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| Laurens147 |
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 [PTM] Liège - Bastogne - Liège
Report by kandesbunzler
| Year | | | | | | | | | | | 2022 | Tomohiro Kinoshita (Voyagin - Bird) | | | 2014 | Jan Bakelants (Bouygues Telecom) | | | | | | 2021 | Petr Vakoc (ISA - Hexacta) | | | 2013 | Yuri Trofimov (Koenigsegg) | | | | | | 2020 | Peter Sagan (Moser - Sygic) | | | 2012 | Frank Schleck (Vesuvio-Accumalux) | | | | | | 2019 | Jan Bakelants (Indosat Ooredoo - ANZ) | | | 2011 | Frank Schleck (Vesuvio-Accumalux) | | | | | | 2018 | Peter Sagan (Moser - Sygic) | | | 2010 | Frank Schleck (Accumalux-Huez) | | | | | | 2017 | Simone Ponzi (Hugo Boss) | | | 2009 | Riccardo Ricco (Magenta All Stars) | | | | | | 2016 | Sven Fritsch (BPost-Vlaanderen) | | | 2008 | Alejandro Valverde (France Televisions) | | | | | | 2015 | Simone Ponzi (Good Energy) | | | 2007 | Alejandro Valverde (Cofidis, le credit par telephone) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 1 | Tomohiro Kinoshita | Voyagin - Bird | - | | | | | | | | 2 | Anthony Turgis | De Stijl Cycling | s.t. | | | | | | | | 3 | Petr Vakoc | ISA - Hexacta | s.t. | | | | | | | | 4 | Matej Mohoric | Aker - MOT | s.t. | | | | | | | | 5 | Jack Bobridge | Duolingo | s.t. | | | | | | | | 6 | Odd Christian Eiking | Gjensidige Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | | | | | | | 7 | Yevgeniy Gidich | King Power | s.t. | | | | | | | | 8 | Michal Kwiatkowski | MOL Cycling Team | 17" | | | | | | | | 9 | Simon Yates | Zwift Pro Cycling | s.t. | | | | | | | | 10 | Clement Koretzky | ELCO - ABEA | s.t. | | | | | | |
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | 2023 Team |  Lopez | Miguel Angel | COL | 29 | 79 | 84 | 76 | 74 | 78 | Evonik - ELKO |  Kinoshita | Tomohiro | JPN | 32 | 72 | 83 | 80 | 77 | 77 | Minions |  Lutsenko | Alexey | KAZ | 31 | 73 | 83 | 76 | 73 | 81 | Gazelle |  Gidich | Yevgeniy | KAZ | 27 | 76 | 83 | 78 | 77 | 75 | King Power |  Skujins | Toms | LAT | 32 | 70 | 83 | 80 | 77 | 76 | Tinkoff - La Datcha Team |  Yates | Simon | GBR | 31 | 70 | 81 | 77 | 70 | 80 | cycleYorkshire |  De Bie | Sean | BEL | 32 | 71 | 84 | 77 | 76 | 75 | Lidl Cycling |  Mohoric | Matej | SLO | 29 | 71 | 83 | 78 | 72 | 77 | Aker - MOT |  Valter | Attila | HUN | 25 | 77 | 80 | 76 | 75 | 78 | EA Vesuvio |  Kwiatkowski | Michal | POL | 33 | 77 | 80 | 73 | 75 | 74 | Binance |  Vakoc | Petr | CZE | 31 | 71 | 81 | 75 | 71 | 74 | ISA - Hexacta |
Let's look at all participating teams in detail:
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | | | Amezawa | Takeaki | JPN | 28 | 79 | 77 | 76 | 78 | 75 | | | Bravo | Edison | CHL | 31 | 70 | 76 | 74 | 73 | 70 | | | Conti | Valerio | ITA | 30 | 75 | 75 | 70 | 71 | 74 | | | Johannessen | Anders Halland | NOR | 24 | 76 | 71 | 70 | 78 | 75 | | | Kamp | Alexander | DEN | 30 | 64 | 74 | 74 | 75 | 74 | | | Laporte | Christophe | FRA | 31 | 62 | 73 | 72 | 74 | 73 | | | Mohoric | Matej | SLO | 29 | 71 | 83 | 78 | 72 | 77 | | | Potts | Marc | IRL | 32 | 62 | 74 | 74 | 75 | 71 | |
Already a first favourite in this first team preview. Matej Mohoric finished 4th, 6th, 7th, 11nd and 15th in the last 5 editions.
