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Tour d'Andorra - Discussion
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 19-03-2026 22:44
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Good podium place from Bennett. Really though there could have been a better result but I have to be happy with a podium place after the race so far. Hopefully the last 2 stages can also give us some good strong points!
Congrats Specialized on the win and thanks for the report!
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Posted on 21-03-2026 20:03
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 19-03-2026 23:18
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Hanging on to the yellow jersey was nice, will lose tomorrow but the time gaps to the other guys make me hope he won't drop too far in the GC. Last stage is 230k, who knows what happens on that.
Congrats to WJ and sympathy to Caspi that was a painfully small gap.
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 20-03-2026 07:27
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Congrats to all the winners 
A complete disaster for us, but hey, that's how the cookie crumbles.
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| ivaneurope |
Posted on 20-03-2026 08:00
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Novak's chance at GC win has evaporated with this MTT finish. Top 5 is still in reach, but not likely
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| Heine |
Posted on 20-03-2026 08:44
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Such a strong field... Hope Galta can steal some time and get back in top 10 or even higher, but this looks hard
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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 20-03-2026 09:15
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Still 7th and 17th in GC, very solid so far Thanks alex for the reports!
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 20-03-2026 10:21
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We're having the most anonymous 15th place GC ride ever
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| jph27 |
Posted on 20-03-2026 12:52
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Given the lack of climbers on my roster, would have taken a top 20 on GC, a stage top 5 and a minor KoM placing to avoid a zero-pointer. With one stage to go that seems possible, have to hope Burke makes the break again, hopefully with a bit more success in the finale if it succeeds. |
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 20-03-2026 17:59
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Wanna chime in and say that these reports have been great so far. As someone that has reported Andorra before I know that this stage can be a drag to report so thanks for sticking through and providing a quality report!
Almeida looking good for MOL and Inkelaar and Barguil seems to be in spots now for us to secure a bit of depth points, looking forward to tomorrow's stage!
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 20-03-2026 18:36
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Reis is usually good a MTTs so this stage result is completely expected. Just a shame the previous stages went wrong
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| seancoll |
Posted on 20-03-2026 18:58
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Great reports so far! Glad Eastman was able to have a great result in there even though the rest of the race hasn't been amazing for him.
Excited for the final stage!
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 20-03-2026 22:43
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Oof, not a good day clearly went out too hard. Although the losses to Amezawa and Novak were pretty small, the big surprise is the minute lost to Padun, who must have been on a very good day or maybe his better MT is important here. But luckily for us a bad day was a 1 minute loss not a 3 minute loss.
Think there could be huge gaps tomorrow so can't afford to be that weak again.
Agree with WJ, mountain stages like this are the most time consuming to report so thanks to Alex (particularly since Alex took the race after I asked to do Euskal).
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 21-03-2026 06:33
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Thanks for the set of nice reports, alex! Congrats to all who did well here, especially jaxika and sammy (although Misbah clearly didn't make friends in the peloton with his tactics today).
For us the race was a disappointment with Ranaweera mostly outside of the stage top 10s and then losing much time in the final stage to also clearly miss out on our team goal as well as no one joining any breaks at all.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 21-03-2026 06:54
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Thanks Alex for the reports and congrats jaxika on the win.
The team used the final stage as a training ride. Didn't expect anything less but if Vosekalns would have made the breakaway or Reis at least tried to climb at an acceptable pace we would have been less unhappy
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| jaxika |
Posted on 21-03-2026 08:31
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Thanks for the great reports.
Finally, Almeida made a race close to expectations. It was our win goal race, so im very happy. |
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| seancoll |
Posted on 21-03-2026 11:40
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Super fun race to watch the full way through - I've always been a fan of Misbah and great to see him rewarded for a final day attack.
Great race by Almeida as well post training!
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 21-03-2026 13:17
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Like Benelux left with mixed feelings by a rather disappointing ending. One of Sosa's issues is he doesn't have many opportunities to use his strong recovery, clearly didn't help him over 5 days.
But stepping back, before the race I would definitely have taken 3rd, a stage win and multiple days in jerseys. Luckily for us Sosa's good days were more decisive than his bad days and being the best of the rest after the two strongest climbers is an excellent outcome.
Also given Padun's performance the MT stat clearly played here much more than secondaries despite the 230k.
Thanks to Alex for the great reports, Congrats to Jaxika on a well earned win.
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Congrats to Sammy on turning that around.
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| Caspi |
Posted on 21-03-2026 17:16
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Ulrich Ulriksen wrote:
But stepping back, before the race I would definitely have taken 3rd, a stage win and multiple days in jerseys. Luckily for us Sosa's good days were more decisive than his bad days and being the best of the rest after the two strongest climbers is an excellent outcome.
Great race from Sosa I think
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| Caspi |
Posted on 21-03-2026 17:20
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Carapaz spending energy on the MTT. Not smart.
On the other hand, it shows that he could probably have finished around 15th in the GC if he had tried.
With no one from us joining the breakaway on the last stage, we end on a low.
Luckily Carpenter ensured that we didn't leave completely empty-handed.
Thanks for the reports!
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