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Team High Road WTF

[editor's note, by chris] I'm catching up on reading diaries. This one is even more timely today.

Okay, Worst Kit Ever? True.

However --- and I for one don't mean to turn this into a High Road fan page --- is it just me, or is High Road having a mother-effing great 2008 season? Or has it just been the last week has been good to them?

Chapeau, Stapleton.

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Off the top of my head
  • Cavendish is looking to be the next big thing among sprinters.  he's mixed in some great finishes with some brain farts  (Stages 2 & 6 in California and G-W).
  • HR also has some good B race wins from some of their lesser sprinters.
  • Kirchen is having a very very good season.  Jury's out on his GC chances later this summer.
-Hincapie is having his normal bad luck.
  • Ciolek has been hurt and luckless too.
  • Siutsou looks like he's the winner in Georgia, a good B-grade stage race.
I think they will cool down some now that the classics are over mostly, at least until Germany, but we'll see.

by ursula on Apr 27, 2008 12:04 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Forgot to add
  • Gerdeman of course has been hurt.  He says he won't be fully back till after the Tour.
  • Rogers too has been out.

by ursula on Apr 27, 2008 12:07 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

and...
if Gerdemann hadn't crash at Tirreno he could have won the race.

Poor cobbled season and Paris-Nice, but great season so far

by King of Doping on Apr 27, 2008 5:38 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

oh, and what about Burghardt?
he should have been HR's leader at the cobbles

by King of Doping on Apr 27, 2008 5:39 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

OK so they haven't won any of the biggest races
But they have won a boatload of other races and when you consider the ageprofile of the team that is pretty farging admirable. These are mostly guys who shouldn't be hitting their GT/monument-winning prime for another 4-5 years so it's way above expectations especially given their injurylist. And if Hincapie hadn't been you know cursed and everything, they might well have a monument or at least a monument-podium as well.

by Jens on Apr 27, 2008 6:51 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Ifs nd buts are candy and nuts...
Folks I am not putting HR down.  To me they look just like a team with a ton of young talent should look.

But you can't say, "IF Burghart, IF Gerdemann, IF Hincapie" and then say they are doing great. The plain fact is that some of the team has not come through. Some of the team has been very very good, prodigal even.  They have a lot of depth which shows in their winning various smaller races.  

The present is good, the future looks bright.

by ursula on Apr 27, 2008 9:20 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

IF Team High Road had a sponsor
   They would be ecstatic because they are winning races.  Second places don't get much mention in the press.  So it matters greatly that they win.  BUT they don't have a real sponsor to enjoy their candy and nuts so they just go to waste.
"I don't say anything about that, or it will be a disaster." G. Simoni

by flying dog on Apr 27, 2008 12:56 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

When I see Chapeau
I always read it as champipple.

But, poor Burghardt. I was expecting great things from him. A sophomore slump, I suppose.

-K-

by KevinK on Apr 27, 2008 1:36 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Congrats to High Road...
...and to Team Type 1, which was third on the Team GC behind Astana and CSC - and ahead of all kinds of proven talent.

A great result for the first-year team.

My new signature: Why not follow racing in the United States?

by Chief Commissaire on Apr 27, 2008 6:05 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

CQ
Has them fourth, after CSC, Quick Step and Rabo. Rabo have been solid; Quick Step just ended their season; CSC are where they always are.

I'd say High Road should be where they are. It's just shocking to see them living up to expectations for a change (from their T-Mob days). If you look to see who's behind them, it'd be a little disappointing not to see them ahead of Liquigas, Caisse d'Epargne (arguable?), et al.

Also, can we create a new standard for team scoring: the Milram Line? It would work just like the Mendoza Line in baseball. Euskies, Saunier Duval and AG2R should all feel a little ashamed of being below the Milram Line right now.

by Chris... on Apr 29, 2008 5:04 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Part of the reason
I posted this was because, at least since the Tour of Qatar, it seems like the High Road guys have been all over the place --- if they're not winning, they're at least figuring in a break or figuring somewhere in the finish. And this without any what I consider "big" names!

I don't know, though --- I can't find an easily compiled list of this season's palmares to post here, and I don't have the time to go through Cycling News postings to check podium placings, so someone on the High Road site needs to get on that.

Here's hoping Gerdemann will be back (and on form?) for the TdeF this year --- man, he put in SUCH a mega ride last year!

by 72andSunny on Apr 30, 2008 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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