The support will come from Takeaki Amezawa, who finished 25th himself last year.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Drizners | Jarrad | AUS | 24 | 63 | 74 | 71 | 72 | 76 | | | Hamilton | Chris | AUS | 28 | 68 | 76 | 71 | 74 | 73 | | | Harper | Chris | AUS | 29 | 75 | 73 | 71 | 72 | 74 | | | Lane | Patrick | AUS | 32 | 74 | 76 | 70 | 68 | 73 | | | McCarthy | Jay | AUS | 31 | 67 | 82 | 80 | 75 | 74 | | | Storer | Michael | AUS | 26 | 75 | 78 | 72 | 73 | 74 | | | Sweeny | Harry | AUS | 25 | 65 | 71 | 67 | 76 | 71 | | | Wohler | Alex | AUS | 31 | 58 | 66 | 72 | 71 | 72 | |
Jay McCarthy is another rider with a lot of experience in Liège. He finished seven times in the top-30, 12th was his best result in 2020.
This season he already showed his form in Luxembourg (8th) and Amstel Gold Race (15th).
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | | | Goncalves | Gaspar | POR | 28 | 73 | 75 | 71 | 70 | 74 | | | Ikibe | Sota | JPN | 31 | 74 | 73 | 70 | 70 | 65 | | | Kwiatkowski | Michal | POL | 33 | 77 | 80 | 73 | 75 | 74 | | | Oliveira | Rui | POR | 27 | 67 | 76 | 77 | 72 | 78 | | | Paulinho | Pedro Miguel | POR | 33 | 74 | 79 | 68 | 70 | 73 | | | Perez | Anthony | FRA | 32 | 72 | 72 | 71 | 72 | 72 | | | Sagan | Peter | SVK | 33 | 73 | 82 | 77 | 73 | 75 | | | Yudha | Muhammad | INA | 24 | 69 | 75 | 74 | 72 | 73 | |
Binance has a duo leadership with Kwiatkowski and Sagan. Sagan won here ofcourse in 2018 and 2020 and he finished 8th in the Amstel Gold Race this year.
Kwiatkowski was 7th in Grand-Duché this year and finished 8th in LBL last year.
| | | | | | | | | | | Carlsberg - Danske Bank | PT |
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Aranburu | Alex | ESP | 28 | 77 | 79 | 70 | 79 | 71 | | | Juul-Jensen | Christopher | DEN | 34 | 67 | 75 | 71 | 69 | 74 | | | Krigbaum | Mathias | DEN | 28 | 69 | 70 | 74 | 75 | 64 | | | Olesen | Patrick | DEN | 29 | 75 | 75 | 72 | 73 | 73 | | | Petrovski | Stefan | MCD | 32 | 75 | 73 | 72 | 73 | 68 | | | Rojas | Henry Antonio | NCA | 24 | 68 | 74 | 75 | 70 | 74 | | | Skjelmose Jensen | Mattias | DEN | 23 | 74 | 71 | 69 | 74 | 65 | | | Sulvaran | Gyasi | CUR | 29 | 71 | 75 | 69 | 77 | 74 | |
Alex Aranburu looks like the leader of Carlsberg-Danske Bank. He opened his hill season with a 7th spot in Amstel Gold Race this year.
