Recent content by vladimir

Well I picked him last year, and as a Norwegian obviously considered him this year too. But there are so many possible good picks arounf 200 points, so I opted for Poole at 215 points, Gautherat at 213 points and Finn at 211 points as better options in that price range.

I was half right. Iker Mintegi was a uqnique pick for me in 2025 and is also a unique pick in 2026. He crashed when in the winning break on the last stage in Andalucia in February, and didn't score a single point after May. So I'm confident that he should at least double his score this year...

I had 5 unique picks in 2025. Two of them are in my 2026 as well. And I think one of them will be my only qnigue pick this year.

While waiting for the big reveal, I have found that I will probably be dead last on the first updates like in 2024. I have no Aussies or Kiwis in my team. And based on the provisional start list on PCS I have only four riders in TDU with a total cost of less than 700 points...

Team submitted! No rider in +700 point range, and probably most suprising to me, no less than nine French riders (I actually had 12 at one point). If you simply take the average from CQ Excel file the average age is 23,85 years, so probably 24 and a bit in reality. So now I just have to wait one...

First draft created for 2026 with a good bottle of wine tonight. I dropped all 0 pointers from my first draft for the 2025 season, which proved to be my worst decision ever. Seems to be a less talented bunch of zero pointers for the 2026 edition, but I will probably miss some obvious picks...

Magnus Sheffield seems an obvious one for your list. And Tiller (Rasmus) is an area/community just outside Trondheim in Norway. Also a lot of small places in Norway called Holter (Ådne)

Fedorov doing his job by winning both RR and ITT in the Khazak nationals for me and Gotland

Not many points in the baby Giro, but still quite happy today with my unique pick Pavel Novak:)

UAE has a difficult strategic decision to make tomorrow. Will they try to "babysit" Del Toro safely through, just to maybe risk losing it all on Finestre? Or shall they try to put Adam Y and/or McNulty in the breakaway to force other teams to chase, and maybe even put three riders back into...

Ahhh, you must have forgotten this stage? View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqVZZcvhlXM

Watching Pedersen in the past doesn't give much evidence that he will make logical tactical decisions...

Ok, so I am one of six managers who scored 200 points today with the Van Aert, Torres, Rondel combination. But the thing that really put a smile on my face was the 10 points my unique pick Iker Mintegi scored for his 11th place in Doubs :). Could be that this mindset prevents me from doing...

Torres and then probably Herregodts tomorrow...

Fedorov was 14th last year. He had a mechanical in Arneberg and was only Astana rider in the front group. He has shown much better form this year, so I think he is a very interesting outsider for a top 6 tomorrow!