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Putting the Quick in Quick ● Step
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 10:25
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Goals  | Win | E3 Harelbeke |  | | Win | Eneco Tour | | | Win | Ronde van Vlaanderen | | | Win | La Fleche Wallone | |  | Win | Milano - SanRemo | |  | Win | Paris - Roubaix | | | Win | Gent - Wevelgem | | | Win | Omloop Het Niewsblad | | | Win | Tirreno - Adriatico KoM Rankings | | | Top 3 | Championnat de Belgique | | | Top 3 | Liege - Bastogne - Liege | | | Top 3 | Giro d'Italia | | | Top 5 | Tour de France | | | Top 5 | Paris - Nice | | | Top 10 | Il Lombardia | |
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| purepasd |
Posted on 29-07-2015 10:43
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Looking good! It was you writing about Sky a couple of years ago right? |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 10:50
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purepasd wrote:
Looking good! It was you writing about Sky a couple of years ago right?
Yes. But the story barely reached Il Giro, if I remember correctly.
Edit: it was over 5 years ago actually. I see you've made your first posts in that thread. Nice 
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 10:52
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Australian Championships: ITT
The season kicks off with the Individual Time - Trial of the Aussie Championships. One of the early starters, Cameron Meyer set up a very good time which allowed him to spend a lot of time in the leader's seat.
Our only Aussie rider, Mark Renshaw isn't exactly a time - trial specialist so there was no surprise when he finished more than 3 minutes behind Meyer.
Mark Renshaw enjoying his first official race of the season
The list of favorites for today's race included big names such as the former World Champion Michael Rogers, BMC's talented young rider Rohan Dennis and Sky's Richie Porte.
Richie Porte was seen as one of the big favorites before the race
Quite surprisingly though, only Dennis was able to beat the early time of Cameron Meyer, while Richie Porte didn't even feature in the top 5.
Rohan Dennis - the new Aussie Time - Trial Champion
Results | 1 |  | Rohan Dennis | BMC Racing Team | 50'12 | | 2 | | Cameron Meyer | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 15 | | 3 | | Michael Hepburn | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 22 | | 4 | | Brett Lancaster | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 33 | | 5 | | Michael Rogers | Tinkoff-Saxo | + 36 |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 10:54
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Good Luck alexkr00  |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 11:19
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Australian Championships: Road Race
Given the hilly terrain and the amazing team behind him, all eyes will be on Simon Gerrans for today's race.
With no reason for him to wait for the final kilometers of the race, Mark Renshaw decided to have a go in the breakaway. The only rider who joined him was William Clarke of Drapac. The duo had no chance against a perfect timed chase by Orica.
The two escapees
With little over 20 kilometers left from the races, Simon Gerrans made the much anticipated attack. Despite the best effort of a few riders behind him, no one was able to follow him at first.
Gerrans making his move
A chasing group consisting of four riders (Richie Porte, Adam Hansen, Michael Rogers and Nathan Haas) was created behind Gerrans. After a few moments though, Haas and Porte left the other behind to do the chasing on their own. Rogers and Hansen would be eventually caught of what was left from the pack.
Nathan Haas working hard to bring back Simon Gerrans
And their move proved to be good one as just inside the final kilometer, they managed to catch Gerrans and outsprint him on the finish line, with Richie Porte taking a great an unexpected win for Team Sky.
Porte proved that the time - trial was just a bad day
Results | 1 | | Richie Porte | Team Sky | 4h42'23 | | 2 | | Nathan Haas | Team Cannondale - Garmin | + 4 | | 3 | | Simon Gerrans | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 6 | | 4 | | Michael Matthews | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 1'13 | | 5 | | Simon Clarke | Orica-GreenEDGE | s.t. |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 12:05
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| Race |  Tour de San Luis | | Category | 2.1 | | Info | Quite a few big names have traveled to Argentina for the Tour de San Luis this year. Mollema, Scarponi, Hesjedal and Amador will be fighting for the GC, while Cancellara and Gilbert are other stars who will start their season here. No GC hopes for Etixx, but with Cavendish and Tony Martin at the start, we should be in for a few stage wins. | | Etixx | 11.  Mark Cavendish | | 12. Tom Boonen | | 13. Maxime Bouet | | 14. Nikolas Maes | | 15.  Tony Martin | | 16. Matteo Trentin |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 13:49
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Tour de San Luis: Stage 1
With such a flat terrain and with Maes and Bouet doing a wonderful job chasing in the pack, the breakaway had no chance to stay away so with 10 kilometers to go, we were heading to a mass sprint.