His minor stamina and acceleration skills could play a role on the longer Belgian hills.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Buitrago | Santiago | COL | 24 | 76 | 74 | 69 | 73 | 78 | | | Croes | Jonathan | ARU | 26 | 73 | 73 | 72 | 70 | 65 | | | Gaudu | David | FRA | 27 | 71 | 78 | 78 | 75 | 70 | | | Govekar | Matevz | SLO | 23 | 68 | 73 | 70 | 73 | 74 | | | Hocevar | Kristjan | SLO | 24 | 72 | 71 | 66 | 66 | 73 | | | Stojnic | Veljko | SER | 24 | 66 | 67 | 71 | 74 | 69 | | | Svab | Jernej | SLO | 28 | 71 | 76 | 70 | 72 | 78 | | | Wright | Fred | GBR | 24 | 68 | 70 | 70 | 71 | 70 | |
Slovenia-based Cedevita leans on David Gaudu in this race. He finished top-20 in both Grand-Duché and Amstel.
That looks like a reasonable goal for LBL as well.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | | | Buttigieg | Aidan | MLT | 26 | 62 | 66 | 70 | 71 | 68 | | | Dujardin | Sandy | FRA | 26 | 63 | 68 | 71 | 75 | 75 | | | Holmes | Matthew | GBR | 30 | 72 | 75 | 71 | 73 | 71 | | | Norbert | Andrew | LCA | 25 | 67 | 70 | 74 | 75 | 73 | | | Romo | Javier | ESP | 24 | 71 | 78 | 76 | 75 | 69 | | | Skaarseth | Anders | NOR | 28 | 75 | 72 | 70 | 71 | 67 | | | Yates | Simon | GBR | 31 | 70 | 81 | 77 | 70 | 80 | | | Zukowsky | Nickolas | CAN | 25 | 63 | 70 | 72 | 70 | 72 | |
Simon Yates is another favourite on the list. He came over in the offseason from Zwift, for which he finished 9th in 2022 and 3rd in 2021.
He already showed his good form in Amstel with a second place behind Gidich.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | | | Alaphilippe | Julian | FRA | 31 | 66 | 73 | 74 | 69 | 77 | | | Bax | Sjoerd | NED | 27 | 68 | 77 | 77 | 73 | 68 | | | Geniets | Kevin | LUX | 26 | 70 | 78 | 75 | 77 | 69 | | | Lampawog | Jay | PHI | 26 | 65 | 68 | 74 | 74 | 68 | | | Smit | Willie | RSA | 31 | 69 | 75 | 76 | 72 | 74 | | | Valter | Attila | HUN | 25 | 77 | 80 | 76 | 75 | 78 | | | Wirtgen | Luc | LUX | 25 | 75 | 75 | 73 | 72 | 68 | | | Zingle | Axel | FRA | 25 | 62 | 68 | 70 | 74 | 76 | |
EA Vesuvio has the youngest favourite on the list with Attila Valter.
The Hungarian talent already finished third on the podium in Grand-Duché this season.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Boutopoulos | Georgios | GRE | 27 | 67 | 71 | 72 | 74 | 77 | | | Ioannidis | Nikolaos | GRE | 30 | 75 | 73 | 76 | 74 | 70 | | | Kastrantas | Charalampas | GRE | 32 | 73 | 75 | 70 | 71 | 73 | | | Koretzky | Clement | FRA | 33 | 70 | 80 | 75 | 68 | 77 | | | Soulious | Zisis | GRE | 27 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 75 | 78 | | | Spanopoulos | Ioannis | GRE | 30 | 77 | 75 | 73 | 72 | 64 | | | Vila | Aimiliano | GRE | 26 | 71 | 77 | 70 | 73 | 74 | | | Vincent | Leo | FRA | 28 | 71 | 77 | 79 | 72 | 71 | |
ELCO-ABEA has a long history with Koretzky as leader in this race.
No fewer than eight top-30 results over the years and a top 10 in each of the last 5 editions. Can he perform once again?
