The 2026 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Devil's Elbow]

That was not a good MTF at all for my team, with O'Connor and Gaudu nowhere, Tiberi winning and Nordhagen looking good. Only bits of good news are Van Eetvelt on the one hand, and Evenepoel on the other...

 

[Squire]

Picking O'Connor might be the biggest waste of 500 points in a long time.

 

[Earns1985]

Positives for me today:
Nordhagen
Evenepoel
Gaudu
van Eetvelt

Negatives:
O'Connor
Tiberi

Damn it, thought my O'Connor Mas combination was a conservative one, without much risk. Have a feeling, that these two guys will annoy me a lot for the rest of the season.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Damn it, thought my O'Connor Mas combination was a conservative one, without much risk. Have a feeling, that these two guys will annoy me a lot for the rest of the season.

Mas at least had some risk with regards to his injury and therefore also has the more obvious path to still coming good (he wasn't really supposed to score anything in the early season anyway), but for O'Connor I had the same feeling as you. After Démare in 2024 and Van Aert last year, maybe the lesson is that I should stop going for boring but seemingly safe expensive riders in their early 30s...

 

[RedheadDane]

Well, if I'm lucky, Honoré can hold onto his top-10 in Oman on the climb tomorrow

Of course, I won't mind if Øxenberg can hold on to top-30.

I have to stop writing things like that!

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Honoré Mikkel Frølich

EF Education - EasyPost

8:27

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Øxenberg Peter

INEOS Grenadiers

4:13

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Giosue epis selected for ruta de sol. Let's go my star boy!!!

 

[Earns1985]

So first of hopefully many points for Laporte. With this route, I can see him even grap up the GC points in Andalucia..