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IAM Cycling - The Road of Ambition
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 08-05-2013 08:18
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NTTHRASH wrote:
Areolys wrote:
Thank you guys for your support 
Finally got the roster done and chosen the teams. Now on to their season planing 
@NTTHRASH: They aim to make pro tour within 2 years, after that the'll aim for World no.1. This will take a while since I only intend to transfer young riders under 25. We'll see if that'll work out.
Cool idea! I love using U25s, and I hope Kelderman picks you next season. 
Kelderman! 
Yeah, good luck with this! Iam is a nice team.
Won't you use Haussler for the cobbles though?
Btw Cancellara should really be a transfer target when you enter WT, even though he's old...
Edited by Jesleyh on 08-05-2013 08:19
Feyenoord(football) and Kelderman fanboy
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| Areolys |
Posted on 08-05-2013 11:24
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Jesleyh: As he's currently my best sprinter I'll use him as a sprinter for Team A. If hes not racing at that day he'll do the cobble races as well.
Having planned my season and only got up to 60 days so those couple days won't matter much. |
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| Areolys |
Posted on 08-05-2013 18:43
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Race Scedule is done. Training Plans are written... I am ready to start the season!  |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 08-05-2013 19:00
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Hope you get all the wildcards you want. No ambition for the Tour, though? |
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 08-05-2013 19:04
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Areolys wrote:
Thank you guys for your support
Finally got the roster done and chosen the teams. Now on to their season planing
@NTTHRASH: They aim to make pro tour within 2 years, after that the'll aim for World no.1. This will take a while since I only intend to transfer young riders under 25. We'll see if that'll work out.
Pizzaballa and Lindau are great talents without contract
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| Areolys |
Posted on 08-05-2013 23:51
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Ian Butler: Just realized that now. Seems like there was some problems wimporting my full season plan into the game. Wildcard for Tour is requested, but I don't count on either the tour nor the giro this year. But you never know
fcancellara: I'll have a look at them Thanks for the heads up! |
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| Areolys |
Posted on 09-05-2013 15:18
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great way to start the season... 
peloton was about 45 mins back and nobody ever chased...
I'll skip this race since it's a complete joke.
Edited by Areolys on 09-05-2013 15:21
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 09-05-2013 15:30
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Yeah, thats the way a lot of smaller NC's went with me too. Attack early on and no Team has the numbers to catch you. |
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| Areolys |
Posted on 09-05-2013 18:51
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No Tour de France for IAM Cycling this year. (21.01.2013)
Bad news for IAM Cycling today. The newly formed swiss team won't be able to compete in this years Tour.
Michel Thétaz, founder and CEO of IAM SA (IAM Investment Funds) was not somber despite this disappointment:
“We of course understand the dilemma the organizers face. They receive endless requests but have only a limited number of spaces. Don’t forget that we didn’t exist before the beginning of this year. Despite our belief in ourselves and desire to succeed, we have not managed to catch enough interest from the ASO. We respect their decision and will redouble our efforts to be included in the line-up in the coming seasons.”
The Team just finished their pre Season training camp and are now heading to Argentina. In two days their Season will begin with the Tour de San Luis. Despite the bad news today the team morale is very high and the squad is eager to start their first tour as a team.
Edited by Areolys on 09-05-2013 18:59
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 09-05-2013 18:52
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Sad to hear about the missed wildcard, but that gives the team a chance to concentrate on other races |
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| Selwink |
Posted on 09-05-2013 19:15
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Do you aim on the Vuelta? You can score with Haussler there!
