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Tour of South Africa Discussion
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 17-03-2019 07:04
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Not much to say about the final stage. Luisle in the breakaway is good, but obviously not strong enough to keep touch with Debesay. Congrats jandal, really great race for you this one.
Bystrom keeps his GC place, we have 5 riders in scoring-point places, with gives us a 2nd place in Team standings. Stefano with his great KoM win. Overall a good race, one of the first times our hilly depth has actually worked in our benefit.
Also, really close for Eddie to get a point from the U25 rankings 
Congrats to Matt for the GC win and thanks Vien for the great reports! 
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| quadsas |
Posted on 17-03-2019 08:39
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Top 15, Top 30 and 2nd U25, that's decent, I guess? Realistically only could've gained 1 or 2 extra places for Siskevicius, so I'll take this
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 17-03-2019 09:00
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Nice win for Xero then! They wanted their sponsor to be pleased here and they got a stage win with an African rider. Congrats!
As to be expected, the final stage didn't allow too big changes in the top of the GC. At least someone tried to attack. Thanks for the reports, enjoyable!
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 17-03-2019 09:30
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Awesome, another one for Xero! Congrats to them, also to Nordstrom for a great race, with mightily important points against relegation. Also Generali finally going for promotion which they should be achieved for long now...
Bitter days for Philips and Fablok with their off days on stage 5. Could be achieved a lot more here.
And thank you very much for the awesome reporting. I enjoy following PCT races a lot more than PT atm, because of more diverse racing.
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 17-03-2019 10:04
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Pathetic from my riders once again, don’t know why Zingle is so inconsistent. Thanks for the reporting though!
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 17-03-2019 13:16
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Second GC and third in points. Overall fairly good race when you account for the top 10s along the way too 
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 17-03-2019 13:48
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There's nothing I hate more than anonymity. JJ was pretty good on every stage, and yet we get pretty much nothing from the entire race because he never attacked. I wish I could tell my team in game that we're relegating. maybe they'd understand the urgency. But alas, let's roll in for that great 13th place instead.
Thanks for the awesome reporting.
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 17-03-2019 16:31
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Not great from Flugel, at least Paulus managed the U25 to get Kraftwerk a few points. Beginning to get that sinking feeling.
Thanks for the reports Vien.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-03-2019 17:47
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Well we did decently well I guess. Would have liked to win, but the TTT was always going to cost us the race probably, unless we made the race harder. 4th in the end isn't bad.
Thanks for the reports!
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 18-03-2019 08:05
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The only time Rui was mentioned was when he was dropped! Goes to show how bad a race we had in terms of aggression. Was lucky the group slowed down, which allowed him to catch up. Had a lot more expectations from this race.
Thanks for the reports!
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| Scorchio |
Posted on 21-03-2019 21:54
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Jeez, this was a sh*t-fest for WCC. Expected that Betancourt would potentially lose a bit of time due to the TTT, but on practically every other stage he was listed among the favourites, and still managed to lose chunks of time to end up in the 60's overall - terrible. Not much else to smile about either from his support crew, but in this instance the team leader has to shpulder the majority of the blame in a similar way as to how he would be feted if bringing home the bacon. Carlos continues on his merry way of streaky performance with the odd high-point mixed into the general pig-swill.
As has been the theme this month, we have done little-to-nothing of worth while potential peers in the bottom half of the PCT table have been at the very least putting steady points together, others getting great results. Rankings update to fear coming!
Finally on a more positive note, many thanks to our reporter Vien who has slotted in seemlessly with the rest of the reporting crew.
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