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Team Festina - Corona
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| SotD |
Posted on 18-03-2010 19:48
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..::Team Name::..
 Festina - Corona
..::Team Manager::..
 Andreas Jøhnke
Grand Tour Riders
Alberto Contador - €520.000 - Stage Racer
Carlos Castaño - 250.000 € - Stage Racer
 Mauricio Ardila - 380.000 € - Stage Racer
Hilly Riders
Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 499.250 € - Puncheur
 Diego Ulissi 250.000 € - Puncheur
Climbers
Angel Madrazo - 100.000 € - Stage Racer - LOAN
 Tim Dees 90.000 € - Stage Racer
 Steve Morabito 80.000 € - Stage Racer
 Stefan Denifl 50.000 € - Stage Racer - LOAN
Sprinters
 Sam Bewley 390.000 € - Sprinter - LOAN
 Blaise Sonnery 180.000 € - Sprinter
Anthony Lavoine 90.000 € - Sprinter
 Roman Maksimov 23.000 € - Sprinter - LOAN
Michael Vingerling 0 € - Sprinter - LOAN
 Vladimir Bileka 50.000 € - Sprinter
Thomas Vedel Kvist 0 € - Sprinter - LOAN
Cobblers
 Frederik Nolf 140.000 € - Northern Classics
Francis Mourey 50.000 € - Northern Classics
Timetriallers
Jurgen van Goolen 80.000 € - Time Triallist
Kristof Goddaert 50.000 € - Time Triallist
 Patrick Gretsch 50.000 € - Time Triallist
Lucas Schädlich 27.500 € - Time Triallist - LOAN
 Ramunas Navardauskas 50.000 € - Time Triallist
Mathieu Bernaudeau 50.000 € - Time Triallist
 Wen Hao Li 50.000 € - Time Triallist
Away on loan:
 Georgos Tzortzakis - €50.000 - Sprinter
Jonathan Castroviejo - €50.000 - Climber
Edited by SotD on 03-04-2010 22:26
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| SotD |
Posted on 20-03-2010 12:30
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Results:
..::Wins::..
Diego Ulissi - Giro d'Italia, stage 7
Diego Ulissi - Giro d'Italia, stage 12
Mauricio Ardila - Paris-Nice, stage 7
Carlos Castaño - Deutschland Tour, stage 4
Sam Bewley - Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, stage 2
Steve Morabito - Vuelta a Asturias, stage 5
Carlos Castaño - Vuelta a Asturias, stage 6
Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - Tour of Northern Europe, stage 1
Sam Bewley - FBD Éire Tour, stage 3
Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - Criterium International, stage 2
..::2nd places::..
Carlos Castaño - Giro d'Italia, stage 8
Sam Bewley - Tour of Romandie, stage 2
Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - Vuelta a Asturias, stage 4
Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - Tour of Northern Europe, stage 4
Sam Bewley - FBD Éire Tour, stage 6
..::3rd places::..
Mauricio Ardila - Tour de France, stage 17
Carlos Castaño - Giro d'Italia, stage 7
Blaise Sonnery - Paris-Nice, stage 3
Anthony Lavoine - Tirreno-Adritatico, stage 3
Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - Vuelta al Pais Vasco, stage 4
Sam Bewley - Tour of California, stage 2
Sam Bewley - FBD Éire Tour, stage 4
Sam Bewley - Criterium International, stage 1
Patrick Gretsch - Tour of Qatar, stage 3
..::Overall Top 10::..
1. Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - Criterium International
1. Alberto Contador - Tour de France, Mountains jersey
2. Sam Bewley - Milano San Remo
3. Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - Amstel Gold Race
3. Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - Vuelta al Pais Vasco
3. Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - Tour of California
3. Team Festina - Eindhoven Team Time Trial
4. Diego Ulissi - Seine-Marne-Seine
4. Diego Ulissi - Classique du Grand-Duche
5. Alberto Contador - Dauphiné Libere
5. Carlos Castaño - Deutschland Tour
5. Diego Ulissi - Badaling International
6. Diego Ulissi - Amstel Gold Race
8. Alberto Contador - Tour de France
8. Carlos Castaño - Tour of Romandie
8. Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - Seine-Marne-Seine
9. Frederik Nolf - Paris-Roubaix
9. Carlos Castaño - Vuelta a Asturias
9. Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - Classique du Grand-Duche
9. Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - Badaling International
9. Sam Bewley - Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Team Goals:
Team standings top 5 - Achieved (4th)
Tour de France top 10 - Achieved (8th)
Giro d'Italia top 10 - Achieved (5th)
Vuelta a España top 10 - Failed (17th, Contador crashed)
Monumentum (Milano San Remo) Win - Failed (2nd)
Edited by SotD on 22-03-2011 14:09
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Posted on 20-03-2010 12:31
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Riders in and out has been fairly slow this season as we already had a very strong team coming into the transfer period.
