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Saab-Scania 2012
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Posted on 31-03-2011 19:13
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After some weeks of silence from Saab-Scania team for the 2012 season they earlier today called for a press conference to show this seasons kit.
Thomas Lövkvist´s national jersey.
Thor Hushovd´s TT national jersey.
We want to thank MrDemus for doing the jerseys for us and Felix_29 for the frames and BoogieBoogie for the helmets.
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Posted on 31-03-2011 19:14
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Pre-Renewal squad 2012 for Saab-Scania
 Magnus Bäckstedt
Christopher Stevenson
Jonas Holmkvist
Tobias Larsson
Lucas Persson
 Marcel Wyss
 Charles Wegelius
Graham Briggs
 Simon Clarke
Mark Jamieson
 Christoff Van Heerden
 Timothy Gudsell
 Anders Lund
 Nikola Aistrup
Jimmi Sørensen
Kim Marius Nielsen
Thomas Kristiansen
Christian Ranneries
 Nelson Alonso Castillo
 Gert Rajala
 Matti Pajari
 Francesco Chicchi
 Kenny Van Hummel
Johnny Hoogerland
Theo Eltink
 Jonas Decouttere
Timothy Vangheel
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Posted on 31-03-2011 19:14
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Win Rogaland GP [FAILED]
Top 5 Hel Van Het Mergelland [FAILED]
Top 5 Circuit Franco Belge [FAILED]
 Top 5 Vuelta a Mallorca [FAILED]
Top 5 Europe Standings [FAILED]
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Posted on 31-03-2011 19:14
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1st place
 Tour Meditteraneen Stage 1 - Thor Hushovd
Tour Meditteraneen Stage 3 - Thor Hushovd
Vuelta a Mallorca Stage 2 - Thor Hushovd
 Vuelta a Guatemala Stage 11 - Theo Eltink
 Criterium Hainleite - Marcel Wyss
 Tour of Slovenia Stage 1 - Kenny Van Hummel
 Int. Osterreich Rundfahrt - Stage 8 - Francesco Chicchi
Brixia Tour Stage 3 - Francesco Chicchi
2nd place
Nokere - Koerse - Thor Hushovd
KBC De Panne Tour Stage 2 - Thor Hushovd
 Tour of Turkey Stage 7- Kenny Van Hummel
Grand Prix Herning - Matti Breschel
5 Jours de Dunkerque Stage 5 - Thor Hushovd
Vuelta a Guatemala Stage 6 - Thomas Lövkvist
Vuelta a Guatemala Stage 7 - Thomas Lövkvist
Vuelta a Guatemala Stage 12 - Thomas Lövkvist
Vuelta a Guatemala 2nd place Overall - Thomas Lövkvist
Post Danmark Rundt Stage 2 - Matti Breschel
3rd place
Tour Meditteraneen Stage 4 - Marcel Wyss
 Tour of the Czech Republic Stage 1 - Fransesco Chicchi
Barcelona Classic - Matthew Brammeier 
Vuelta a Guatemala Stage 5 - Thomas Lövkvist
Giro del Capo Stage 1 - Anders Lund
Giro del Capo Stage 2 - Matti Breschel
Brixia Tour Stage 5 - Francesco Chicchi
Post Danmark Rundt Stage 3 - Matti Breschel
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Posted on 31-03-2011 19:14
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Result 2011 as Team-Falcon Husqvarna
