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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 19-10-2016 17:39
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Tamijo wrote:
Nice win from Martínez
And Good luck in East Flanders.
Thanks, won't be easy though with no real leader 
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 19-10-2016 23:29
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Hope everything goes well at Omloop  |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 20-10-2016 08:54
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Thanks sutty, so do we 
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 20-10-2016 12:44
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 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (1.HC)198.3 kms, 10 cobbled sections The time has come for the first chapter of the traditional double header the Belgian opening weekend consists of. For several of our riders this will be a first acquaintance with the cobblestones in an actual race. For your informaton our main guy for today's race is Ednaldo Luiz Cortes. At the first cobbled section, De Haaghoek, a breakaway had taken off definitely. The escapees of today were local boy Glenn Rotty, Latvia's former champion Gatis Smukulis, our Federico Zurlo, former winner of Tour Down Under Tom Slagter and Germany's rider Nico Denz. At that very point these five riders had the gap at six and a half minutes. Denz tested the others at the Taaienberg, the second cobbled climb of the race. The five remained together though as their gap had shrinked down to 3 minutes with 60 kms left in the race. It really didn't seem like anyone had enough to challenge the others truly, let alone shake them. Pretty much nothing happened in the bunch and the escapees only lost one minute in the next 30 kilometers. Still, the five rider group went on intact, now crossing Haaghoek for a third and final time in today's race. The ship stranded at De Lange Munte, the longest cobbled sector of the race. British champion Geraint Thomas accelerated while Cortes tried to counter. He almost bridged but he did not manage to close the gap. Now inside the final 10 kms, Cortes kept trying. Unsuccessfully. He was forced to chase on his own and had burned too much energy before he realised waiting for a third group would've been the slightly better idea.
Thomas's team mate Peter Sagan was the only one who succeeded in joining him, and it seemed like the two of them would decide the race by means of a sprint à deux. It looked like Tinkoff had a win bagged... But they both gave all chances away in the final hectometres, as Lotto-Soudal's Jasper Stuyven strongly came from behind to snatch it away, in front of Arnaud Démare. After a strong but somewhat overconfident performance, 19-year-old Brazilian Ednaldo Luiz Cortes concluded a very instructive first cobbled classic outside the top 10, in twelfth place. Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Race result | 1 | | Jasper Stuyven | Lotto Soudal | 4h29'29" | | 2 |  | Arnaud Demare | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 3 |  | Peter Sagan | Tinkoff | s.t. | | 4 |  | Lukas Spengler | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 5 | | Florian Senechal | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 6 | | Jürgen Roelandts | Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | 7 |  | Magnus Bak Klaris | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 8 |  | Geraint Thomas | Tinkoff | s.t. | | 9 |  | John Degenkolb | Team Giant-Alpecin | s.t. | | 10 | | Bryan Coquard | Tinkoff | s.t. | | … | … | … | … | … | | 12 |  | Ednaldo Luiz Cortes | Ruralvía - Seguros RGA | + 1'15" |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 20-10-2016 13:42
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GP di Lugano (1.HC) Ticino canton, 184.9 kms  | E. Chávarri |  | J. Gonçalves | | R. Guerreiro |  | Seb. Henao |  | J. Klever | | D. Ochoa | | H. Saez |  | E. Zardini |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 20-10-2016 22:21
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12th place at Omloop is an acceptable result for the team  |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 21-10-2016 11:05
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sutty68 wrote:
12th place at Omloop is an acceptable result for the team
Considering his age and his few experience on cobbles, this should be seen as a good result 
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 21-10-2016 13:53
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Knowing that several of riders have come and go since the beginning of the story, I'm starting to realise it may be a good idea to tell something more about our main riders. Revealing some more intel (such as their age and key stats) on them might result into you followers getting more easily what result is to be recognized a decent one and what one is not.