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | | | Battistella | Samuele | ITA | 25 | 73 | 73 | 70 | 76 | 69 | | | Blums | Martins | LAT | 28 | 77 | 77 | 71 | 73 | 70 | | | Gavars | Eriks Toms | LAT | 26 | 75 | 74 | 71 | 73 | 70 | | | Januskevicius | Mantas | LTU | 24 | 71 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 72 | | | Kanepejs | Deins | LAT | 28 | 67 | 77 | 72 | 71 | 71 | | | Lopez | Miguel Angel | COL | 29 | 79 | 84 | 76 | 74 | 78 | | | Polanc | Jan | SLO | 31 | 74 | 73 | 78 | 73 | 75 | | | Van der Haar | Lars | NED | 32 | 66 | 72 | 70 | 72 | 70 | |
Miguel Angel Lopez is the top favourite on paper. Last year, that resulted in a dissapointed 16th spot.
He will rather hope for a form repeat from 2021, where he finished second after Vakoc. The Colombian already gained confidence this season in Grand-Duche (2nd) and Amstel (4th).
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | | | Bernard | Julien | FRA | 31 | 76 | 75 | 72 | 73 | 73 | | | Carcueva | Jonel | PHI | 28 | 77 | 76 | 72 | 72 | 73 | | | Konrad | Patrick | AUT | 32 | 75 | 76 | 76 | 73 | 69 | | | Lutsenko | Alexey | KAZ | 31 | 73 | 83 | 76 | 73 | 81 | | | Malecki | Kamil | POL | 27 | 73 | 76 | 71 | 75 | 76 | | | Peters | Nans | FRA | 29 | 74 | 76 | 72 | 76 | 69 | | | Senni | Manuel | ITA | 31 | 77 | 73 | 76 | 79 | 72 | | | Vervaeke | Louis | BEL | 30 | 76 | 73 | 76 | 77 | 69 | |
We continue with another favorite in Alexey Lutsenko. He finished on the podium in 2020.
And in 2017, 2019 and 2021 he made at least the top 10. This year time for an outlier?
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Bazhkou | Stanislau | BLR | 32 | 69 | 75 | 73 | 75 | 64 | | | Brkic | Benjamin | AUT | 27 | 74 | 74 | 74 | 73 | 72 | | | De Gendt | Aime | BEL | 29 | 62 | 73 | 77 | 75 | 69 | | | Hvideberg | Jonas Iversby | NOR | 24 | 64 | 70 | 72 | 73 | 65 | | | Lastra | Jonathan | ESP | 30 | 74 | 75 | 72 | 73 | 71 | | | Ssabagwanya | Samuel | UGA | 29 | 72 | 75 | 80 | 75 | 77 | | | Trondsen | Trond Hakon | NOR | 29 | 65 | 72 | 72 | 73 | 76 | | | Van Gestel | Dries | BEL | 29 | 62 | 71 | 76 | 75 | 70 | |
No real contender here for Grieg-Maersk. They could target a breakaway appearance.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | | | Bongiorno | Francesco | ITA | 33 | 78 | 74 | 76 | 76 | 68 | | | Cepeda Hernandez | Jefferson | ECU | 27 | 75 | 77 | 71 | 70 | 74 | | | Jurado | Cristofer Robin | PAN | 28 | 67 | 69 | 67 | 71 | 70 | | | Paez | Andres | ARG | 28 | 72 | 77 | 74 | 70 | 76 | | | Parra Bustamente | Heiner Rodrigo | COL | 32 | 77 | 74 | 73 | 74 | 71 | | | Sepulveda | Eduardo | ARG | 32 | 75 | 77 | 74 | 73 | 73 | | | Vakoc | Petr | CZE | 31 | 71 | 81 | 75 | 71 | 74 | | | Van Niekerk | Aidan | RSA | 26 | 75 | 79 | 72 | 75 | 74 | |
From 2016 to 2019, Petr Vakoc piled up the distant places of honor: 12th, 17th, 16th and 15th.