Podium places
1st
Euskal Bizikleta Stage 2 - Johnny Hoogerland
Presidential Tour of Turkey Stage 3 & 8 - Kenny Van Hummel
Olympia's Tour Stage 3 - Jacopo Guarnieri
Olympia's Tour Stage 4 - Fransesco Chicchi
Volta a Portugal Stage 6 - Theo Eltink
2nd
Volta a Algarve Stage 3 - Theo Eltink
Clasica de Almeria - Fransesco Chicchi
Giro del Trentino Stage 3 - Marcel Wyss
Int. Osterreich Rundfahrt Stage 4 - Theo Eltink
Int. Osterreich Rundfahrt Stage 5 - Jacopo Guarnieri
Volta a Portugal Stage 3 & 7 - Theo Eltink
3rd
Presidential Tour of Turkey Stage 1 - Fransesco Chicchi
Mount Hood Cycling Classic Stage 2 - Fransesco Chicchi
Bayern Rundfahrt Stage 2 - Johnny Hoogerland
Ringerike GP Stage 2 & 3 - Theo Eltink
Ringerike GP GC - Theo Eltink
Tour of the Channel Islands Stage 2 - Jacopo Guarnieri
Volta a Portugal Stage 4 - Theo Eltink
Volta a Portugal Stage 8 - Charles Wegelius
Tour de Slovenie Stage 4 - Christopher Stevenson
Tour of Ireland Stage 4 - Fransesco Chicchi
1. Win Scandinavia Race Uppsala [Undone]
2. Top 5 Ringerike GP [Done!]
3. Team Standings top 10 [Undone]
4. Stage win Tour of Ireland [Undone]
5. Kom Jersey Post Danmark [Undone]
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Posted on 02-04-2011 17:34
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Goals Announced
Today Saab-Scania showed the teams goals for season 2012 for public.
We have hopes to get top 5 in the team standings for all European teams. After a 3rd place from the bottom last year in the overall team standings we hope for much better season this year.
We do have high hopes in Scandinavia especially in Rogaland GP, Norway. In this race we hope we can have one good sprinter left after some hills and win the sprint. It will be hard too complete but it will be a fun challenge.
Our next goal is in Netherlands, Hel Van Het Mergelland. Maybe Johnny Hoogerland will feel good in his country and make our goal which is a top 5 result in this hilly race with some quite flat final kms.
And we also have a goal for one HC race which is Circuit Franco Belge, Belgium. In this race we don´t have one captain yet, we have hopes that Decouttere and Vanghell will do good in Belgium and that our sprinters will hang on in the hills and do well.
Our last goal is for our climbers and hilly riders. It´s Vuelta a Mallorca , Spain. It starts with two flat stages but with some small but hard climbs. And the last 3 stages is for those who feels at home in the tough terrain.
Win Rogaland GP
Top 5 Hel Van Het Mergelland
Top 5 Circuit Franco Belge
Top 5 Vuelta a Mallorca
Top 5 Europe Standings
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Posted on 17-04-2011 10:24
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Interview with Saab-Scania´s manager
Interviewer - Hello! You have previosly announced Thomas Lövkvist and Micheal Van Stayen as interesting targets in the transfer season, are there any more on your list that you are willing to name?
Manager - Right now we have one of our scouts out in Scandinavia to look at big talents who may want to go for a cycling career as you understand that´s not anybody we can set a name on but we hope for some good riders there.
We had a weak TT team last year and looking for some who can ride a good TT, and as we are a swedish team Johan Lindgren of course pops up. That´s what a can say right now.
I - Okey, thanks. Is there a particular type of cyclist you are looking for?
M - As I said we are looking for riders who can do a good TT races. But we have also find two swedish riders that are interesting for us , one who is a good helper in the mountains and the other is a rider who will help with his routine and ability to do good in the hills more then this we won´t say right now.
Good bye!
I - Thanks for this interview, I´m sure we will talk later in this season!
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Posted on 26-05-2011 21:21
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Interviewver: Hello! In one of our earlier interview you said that you had scouts out in Scandinavia too look at some talents, have you find anyone?
Manager: Hey there! We are happy to say that we have found some good talents, but we will not mention thier names. We have given some riders a contract to look at but we have not got any answer from them yet, so we just have to wait and see.
I: Okey, but what about already known riders?
M: Right know we can´t say with 100 % anyone of our riders will be in our team next season neither any new riders. But as said before we will give some of them contracts. That´s all for now!
I: Thanks and bye!
