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[2013] Team Festina-Canal+
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| SotD |
Posted on 12-10-2012 11:57
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Team Festina - Canal + 2013 HQ
We welcome you to yet another season of following Team Festina in the Pro Tour, in the world of top cycling. We are currently in negotiation with two new sponsors for the team, to raise it's current level of competition.
We have never been afraid of waving our arms around, making ourselfs noted. This season will be no different. We have just one goal: Win the Pro Tour. The past couple of seasons we have been within touching ground, and deducting some bad luck we are there. This season will be about removing the small mistakes we have made over the years to be as competitive as we can be.
Festina remain our main sponsor for the time being, but french networking station Canal+ have joined up with the swiss watch company to create one of the strongest teams out there. A small greek bank has decided to take park as a minor sponsor as long as we try to enforce greek cycling, which we would love to do.
..::Team Name::..
 Festina-Canal+
..::Team Manager::..
 Andreas Jøhnke
Grand Tour Riders
 Alberto Contador
 Markus Fothen
Hilly Riders
 Diego Ulissi
 Bauke Mollema
Laurent Pichon
Climbers
Tim Dees
Chris Anker Sørensen
 Ioannis Tamouridis
 Piter Campero
Sprinters
Óscar Guerao
Anthony Lavoine
Benôit Sinner
Marco Brus (Loaned)
Cobblers
 Geert Steurs
Cedric Lebris
Timetriallers
Pierre Rolland
Mathieu Bernaudeau
 Jason Donald
 Ivan Kovalev
 Ramunas Navardauskas
Panagiotis Vlatos
Riders loaned out
Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier
Yoann Paillot
Bryan Coquard
Clement Koretzky
Nacer Bouhanni
Alexis Gougeard
Georgos Tzortzakis
Charalampas Kastrantas
Jens Keukeleire
 Steve Morabito
..::Win Milano - San Remo::.. - FAILED (5th)
..::Top 3 Giro d'Italia::.. - FAILED (5th)
..::Top 3 Vuelta a España::.. - ACHIEVED (3rd)
..::Top 10 Tour de France::.. - FAILED (No captain)
..::Top 5 Team Standings::.. - FAILED
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| SotD |
Posted on 12-10-2012 11:57
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Óscar Guerao - Stage 3, Tour de France
Óscar Guerao - Stage 10, Tour de France
Óscar Guerao - Stage 11, Tour de France
Óscar Guerao - Stage 21, Tour de France (Champs Elyssés)
Óscar Guerao - Stage 2, Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
Óscar Guerao - Stage 4, Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
Óscar Guerao - Stage 5, Tour of Norway
Alberto Contador - Stage 6, Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
Óscar Guerao - Stage 2, Tour de France
Markus Fothen - Stage 13, Giro d'Italia
Alberto Contador - Stage 12, Vuelta a España
Óscar Guerao - Stage 11, Vuelta a España
Óscar Guerao - Stage 7, Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
Óscar Guerao - Stage 1, Tour of Norway
Alberto Contador - Stage 5, Critérium du Dauphiné
Piter Campero - Stage 8, Vuelta a Colombia
Óscar Guerao - Stage 16, Tour de France
Anthony Lavoine - Stage 21, Giro d'Italia
Óscar Guerao - Stage 7, Tour of Norway
Mathieu Bernaudeau - Stage 1, Critérium du Dauphiné
Mathieu Bernaudeau - Stage 1, Tour of Romandie
Alberto Contador - Stage 3, Tour of Romandie
1. Alberto Contador - Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
3. Alberto Contador - Critérium du Dauphiné
3. Alberto Contador - Vuelta a España
3. Markus Fothen - Deutschland Tour
4. Alberto Contador - Tour of Romandie
4. Geert Steurs - Gent - Wevelgem
5. Markus Fothen - Giro d'Italia
5. Alberto Contador - GP Liechtenstein
6. Markus Fothen - Tour of Switzerland
5. Diego Ulissi - Milano - San Remo
6. Diego Ulissi - Liege-Bastogne-Liege
6. Diego Ulissi - Badaling International
7. Óscar Guerao - Rund um Köln
8. Markus Fothen - Vuelta a Colombia
8. Diego Ulissi - Lisbon Classic
9. Diego Ulissi - Tirreno-Adriatico
..::Points classifications:..
1. Óscar Guerao - Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
3. Óscar Guerao - Tour de France
3. Diego Ulissi - Tour of Tasmania
6. Alberto Contador - Vuelta a España
6. Alberto Contador - Tour of Romandie
7. Alberto Contador - Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
8. Markus Fothen - Vuelta a Colombia
9. Alberto Contador - Critérium du Dauphiné
9. Markus Fothen - Giro d'Italia
..::Mountains classifications:..
4. Piter Campero - Vuelta a Colombia
7. Piter Campero - Tour of Switzerland
7. Alberto Contador - Critérium du Dauphiné
7. Alberto Contador - Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
..::Young riders classifications:..
