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Cheshire Cycling Tour Discussion
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Posted on 02-11-2026 20:30
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| ryant |
Posted on 01-11-2026 23:10
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Ballerini showing his sprinting skills well! 2nd is more than expected considering this is very much a throwaway race for us here. Shame he couldn't hang at the front on the tough cobbles although that is not unexpected.
Just have to keep showing up in the breaks and see what happens! Congrats to Ovsyannikov for a deserved win!
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 02-11-2026 00:45
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Tough race for us so far. Pedersen is around, but just not performing at all like someone who should be an overall favorite. A top 5 on this stage is good in isolation, but not really enough at this point. All we can hope is that tomorrow ends up being more selective than what we've seen so far, and he has good daily form. Otherwise it will be a very disappointing result to be in the lower half of the top 10.
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Posted on 02-11-2026 05:48
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Adria leading out ovsya for the victory. What a beautiful thing to witness!
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| Heine |
Posted on 02-11-2026 06:22
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And PCT keep doing well.  I need PT to show their strenght here! Can't let PCT managers get more points now
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 02-11-2026 07:19
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The gamble to bring Major is paying out tenfold
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 02-11-2026 08:39
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Going from good to good-ish at best to actively bad through the three stages so far. On paper, following Pedersen would be a decent move, but looks like the Carlsberg train didn't have enough juice to be close enough to the front, and then Bini seems to have gotten completely blocked around the 1km mark. No bonus seconds at all is very unfortunate.
Still, 4th place in the GC is still within the Top 5 goal, so I won't complain (yet  ). No idea how tomorrow's stage is going to play out, if it's going to be unselective or Viana-style carnage. I guess I want to hope for the former, lose at most one place to Pedersen and be happy. We'll see.
Thanks for another nice report and congrats lief, Ovsyannikov looks really strong!
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 02-11-2026 08:45
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 02-11-2026 09:54
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Solid if not spectacular here weirdly Lap did the job on the hardest stage but then has been blocked badly on both sprints which has hurt his overall but we've had a strong GC overall team wise looks like its only going to be an okay result here and a lot less then was possible but looking at how some teams have been given here its more then fine.
P.S race hasn't worked like me and UU expected from testing will be looked at having a few tweaks going forward |
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 02-11-2026 13:12
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Stewart really doesn't ride as I was expecting him to... He cared even less about the sprint than on day 1 (112th on the day...), even risking to be gapped. He should have at least tried - but I guess sending Christen here was a pretty bad choice, looks like he got the sprinter role instead of Stewart despite being slower...
Fortunately, Sommer was attentive and has now moved up to 13th, guess we'll have to be riding for him on the last day now. The hill looks pretty steep, so perfect terrain for Stewart - but it might be just too far away from the finish to do any damage. If both cobblers make the front group and end up inside the Top 20, I'll happily take it.
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| ember |
Posted on 02-11-2026 14:24
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The way this race played out, I definitely regret not sending De Lie here. Feared he could run away with the stage win on stage 1, and then force Anderberg into domestiquing on what looked to be a super difficult stage 2.
Happy to have both Anderberg and Eekhoff safe through stage 3, though! Both might drop a bit in the GC on the final stage if it comes down to a sprint due to bonuses, but if we end up with two riders in the top 10, we can only be happy, I think. Alternatively, Anderberg is on a monster day and wins both the stage and the GC solo  |
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