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| Addy291 |
Posted on 08-08-2007 16:06
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(thanks for the picture Jaroslav )
The team is Benteng Muda Tangerang (not sure if that is the team in the photo, but it's close )
For those that don't know and can't read the title, Benteng is a cycling team from Indonesia, Southeast Asia.
Anyway, the team
As you can see, we are an all-round type team. We may not be the most talented team but we do have IMAN SUPARMAN!!!!
and the goals the sponsors want us to acheive are
-> Stage wins in Jelajah Malaysia
-> Win the climber's jersey in the Tour of Siam
-> Stage wins in Dji Sam Soe Tour d'Indonesia
-> Finish in the top 5 for the Tour of Hokkaido
-> Finish in the top 10 for the Tour of Qinghai Lake
The rules
- No training camps
- No dot-use (other than dropping back in the pack)
- Level - Hard
I will be adding a few new faces, but as it is January i have limited my options by putting a maximum wage per rider of 2800 euros.
I have contacted many companies to try and get them to sponsor us but unfortunatley we have been turned down by every single one
I f there are any question/comments then please say, I'm bound to have missed something out as it is my 1st story
Edited by Addy291 on 08-08-2007 16:22
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Posted on 08-08-2007 16:23
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What an awful team - any wins you get will be a toast to your amazing managerial abilities
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Posted on 08-08-2007 17:30
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thanks, it will be very hard, but i wanted a challenge
Ok we have signed two new youngsters who will hopefully increase our team's chances of a win, and we have stuck to the salary cap so i feel they are very good buys for the money
Firstly, the young Dutch sprinter
And secondly, the young German
Vingerling could prove very useful to us as a very young sprinter, also he is the fastest rider in the squad at the present time
Fahnert goes well up mountains, hills, in time trials, and has great stamina, he is already a key member of the team, as before he came we didn't really have anyone to go up the hills and mountains.
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Posted on 08-08-2007 17:35
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a round of applause for Addy please B)
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Posted on 08-08-2007 19:53
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A round of applause would be very nice
oh and i apologise in advance for the crap graphics
 Jelajah Malaysia, 7 Stages:
Squad:
Vingerling is making his debut in this race and we hope he can post some decent results in the sprints. Suparman is there for breakaways, and for the mountains stage. We need a win here to satisfy the 1st sponsor goal of the season, but it will be very difficult.
Stage 1, Bentung - Kuantan:
So the first stage of this tour is about to get underway, but before it starts, a look at the jersey, so you can recognise the team.
Green...erm...yes, anyway this stage is a test for the sprinters and the number 1 favourite is Anuar Manan of Letua, he wins the first intermediate sprint to show his form.
Attack! Akiyama and Kibar Tanos sprint away from the bunch
The two riders work very well together and reach the 2nd intermidiate sprint which Kibar Tanos wins. Miyawaza wins the sprint for 3rd from the bunch. Unfortunatley the sprinter teams want this to end in a sprint so the gap starts to come down rapidly.
These two established a gap at its highest of 6'15". With 70kms to go the gap is down to 3'15"
The two breakaway companions get caught at with 45kms to go. Kibar Tanos and Akiyama are later dropped. The stage is all set for a bunch sprint into Kuantan.
The two trains, led by Nippo on the left and Marco Polo on the right.
Reid is leading out Cooper for Marco Polo, and at the start of the sprint they have a good gap to the Nippo train where Ashiro is leading out Miyawaza. Where is Manan?? He is way back, you may be able to see him in the blue behind his leadout man on the far right. Vingerling is the 4th rider in the Nippo train.
1km to go Cooper is in the lead
1km to go and Cooper leads, with Miyawaza coming alongside in the red and white. Vingerling is behind the Nippo lead-out man trying to cling on. But who is the rider in the blue behind Cooper??? Manan He has been sprinting into the wind for a long time though, can he get round...