In 2021 he won the edition by winning a sprint in a large group (17). Last year he came third after Kinoshita and Turgis.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | | | Chaiyasombat | Thanakhan | THA | 24 | 76 | 72 | 71 | 74 | 72 | | | Chiu | Ho San | HKG | 28 | 67 | 74 | 76 | 73 | 73 | | | Fung | Ka Hoo | HKG | 26 | 77 | 71 | 69 | 73 | 71 | | | Gidich | Yevgeniy | KAZ | 27 | 76 | 83 | 78 | 77 | 75 | | | Menten | Milan | BEL | 27 | 64 | 73 | 75 | 76 | 68 | | | Quita | Ronnilan | PHI | 28 | 74 | 77 | 75 | 75 | 74 | | | Sosa | Ivan | COL | 26 | 78 | 78 | 75 | 79 | 74 | | | Vanthourenhout | Michael | BEL | 30 | 66 | 68 | 68 | 73 | 68 | |
Yevgeniy Gidich had a great start of his Ardennes season, winning Amstel.
He is again a favourite for this race. Last year he ended seventh (and last of the winning group).
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | | | Barguil | Warren | FRA | 32 | 81 | 75 | 77 | 77 | 75 | | | Bettiol | Alberto | ITA | 30 | 71 | 77 | 78 | 75 | 77 | | | De Bie | Sean | BEL | 32 | 71 | 84 | 77 | 76 | 75 | | | Lyu | Xianjing | CHN | 25 | 73 | 76 | 73 | 74 | 73 | | | Mansouri | Hamza | ALG | 24 | 69 | 70 | 75 | 72 | 73 | | | Salzmann | Jodok | AUT | 28 | 63 | 71 | 77 | 76 | 71 | | | Van der Poel | Mathieu | NED | 28 | 70 | 77 | 78 | 77 | 77 | | | Vine | Jay | AUS | 28 | 73 | 71 | 65 | 74 | 72 | |
Lidl Cycling will count on Sean De Bie to score here. The Belgian will be supported by strong co-leaders Barguil and Bettiol.
De Bie has some mixed results on home soil in Liège: 17th in the last 2 editions, but he finished 2nd in 2020 and 4th in 2017.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | | | Alexander | Nathan | TRI | 25 | 72 | 72 | 71 | 70 | 67 | | | Kinoshita | Tomohiro | JPN | 32 | 72 | 83 | 80 | 77 | 77 | | | Marcos | Leandro | CUB | 32 | 62 | 73 | 71 | 65 | 70 | | | Perez | Cristian | CUB | 24 | 63 | 66 | 72 | 71 | 68 | | | Quintana | Dayer | COL | 31 | 76 | 71 | 73 | 72 | 63 | | | Slagter | Tom Jelte | NED | 34 | 76 | 77 | 68 | 70 | 68 | | | Sweeck | Laurens | BEL | 30 | 62 | 68 | 71 | 72 | 71 | | | Voisard | Yannis | SWI | 25 | 73 | 70 | 68 | 69 | 65 | |
We have arrived at last year's winner: Tomohiro Kinoshita. The bookmakers place him at the top again, after MAL.
In both Grand-Duché and Amstel, the Japanese had to be satisfied with a place just outside the top 10. Everything on Liège again this year?
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Ardila | Andres Camilo | COL | 24 | 79 | 78 | 68 | 69 | 73 | | | Brozyna | Piotr | POL | 28 | 78 | 69 | 76 | 73 | 69 | | | Carretero Millan | Hector | ESP | 28 | 76 | 71 | 68 | 62 | 61 | | | Donovan | Mark | GBR | 24 | 74 | 70 | 72 | 75 | 70 | | | Filutas | Viktor | HUN | 27 | 74 | 75 | 71 | 69 | 74 | | | Kennaugh | Tim | GBR | 32 | 77 | 70 | 71 | 70 | 63 | | | Majoral | Jordi | AND | 26 | 74 | 68 | 69 | 71 | 68 | | | Stancu | George Alexandru | ROM | 31 | 78 | 69 | 70 | 74 | 71 | |
Andres Camilo Ardila is the leader for MOL, which they acquired from Cedevita in the offseason.