Alberto Contador, Mauricio Ardila and Carlos Castaño features as the climbing spine of the team, while Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez and Diego Ulissi takes care of the hills... Anthony Lavoine has grown to become a fairly strong sprinter, while the TT squad of Gretsch, Navardauskas and Bernaudeau has finally gotten themself within a reasonable quality.
This means that the foundation of the team has been rock solid this off season, but there has been a little bit of action. To sum it up:
Georgos Tzortzakis has arrived from the free agents list, he is a very interestiing sprinter, that could become valuable in the forthcoming years. We did, however decide to loan him out for the CT this season, so no new face within the Festina crop. Georgos signed a one year loan deal with Falcon-Husqvarna. We recieved a 50.000 fee for the deal, aswell as Falcon-Husqvarna agreed to pay his wages.
A list of small farewells has arrived aswell, as danish sprinter Christian Ranneries has decided to try something else. He is now figuring at the Falcon-Husqvarna team alongside Georgos Tzortzakis. Christian left with a small 50.000 wages, while we got ourself 200.000 out of the deal.
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Posted on 21-03-2010 08:25
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Another signing has been made.
French rider Francis Mourey, has been contracted for 1 year for the wage of 50.000. Mourey is a strong cobbled rider, which we hope can be of help in the cobbled season, but Francis also is a fairly strong climber why he is an almost certain card for the Tour de France squad.
Welcome aboard.
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Posted on 22-03-2010 12:38
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Two new riders signed for this season. Both riders are at only 50.000 wages:
Ruben Bongiorno is an Argentine sprinter with 79 sprint. Perfect lead out man, or perhaps leader in some smaller races. Could possibly be loaned out for a CT team if anyone should be interested.
Vladimir Bileka is the perfect rider for our team. We have been looking very much into a lead out sprinter that can also TT. Bileka can do both. With an average of 73 he will make a very strong 50k rider. 71 Flat, 66 Mountain and 67 Hill will make him survive plenty of different types of races, and as he is also 72 Timetrial and 76 Sprint he could become the perfect leadout for Thor or Lavoine.
Welcome aboard.
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Posted on 22-03-2010 14:50
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Further 2 riders decided to join our team today... It is some very talented youngsters:
Jonathan Castroviejo, a spanish rider who can become 74 MO, 73 Hill and 74TT, definately a great purchase for years to come...
Michel Kreder is a dutch sprinter, who can become 78 Sprint and backs it up with a very nice flat stat and 69 hill, not to forget.
Both riders can be loaned out, and is only on a 50k wage...
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Posted on 25-03-2010 15:57
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A lot of things has happened since we said hello to Castroviejo and Kreder...
Michel Kreder has decided to leave us again, but if nothing else, he did give us 150.000 in earnings.
Jonathan Castroviejo has also left, but in a different type of deal. We have loaned him out, but in return has recieved the favours of Angel Madrazo. We are looking forward to see what Madrazo can do as a strong helper in the mountains. He definately has the talent to become valuable.
In another news we have loaned the strong russian sprinter Roman Maksimov. With 79 sprint and 69 TT, he will suit our team extremely well, as he does not come shot on the Timetrials, and features quality to win sprints himself.
Out biggest deal of this season leaves a goodbye that hurts. Thor Hushovd has left the team, but instead we have gotten the services of Sam Bewley. Sam is quite equal to Thor but we believe that his ability to do hills and cobbles a bit better than Thor could become very important. His sprint is quite similar, but we believe it can be just this edge that could take us withing top 3 of the PT yet again.
Ruben Bongiorno have left the team again. He was a very strong rider, but instead we traded our way into the qualities of Blaise Sonnery, a rider we really wanted. We believe the combination of Blaise Sonnery and Anthony Lavoine could become very potent in the flat stages of the Tour de France.
As i final move in the transfer window we managed to loan Michael Vingerling, a talented dutch sprinter. He will be used as a lead out man, and we are really pleased that he has signed for our team this year.
This also means that our team is complete, unless something very good turns up.
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Posted on 25-03-2010 16:22
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Trainings will benefit the chances to win:
It has been difficult to know exactly how to spend the teams amount of money, but in the end we have decided to let them all go towards training Alberto Contador. Last season he was very dissapointing. Mainly because of the manager who decided to let him race the Giro and the Tour, instead of the Vuelta. This gave some lower ending top 10 placements, and the remaining racedays was almost splashed away.
This season is different. Spending 3 million euros on Alberto Contador making him 83 climbing sees the opportunity for him to become a class act rider. His average will not rise, giving him a decent amount of racedays. His nationality, however will probably benefit the chances of him doing a very nice Vuelta a España. We hope so atleast.
This announcement also gives an indication of what our team will look like for the 2011 season. Have a look in post 2.
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Posted on 25-03-2010 17:02
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Feel free to comment in here btw :-)
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Posted on 27-03-2010 15:28
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2 loan deals seals the faith of Team Festina.
