Hello! My name is Vincenzo Nibali and I am 30 years old.
I listened what Tinkov said and this time I thought this could be a good opportunity to demonstrate I am the best.
I became professional in 2005, when Giancarlo Ferretti signed me in Fassa Bortolo.
In 2006 I signed with Liquigas. I was there until 2012. In this period of time I won La Vuelta 2010. I was twice in Giro´s podium too. I also won Tour de San Luis in 2010, Giro del Trentino in 2008 or Tirreno-Adriático in 2012.
In 2013 I signed with Astana. In those 2 years I have won Il Giro (2013) and Le Tour (2014) completing the Crown of the three GT. This year I was Italian champion too and last year I was 2nd in La Vuelta and I won Tirreno-Adriatico (2nd time in my lifetime) and Giro del Trentino.
Now I´m going to present my team. My team sponsor will be Italo and the cyclists who will help me in this Superleague will be Enrico Gasparotto, Michele Scarponi, Paolo Tiralongo, Alessandro Vanotti, Lieuwe Westra, Diego Rosa and Dario Cataldo.
You can see I bet on Italian riders (except Westra) and in good climbers. I have also some great riders in flat so they can help me in that terrain.
At the same time, teams are being created, Oleg Tinkov has released the first part of the schedule.
To start the season, the teams will participate in Tour de San Luis. The Argentinian race will set the first leader of the Superleague. There will be four stages only. The first stage will be a flat one, to let the "sprinters" shine. After that stage, a short ITT will decide the firsts gaps. The third stage will be the queen stage. With finish in La Carolina, riders will climb first the long Cerro el Amago. And to finish, to decide the first leader of the Superleague, the riders will ride a hilly stage with finish in Mirador del Potrero.
Stage profiles:
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After riding in Argentina, riders will have a 2 weeks break. The next race will be Tour of Oman. Once again there will be only 4 stages. The first stage will be a stage for some fighters. It seems a flat stage, but there are some hills nearly at the end of the stage and sprinters won´t have a lot of chances to win there. This time, the queen stage will be the second. The Green Mountain is always difficult for the riders and this time it will decide the winner, or at least will make a selection of the favourites. The third stage will confirm what we saw in the 2nd stage. The strong riders must shine in this stage. To finish, the 4th stage will be a very flat one, to let the riders rest and to let sprinters win something.
Hello all cycling fanatics. I´m Alberto Contador, El pistolero. I come from Pinto, a town near Madrid, the Spanish capital. I was born there the 6th of December of 1982, so I am 32 years old.
My life has been a very difficult one with lights and darks. Let´s start with the darks. In 2004, when I was riding for Liberty Seguros I rode Vuelta a Asturias. In a stage I wasn´t well. I fell and I started feeling convulsions. I suffered a cerebral cavernoma. That happened in May. Fortunately, I could follow my life with my bike at the end of year 2004, when I continued training.
A video of my fell. A bit scaring:
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The other dark of my life was my positive in doping. It occured in 2010. In September, it became public that there was a small amount of clembuterol in my urine.
After this, UCI took me away my Tour 2010 and my Giro 2011, and more things.
Now, to talk about lights in my cycling life, I will talk you my palmares.
I have won 8 Grand Tours, but officially I have only six. I have 2 Tours de France (2007, 2009), 3 Vueltas a España (2008, 2012, 2014) and a Giro d´Italia (2008). In Grand Tours I have also 9 stages, 4 in Le Tour and 5 in La Vuelta, including 2 winnings in "Combinada" classification in La Vuelta.
I have also won Paris-Nice twice (2007, 2010), Tirreno-Adriático once (2014), Vuelta al PaÃs Vasco three times (2008, 2009, 2014) and three Vuelta a Castilla y León (2007, 2008, 2010).
To finish with my cycling life, I have won Milano-Torino in 2012 and I was Spanish champion in time-trial in 2009.
And finally, I´ll present my team.
The sponsor of my team will be Iberia and my teammates will be Luis León Sánchez, Mikel Nieve, Jesús Hernández, Daniele Bennati, Filippo Pozzato, Matteo Tosatto and Tanel Kangert. I bet for some great climbers and a combo of three Italians to help me in the flat.
Why did I sign in this Superleague? First of all, I have to indulge my boss Tinkov. But seriously, I know I could won the best climbers, so we are going to know who´s the best.
Good bye friends!
Edited by MARSUPILAMI on 06-01-2015 15:25
Hello guys! I´m Fabio Aru and most cycling followers think that I am the next Italian star for Grand Tours. I don´t really think so, because I am really only 24 years old, so I´m younger than the other GC contenders I have now.
My cycling career has been really short.
In August of 2012, Astana signed me as a stagiaire, and I have been there since then.
Before Astana signed me, in 2011 I won Giro della Valle d´Aosta and the last stage. In 2012, some days before I started riding with Astana, I won Giro della Valle d´Aosta too.
My first race as professional was 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge. I surprised a lot of people when I was 2nd in the 6th stage!
Season finished very quickly and I had a contract for two more years! In 2013 my best results were being 4th in GC of Giro del Trentino and 8th in GC of Österreich Ründfahrt, but maybe my best experience was riding Giro d´Italia! I finished 42nd and my best result in a stage was 5th in Tre Cime´s stage.
