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Volta a Portugal Discussion

AbhishekLFC

Posted on 16-11-2020 04:30

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Volta a Portugal Preview

Race Profile

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The Volta a Portugal is back, with a new route, a new duration and a new place on the calendar. The race remains in the PTHC category, and is expected to once again favour the climbers who can tackle the hills well. There is something for everyone in this race though, unless you specialize on the cobbles. The race starts with a Prologue, followed by two sprint stages, which are anything but regulation flat stages. Then there are four hilly stages followed by a hard mountain stage with a mountain top finish. The race rounds out with a moderate length ITT, which could turn the GC around on the last day!

Favourites

	MON	HIL	TT	STA	RES	REC	ACC	DHL
Gesink	81	79	78	75	77	77	65	64
Pluchkin	84	74	78	77	77	77	73	65
Lopez	79	82	71	76	74	74	78	71
Kudus	82	77	72	79	77	79	70	67
Meintjes	80	78	71	77	76	78	69	74
Oomen	80	75	74	78	77	78	69	68
Talansky	79	77	72	75	76	77	69	66
Choi	80	74	75	77	76	79	68	71
Sagan	74	83	68	78	74	70	76	78
Carthy	81	75	67	77	76	78	69	65
Latour	79	75	70	80	78	80	74	73
Bennett	81	76	65	75	74	79	73	63

With a perfect combination of climbing and time-trialing abilities, pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/duo.png

Gesink looks to be the top favourite for this race. Not far behind him, with better mountain skills and lower hills abilities is pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/p4e.png

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Pluchkin, and these two look like the ones to be fighting for the win in this race.

Running them close should be pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/evo.png

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Lopez, who only needed to be a little better against the clock to be ranked higher in the favourites list!

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Kudus and defending champion pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/yor.png

Meintjes look like the other top contenders for the podium. Both riders are excellent all-round climbers, with slight weaknesses against the clock. pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/rpn.png

Kudus and

Repsol will be looking to start off their season on a high.

The next lot of pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/lpu.png

Oomen,

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Talansky,

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Choi,

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Sagan,

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Carthy,

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Latour and pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/xr0.png

Bennett are very closely matched and it is anyone's guess how they will end up in the final classification.

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Sagan is the only pure puncher to feature in our favourite's list!

Outsiders

	MON	HIL	TT	STA	RES	REC	ACC	DHL
Penasa	80	74	70	75	72	77	76	64
Bobridge	69	83	77	74	74	69	80	66
Tvetcov	77	75	74	72	71	76	73	64
Senni	77	73	74	76	79	76	72	73
Karnulin	78	74	70	76	75	77	70	73
Smith	78	75	68	72	74	75	74	71
Brenes	79	73	69	73	80	70	70	65
Brambilla	78	75	69	74	72	74	62	69
Henao Montoya	81	70	70	74	78	75	72	61
Intxausti	80	69	75	75	75	72	67	62
Warchol	78	74	67	76	77	73	70	68
Squire	77	77	65	70	70	76	71	65

The list of outsiders mostly consists of riders who are strong in two of the three prime abilities for this, with one weakness. pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/bnm.png

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Bobridge needs a mention as the other pure puncher to make it into one of the lists.

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Henao Montoya and pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/zal.png

Intxausti are the best climbers in this group but their other abilities push them down the pecking order.

Expect some or many of these riders to go into breaks in the second half of this race, in case they fall down the standings early on.

Top Climbers

	MON	HIL	RES	ACC
Pluchkin	84	74	77	73
Kudus	82	77	77	70
Gesink	81	79	77	65
Carthy	81	75	76	69
Bennett	81	76	74	73
Henao Montoya	81	70	78	72
Meintjes	80	78	76	69
Oomen	80	75	77	69
Choi	80	74	76	68
Penasa	80	74	72	76
Intxausti	80	69	75	67

Pluchkin is by far the best climber in this race, and will hope to use his advantage to leave the better punchers behind on Stage 8. All of pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/rpn.png

Kudus,

Gesink,

Carthy,

Bennett,

Oomen and

Meintjes are more than capable on the shorter climbs as well.

