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But wilco has done good short time trials or prologues in bad shape, like in paris niza last year or even this year in algarve when he was only in average form.
 
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Well, finaly he finishes 14 in the GC, he looks good in the time trial but due to the the rain he wasn' able to have a good resul, dekker tifosi do you know his race calendar for the last part of the season? He will only race the WC?
 
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pablohidalgo7 said:
Well, finaly he finishes 14 in the GC, he looks good in the time trial but due to the the rain he wasn' able to have a good resul, dekker tifosi do you know his race calendar for the last part of the season? He will only race the WC?

hopefully not much, i think he is running on fumes
 
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Dekker_Tifosi said:
hopefully not much, i think he is running on fumes

I expect so, he already has done so many race days, i expect him to shines a little bit in the WC like last year when he was in a breakway.
 
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I want kelderman to ride the tour the france in 2015, but with that parcours is better for him to do the giro again, someone knows his race schedule for 2015?
 
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Dekker_Tifosi said:
He wants to do the Tour regardless. So no Giro.

Yes, there is an interview in belkin twitter in which he says he is going to do the tour although he would have preferred more time trials.
 
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Uhm, Kelderman has transformed into Betancurts brother?

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look at that 2nd chin and bloated face! :(
 
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Dekker_Tifosi said:
Uhm, Kelderman has transformed into Betancurts brother?

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look at that 2nd chin and bloated face! :(

He has never looked any different. Looks like a hamster.
 
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His face looks more fat than ever!!!
But his body looks notmal, slim as always.
We will see in La Molina if he is better tan in Paris-Nice.
 
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Well he is certainly better than Paris-Nice.
Good and very needed performance for him and specially his team.
 
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It's weird though, altitude training before ruta, then decent in ruta, very bad in paris nice, and good bordering on super here.

Maybe the planned it wrong>
 
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Dekker_Tifosi said:
It's weird though, altitude training before ruta, then decent in ruta, very bad in paris nice, and good bordering on super here.

Maybe the planned it wrong>

Isn't that what we are used to by now? I mean at rabo/blanco/belkin they always peaked the wrong weeks and were changing altitude camps all the time. I'm afraid they (Delahaye and the others as well) really are clueless. If Mollema really makes a step up this year (im not that confident he will)then they really need to put question marks behind their work.

The only one at Lotto that seems to be doing just fine is Vanmarcke. Kelderman looking good now as well and Gesink is just in a huge hole of bad luck and everytime he almost crawled his way out he gets kicked back in it or falls down it himself. It's just terrifying the amount of bad luck he has to deal with.
That's 3 riders and what are the others doing? Even the domestiques look to be dwelling in mediocricy or total crapiness :) if they ride at all, because most of them are injured, sick or whatever.

Their luck better changes soon.
 
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Great job by kelderman today!!
I dont expect him to be that good in huy, specially after the flu.
He will be in the mix in Liege.
 
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Yeah I think he was already good in Amstel but his attack and cyclocross ride ruined a chance of good result.

He seems pretty good at the explosive stuff.
 
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Yeah I think he was already good in Amstel but his attack and cyclocross ride ruined a chance of good result.

He seems pretty good at the explosive stuff.

It seems that he has been working on that in the last weeks
 
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No he was already pretty good at the explosive finishes in the giro last year.

I think the main difference with earlier this season is that he isn't sick anymore.
 
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Guess classics are still 50km too long for him. FW is fine.. LBL/Agr lacks the distance. But today he also came back after that big pile-up and I think he wasted pretty much all of his energy there.