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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 14-11-2026 03:16
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Fun to see the leadout but think Riabushenko's weak acceleration meant he couldn't make it count. But at least he was competitive.
Congrats to Jaxika.
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 14-11-2026 06:35
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Seemed a reasonable lead-out from Scott but Thijssen not quite able to deliver. 3rd place still a decent result though and he'll try again in the one other sprint stage. Now over to Carapaz and the climbers!
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 14-11-2026 09:51
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Excited and fearful for this race. Could show us if we have something to be looking forward to at the end of the season or not.
Willwohl not so sharp on stage one, but a nice top10. Congrats on the win jaxika.
Let's see how the mountains go.
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| SotD |
Posted on 14-11-2026 12:52
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3rd is a very good result for Giannoutsos here, but it is a bit worrying that he was not among the 10 best going up the final climb (or so it seemed looking at the pictures). Let's hope he is strong in the upcoming stages.
Karatsivis was slightly dissapointing here, but not a disaster by any means. Let's see if Giannoutsos 3rd place will keep him closer to the front. Besides that the depth seemed good.
Brilliant win from Vauquelin here. He should be able to fight for a top 10-15 now, and already have scored a significant amount of points.
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| ember |
Posted on 14-11-2026 13:07
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Wow, massive congratulations, kb!  Peugeot who? 
Vauquelin being absolutely magnificent. He might have unlocked the solo survival mode for Ekoi 
Also thank you for the report, Imladrik! Enjoyed the tension between the front two/Vauquelin and the group of favourites. |
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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 14-11-2026 13:07
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Congrats KB Min in the favourites group, we’ll take that! Hopefully Gee or Girdlestone can go in the break in the next mountain stages.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 14-11-2026 13:44
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Breakaway wins in the mountains are still in style! Congrats KB!
Happy Skjelmose got through that stage okay, as in theory it was the hardest one for a rider of his low stamina with so many repeat climbs. If it had been ridden harder, he could have been in trouble. A little disappointed Olivier cracked and lost so much time. I guess he can play more of a foil now, though I'm not really sure what that would look like.
I didn't really grasp just how stacked this field is until seeing the front group here. It could be a tough race even if nothing goes super wrong for us.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 14-11-2026 14:35
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Fantastic win KB, congrats! Quite the escapade! Impressed that he and Van Gils were allowed to go on an early break.
Annoyed that there were no attacks, but the next stages should provide oportunities for a GC shake up. Glad to see Riccitello keep up until the penultimate climb.
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 14-11-2026 15:02
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Great ride by Vauquelin, congrats to KB. A little surprised they let a guy of his quality get a minute. Peloton very broad in quality but not deep on teams it seems. Our guys were fine, hopefully having better protection pays off for Aular later.
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 14-11-2026 15:29
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Congrats kb, can't get much better than this for a season that's all about looking for signs of future greatness of your young leaders 
I'm a bit worried by Amezawa's performance here, as he seemed to be near the back of the main group most of the time during the latter parts of the stages. Would've hoped he could score a few bonus seconds here instead. But no serious damage done, so I just hope tomorrow will be better. Wellens in the Top 30 is nice to see, would be cool if he could keep that up.
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 14-11-2026 15:39
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Thanks for all the congratulations! There won't be many opportunities for me to get them this year, so I will happily take them whenever I can
It's obviously been a huge ride by Vauquelin to take this stage (and his second ever win). I really was a bit disappointed pre-race that this stage was the second and not the last one as it seemed to be a perfect profile not only for a breakaway win but also specifically for Vauquelin and his decent sprint stat. So seeing him in the break was already a nice surprise and once it was clear he had a feasible gap in the last climb it was just cool to see him complete the task here. It's also nice to have gained a minute to the favourites, although I doubt he'll be strong enough to fight for a really top GC result. But it probably won't count in the long run anyway, so a stage win already makes this race a huge success.
And thanks for the report to Imladrik, you finally pulled out some of your reporting magic again (I think about at least half my wins have been reported by you, so I consider you as my personal lucky charm )!
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 14-11-2026 17:36
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Yeah go and lose 30 mins first stage the road goes up hill Davide, no worries at all pal ????
Guess we'll be breakaway hunting from now on. We were never gonna win the GC obviously but completely tanking any shot at points through GC was certainly not the plan either.
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