Top Punchers

	MON	HIL	RES	ACC
Sagan	74	83	74	76
Bobridge	69	83	74	80
Lopez	79	82	74	78
Betancourt	73	80	71	74
Waeytens	71	80	70	73
Gesink	81	79	77	65
Gautier	67	79	71	76
Meintjes	80	78	76	69
De Plus	76	78	73	72
Teuns	75	78	73	72
Siskevicius	73	78	72	75
Bellis	68	78	71	75

Sagan and

Bobridge are the best punchers in the race with the former able to hang on with the groups on the harder mountains too.

While pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/evo.png

Lopez,

Gesink and pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/yor.png

Meintjes are serious contenders, the likes of pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/mol.png

Waeytens and pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/pol.png

Betancourt will be hoping to use the four hills stages to pull off good results.

Time-Trial Specialists

	FLA	TT
Lammertink	74	80
Viennet	72	80
Mottin	69	79
Nareklishvili	74	78
Pluchkin	73	78
Hofer	73	78
Leung	73	78
Gesink	71	78
Bobridge	73	77
Postlberger	73	77
Hussein	68	77

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Lammertink and pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/pol.png

Viennet look to be favourites for the final stage time-trial, if they survive that long. Watch out for pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/zal.png

Hofer as he has a innate tendency to over-perform.

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Pluchkin and pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/duo.png

Gesink could be fighting it out for top spot when this stage comes around. They will surely be aiming to gain ground on their rivals on this stage.

Top Sprinters

	FLA	HIL	RES	SPR	ACC
Nelson	72	60	64	81	81
Kupfernagel	74	64	66	80	80
Goss	72	65	68	80	75
Granjel Cabrera	74	68	69	79	75
Awang	64	52	62	79	83
Mareczko	74	61	73	78	77
Bar	77	70	72	77	76
Kamberaj	74	69	73	77	76
Dzervus	73	66	72	77	77
Ackermann	72	77	71	77	80
Theuns	72	74	73	77	76
Boudat	71	68	72	77	76
Tivani	70	66	78	77	78

Nelson is the fastest rider in the race, but his abilities are not well suited for all the bumps on the flat rated stages. This could swing the advantage towards pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/bgc.png

Kupfernagel, pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/ino.png

Goss or even pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/mos.png

Granjel Cabrera.

The likes of pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/p4e.png

Ackermann and pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/gen.png

Theuns are interesting because of their ability to better handle the profiles in this race.

Prologue Specialists

	FLA	HIL	PRL
Chavanne	75	64	82
Leung	73	64	82
Stoltz	80	68	80
Viennet	72	67	80
Lammertink	74	69	79
Schomber	72	58	79
Mottin	69	61	79
Pluchkin	73	74	78
Hofer	73	65	78
Gesink	71	79	78

Our first view of the Prologue double-punch of pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/evo.png

Evonik in the form of pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/evo.png

Stoltz and pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/evo.png

Chavanne.

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Leung is good enough to spoil their party though!

There is a slight uphill finish in the Prologue and this could play into the hands of either pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/p4e.png

Pluchkin and pcmdaily.com/images/mg/2020/Micros/duo.png

Gesink, and give them an opportunity to perhaps lead the race from start to finish!