2014 was my best year, of course! I was going to be leader in Giro and in Vuelta! My season didn´t start really well. I even got a worse result in Trentino than last year´s one. I was only 7th. I didn´t mind a lot and I travelled to Belfats to ride my 2nd Giro. My objective? I dreamt about a Top 10!
Maybe the firsts mountain stages didn´t go well... but I was there. Maybe the cyclists didn´t think I was going to be a good GC contender until I won in Plan de Montecampione! It was a great result! Since that result I knew I needed to work hard to try to get the best result as possible. Finally I managed to be 3rd! Podium in Giro d´Italia! Great!
I started Vuelta with my homework done, and I knew I wasn´t going to repeat the podium I got in Giro, because this time I had even better contenders than in Giro. Urán and Quintana, who beated me in Giro, were there. Froome, Contador, Purito and Valverde were there too! It was going to be a tough Vuelta, so maybe Top 5 was really difficult.
In the middle of the race, Quintana and Urán abandoned so my objective was closer... but I did it! I was finally 5th in Santiago de Compostela. And I even won 2 stages! Aralar and Castrove were mine!
Vuelta was a great moment in my life, where I fought with great cyclists and I knew in the future I will be able to do what I want.
Time to present my team. Vincenzo Nibali called me to be in his team, but I decided to make a team by myself.
The sponsor will be Château d´Ax and my teammates will be Michele Scarponi, Danilo Napolitano, Michael Matthews, Enrico Battaglin, Filippo Fortin, Fabian Cancellara and Fränk Schleck.
I know that this year I´m not the favourite for winning, but I hope I´ll improve and I ´ll be a big contender for the win in some years.
If I finally play with PCM, I will play (I think) with a neutral team, but maybe I will get tired... I don´t know.
You will laugh with the next team I´ll present. And we will have too a retiration of a sponsorship! Froome, Contador, Aru or Nibali? Who will change the sponsor?
I am Wilco Kelderman and I´d like to sign in this amazing Superlague ran by Oleg Tinkov. I love this format and I think I wil really have options to win stages, races and to be in final Top 10.
Before presenting my team, I´d like to write a short biography about my cycling life.
To start, I am 23 years old and I am Dutch. I ride in a WorldTour team since 2012, always with the same team: Rabobank/Belkin.
In 2010 and 2011 I was in Rabobank Development Team and my best results were 1st in GC and in 6th Stage of 2010 Tour d´Alsace, 1st in GC of 2011 Tour of Norway and 1st in GC and 5th and 6th stages of 2011 Internationale Thüringen-Rundfahrt U23.
2013... 2013 was better than 2012. I improved my participation in Post Danmark Rundt; I won the General Classification, the Points Classification, the Youth Classification and 5th stage (a time trial). I also won the Youth Classification of Tour de Romandie (5th in GC; 2 YC win in a World-Tour stage race).
Time to present my team which will be named Team Jesleyh powered by TomTom. My teammates will be Robert Gesink, Laurens Ten Dam, Theo Bos, Tom Van Asbroeck, Sep Vanmarcke, Steven Kruijswijk and Moreno Hofland.
I hope this season will be succesfully for all riders! Bye!
Is this bait?. Y'know, Kelderman, Team Jesleyh, TomTom is his mangame team... Edited by jandal7 on 05-07-2015 01:39
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@dark_x2012 Thanks! The best is coming!
@SSJ2Luigi I did it just to make you laugh a bit and to make it original
@jandal7 Yes, I asked Jesleyh first, don´t worry!
@All I expect to post 2/3 teams today and maybe some races
Hello cycling followers! I am the young prospect from Poland, Michal Kwiatkowski!
I am really happy that Tinkov did this idea, because here I can show my abilities. Maybe in the most tough mountain stages I will suffer, but I hope in hilly stages I can shine easily.
If you don´t know me, I will make a sentence: I am the current World Champion!
Yes, 3 months ago I won the World Championships in Ponferrada. After a great work of my team, Poland, I attacked in the last climb and the rest of favourites couldn´t catch me!
Now, this year I´ll try to do good results in this Superleague... with the rainbow jersey!
But the World Championships weren´t the only thing I won last year... My year started really, really well. I started riding in Mallorca, were I won Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana after an attack. Then, I rode Volta ao Algarve. I won General Classification and 2nd and 3rd stages. I managed to beat Alberto Contador there!
I continued my roll in Strade Bianche, where I won too beating peopel like Sagan or Valverde! After that, people started talking about me like "next TdF winner" or something like that.
Then, I rode Tirreno-Adriatico. My team, Omega Pharma - QuickStep, won the TTT. In 3rd stage I was 2nd and in GC, 18th. My roll was finishing.
After abandoning in Milano - Sanremo, I rode Vuelta al PaÃs Vasco. I was 3rd in all stages except the 4th. I won the Points Classification and I was 2nd in the GC, behind Contador.
The sponsor will be Etixx, and my teammates will be Wout Poels, Gianluca Brambilla, David de la Cruz, Maxime Bouet, Maciej Bodnar, Sylvester Szmyd and Przemyslaw Niemiec.
