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Caisse d'Epargne - To the Extreme
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-11-2010 02:16
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Since my last story with Spidertech, I have had trouble playing careers. I had a good one with De Rosa Stac Plastic where I signed Pellizotti and he ende up winning the 2010 Giro after Nibali crashed. I also had a great career with Partisan Srbija where Ivan Stevic (don't hate me) was 15th in the Conti Rankings by July. Now I was thinking the last two days of another team to choose when I finally thought of Caisse, my favourite team. I decided that this would be a perfect team to choose for my next story. I chose Caisse because they are my favourite team, and also because, I thought it would be the best team to manage that is still in the PT. I wrote a Caisse story with PCM 08 and I hope to improve on that one with even better results this time 'round.
When you look at this squad the first thing you will probably notice is our 2 superstar riders, JJ Rojas and LL Sanchez. Both riders main season goals will be the Tour de France, where Rojas hopes to win a stage and if possible be in the hunt for the Green Jersey. LL Sanchez also wants to win a stage and he wants a top 10 in the GC. One of our newest signings Ruben Plaza also looks like a good biker and he should do well in some smaller races and help support LL Sanchez for the TDF unless plans change. Our sprinting looks fairly weak besides Rojas, but Drujon could contest in some smaller races. Some day we hope he can develop into a good sprinter. For the cobbles we have Arnaud Coyot who could finish in the top 20 at Roubaix and place well in smaller cobbles races.
Squad
Goals:
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Game Info:
DB: FCM 1.4 (with a few small stat changes)
Progression: 0.5
Difficulty: Hard
Edited by valverde321 on 25-11-2010 22:33
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-11-2010 02:36
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Leaders:
Luis Leon Sanchez:
Sanchez is probably our best rider and not only that, but also probably one of the best all round cyclists in the world. He can climb better than most can, sprint pretty well and time-trial very well. His main goal is the Tour de France.
Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil
Rojas is our teams best sprinter. He has been riding with the team since 2007. He has established himself as the best Spanish sprinter in the world, and one of the best from any country. We hope he can progress into a future Green Jersey winner some day.
David Arroyo
Arroyo is the teams best pure climber. It seems like his best days are behind him, but with Alejandro Valverde's suspension a door has been opened for him to show us what he's got. His is to win a stage in a grand tour, but also to finish high at Clasica San Sebastien.
Ruben Plaza
Plaza's goals are not quite as clear as other, but he should ride in atleast one GT this season. His climbing ability is under-rated and I beleive he can produce quite the palmares this season if he is in form.
Rigoberto Uran
Uran is one of the teams best young riders, if not the best. He has already proven last season that he can climb very well even in the Tour de France if he puts his mind to it. At 22 years old he is only going to improve so expect great things from this rider in a year or two.
Arnaud Coyot
Coyot is the teams only hope on the cobbles. As mainly a climbing team we don't expect that much from cobble races, so maybe if there is less pressure on Coyot he will perform very well. Our main hope is that he acheive's his personal goals as we value him highly on the team.
Edited by valverde321 on 17-11-2010 02:53
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-11-2010 03:27
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 Santos Tour Down Under
Startlist:
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SKY CYCLING TEAM
1. E.Boasson Hagen
2. S.Cummings
3. R.Downing
4. N.Portal
5. I.Stannard
6. C.Sutton
7. G.Thomas
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
11. J.Rojas
12. R.Costa
13. M.Drujon
14. I.Erviti
15. J.Garcia Acosta
16. J.Gutierrez
17. L.Sanchez
GARMIN
21. J.Dean
22. K.Carlsen
23. T.Farrar
24. M.Fischer
25. M.Kreder
26. C.Meyer
27. R.Van Der Velde
HTC COLUMBIA
31. M.Cavendish
32. M.Goss
33. A.Greipel
34. A.Hansen
35. L.Howard
36. M.Renshaw
37. T.Van Garderen
EUSKALTEL
41. K.Fernandez
42. I.Anton
43. J.Aramendia
44. J.Castroviejo
45. A.Galdos
46. I.Isasi
47. A.Perez Lezaun
RABOBANK
51. K.Moerenhout
52. L.Boom
53. G.Brown
54. T.Leezer
55. T.Stamsnijder
56. J.Van Emden
57. D.Van Winden
SERRAMENTI PVC
61. R.Bertogliati
62. D.Margutti
63. L.Mate
64. C.Ochoa
65. F.Piemontesi
66. J.Rodriguez
67. F.Taborre
FOOTON SERVETTO
71. M.Cardoso
72. M.Brandle
