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| cio93 |
Posted on 06-05-2014 20:37
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Did I miss some Martin offseason training? Massive effort there.
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 06-05-2014 20:38
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Ouch, that was a really bad day for us. At least now the pressure is off and maybe we can go on the offensive.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 06-05-2014 20:39
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What a race is Brambilla having 
He's probably going to drop out of the top 10, but still. A good team performance as well to be third in the teams classification thanks to Van der Velde (who's in the top 20, whaaaaat) and Pantano.
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| rycadinho |
Posted on 06-05-2014 20:42
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If this keeps on going then I'll accept that Sicard will forever go down in history as the biggest and most expensive flop ever in the game.
Nice reports though 
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| jph27 |
Posted on 06-05-2014 20:43
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Sicard is proving to be a Vantomme so far, while Spilak is also underachieving. Great result for Vesuvio, Bouygues and Pendleton's though. |
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| beagle |
Posted on 06-05-2014 20:51
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Brilliant report! (as always) 
And still no single mention about my shit*y team....so sad 
Just a small correction, Spilak is Slovene, not Slovak.
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| SotD |
Posted on 06-05-2014 21:01
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Fuck this shit. I give up.
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| ember |
Posted on 06-05-2014 21:16
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Wow. Massive disappointment from Spilak, as Schleck did what was expected. Super ride from Martin though, really the ride of the stage. Schleck might want to push his lead on the coming stage as well, I've no clue who the Col d'Eze time trial favours of him and Taaramäe.
Very nice report, it was definitely a tense read. |
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| CountArach |
Posted on 06-05-2014 21:23
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Great report mate!
VDB rode that at his own pace and wasn't sucked into stupid attacks. If he does that all season I will not be disappointed.
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 06-05-2014 21:35
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I really liked that. Thankyou Smowz.
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 06-05-2014 21:48
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Fantastic! Super report, and super result.
Game play seems to be much more satisfying than last year, albeit not without it's unusual results for Spilak and Velits. Maybe they trained too hard in the off season?
Race lead should only help now. Martin and Taaramae are within striking distance, but Schleck should be better. That unexpected gain on Spilak is massive for my GC hopes. Its nice having 3 more riders in the Top 30 too, although I guess they will now be pressed into support action.
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| niconico |
Posted on 06-05-2014 22:22
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Very dissapointed with Keinath here, he should be able to do better. Didn't do a single thing by the looks of it.
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| Roman |
Posted on 06-05-2014 23:53
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Really happy with this stage, it seems like Velits had the fastest time of all riders in the race on that final mountain! Too bad he started 5 minutes down on the biggest favourites... WTF was that... 
Rujano did great as well, he probably decided to wait for Velits, but it seems like if Rujano waits, he is still riding too damn fast.
Thank god I had that amazing idea to bring to a race Velits and Rujano together only for Paris-Nice. 
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| Scorchio |
Posted on 07-05-2014 01:17
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Stage was awesome. Hard to tally with the travesty that was Tachira in the mountains. This is more like it, a real smash-fest!
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| dave92 |
Posted on 07-05-2014 02:13
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Fantastic report.
Martin was superhuman in that stage, great riding.
Pinot continues to impress with another solid showing. Looks like he'll be fantastic support in the GT's he rides and should be good enough when he leads to get some results.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 07-05-2014 06:34
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beagle wrote:
Brilliant report! (as always)
And still no single mention about my shit*y team....so sad
Just a small correction, Spilak is Slovene, not Slovak.
I was going to point that one too, as it is at least second time he was labeled as Slovak.
Anyway top top report Smowz, one of the best mountain stages i have ever seen in man-game, PT bunch cooperates very well with PCM13.
Congrats to Vesuvio and especially Pendleton's, how can Martin battle it out with 84/85 mountain guys?? (maybe i missed his new stats?)
And when we were at Slovaks topic, what the heck was Velits and Becherovka doing? I suppose he should be sold to certain PCT team.
Edited by Avin Wargunnson on 07-05-2014 06:34
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| cio93 |
Posted on 07-05-2014 16:41
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Dan Martin is inexplicable. Sure this is not a DB mistake?
Good to see VDB being there or thereabouts, consistency will be his key again this season.
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| roturn |
Posted on 07-05-2014 16:48
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Shit.
This was a great attempt by Gomez Marchante but today unfortunately the wrong move...so instead of gaining time on some weaker climbers I even lost to Kolesnikov etc.
So it`s pretty much 16th or less and so failing my own top15 goal here...
Well. Better try and fail closely than not even trying I guess.
And Smowz. Better redo the Dan Martin stat changes again. |
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| jph27 |
Posted on 07-05-2014 16:54
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Great report on a frenetic stage Smowz
Martin is unbelievable, out of this world even. I want what he's taking.
Sicard a little better which will give ING hope, while Spilak and Schleck tired each other out it seems. |
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| ember |
Posted on 07-05-2014 16:59
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This just went from very good to sensational stuff from Dan Martin! No way Pendleton's are going down now
PCM13 seems to be a lot more unpredictable than previous editions, which means a fair bit of lottery during the whole season. That could be very interesting, I just hope we've been on the wrong side of the lottery enough times already, thinking of Badaling and Qatar, but I somehow doubt it |
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