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From zero to Giro - The CCC Polsat Polkowice story
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| Mithrillian |
Posted on 03-09-2012 08:38
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Good job! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 03-09-2012 09:18
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Great to see a Team Classification win  |
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| Iraanius |
Posted on 03-09-2012 11:28
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Very nice win. Keep going! |
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| pavuk |
Posted on 03-09-2012 15:24
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nicely done, great job 
Yep, thats me down here...
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| hiiam2412 |
Posted on 03-09-2012 17:28
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Any news on a sponsor? |
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| wroblitz |
Posted on 03-09-2012 17:32
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hiiam2412 wrote:
Any news on a sponsor?
No news so far as it's only start of March, however I've send 2 already - one to Poland and one to Germany. I have in plans to send another few to Italy, Spain, USA and UK soon.
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| wroblitz |
Posted on 04-09-2012 00:45
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It looks like my team finally had a good tour. It was KBC Driedaagse De Panne - Koksijde and the other thing is my sponsor wanted a stage win on that.
It started well as Huzarski finished 3rd on the stage 1. Then Lodewyck came 4th on 3rd stage but it was ITT once again where CCC was remarked. Kwiatkowski was the best rider of the day (just 1 second ahead of Rosseler and 3 seconds ahead of Castroviejo, who came 3rd).
Fish in a pond - Michal Kwiatkowski during KBC time trial session.
Despite Kwiatkowski's win it was Castroviejo, who's star shone brightest, as he managed to finish the tour on 2nd place, just 2 seconds away from Polsat's first yellow jersey ever. However Kwiatkowski managed to break bad luck and finally seize KoM jersey for the team.
KBC Driedaagse De Panne - Koksijde (2HC)
Overall: 2nd Castroviejo
Points: 4th Kwiatkowski
Mountain: 1st Kwiatkowski
Young: 10th Olszewski
Team: 2nd
In the meantime Matysiak came 10th and Castroviejo 11th in Cholet - Pays De Loire.
Edited by wroblitz on 04-09-2012 00:47
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| Mico92 |
Posted on 04-09-2012 00:48
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Nice to see better results. Keep it up. Does the sponsor already want to negotiate or are they waiting till july? |
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| wroblitz |
Posted on 04-09-2012 00:56
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It's 1st of April already and no joy with the sponsors so far. Two of them already came back with nothing (Poland international and France international). I've sent another few including 2 regional to Poland and Ireland. However I put my hopes on international Germany and USA as they have been send long time ago and still there. I will keep you updated. |
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| wroblitz |
Posted on 04-09-2012 02:35
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On my way to 3-day Vuelta a Castilla y Leon I took part in just two races and that was Scheldeprijs (1.HC) where Bartlomiej Matysiak finished 16th after mass sprint finish and Rund um Koln (1.1) which I surprisingly won with Castroviejo (he's having great season being ranked 2nd in Continental Tour so far).
Castroviejo winning Rund un Koln 2015.
Vuelta a Castilla y Leon itself was much better when it comes to my team performance. With one flat, one hilly and one mountain stage I managed to win the last one (mountain) with Rutkiewicz and that gave him 2nd place in GC and 1st place to my team.
Marek Rutkiewicz's win on last stage of Vuelta a Castilla y Leon.
Vuelta a Castilla y Leon (2.1)
Overall: 2nd Rutkiewicz
Points: 3rd Rutkiewicz
Mountain: 2nd Kwiatkowski
Young: 2nd Kwiatkowski
Team: 1st
Two of my regional scouts came back just after few days with nothing.
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| wroblitz |
Posted on 04-09-2012 04:38
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It looks like nobody cares about the president of Turkey as on Presidental Cycling Tour of Turkey only 71 riders from 11 teams showed up.
Frugal peloton on Presidental Cycling Tour of Turkey.
With 7 flat stages and just 1 mountain all eyes and hopes were focused on Klass Lodewyck. He came 3rd two times, but most of the time was finishing about 5 and that was his overall place in points ranking. However I have to say that he was bit unlucky few times.
Lodewyck losing battle for a 2nd place.
Francisco Jose Ventoso totally dominated the tour and won by 31 points alongside with general classification.
On 3rd (mountain) stage few of my riders were among race leaders. Peloton was going really slow and I decided to attack with Kwiatkowski. Having all of my favourites in peloton they decided to keep the slow pace. I devoted my climbers and let the breakaway go. That resulted in 5th place for Kwiatkowski with some lead. Later on, I went for few intermediate sprint to move him even higher but was very unlucky (losing 3rd place battle on last of them just by an inch and he moved only to 4th place with same time as 3rd Van Emden).
Seeing Ventoso's domination I decided to attack with Huzarski and Rutkiewicz on the hill of 4th (flat) stage and to my surprise they were successful securing two first places, which was my biggest success of this tour.
