|
[CT] Elta-Hellenic Post 2016 - Statement about Kulhavy
|
| roro_352 |
Posted on 02-01-2016 11:29
|
Domestique
Posts: 423
Joined: 27-01-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
What a rough year 2015 has been for the newborn greek team. We couldn't achieve any of our season goals, our key riders were rarely useful, and we finished in the bottom of the Continental Tour, in 23rd place. But our few wins and great stages might have convinced our sponsors : all of them have a signed for an other year with the team leaded by Juan Carlos Rienda and Jaroslav Kulhavy. We're now looking for better days, after being close to disbandment. On this idea, we hired a new designer, Metà . Well known in France but less overseas, our shirtmaker prepared a beautiful shirt, that will be easily findable in the peloton. Our plans for 2016 ? Refreshing the roster by getting rid of our disapointing riders like Christos Volikakis, and trying to race better while keeping our nationalist recruitment politic.
Edited by roro_352 on 28-06-2016 12:16
|
| |
|
|
| roro_352 |
Posted on 02-01-2016 11:30
|
Domestique
Posts: 423
Joined: 27-01-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
Edited by roro_352 on 04-06-2016 15:00
|
| |
|
|
| trekbmc |
Posted on 02-01-2016 11:56
|
Team Leader
Posts: 7366
Joined: 11-07-2014
PCM$: 700.00
|
Good luck coming in closer to the top of the CT next season. 
"What done is, is one." - Benji Naesen
|
| |
|
|
| roro_352 |
Posted on 08-04-2016 16:37
|
Domestique
Posts: 423
Joined: 27-01-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
trekbmc wrote:
Good luck coming in closer to the top of the CT next season.
Difficult to make worse after all 
New bikes for a new year !
While the season struggles to start, a french designer, toto, accepted to make special bikes for our team. Beautiful, isn't it ?
Edited by roro_352 on 04-06-2016 14:59
|
| |
|
|
| dev4ever |
Posted on 08-04-2016 17:54
|
Small Tour Specialist
Posts: 2282
Joined: 13-03-2011
PCM$: 200.00
|
Great bike! Have the feeling your team will challenge for promotion this year with some more top-guns addet in Also nice to see there's managers who belive the MG will come to back to life!
|
| |
|
|
| roro_352 |
Posted on 04-06-2016 14:58
|
Domestique
Posts: 423
Joined: 27-01-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
|
| |
|
|
| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 05-06-2016 13:53
|
World Champion
Posts: 14236
Joined: 20-06-2011
PCM$: 300.00
|
Great looking shirts! Good luck in 2016 season and off-season prior to that.
|
| |
|
|
| SotD |
Posted on 05-06-2016 14:03
|
World Champion
Posts: 12202
Joined: 29-11-2006
PCM$: 2980.00
|
Yeah, it looks really nice. Very simple. And often, simple is the best
|
| |
|
|
| Ian Butler |
Posted on 05-06-2016 14:55
|
Tour de France Champion
Posts: 21854
Joined: 01-05-2012
PCM$: 400.00
|
Great jerseys for the upcoming season |
| |
|
|
| roro_352 |
Posted on 09-06-2016 14:30
|
Domestique
Posts: 423
Joined: 27-01-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
Thanks all for the kind comments on the shirts 
We had quite easy renewals this year : everything was OK after the first round of talks. After their good 2015 season, our leaders Ilias, Kulhavy and Rienda accepted to sign for an other year, with relatively small upgrades of wage. We keep a similar team after the renewals period, even if we decided to release 4 riders : Ioannis Tamouridis was becoming too old, and Volikakis, Efstathiou and Skettos didn't match our "climbing requirements". Elta-Hellenic Post now has 14 riders, we will hopefully fill the free spaces with useful riders for 2016 !