| Place of birth: | Burgos, Castilla y León | | Age: | 27 | | Rider type: | Sprinter / Puncheur | | Overall rating: | 77 | | Key stats: | 78 SPR | | 79 ACC | | 74 HIL | | Main goals: |  Volta a Catalunya | |  Vuelta al País Vasco | | National Championships | | Tour de France | | Vuelta a España | | UCI World Championships |
| Place of birth: | Ormaiztegi, País Vasco | | Age: | 30 | | Rider type: | Hill specialist / stage racer | | Overall rating: | 76 | | Key stats: | 79 HIL | | 76 MON | | 75 TT | | Main goals: | Paris - Nice | |  Ardennes classics | | Giro d'Italia | | Il Lombardia |
| Place of birth: | Barreiro, Lisboa | | Age: | 24 | | Rider type: | Stage racer | | Overall rating: | 77 | | Key stats: | 77 MON | | 77 TT | | 78 REC | | Main goals: | Vuelta al País Vasco | | National Championships | | Tour de France |
[Image currently unavailable] | Place of birth: | Ardooie, West-Vlaanderen | | Age: | 23 | | Rider type: | Stage racer | | Overall rating: | 77 | | Key stats: | 78 TT | | 77 MON | | 77 REC | | Main goals: | Tirreno - Adriatico | | Tour de Romandie | |  Amgen Tour of California | | Vuelta a España |
[image currently unavailable] | Place of birth: | Balmaseda, País Vasco | | Age: | 22 | | Rider type: | Climber / Stage hunter | | Overall rating: | 76 | | Key stats: | 78 MON | | 78 BAR | | 75 REC | | Main goals: | Vuelta al País Vasco | | Tour de France | | Vuelta a España |
[image currently unavailable] | Place of birth: |  Cochabamba, Cercado | | Age: | 22 | | Rider type: | Cobbler | | Overall rating: | 75 | | Key stats: | 77 COB | | 77 END | | 76 FLA | | Main goals: | Dwars door Vlaanderen | | E3 Harelbeke | | Ronde van Vlaanderen | | Paris - Roubaix | | Eneco Tour |
[image currently unavailable] | Place of birth: |  Salto, Salto | | Age: | 22 | | Rider type: | Sprinter | | Overall rating: | 76 | | Key stats: | 77 SPR | | 78 ACC | | 76 FLA | | Main goals: | Milano - Sanremo | | Gent - Wevelgem | | Tour de France |
| Place of birth: | Paipa, Tundama | | Age: | 25 | | Rider type: | Hill specialist | | Overall rating: | 74 | | Key stats: | 79 HIL | | 75 STA | | 71 MON | | Main goals: | Ardennes classics | | Clásica San Sebastián | |  GP Québec / Montréal | | UCI World Championships |
[image currently unavailable] | Place of birth: | Recife, Pernambuco | | Age: | 19 | | Rider type: | Cobbler | | Overall rating: | 73 | | Key stats: | 75 COB | | 74 STA | | 72 FLA | | Main goals: | Dwars door Vlaanderen | | E3 Harelbeke | | Ronde van Vlaanderen | | Paris - Roubaix | | Eneco Tour |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 21-10-2016 15:23
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Some strong youngster, bright future ahead ( if you can affort to keep them)
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 21-10-2016 17:42
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Some strong riders on show here |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 21-10-2016 20:47
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Tamijo wrote:
Some strong youngster, bright future ahead ( if you can afford to keep them)
A lot of potential in our team indeed but keeping them will be the biggest challenge. Some of these guys have an expiring contract this year 
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 25-10-2016 14:19
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GP di Lugano (1.HC) 184.9 kms Just like every year, the riders face a ride through the hilly area around Lago di Lugano. There are three consecutive bumps in 5 out of 6 local laps, with the finish line painted close to the lake after the last descent. Four riders composed the break of the day: Sebastian Henao, Jeffrey Romero, Thomas Vaubourzeix and Frederico Figueiredo. Maybe not the big names but the latter did come 2nd in last year's Tour of Austria. The four survived until there were three climbs left. Henao had tried to attack the others but a strong IAM team pulled him back, doing a good job for their Dutch team leader Marc Goos. At the 3rd to last climb, no attacks occured. Hopefully we were in for serious racing at the last two. Diego Ochoa came to the front and the penultimate bump, and only a few guys of our team and Louis Meintjes could keep up with him. And over the top, Ochoa decided to play an attacking card and accelerated. A 100% Dimension Data duo, Alexis Vuillermoz and fellow Frenchman Renaud Bailly, caught up with him at the final climb, and a now raging pack led by Lotto - Soudal was sitting not that far behind them either... Vuillermoz was the next attacker and he managed to build a nice gap in the descent, chased by five other riders. Both Ochoa and Edoardo Zardini were in that group at that point. Ochoa seemed cooked thus as of then, all our hope was on Zardini, who had come back strongly... But Dimension Data's Frenchman held on to the win while former race winner Edoardo Zardini came home in second place. Not a bad race at all with five riders in the first 14, but again the main prize escaped. | 1 | | Alexis Vuillermoz | Team Dimension Data | 4h34'31" | | 2 | | Edoardo Zardini | Ruralvía - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 3 | | Marc Goos | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 4 | | Jordi Simón | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 5 |  | Jan Hirt | Etixx - Quick-step | s.t. | | 6 | | Diego Ochoa | Ruralvía - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 7 | | Loïc Vliegen | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 8 |  | Daniel Martin | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 9 | | Sam Oomen | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 10 | | José Gonçalves | Ruralvía - Seguros RGA | s.t. |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 25-10-2016 15:01
