Uno-X Pro Cycling Team

[tobydawq]

Campenaerts tested that in the windtunnel and said a moustache was better. No joke.

Rasmus Quaade said the same.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Rasmus Quaade said the same.

ZZ Top as well.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

I was a bit worried about Tobias Halland Johannesen after his weak showing in Almeria and Algarve before he withdrew from the latter race, thinking it was his knee problem coming back, but luckily it was covid. He lost a week of training, but is back now he said to Norwegian TV2. Because of this he will not race Paris-Nice, but instead focus on Catalunya.

The Uno-X team for Paris Nice: Kristoff, Wærenskjold, Tiller, Skaarseth, Resell, Greegard and Charming. Because THJ is missing the DS Arvesen have said they are not focusing on the GC but trying to win a stage. Kristoff could be a good candidate and in the right break both Greegard, Tiller and Charmig could win.

 

[SafeBet]

I was a bit worried about Tobias Halland Johannesen after his weak showing in Almeria and Algarve before he withdrew from the latter race, thinking it was his knee problem coming back, but luckily it was covid. He lost a week of training, but is back now he said to Norwegian TV2. Because of this he will not race Paris-Nice, but instead focus on Catalunya.

Yeah he said on Instagram that he fell ill and had to abandon.
I'm still a bit worried cause he postponed the start of his season and he didn't look good in Almeria / Algarve but let's hope he's back on track.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

The team for Tour de France was announced today:

Kristoff - Going for the sprints.
Tobias Halland Johannesen - Target is to win a stage from the break, a good GC would be a bonus.
Træen - Aiming for stage win in the mountains, a good GC would be a bonus.
Tiller - Aiming for a stage win from breaks.
Greegard - aiming for the breaks in Massife Central
Wærenskjold - Mainly leadout for Kristoff.
Abrahamsen - Will be important in the leadout as he's (according to DS Rasch) very good at positioning the lead out.
Charmig - Quick finisher which can be key if he's in a break that makes it.

Anders Halland Johannesen, Erik Resell and Martin Urianstad Bugge are the reserves, not in specific order.

 

[Norbea]

The team for Tour de France was announced today:

Kristoff - Going for the sprints.
Tobias Halland Johannesen - Target is to win a stage from the break, a good GC would be a bonus.
Træen - Aiming for stage win in the mountains, a good GC would be a bonus.
Tiller - Aiming for a stage win from breaks.
Greegard - aiming for the breaks in Massife Central
Wærenskjold - Mainly leadout for Kristoff.
Abrahamsen - Will be important in the leadout as he's (according to DS Rasch) very good at positioning the lead out.
Charmig - Quick finisher which can be key if he's in a break that makes it.

Anders Halland Johannesen, Erik Resell and Martin Urianstad Bugge are the reserves, not in specific order.

A good selection. They've had a pretty good build up and hopefully some of the riders will enter in form. Hopefully Træen can land a good GC performance. I am not sure who has the best ever GC result for a Norwegian in the Tour. Is it all the way back to Willman in the 1970´s?

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

A good selection. They've had a pretty good build up and hopefully some of the riders will enter in form. Hopefully Træen can land a good GC performance. I am not sure who has the best ever GC result for a Norwegian in the Tour. Is it all the way back to Willman in the 1970´s?

Wilmann was 14th 1980, that's the best. It should be within reach for Træen, but a top 10 will be very hard.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

The team for Tour de France was announced today:

Kristoff - Going for the sprints.
Tobias Halland Johannesen - Target is to win a stage from the break, a good GC would be a bonus.
Træen - Aiming for stage win in the mountains, a good GC would be a bonus.
Tiller - Aiming for a stage win from breaks.
Greegard - aiming for the breaks in Massife Central
Wærenskjold - Mainly leadout for Kristoff.
Abrahamsen - Will be important in the leadout as he's (according to DS Rasch) very good at positioning the lead out.
Charmig - Quick finisher which can be key if he's in a break that makes it.

Anders Halland Johannesen, Erik Resell and Martin Urianstad Bugge are the reserves, not in specific order.