On this table (based on Roman's one  ), you can find all the information about our renewals, and the availability of our riders
| Rider name | OVL | Wage | Change | Availability |  Jaroslav Kulhavy | 73,45 | 100 000 € | +3 000 € | Unlikely |  Perikles Ilias | 72,68 | 64 000 € | +14 000 € | Unlikely |  Juan Carlos Rienda | 72,65 | 63 000 € | +3 000 € | Possible | | Apostolos Bouglas | 72,45 | 50 000 € | No change | Unlikely |  Vassilis Adamou | 71,56 | 60 000 € | No change | Unlikely (NC) | | Georgios Karatzios | 70,97 | 50 000 € | No change | Unlikely (NC) | | Neofytos Sakellaridis | 70,56 | 64 000 € | +14 000 € | Unlikely | | Ioannis Drakakis | 69,31 | 50 000 € | No change | Possible | | Petros Gkazonis | 69,27 | 50 000 € | No change | Possible | | Christos Katrakis | 68,81 | 50 000 € | No change | Possible | | Georgios Bouglas | 68,50 | 50 000 € | No change | Possible |  Clive Ebejer | 68,47 | 50 000 € | No change | Unlikely (NC) |  Aleksejs Saramotins | 68,40 | 69 000 € | +3 000 € | Possible | | Vasileios Simantirakis | 67,49 | 50 000 € | No change | Possible | | Released riders : | | Christos Volikakis | 71,13 | 0 € | Released | Free agent | | Konstantinos Efstathiou | 68,23 | 0 € | Released | Free agent | | Timotheos Skettos | 68,02 | 0 € | Released | Free agent | | Ioannis Tamouridis | 66,44 | 0 € | Released | Free agent |
|
| |
|
|
| Ad Bot |
Posted on 23-12-2024 08:10
|
Bot Agent
Posts: Countless
Joined: 23.11.09
|
|
| IP: None |
|
|
| roro_352 |
Posted on 10-06-2016 09:57
|
Domestique
Posts: 423
Joined: 27-01-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
| Race | Goal | Category | | Acropolis Cup | Win | C2HC | | Tour de Langkawi | Stage win | C2HC | | Tour of Southland | Top 10 | C2 | | Tour of Bulgaria | Top 5 | C2HC | | CT Team Standings | Top 15 | N/A |
Thanks to roturn for the presentations
Edited by roro_352 on 13-06-2016 14:22
|
| |
|
|
| roro_352 |
Posted on 13-06-2016 14:31
|
Domestique
Posts: 423
Joined: 27-01-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
First signing : Nikolaos Ioannidis
We signed our 15th rider today : Nikolaos Ioannidis ! He brings us some fresh air in the greek area, and he should become useful as we are expecting a big signing in the upcoming hours...
| FL | MO | HI | TT | STA | RES | REC | CB | SP | ACC | FI | DH | PRL | | 69 | 69 | 69 | 67 | 69 | 70 | 67 | 57 | 58 | 69 | 71 | 67 | 71 |
|
| |
|
|
| aidanvn13 |
Posted on 13-06-2016 15:10
|
Classics Specialist
Posts: 2797
Joined: 06-11-2010
PCM$: 200.00
|
Haha, I raced against him last week. He finished 5th, I finished 6th. You're building a pretty cool team of Greek guys!
|
| |
|
|
| Shonak |
Posted on 13-06-2016 15:40
|
Tour de France Champion
Posts: 15615
Joined: 16-07-2013
PCM$: 350.00
|
aidanvn13 wrote:
Haha, I raced against him last week. He finished 5th, I finished 6th. You're building a pretty cool team of Greek guys!
So, does his fighter stat 71 hold up in real life? 
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
|
| |
|
|
| roro_352 |
Posted on 14-06-2016 13:59
|
Domestique
Posts: 423
Joined: 27-01-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
They are leaving : Aleksei Saramotins and Clive Ebejer
The Latvian TT champion Saramotins and the only active maltese cyclist in the Man-Game Clive Ebejer left Greece and Elta-Hellenic Post. Good luck to them at Vivacom - Datamap, the new bulgarian team !