No he can't. But it's very close between Cooper and Miyawaza, who won???
Rank Name Team Time Player
1 Joseph Cooper DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM 4h56'03
2 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
3 Anuar Manan LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
4 Mahdi Sohrabi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
5 Artjom Timofeev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
6 Taiji Nishitani AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
7 Robin Reid DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
8 Yukiya Arashiro NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
9 Michael Vingerling BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
10 Mohammad Zaki Nasir LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
11 Ahmad Haidar Anuawar LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
12 Bradley White DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
13 Thijs Zonneveld DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
14 Viatcheslav Dyadichkin POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
15 Satoshi Hirose AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
16 Budi Santoso POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
17 Edmund Hollands DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
18 Takeaki Ayabe AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
19 Hassan Maleki ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
20 Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
21 Reza Pahlevy POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
22 Amin Saryana LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
23 Shinichi Fukushima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
24 Abbass Saeidi Tanha ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
25 Hari Fitrianto POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
26 Tetsuya Ishida AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
27 Amir Zargari ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
28 Farshad Salehian ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
29 Junya Sano NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
30 Koji Fukushima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
31 Tonton Susanto LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
32 Ryan Connor GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
33 Yasuharu Nakajima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
34 Jai Crawford GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
35 Herwin Jaya POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
36 Seyed Rezaei Khormizi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
37 Kazuya Okazaki NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
38 Kenichi Suzuki AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
39 Evgeni Jakovlev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
40 Chun-te Chiang GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
41 Dwi Haryanto BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
42 Takumi Beppu AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
43 Siros Hashemzadeh ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
44 Shafari Malik LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
45 Hossein Askari GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
46 Mohammad Khairul Rosseli LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
47 Faridi Koviy Mahdi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
48 Kuei-hsiang Peng GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
49 Paul Griffin GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
50 Bart Brentjens DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
51 Kuan-hua Lai GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
52 Wei Zhang DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
53 Kazuhiro Mori AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
54 Yoshiyuki Shimuzu NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
55 Wan Mohammad Wan Ahmad LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
56 Iman Suparman BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
57 Andika Riyanto POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
58 Amin Suryana BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
59 Hideya Akiyama AISAN RACING TEAM + 2'17
60 Muhamad Radius Ginting BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
61 Achmad Husni Afandi BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG + 3'13
62 Po-shen Chiu GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
63 Ariyanto Ariyanto BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG + 4'25
64 Yusuf Kibar Tanos BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG + 6'01
GC
Rank Name Team Time
1 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA 4h55'41
2 Joseph Cooper DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM + 2
3 Anuar Manan LETUA CYCLING TEAM + 6
4 Mahdi Sohrabi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM + 18
5 Artjom Timofeev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM + 20
6 Robin Reid DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
7 Taiji Nishitani AISAN RACING TEAM + 22
8 Yukiya Arashiro NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
9 Michael Vingerling BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
10 Mohammad Zaki Nasir LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
Rank Name Team Points General
1 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA 30 30
2 Joseph Cooper DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM 25 25
3 Anuar Manan LETUA CYCLING TEAM 24 24
So Cooper won and Vingerling rode to an excellent 9th place. Miyawaza leads the GC due to time bonus' gained on the road, same for the point jersey.
if there are any suggestions on how to do it better then please say, and sorry again for the graphics, especially the road
Edited by Addy291 on 09-08-2007 14:43
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Posted on 08-08-2007 19:58
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Nice start - interesting road, I have to say
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Posted on 08-08-2007 20:03
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i will have a fiddle round and try change it, the cobbles show up perfectly
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Posted on 08-08-2007 20:17
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Nice story, but crap graphic card.