2. Diego Ulissi - Tirreno-Adriatico
6. Mathieu Bernaudeau - Tour of Qatar
4. Tim Dees - Deutschland Tour
6. Tim Dees - Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
6. Tim Dees - Tour of Romandie
8. Tim Dees - Giro d'Italia
8. Piter Campero - Vuelta a Colombia
9. Tim Dees - Tour of Switzerland
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| SotD |
Posted on 12-10-2012 11:57
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Posted on 12-10-2012 12:00
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Some riders might be leaving
Voices of content has been heard in the media lately where several riders of Festina, is concerned with the teams new french focus. The riders should be:
Markus Fothen
 José Serpa
 Jonas Ljungblad
Mikel Landa
Jonathan Castroviejo
Vicente Reynes
Rafael RodrÃguez Segarra
 Michael Matthews
Roy Sentjens
Kristof Goddaert
Olivier Kaisen
Daan Rijntjes
 Wen Hao Li
Rohan Dennis
Edited by SotD on 12-10-2012 12:01
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| Heine |
Posted on 12-10-2012 12:09
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Markus Fothen has expressed his wishes to ride for a German team, any comments on that?
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Posted on 12-10-2012 12:18
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We have no comments regarding which teams Markus wants to ride for. So far he is contracted to Team Festina, but if his wishes are to leave, we are going to have a look into it. We don't think we will get anything out of keeping a rider against his will, but we are not just going to lose him from the contract, and we have to talk to him about what he wants. If rumours are true, though, we would be willing to listen to offers. Good offers that is.
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| Rin |
Posted on 12-10-2012 12:28
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Team Lotto - Cervélo might be interested to take over Michael Matthews and Rohan Dennis
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Posted on 12-10-2012 12:37
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Both riders could potentially be interested in a move like that.
Team Lotto - Cervélo has a few riders interesting for Team Festina, such as Manuel Lloret, Maxime Monfort, Tommy Zaini, Dimitri Claeys, Javier Aramendia and Gerald Ciolek.
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| ember |
Posted on 12-10-2012 12:44
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Aker - MOT's leader ember is under the impression Castroviejo enjoyed his 2012 in the Norwegian team, and rumour has it Aker - MOT wants to sign him permanent for 2013.
Do you have any comment on that, and will it be possible for Castroviejo to go cheap to Aker - MOT, as he enjoyed his experience there in 2012? |
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Posted on 12-10-2012 12:50
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Cheap no, but conclusions after a brief meeting with Jonathan is that he is definately interested in moving back to Aker, where he had a good season. He has commented:
"My time at Aker was immense. It was really interessting to help a team to promote, and it was clear that the manager believed I would be a good rider soon. That means a lot to me. I know that Festina Mananager, Andreas Jøhnke has a place for me in next years season, but I know aswell as anyone that I don't feature in the plans to get any sort of free role this year. I think I need that to develop into the rider I know I can be. A loan deal back to Aker, or even a permanent deal would probably be the best possible solution for me personally".
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Posted on 12-10-2012 16:57
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Team Festina announce new sponsor
Earlier today team manager, Andreas Jøhnke, arrived in Paris to meet the directors at CANAL +. After the meeting, he took the time to talk the the presslounge regarding the new sponsor.
"We are very happy to conclude the final paperworks here in Paris, and to have signed with a worldwide network company such as CANAL+ is a huge PR boost for us, aswell as financially of course. This huge deal assures that we can yet again create a team well capable of competing for the Pro Tour title. We are hungering for it, so it gives a great personal boost for me to know that it yet again is up to me, to create the succes.
The sponsorship obviously changes our goals a bit from last season where the Vuelta was our main objective. We have to focus a lot on the Tour de France this season, and we want to have a strong base of french riders. We cannot promise to win the race, but we will definately strive to have a competitive lineup for the race. Markus Fothen could have given us a good result last season, but getting a top 10 result, and besides that being fairly neutral in the race is not good enough anymore.
We still need to go to Athens to make the third sponsorship legit, but we are close to a deal there aswell. Based on the fact that we feel very confident that our team will be fully assembled, financially, tonight or tomorrow we will announce one of two possible jerseys for the next season. We are proud of the first design, and it will take a good shot from our other designer to beat this. Feel free to comment."
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| Rin |
Posted on 12-10-2012 18:26
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Looks very nice and has obviously some Festina touch 
Looking forward to see them in the reports 
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Posted on 12-10-2012 18:28
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Just look at the one waving his arm at the finish line. That should be the easiest way to spot it
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Posted on 13-10-2012 11:07
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The second jersey design to be revealed
Maximka has yet again spent a lot of time making a beautiful jersey for us. Here is a sneak preview. We are yet to decide which to use this season, and probably the one not being used in the normal season will be used in the Grand Tours instead (If possible?).
Have a look, and feel free to comment both shirts.
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Posted on 13-10-2012 11:14
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Both are brilliant. I must say I prefer the second one though, as I love the colours. 
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 13-10-2012 11:18
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I like the second one more as well.
Edited by alexkr00 on 13-10-2012 11:18
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| CountArach |
Posted on 13-10-2012 11:19
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I think your team will definitely be one to watch.
Seriously though I love both jerseys. The actual watch face on the first one is incredible but in terms of colours and overall design I'd go for the second one.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 13-10-2012 15:43
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I like the first one better (might be even better if it had the yellow from the 2nd shirt) but I just like the design more, as the 2nd one reminds me of Omega Pharma too much.
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Posted on 13-10-2012 22:49
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CountArach wrote:
I think your team will definitely be one to watch.
Seriously though I love both jerseys. The actual watch face on the first one is incredible but in terms of colours and overall design I'd go for the second one.
Funny 
But yeah, I vote for the second one.
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Posted on 14-10-2012 21:59
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New Pro-Continental outfit Alstom-RBC have expressed great interest in Anthony Lavione through the Canadian Media there are quoted as saying Lavione would make a "brilliant top sprinter for the team". Can you see a deal for the rider being made? |
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