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| Eden95 |
Posted on 28-02-2026 11:18
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Funny little stage, no surprise time loss is nice. Congrats Alex on the win, Aniolkowski is having a great season. Thank you very much for the report!
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| knockout |
Posted on 28-02-2026 12:02
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Excellent stage for us. Adria and Ansons with great positioning (possibly at least partly due to the presence of Lecuisinier). Gettting some nice points here and Anons even sits in 3rd of the GC for now.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 28-02-2026 14:40
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Skjelmose losing more time. It's clear the game doesn't see him as someone worth protecting, so we can expect it will just get worse. Very disappointing.
Also saw Sulvaran on the front at some point but no idea who is was working for. Rodenberg was nowhere close to the lead group and Gregaard has already lost time too.
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Posted on 02-03-2026 22:02
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 28-02-2026 17:30
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Surprised to see Aniolkowski dropped in the yellow jersey while Kooij and Bloem finished in the front group.
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 28-02-2026 19:23
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Savage first stage. Shame Leknessund lost a minute there, but others were hit even worse.
Stage two and three were pretty entertaining. We hardly played a role though.
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| ember |
Posted on 28-02-2026 21:00
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Romo and JP Lopez being active is cool. Not sure how Romo should try instead, as it looks difficult for him to make something work in his favour on these easier hilly stages.
Fun result, really, with 4 Evonik riders top 10 and 6 King Power riders top 16  Congratulations on another win, ryant! A wonderful start to the Tour, having both Cullaigh and Yates win early. |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 01-03-2026 11:34
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why are we not protecting our gc leader urgh
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 01-03-2026 12:25
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Mixed feelings taking a stage win by zabelling someone, but can't be unhappy when we have claimed our second stage win in four stages 
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| SotD |
Posted on 01-03-2026 13:18
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Happy Boutopoulos had a good first tage, because we have been utter shit since then. We put a random rider in the break every day, but everyone just sits up.
Oh Well, if We Can keep putting riders in the break I guess there’s a chance that we will eventually get a decent result.
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| knockout |
Posted on 01-03-2026 14:16
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S4 didnt end up mattering much for us without crucial gc gaps for us or significant stage results so i guess im happy Ansons defends 3rd for a bit longer and Lecuisinier gathers a tiny amount of sprint points
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 01-03-2026 15:29
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Bagioli 
Fun stage, not great for some of the GC guys but gaps weren't huge and it was mostly the less punchy guys.
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| ember |
Posted on 01-03-2026 17:57
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Rabobank always fonds a way  Congratulations again, alex! Better from Romo, being second best from the peloton. Got my hopes up when I saw him saving energy, unfortunately the guys up front were too strong
Thank you again for the report and the consistent pace, Imladrik |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 01-03-2026 19:58
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Really not sure what my team is doing here at the moment. We're not working for anyone in particular but also not joining the breaks. I guess we'll see if the TTT clears anything up.
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 01-03-2026 22:01
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Cool to see Formolo winning a TdF stage! Still love the guy. Congrats!
Not ideal that our entire team got dropped from the first big group, but at least most of us were in the second big group.
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| Eden95 |
Posted on 02-03-2026 06:51
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A few nothing stages for us, good to see Stüssi hanging about.
Congrats Alex, what a year for your team so far! Thanks for the reports.
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 02-03-2026 07:13
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Didn't expect much from the hilly stages and didn't get anything. Hoping for a solid TTT at least.
Congrats to the winners so far and thanks for the reports!
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| OlegTinkov |
Posted on 02-03-2026 07:13
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Congratulations to ryant and alexkr00; 2 out of 4 for both of them with different riders that's great. Would be great if we can take yellow tomorrow during the Team Time Trial, but looking at the other TTT's this year (Tirreno/Slovenie) the time differences tends to be too small for that to happen.
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| redordead |
Posted on 02-03-2026 07:35
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Two 2nd places in the opening 4 stages is about as good as we could've hoped for. Ackermann adds some points by being 2nd in GC so I can at least say that sending him here wasn't a planning mistake.
If we can get 1-2 more good stage results then this should be a reasonable race for us given our low expactations.
Thanks for the reports Imladrik 
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 02-03-2026 09:01
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Thank you for the great reports!
Higuita way more passive than I hoped for, definitely on the harder stage two. Decent in GC so far because of the strange splits, but that's not really what we came for
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| roturn |
Posted on 02-03-2026 17:18
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Phinney doing pretty well here.
Unfortunately not in his prime anymore obviously resulting in ~1 min loss on the hills and once not being attentive and dropped but luckily made it back. (Different to Lecuisinier, which never should happen in any PCM really, really tough for knockout, in especially in a GT spending 50+% of the race days)
The team around him is rather weak to be fair as it's a TTT focused squad maximizing Phinneys chances of a decent GC. Vanhoucke might have too much to do as mountain helper and likely won't get much for his own chances.
Congrats to the early winners and looking forward on the next stages.
Thanks for the huge burden of doing GT reporting. It can be really fun seeing scenarios over 21 stages but can also have some weird things happening. |
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