Startlist

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Last Name	First Name	Team
Awang	Azizulhasni	Andorra Cycling Project
Hirschlein	Ole	Andorra Cycling Project
Tizza	Marco	Andorra Cycling Project
Majoral	Jordi	Andorra Cycling Project
Townsend	Rory	Andorra Cycling Project
Urcelay	Adria	Andorra Cycling Project
Squire	Robbie	Azteca - NBCSN
Tivani	German Nicolas	Azteca - NBCSN
Duarte	Fabio	Azteca - NBCSN
Martins Sandoval	Uri	Azteca - NBCSN
Mora	Ernesto	Azteca - NBCSN
Roberge	Adam	Azteca - NBCSN
Florez	Miguel	Azteca - NBCSN
Alba	Juan Diego	Azteca - NBCSN
Bobridge	Jack	Bennelong - Mitchelton
Power	Robert	Bennelong - Mitchelton
Lane	Patrick	Bennelong - Mitchelton
McCormick	Hayden	Bennelong - Mitchelton
Hamilton	Chris	Bennelong - Mitchelton
Gunman	Taylor	Bennelong - Mitchelton
Harper	Chris	Bennelong - Mitchelton
Phelan	Adam	Bennelong - Mitchelton
Henao Montoya	Sergio Luis	Berg Cycles
Kupfernagel	Danilo	Berg Cycles
Bartl	David	Berg Cycles
Destribois	Alex Ariya	Berg Cycles
Aular	Orluis	Berg Cycles
Antunes	Amaro	Berg Cycles
Ignatenko	Petr	Berg Cycles
Almeida	Joao	Berg Cycles
Meintjes	Louis	cycleYorkshire
Bellis	Jonathan	cycleYorkshire
Bar	Jocelyn	cycleYorkshire
Kennaugh	Tim	cycleYorkshire
Boudat	Thomas	cycleYorkshire
Crncevic	Aleksa	cycleYorkshire
Munoz	Daniel	cycleYorkshire
Hennessy	Jacob	cycleYorkshire
Intxausti	Benat	DK - SVA Zalgiris
Siskevicius	Evaldas	DK - SVA Zalgiris
Nareklishvili	Giorgi	DK - SVA Zalgiris
Krizek	Matthias	DK - SVA Zalgiris
RÃ¤im	Mihkel	DK - SVA Zalgiris
Dzervus	Darijus	DK - SVA Zalgiris
Hofer	Andreas	DK - SVA Zalgiris
Gesink	Robert	Duolingo
Goh	Choon Huat	Duolingo
Min	Kyeng Ho	Duolingo
Hiratsuka	Yoshimitsu	Duolingo
Barbio	Antonio	Duolingo
Oliveira	Rui	Duolingo
Bagioli	Nicola	Duolingo
Rachid	Elias Abou	Duolingo
Lammertink	Steven	eBuddy
Aru	Fabio	eBuddy
Brambilla	Gianluca	eBuddy
Lampaert	Yves	eBuddy
Rodriguez	Oscar	eBuddy
Tolhoek	Antwan	eBuddy
Hofstede	Lennard	eBuddy
Lopez	Miguel Angel	Evonik - ELKO
Dzamastagic	Mark	Evonik - ELKO
Tvetcov	Serghei	Evonik - ELKO
Vosekalns	Andris	Evonik - ELKO
Mas	Enric	Evonik - ELKO
Marzuki	Nur Amirul	Evonik - ELKO
Chavanne	Gabriel	Evonik - ELKO
Stoltz	Yannick	Evonik - ELKO
Carthy	Hugh	Farfetch Pro Cycling
Guerreiro	Ruben	Farfetch Pro Cycling
Figueiredo	Frederico	Farfetch Pro Cycling
Kamberaj	Xhuliano	Farfetch Pro Cycling
De Bod	Stefan	Farfetch Pro Cycling
Goncalves	Gaspar	Farfetch Pro Cycling
Cras	Steff	Farfetch Pro Cycling
Vysna	Matej	Gazelle
Karnulin	Denys	Gazelle
Furdi	Blaz	Gazelle
Tratnik	Jan	Gazelle
Konrad	Patrick	Gazelle
Hofland	Moreno	Gazelle
Carcueva	Jonel	Gazelle
Arslanov	Ildar	Gazelle
Theuns	Edward	Generali
Talansky	Andrew	Generali
Teuns	Dylan	Generali
Masnada	Fausto	Generali
Sequera	Pedro	Generali
Dyball	Benjamin	Generali
Rodrigues	Joao	Generali
Bouchard	Geoffrey	Generali
Brenes	Gregory	Indosat Ooredoo
Warchol	Bartosz	Indosat Ooredoo
Elissonde	Kenny	Indosat Ooredoo
Goss	Matthew	Indosat Ooredoo
Speirs	Isaac	Indosat Ooredoo
Luchshenko	Sergey	Indosat Ooredoo
Le Roux	Romain	Indosat Ooredoo
Xandri	Jan	Indosat Ooredoo
Azman	Muhamad Zawawi	King Power
Smith	Dion	King Power
Sirironnachai	Sarawut	King Power
Leung	Chun Wing	King Power
Boonratanathanakorn	Thurakit	King Power
Quita	Ronnilan	King Power
Nielsen	Joanis Albert	King Power
Revard	Thomas	King Power
Oomen	Sam	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
De Plus	Laurens	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
Senni	Manuel	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
Mareczko	Jakub	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
Kolar	Michael	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
Skjerping	Kristoffer	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
Choi	Ki Ho	MOL
Waeytens	Zico	MOL
Mudarra	Pablo	MOL
Hussein	Mujtaba	MOL
Kenyeres	Abel	MOL
Pereyra	Pedro Pablo	MOL
Matte	Charles	MOL
Dina	Marton	MOL
Sagan	Peter	Moser - Sygic
Granjel Cabrera	Raul	Moser - Sygic
Cerny	Josef	Moser - Sygic
McKenna	Sean	Moser - Sygic
SchÃ¶nberger	Sebastian	Moser - Sygic
Hosek	Josef	Moser - Sygic
Hnik	Karel	Moser - Sygic
Polnicky	Jiri	Moser - Sygic
Nelson	Ricki	Podium Ambition
Lilovski	Dobrin	Podium Ambition
Steimle	Jannik	Podium Ambition
Le Court	Kim	Podium Ambition
Lawless	Christopher	Podium Ambition
Vanderpool	Kristian	Podium Ambition
Betancourt	Carlos	Polar
Latour	Pierre	Polar
Soler	Marc	Polar
Bernal	Egan	Polar
Viennet	Emilien	Polar
De Luna	Flavio	Polar
Barthe	Cyril	Polar
Gougeard	Alexis	Polar
Kudus	Merhawi	Repsol - Netflix
Roson	Jaime	Repsol - Netflix
Herrada	Jesus	Repsol - Netflix
Barbero	Carlos	Repsol - Netflix
Pedrero	Antonio	Repsol - Netflix
Bernas	Pawel	Repsol - Netflix
Postlberger	Lukas	Repsol - Netflix
Valter	Attila	Repsol - Netflix
Ablenado	Aberlardo	Swisslion Cycling Team
Giogieri	Tyron	Swisslion Cycling Team
Gilanipoor	Abolfazl	Swisslion Cycling Team
Mottin	Hugues	Swisslion Cycling Team
Marin	Gabriel	Swisslion Cycling Team
Poljanec	Miha	Swisslion Cycling Team
Penko	Izidor	Swisslion Cycling Team
Christodoulos	Michael	Swisslion Cycling Team
Pluchkin	Aleksandr	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Ackermann	Pascal	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Andriafenomananiaina	Zouzou	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Bratashcuk	Andrii	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Kanepejs	Deins	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Tanovitchii	Nicolae	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Nitu	Adrian	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Rikunov	Petr	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Penasa	Pierre Paolo	Valio - Viking Genetics
Gautier	Cyril	Valio - Viking Genetics
Gebremedhin	Awet	Valio - Viking Genetics
Dulanjana	Sachin	Valio - Viking Genetics
Lehtinen	Sakari	Valio - Viking Genetics
Bergstrom Frisk	Hannes	Valio - Viking Genetics
HÃ¤nninen	Jaako	Valio - Viking Genetics
Bennett	George	Xero Racing
Schleck	Jordan	Xero Racing
Habtemichael	Daniel	Xero Racing
Waersted	Syver	Xero Racing
Nikiema	Bachirou	Xero Racing
Fouche	James	Xero Racing
Schomber	Nils	Xero Racing