Tony Martin, Tom Boonen and Matteo Trentin were there, ready to put Mark Cavendish in the best position possible for the final kilometers.
The Ettixx train heading towards the front of the pack
Tony Martin did an amazing job pulling our train, leaving Tom Boonen in front of the pack with 5 kilometers to go.
The next in line of the train, Matteo Trentin, wasn't as strong as Boonen and Martin though and this allowed the MTN train to gain some ground, with Goss putting Farrar in the perfect position for the sprint.
Cavendish was forced to start the sprint from behind, a few positions behind Farrar, but as soon as he found the space he was unstoppable...
Cav powering through
Farrar had no chance to hold on in front of Cavendish' acceleration and the Brit took quite a comfortable win in the end.
Cavendish celebrating the first win of 2015
Stage | 1 | | Mark Cavendish | Etixx - Quick-step | 4h02'00 | | 2 |  | Tyler Farrar | MTN-Qhubeka | s.t. | | 3 |  | Yauheni Hutarovich | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 4 | | Daniel Oss | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 5 | | Danilo Napolitano | Wanty - Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
General Classification | 1 | | Mark Cavendish | Etixx - Quick-step | 4h02'00 | | 2 | | Tyler Farrar | MTN-Qhubeka | s.t. | | 3 | | Yauheni Hutarovich | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 4 | | Daniel Oss | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 5 | | Danilo Napolitano | Wanty - Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
Spoiler Stage/GC
| 1 | Mark Cavendish | Etixx - Quick-step | 4h02'00 | | 2 | Tyler Farrar | MTN-Qhubeka | s.t. | | 3 | Yauheni Hutarovich | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 4 | Daniel Oss | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 5 | Danilo Napolitano | Wanty - Groupe Gobert | s.t. | | 6 | Davide Appollonio | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 7 | Matteo Trentin | Etixx - Quick-step | s.t. | | 8 | Tom Boonen | Etixx - Quick-step | s.t. | | 9 | Matthew Goss | MTN-Qhubeka | s.t. | | 10 | Sonny Colbrelli | Bardiani CSF | s.t. | | 11 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast | s.t. | | 12 | Kristian Sbaragli | MTN-Qhubeka | s.t. | | 13 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | 14 | Theo Bos | MTN-Qhubeka | s.t. | | 15 | Greg Henderson | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 16 | Roger Kluge | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 17 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | MTN-Qhubeka | s.t. | | 18 | Tony Martin | Etixx - Quick-step | s.t. | | 19 | Jürgen Roelandts | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 20 | Fabio Felline | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. |
Points
| 1 | Gert Dockx | Lotto Soudal | 6 | | 2 | Yauheni Hutarovich | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | 2 | | 3 | Brayan Ramírez | Colombia | 2 |
U25| 1 | Sonny Colbrelli | Bardiani CSF | 4h02'00 | | 2 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast | s.t. | | 3 | Kristian Sbaragli | MTN-Qhubeka | s.t. |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 21:21
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I'm just starting your Columbia story atm, so hopefully this is just as good! Great easy on the eye layout and reporting is superb. Hopefully you can get more stage wins down in Argentina
And a big fat  on the celebration scale
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT]  Xero Racing
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 21:27
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Etixx  Tony
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 22:30
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Good to see you back alex Good luck with this one! Your stories were the reason, I became a story writer, too. Thanks for that |
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 29-07-2015 22:38
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Best of luck - I will follow
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 22:54
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jandal7 wrote:
I'm just starting your Columbia story atm, so hopefully this is just as good! Great easy on the eye layout and reporting is superb. Hopefully you can get more stage wins down in Argentina
And a big fat on the celebration scale
Ah... The Columbia story. That was such a long time ago. I had no idea what I was doing for most part of the story
Batista15 wrote:
Good to see you back alex Good luck with this one! Your stories were the reason, I became a story writer, too. Thanks for that
It's always great to hear that. I see you also had a story with QuickStep 
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 29-07-2015 23:13
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I have mixed feelings about this story. as long as it's going on, I'll constantly be reminded of me not winning this game (press 1 if you don't feel bad for Hb, ... SSJ2Luigi. sorry force of habit  ) which makes me sad but the stories section in PCM15 (and 14 for that matter) seems a bit lacking compared to 13 so another story is always good. which makes me happy.