No complaints about this lineup, all of their top guys are racing so that’s good.

 

[postmanhat]

Hoped Waerenskjold's performance in the Belgium Tour might have freed from leadout duties so he could go to Wallonie. Kristoff will have to be lucky to top five the sprints. Otherwise, good team that could animate a lot of stages.

 

[yaco]

Winning a stage will be hard BUT you never know your luck in a big city.

 

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Hoped Waerenskjold's performance in the Belgium Tour might have freed from leadout duties so he could go to Wallonie.

you mean Tour de Wallonie instead of the Tour de France? I don't think a single cyclist in the world would opt for that, no matter what's his role in the team.

 

[Mayomaniac]

you mean Tour de Wallonie instead of the Tour de France? I don't think a single cyclist in the world would opt for that, no matter what's his role in the team.

Not to mention that he's a young guy who has never ridden the Tour before.

 

[RedheadDane]

Hoped Waerenskjold's performance in the Belgium Tour might have freed from leadout duties so he could go to Wallonie. Kristoff will have to be lucky to top five the sprints. Otherwise, good team that could animate a lot of stages.

I suspect he might have been selected because of his performance in Belgium.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Nah, Wærenskjold been on the planned Tour team a long time. Rasch said something about that in the presser and Wærenskjold been on all the early leaks from reliable journalists.

 

[Boehmand]

The team for Tour de France was announced today:

Kristoff - Going for the sprints.
Tobias Halland Johannesen - Target is to win a stage from the break, a good GC would be a bonus.
Træen - Aiming for stage win in the mountains, a good GC would be a bonus.
Tiller - Aiming for a stage win from breaks.
Greegard - aiming for the breaks in Massife Central
Wærenskjold - Mainly leadout for Kristoff.
Abrahamsen - Will be important in the leadout as he's (according to DS Rasch) very good at positioning the lead out.
Charmig - Quick finisher which can be key if he's in a break that makes it.

Anders Halland Johannesen, Erik Resell and Martin Urianstad Bugge are the reserves, not in specific order.

Are the targets for each rider yours, or what the team has said?

I'd like to see either Johannesen or Gregaard going for polka dots, which is arguably "easier" (albeit harder physically) than winning a stage, where either the best puncheurs or the top GC riders are in the mix.

Also I believe Kristoff could go for green, as most the top sprinters are worse at stages with gradients (intermediate sprints and lumpy finishes), especially as Van Aert and Pedersen are probably not going for green. - It would take Kristoff showing up for the 8-9 bunch sprints too though, where he would need to consistently hit the top 5 (or thereabouts).

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Are the targets for each rider yours, or what the team has said?

I'd like to see either Johannesen or Gregaard going for polka dots, which is arguably "easier" (albeit harder physically) than winning a stage, where either the best puncheurs or the top GC riders are in the mix.

I tried to write down what Haugland and Rasch said about the riders when they went through the team at the presentation, so not my ideas of targets.

I don’t think Kristoff is good enough to win green in competition against Philipsen. Philipsen will constantly hit top 3, Kristoff might hit top 3 once or twice. It’s not like Kristoff is better than Philipsen on the hills either in my opinion.

When it comes to polka dot I haven’t been looking at the points distribution, but Greegard isn’t a good enough climber to win it (but he can perhaps take it in the first week). THJ could be an option, but I’m not sure if that’s something to target. You very quickly ends up with absolutely nothing if you sprint for points before the last climb in every stage you are in the break and then comes Vingegaard and Pogi to win the stages and take KOM as a bonus.

 

[Boehmand]

I tried to write down what Haugland and Rasch said about the riders when they went through the team at the presentation, so not my ideas of targets.

I don’t think Kristoff is good enough to win green in competition against Philipsen. Philipsen will constantly hit top 3, Kristoff might hit top 3 once or twice. It’s not like Kristoff is better than Philipsen on the hills either in my opinion.

