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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 16-02-2018 15:36
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Schlegel doing awesome! 2nd for some good points and lead in the team's classification. Perhaps the most successful ever flat stage in our team's history 
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 16-02-2018 17:12
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Jams <3 Good to see him find the break but sad he couldn't finish it off  Gratz to Booker anyway!
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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| Vien |
Posted on 16-02-2018 21:15
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And Manfredi cracked Sad, this could've been his major breakthrough.
Overall I'm pleased with this race, we didn't do well GC-wise but at least we scored enough points to average 10 pprd after this month. That said, I think that's the first time I've seen Sella in a break for Reddit, good to see!
Grats to sutty for the GC win and thanks tsmoha a.k.a. the PCT gatekeeper for the reports once again. |
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 16-02-2018 21:18
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Yes! What a finish! Great to have Bardet and my boy Anton that high on the stage. It is also just awesome to see my mate sutty taking the GC here after some rough disappointments!
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 16-02-2018 21:33
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Well this stage had everything to be a success.. two guys in the break (both completely failed) and Solis and Rujano looking to cliomb up the GC (Rujano did ok but Solis exploded completely).
Anyway congratz Abhishek and Sutty fir the overall win (and the unthinkable, beating Valls). And tsmoha for the great reports!
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 16-02-2018 22:36
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Yes, Suaza! Great to see him taking the win, and a nice boost for Eddie Stobart too.
Decent racing overall, although perhaps too large a group of favourites behind the front couple - even if Eastman was back to being crap again, and not even in it. Thanks for the coverage tsmoha.
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 16-02-2018 22:59
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Well, Valls needed an epic performance to take the GC win from Suaza's hands, and while he did a great effort, it wasn't enough to win the race.
Still a 2nd in GC, with lots of minor points scored thanks to the stage win in the first stage, being 2nd in Points, 4th in KoM, and having both Roson and Prado in the top8 in U25. And how to forget about Serrano's 15th place in GC 
Not even 80 points, but those are decent points both for the team and for Valls in his individual rankings quest, no other climber or cobbler has a chance to reach him, and almost no puncheur too (only Roux if he dominates all hilly races left in the calendar)
Congrats to Sutty on a well-deserved win - and even more needed
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 17-02-2018 00:08
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Suaza is crazy strong where he has raced so far, lovely to see him take out the GC  Anton with a nice ride there, I thought he may be able to outsprint Bardet but Bardet's strength/AI positioning ( ) won out in the end. Congrats to Abhi, if it wasn't Anton then I'm very happy that it was Bardet
At least it was a better last stage for Anton than last year
GC-wise, I think we could and should have done better. In saying that, I'm not disappointed with 5th and 9th. This will only widen the gap to Repsol back to over 100 points I assume but it's a bit of ground back to Philips after Battenkill. Certainly a little comfort on Goldcorp after Battenkill Thanks as ever for a great set of reports tsmoha!
Sounds like the hilly classics could decide our duel in the promo battle and theirs the individual title  Doubt Roux makes it past Valls, so I'll settle for dragging us past you 
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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| hillis91 |
Posted on 17-02-2018 00:09
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Great reporting tsmoha, has to be said! Just make sure my guys do better next time will you? haha 
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 17-02-2018 00:30
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Yeeeessssssssssss, at last Eddie Stobart can celebrate a stage race victory and its all down to Suaza .
Thanks guys for the nice wishes its much appreciated
And finally a big thanks to tsmoha for some more great reporting |
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Posted on 08-12-2025 22:45
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 17-02-2018 03:42
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Bardet salvaging something for us on the last stage. I'm not surprised it's him to do so. Despite all his troubles (and pathetic AI on stage 3), he still ends up our best GC finisher. Looking at you Battaglin
Congrats sutty . Nice to see you winning!
Thanks for the great reports tsmoha, the lord and saviour of CT reporting
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 17-02-2018 05:32
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Top 10 GC not too bad. And Roe was doing so well but overall a pretty good race for the Garmin boys!
Thanks for the reports!!
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 19-02-2018 10:25
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Sisira's 2nd on the last day was a nice "extra" to get a fine though not overly impressive race for us in Bulgaria, and again can’t stress to much how nice it was to see Jaime Suaza make it to the top of the podium for sutty68.
Thanks again for the supreme reports tsmoha, was a pleaure.
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