Double impact - Huzarski and Rutkiewicz securing two first places for CCC.
Arkadiusz Olszewski did way much better than in Argentina fighting for a mountain and sprint points and he came back home with his first jersey ever - the KoM one.
Young Olszewski winning mountain sprint.
On the other hand Michal Kwiatkowski dominated young classification, winning with 20 min lead.
Presidental Cycling Tour of Turkey (2.HC)
Overall: 4th Kwiatkowski
Points: 5th Lodewyck
Mountain: 1st Olszewski, 3rd Kwiatkowski
Young: 1st Kwiatkowski
Team: 3rd
At the moment, both of my sponsors are extremely happy, but there's no sign of new one.
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| wroblitz |
Posted on 04-09-2012 07:39
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Ok, race first. Just finished Ronde van Belgie. Apart from ITT stage (Kwiatkowski 1st, Castroviejo 3rd) it was pretty average.
Michal Kwiatkowski overtaking his rival during the time trial.
Lodewyck wasn't enough for riders like Greipel or J.J. Rojas. However I still managed to grab a green jersey (which in fact was yellow). No luck with red dotted one again, just short of 5 points. However my team came first in team ranking. Just did pretty bad in general classification.
Ronde van Belgie (2.HC)
Overall: 14th Olszewski, 15th Castroviejo
Points: 1st Kwiatkowski
Mountain: 2nd Olszewski
Young: 2nd Olszewski, 6th Kwiatkowski
Team: 1st
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| wroblitz |
Posted on 04-09-2012 07:41
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It finally looks like I'm gonna have a new sponsor. It all started on 1st of May. Got many offers, mainly form USA and few from Germany. There was UNICEF, Fox, Allianz, Mercedes-Benz, EA Sports, YouTube, T-Mobile. After long negotiations with all of those companies (over a month) on 2/06/2015 I decided to sign a deal with... Mercedes-Benz.
I chose that sponsor for few reasons. Main one - obviously - was the money. They made the best offert, but almost as important as money for me was contract lenght. I wanted to sign just a 1-year deal, hopefully get promoted to UCI and then sign another (better) one. I guess it will be feasible with a budget of... €3.041.000, plus €156.000 from my secondary sponsor, that contract last for another year. That comes to €3.197.000, which is €266.417 a month (what a change compared to €32.000 that I was getting so far). In fact, in that 1-year deal with new sponsor I will get more than I got in 4 years from my current sponsor. Here's full details of the contract.
The other reason for choosing Mercedes-Benz was fact that Germany has many decent riders. I've already checked and Greipel's, Kittel's, Ciolek's, Marten's, Degengkolb's, Selig's or Voight's contracts expires this year (hope they won't renew them... especially Greipel).
So, hughe changes coming this season. There's only 6 riders whose contract don't expire this year: Castroviejo, Contofalsky, Kwiatkowski, Navardauskas, Nunez and Olszewski. However I might renew few expiring ones like Huzarski's, Bondar's (just for NC ITT), Kiendys', who won NC in last 3 years, and still thinking about offering new deal to Aliu. Anyway, there will be time for that. For now just wanna concentrate on races and my current sponsor goals.
Oh, almost forgot - due to signing new deal and the fact that I still have some money left I decided to replace my trainer. The new one is from Russia and goes by the name of Alexey Afonin.
Edited by wroblitz on 04-09-2012 08:41
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 04-09-2012 08:27
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Get Voigt!
Excellent choice of sponsor and what a budget! Time for good trainers as well |
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| Mico92 |
Posted on 04-09-2012 10:58
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Very nice sponsordeal you got there. Looking forward to see how you invest the money. |
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| TomC |
Posted on 04-09-2012 11:22
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Great sponsor, hope you will keep this team at least half polish |
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| Iraanius |
Posted on 04-09-2012 11:25
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Finally you got a real sponsor and you will be able to get promotion to Pro Tour I think. I am very curious to hear you new transfers. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 04-09-2012 13:05
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The team are having some very consistent performances of late, long may it continue |
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| pavuk |
Posted on 04-09-2012 16:01
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great sponsor, it will be great season with such a money
Yep, thats me down here...
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| wroblitz |
Posted on 04-09-2012 16:52
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My spending spree continues. Just got my first scout ever and send him to Berlin area.
I also got two U23 riders basing on ranking.
A 22-year old Luxembourger - Manuel Besic.
and 21-year old Polish sprinter Remigiusz Pawilowski.
They both pretty average, but I will wait till August with the final judgement.
Also decided to extend Kiendys' contract for another year during which he will be getting €2.500 and Aliu's - 3-year deal - €2.000.
Edited by wroblitz on 04-09-2012 16:53
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