We see no more than a distant place of honor possible given the start list.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Bonnamour | Franck | FRA | 28 | 71 | 74 | 76 | 75 | 74 | | | Cerny | Josef | CZE | 30 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 67 | 79 | | | Hofland | Moreno | NED | 32 | 68 | 76 | 76 | 72 | 72 | | | Khederi | Souheil | TUN | 32 | 74 | 76 | 68 | 67 | 73 | | | Kudus | Merhawi | ERI | 29 | 85 | 77 | 79 | 77 | 70 | | | Neuman | Dominik | CZE | 28 | 70 | 76 | 69 | 74 | 77 | | | Stocek | Matus | SVK | 24 | 66 | 75 | 74 | 69 | 73 | | | Toupalik | Adam | CZE | 27 | 65 | 75 | 73 | 73 | 70 | |
Merhawi Kudus doesn't have a track record in Liège, given his preference for GT.
He is by far the best climber, but his acceleration on the short Belgian hills can be a disadvantage.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Barthe | Cyril | FRA | 27 | 73 | 76 | 73 | 71 | 76 | | | Becis | Armands | LAT | 32 | 68 | 73 | 73 | 75 | 74 | | | Brockhoff | Jan | GER | 29 | 63 | 70 | 74 | 76 | 73 | | | Carpenter | Robin | USA | 31 | 76 | 76 | 72 | 71 | 72 | | | Krul | Stef | NED | 28 | 63 | 66 | 70 | 73 | 66 | | | Le Roux | Romain | FRA | 31 | 66 | 77 | 74 | 71 | 72 | | | Mullen | Ryan | IRL | 29 | 62 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 70 | | | Oldani | Stefano | ITA | 25 | 71 | 71 | 69 | 74 | 73 | |
No real contender for Polar in this race. Maybe a minor placing for Robin Carpenter could be attainable.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Bloem | Joren | NED | 24 | 59 | 67 | 71 | 73 | 67 | | | Champoussin | Clement | FRA | 25 | 76 | 76 | 75 | 75 | 74 | | | Evenepoel | Remco | BEL | 23 | 72 | 74 | 76 | 78 | 70 | | | Formolo | Davide | ITA | 31 | 79 | 80 | 76 | 76 | 71 | | | Gerts | Floris | NED | 31 | 66 | 78 | 76 | 80 | 70 | | | Gesink | Robert | NED | 37 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 66 | 54 | | | Hellemose | Asbjorn | DEN | 24 | 71 | 71 | 70 | 71 | 67 | | | Vader | Milan | NED | 27 | 73 | 68 | 71 | 77 | 65 | |
Rabobank will put their eggs in the basket of Italian Davide Formolo. His best result here was 7th in 2021.
He also was 6th in Amstel this year. His supporting cast consists of Champoussin (15th Grand-Duché) and Evenepoel (25th Amstel).
| | | | | | | | | | | Team Popo4Ever p/b Morshynska | PCT |
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Beltran | Eduard Alexander | COL | 33 | 78 | 80 | 71 | 70 | 74 | | | Bratashcuk | Andrii | UKR | 31 | 71 | 77 | 75 | 70 | 67 | | | Budyak | Anatoliy | UKR | 28 | 74 | 78 | 72 | 67 | 68 | | | Gladysh | Roman | UKR | 28 | 70 | 77 | 73 | 72 | 76 | | | Padun | Mark | UKR | 27 | 82 | 77 | 72 | 74 | 75 | | | Papanov | Martin | BUL | 24 | 74 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 67 | | | Parashchak | Yaroslav | UKR | 23 | 67 | 72 | 68 | 69 | 70 | | | Sergis | Kaspars | LAT | 31 | 75 | 76 | 69 | 73 | 70 | |
Team Popo4Ever p/b Morshynska is the first wildcard team. They will count on Eduard Beltran and homegrown Mark Padun.
