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Ditto. Vansevant and Brenann messing up the final few K cost me a lot of points. Positive surprise was Steinhauser obviously being over his injury problems and ticking over to a decent early season tally. Next few days could be painful in terms of Evenepoel, Tiberi and Uijtderberoeks doing...

Surprising in that he looked like repeating last year's TDU performance of starting well, then fading. Really wasn't expecting him to win yesterday, and hopefully he's found a bit of form/confidence now that Visma are participating in the one-day races? Disproportionately picking riders based...

That's pretty unlucky as I was going leave him out for similar reasons, then saw he was bib 1 at The TDU, so decided to take a risk again. This starlist-based 'strategy' has worked very well so far with Brenner, Dinham, O'Connor and Brennan too. Was hoping for a little more from the latter two...

Please don't curse it! His crash magnet seems to have been affected by the sun, and is currently heading for his best ever GC result... And please ride safely and sensibly tomorrow Mr Brenner/Zubeldia.

Tiberi seemd like such an obvious pick in any other year, and was one of the first on my team, then ended up going with O'Connor which hasn't gone well at The TDU. OTOH, assuming the GC positions remain the same now, Brenner and Kron are exceeding expectations, and there's another chance for...

Just watched the replay and looked like he got his line wrong, then just sat up with 100 metres to go. Hopefully he can get it right tomorrow.

Thanks, Visma have now been added to the startlist for The Surf Coast and Cadel races. Potentially, very good news for the Brennan teams

Brennan was clearly finishing faster than anyone else, but badly positioned and started much further behind. You can't say who was potentially quickest here, as Welsford didn't seem to have the chance to open up.

Not that unexpected perhaps given her academic background, but here's Emma Pooley in The BBC quiz, University Challenge. Usually for current students and very difficult, this is the slightly easier version over Christmas for famous alumni. Apologies for any geo-restrictions...

Yes. I'd assumed they'd give the WT races to De Lie, and let Berckmoes continue his development at a lower level. As it is, they only seem to be racing together in five of the major classics, so hopefully he'll get some chances elsewhere later in the year. Am interested in why you think Van...

Thanks so much for the reply (!) and that's certainly made me feel a bit more positive about Vlasov's season. Looking again, you might have been right to swerve Berckmoes. Assumed he was largely supporting De Lie at the end of last year as they eased back from his injury. However, his initial...

Always a busy start to the year, so apologies for my lack of contribution and belated post. The discussion has been fascinating to read. Thank you to everyone! BRENNAN Matthew Was looking for excuses to include Brennan so the TDU start, plus WVA's injury decided it. Assumed the latter would be...

Should be possible to create some really good routes for the first two stages. Will get to watch racing in the Peak District again!

Looking at the nationality breakdowns posted so far has confirmed I've probably made a mistake with a couple of Bora riders who I had doubts about. Bel - 7 Fra - 6 GBR - 4 Aus - 2 Ger - 2 Ned - 2 Spa - 2 Slv - 2 Col -1 Rus -1 Nor- 1 Den -1 Can - 1 Two riders account for 2100 points, which has...

:DSorry about that. Expect I'm about to do the same thing tomorrow. Can't get the balance right between head and heart, exacerbated by massive FOMO!