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Final Rankings 2009 - Discussion
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 13-11-2008 19:52
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Individual Rankings
JJ Haedo has come out on top of the individual rankings! The Slipstream rider scored 12 wins across 5 races - including overall victory in the Tour d'Egypte, as well as scoring points in 5 others. A feature of the top 10 for a while, he had never led the Individual standings - until winning it on the final stage of the final race!
Tom Danielson will no doubt be disappointed with 2nd. Atlhough winning Vuelta al Tachira did not give him the lead, he got it after the 3rd race of the season by winning the Vuelta al Ciclista Peru. Points in the Vuelta al Pais Vasco and victory in the Tour de Georgia consolidated his lead but after holding it for 46 races, he briefly lost the lead to Edvald Boasson Hagen. Reclaimed after 3rd overall in the Vuelta a Venezuela but in the end it was not quite enough.
Edvald Boasson Hagen rounds off the podium. He took overall wins in the stage races in Dunkerque, and Slovenia, while Kanton Aargau was his only one day success. A consistent points scorer, he had chances to win the title, but couldnt quite take them. It will be interesting to see how he does in the ProTour next season!
An awesome June is what saw Angel Vicioso take 4th in the rankings - he won both the Volta Ciclista al Leida and the Euskal Bizkleta. A stage win in the Giro del Capo was his other good result.
5th, 6th and 7th are all Champion riders: Aleksandr Efimkin, Jose Chacon, and Aitor Perez Arrieta. Efimkin won the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Chacon won the Japan Tour, while Perez Arrieta was a consistent classics performer - winning 3 of them!
Winning the Tour of Hellas, plus stage wins in Langkawi, Georgia and Montjuic got 8th for Pluchkin. Another champion rider, Jimmy Casper, took 9th thanks to the Tour of Ireland victory, while Heinrich Haussler rounds out the Top 10 - he won the Bikeline 2-Day.
Last years winner Fabian Wegmann could only manage 58th.
1 Juan José Haedo ARG Slipstream 648
2 Tom Danielson USA Fed-Ex 626
3 Edvald Boasson Hagen NOR B&O 566
4 Angel Vicioso ESP Gatorade 541
5 Aleksandr Efimkin RUS Champion 452
6 José Chacon VEN Champion 417
7 Aitor Perez Arrieta ESP Champion 398
8 Aleksandr Pluchkin MOL B&O 395
9 Jimmy Casper FRA Champion 394
10 Heinrich Haussler GER NVidia 371
11 Nuno Ribeiro POR Benfica 364
12 Leonardo Bertagnolli ITA Wiggle - Premier Inn 346
13 Bernhard Kohl AUT White Bear Steyr 345
14 Claudio Corioni ITA White Bear Steyr 327
15 Óscar Pereiro Sio ESP Ernst & Young 314
16 Tomas Vaitkus LTU Nippo Corporation 309
17 Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios ESP Zenmind - Evolution 304
18 Wes Sulzberger AUS IrnBru - RBS 303
19 Ivan Seledkov RUS IrnBru - RBS 281
20 Graeme Brown AUS White Bear Steyr 277
21 Daniel Moreno ESP Benfica 273
22 Tom Veelers NED B&O 272
23 Wim van Huffel BEL LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 261
24 Roman Kreuziger CZE B&O 260
25 Allan Davis AUS Fed-Ex 257
26 Konstantin Siutsou BLR White Bear Steyr 252
27 Bradley Wiggins GBR Procycling-BBC 250
28 Blaise Sonnery FRA White Bear Steyr 250
29 Vitor Rodrigues POR LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 237
30 Luca Paolini ITA Champion 228
31 Martijn Maaskant NED LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 224
32 Chris Froome GBR Procycling-BBC 222
33 Tadej Valjavec SLO Ernst & Young 219
34 Matti Breschel DEN B&O 215
35 Manuel Medina VEN British Airways - Cyclingnews 215
36 Ruben Bongiorno ARG Molteni 215
37 Constantino Zaballa ESP LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 207
38 Geraint Thomas GBR British Airways - Cyclingnews 206
39 Ricardo Mestre POR B&O 204
40 Roger Hammond GBR Procycling-BBC 200
41 Stuart O'Grady AUS LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 197
42 Ruben Elvira Lobato ESP Molteni 195
43 Aitor Galdos ESP Molteni 194
44 Ben Swift GBR Procycling-BBC 194
45 Erik Mohs GER IrnBru - RBS 188
46 Scott Nydam USA Slipstream 187
47 Jonathan Bellis GBR British Airways - Cyclingnews 182
48 George Hincapie USA NVidia 177
49 Ben Jacques-Maynes USA Procycling-BBC 174
50 Adam Hansen AUS Procycling-BBC 173
Full: https://www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthr...ost_153007
Team Rankings
Although Champion, Fed-Ex and Slipstream led precedings to start with, once B&O got the lead, they did not look back. 3 overall Stage races and 4 one day classic victorys plus a whole load more strong results sees them win the title by over 300 points to their nearest rivals.
With four riders in the Top 10, it's clear that Champion had a strong set up, but they had to fight all the way to take the 2nd promotion spot. They scored 3 overall stage races and 5 one day classics and although unable to live up to their name and become Champions, they are well and truly promoted.
A big well done goes to LA/MSS/Pearl Jam. Nobody thought that they would finish 3rd in the standings and come oh so close to promotion! pedruh really turned the team around - 17th last season is but a distant memory for the reformed team. They won 2 Stage races and 4 classics.