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Strade Bianche (1.HC) Tuscany, 176.5 kms Strade Bianche Race profile Strade Bianche Team lineup | R. Guerreiro | | Seb. Henao | | I. Izagirre | | J. Klever |  | A. Mendigain | | D. Ochoa | | S. Vandenborre | | E. Zardini |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 02-11-2016 13:23
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Strade Bianche (1.HC) 176.5 kms It is time for the Strade Bianche gravel roads in the appealing and hilly region of Tuscany. As it does every year, this race counts as a good or final test before World Tour racing of Paris - Nice or Tirreno - Adriatico. Already inside the final 100 kms, 3 riders had a gap fluctuating around 4'30". They were last year's winner Ruben Guerreiro, Brendan Canty and Guillaume Thevenot, who'd stay together up to the point where... Thevenot left the other two behind. At that very moment their, or his, gap had been decreased radically. And the Frenchman didn't last long on his own. Soon several attacks started to occur left, right and center. Our team complety missed several ones, including the most dangerous attack by Astana's Andrea Manfredi. Only Movistar's Carlos Betancur managed to catch up after a long chase and together they managed to preserve a gap that would never get any larger than about one minute. The duo had already entered the Citta Vecchia through the ancient city gate when Italy's champion Allessio Bottura and Alexis Vuillermoz started to get closer. Meanwhile Sam Vandenborre was vainly trying to bring a 3rd group, which included Ion Izagirre, closer to those 2 guys. In the final hectometres, Betancur proved he still has that acceleration when riding uphill, a thing he once was so renowned for. Just over half a minute later, Vuillermoz prevented a 66% Italian podium while Ion Izagirre had to settle for fifth place, having pulled off a nice comeback. Strade Bianche Race result | 1 | | Carlos Betancur | Movistar Team | 4h14'52" | | 2 | | Andrea Manfredi | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 3 | | Alexis Vuillermoz | Team Dimension Data | + 33" | | 4 | | Allessio Bottura | Team Sky | s.t. | | 5 | | Ion Izagirre | Ruralvía - Seguros RGA | + 1'08" | | 6 | | Andrew Talansky | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 7 | | Andrea Fedi | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 8 | | Kenny Elissonde | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 9 |  | Robert Kiserlovski | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 10 | | Rubén Fernández | Movistar Team | s.t. |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 02-11-2016 13:38
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Paris - Nice (WT) Southern France, 8 stages | A. Cerezo | | Seb. Henao | | J. Klever | | M. Martínez | | A. Mendigain | | D. Ochoa | | N. Padilla | | S. Vandenborre |
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Posted on 02-11-2016 20:44
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Paris - Nice (WT) Prologue, 6.7 kms Paris - Nice Prologue results | 1 | | Yoann Paillot | AG2R La Mondiale | 8'30" | | 2 | | Tom Dumoulin | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 3 |  | Michael Matthews | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 1" | | 4 | | Mathias Krigbaum | Trek - Segafredo | + 4" | | 5 | | Wilco Kelderman | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 7" | | 6 | | Tejay Van Garderen | Team Sky | + 8" | | 7 | | Angel Cerezo | Ruralvía - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 8 |  | Gregor Mühlberger | Team Sky | + 9" | | 9 | | Arnaud Demare | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 10 | | Anthony Roux | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 11" |
Paris - Nice Overall standings | 1 | | Yoann Paillot | AG2R La Mondiale | 8'30" | | 2 | | Tom Dumoulin | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 3 | | Michael Matthews | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 1" | | 4 | | Mathias Krigbaum | Trek - Segafredo | + 4" | | 5 | | Wilco Kelderman | Team Giant-Alpecin | + 7" | | 6 | | Tejay Van Garderen | Team Sky | + 8" | | 7 | | Angel Cerezo | Ruralvía - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 8 | | Gregor Mühlberger | Team Sky | + 9" | | 9 | | Arnaud Demare | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 10 | | Anthony Roux | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 11" |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 02-11-2016 23:18
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Great result at Lugano with three in the top ten
And a steady start for Cerezo at Paris - Nice too |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 07-11-2016 21:06
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sutty68 wrote:
Great result at Lugano with three in the top ten
And a steady start for Cerezo at Paris - Nice too
Thanks sutty, some solid racing indeed
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 07-11-2016 21:15
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Roma Maxima (1.1) 185 kms, 8 cobbled sections | P. Bilbao | | G. Izagirre | | I. Izagirre | | A. Lature | | J.S. Molano | | A. Tinajero | | E. Zardini | | F. Zurlo |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 08-11-2016 15:48
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Should be an interesting race |
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