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Post by negru on Apr 3, 2013 20:36:22 GMT 1
Well, congratulations both of you (and the other winners) I thought you would go a 3rd time in a row 100% with Manussen. He had a beautiful lead after the first two stages of Portugal. Something you could not give away. Well done. The fight for 2nd place overall (in our series) is real excited. As for Joachim Cosmescu did a fine job as well. 1st jersey of the season. And a huge gap between you and me. Guess I'll have to battle for 7th place now, but I'll try to make it hard enough for 6th . Tomorrow will be a sad race for my team. Just gaining some experience. Stopped at 7 sprint? I've got only 1 cyclist with 7+ sprint. I'll have to train harder then. There's no fight for the second place and i knew it long before. I am actually really happy with my 100 victory from yesterday. I can say that all my objectives for this season are acomplished and it doesn't matter much what happens. I just hope that I will be able to keep the third position, or actually that Rats won't be able to close the 700 points gap during Vuelta and last tour. As for me, the season is almost over, i probably still have one or two races with real chances and this is it. I would have needed a lot more points until now to actually battle for the second place. The fight now is between the first two and i am pretty curious if PAN will be able to keep the lead until the end. I am also really happy with the number of stage wins done by Puscasu in TdF in the last two seasons, i consider it a really good performance. Good luck to everybody in attaining their objectives for the end of the season. I don't really mean it for Rats, he really has a chance to take the third place
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Post by negru on Mar 16, 2013 23:47:34 GMT 1
Good times are over for me, next week too much mountain for me. Time to save fitness in the tour. Qinghai is also nothing for me. Maybe some lucky points with an 100% attack Same thing for me, I don't know why everybody talks about the 16 minutes difference. I already specified this advance will be over after the first mountain stage. Unfortunately, my only cyclist with real chances for the yellor is out, injured. This season there were too many injuries for my cyclists. So relax, Puscasu has no chances for the yellow, he will finish way behind the first ones in the Tour. The only nice thing is that he is the first after the first week. Today was funny. This seasons, it looks that always when i really think and put effort and so on i loose the stage, and when i play simple and don't care too much i win the stage. Today's won was lucky and it came somehow unexpected. But its nice to have two stages until now won in TdF. I hope for at least one more, even with one cyclist out.
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Post by negru on Mar 14, 2013 14:48:39 GMT 1
The Tour is already exciting Will the mountainguys be able to win 16 (or even more?) minutes back? Or is one of the guys at 7 minutes good enough to keep his advantage? We will see, we will see! Anyway, I think the gap with 2nd place will be big after the TdF for me. Maybe too big. I am sure seeing how things go that the third place is mine in the division. And this is mainly because i have no hopes in Vuelta. So the battle for the first place is between you and PAN. At the moment it looks you are loosing the battle. I am more than satisfied to keep my third place until the end of the season. Sure i'll try to fight, but I think my resources are not enough. At the moment, it is more important to get the time to start to build a competitive team for the future. Anyway, i am more than satisfied with this season until now.
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Post by negru on Mar 14, 2013 13:46:36 GMT 1
Frustrating, frustrating, second race in which i just take the second place. But this is it, sometimes you win, sometimes you loose. No worries for Puscasu, he will loose the whole 16' in the first mountain race. He is just a very good flat cyclist who lost this race.
Congratz to Rats, Drouin has done a very good job.
The race today went as expected, the only problem is Puscasu wasn't able to beat Drouin, and this is it. Anyway, is more exciting when you have chances to win something, but its frustrating when you don't win it. With Giro, i was relaxed and won more than expected, in TdF loose more than expected.
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Post by negru on Mar 12, 2013 14:25:53 GMT 1
Series 2:4 was the fastest?
I really miss Schizm statistics. At least it was something through which to compare with the rest of the world.
I think that everybody is a little shocked by the difference. Maybe its because all mountain guys went on 70%? I came with my flat cyclists in TdF as i don't really have mountain guys, but i would have attacked with all if i knew this would happen.
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Post by negru on Mar 12, 2013 13:19:54 GMT 1
Really strange stage. Too great the difference between the attackers and the rest. I'll really have to think the strategy (pitty i don't have the time), as it looks things work completely different than expected.