I guess I'll act like I'm totally fine
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 23:18
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SSJ2Luigi wrote:
I have mixed feelings about this story. as long as it's going on, I'll constantly be reminded of me not winning this game (press 1 if you don't feel bad for Hb, ... SSJ2Luigi. sorry force of habit ) which makes me sad but the stories section in PCM15 (and 14 for that matter) seems a bit lacking compared to 13 so another story is always good. which makes me happy.
I guess I'll act like I'm totally fine
I guess it would help if I told you that the main reason why I started this story is to say thank you for the game
Edit: Meant to write wouldn't help
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 29-07-2015 23:42
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Tour de San Luis: Stage 2
Given the hard finish of today's stage it is very unlikely to see the same riders as yesterday fighting for the stage win, which means that we are going to see a change to the leader's jersey as well.
Cavendish and his team - mates enjoying a day off
Despite Etixx not working at the front, the breakaway wasn't able to survive today either as they were caught shortly after the start of the final climb due to an amazing work done by BMC, Lotto and Trek.
With three kilometers to go, Philippe Gilbert decided there's to reason to wait in the pack and decided to attack. And it proved to be a good decision as no one was able to follow him.
Gilbert on the attack
With the final kilometer banner in sight, Scarponi and De Gendt attacked the rest of the pack, but it was way too late to get back into the wheel of Philippe Gilbert.
Gilbert had plenty of time to celebrate
Stage | 1 | | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | 4h10'20 | | 2 | | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | + 25 | | 3 | | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | + 45 | | 4 |  | Stefan Denifl | IAM Cycling | + 45 | | 5 |  | Bauke Mollema | Trek Factory Racing | + 45 |
General Classification | 1 | | Philippe Gilbert | BMC Racing Team | 8h12'20 | | 2 | | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | + 25 | | 3 | | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | + 45 | | 4 | | Stefan Denifl | IAM Cycling | + 45 | | 5 | | Bauke Mollema | Trek Factory Racing | + 45 |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 30-07-2015 07:55
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| Race | Santos Tour Down Under | | Category | 2.WT | | Info | The amount of stars present here, in Australia, for the World Tour opener is amazing. Kittle, Degenkolb, Purito, Valverde, Sagan, Dan Martin, TJ Slagter, Gesink, Van Avermaet, Greipel, Costa, Demare, Matthews, Bardet, LL Sanchez and Ciolek are all here. As for Etixx, Mark Renshaw will lead the team in the sprints, with Alaphilippe and Meersman going for the GC. | | Etixx | 101. Julian Alaphilippe | | 102.  Michal Golas | | 103. Gianni Meersman | | 104. Mark Renshaw | | 105. Fabio Sabatini | | 106. Guillaume Van Keirsbulck | | 107. Lukasz Wisniowski |
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| Housies |
Posted on 30-07-2015 08:47
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Yay, a story about my favorite team. Will follow this one.
I believe Renshaw doesn't stand a chance in TDU sprints. However Alaphilippe should be able to make top 5 in GC if his fitness isn't too bad.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 30-07-2015 08:59
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Housies wrote:
Yay, a story about my favorite team. Will follow this one.
I believe Renshaw doesn't stand a chance in TDU sprints. However Alaphilippe should be able to make top 5 in GC if his fitness isn't too bad.
Good luck!
It will be hard given the startlist. A top 10 is a more realistic goal, I'd say.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 30-07-2015 09:04
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Looks really good nice graphics, good team.
Best of luck most likely I'll be popping in and out! |
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