73. V.Celis
74. F.Felline
75. M.Pedersen
76. A.Perez Arrieta
77. J.Walker
KATUSHA
81. M.Ignatiev
82. P.Brutt
83. D.Galimzyanov
84. M.Khalilov
85. A.Pliuschin
86. N.Trussov
87. M.Vantomme
SAXO BANK
91. J.Haedo
92. B.Cooke
93. L.Haedo
94. F.Höj
95. J.Jörgensen
96. A.Rasmussen
97. N.Sörensen
LAMPRE FARNESE
101. L.Bernucci
102. M.Da Dalto
103. A.Furlan
104. A.Grendene
105. D.Hondo
106. D.Loosli
107. M.Sapa
LIQUIGAS DOIMO
111. D.Oss
112. M.Finetto
113. A.Kuschynski
114. M.Paterski
115. M.Quinziato
116. F.Sabatini
117. F.Willems
QUICK STEP
121. J.Van De Walle
122. K.Hovelynck
123. K.Hulsmans
124. A.Stauff
125. M.Tosatto
126. K.Van Impe
127. W.Weylandt
RADIO SHACK
131. J.McCartney
132. F.Beppu
133. B.Hermans
134. G.Lequatre
135. D.Muravyev
136. G.Rast
137. T.Vaitkus
CERVELO
141. T.Bos
142. X.Florencio
143. R.Hammond
144. J.Hunt
145. B.Lancaster
146. M.Reimer
147. D.Rollin
AG2R LA MONDIALE
151. J.Arrieta Lujambio
152. M.Bouet
153. D.Champion
154. K.Goddaert
155. S.Hinault
156. A.Ravard
157. N.Rousseau
ASTANA
161. J.Jufre Pou
162. A.Bazayev
163. S.Davis
164. D.Fofonov
165. V.Iglinskiy
166. B.Raimbekov
167. M.Selvaggi
FDJEUX
171. M.Ladagnous
172. S.Casar
173. Seb.Chavanel
174. G.Meersman
175. Y.Offredo
176. W.Sulzberger
177. A.Vichot
MILRAM
181. R.Förster
182. W.De Vocht
183. M.Fothen
184. A.Gajek
185. L.Roberts
186. W.Stroetinga
187. P.Wrölich
OMEGA PHARMA
191. M.Lloyd
192. K.De Haes
193. M.Delage
194. O.Kaisen
195. J.Ljungblad
196. S.Scheirlinckx
197. J.Van Goolen
BMC RACING
201. M.Burghardt
202. B.Bookwalter
203. A.Kristoff
204. J.Louder
205. S.Nydam
206. M.Santambrogio
207. M.Schär
VACANSOLEIL
211. G.Gardeyn
212. B.Bozic
213. R.Feillu
214. M.Pronk
215. R.Ruygh
216. B.Traksel
217. A.Van Groen
Obviously with a strong sprinter, we came here to win. Rojas should manage the hills each day and be able to pick up enough points to take the sprinters jersey when it is over and done with. LL Sanchez is our Captain as he has the best shot of overall victory.
Edited by valverde321 on 17-11-2010 03:28
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 17-11-2010 06:18
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Good luck! This will be interesting to follow. |
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| janne_837 |
Posted on 17-11-2010 06:50
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Nice presentation. Good luck! |
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Posted on 17-11-2010 07:09
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good luck, I´ll follow this
Arroyo only 65DH?
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 17-11-2010 09:07
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Good luck!
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| olabj |
Posted on 17-11-2010 09:38
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GOOOD luck mate. Wish you all the best and hopefully you'll get more victories here 
Arroyo only 65DH?
Yeah, I noticed that too, should atleast be 81
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-11-2010 13:14
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Thanks, I hope it will be a succesful season.
And I will probably change Arroyo's DH. |
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 17-11-2010 14:09
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One of my favs teams, Good luck 
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| baia |
Posted on 17-11-2010 17:21
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Good luck and have fun valverder321..
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| Tuco the Ugly |
Posted on 17-11-2010 18:46
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No excuses for not winning now  |
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 17-11-2010 19:34
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good luck. I have had good success with caisse d'epargne in the past. good choice of team
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 17-11-2010 19:57
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Good luck. Good choice BTW. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-11-2010 21:51
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Tuco the Ugly wrote:
No excuses for not winning now
I can tell you that I wont need to make any excuse already....... |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-11-2010 22:30
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Santos Tour Down Under Stage 1
As a stage that looks for the sprinters, some of the weaker sprinting teams sent riders into the break, early on in the day. Most didn't think that the break had any chance today, but as one of the top sprint teams here believe it or not, we had to chase down the break which had about 10 minutes lead on us at the time (80km left). We sent Jose Gutierrez and Erviti to bring them back.
