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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Pascal Ackermann celebrates a 2nd stage victory after a great leadout by Fred Wright to make it a 1-2 for Cedevita on stage 14
Tadej Valjavec:
Our main focus was on week 1 and week 2. We were able to get 2nd place from Fred on stage 2, but we felt we didn't really get enough from the 1st week. We had stage 8 marked as a big opportunity, but it proved to be too hard in the end. So at that point things looked pretty bleak. But then we took advantage of a somewhat passive peloton to finally score that big result by winning stage 12. Followed it up again on stage 14 and then Sergio had a big day in week 3 in the mountains for a 4th place. Great job by the lads persevering through and finishing the race strongly!
Race score: 10/10
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This is the July update which means Tour de France time, but two other races were raced before that. Rund um Koln was a good chance for Jasper Philipsen to score a decent amount of points, but a botched leadout left us going home with crumbs. Clasica San Sebastian was a non event for us as is any race with Schlegel in it. So we finally get to the Tour. Too bad we didn't have a stage win goal for it, because Pascal Ackermann came away with two of them, becoming the first Cedevita rider with multiple Grand Tour stage wins.
Due to a good team performance at the Tour de France we were able to maintain our mid table position in the ranking. In terms of relegation we look fairly safe, but the prospects of moving up look slim.
Team Individual Ranking
Pos
Last
Rider
Total (finish)
RD
PpRD
Proj.
21
14
Ivan Siric
854 (0)
23
37.13
1856
23
15
Tadej Pogacar
834 (5)
35
23.83
881
42
83
Pascal Ackermann
590 (20)
58
10.17
590
56
43
Jasper Philipsen
477 (10)
23
20.73
1016
116
155
Fred Wright
245 (35)
68
3.60
266
136
119
Bachirou Nikiema
194 (25)
57
3.40
228
186
153
Michal Schlegel
141 (10)
34
4.15
236
206
349
Sergio Chumil
126 (10)
61
2.07
173
205
213
Matic Groselj
126 (28)
64
1.97
145
210
305
Husein Selimovic
123 (40)
78
1.58
132
268
231
Martin Papanov
89 (0)
49
1.82
127
281
280
Veljko Stojnic
84 (55)
73
1.15
88
296
259
Yevgeniy Fedorov
81 (30)
45
1.80
133
324
346
Gerben Kuypers
72 (70)
62
1.16
87
333
295
Dorde Duric
70 (50)
40
1.75
96
344
284
Miha Poljanec
67 (35)
44
1.52
118
348
408
Kristjan Hocevar
66 (15)
68
0.97
67
360
333
Logan Currie
64 (35)
48
1.34
78
373
319
Izidor Penko
61 (45)
41
1.49
108
377
353
Eric Antonio Fagundez
60 (60)
54
1.11
78
378
382
Matic Zumer
60 (30)
56
1.07
71
Bostjan Mervar,
team representative and general manager of Cedevita
Pascal delivering in a way we all always want him to but often hasn't in his career. Not a bigger stage to do it on and always awesome to come out of a lower-expectations GT with plenty to shout about and a surplus of points relative to expectations
I see you say Tadej is incompetent now, does that mean you want him taking off your hands?
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