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[PCT] VisitUkraine p/b Nemiroff
fjhoekie
WE SURVIVED, AGAIN


Welcome back to our modernized headquarters in Lviv, Ukraine. The old colours are gone and have been replaced by some classy looking red and black, which goes well with our jersey for the upcoming 2016 season.

We're delighted to say we're still a part of the PCT despite having quite a rough 2015 season. It's clear we need to change some things, and believe me, we will. At this moment in time we cannot go into details yet, but our plans will unfold when the time comes.

Once again our main goal shall be improving from last season, however the way we'll try to accomplish this will again stay a secret until the time is there to reveal it all.

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Main Jersey, 2016.


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Cyprus TT, Marios Athanasiades


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Kazakhstan TT, Dmitriy Gruzdev


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Madagascar RR+TT, Roger Randrianambinina


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France RR, Romain Vanderbiest


We thank bwiggins for designing these stunning jerseys!

Edited by fjhoekie on 14-06-2016 20:28
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fjhoekie
Team History

2013 - CT 9th (Promotion due to disbanding teams)

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Team [18 riders]:
Roman Maksimov [Loan] Ricardo Mestre
Eduard Vorganov Bruno Lima
Mykhaylo Kononenko Cesar Andre Fonte
Vitaliy Buts Filipe Cardoso
Oleksandr Polivoda Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha
Volodymyr Gomenyuk Daniel Hoelgaard [Loan]
Anatoliy Sosnitskiy [Loan] Nicolae Tanovitchii [Loan]
Volodymyr Dzhus [Loan] Arturs Ansons
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Loaned out [2 riders]:
Artem Topchanyuk
Oleksandr Prevar
Stagiares [1 rider]:
Oleksandr Golovash


2014 - PCT 22nd


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Team [28 riders]:
Vladimir Efimkin Tomas Vaitkus
Eduard Vorganov Ignas Konovalovas
Sergey Nikolaev Andre Greipel
Artem Topchanyuk Kobe Vanoverschelde
Mykhaylo Kononenko Igor Abakoumov
Vitaliy Buts Filipe Cardoso
Oleksandr Polivoda Bruno Lima
Volodymyr Gomenyuk Polychronis Tzortzakis
Oleksandr Golovash Robert Vrecer
Andriy Orlov [stagiaire] Maciej Ulanowski
Arturs Ansons Muradjan Khalmuratov
Martin Puusepp Shaquille Sinclair
Marios Athanasiades Alex Wohler [Loan]
Kyriakos Skettos Andris Smirnovs [Loan]
Loaned out [1 rider]:
Oleksandr Prevar


2015 - PCT 25th

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Team [25 riders]:
Vladimir Efimkin Volodymyr Gomenyuk
Egor Silin Mykhaylo Kononenko
Sergey Nikolaev Adrian Nitu
Aleksandr Efimkin Marios Athanasiades
Denis Vorontsov Roger Randrianambinina
Mikayil Krasnoperov Stefan Petrovski [Loan]
Jaroslav Popovych Yevgeni Nepomnyachsniy
Oleksandr Prevar Dmitriy Gruzdev
Oleksandr Polivoda Andrei Kashechkin
Artem Topchanyuk Tomas Vaitkus
Oleksandr Lobov Maciej Ulanowski
Andriy Orlov Iman Suparman
Vitaliy Buts
Loaned out [5 riders]:
Polychronis Tzortzakis Shaquille Sinclair
Oleksandr Golovash Kyriakos Skettos
Mikhail Kochetkov

Edited by fjhoekie on 03-01-2016 20:26
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fjhoekie
2016 Roster



Damiano CunegoStage RacesVolodymyr GomenyukSprints
Yevgeni NepomnyachsniyStage RacesVitaliy ButsSprints
Romain VanderbiestSprintsDmitriy GruzdevTTs
Oleksandr PrevarHillsRoger RandrianambininaSprints
Paolo ScarponiMountainsMarios AthanasiadesTTs
Artem TopchanyukMountainsAdrian NituMountains
Ignas KonovalovasHilly ToursJakub SkalaCobbles
Maciej UlanowskiSprintsZouzou AndriafenomananiainaStage Races
Oleksandr PolivodaSprintsRoman LutsyshynSprints
Mykhaylo KononenkoStage Races***Loaned Out***
Sergey NikolaevSprintsOleksandr GolovashTTs
Yauheni HutarovichSprintsMikhail KochetkovTTs
Egor SilinHillsAndriy OrlovHills

