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Post by dustin on Jul 25, 2019 20:32:06 GMT 1
Nice victory Naspa Van Nes was the best
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Post by tiagoiowa on Jul 25, 2019 22:40:16 GMT 1
Congratz to all the winners of today. Not sure anymore what I intended with my overall strategy, but happy with the win. Tomorrow we travel to Oman for another short tour, starting with a totally flat sprint, the first one this year! To be continued with some climbing and ending in strange hill stage next week. Whom to watch? While we still wait for Dusting and TGV. Mothers: Tavares is the best climber in the pack and maybe favorite for the second stage or GC. BUt Soria is deemed a good climber as well. Thys for white? Carapaz: Brantenaar is a good sprinter, but a good all rounder as well. Jestin as second man. Levi: Saltman can sprint. Rizas for stage 3? Pollyjean: Second best climber to satrt is Ivaldi. Leonte and Ghysselinckx have excellent flat skills an might have some plans for stage 1. Joachim: Grande might try for GC. Eenman for the sprint? Karels maybe for white? TourCC: CWynar, Brichau, Belchior, three excellent allrounders for points and top 5's. Devils: taking it easy this race. I wonder what the plans are with 29year old Icard. Panteras: Dumeez as main man. But 25year old Salvetti might go for YC. VdGG: can top class sprinter Cappelazzo live up to the expectation? Best sprinter, although Van Luchene can try something as well. Tuai expected to go for yellow. Naspa: Guidulli for white. Camozzi will try for podium in the sprint. Update: Dustin: Engel for GC and Jonard for YC. I am looking forward to see if Beenen will get a chance to show off his hill skills in race 3. Winner tomorrow Cappellazzo. Brantenaar, Eenman, Camozzi and maybe Van Luchene will fight for bronze and silver. Congratulations for your victory today Nice previews (my cyclist for the tour is dumeez maybe top 10 Best regards
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Post by naspa on Jul 26, 2019 7:06:41 GMT 1
Nice victory Naspa Van Nes was the best Pitty Cagan was not attacking full effort. Would have been interesting to see how that would have ended. However, to my estimation you made a wise choise as I think flat was too dominant in yesterdays race.
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Post by pollyjean on Jul 26, 2019 10:33:07 GMT 1
Highest cumulated value cyclists in Belgium: team Dustin. Congratulations. Was mothers of invention before the update?
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Post by naspa on Jul 26, 2019 12:31:00 GMT 1
I totally do not understand how Cappellazzo did manage to miss the podium here. The conclusion I make is that having good helpers might be more important for sprinters than I ever thought. I think it is far too soon to call Camozzi best flat sprinter of 2:2. VdGG most likely did underestimate the opposition and for sure is claiming a rematch :-).
Funny fact btw is that those italian sprinters many times are being produced by the Italian Sprint Schools. Vecchio Pedale and Pedale Bolognese (run by two friends) are both specialized in producing high quality sprinters. Formerly Chosen Sprinter Vassallo and Kasseienstoempers top sprinter -second to nobody else but Genon- Melazzini were having their education in the Vecchio Pedale School! Same like Camozzi and Cappellazzo. And I remember competing against top sprinters like Barbantini and Alunno of the Bologna branch. Thank you @pedale guys to give us those great riders!
Tomorrow we might see attacks of Ivaldi, Grande, Brantenaar, Engel, Cwynar, Tuai, maybe Rizas and my favorite Tavares. Who will win? It depends of course wether a top ranking in GC or winning a stage will be the main target. The bonus for winning tomorrows stage will most likely be winning the polka dot jersey as well. At least, if the weather keeps calm in Oman and the race will not be stopped because of freak hail storm.
Do not forget: the last stage is next week, so a weekend update in between the races. And last time I have checked: nobody was having a fitness trainer!
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Post by Slayer772004 on Jul 26, 2019 19:45:09 GMT 1
Highest cumulated value cyclists in Belgium: team Dustin. Congratulations. Was mothers of invention before the update? Yeah, Mothers dominated this score for many seasons. But with the purchase of Abraão Galvão, Dustin took over. Maybe we will see him next season in 1:1 ... I think its possible.
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Post by ElGringo on Jul 26, 2019 21:17:38 GMT 1
maybe are cyclists near or better but they are played as attackers and not ITT cyclists. If they are better don't make sense using in other types of stage just if there isn't TT to ride
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Post by dustin on Jul 27, 2019 10:47:52 GMT 1
Again Naspa, that is the second ... Let a bit for us please (Last season all teams had some victories, I like that.) But it is to us to beat Naspa
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Post by dustin on Jul 27, 2019 10:49:13 GMT 1
Stage 2: a bit gc is my goal (no full speed)
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Post by naspa on Jul 27, 2019 12:04:43 GMT 1
Ivaldi goes all in, beats Tuai and Tavares, and wins the stage. Congratz Pollyjean. Amazing. He outclimbed all. But also bad luck.... Now he is out with an injury. Pitty from the polka dot. And Rizas of Levi is now favorite for GC.
Bad luck as well for Mothers. Thys was the best u25 climber today, but he is out with an injury as well. Naspa seems obe of the the lucky guys here: white and green are now for the grab.
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Post by naspa on Jul 27, 2019 13:34:27 GMT 1
Tomorrow we finish the tour of Columbia with a climbers ride. The winner will take the mountain jersey as well.
Some climbers where saving their fitness for this last stage. Barrea (CAR), Prates (TGV), Hoydonckx (POL), Naselli (JOA) and Beachell (TCC) will fight for the stage. The winner could do very well in GC as well, but for now Auge (DEV) still seems favorite to me for yellow.
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Post by pollyjean on Jul 27, 2019 14:04:32 GMT 1
Ivaldi goes all in, beats Tuai and Tavares, and wins the stage. Congratz Pollyjean. Amazing. He outclimbed all. But also bad luck.... Now he is out with an injury. Pitty from the polka dot. And Rizas of Levi is now favorite for GC. Bad luck as well for Mothers. Thys was the best u25 climber today, but he is out with an injury as well. Naspa seems obe of the the lucky guys here: white and green are now for the grab. Happy with my first win in 2nd div. My first week is going smooth and gives me good hope for being competitive the rest of the season. Too bad i'm loosing the Jersey but many chances to come, ivaldi had no races in the next two weeks anyway.
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Post by phootyx on Jul 27, 2019 15:33:25 GMT 1
Tomorrow we finish the tour of Columbia with a climbers ride. The winner will take the mountain jersey as well. Some climbers where saving their fitness for this last stage. Barrea (CAR), Prates (TGV), Hoydonckx (POL), Naselli (JOA) and Beachell (TCC) will fight for the stage. The winner could do very well in GC as well, but for now Auge (DEV) still seems favorite to me for yellow. It will be hard for Auge... too much delay accumulated yet and he is probably a little weak in mountain ... we will see
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Post by naspa on Jul 27, 2019 15:55:30 GMT 1
Well, I see Levi was bringing Petry instead of Broere. So he will attack tomorrow as well. Dark horse for me will be CÁSSIO AVELAR (TGV). He is 22 year old. And since this seems to be the age you need to have to win the Tour de France, miracles are expected.
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Post by dustin on Jul 28, 2019 10:44:33 GMT 1
Nice win for Ivaldi , only injury at a bad moment
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