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[PT] Team I-Gen - Festina (2016)
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| SotD |
Posted on 02-01-2016 16:10
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Team I-Gen - Festina is a newly formed setup based around the 2015 Pro Tour champions Festina-Canal+. The team was previously a French-Greek setup, which has now been altered into a Slovenian team with focus on domestique riders aswell as keeping the Greek core - combined with chasing the best possible result they can get. Simon Spilak is the team leader, and the mastodont of the setup. The transition of the team is part of a three year setup, where the French numbers should be brought down, and the Slovenian numbers up - To atleast 5, preferably 7-8.
..::Team Name::..
 Team I-Gen - Festina
..::Team Manager::..
 Andreas Jøhnke
..::History::..
 Festina-Canal+ [2015]
Festina-Canal+ [2014]
Festina-Canal+ [2013]
 Festina-CONEC [2012]
 Festina-Corona [2011]
..::Last Season Standing::..
Winner of the Pro Tour
Grand Tour Riders
Simon Spilak - 950.000€ (#8 - 1807 Points)
Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier - 480.000€ (#23 - 996 Points)
Puncheurs
Clement Koretzky - 280.000€ (#33 - 820 Points)
Olivier Le Gac - 85.000€ (#199 - 148 Points)
Alexis Gougeard - 50.000€ (#425 - 59 Points)
 Charalampas Kastrantas - 50.000€ (#156 - 191 Points)
Climbers
Yuriy Vasyliv (U23) -80.000€ (#144 - 214 Points)
 Markus Eibegger - 50.000€ (#289 - 101 Points)
 Jakub Novak - 119.000€ (#136 - 229 Points)
 Piter Campero - 85.000€ (#154 - 195 Points)
 Pavel Potocki - LOAN (#413 - 63 Points)
Sprinters
Georgos Tzortzakis - 160.000€ (#46 - 688 Points)
Bryan Coquard - 190.000€ (#113 - 277 Points)
Marco Haller - LOAN (#445 - 53 Points)
 Grzegorz Stepniak - LOAN (#369 - 71 Points)
Cobblers
 Tom David - 170.000€ (#90 - 334 Points)
Nejc Kosic - 50.000€ (#438 - 55 Points)
Timetriallers
Jerome Coppel - 460.000€ (#19 - 1317 Points)
Mathieu Bernaudeau - 50.000€ (#352 - 78 Points)
Maxime Bouet - 50.000€ (#227 - 132 Points)
Andreas Hofer - LOAN (#231 - 130 Points)
Panagiotis Vlatos - 110.000€ (#83 - 357 Points)
..::The Talents - Presentations::..
#1 Piter Campero
#2 Olivier Le Gac
#3 Bryan Coquard
#4 Yuriy Vasyliv
#5 Tom David
#6 Panagiotis Vlatos
#7 Jakub Novak
#8 Clement Koretzky
#9 Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier
Tour de France Top 3 5pts (Achieved - 3rd GC, Simon Spilak)
Liege-Bastogne-Liege (M) Win 5pts (Failed - 5th, Simon Spilak)
Giro di Lombardia (M) Top 10 5pts (Failed - 16th, Piter Campero)
Vuelta a España (GT) Top 10 3pts (Achieved - 4th GC, Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier
Team Standings Top 3 5pts (Achieved - !WINNER!)
Click for elaboration and lineups
Grand Tour Riders
Simon Spilak
 Riccardo Ricco
Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier
Puncheurs
Clement Koretzky
Laurent Pichon
Olivier Le Gac
Alexis Gougeard
Charalampas Kastrantas
Climbers
Yuriy Vasyliv (U23)
Markus Eibegger
Martin Hacecký
Piter Campero
Sprinters
Georgos Tzortzakis
Bryan Coquard
Enrico Gasparotto
Cobblers
Tom David
Timetriallers
Jerome Coppel
Yoann Paillot
Mathieu Bernaudeau
Panagiotis Vlatos
Stagiares
 Zhihui Jiang (Pending)
Edited by SotD on 14-04-2017 11:24
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| SotD |
Posted on 02-01-2016 16:10
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Jerome Coppel - Tour de France, Stage 1
Jerome Coppel - Tour of Northern Europe, Stage 5
Jerome Coppel - Tour of Tasmania, Stage 3
Team I-Gen - Festina - Tour de France, Stage 7 (TTT)
Simon Spilak - Tour de France, Stage 18
Simon Spilak - Tour of Colombia, Stage 2
Charalampas Kastrantas - Criterium du Dauphine Libere, Stage 5
Panagiotis Vlatos - Tour of Qatar, Stage 6
Georgos Tzortzakis - Deutschland Tour, Stage 8
Clement Koretzky - Tour of California, Stage 5
Team I-Gen - Festina - Vuelta al PaÃs Vasco, Stage 1 (TTT)
Simon Spilak - Tour de France, Stage 20
Bryan Coquard - Vuelta a España, Stage 5
Bryan Coquard - Criterium du Dauphine Libere, Stage 1
Clement Koretzky - Tirreno-Adriatico, Stage 5
Olivier Le Gac - Tirreno-Adriatico, Stage 7