Lucas Schädlich a 78 TT'er will be loaned for this season to strenghten our already strong lineup for TTTs.
At this very moment we can feature a 7-man lineup for any TTT's that will look something like this:
Lucas Schädlich - 78
Patrick Gretsch - 77
Ramunas Navardauskas - 77
Kristof Goddaert - 76
Mathieu Bernaudeau - 76
Tim Dees - 76
Jurgen van Goolen - 75
And a leader which will form, from race to race, could be:
Alberto Contador - 75
Carlos Castaño 74
Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - 71
Mauricio Ardila - 71
Sam Bewley - 71
We are looking forward to seeing whether or not that will be enough to secure some very strong results throughout the season. We hope so...
Also the young danish rider Thomas Vedel Kvist has accepted a one year loan deal, which will make up for a 7 man lineup for our sprinting squad:
Roman Maksimov - 79
Blaise Sonnery - 78
Michael Vingerling - 77
Vladimir Bileka - 76
Diego Ulissi - 73
Mathieu Bernaudeau - 73
Thomas Vedel Kvist - 72
And a couple of leaders, that those 7 will form a train for:
Sam Bewley - 80
Anthony Lavoine - 80
Hopefully this will become yet another fantastic season for us. We have a top rider for each category:
Mountains:
- Alberto Contador - 83, helped by
- Carlos Castaño - 80
- Mauricio Ardila - 80
- Angel Madrazo - 78
- Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez - 76
- Tim Dees - 74
- Steve Morabito - 74
- Stefan Denifl - 74
Hills:
- Samuel Sánchez - 80, helped by
- Diego Ulissi - 79
- Alberto Contador - 77
- Carlos Castaño - 76
- Mauricio Ardila - 75
- Stefan Denifl - 73
Cobbles:
- Frederik Nolf - 80, helped by
- Sam Bewley - 77
- Francis Mourey - 75
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Posted on 03-04-2010 09:01
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Tour de France pre-squad announced:
The team for this seasons Tour de France has been announced, and with very little surprise. It's seeming to be a very strong squad going, and as there are places that might change slightly the main base has already been finalized:
91 Alberto Contador (83 MO, 77 HI, 75 TT, 77 END, 80 RES, 78 REC)
92 Mauricio Ardila (80 MO, 75 HI, 71 TT, 77 END, 80 RES, 76 REC)
93 Anthony Lavoine (80 SPR, 78 ACC, 73 FL, 77 REC)
94 Blaise Sonnery (78 SPR, 71 MO, 70 HI, 75 REC)
95 Mathieu Bernaudeau (76 TT, 73 SPR, 71 FL)
96 Francis Mourey (71 MO, 75 CO, 72 REC)
97 Steve Morabito (74 MO, 72 HI, 72 TT, 73 REC)
98 Vladimir Bileka (76 SPR, 75 ACC, 72 TT, 71 FL, 75 REC)
99 Stefan Denifl (74 MO, 73 HI, 72 REC)
As mentioned above, slight changes can be made according to form and injuries, but the overall formation will be similar to this. We are very much looking forward to battle for overall Top 5 this year, as Alberto Contador has improved drastically, while Mauricio Ardila will try to go for top 15 himself. Lavoine and Sonnery will do their best to achieve a stagewin, while Bernaudeau and Bileka will be the train for the 2.
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Posted on 03-04-2010 22:25
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New shirt presentated:
It is a proud day for Team Festina - Corona...
Russian designcompany Maximka has designed the new shirt for the season. It will look like this.
Edited by SotD on 04-04-2010 14:46
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Posted on 04-04-2010 12:00
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SotD wrote:
Russian designcompany Maxima...
cool! I've never been called like this 
and, bu the way, it's Maxmka
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Posted on 04-04-2010 12:03
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Maximka wrote:
SotD wrote:
Russian designcompany Maxima...
cool! I've never been called like this
and, bu the way, it's Maxm ka
lol, I think you mean Maximka 
 [url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182] Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
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Posted on 04-04-2010 12:50
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Ha-ha-ha! Yes, I meant it
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Posted on 04-04-2010 14:47
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Edited now. Thanks for the shirt btw... Do you have the other gear in picture form aswell? I would like to put that in here also :-)
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Posted on 04-04-2010 16:07
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no, but you can change it to .png by any graphics editor
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Posted on 04-04-2010 16:29
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Contador looks good - should do well in the TdF. |
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Posted on 04-04-2010 16:57
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Hopefully yes :-) He should now be one of the best climbers in the game. Last season he couldn't match the riders that also had a great TT, hopefully this will make him get the edge of those riders :-)
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Posted on 04-04-2010 16:58
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Maximka wrote:
no, but you can change it to .png by any graphics editor
I don't have any and I can't download one on this computer. Just got back from surgery so I'm not using my own computer. Is there any chance that you can help me do it? :-)
I know I'm asking a lot.
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