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Posted on 12-06-2011 10:01
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re-signing and resigning riders
Our renewal time did go fast and painless, we signed new contracts with the riders we wanted to keep.
Those riders who will ride for Saab-Scania the upcoming season is;
Theo Eltink
Johnny Hoogerland
Fransesco Chicchi
Kenny Van Hummel
Marcel Wyss
Christoff Van Heerden
Nikola Aistrup
Jonas Decouttere
Timothy Gudsell
Jonas Holmkvist
Mark Jamieson
Tobias Larsson
Anders Lund
Lucas Persson
Jimmi Sörensen
Timothy Vangheel
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Posted on 12-06-2011 10:13
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Team Festina looking at Marcel Wyss:
Team manager Andreas Jøhnke claims his interest in the swiss rider. "I believe he could be a great addition to our team, and we might be giving it a go. Perhaps in some sort of direct swap. Everything is very uncertain right now, and we obviously have to take a look at the demanded wage aswell."
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Posted on 12-06-2011 10:14
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Fredrik Kessiakoff did in a recent interview with Aftonbladet state that going to Saab-Scania would "be like a dream". Manager Heine stated that Kessiakoff are free to leave if a good offer comes around, and then went on to talk about what a great rider Johnny Hoogerland are.
Does Saab-Scania have any comments?
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Posted on 12-06-2011 11:00
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Responding on some of the rumors about the team;
If we start with our swiss, Marcel Wyss. He is on of our most loyal rider and you know almost always what you get out of him. But a transfer away from our team is not an impossibility, but the bid would have to be very attractive.
And if we talk about Johnny Hoogerland, well this looks more like an impossible transfer. He is one of our keyriders and our most aggresive rider.
We will of course receive bids, but we don´t think anybody can give us a good enough bid so Hoogie will probably stay where he is.
And about Fredrik Kessiakoff, he´s one of the riders we have talked about but he´s not nr 1 on our priority list.
But if we have the money that we need for signing him after we have talked with our "priority riders" we will ofc give Volkswagen-Siemens an offer to think about.
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Posted on 17-06-2011 21:46
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Saab - Scania are happy to get the chance to ride against the best in the world of cycling this season.
We have received wildcards for two Stage Races Tour of Romandie and Criterium du Dauphine Libere.
In this races Thomas Lövkvist will be our leader, he will have good help from Jonas Bjelkmark and Theo Eltink.
We have also the opportunity to ride a big race, Ronde Van Vlaanderen.
Matti Breschel is our leader in this race with help from Hushovd, Lund and Ista.
Tour of Romandie
In Switzerland we have 6 stages, one proulogue, one flat stage, one hilly stage, one TT hilly stage and finally 2 mountains stages.
Criterium du Dauphine Libere
One short TT stage and one long TT stage, one flat stage and 2 hillier stage. And 3 hard mountain stages.
Ronde Van Vlaanderen
This is a hard classicrace with cobblessections and hills.
MTN Cycling Classic
The first race of the season, a puncher with a good sprint may have a good shot at the win
Down Under Classic
A short race were we hope we can do well in, 2nd race of the season for us.
Corsica International
It´s a 3 stages race with one hard mountain stage and after that a flat stage and the final stage is a short TT. We know that Theo can climb but he´s not that good at the TT bike.
ProRace Berlin
Flat oneday race our hope is for a sprinter to do well
Giro del Capo
Here we have hopes for a good GC place. Some hillystages and one mountain TT
Clasica San Sebastian
A hilly oneday race this one to
 Tour de Pologne
7 stages, mixed flat and hilly, maybe we can get one stage win and a good GC place with for example Hoogerland
Urkiola Igoera
Another hilly/mountain oneday race in Spain.
Tour of Britain
8 stages, half is flat and half of them or hilly.
Circuit Franco Belge
This is one of our goals this season. It´s a race for a good sprinter who can survive some hills, maybe Van Hummel can surprise.