Edited by fjhoekie on 17-07-2016 17:18
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fjhoekie
Calendar


January
Down Under ClassicHC
February
Tour of EritreaHC
Tour de San LuisHC
Volta a CatalunyaC1
Gisborne GPC1
March
FBD Eire TourC1
Kandy Cycling ClassicHC
Betonexpressz GPC2
E3 PrijsHC
April
Tour of VancouverHC
Philadelphia International ChampionshipC1
Tour of RomandieHC
Interlagos GPHC
Dutch Food Valley ClassicHC
May
5 Jours de DunkerqueHC
Fleche WallonePT
Tour of JapanC1
Liege - Bastogne - LiegePTM
Berlin ProRaceHC
Olympia's TourC1
Tour of the Czech RepublicHC
June
July
Manx InternationalHC
Tour of BeijingHC
August
Clasica San SebastianHC
Nakhon Ratchasima TrophyC1
Volta a PortugalHC
GP MoscowPT
Grand Prix CyclistesC1
September
Tour of AmericaC1
Tour of UkraineHC
Milano - TorinoC1
October
Giro dell'EmiliaHC
Lisbon ClassicPT
Course de SolidarnoscHC
Giro di LombardiaPTM


Victories


Oleksandr PolivodaStage 4Volta a Catalunya
Romain VanderbiestStage 7FBD Eire Tour
Damiano CunegoGCTour of Japan
Romain VanderbiestStage 7Olympia's Tour
Oleksandr PrevarClassicManx International
Yevgeni NepomnyachnsiyStage 10Volta a Portugal
Damiano CunegoClassicGiro dell'Emilia
Roger RandrianambininaNCMalagasy NC RR
Zouzou AndriafenomananiainaNCMalagasy NC ITT
Oleksandr GolovashNCUkrainian NC RR
Marios AthanasiadesNCCypriot NC RR
Marios AthanasiadesNCCypriot NC ITT
Mikhail KochetkovNCKazakh NC RR
Adrian NituNCRomanian NC RR

Edited by fjhoekie on 14-05-2017 08:26
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fjhoekie
Word from our sponsors


We from the Nemiroff company are delighted to announce we've found a new cause to highlight with our cycling project you're all familiar with by now. VisitUkraine will get some amazing exposure, hopefully making our quite stricken country a lot better and more attractive again. We love the amount of Ukrainian talent coming through, with Prevar winning a huge race last year, and Golovash making his way up quickly.

Word from the team


Now as you may have seen the team has gotten a deal with several sidesponsors as well, like Nalini who will supply the great shirts, and just a few days ago the team's bike sponsor, SCOTT, delivered our brand new bikes designed by sgdanny. Needless to say we are very happy with the way the team will look this year, and we can only hope they will perform as well as the looks suggest.

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The official goals for the 2016 have been signed and delivered to the MGUCI. Sadly we cannot reveal them just yet, however you should trust us when we say we put quite a bit more effort in it to ensure we will actually reach some of them this upcoming season. The same goes for the HC race subscriptions, they've been handed in and we await the decisions of the MGUCI before we can actually put some things on our calendar, the C1, and potentially PT and C2 races will follow shortly afterwards.

Also, some of you have been saying how ironic it is to have a sponsor active in the uranium industry after supporting the Children of Chernobyl Foundation last year. We will defend our choice to get them on board by saying it's a great oppurtunity to expand our team's brand to Kazakhstan now we have 2 of their most successful riders in Nepomnyachsniy and Gruzdev who is the national TT champion. No other sponsors from Kazakhstan could be found yet, however if we want to grow towards being a ProTour team we could surely use the money from Kazakhstan's largest companies.

Finally, you must've noticed our team was quite old already last year. Most of those experienced riders have declined a lot during the season break, and we will evaluate them later. There is no point in keeping 40 year old riders just for keeping them, however as they've brought the team some useful points as well we will not just let them go without a serious thought.
Edited by fjhoekie on 14-06-2016 20:45
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Very nice shirt, a certain jump from last year's
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sgdanny
Good luck Smile

Absolutely love the jersey and should be fun to watch your team, as Krasnoperov couldn't carry your team last season Pfft

Dunno who you'll target, so surprise me Smile Good luck Smile
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the_hoyle
Fantastic jersey, fantastic HQ! Good luck for the season
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matt17br
Well hopefully this is the year you don't fight for relegation and have a more "quiet" season under that point of view. If you find 2 decent leaders and have clear ideas at renewals that should defo be doable!