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Posted on 08-08-2007 20:29
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thanks, i haven't even bought a graphics card, this one came with the computer and its called SIS something, so it sounds crap and obviously looks crap
but i can't be bothered buying a new one at the moment, i might buy a laptop though with a good graphics card as i say, i will try and sort the roads
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Posted on 08-08-2007 20:30
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Don't worry - it's not the screens, it's the quality of the story that matters
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Posted on 08-08-2007 21:44
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Posted on 08-08-2007 21:50
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boo, go buy a graphics card and don't come back here before that!!
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Posted on 08-08-2007 21:55
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Obviously is the quality of the story that matters, but I also like that cobble sections.
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Posted on 09-08-2007 11:58
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as i say i will try fix the graphics as on PCM3 it says that crappy SIS cards are incompatable with the game, but the road still works fine, so i will fiddle
the only goal that i can set is a 'stage win'
can't really expect much from this squad, and i extremley doubt there will be promotion this year.
@Marco, i doubt we will be riding any cobbles with this squad, but if we do i remember that cobbles used to show up perfectly, now we just have to see if they still do
and thanks everyone
Edited by Addy291 on 09-08-2007 12:00
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Yeah, is too bad not to see cobbles. I had a 8mb graphic card until 2 years ago and the cobbles show up perfectly in cym3 and cym4.
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Posted on 09-08-2007 14:31
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good news
Jelajah Malaysia
Stage 2/7, Kuantan - Kula Terengganu
Another flat stage here in Malaysia. The big favourite is of course the 20 year old sprinter, Manan. Can someone suprise or will he win as expected?
Everyone is staring at the ground. (Marco Polo rider) 'What the hell is this...wha...what th...whaat the hell...what the hell is this?? (to the the guy in dark blue) Do you know what it is? No. What the hell is this? (Nippo guy) You don't get this crap in Japan!
After the complete confusion of the riders to the thought of tarmac after the grey carpet they're used to riding on, the race began. Haryan and two other riders tried to break away from the pack with 20kms gone, but the sprinter teams pulled them back, obviously wanted to get to the intermediate sprints first. They did, Manan won it with ease. 5kms later they let 2 riders get away.
Fitrianto (Polygon Sweet Nice) and Ishida (Asian Racing Team)
Fitrianto wins the second sprint on the road, and Manan wins the sprint from the bunch, for 3rd. The two breakaway companions, got a maximum lead of 4'15" before the pack started chasing with 84kms to go. They made it to the final intermediate sprint which Fitrianto won again, Cooper this time won the sprint for 3rd.
The pack make the catch with 21kms to go, a bunch sprint will decide this one.
Marco Polo train on the right with Reid leading out Cooper once again. Letua train on the left with Nazir leading out Manan, who has Vingerling on his wheel Miyawaza is behing his leadout man on the far right.
Cooper once again has a perfect leadout, but remember how far back Manan was in Stage 1 and still managed to get right up there. Can he win today?
Yes he wins very easily and on the far left of the screen, who is that...Vingerling!!!!!