4th once again were Procycling-BBC. They may not have any big riders (Wiggins was their best ranked in 27th) but with 11 in the Top 100, they show that consistency sure does help and that you dont need to be good in the mountains to get promoted (They were only 200 points away from 2nd place). They took 3 stage races and 2 classics.
Rounding out the Top 5 were White Beear Steyr, despite Kohl's injury in Venezuela. The Austrian still gave them their only overall victories, Subida a Urkiola and the Volta Portugal.
Fed-Ex were unable to bounce back to the ProTour in 6th. An over reliance on Tom Danielson was ultimately their downfall. IrnBru takes 7th - halving their ranking from last year - and also improving by 7 places were the stars of the early season, Slipstream. They have the indiviual title this year - and perhaps promotion next year?
Molteni did well to get into the top 10 with even less big names than Procycling. Their consistency on the European circuit certainly helped them. Rounding out the Top 10 were Wiggle, who saved their best til last in Burkina Faso.
Also, well done to Sony Ericsson B, who won the battle of the Bs by nearly 100 points. Thanks largely to Manuele Mori
1 B&O 2729
2 Champion 2419
3 LA/MSS/Pearl Jam 2266
4 Procycling-BBC 2210
5 White Bear Steyr 2064
6 Fed-Ex 1846
7 IrnBru - RBS 1755
8 Slipstream 1720
9 Molteni 1639
10 Wiggle - Premier Inn 1560
11 Benfica 1394
12 Nippo Corporation 1382
13 Gatorade 1342
14 Zenmind-Evolution 1222
15 NVidia 1190
16 British Airways - Cyclingnews 1007
17 Ernst and Young 858
18 Dasani - Hincapie Sportswear 833
19 Sony Ericsson B 317
20 Slipstream B 225
21 LA/MSS/Pearl Jam B 205
22 IrnBru B 205
23 La Gazetta B 190
24 Virgin Media B 184
25 Magenta B 161
26 British Airways B 93
27 Gatorade B 90
28 Nintendo B 80
29 American Suzuki B 77
30 Wikipedia B 68
31 France Televisions B 65
32 Fed-Ex B 43
33 The Control Team 8
34 Team Incompetent 7
35 White Bear Steyr B 6
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| mattiasgt |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:06
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Yey!
Mori was awesome. He is definitely getting a place in the A team next season.
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:12
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| p3druh |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:25
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 I need a a friendly shoulder to cry on
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:26
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i would if i was in portugal
sadly you were actually being caught by procycling instead of catching champion - what a great year for sn!
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| p3druh |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:28
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wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
i would if i was in portugal
sadly you were actually being caught by procycling instead of catching champion - what a great year for sn!
Well, thanks for pointing that out. That helped a lot... Now I'm even more depressed.
Procycling-BBC couldn't be promoted anyway so on SN 
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:31
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im sorry
at least your not british airways
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| Macquet |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:32
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Despite being feisty all season long I managed to finish in virtual last place among non-B teams...oh well there is always next year. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:33
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Macquet wrote:
Despite being feisty all season long I managed to finish in virtual last place among non-B teams...oh well there is always next year.
Dont be too disheartened, you did after all do it solely with riders that nobody else wanted, since you joined after the transfers. With some good deals, you will surely rank much higher next year. |
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| p3druh |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:34
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Macquet wrote:
Despite being feisty all season long I managed to finish in virtual last place among non-B teams...oh well there is always next year.
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| Macquet |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:35
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Macquet wrote:
Despite being feisty all season long I managed to finish in virtual last place among non-B teams...oh well there is always next year.
Dont be too disheartened, you did after all do it solely with riders that nobody else wanted, since you joined after the transfers. With some good deals, you will surely rank much higher next year.
Have no fear, I am encouraged that I did not lose to any B-teams and was for a while in the top 15...I am very eager for transfer season. |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:35
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the aspect of not racing at all did counter their strong squad
got to be in it to win it
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:37
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I would expect a fairly high budget for Dasani in the coming transfer season (Right SN)
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| Macquet |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:38
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4th in Asia something to hang my hat on too!!! |
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:39
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British Airways outdid themselves. How do you perform that poor, and still win some races?
THE THOMAS VOECKLER PROPHET OF PCM DAILY
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| niconico |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:40
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Great job on a great season SN (and Crommy for the PT - sorry for putting you in brackets )
Next season is going to be unbelievably close and I'm so glad I'm not going to be part of it, as it will be too much for me to handle. There are at least 6 teams in contention as it looks right now, but of couse a lot will change during the off-season.
Go get 'em p3druh
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:41
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i was waiting for that reply
and waghlon i really dont know - id put it down to being british - british airways perform that poor and still get loads of customers
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| p3druh |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:49
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A_Schleck wrote:
Great job on a great season SN (and Crommy for the PT - sorry for putting you in brackets )
Next season is going to be unbelievably close and I'm so glad I'm not going to be part of it, as it will be too much for me to handle. There are at least 6 teams in contention as it looks right now, but of couse a lot will change during the off-season.
Go get 'em p3druh
Thanks but I don't think I'll have a shot next year. I got lucky in numerous races this year, I don't think it will happen again next year. Plus with Rodrigues leaving and all... But thanks anyway.
And good luck next in the PT
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| p3druh |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:58
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I LOVE YOU SN
I'm going to the PT
Alright, now that I've gotten that out of my system, I'd like to say something clever.
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 13-11-2008 20:59
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that has confused me
pray, do explain?
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