Loving that jersey btw, although I really liked the ones your riders wore during the last 2 years too!
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dev4ever
Look forward to battling you for another season. Hopefully we're battling in the upper half this year and not in relegation fight again! Wink

Love the shirts, compliments to the shirtmaker.
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fjhoekie
Word from our sponsors


We from the Nemiroff company are delighted to announce we've found a new cause to highlight with our cycling project you're all familiar with by now. VisitUkraine will get some amazing exposure, hopefully making our quite stricken country a lot better and more attractive again. We love the amount of Ukrainian talent coming through, with Prevar winning a huge race last year, and Golovash making his way up quickly.

Word from the team


Now as you may have seen the team has gotten a deal with several sidesponsors as well, like Nalini who will supply the great shirts, and just a few days ago the team's bike sponsor, SCOTT, delivered our brand new bikes designed by sgdanny. Needless to say we are very happy with the way the team will look this year, and we can only hope they will perform as well as the looks suggest.

dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/hlcbtj61az77wh1/RR%20Frame.png
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/su66nskesw5dyer/TT%20Frame.png


The official goals for the 2016 have been signed and delivered to the MGUCI. Sadly we cannot reveal them just yet, however you should trust us when we say we put quite a bit more effort in it to ensure we will actually reach some of them this upcoming season. The same goes for the HC race subscriptions, they've been handed in and we await the decisions of the MGUCI before we can actually put some things on our calendar, the C1, and potentially PT and C2 races will follow shortly afterwards.

Also, some of you have been saying how ironic it is to have a sponsor active in the uranium industry after supporting the Children of Chernobyl Foundation last year. We will defend our choice to get them on board by saying it's a great oppurtunity to expand our team's brand to Kazakhstan now we have 2 of their most successful riders in Nepomnyachsniy and Gruzdev who is the national TT champion. No other sponsors from Kazakhstan could be found yet, however if we want to grow towards being a ProTour team we could surely use the money from Kazakhstan's largest companies.

Finally, you must've noticed our team was quite old already last year. Most of those experienced riders have declined a lot during the season break, and we will evaluate them later. There is no point in keeping 40 year old riders just for keeping them, however as they've brought the team some useful points as well we will not just let them go without a serious thought.
Edited by fjhoekie on 14-06-2016 20:45
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fjhoekie
VisitUkraine To Explore Foreign Markets?


With contract renewals still ongoing the media may have gotten hold of a very global transfer plan of the VisitUkraine p/b Nemiroff team. No names were mentioned in this plan however media have made some very basic, but potentially logical conclusions.

Most striking was the strategy of bringing in a new, foreign GC rider who would be top class for the division, but relatively cheap in order to allow the team to grow in other areas as well. With Nepomnyachniy, Krasnoperov and Topchanyuk all on board pre-renewals this new leader is not likely to be a TT-monster according to various people as Nepomnyachniy fills that gap, but more of a pure climber instead. In addition to that we expect this 'new leader' to be a bit more punchy than Krasnoperov who failed a lot due to his bad acceleration according to the team's director. Now finally if we add in the price aspect there's probably only 1 guy who could be the team's big target, and that would be the 33-year old Italian Riccardo Ricco.

Riccardo is known for his fighting spirit, and his current team, Festina, which may or may not be disbanding has hinted his departure several times already. There is no real doubt a rider like Ricco would be able to do well in the PCT, and he would probably be enough of an asset to keep up VisitUkraine for another year.

If this plan will be followed is not sure though, Riccardo would be a very short time investment given his age, and we've seen the team grabbing up talented riders in the past who have done fairly well too, like Oleksandr Prevar and perhaps the team has some other ideas that will be more valuable for the future of the team.

Edited by fjhoekie on 06-06-2016 11:28
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Avin Wargunnson
Interesting target, which could fill the gap nicely, good luck trying to ensure his services.

We are always interested in the plans of our Ukrainian partner, who are building up the fame of eastern european cycling together with us and several other teams. Smile
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Or Will They Stick To Familiar Grounds?


Not long after publishing an article about how Ricco would probably be VisitUkraine's main target to tackle GCs, some media have been investigating things a little bit more, and they came to the conclusion GCs are not always won in the mountains, there are other terrains to win on as well.

With this knowledge the media have pulled a quick scan through the world of pro cycling again to find a potential winner on other terrains, most likely hilly terrains where Prevar already has a dominant role, but where some strength in time trials seems to be lacking if you should consider Nepomnyachsniy not much much of a hill specialist.