Beltran finished top-15 on two occassions here in Liege. He needs a excellent day to reach the same this year.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Egger | Mike Aaron | GER | 30 | 75 | 74 | 70 | 76 | 74 | | | Fortunato | Lorenzo | ITA | 27 | 75 | 72 | 72 | 75 | 68 | | | Madouas | Valentin | FRA | 27 | 75 | 77 | 76 | 73 | 73 | | | Meiler | Lukas | GER | 28 | 64 | 74 | 72 | 70 | 71 | | | O'Brien | Kelland | AUS | 25 | 65 | 74 | 72 | 76 | 69 | | | Schinnagel | Johannes | GER | 27 | 75 | 74 | 77 | 72 | 73 | | | Stork | Florian | GER | 26 | 75 | 71 | 74 | 73 | 70 | | | Zimmermann | Georg | GER | 26 | 77 | 73 | 77 | 78 | 71 | |
Team Puma - SAP sent Silvio Herklotz, winner of Grand-Duché earlier this year, to the Vuelta.
This puts the lead in the hands of Valentin Madouas, who finished 18th in Liège last year.
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| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | | | Chernetskiy | Sergey | RUS | 33 | 70 | 78 | 79 | 68 | 70 | | | Foliforov | Alexander | RUS | 31 | 75 | 72 | 79 | 77 | 59 | | | Mamykin | Matvey | RUS | 29 | 77 | 72 | 80 | 76 | 67 | | | Rybalkin | Aleksey | RUS | 30 | 75 | 73 | 78 | 77 | 69 | | | Skujins | Toms | LAT | 32 | 70 | 83 | 80 | 77 | 76 | | | Strakhov | Dmitry | RUS | 28 | 70 | 78 | 77 | 76 | 70 | | | Tikhonin | Evgenii | RUS | 25 | 67 | 75 | 73 | 72 | 74 | | | Trakhov | Dmitry | RUS | 28 | 69 | 79 | 78 | 74 | 75 | |
The Latvian Toms Skujins is leading Tinkoff - La Datcha Team. He has done well here in the past, on the podium in 2016 and 2018.
After that the results decreased with a 6th, 11th and 19th place. This year seems to be the last chance to go for the podium again.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Bystrom | Sven Erik | NOR | 31 | 68 | 79 | 75 | 72 | 76 | | | Calmejane | Lilian | FRA | 31 | 71 | 77 | 73 | 76 | 76 | | | Munoz | Cristian | COL | 27 | 77 | 73 | 67 | 69 | 70 | | | Murn | Bostjan | FRA | 22 | 66 | 65 | 71 | 72 | 66 | | | Pibernik | Luka | SLO | 30 | 65 | 76 | 76 | 68 | 74 | | | Senyenov | Roman | KAZ | 30 | 62 | 77 | 68 | 73 | 73 | | | Sobrero | Matteo | ITA | 26 | 69 | 71 | 67 | 72 | 69 | | | Waeytens | Zico | BEL | 32 | 71 | 80 | 72 | 70 | 73 | |
The last wildcard team is Trans Looney Tunes. They will count on Sven Erik Bystrom and Lilian Calmejane as leaders.
Maybe Zico Waeytens can ignite his home fans with a early attack.
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MT | HI | ST | RS | AC | |  Borges | Bruno | POR | 32 | 70 | 80 | 75 | 73 | 81 | | | De La Cruz Chapulin | Luis Fernando | MEX | 23 | 66 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 73 | | | Fernandez | Ruben | ESP | 32 | 75 | 75 | 72 | 69 | 66 | | | Finkler | Leonardo Henrique | BRA | 24 | 68 | 75 | 74 | 70 | 73 | | | Mas | Enric | ESP | 28 | 78 | 77 | 74 | 74 | 77 | | | Miquel | Pau | ESP | 23 | 67 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 67 | | | Sam | Henry Alberto | GUA | 24 | 65 | 66 | 72 | 71 | 69 | | | Vandevelde | Yentl | BEL | 23 | 58 | 63 | 68 | 69 | 65 | |
ZARA - Irizar concludes this preview. The Spanish team looks to Bruno Borges and Enric Mas to shine.
Based on the previous results, top-25 should be a realistic goal for both of them.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 18-01-2024 07:25
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It's time. Let's go MAL!
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Posted on 18-01-2024 07:27
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By far the most important classic of the year. I cant explain how much id love a victory here. Chasing this one for years...
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| ember |
Posted on 18-01-2024 07:31
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Very extensive preview, thank you!
