL have Leukemans and Efimkin for the hills, Paolini for the cobbles, and Chacon for the mountainous stage races.
I'm not surprised at all.
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| p3druh |
Posted on 16-10-2008 22:43
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Well, at least Vitoria jumped to the Top-10... But I still got owned by Champion.
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| stuartmcstuart |
Posted on 17-10-2008 10:17
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rjc_43 wrote:
Looking at their team, they still have by far one of the strongest sprinters squad out there. And the majority of their sprinters (in fact the best three) can all get over the hills. Not only that, but Champion STILL have Leukemans and Efimkin for the hills, Paolini for the cobbles, and Chacon for the mountainous stage races.
I'm not surprised at all.
Do I detect a hint of jealousy? I know I am |
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 17-10-2008 11:15
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Course I am. Who else fired 3 potential 6 riders, got rid of possibly the best rider in the continental tour, and got barely nothing in return? All before the season began. Course I'm bloomin' jealous!
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| Macquet |
Posted on 17-10-2008 18:00
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Yes!!! Irish King of the Mountains!!! I'll take it!!! |
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| p3druh |
Posted on 17-10-2008 18:30
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This race was a nightmare for Pearl Jam... We lost (+/-) 100 points to Champion and I don't see anyway of getting them back.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 17-10-2008 18:37
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Rankings
Teams
A timely boost for Champion as they extend their lead over LA/MSS/Pearl Jam by 134 points in the battle for the 2nd promotion spot. Elsewhere that was little position changes, with Molteni inching past Benfica to take 9th as Benfica ride in the Vuelta, and Nippo overtake Dasani for 16th place.
1 B&O 2151
2 Champion 1962
3 LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 1803
4 Procycling-BBC 1503
5 White Bear Steyr 1396
6 Slipstream 1371
7 Fed-Ex 1293
8 Wiggle - Premier Inn 1182
9 Molteni 1142
10 Benfica 1134
11 Gatorade 1055
12 IrnBru - RBS 1032
13 Zenmind-Evolution 1027
14 NVidia 972
15 British Airways - Cyclingnews 742
16 Nippo Corporation 724
17 Dasani - Hincapie Sportswear 685
18 Ernst and Young 495
19 Sony Ericsson B 253
20 Slipstream B 169
21 IrnBru B 137
22 Virgin Media B 132
23 LA/MSS/Pearl Jam B 112
24 Magenta B 99
25 British Airways B 93
26 Nintendo B 80
27 Gatorade B 66
28 La Gazetta B 66
29 France Televisions B 45
30 American Suzuki B 43
31 Fed-Ex B 34
32 Wikipedia B 26
33 The Control Team 8
34 Team Incompetent 7
35 White Bear Steyr B 0
36 SME Cycling 0
Individual
Casper moves up to 5th while Haedo remains 4th, although closing the gap on the leading 3. The battle for the top spot is still far from over, with races suiting all of the leading riders still to come.
1 Tom Danielson USA Fed-Ex 550
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen NOR B&O 540
3 Angel Vicioso ESP Gatorade 518
4 Juan José Haedo ARG Slipstream 483
5 Jimmy Casper FRA Champion 382
6 Nuno Ribeiro POR Benfica 364
7 Aleksandr Efimkin RUS Champion 344
8 José Chacon VEN Champion 337
9 Bernhard Kohl AUT White Bear Steyr 328
10 Aleksandr Pluchkin MOL B&O 328
11 Leonardo Bertagnolli ITA Wiggle - Premier Inn 322
12 Heinrich Haussler GER NVidia 307
13 Daniel Moreno ESP Benfica 273
14 Ivan Seledkov RUS IrnBru - RBS 267
15 Aitor Perez Arrieta ESP Champion 262
16 Wim van Huffel BEL LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 261
17 Konstantin Siutsou BLR White Bear Steyr 252
18 Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios ESP Zenmind - Evolution 248
19 Vitor Rodrigues POR LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 237
20 Blaise Sonnery FRA White Bear Steyr 225
21 Martijn Maaskant NED LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 224
22 Tadej Valjavec SLO Ernst & Young 219
23 Tom Veelers NED B&O 199
24 Ricardo Mestre POR B&O 196
25 Geraint Thomas GBR British Airways - Cyclingnews 192
Edited by SportingNonsense on 17-10-2008 18:39
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 17-10-2008 18:45
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The control team is 4th last in the team rankings
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 17-10-2008 22:19
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A bit disapointing for haedo not to get a stage but he has 12 days of racing left and 11 of them suit him.
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| robert_psv |
Posted on 17-10-2008 23:19
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It's looking good
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| rodda |
Posted on 18-10-2008 08:02
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sonnery has been an awesome loan for us B)
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