When it comes to polka dot I haven’t been looking at the points distribution, but Greegard isn’t a good enough climber to win it (but he can perhaps take it in the first week). THJ could be an option, but I’m not sure if that’s something to target. You very quickly ends up with absolutely nothing if you sprint for points before the last climb in every stage you are in the break and then comes Vingegaard and Pogi to win the stages and take KOM as a bonus.

Kristoff:
I get your point, but by that logic he is even less likely to win a stage.
By going for green he would get a lot of points off intermediate sprints in breaks, where most other sprinters do not. Also I don't see Philipsen doing many breaks, because there are 8-9 proper bunch sprints he needs to save himself for. - Now if you were to say MvdP instead of Philipsen, it would be a different story, and I'll be interested to see if he keeps sprinting for the line after completing his lead out for Philipsen.

Johannesen/Gregaard:
I don't quite agree. If you look at the last 2 years, Geschke came close last year and Poels got close the year before - and the way the route is laid out this year, there are more "intermediate" mountain stages, where the GC riders won't take as many points, and on the big mountain stages there are plenty of points ahead of the last climb.

All that being said it is of course possible to go both for the jerseys and stages, and advertising your jersey goals ahead of time is probably not a wise strategy

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Johannesen/Gregaard:
I don't quite agree. If you look at the last 2 years, Geschke came close last year and Poels got close the year before - and the way the route is laid out this year, there are more "intermediate" mountain stages, where the GC riders won't take as many points, and on the big mountain stages there are plenty of points ahead of the last climb.

I think Greegard is very far off the level of Poels in climbs, and even Geschke have a much better climbing track record compared to Greegard. Geschke has won a TDF mountain stage and was second in a MTT in Romandie last year, Greegard hasn't done anything similar to this.

THJ should be good enough to fight for it yes.

 

[Boehmand]

I think Greegard is very far off the level of Poels in climbs, and even Geschke have a much better climbing track record compared to Greegard. Geschke has won a TDF mountain stage and was second in a MTT in Romandie last year, Greegard hasn't done anything similar to this.

THJ should be good enough to fight for it yes.

You are underestimating him, which is natural as he has spent almost his entire career as a Dom.

But at Astana he was, more often than not, Fuglsang's last guy in the mountains... and he won the polka dots in PN this year, with both Pogacar, Vingegaard and Gaudu in the mix.

I don't see him winning stages, but I'm sure he is a good enough climber to take the early points on most mountain stages.

 

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Provisional team for Sibiu:

JOHANNESSEN Anders Halland
URIANSTAD Martin Bugge
BRYNSRUD Magnus
HANSEN Martin Solhaug
KULSET Johannes
NORDHAGEN Truls

 

[RedheadDane]

Now they're just showing off!

1	DVERSNES Fredrik	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team	100	15	4:36:53
2	KRISTOFF Alexander	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team	75	10	0:20
3	ABRAHAMSEN Jonas	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team	60	7	2:18
4	BYSTRØM Sven Erik	Intermarché - Circus - Wanty	50	4	2:20
5	TILLER Rasmus	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team	40	2	3:14
6	WÆRENSKJOLD Søren	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team	30	1	3:16
7	TRÆEN Torstein	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team	20		3:19
8	RESELL Erik Nordsæter	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team	10		3:22
9	HAGENES Per Strand	Jumbo-Visma Development Team	5		3:30
10	JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team	3		4:03

Nationals, in case you were wondering.
They also got the women's races in both Norway and Denmark.

 

[nightowl]

They managed to get almost 350 UCI points out of Norwegian nationals that’s ridiculous

 

[Samu Cuenca]

They managed to get almost 350 UCI points out of Norwegian nationals that’s ridiculous

But they're only riding in two countries unlike other teams that have multiple races to score points in.

 

[Boehmand]

But they're only riding in two countries unlike other teams that have multiple races to score points in.

True, it comes with the strategy.

 

[nightowl]

But they're only riding in two countries unlike other teams that have multiple races to score points in.

I didn’t mean it was a bad thing! Just remarking at what an insane performance that is, and how important it is for their season