With 15km left the break had 2 minutes gap to us and looked like they would survive, but with 5km left and our sprint train moving along quickly we swept the break up.
LL Sanchez lead out for Rojas and basically this was a repeat of Renshaw/Cav at Champs last season. Rojas stayed in front for the easy win. (I appologize for the Giro banners, forgot to change the sponsorkit.)
Stage:
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | Player |  1 | José Joaquin ROJAS | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | 3h32'17 | Player | | 2 | Graeme BROWN | RABOBANK | s.t. | |  3 | Borut BOZIC | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | |
| 4 | Javier ARAMENDIA | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | s.t. | | | 5 | Mark RENSHAW | TEAM HTC - COLUMBIA | s.t. | | | 6 | Juan José HAEDO | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | | 7 | Luis Leon SANCHEZ | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | s.t. | Player | | 8 | Alex RASMUSSEN | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | | 9 | Assan BAZAYEV | ASTANA | s.t. | | | 10 | Sébastien HINAULT | AG2R - LA MONDIALE | s.t. | | | 11 | Luke ROBERTS | TEAM MILRAM | s.t. | | | 12 | Igor ANTON | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | s.t. | | | 13 | Tom LEEZER | RABOBANK | s.t. | | | 14 | Jeremy HUNT | CERVELO TEST TEAM | s.t. | | | 15 | Martin REIMER | CERVELO TEST TEAM | s.t. | |
GC:
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | Player | | 1 | José Joaquin ROJAS | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | 3h32'07 | Player | | 2 | Graeme BROWN | RABOBANK | + 4 | | | 3 | Borut BOZIC | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | + 6 | | | 4 | Javier ARAMENDIA | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | + 7 | | | 5 | Dmitriy MURAVYEV | TEAM RADIO SHACK | s.t. | | | 6 | Damiano MARGUTTI | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | + 8 | | | 7 | Brent BOOKWALTER | BMC RACING TEAM | s.t. | | | 8 | Kristof GODDAERT | AG2R - LA MONDIALE | + 9 | | | 9 | Mark RENSHAW | TEAM HTC - COLUMBIA | + 10 | | | 10 | Juan José HAEDO | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | |
Points:
| Rank | Name | Team | Points | General | | 1 | José Joaquin ROJAS | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | 8 | 8 | | 2 | Javier ARAMENDIA | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | 6 | 6 | | 3 | Dmitriy MURAVYEV | TEAM RADIO SHACK | 6 | 6 | | 4 | Graeme BROWN | RABOBANK | 6 | 6 | | 5 | Brent BOOKWALTER | BMC RACING TEAM | 4 | 4 |
KOM:
| Rank | Name | Team | Mountain | General | | 1 | Jeremy HUNT | CERVELO TEST TEAM | 16 | 16 | | 2 | Javier ARAMENDIA | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | 12 | 12 | | 3 | Mickael DELAGE | OMEGA PHARMA - LOTTO | 8 | 8 | | 4 | Brent BOOKWALTER | BMC RACING TEAM | 6 | 6 | | 5 | Luke ROBERTS | TEAM MILRAM | 4 | 4 |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-11-2010 23:34
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Santos Tour Down Under Stage 2
The stage looks slightly harder than the previous days stage, and with more sprinters coming on to early season form, we could (and hope) for a closer sprint finish, if it comes to that. The course looks apeasing to the breakaway specialists, and maybe it will satisfy them today.
Out on course, Caisse decided to hold some early pace at the front until a break got clear. That happened 21km into the stage and contained neither, a rider of any importants or that of a rider anywhere near Rojas in the GC standings. We stat back for the middle sector of the stage and to our pleasure HTC decided to chase down the BOTD as Cavendish and Renshaw wanted to be a part of the sprint today. With 30km we heard a voice on the race radio that the course would be cut short because of huge storms last weekend.(I don't know what happened but it all of a sudden shortened by about 20km).
We set up a strong train for Rojas again and not even HTC tried setting up their own train, but instead, followed ours. Rojas got an early lead in the sprint thanks to Drujon.