At least i'm happy Puscasu could win this stage, i had a feeling this won't be his stage, at least with the hilly finish.
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Post by negru on Mar 9, 2013 16:06:00 GMT 1
I think nobody is sure that two teams will promote. If you ask my personal opinion (might be wrong), if at the end of the season you are top 12 international, you'll be in the first league. If not, probably not. A decision has to be taken regarding the first league as there are 8 teams there. If anyone of them will be demoted to second division (would make sense to me), then probably top 14 will be enough to be in the first league.
All of these if it will happen as understood from Nikeboy.
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Post by negru on Mar 7, 2013 14:14:37 GMT 1
At the middle of the season, i am really happy with my position. From now on it will be much harder, less stages that suit my cyclists. Still, i am really happy with what has been achieved until now, i didn't expect at all to have such a good season.
Today i achieved my goal, to take a few sprint points with Rahyer at the intermediate sprint point. Unfortunatly, for the cyclist prepared to attack today, the Tour was already over having an injury.
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Post by negru on Mar 3, 2013 16:25:57 GMT 1
Really good Tour of Serbia. Almost all objectives completed. If i would have been able to also win the third stage, all objectives would have been completed. Like this, i am happy, just not euphoric.
Unfortunately, the last two days of this week were not so grate. No stagewin, no notable result. But overall, really good week.
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Post by negru on Mar 1, 2013 13:12:15 GMT 1
Hmm, I think you have lots of eggs in your basket. Sure there will break one open in Liberty Classic or in Lisboa. Looking forward for todays time trial. Another race to lose. Congratulations for the first stage win. And the second place is yours also. Lisboa is for sure not my type of race, with Liberty Classic is debatable, I just wait now to recover fitness with the guys that really make points. In these other two races i'll just have fun and try new tactics.
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Post by negru on Mar 1, 2013 8:25:38 GMT 1
maybe Aragao can teach him something in next stages... but I'm not sure I want to take all the fit from him... let's see... I'm pretty sure that negru's boys can take it all.... Not really. I actually put almost all my eggs in the Serbian and Korean basket. I am actually quite happy with the stage win already accomplished, I have chances for probably one-maximum two more. Much more important for me is what happens tomorrow in Serbia. There is my fight, and if played well, i can acomplish all my objectives there.
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Post by negru on Feb 26, 2013 23:04:32 GMT 1
And in Serbia I come closer again. It will be a battle untill the end of the season for the 6tp place. I'm happy with my position 2-3 in today's stage. Evcont is stronger then me on the flat. Tomorrow another attackers from me It was a good race for me today. Your cyclist, Rafail Mechitbayeva was originally in my team. Better result for him than i would have expected. I suppose he has a pretty high sprint skill. I hope i'll also have a good race tomorrow.
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Post by negru on Feb 22, 2013 13:42:21 GMT 1
Always i had very bad results in Giro, so i do not expect anything from this one. Good luck everybody, i can watch relaxed as i don't count in Giro. I think in flat stages u'll say much more mate... I never said that i won't try to win some flat stages, but there is a low number of suitable stages. And besides the stage win, i have no chance to any kind of shirt. This is why i'm relaxed. It's pretty to concentrate on a few stages with chances. I am pretty happy that i was able to win a stage also today.
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Post by negru on Feb 21, 2013 13:02:15 GMT 1
Always i had very bad results in Giro, so i do not expect anything from this one. Good luck everybody, i can watch relaxed as i don't count in Giro.
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Post by negru on Feb 14, 2013 9:09:01 GMT 1
It looks more like you are training downhill and sprint now? And your collegue mountain? I think, no I'm sure that without sprint it's quite impossible to win a stage. As considering the attackers the peloton should be able to catch the attackers. I agree. Yes, i'm training downhill and sprint now. I think downhill is totally underrated and some combinations (hill/downhill) can win stages. I disagree regarding the fact that without sprint is impossible to win stages. It happened to me also this season, it happened last season. I consider not having a sprint skill when is lower than 3. There are less chances, true, but it's still possible. I have no idea what skills are actually necessary for stages like Ronde van Vlaanderen. I'm pretty sure i also have the right profile of cyclist somewhere in my team, i am just not able to find him.
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