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  • gsk82gsk82 Posts: 3,300
    RichN95 wrote:
    Colbrelli wins for Bahrain, so we have our final.

    AG2R v Sunweb

    Have any of Sunweb's winners raced yet this year?
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  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,676
    gsk82 wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Colbrelli wins for Bahrain, so we have our final.

    AG2R v Sunweb

    Have any of Sunweb's winners raced yet this year?

    By my reckoning, the team has so far only raced the Aussie WT races and Provence, last week.
    Not one of their Algarve team for tomorrow, has raced a day in 2019.
    Ironically, things could have been so different in this competition.
    Max Walscheid was second on stage 1 of Down Under. Since then, nada, not even a podium.
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  • ridgeriderridgerider Posts: 2,845
    My Jumbo keep Sunweb off the top spot in one of the many deserted sandy races going on at the moment...
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  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 26,748
    Ridgerider wrote:
    My Jumbo keep Sunweb off the top spot in one of the many deserted sandy races going on at the moment...
    And in France Pinot stops Bardet getting AG2R a win
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  • gsk82gsk82 Posts: 3,300
    Even inrng is getting in on the action!

    https://twitter.com/inrng/status/109971 ... 11233?s=19
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • alanparsonsalanparsons Posts: 529
    Jumbo beats Sunweb again in UAE. Dumoulin looked crushed.
  • ridgeriderridgerider Posts: 2,845
    If I was Sunweb I don't think I would be looking to sack their manager just yet...its not as though they are that far adrift. This is a very narrow kpi.
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  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 26,748
    Ridgerider wrote:
    If I was Sunweb I don't think I would be looking to sack their manager just yet...its not as though they are that far adrift. This is a very narrow kpi.
    Maybe it's AG2R that need a change of manager. Lavenu has been running that team since before Arsene Wenger joined Arsenal. Since the World Tour started as the ProTour in 2005, they have won two races (excluding stages) - '07 Dauphine and '14 Paris-Nice
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  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,676
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ridgerider wrote:
    If I was Sunweb I don't think I would be looking to sack their manager just yet...its not as though they are that far adrift. This is a very narrow kpi.
    Maybe it's AG2R that need a change of manager. Lavenu has been running that team since before Arsene Wenger joined Arsenal. Since the World Tour started as the ProTour in 2005, they have won two races (excluding stages) - '07 Dauphine and '14 Paris-Nice

    At least they can claim to have their palmarès as part of their official team name.
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  • m.r.m.m.r.m. Posts: 3,058
    Hahaha Hat!
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  • CrampeurCrampeur Posts: 1,065
    We have a winner, Alexis Vuillermoz takes the win for AG2R in the certifed chipper Drome Classic.
  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 26,748
    So Sunweb retain their title - their third 'victory' in four years. Very much like their sponsors, they're don't really operate until May,

    Past winners:
    2019 Sunweb
    2018 Sunweb
    2017 Astana
    2016 Giant
    2015 LottoNL Jumbo
    2014 Astana
    2013 Euskaltel
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  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 26,748
    So Sunweb retain their title - their third 'victory' in four years. Much like their sponsors, they don't really operate until May,

    Past winners:
    2019 Sunweb
    2018 Sunweb
    2017 Astana
    2016 Giant
    2015 LottoNL Jumbo
    2014 Astana
    2013 Euskaltel
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • andypandyp Posts: 9,452
    Sunweb finally off the mark.
  • markwb79markwb79 Posts: 933
    Seems quite early in the season for everyone to have got a win though?
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  • bobmcstuffbobmcstuff Posts: 10,632
    Markwb79 wrote:
    Seems quite early in the season for everyone to have got a win though?
    Not all in WT events yet though, are they?
  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 26,748
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Markwb79 wrote:
    Seems quite early in the season for everyone to have got a win though?
    Not all in WT events yet though, are they?
    Teams still searching for a WT win are: Dimension Data, Bahrain, Katusha, Groupama-FdJ, AG2R
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  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,676
    I'm not sure where to put this, so I'll stick it here as it's fairly big WT news.

    First this:

    https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/late ... our-412586

    Which cyclingnews now claim to have a scoop on.

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/exclusi ... -20-teams/

    It seems the automatic wild card for GT for the top 2 ranked Pro-conti teams have to be scrapped and the likelihood of more rubbish French teams at the other two GTs.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 26,748
    Only AG2R and Dimension Data still searching for a World Tour win.
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