Jerome Coppel - Vuelta al PaÃs Vasco, Stage 5
Jerome Coppel - Praha - Karlovy Vary - Praha, Stage 1
Jerome Coppel - Praha - Karlovy Vary - Praha, Stage 3
Georgos Tzortzakis - Deutschland Tour, Stage 1
Georgos Tzortzakis - Tour of Norther Europe, Stage 6
Panagiotis Vlatos - Tour of Northern Europe, Stage 5
Yuriy Vasyliv - Tour de l'Avenir, Stage 5 (U23)
Yuriy Vasyliv - Tour de l'Avenir, Stage 9 (U23)
Simon Spilak - Tour de France, Stage 9
Simon Spilak - Tour de France, Stage 11
Simon Spilak - Tour of Tasmania, Stage 3
Jerome Coppel - Tour de France, Stage 15
Georgos Tzortzakis - Tirreno-Adriatico, Stage 3
Georgos Tzortzakis - Tour of Colombia, Stage 1
Bryan Coquard - Paris-Nice, Stage 3
Olivier Le Gac - Tour of California, Stage 8
Clement Koretzky - Deutschland Tour, Stage 6
1. Georgos Tzortzakis - Lisbon Classic
1. Jerome Coppel - Tour of Tasmania
2. Jerome Coppel - Chrono des Herbiers
2. Jerome Coppel - Praha - Karlovy Vary - Praha
2. Team I-Gen - Festina - Copenhagen - Malmö TTT
2. Simon Spilak - GP Liechtenstein
2. Simon Spilak - Tour of Colombia
3. Simon Spilak - Tour de France
3. Simon Spilak - Tour of Tasmania
3. Georgos Tzortzakis - Tour d'Afrique
3. Yuriy Vasyliv - Tour de l'Avenir (U23)
4. Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier - Vuelta a España
5. Simon Spilak - Liege-Bastogne-Liege
6. Clement Koretzky - Tour of California
6. Bryan Coquard - GP Moscow
7. Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier - Tour de France
7. Simon Spilak - Amstel Gold Race
7. Panagiotis Vlatos - Chrono des Herbiers
7. Clement Koretzky - Tirreno-Adriatico
7. Tom David - Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne
8. Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier - Paris-Nice
9. Clement Koretzky - Liege-Bastogne-Liege
9. Clement Koretzky - Deutschland Tour
9. Panagiotis Vlatos - Tour of Qatar
1. Jerome Coppel - Tour of Tasmania
2. Georgos Tzortzakis - Deutschland Tour
3. Simon Spilak - Tour de France
3. Simon Spilak - Tour of Colombia
3. Simon Spilak - Tour of Tasmania
3. Georgos Tzortzakis - Tour d'Afrique
3. Clement Koretzky - Tirreno-Adriatico
4. Jerome Coppel - Praha - Karlovy Vary - Praha
6. Clement Koretzky - Tour of California
6. Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier - Vuelta a España
7. Jerome Coppel - Tour of Northern Europe
10. Georgos Tzortzakis - Tour of Northern Europe
1. Clement Koretzky - Tour of California
5. Simon Spilak - Tour de France
6. Simon Spilak - Tour of Colombia
6. Clement Koretzky - Vuelta a España
6. Markus Eibegger - Tour of Northern Europe
7. Markus Eibegger - Tirreno-Adriatico
9. Jerome Coppel - Tour de France
1. Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier - Vuelta a España
2. Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier - Tour de France
2. Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier - Paris-Nice
5. Piter Campero - Giro d'Italia
7. Yuriy Vasyliv - Tour de Suisse
8. Yuriy Vasyliv - Tour de France
8. Yuriy Vasyliv - Tour of California
8. Charalampas Kastrantas - Deutschland Tour
8. Piter Campero - Tour of Colombia
9. Piter Campero - Criterium du Dauphine Libere
10. Olivier Le Gac - Deutschland Tour
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 02-01-2016 17:37
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Nice shirt, I dare you to better this season  If that indeed is possible  Good luck and keep up with challenging for the PT crown 
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| SotD |
Posted on 02-01-2016 17:55
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sgdanny wrote:
Nice shirt, I dare you to better this season If that indeed is possible Good luck and keep up with challenging for the PT crown
Thanks mate  - In terms of pointscoring I guess it is possible to do better, but I can't believe we are capable to do better, though
I think it will be a struggle to just keep our team basically the same, even when selling Ricco. I really do hope that it is possible though, as it would feel really pointless to spend so much time building for the future, if I couldn't even have the fully developped team for just one season.