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| Areolys |
Posted on 09-05-2013 19:45
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| 1 |  Peter Velits | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 25h07'49 | | 2 |  Heinrich Haussler | IAM Cycling | + 1'20 | | 3 |  Sérgio Paulinho | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 1'33 | | 4 |  Thomas Löfkvist | IAM Cycling | + 1'49 | | 5 |  Andrey Amador | Movistar Team | + 1'52 |
Spoiler | 6 | Esteban Chaves | Colombia | + 2'09 | | 7 | Adriano Malori | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 8 | Ian Boswell | Sky Procycling | + 2'19 | | 9 | Jérémy Roy | FDJ | + 2'38 | | 10 | Peter Kennaugh | Sky Procycling | + 2'52 | | 11 | Jonathan Hivert | Sojasun | + 3'05 | | 12 | Marco Frapporti | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 3'12 | | 13 | Brice Feillu | Sojasun | + 3'18 | | 14 | Antonio Piedra | Caja Rural | + 4'08 | | 15 | Jaime Castañeda | EPM - UNE | + 6'26 | | 16 | Julien Vermote | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 7'48 | | 17 | Vladimir Karpets | Movistar Team | + 8'07 | | 18 | William Bonnet | FDJ | + 8'11 | | 19 | Zdenek Stybar | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 8'14 | | 20 | Michael Mørkøv | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 8'20 | | 21 | Riccardo Chiarini | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 8'34 | | 22 | Jarlinson Pantano | Colombia | + 8'40 | | 23 | Jesús Hernández | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 24 | Emanuele Sella | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 8'51 | | 25 | Francesco Reda | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 8'52 | | 26 | Jonathan Monsalve | Vini Fantini - Selle Italia | + 8'54 | | 27 | Anders Lund | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 8'57 | | 28 | Marek Rutkiewicz | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | + 8'59 | | 29 | Tomasz Kiendyś | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | + 9'09 | | 30 | Xabier Zandio | Sky Procycling | + 10'07 | | 31 | Gustav Erik Larsson | IAM Cycling | + 10'12 | | 32 | Eros Capecchi | Movistar Team | + 10'18 | | 33 | Olivier Kaisen | Lotto Belisol | + 10'38 | | 34 | Julien Simon | Sojasun | + 10'39 | | 35 | Iván Gutiérrez | Movistar Team | + 10'41 | | 36 | Alexandre Pliuschin | IAM Cycling | + 10'50 | | 37 | Joseph Dombrowski | Sky Procycling | + 10'58 | | 38 | Alexandre Geniez | FDJ | + 11'07 | | 39 | Elia Favilli | Lampre - Merida | + 11'16 | | 40 | Luca Wackermann | Lampre - Merida | + 11'18 | | 41 | Davide Rebellin | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | + 11'19 | | 42 | Fabio Taborre | Vini Fantini - Selle Italia | + 11'29 | | 43 | Julien El Fares | Sojasun | s.t. | | 44 | Pierpaolo De Negri | Vini Fantini - Selle Italia | + 11'33 | | 45 | Mickaël Delage | FDJ | + 11'40 | | 46 | Matteo Pelucchi | IAM Cycling | + 11'41 | | 47 | Marco Bandiera | IAM Cycling | + 11'43 | | 48 | Óscar Sevilla | EPM - UNE | s.t. | | 49 | Dirk Bellemakers | Lotto Belisol | + 11'45 | | 50 | Alessandro Proni | Vini Fantini - Selle Italia | + 11'56 | | 51 | Piotr Gawroński | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | + 11'58 | | 52 | Maciej Bodnar | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 12'30 | | 53 | Dries Devenyns | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 12'46 | | 54 | Giovanny Baez | EPM - UNE | + 13'34 | | 55 | David Arroyo | Caja Rural | + 13'43 | | 56 | Manuele Boaro | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 13'45 | | 57 | Brian Bulgac | Lotto Belisol | + 14'24 | | 58 | Guillaume Boivin | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 14'43 | | 59 | Vicente Reynès | Lotto Belisol | + 14'50 | | 60 | Yelko Gomez | Caja Rural | + 15'01 | | 61 | David López | Sky Procycling | + 16'35 | | 62 | Andrea Palini | Lampre - Merida | + 16'49 | | 63 | Christophe Laborie | Sojasun | + 19'06 | | 64 | Matteo Bono | Lampre - Merida | + 19'33 | | 65 | Stijn Vandenbergh | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 19'39 | | 66 | Jussi Veikkanen | FDJ | + 20'14 | | 67 | Juan Esteban Arango | Colombia | + 20'30 | | 68 | Russell Downing | Team NetApp - Endura | + 21'36 | | 69 | Fabio Felline | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 22'43 | | 70 | Junya Sano | Vini Fantini - Selle Italia | + 22'55 | | 71 | Francesco Lasca | Caja Rural | + 22'57 | | 72 | Andrew Fenn | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 23'02 | | 73 | Mateusz Nowak | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | + 23'03 | | 74 | Duber Quintero | Colombia | + 24'02 | | 75 | Tiziano Dall'Antonia | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 24'27 | | 76 | Tomás Gil | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | + 24'55 | | 77 | Jonas Aaen Jørgensen | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 25'09 | | 78 | Maxime Daniel | Sojasun | + 25'35 | | 79 | Marco Corti | Colombia | + 25'41 | | 80 | Weimar Roldan | EPM - UNE | + 25'57 | | 81 | Ian Stannard | Sky Procycling | + 27'44 | | 82 | Edwin Ávila | Colombia | + 29'51 | | 83 | Alex Dowsett | Movistar Team | + 31'32 | | 84 | Michele Merlo | Vini Fantini - Selle Italia | + 33'15 | | 85 | Roger Kluge | Team NetApp - Endura | + 34'20 | | 86 | Ariel Maximiliano Richeze | Lampre - Merida | + 34'51 | | 87 | Frederique Robert | Lotto Belisol | + 34'52 | | 88 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | + 34'53 | | 89 | Fabio Sabatini | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 35'00 | | 90 | Kenny Dehaes | Lotto Belisol | + 35'11 | | 91 | Fabricio Ferrari | Caja Rural | + 35'14 | | 92 | Eduard Beltran | EPM - UNE | + 35'15 | | 93 | Juraj Sagan | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 35'17 | | 94 | Jorge Castiblanco | EPM - UNE | + 35'24 | | 95 | Manuel Cardoso | Caja Rural | + 35'26 | | 96 | Sylwester Janiszewski | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | + 35'42 | | 97 | José Mendes | Team NetApp - Endura | + 36'40 | | 98 | Alexander Wetterhall | Team NetApp - Endura | + 36'51 | | 99 | Elia Viviani | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 37'26 | | 100 | Andreas Schillinger | Team NetApp - Endura | + 37'31 | | 101 | Jonathon McEvoy | Team NetApp - Endura | + 38'00 | | 102 | Dominique Rollin | FDJ | + 39'14 |
| 1 | Peter Velits | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 83 | | 2 | Heinrich Haussler | IAM Cycling | 75 | | 3 |  Julien Simon | Sojasun | 69 | | 4 | Andrey Amador | Movistar Team | 46 | | 5 | Sérgio Paulinho | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | 45 |
| 1 | Peter Velits | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | 20 | | 2 | Thomas Löfkvist | IAM Cycling | 14 | | 3 |  Riccardo Chiarini | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | 13 | | 4 | Eros Capecchi | Movistar Team | 13 | | 5 | Sérgio Paulinho | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | 12 |
| 1 |  Esteban Chaves | Colombia | 25h09'58 | | 2 | Adriano Malori | Lampre - Merida | + 0 | | 3 |  Ian Boswell | Sky Procycling | + 10 | | 4 |  Peter Kennaugh | Sky Procycling | + 43 | | 5 |  Julien Vermote | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 5'39 |
| 1 |  IAM Cycling | 75h37'22 | | 2 | Sky Procycling | + '12 | | 3 | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 2'47 | | 4 | Sojasun | + 3'56 | | 5 |  Team Saxo - Tinkoff | + 4'31 |
Edited by Areolys on 11-05-2013 23:28
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| Areolys |
Posted on 09-05-2013 21:45
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 TOUR DE SAN LUIS 2013
Stage 01: San Luis - Villa Mercedes 
Todays stage is rather flat, so we will most likely see a mass sprint at the end. The perfect opporturnity for Heinrich Haussler to bring back our first victory? We'll see...