----------------------------
A top gun : Emanuele Sella
The Man-Game world went crazy for a few minutes after the deal made with Shimano - Siam Cement became public. Emanuele Sella, 35, agreed for probably one his last challenges : helping a team to promote from CT. He'll be for sure one of the top contenders in the Continental division this year.
| FL | MO | HI | TT | STA | RES | REC | CB | SP | ACC | FI | DH | PRL | | 67 | 79 | 72 | 64 | 72 | 78 | 70 | 50 | 50 | 73 | 77 | 66 | 64 |
Coming on loan : Alexander Foliforov
We didn't achieve to loan in Shalunov with Foliforov, but we still have a nice domestique for mountain stages ! He also have a very nice endurance that should be really useful while working for Sella. He seems to have an attacking temperament, and we like that !
| FL | MO | HI | TT | STA | RES | REC | CB | SP | ACC | FI | DH | PRL | | 71 | 70 | 69 | 66 | 75 | 74 | 72 | 50 | 61 | 58 | 66 | 72 | 66 |
Edited by roro_352 on 14-06-2016 19:57
|
| |
|
|
| ivaneurope |
Posted on 14-06-2016 14:09
|
Classics Specialist
Posts: 2938
Joined: 09-05-2011
PCM$: 300.00
|
roro_352 wrote:
They are leaving : Aleksei Saramotins and Clive Ebejer
The Latvian TT champion Saramotins and the only active maltese cyclist in the Man-Game Clive Ebejer left Greece and Elta-Hellenic Post. Good luck to them at Vivacom - Datamap, the new bulgarian team !
The Vivacom - DataMap team is looking forward to wellcome Ebejer and Saramotins
|
| |
|
|
| roro_352 |
Posted on 14-06-2016 20:09
|
Domestique
Posts: 423
Joined: 27-01-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
@ivaneurope : I'm looking forward to see what your team will look like
Hopefully better than Volikakis : Armindo Fonseca
After signing our climbing leader, we found our new main sprinter with the frenchman Armindo Fonseca ! Coming from Vontobel in PCT, he proved to be a great sprinter despite limited climbing abilities. He was the 5th best sprinter as the great Tour of America ! He'll probably get us a few wins in 2016.
| FL | MO | HI | TT | STA | RES | REC | CB | SP | ACC | FI | DH | PRL | | 74 | 54 | 61 | 64 | 74 | 68 | 76 | 60 | 78 | 77 | 63 | 63 | 64 |
|
| |
|
|
| roro_352 |
Posted on 19-06-2016 10:44
|
Domestique
Posts: 423
Joined: 27-01-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
Goodbye to Simantirakis and G.Bouglas
Sadly, 2 riders had to leave the team because of salary cap problems. Georgios Bouglas (picture) is going for free at the World Cycling Centre, while Vasileios Simantirakis is forced to become a free agent. Maybe an end to his career, as he's 37 years old.
----------------------------
Haijun Ma joins the team !
The time trial flash sales from Jayco'z Cycling Project attracted us, and we managed to make a 400k deal for the chinese rider Haijun Ma. He might not have superb climbing abilities, but he should deliver points on the time trials we will race. Next to Sakellaridis (75 TT) and Katrakis (73 TT), it's a great trio we have from Team Time Trials too. We are at 15 riders now, the minimum CT limit.
| FL | MO | HI | TT | STA | RES | REC | CB | SP | ACC | FI | DH | PRL | | 76 | 55 | 66 | 77 | 73 | 68 | 68 | 50 | 62 | 64 | 65 | 64 | 77 |
|
| |
|
|
| Margh Norway |
Posted on 19-06-2016 11:15
|
Sprinter
Posts: 1507
Joined: 23-07-2010
PCM$: 200.00
|
Fonseca won us two stages in our 2014 CT season. He's pretty much a reliable yougetwhatyousee kind of sprinter still able to perform. But don't know if he can score victories as CT-competition seems to get harder every year.
Anyway, good luck for the season!
|
| |
|
|
| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 20-06-2016 02:37
|
Small Tour Specialist
Posts: 2436
Joined: 07-07-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
Sella could well upset some of Kraftwerk's mountain race goals  , nice signing he should do very well for you
See you at the summit
|
| |
|
Main shirt
Main shirt
Vassilis Adamou (RR)
Aleksejs Saramotins (ITT)
Clive Ebejer (RR & ITT)
