From 5th to 9th and from 9th to 14th. Now we have to make sure we don't fall beneath 17th. Most of our points were scored by Jasper Philipsen while Tadej Pogacar continues to show he is not a competent leader in PCM24. Herbiers and the Dauphine were non-events in terms of scoring as we lacked the riders for those races. With the Tour de France coming up we have to hope for some luck there otherwise relegation looks like a more serious proposition.
Team Individual Ranking
Pos
Last
Rider
Total (finish)
RD
PpRD
Proj.
14
9
Ivan Siric
854 (0)
23
37.13
1856
15
12
Tadej Pogacar
834 (5)
35
23.83
881
43
57
Jasper Philipsen
451 (10)
21
21.48
1052
83
72
Pascal Ackermann
283 (10)
37
7.65
433
119
101
Bachirou Nikiema
194 (25)
55
3.53
236
153
158
Michal Schlegel
139 (10)
32
4.34
247
155
136
Fred Wright
135 (25)
47
2.87
212
213
226
Matic Groselj
97 (28)
62
1.57
116
231
213
Martin Papanov
89 (0)
49
1.82
127
259
229
Yevgeniy Fedorov
76 (25)
41
1.85
137
280
264
Veljko Stojnic
69 (40)
50
1.38
106
284
251
Miha Poljanec
67 (35)
42
1.60
124
295
305
Dorde Duric
65 (45)
36
1.81
99
305
273
Husein Selimovic
63 (30)
59
1.07
89
319
387
Izidor Penko
61 (45)
39
1.56
114
333
363
Logan Currie
59 (30)
44
1.34
79
346
319
Gerben Kuypers
57 (55)
36
1.30
97
349
300
Sergio Chumil
56 (10)
43
1.40
117
353
326
Eric Antonio Fagundez
55 (55)
43
1.28
90
382
388
Matic Zumer
50 (20)
35
1.43
95
408
411
Kristjan Hocevar
46 (15)
47
0.98
68
Bostjan Mervar,
team representative and general manager of Cedevita
With 650 points to the relegation line I feel like it would still be a relatively big surprise to see you go down. Despite a drop in position, you did gain 100 points on the relegation line from the last update - where also a team like Puma was below the line.
Now we have a realistic estimate of teams that could relegate all below the line, while you keep chipping away points from the dangerzone.
Pogacar indeed has been underwhelming, but I don't think +800 points is where we can conclude that he won't be a good leader in the future, although it does seem pretty random whether a rider is 81 or 85 MO in terms of succes, which is very frustrating indeed.
Luckily the riders you are relying on seems to be working well enought to keep a solid projected pointharvest. All of Siric, Philipsen and Ackermann seems to work from decent to good. Schlegel should probably have done more though.
We tried to make a lead out train, but we botched it completely. Matic usually does a good job, not on this occasion though. In the end it wasn't much of a sprint, just damage limitation to score as many points as possible. We need a better train next time otherwise we'll just be sabotaging Jasper again.
Race score: 4/10
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