Mohoric was brilliant in the Ardennes last season. Amstel showed it will be more difficult this season, which is expected with the world class fields being around. The goal must be a top 10, but also hoping for more. Amezawa is our wildcard here, who hopefully gives us some minor depth points, similar to his 25th place last year.
Looking forward to this one, should be a thriller looking at the startlist! |
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 18-01-2024 07:56
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Go go Lutsenko
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 18-01-2024 08:02
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We need another top 10 from Formolo here
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Posted on 18-01-2024 08:43
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Let's go Evonik!!
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| redordead |
Posted on 18-01-2024 10:40
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Laurens147 wrote:
Slovenia-based Cedevita leans on David Gaudu in this race. He finished top-20 in both Grand-Duché and Amstel.
That looks like a reasonable goal for LBL as well.
Rinse and repeat 
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 18-01-2024 14:37
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Theoretically I think LBL favors Aranburu more than Amstel, though it will be extremely difficult to outdo his 7th place there. A top 10 would be fantastic, a top 20 is necessary. The higher the better, obviously considering the monument scoring scale matters more. These are races where we don't expect much, so any time we can steal some points above our projection, it gives us headway in the relegation fight.
Thanks for the preview!
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| SotD |
Posted on 18-01-2024 20:36
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I have zero faith in Koretzky anymore. It seems as if the game version is absolutely no good with his stat combo. Maybe Spanopoulos or Soulious Can get a top 20 on a good day.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 18-01-2024 20:51
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Kinoshita back-to-back. It has to be
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Posted on 18-01-2024 22:36
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Hopefully Gidich can shine here as well, as this is also a goal race. I brought quite a strong support squad with Sosa and Quita. Thanks for the preview! |
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Posted on 19-01-2024 18:51
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Another horrible Koretzky performance. Once more he is at the level of Soulious who's a domestique.
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Posted on 19-01-2024 19:09
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Thanks for a great report!
Sucks that MAL once again misses here, but he tried. Lovely to see that JPH gets his win after he basically restructured his entire team this transfer season to get De Bie!
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Posted on 19-01-2024 19:15
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Ah shit. Guess i at least achieved the goal here but Lopez once again played the final badly by attacking way too early. 7th is really not that good.
Congrats jph!
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 19-01-2024 19:27
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Very happy with Formolo's result and it could have been even better given how close that finale was. Not so happy when I realize someone who is probably going to be one of our relegation battle rivals got the win. Congrats, jph!
Good to see Gerts somewhat in the mix as well with a top 20 finish. A rare occurrence for him in the hills this season. Remco and Champoussin didn't score too well, but it looks like they played a crucial role in helping Formolo to that 4th place so definitely happy with that as well.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 19-01-2024 19:58
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Kinoshita with a decent result but obviously not the big result we need at this point in the season.
Congrats on the win jph and thanks for the report kandesbunzler!
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| ember |
Posted on 19-01-2024 21:16
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Mohoric seemed to be quite active relatively early in the finale, marking a couple of the big moves. Very happy with that, but it clearly cost him coming to the sprint, as he had nothing left, it seemed. 12th is disappointing, while 17th for Amezawa and being with the group of favourites, was better than expected.
Congratulations on the win, jph! Straight out of the relegation zone, I guess! Skujins in 2nd place definitely shows Mohoric was in with a fighting chance for the podium, but not meant to be this time around. |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 19-01-2024 22:15
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Aranburu looked good for a while but fell off at the end. I guess ultimately almost all of the riders ahead of him are better on paper, so hard to really complain. The lack of depth on the monument points scale isn't great for us, but that's just the reality of the lineup we sent.
Congrats to jph and thanks for the report!
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Posted on 20-01-2024 02:25
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Really happy with 8th from Borges all things considered. He's got the kick to deliver in these sorts of finishes but he's not the strongest pure Puncheur compared to the others in the Top 10. His best result of the season so far. Mas outside the Top 30 is a little disappointing but still a few points.
Thanks for the report and congrats to jph on the win!
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