Keeping the same restrictions as with the Ricco investigation media have pointed out 31 year-old Russian Mikhail Ignatiev from the Metinvest team could well be a great asset for VisitUkraine in stage races where not only hills are present, but where riders also have to face a race against the chrono. Ignatiev is well known for his aggressive style of riding, and his abilities against the clock. There's a reason why he's been both the Russian RR and TT champion in the past, and he would possibly slot well into the current team's setup.

Once again the VisitUkraine management stresses they will not give any information on whether or not Ricco and Ignatiev are really some hot targets or just a massive speculation, however they also seem to not deny anything straight away.

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Some nice targets being mentioned by the team Wink
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Renewals and Transfer Availability


With renewals done we're glad to announce our team looks less obese right now! We fired 11 riders to keep a total of 18 going into the transfer madness, with quite some cap to play with.

Our Pre-Transfers Team looks like this:

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This means we've fired Mikayil Krasnoperov, who did not agree on a much lower wage and he basically stormed out of my office within a few seconds, the Efimkin brothers who are simply too old, and the same goes for legends Jaroslav Popovych and Andrei Kashechkin. Also the hottest thing on wheels has not convinced me enough to stay, he'd need a PT loan and I doubt he could get that, and this same applies to Kyriakos Skettos. Oleksandr Lobov has not shown enough potential to stay at the team, as has Denis Vorontsov. Despite being a fan favourite Iman Suparman has been sent back to Indonesia due this high age, and we sadly could not meet Tomas Vaitkus' demands.

That said, from the team we now have not everyone will stay. Oleksandr Golovash and Mikhail Kochetkov will be looking for PT loans, and both should be fairly valuable as well for TTT setups.

Other riders may all go depending on offers, but it's highly unlikely anyone will actually get sold.

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Goals 2016


As comes with a new season we had to pick new goals. Looking back at last year we had a few very good races, and a lot of bad ones, so for the goals we obviously decided to focus on the best races from last year. Coming to close to a win in Portgual last year, this year we want to win the Volta a Portugal. We had 2 stage wins there, and Nepomnyachsniy was very strong in that field. Additionally we did quite well at a certain classic with Oleksandr Prevar getting the win, this year we aim for a Top 5 at the Classica San Sebastian. Being our home race, we always are expected to deliver something, and last year was no different with Nepomnyachsniy riding a good a TT and securing a good GC as well. This year our goal is to get a Top 5 in the GC of the Tour of Ukraine. The final race goal is a bit of a gamble. We did well in the race, but winning stages has not been our strong point there. Lacking a proper lead-out or an amzing climber we also had limited chances. This year we will fully focus on getting Stage wins in the Tour of America. Finally, our rankings goal may be a bit ambitious, but we are sure we can improve, and then a Top 15 in the PCT Team Standings should be possible!

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Avin Wargunnson
Interesting news from camp of our friends in Lvov.

Krasnoperov seeems like the lazy guy who is not willing to improve on hills, so no wonder he got fired by VisitUkraine, now he has to prove again that he is worth more than 50,000 euros!

You made some very good steps by terminating contracts of riders that really are not useful in PCT and made yourself a great amount of wage cap available by that. I see room for even two top class PCT riders and those are certainly to be found in free agency this year. Good luck in that and your goals, majority of them seems very reasonable.

And say hi to Golovash for us, you can ask him if he would possibly like to learn some skills from best young TTist in the world. Wink
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First Signings


Damiano Cunego

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Il Piccolo Principe, 6 times Giro, and 1 time Tour de France winner Damiano Cunego has been the team's first, and possibly largest signing. The Italian is currently projected to be the most expensive rider ever to ride for the Ukrainian team with a wage of 600.000. His history is worth that alone, but even now he's getting older he still is an amzing leader on the level we race at. In any mountainous races where a TT is missing for Nepomnyachsniy to make time on, Cunego will be a great team captain, and we're very happy we landed a big fish, despite the fact the league may be filled with similar, maybe even better rider.


Roman Lutsyshyn

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Ukraine's new best talent is a sprinter, Roman Lutsyshyn. His skills are from the track, and he's already a very fast guy in a sprint. Main problem for now is getting him to a sprint first, but give him a few years, he'll be up there with the best!


Zouzou Andriafenomananiaina

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From Madagascar a new stage race talent emerges in the form of Zouzou Andriafenomananiaina. His name may be difficult, but you better get used to it as this guy is surely Madagascar's greatest talent. He can climb long climbs, short steep climbs and he can hold himself against the clock. Just like Roman he'll need a few year to gain experiece, but he should be a very valuable domestique after those years!

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