Giro dell'Emilia
Time for Italy. hilly oneday race
 Japan Cup
Asia it´s, this is also a oneday race for the punchers.
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Posted on 20-06-2011 16:17
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Transfer INFO
Management of Saab-Scania team finally had time to have a real conversation with each of the riders on the team. Everyone is happy with the feeling in the team and looking forward to the season ahead. But during the conversation with Fransesco Chicchi he revealed some info.
Last year Chicchi wasn´t the only Italian in the team when Jacopo Guarniere was contracted through a loan from Pokerstars.com
-He felt that there were no Italians in the managers plans this year, so he expressed a wish to leave the team if it got bids from any team based in Italy or any team with more Italians than in the Saab-Scania team.
After this conversation, the Saab-Scania management will do their best so the fast sprinter from Italy can get his wishes through.
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Posted on 25-06-2011 23:34
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Transfer Update, first signings!
Saab-Scania management called to a press conference to present their latest addition to the team.
We would like to talk about a deal that has just been completed, we are proud to announce that we have managed to buy Thomas Lövkvist from Team Spyker. One of the greatest riders in Scandinavia. He will be our captain in the mountains.
We also managed to buy another big rider in from Scandinavia, Thor Hushovd the experienced sprinter from Norway. Although he's getting old, we think he can do some great results this season.
And on to the riders we have managed to sign that has been without a contract earlier;
One of the most important domestiques for Thomas Lövkvist will be Swede Jonas Bjelkmark, he will help Thomas in the mountains and be a vital cog in the TT.
We have contracted Nicolas Brolin also he a domestique for Thomas in the mountains.
We talked a bit about Johan Lindgren before the transfer season began and we have managed to tie him to our team he will be a great help in TT's and on the flat terrain.
Mattias Westling is our next new rider, he will help in the sprints and even have his own opportunity to win a stage.
Glenn Likhaya is a young guy he are also from Sweden, which we hope for the in future.
These are the guys we have managed to sign so far, but we are working with several names still.
We must thank Christoff van Heerden for his year with our team we wish him good luck in the new German team Team Rothaus-Aeron.
We have news about 2 of our riders who will be loaned out this season. Timothy Vangheel will be riding for Wikipedia and race with the best riders in the world.
Johnny Hoogerland will be racing in Vesuvio-Accumalux where we hope he can accumulate experience and come back next year better than ever before.
That´s all for now, we will come back in a few days with hopefully new signings.
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Posted on 27-06-2011 20:55
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We can now present 3 more riders for our team the upcoming season. After signing one of Norways and one of Swedens best rider we can now say that we also have signed one of Demarks best rider, Matti Breschel.
A rider who is good allround can survive hills is good on the cobbles and with a good sprint.
We have also singed Michiel Van Aelbroeck a belgian rider who will help our team on the flat stages and in TT´s.
We have also signed a young talented guy from Kazakstan, Ulugbek Galiev we hope he can develop to a good climber.
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Posted on 27-06-2011 21:39
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Your team is starting to look like I wanted my team to look like last season ;-)
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Posted on 28-06-2011 05:18
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Heine wrote:
Your team is starting to look like I wanted my team to look like last season ;-)
hehe, i'm a bit after?  well trying to stay scandinavian as much as possible and now my 3 best riders are scandinavian so im happy, just hope they can do some good results to |
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Posted on 29-06-2011 18:01
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We can now announce more riders for the upcoming season. Enrique Salgueiro he will help us in the mountains hopefully he will do good there. Anders Lund is a danish rider who will help us on the cobblesection and on flat stages. Jos Pronk is a good TT and will help us on the sprint stages. Philip Lavery is an young talented hilly rider from Ireland. Matthew Brammeier is also from Ireland and will be a leadout sprinter in our team.
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Posted on 05-07-2011 20:50
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Team Leaders
- Thomas Lövkvist
We are very happy that the best cyclist from Sweden, Thomas Lövkvist will ride with us this season. He will be our captain when it comes to race with mountain or hills in it. He can also do good in TT´s.