Nothing much happened in this stage. The breakaway group never got away too far ahead, so a mass sprint was inevitable.
The IAM sprint train worked perfectly. Giving Haussler a perfect setup to win the first stage.
And he did! With about 2 bike lenghts he won the first stage today! Hopefully it'll be the first of many to come.
(sorry guys, I couldn't save the replay to get some screenshots. But next stage will have some for sure!)
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Heinrich Haussler | IAM Cycling | 3h46'59 | | 2 | Julien Simon | Sojasun | s.t. | | 3 |  Roger Kluge | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | 4 | Andrew Fenn | Omega Pharma - Quick-Step | s.t. | | 5 | Elia Viviani | Cannondale Pro Cycling | s.t. |
Edited by Areolys on 10-05-2013 03:39
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 09-05-2013 21:56
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Your story has great potential, and I mean it.
Congrats with the win!
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| PCM rulezz |
Posted on 09-05-2013 22:03
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First race = first win. Great start
I will try to follow this story 
Edited by PCM rulezz on 09-05-2013 22:17
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
It's difficult not to be happy when you're surrounded by Belgians. - Mark Cavendish
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 09-05-2013 22:13
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Just a tip, It is easier for some people to take screens with Ctrl-T and then to find them in documents/pcm12/users/username/screens so you could try that. Also a nice start in San Luis and a nice team choice |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 09-05-2013 22:32
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Nice start from Heinrich |
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| Areolys |
Posted on 10-05-2013 02:50
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Thanks guys for your support! This will keep me going :-)
FroomeDog99: As I'm using Steam I can just hit F12 and the screnshots are saved. But thanks anyway for your tip.
fcancellara: Thanks, I really try to present my story in a nice way with a good layout. |
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| wogsrus |
Posted on 10-05-2013 04:30
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Top start. Hopefully Haussler can continue on his winning ways. |
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| Areolys |
Posted on 10-05-2013 05:06
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TOUR DE SAN LUIS 2013
Stage 02: Tilisarao - Terrazas del Puertezuelo 
Welcome to day 2 in Argentina. Todays stage is another flat one, with a little hill just before the finish line. We'll see if it's another day for the sprinters or if a puncheur will slip by them just before the big sprint. We are also looking forward to see if Heinrich Haussler will keep his leader jersey.
It took quite a while before any serious breakaway formed. Finally a group of 5 formed who made it out of the peloton.
The breakaway of 5 containing Lund, Felline, Kiendys, Ávila and Dehaes slowly gained minute after minute. The gap grew up to 8 minutes until the peloton finally decided to wheel them back in with just 100 Km to go.
20 Km to go the peloton increased their pace once more. Mainly FDJ and IAM pushed the pace to catch the breakaway. But would it be enough?
It would. With just under 10 Km to go the sprint trains flew by the 5 runaways.
With the high pace of the peloton another mass sprint was inevitable. It was Favilli who made the start with a very early sprint. Giving Pelucchi the chance to launch Haussler for the second victory in a row.
But they made their bill without Ventoso who came out of nowhere to take the lead! This is going to be close one! It's... Ventoso! He lifts his arms and celebrates! Haussler comes in second. With just a few centimeters short.
But wait a minute... Here's the photo finish... No! It's Haussler! Haussler wins by a few millimeters!
What a finish! And what a race. Incredible race by IAM who, on their second race ever won their second stage. Gratullations to Haussler. He's in top shape and keeps the orange jersey another day.
Edited by Areolys on 10-05-2013 05:18
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Heinrich Haussler
Francisco José Ventoso