Rank Name Team Time
1 Anuar Manan LETUA CYCLING TEAM 4h32'57
2 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
3 Joseph Cooper DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
4 Artjom Timofeev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
5 Ahmad Haidar Anuawar LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
6 Michael Vingerling BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
7 Taiji Nishitani AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
8 Hassan Maleki ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
9 Farshad Salehian ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
10 Mahdi Sohrabi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
11 Reza Pahlevy POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
12 Abbass Saeidi Tanha ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
13 Amin Saryana LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
14 Viatcheslav Dyadichkin POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
15 Edmund Hollands DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
16 Paul Griffin GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
17 Junya Sano NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
18 Satoshi Hirose AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
19 Robin Reid DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
20 Thijs Zonneveld DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
21 Takeaki Ayabe AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
22 Mohammad Zaki Nasir LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
23 Yukiya Arashiro NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
24 Budi Santoso POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
25 Evgeni Jakovlev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
26 Shinichi Fukushima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
27 Hideya Akiyama AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
28 Amir Zargari ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
29 Tonton Susanto LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
30 Ryan Connor GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
31 Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
32 Kenichi Suzuki AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
33 Yasuharu Nakajima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
34 Wan Mohammad Wan Ahmad LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
35 Kazuya Okazaki NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
36 Jai Crawford GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
37 Chun-te Chiang GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
38 Seyed Rezaei Khormizi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
39 Mohammad Khairul Rosseli LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
40 Kazuhiro Mori AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
41 Shafari Malik LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
42 Herwin Jaya POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
43 Kuan-hua Lai GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
44 Andika Riyanto POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
45 Tetsuya Ishida AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
46 Koji Fukushima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
47 Hari Fitrianto POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
48 Kuei-hsiang Peng GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
49 Wei Zhang DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
50 Takumi Beppu AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
51 Bart Brentjens DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
52 Yusuf Kibar Tanos BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
53 Siros Hashemzadeh ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
54 Dwi Haryanto BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
55 Iman Suparman BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
56 Amin Suryana BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
57 Achmad Husni Afandi BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
58 Po-shen Chiu GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
59 Muhamad Radius Ginting BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
60 Ariyanto Ariyanto BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
61 Bradley White DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM + 2'24
62 Yoshiyuki Shimuzu NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
63 Hossein Askari GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM + 2'56
64 Faridi Koviy Mahdi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM + 4'16
GC
Rank Name Team Time
1 Anuar Manan LETUA CYCLING TEAM 9h28'16
2 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA + 10
3 Joseph Cooper DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
4 Hari Fitrianto POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM + 32
5 Tetsuya Ishida AISAN RACING TEAM + 36
6 Mahdi Sohrabi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM + 40
7 Robin Reid DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
8 Artjom Timofeev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM + 42
9 Taiji Nishitani AISAN RACING TEAM + 44
10 Michael Vingerling BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
Rank Name Team Points General
1 Anuar Manan LETUA CYCLING TEAM 33 57
2 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA 20 50
3 Joseph Cooper DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM 22 47
As i said at the top, good news. The problem sorted itself, and the road now almost looks like a road
Some new signings will follow
Edited by Addy291 on 09-08-2007 14:38
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Posted on 09-08-2007 14:52
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"What is this magical black stuff on the ground? Surely they don't expect us to cycle on it?"
Good stuff for 6th
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Posted on 09-08-2007 15:05
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Thanks Crommy
As promised, we are announcing 2 new signings, we hope they will aid our progress, as they may not be great cyclists, but we hope they will do well for our team:
Amador goes well up the hills and mountains, and is also a very good time trialist, we hope he will help our team in the stage races.
Stannard is a young British cyclist originating from the track, he is very poweful on the flat and a very good time trialist. He also goes well on the cobbles, and that is what we will be training him on.
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Posted on 09-08-2007 17:17
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Jelajah Malaysia
Stage 3, Kula Terengganu - Kota Bahru
Flat stage again today. Manan will be looking to secure another win for his Letua team, but will a breakaway spoil his chances. Tomorrow is the big mountain stage so will the teams be taking it easy today and let a breakaway fight for victory. Akiyama thinks so and takes off with 20kms gone. Akiyama was in the breakaway in Stage 1 and is obviously the designated breakaway man for Asian Racing Team.
Akiyama tries a 140km solo
Akiyama is let go on his own, and obiouvly takes the first intermediate sprint. Cooper wins the sprint from the bunch for 2nd before Manan in 3rd.
Akiyama's lead starts to drop with 93kms to go, his maximum lead was 7'15". He does however make it through the last 2 intermediate sprints. Manan wins the bunch sprint for 2nd ahead of Cooper for both of them.
Akiyama is caught with 27kms to go so the sprinter teams are sensing victory for their men on today's stage.
Marco Polo are at the front again with Reid leading out White and Manan. The centre train is formed by Azad University, with Salehain leading out Sohrabi. The left-most train is the Nippo train with Arashiro once again leading out Miyawaza. Cooper is way back, 9th person in the Nippo train and Vingerling has taken up Manan's wheel again.
