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Great to see Noah Hobbs making the step up to WT with EF. Marin Van den Berg can win a sprint at the end of a hard day, and .1 races, but I think Hobbs might be able to compete in the true bunch sprints. If that is the case, he will be the team’s first big bunch sprinter since Farrar.
 
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Stage 6 of the vuelta has two EF riders in the break and they finished 6th and 9th. That seems reasonable considering the strength of that break.

Madis had a 10th and an 11th in earlier stages.

But will that be the high-water mark for them at this Vuelta?
 
Darren Rafferty visited the Vuelta team the other night to join them for a couple rounds of rummy

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If the goal with this Vuelta was to give all riders a free role and see who deserves to be given new contracts (maybe that wasn’t the goal, but if not I have no idea what the goal was), the results are not great. Mihkels is talented and probably still under contract for next year, but nobody showed much. Maybe Beloki deserves another year or two because he is so young and climbed well at times, but beyond that, nobody really showed themselves. To be honest, I didn’t expect much, but this was bad. Nerurkar has been such a disappointment this year after a very promising neo pro year.
 
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If the goal with this Vuelta was to give all riders a free role and see who deserves to be given new contracts (maybe that wasn’t the goal, but if not I have no idea what the goal was), the results are not great. Mihkels is talented and probably still under contract for next year, but nobody showed much. Maybe Beloki deserves another year or two because he is so young and climbed well at times, but beyond that, nobody really showed themselves. To be honest, I didn’t expect much, but this was bad. Nerurkar has been such a disappointment this year after a very promising neo pro year.
Unfortunately, that seems like the right take on this Vuelta.
 
2026 Roster so far...

1VALGREN Michael33y + 237d
2ASGREEN Kasper30y + 236d
3POWLESS Neilson29y + 29d
4ALBANESE Vincenzo28y + 324d
5HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich28y + 254d
6SWEENY Harry27y + 85d
7BATTISTELLA Samuele26y + 322d
8VAN DEN BERG Marijn26y + 75d
9QUINN Sean25y + 145d
10HEALY Ben25y + 21d
11BAUDIN Alex24y + 130d
12WALKER Max24y + 82d
13STEINHAUSER Georg23y + 346d
14MACKELLAR Alastair23y + 255d
15MIHKELS Madis22y + 124d
16SIMMONS Colby21y + 351d
17HOBBS Noah21y + 71d
18BELOKI Markel20y + 67d
19AGOSTINACCHIO Mattia18y + 19d
 
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That part is for full name, you will see that his profile title is 'michael valgrem' but then it puts his full name in the section next to the pic. Same with pello bilbao who has 'pello bilbao lopez de armentea' in that section. Nobody is calling him that. Is just his full name

I know it's for full name. My point is that he hasn't been 'Andersen' for years; he got married, his full name is Michael Valgren Hundahl.

And if you look at Vingegaard's profile, you'll notice they got it right for him.
 

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