Haedo came fast on the outside and it looked as though he was going to pass Jose Joaquin but the finish line came out of nowhere and Rojas held on for our 2nd victory of the Tour Down Under. This was a huge surprise to all of us, but we are very happy with the result. Rojas looks to be in great shape. (Lets hope this ends so I don't have to up the difficulty to Extreme)
Stage:
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | Player | | 1 | José Joaquin ROJAS | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | 3h28'38 | Player |  2 | Juan José HAEDO | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | | 3 | Graeme BROWN | RABOBANK | s.t. | |
| 4 | Julian DEAN | GARMIN - TRANSITIONS | s.t. | | | 5 | Borut BOZIC | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | s.t. | | | 6 | Sébastien HINAULT | AG2R - LA MONDIALE | s.t. | | | 7 | Alex RASMUSSEN | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | | 8 | Mark RENSHAW | TEAM HTC - COLUMBIA | s.t. | | | 9 | Xavier FLORENCIO | CERVELO TEST TEAM | s.t. | | | 10 | Yoann OFFREDO | FRANÇAISE DES JEUX | s.t. | | | 11 | Wouter WEYLANDT | QUICK STEP | s.t. | | | 12 | Matthew GOSS | TEAM HTC - COLUMBIA | s.t. | | | 13 | Manuel CARDOSO | FOOTON - SERVETTO | s.t. | | | 14 | Theo BOS | CERVELO TEST TEAM | s.t. | | | 15 | Mathieu DRUJON | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | s.t. | Player |
GC:
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | Player | | 1 | José Joaquin ROJAS | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | 7h00'35 | Player | | 2 | Graeme BROWN | RABOBANK | + 7 | | | 3 | Borut BOZIC | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | + 14 | | | 4 | Juan José HAEDO | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | | 5 | Ian STANNARD | SKY PROFESSIONAL CYCLING TEAM | + 17 | | | 6 | Javier ARAMENDIA | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | s.t. | | | 7 | Dmitriy MURAVYEV | TEAM RADIO SHACK | s.t. | | | 8 | Damiano MARGUTTI | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | + 18 | | | 9 | Brent BOOKWALTER | BMC RACING TEAM | s.t. | | | 10 | Luis Leon SANCHEZ | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | + 19 | Player | | 11 | Kristof GODDAERT | AG2R - LA MONDIALE | s.t. | | | 12 | Rubens BERTOGLIATI | SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI | s.t. | | | 13 | Mark RENSHAW | TEAM HTC - COLUMBIA | + 20 | | | 14 | Alex RASMUSSEN | TEAM SAXO BANK | s.t. | | | 15 | Sébastien HINAULT | AG2R - LA MONDIALE | s.t. | |
Points:
| Rank | Name | Team | Points | General | Player | | 1 | José Joaquin ROJAS | CAISSE D'EPARGNE | 8 | 16 | Player | | 2 | Graeme BROWN | RABOBANK | 10 | 16 | | | 3 | Borut BOZIC | VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM | 4 | 8 | | | 4 | Javier ARAMENDIA | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | 0 | 6 | | | 5 | Dmitriy MURAVYEV | TEAM RADIO SHACK | 0 | 6 | |
KOM:
| Rank | Name | Team | Mountain | General | | 1 | Jeremy HUNT | CERVELO TEST TEAM | 0 | 16 | | 2 | Kevin VAN IMPE | QUICK STEP | 16 | 16 | | 3 | Javier ARAMENDIA | EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI | 0 | 12 | | 4 | Lorenzo BERNUCCI | LAMPRE - FARNESE VINI | 12 | 12 | | 5 | Mickael DELAGE | OMEGA PHARMA - LOTTO | 0 | 8 |
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| Porte |
Posted on 18-11-2010 00:15
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Great start. Good luck with the story. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 18-11-2010 04:08
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Santos Tour Down Under Stage 3
Its classified as a flat stage, but I don't think too many sprinters circled this day on their race calendar. With a succesion of short hills towards the end, it will be tough for the pure sprinters to find success. Our hope for this stage is again to be a part of the sprint.
Nearly the whole stage passed before we had any real action.
Ben Hermans launches an attack to get away from the rest of the BOTD with only 20km left. And succeeds. He has about 20 seconds back to the main BOTD and that group has about 1:30 to the peloton again with about 20km left.
Now with less than 20km left, LL Sanchez attacks, one a small hill during the large and last downhill section of the race. We decided to get him in a move as it helps us out if the break wins, he'll be there to get some time on the peloton, or he can start the train for the sprint seeing as he would be the furthest up out of all our guys.
7km now and its back to plan "b". Sanchez will help with the sprint train which has been unbeatable so far. Hermans is still up the road a bit, but is in clear sight.
Hermans just gets swept up as we begin the sprint up the steep hill. Rojas moves out of the slipstream of Costa and tried to follow his teammates a few metres ahead.
And I guess because of the quick succesion of uphill->downhill->uphill->downhill all 4 of our riders managed to get away from the others. And surprisingly enough we hold on for the trifecta. Rojas takes the easiest win so far.
Cav cried after the stage.
This will be known as the greatest and hardest win of all-time on Hard. So much so I might have forgotten to export results. 
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Edited by valverde321 on 18-11-2010 04:09
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| olabj |
Posted on 18-11-2010 06:34
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Not to be a pain in the ass or anything but... Extreme!!!
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