With Cooper way back this is surely a battle between Miyawaza and Manan. However Miyawaza gets a bit too excited and starts his sprint from 2.5kms out. Manan is the complete opposite and doesn't start his at all and by 1.2kms to go Miyawaza is in the lead and Vingerling is forced to start sprinting as he is on top of Manan. Manan finally starts sprinting with 800m to go can he bridge the gap to Miyawaza???
Yes and with ease
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Rank Name Team Time
1 Anuar Manan LETUA CYCLING TEAM 3h44'49
2 Ahmad Haidar Anuawar LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
3 Bradley White DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
4 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
5 Mahdi Sohrabi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
6 Artjom Timofeev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
7 Michael Vingerling BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
8 Robin Reid DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
9 Taiji Nishitani AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
10 Joseph Cooper DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
11 Edmund Hollands DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
12 Amin Saryana LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
13 Hassan Maleki ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
14 Reza Pahlevy POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
15 Budi Santoso POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
16 Abbass Saeidi Tanha ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
17 Viatcheslav Dyadichkin POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
18 Junya Sano NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
19 Satoshi Hirose AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
20 Takeaki Ayabe AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
21 Yukiya Arashiro NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
22 Farshad Salehian ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
23 Paul Griffin GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
24 Wan Mohammad Wan Ahmad LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
25 Yasuharu Nakajima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
26 Ryan Connor GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
27 Mohammad Zaki Nasir LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
28 Thijs Zonneveld DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
29 Jai Crawford GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
30 Hari Fitrianto POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
31 Shinichi Fukushima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
32 Andika Riyanto POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
33 Evgeni Jakovlev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
34 Kazuhiro Mori AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
35 Tetsuya Ishida AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
36 Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
37 Herwin Jaya POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
38 Tonton Susanto LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
39 Kuan-hua Lai GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
40 Kenichi Suzuki AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
41 Amir Zargari ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
42 Kazuya Okazaki NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
43 Koji Fukushima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
44 Chun-te Chiang GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
45 Mohammad Khairul Rosseli LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
46 Achmad Husni Afandi BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
47 Kuei-hsiang Peng GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
48 Ariyanto Ariyanto BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
49 Yusuf Kibar Tanos BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
50 Siros Hashemzadeh ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
51 Shafari Malik LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
52 Yoshiyuki Shimuzu NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
53 Dwi Haryanto BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
54 Hossein Askari GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
55 Iman Suparman BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
56 Seyed Rezaei Khormizi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
57 Amin Suryana BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
58 Muhamad Radius Ginting BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
59 Wei Zhang DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
60 Takumi Beppu AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
61 Faridi Koviy Mahdi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
62 Bart Brentjens DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
63 Po-shen Chiu GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM + 3'50
64 Hideya Akiyama AISAN RACING TEAM + 10'44
GC
Rank Name Team Time
1 Anuar Manan LETUA CYCLING TEAM 13h12'35
2 Joseph Cooper DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM + 32
3 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA + 40
4 Ahmad Haidar Anuawar LETUA CYCLING TEAM + 1'02
5 Hari Fitrianto POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
6 Tetsuya Ishida AISAN RACING TEAM + 1'06
7 Mahdi Sohrabi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM + 1'10
8 Robin Reid DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
9 Artjom Timofeev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM + 1'12
10 Michael Vingerling BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG + 1'14
Points Jersey
Rank Name Team Points General
1 Anuar Manan LETUA CYCLING TEAM 35 92
2 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA 14 64
3 Joseph Cooper DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM 14 61
Vingerling with a nice 7th place and considering he is the youngest rider in the tour at 16 years of age he is doing well. Our only hope tomorrow really is an Iman attack so attack he willB)B)
Edited by Addy291 on 09-08-2007 17:17
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