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Bonimenier

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Sivakov should've played the card Van Baarle a bit more and sat in the wheel of Devenyns for the last 1km or so.

Anyway a nice victory for Devenyns. Done a lot of work for others last year, it's nice to see him win for a change.
 
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Devenyns was lucky Keukeleire and McCarthy wouldn't work with Impey to pull it back. This is becoming a worrying theme with McCarthy.
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McCarthy at least kept rolling through, although you could understand him thinking Impey and Keukeleire are better sprinters. Keukeleire musn't have had anything left though because the leaders were right there when he stopped working. If not that was amateur stuff because if he can't back himself in a flat sprint against Impey what's he doing?
 
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MS rode a beautifully structured race - Yates doesn;t blow up with 5kms to go and Impey wins the race - Ineos with 2 riders were always going to attack the group of six riders.
 
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Captain Serious said:
Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for it
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yaco said:
MS rode a beautifully structured race - Yates doesn;t blow up with 5kms to go and Impey wins the race - Ineos with 2 riders were always going to attack the group of six riders.
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Yeah it seemed a bit odd, once he couldn't gain a gap he should have committed to Impey rather than try attack again. Schultz, Howson and Smith all rode out of their skins, but Yates should have attacked as soon as the last of them peeled off rather than let Impey ride on the front for 10 seconds.

Hats off to Dries, he always seems to be on good form down under and is an invaluable team member too.
 
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it's not the infors for the 2020 race...........
"Watch the live stream of the final stage LIVE on Cycling Central from 1.30pm on Sunday, February 3." the race starts february 5.
 
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Pirazziattacks said:
McCarthy at least kept rolling through, although you could understand him thinking Impey and Keukeleire are better sprinters. Keukeleire musn't have had anything left though because the leaders were right there when he stopped working. If not that was amateur stuff because if he can't back himself in a flat sprint against Impey what's he doing?
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It's early Feb: he has to be good in April
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Yeah it seemed a bit odd, once he couldn't gain a gap he should have committed to Impey rather than try attack again. Schultz, Howson and Smith all rode out of their skins, but Yates should have attacked as soon as the last of them peeled off rather than let Impey ride on the front for 10 seconds.

Hats off to Dries, he always seems to be on good form down under and is an invaluable team member too.
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I think Yates did his job - broke open the race on the climb and got rid of Viviani an Ewan. Impey was strong - in hindsight he should have gone with the Sivakov attack.
 
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yaco

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The Hegelian said:
It's early Feb: he has to be good in April

I think Yates did his job - broke open the race on the climb and got rid of Viviani an Ewan. Impey was strong - in hindsight he should have gone with the Sivakov attack.
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Then Van Baarle would have gone over the top playing the numbers game - MS needed Yates to hold on to the end or at least go later on the last climb get a gap and force the others to chase Yates.
 
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yaco

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Can imagine Dainese and Groves having good battles over the years - Will be interesting to see if any can reach the elite sprinter level and how versatile they'll be as riders.
 
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Yeah, there’s some interest in seeing Dainese and Groves battle it out. Which is just as well as this may well have the lowest quality sprint field of any pro stage race with multiple sprint stages that we will see all year.
 
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Hofland was in the mix. I guess he needs a solid season, otherwise his career may be in trouble.

Did you know that every single rider, who could be broadly described as a sprinter, that had joined EF/Cannondale/Garmin after 2012, apart from Breschel, was out of WT after 2 years?

I'm worrying about Halvorsen a bit now, when his start at EF was not stellar as well. :p
 
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Jai Hindley (SunWeb) win stage 2 from Howson.
Seb Berwick third.
Yates was dropped at the 6km to go mark.

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The Falls Creek climb suits Howson's characteristics - He'll be less suited by Mt Buller but is still my favorite - Have no idea what happened to Yates as his form had been good.
 
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In the women’s race, the 2nd and final stage is won by Ella Harris from NZ, Sarah Gigante 2nd.
Lucy Kennedy 3rd, a few seconds back and that’s enough for the GC win I believe.
 
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