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| Roman |
Posted on 24-01-2018 01:25
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Vesely and Vakoc hopefully better take an advantage of a poor competition for hilly a sprint stages. I hope HIL attribute will matter for that hilly stage and that my team can produce at least somehow decent sprint train. Plus attacks in mountains. Insane startlist for GC though.
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| Heine |
Posted on 24-01-2018 06:56
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NEver realized before seeing the stage, this sprinting field is reallynweak... good win for Vesely
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 24-01-2018 07:06
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Wonder why we helped in the chase 
Morton not looking too good with a finish way back in the pack. I don't like! Let's just hope the climbers field ain't so stacked, that a few premium climbers don't even care about positioning.
Congrats, Roman. Festina won't like that though 
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| ember |
Posted on 24-01-2018 07:20
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Well done Vesely. Eventhough the list of sprinters here aren't great, you still need to win those stages as the favourite, and definitely nice to see Vesely deliver. Congratulations, Roman!
Didn't expect Kogstad Ringheim to mix it at the front, but definitely a good try, and 8th place is a bonus from such a stage.
Thank you for the report, jandal7! Could we please just skip the TTT and jump straight to the mountains?  |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 24-01-2018 07:23
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ember wrote:
Thank you for the report, jandal7! Could we please just skip the TTT and jump straight to the mountains?
I wanted to do a double header tonight to get there quicker but I thought it wouldn't be allowed
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
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11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| Shonak |
Posted on 24-01-2018 08:05
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Not a single rider in Top 100. 
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| Heine |
Posted on 24-01-2018 08:23
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jandal7 wrote:
ember wrote:
Thank you for the report, jandal7! Could we please just skip the TTT and jump straight to the mountains?
I wanted to do a double header tonight to get there quicker but I thought it wouldn't be allowed
I'll allow it ;-)
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 24-01-2018 08:26
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Not a single rider in Top-95
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| cio93 |
Posted on 24-01-2018 08:46
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Aw man, that was very close to a podium and a perfect start. Still, a great sprint there exploiting the weak field and I believe the second flat stage suits Herklotz even more. All points are welcome.
Now for the TTT which we should finish in the middle of the pack. Just don't pull a Roglic.
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| SotD |
Posted on 24-01-2018 08:46
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Well... Obviously not a great position for us, to see Moser performing this well, to take more points than we do - But we have to look at this on the positive, and honestly we didn't expect a stage top 3, so to have Jacobs in the BotD and Alaphilippe finishing 3rd in the bunch sprint is obviously good.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 24-01-2018 09:01
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Great stuff by Schlechter to take the early KoM lead.
Pity that it was Debesay who looked to take advantage of Mr No Acceleration, rather than Afewerki. But somewhere Van Heerden must have taken his best sprint of the season, as he has 2 bonus seconds. Any ideas where jandal?
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| knockout |
Posted on 24-01-2018 09:02
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Quite annoyed at not winning the stage. This was the most interesting stage for my team and not winning us costs us valuable points. Getting the jersey for a stage would have been so cool and losing that opportunity because of a crash (im convinced he would have won without it) sucks.
Let's hope he can perform well on the other flat stage (the hilly stage is too hard for him anyway). On the other stages I hope that my two top climbers will join attacks and maybe fight for the KoM.
Thanks for doing the TTT report (that counts as commenting on that stage, right?  )
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 24-01-2018 09:09
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@knockout - Well done 
SportingNonsense wrote:
Great stuff by Schlechter to take the early KoM lead.
Pity that it was Debesay who looked to take advantage of Mr No Acceleration, rather than Afewerki. But somewhere Van Heerden must have taken his best sprint of the season, as he has 2 bonus seconds. Any ideas where jandal?
I don't have the stage files on me but that's weird - I'm sure the bonuses were 3/2/1 at the sprints as usual.
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 24-01-2018 09:13
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6/4/2 are the bonus in the intermediate sprint in races with the "normal" system.
And while you never said that Van Heerden finished third in a intermediate sprint, Van Avermaet is said to have been third in the last sprint and the seconds hasn't been counted for him, so it's fair to assume those were counted to Van Heerden.
I have experienced those kinds of things when a very close fight for KoM points or sprint points, where it says someone has taken x points and then they get less
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| Heine |
Posted on 24-01-2018 09:29
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SotD wrote:
Well... Obviously not a great position for us, to see Moser performing this well, to take more points than we do - But we have to look at this on the positive, and honestly we didn't expect a stage top 3, so to have Jacobs in the BotD and Alaphilippe finishing 3rd in the bunch sprint is obviously good.
If there is one thing to be learned about this season, Moser is performing no matter what
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 24-01-2018 09:36
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Aquarius97 wrote:
6/4/2 are the bonus in the intermediate sprint in races with the "normal" system.
And while you never said that Van Heerden finished third in a intermediate sprint, Van Avermaet is said to have been third in the last sprint and the seconds hasn't been counted for him, so it's fair to assume those were counted to Van Heerden.
I have experienced those kinds of things when a very close fight for KoM points or sprint points, where it says someone has taken x points and then they get less
It was those three competing for it so you're probably right
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| viking90 |
Posted on 24-01-2018 11:52
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Ouch Tinkoff, that sucks.
For us a relaxed stage with Wellens looking sharp and staying high up in the peleton aswell as Ludvigsson. |
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| OlegTinkov |
Posted on 24-01-2018 15:26
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| viking90 |
Posted on 24-01-2018 19:24
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Decent from us, Wellens staying with the team is good.
Will be intersting when the climbing starts to se how Wellens will do.
Atleast a little comeback for Tinkoff with a stagewin here after Kritskiy loosing time on stage 1, congrats! |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 24-01-2018 19:25
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Obviously feeling sorry for Jayco, Hugo Boss etc. for again not getting the best out of the TTT AI, but personally it opens up a huge opportunity to outscore several better climbers in the end.
Expected mid-pack finish for our squad here, so white seems wide open now (I surely hope three minutes are too much for Morton to make up) and Kudus is quite a similar rider to Herklotz at the moment.
Also it's nice to see we didn't drop Bongiorno.
Tomorrow's mountain stage looks interesting because any meaningful selection will probably have to be made before the final ascent. I like Herklotz's chances of following the favorites in the last kilometres if he is in a good position and chooses to care.
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