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jandal7

Posted on 16-11-2020 05:29

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Ah not the field I wanted but the definitely the one I feared for our top 5 goal and Bennett's first 81 outing. Certainly not impossible especially if we take a good gap into the TT to guys like Latour, Talansky, Choi and Oomen (who we very well may not be ahead of anyway) but will be a hard task. Should be an entertaining race though

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Posted on 16-11-2020 06:37

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Apart from the TTs where I hope Mottin could squeeze out a couple of stage results. I want to see my team in the breakaway as much as possible

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Posted on 16-11-2020 08:32

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A slightly weakened squad due to triple clash, but it's fairly well balanced, Krizek should get at least 2 stage wins, minimum expectation is 6 stage wins total, should be doable.

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Posted on 16-11-2020 08:39

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I didnt expect a startlist this week tbh. Could be a golden race for Evonik as well as many PCT teams.

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Posted on 16-11-2020 08:55

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Im very excited going into this race.

I have one guy for pretty much every stage except the tt. Chavanne/Stoltz for the prologue, Dzamastagic for the tough flat stages and of course Lopez for everything else. As i wrote in my HQ, i would love to win the teams classification while Lopez is a top 3 GC candidate himself. Big ambitions for the race and the expectations are huge.

Fantastic preview btw!

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alexkr00

Posted on 16-11-2020 09:34

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Let's see if the game loves a declined Brambilla as well.