I hope we can fight for a top 5 PT this season, but all will come down to what kinda team I can put together after renewals.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 03-01-2016 21:53
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Good luck in defending the PT crown
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| SotD |
Posted on 04-01-2016 06:52
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Thanks
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 04-01-2016 07:40
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Good luck for 2016 mate and especially for renewals. As you said that is where you will have to use some of your managing magic to hold onto PT winning potential squad. Looking forward to some possible Pluchkin-Spilak matchups.
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| SotD |
Posted on 04-01-2016 09:10
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Avin Wargunnson wrote:
Good luck for 2016 mate and especially for renewals. As you said that is where you will have to use some of your managing magic to hold onto PT winning potential squad. Looking forward to some possible Pluchkin-Spilak matchups.
Thanks a lot! Yeah, it will be somewhat of a struggle I reckon. Hopefully some of the talents will be good to me. Spilak and Pluchkin will definately go head-to-head next season. I suspect I will be challenging for the Tour de France with both Spilak and Lecuisinier next season, although it will be down to the race calender
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 04-01-2016 18:44
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Good luck this season and I can't wait to see you take PT glory again with that squad! Maybe we will talk in transfer season about another loan deal
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| SotD |
Posted on 04-01-2016 20:20
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the_hoyle wrote:
Good luck this season and I can't wait to see you take PT glory again with that squad! Maybe we will talk in transfer season about another loan deal
Thanks a lot mate
I would like it if I could keep the team, but I need to let Ricco go I think
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Posted on 04-06-2016 13:13
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Canal+ folds as sponsor - The end for Festina?
The recent years growth of Festina-Canal+ could come to a sudden halt, as the major money man for the sponsors Canal+ has decided to stop injecting in the team, as a direct consequense of "ridiculous" wage demands from riders - Especially french riders.
A spokesman for Canal+ said the following
As a sponsor of a respectable team that have been influencing a huge boost in talented riders in France we simply can not live with the fact that our own riders decides to piss all over us. Wage demands of young riders, that are yet to show their talent on the roads, have sky rocketed this off season, and we are simply not going to put up with those ridiculous demands. Simple as that.
We feel duped by the riders and their agents, and our dream of creating a team around the large boost of talents we decided to go for "back then" has been destroyed. The fact that we are not even able to sustain a similar team to last season, after parting with Riccardo, has made us fold. We are no longer interested in supporting french cycling, and as a direct consequence we have withdrawn every single euro put into the team. We have a get away clause in our contract with Festina, and we have decided to use it!
What the consequences of these quotes and decisions will be are yet to be discovered, but pundits speculate that this will also mean the disband of the entire Festina setup. The Festina company have already announced that they are not capable of lifting the burden, and they are considering their options, but that they are likely to fold their sponsorships aswell and declaring the subsidiary company "Festina sponsorships Co." as bankrupt, meaning that they will no longer be sponsoring the team either.
Several medias are speculating whether or not this will be the end for the team, who won the Pro Tour rankings as a team last season.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 05-06-2016 13:50
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Sad news for french cycling, we will closely monitor next development in this critical situation surrounding one of our greatest rivals and defending PT champion. We can only agree that young cyclists seem more greedy every year, probably pushed by their agents.
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 05-06-2016 13:58
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Shame yours and Alak's talents seemed to have upped their demands this year. Mine have been ok actually after being horrible last season, guess you guys just got the short straw in terms of the random element of renewals.
Hopefully the team recovers though and you are able to continue fighting at the top of the PT. We're looking forward to racing with Festina for the first time on a regular basis along with all the other top PT teams. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 05-06-2016 19:34
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I dont think they were the only ones with ridiculous wage demands of talents. I had riders asking for 100-300k more than what well established riders of the same talent make which is pretty crazy.
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 05-06-2016 19:53
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Curious what your new sponsors and nationality focus will be!
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| SotD |
Posted on 05-06-2016 20:12
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valverde321 wrote:
I dont think they were the only ones with ridiculous wage demands of talents. I had riders asking for 100-300k more than what well established riders of the same talent make which is pretty crazy.
Yeah I suspect riders like Kinoshita, Kwok and Itami and possibly Hiratsuka, Hayakawa and Iino could have asked for a fair bit more than they are worth.
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Posted on 05-06-2016 20:13
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Yeah, that could be interesting 
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 05-06-2016 20:14
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Ummm bit late for sponsor confirmation now isn't it?
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| SotD |
Posted on 05-06-2016 20:56
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Can't see what the problem should be. I wasn't been made aware of renewals changes that made my talents go fuckhold. So if I can't make a role play change before the database is even fully developped then I guess I'm not wanted in the game.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 05-06-2016 20:58
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Orange - KLM is popping the corks on the champagne after hearing today's news.
(*The team hasn't renewed any of its own riders so far, though, so it's likely they'll get depressed soon enough) |
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