- Matti Breschel
We also managed to sign one of the best rider from Denmark, Matti Breschel. He is a good allrounder who can survive some hills and be our leader on the cobbles.
He will also have a good chance to sprint home some victories especially on some stages with some hills in it.
- Thor Hushovd
After signing the best rider from Sweden and Denmark why don´t take one of the best from Norway too? So we signed the experienced sprinter from Norway, Thor Hushovd.
Even if he is getting old we hope he can catch some victories in sprints. He will also support Breschel on the cobblesections.
SuperDomestiques
- Theo Eltink
He was our captain in the mountain last season but this year he will be working a lot for Lövkvist but also get his chances to do results himself.
- Jonas Bjelkmark
This swede will be a very important helper for Thomas in the mountains he will also do good in TT´s.
- Marcel Wyss
Wyss is one of our best riders when it comes to hills.
He will get his own chances to do result and help our leaders in some races.
Sprinters
- Fransesco Chicchi
Our fast Italian sprinter will be our leading sprinter when it comes to flatstages. Last year he took 6 podium places we hope he can do atleast the same this year.
- Kenny Van Hummel
He can be a really good leadoutman, and he is quite good in hills even if he´s a sprinter so he will definitly have some chances to sprint for the victory.
- Mattias Westling
The best sprinter from Sweden will ride for us this year, he will mostly work as a leadout man on flatstages and maybe do some results self.
- Matthew Brammeier
Matthew will work as a leadoutman in our team he will also be a good rider in TTT´s.
Domestiques
- Johan Lindgren
He will be a good additional to our team mostly because of his skills in TT´s, he will also work for our sprinters on flatstages.
- Enrique Salgueiro
Our only spanish rider in the team, he will mostly work in the mountains.
- Michiel Van Aelbroeck
A belgian rider that´s good in TT´s and will be a good help on flatstages.
- Jos Pronk
This dutch rider will do most of his work on flatstages and in the TT´s.
- Timothy Gudsell
Another rider that will help us in the flatstages. He is decent on TT`s and will help the sprinters to postition when they approaching the finish.
- Nikola Aistrup
One of our Danish rider on the team, he has developed a bit sence last year, starting to be a good leadoutman.
- Anders Lund
Last year we had a Norwagian called Anders Lund this year our Anders Lund is from Denmark and will be a good helper on the cobbles.
- Kevin Ista
He will be a good help for our team together with Lund in the cobblesections.
- Nicolas Brolin
This Swedish guy will try to do his best for our team in the mountainssecitions.
- Tobias Larsson,
A young guy from Sweden who can still develop a bit, he is decent in TT´s.
- Lucas Persson
Lucas is one rider that we hope are willing to attack a lot this season and maybe snitch a stage win.
- Petter Renäng
He will be a helper on flat stages and on TT´s.
Young Talents
- Jimmi Sørensen
One of our most attackwilling riders, and he is still young and can develop much more.
- Philip Lavery
A young guy from Ireland that we hope can develop in to a good hillyrider.
- Glenn Likhaya
Swedens biggest talent was of course one must in our team. He is strongest in the hills.
 - Ulugbek Galiev
A young guy from Kazaksthan that we hope can be a great helper in the mountans in some years.
Stagiares
- Casper Løwenstein
For this young guy from Denmark we have hopes that he can develop in to a good climber
 - Amotz Nehoray
A young talented guy from Isreal, also him have most of his talent in the mountains.
 - Tomas Azaltovic
Tomas is a young talented sprinter from Slovakia.
We hope he will develop good in our team.
Outloaned riders.
Our to young belgians Jonas Decouttere and Timothy Vangheel is both outloaned to Wikipedia and will ride in that team this season and try to develop more.
Johnny Hoogerland is loaned out to Vesuvio-Accumalux where we hope he can collect routine and develop to the great rider we know he can be.
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