This isn't going to be a full blown story but rather a career report in the vein of valverde's Quickstep story and others like it. Results from World Tour races and those continental races in which we achieve anything, but I'm not sure how many of those I'll actually play. There's going to be screenshots, some races with a few more, some races without any, probably depending on our success. We'll see how this goes. Hope you'll enjoy!

Cofidis enters its first World Tour season in 10 years with modest ambitions. The team fields one of the weaker rosters of the division but is nonetheless determined to make some noise, especially on home soil. For the necessary points to remain in the top tier, they're probably going to rely on the smaller World Tour races as well as consistency in the Top 5 to Top 10 range.

Age	30
Contract until	2021
Rider Type	Sprinter
Goals	Tirreno - Adriatico
	Giro d'Italia
	La Vuelta

Age	27
Contract until	2021
Rider Type	Sprinter
Goals	Milano - San Remo
	Tour de France
	Cyclassics Hamburg & BinckBank Tour

Age	26
Contract until	2020
Rider Type	Puncheur / Climber
Goals	Paris - Nice
	Tour de France
	Il Lombardia

Age	29
Contract until	2020
Rider Type	Puncheur
Goals	Itzulia Basque Country & Ardennes
	Tour de Pologne & San Sebastián
	La Vuelta

Age	30
Contract until	2021
Rider Type	Puncheur
Goals	Tour Down Under & Tirreno - Adriatico
	Tour de Suisse
	GPs de Québec & Montréal

With Haas already in very good shape, I was hoping the title might be in reach, but NCs are always tricky. O'Connor surprised everyone with a late attack.

Well, this was quite something. Haas' performance was at the upper end of what I had expected - what I didn't expect were two stage wins by Simone Connsoni! The second one came as a surprise after the photo from the finish line was examined - at first and even second glance, it looked like Nizzolo had it. Oh well, never look a gift horse in the mouth, I guess. Peaking early and setting this as an explicit goal paid off.

Quiet Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. It was more selective than I had hoped, so Consonni had no chance, but Rossetto scored a few valuable points there.

After two desastrous opening stages for Viviani, we turned it around. Martin exceeded expectations by beating someone like Carapaz, and then the sprint train finally got on the same page, leading Viviani to win three of the final four stages - the first two against Nizzolo, who has to have nightmares of riders in white and red jumping past him at the last second by now.

Piet Allegeart had a career day and the result could have been even better. Until about two kilometres to go, he was in a group of five at the front of the race until the group with Sagan behind them caught them in the sprint. Still, a very strong result. Dimitri Claeys also finished 11th.

A couple of nice results on French terrain, always good for the image in our home country. Both sprinters proving they're in-form, although the competition wasn't all that tough.

Another fine result by a rider who wasn't expected to deliver one - just like at the Great Ocean Road Race and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. We're showing depth, and I like that.

I don't really know what to say. Had it not been for the opening time trial, this would have been a relatively comfortable win for Guillaume Martin, but three stage wins plus one from Laporte is a pretty big deal. Way, way more than expected, that's for sure.

These results are obviously a little silly and not very realistic. Daily form just makes your riders overpowered and a good daily form is easy to get. So I'll make the jump to extreme a little earlier than I anticipated. But I almost feel bad for winning, and that's not the point. Extreme starts after Milano - San Remo. So bear with these results for one more post and then it hopefully gets a little tougher.

One of the weirder Tirreno - Adriatico editions I can remember. It had three hilly stages with descents towards the finish line, none of them hard enough to weed out the sprinters. It was us against Pascal Ackermann pretty much all the way, to the point that Viviani and him went into the last stage completely tied. And Elia pulled off his fourth stage win to take it all. Who'd have thought this race could be won be a sprinter?

The final hill was just a little too much for our two sprinters, but this is still a fantastic result. Pascal Ackermann is having himself quite a few weeks as well, although he does come just a little short again as Mathieu Van der Poel takes his first monument - I wouldn't be shocked if it's the first of many.