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Ollfardh

Posted on 16-11-2020 10:02

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All in all that's an ok startlist for us. Oomen is here with good support so hoping for some points!

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Posted on 16-11-2020 10:46

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A top 10 should be in the cards for Talansky, but what will decide if our race was decent is whether we can get more than a few riders in the top 30: Teuns, Dyball, Masnadas and Sequera should be able to grab a few points here and there. Our season doesn't certainly depend on this race, but if we want to improve upon last year's showing in the PT we need to start scoring just as consistently. Thanks for the preview Abhi!

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Posted on 16-11-2020 10:53

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Top5 Goal here. Only Pluchkin as a better climber in the race, which is a good thing, but several stronger puncheurs in the field. I think the Top5 is extremely likely, but we'll need the mountain stage to produce some gaps if we want to compete for the GC win.

Hopefully Barbero can get involved in some of the hard sprints? Doubt it, but it would be nice. And of course we can't forget about the MG debut of our next superstar Attila Valter. Too early and too tough competition most likely to get any point from U25 standings

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jph27

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Posted on 16-11-2020 11:07

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This is actually a stronger field than I expected, especially considering how weak the field was last season

For Carthy the aim has to be a top 10, with Gesink, Pluchkin, Lopez, Meintjes and Kudus clearly the favourites for the top 5 here. I think he may also struggle to beat Oomen and Choi given the TT at the end (although as it isn't pan flat the MO stat should hopefully come into play) and Latour (plus Talansky to an extent) are very much like Yates, who has always excelled here. So fighting for 10th with Bennett it is, just to annoy jandal

I wanted to send Van der Sande here but ran out of race days, which is a shame as he could potentially have been favourite for both sprint stages looking at this field. However Kamberaj should still be able to contend pretty well considering the other sprinters in the field. I'm also interested to see how Guerreiro and Figueiredo do in their home race, both of who should score us some good depth points behind Carthy.

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#12

Posted on 16-11-2020 15:21

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Our first goal of the season. Unfortunately this start list is much stronger than I expected, I was until the last day deciding between sending Montoya or Paulinho for this race. Unfortunately I think I made the wrong decision, Paulinho would be able to get a better result with the riders present. My hope is that the hills are not too hard and so Montoya will be able to make a difference on the mountain.
Kupfernagel should be able to be in the fight for stages 2 and 3 although it seems to me that these stages will not be discussed during the sprint.
As a former team rider and now being in our Duolingo friends, I would like to see Gesink win this race again.

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#13

Posted on 16-11-2020 16:16

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Yeah, Portugal

Was a great race to report last year!

A bit of a pity that stages 4 and 9 were removed; both were won by breakaways last year, and both would actually have been great chances for pure puncheurs. In my opinion, the course is even more climber-friendly than in 2019 (although the puncheurs didn't really use the two aforementioned stages to their full adavantage), with all these long final hills/climbs still in there.

I'm definitely looking forward to see how my loan-out Masnada can do here, after a pretty anonymous debut for Generali in Badaling. Thomas Boudat is here as well; he did a great prologue last year in the Philips shirt, let's see if he can repeat this wearing the Volvo jersey

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#14

Posted on 16-11-2020 20:33

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Quite a strong startlist. I hope Smith still can be competitive. Else I hope that my team will join some breaks for a change and Leung has his chance to redeem himself in the prologue for his underwhelming result in Qatar.

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Posted on 16-11-2020 21:04

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More accomplished riders here than I would have originally wanted here considering this is a win goal for us. Gesink is the outright favourite I'd imagine but I guess Lopez shouldn't be so far behind.

Meintjes could sneak in a podium but I'd be satisfied with a top 5 finish in the end.

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#16

Posted on 16-11-2020 23:26

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It's really uplifting to see Gesink so high in the favourits list. It would be great to take the win, but with Pluschkin and Lopez around it's bound to be a tough challenge.

It is going to be interesting either. Looking forward to it. Thanks for the amazing preview Abi!

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Posted on 16-11-2020 23:33

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jph27 wrote:
So fighting for 10th with Bennett it is, just to annoy jandal

Think we should both be annoyed if that happens

Hopefully Carthy (who casting my mind back I think might have been our first ever bidding war!) and Bennett recognise an alliance to distance the 79-80 guys with good TT would be a good idea for them and they can both get some time before stage 9 so they can try fighting for 6th instead