First day, and my cyclists were agressive, P. Bilbao, get into the breakaway, he managed to have five minutes ahead of the peloton,and although the advantage decreases, he could come in and win the stage alone.
Stage 5
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Until the stage of MT. Faron, the other stages we protect P. Bilbao, but the Mt. Faron was to hard for him. Marcato could hold on and finished third in the queen stage, with this result, he won Tour of Med.
15/02/2011 - 20/02/2011 Tour of Oman
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Stage 1 - Sprint
1. M. Cavendish
2. A. Davis
3. J.J. Rojas
... 9. J. Degenkolb
Stage 2 - Sprint
1. M. Cavendish
2. A. Davis
3. D. Galimzyanov
4. J. Degenkolb
5. D. Oss
Stage 3 - Sprint
1. M. Cavendish
2. A. Davis
3. J.J. Rojas
... 6. J. Degenkolb
Stage 4 - Mountain
1. R. Kreuziger
2. S. Joly m.t. 3. J. Coppel + 7"
Stage 5 - TT
1. R. Kreuziger
2. R. Sutherland +2"
3. M. Bruseghin +5"
... 9. J. Coppel +20"
Stage 6 - Sprint
1. M. Cavendish
2. A. Davis
3. M. Belletti
19/02/2011 Trofeo Laigueglia
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Italian Classic with many options to win with Marcato, but at the final kms , he couldn't attack, so, a reduced sprints decided the race.
110 kms left , Marcato was in front of the stage, suddenly, the peloton relaxed and allowed to widen the gap, over 6 min. . Peloton remember too late, and it was insufficient to catch Marcato, he won with 1 min advantage.
Stage 2
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Mountain stage that ended in a major climb, so, Marcato wasn't strong and we put Coppel and De Gendt in front of the race. A great 1-2 for our team against riders like Cunego, Basso and Scarponi.
Stage 3
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Another hard day, we were the best with Coppel as Leader. He practically defined the race.
Stage 4
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A quiet day, but left a little to win another stage by Marcato.
Stage 5
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But in the final stage, Marcato had his revenge and won another stage. Coppel retained the lead and won Giro di Sardegna.
Final Results:
26/02/2011 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
The first cobbled classic, there were all the favorites riders in this type of races. Cancellara, Boonen, Ballan, Thor, Flecha, Chavanel, Avermaet, Breschel, Langeveld, Devolder ... for that reason, it was very difficult to make a better result. 14° Offredo, 15° Degenkolb, 16° Vanmarcke.
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27/02/2011 Kuurne - Brussel - Kuurne
Another cobbled classic, this time, a secondary one, but with Boonen, Cancellara and a lot of more.
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A quiet classic, so, all was define in the last kms. Cancellara attacks!!!
and Offredo wanted to go for him, but bad luck, he fell
Last km, Cancellara was caught by the main group, and Boonen sprints better.
At the end, Boonen won easily, and our Degenkolb was 6th.
27/02/2011 GP di Lugano
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Marcato attacks in last 25 kms.
5 kms to finish, it seemed that the peloton caught him, so he attacks again.
dienblad wrote:
Think you should go to another difficulty level, this is too easy!
Maybe, but hard level is sufficient to the main races like de ronde, roubaix, the three ardennes, Giro...etc etc. In January and february (also march) is easy to do great results.
Anyway, with my riders stats (77 HIL Marcato , is the highest) in that main races, will be hard to get good results.
Thans for your visit, maybe after middle of the season, i will level up
This may seem like a dumb question but which db are you using?
My current db doesnt have any extra continental races such as the Tour De San Luis or Tour of Wellington
Anyways, great story! Keep it up, I think this story is better than most of the others happening at the moment
Edited by 27incher on 24-01-2012 23:01
@27incher: I use PCM.daily's Expansion Pack V1. And thanks for your comment.
@sutty68: Wait for main and important races, I think with Offredo (76 COB) will be exciting and non-one side in De ronde or Roubaix, and with Marcato (77 HIL) in three ardennes classics and with Coppel (76 MON) in the Giro. If my team was stronger or with superclass riders, obviuosly i would play in extreme level.
Seriously, January, February and maybe March calendar, isn't too hard to do a good results with any class of team.
A secondary cobbled-classic, in the final kms there were many attacks, and in the end,Degenkolb and Veelers defined the victory.
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3/03/2011 Giro del Friuli
Another secondary classic, this time for Italian territory, Marcato was favorite and he did all the fans came to see. He won another race. Not as easy as expected beacuse there were a lot of attacks in finals ten kms.
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4/03/2011 - 6/03/2011 Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
Stage 1
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First day of this stages race. The prologue would begin to define some things, so that we should be as far forward as possible.
First Vanmarcke with a good time.
Degenkolb didn't lost much time.
Stage 2
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De Waele raise his hands doing an EPIC FAIL !! Degenkolb won the stage by inches and he gets the bonify secs to had the leader jersey.
Stage 3
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A flat stage, nobody dangerous get bonus, so, Degenkolb retains the leader jersey.
Final results:
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5/03/2011 Montepaschi Strade Bianche
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Strade Bianche, a nice and difficult classics, because a lot of good riders (Nibali, Basso, Gasparotto, Pozzovivo, Hoogerland, Devolder, Rebellin, Spilak, Di Luca).
10 kms to finish, Coppel was in front to the race.
Marcato attacks!!!
5 kms to finish, Marcato had 30 secs between him and the peloton.
Last km!! Marcato starts the sprint. His rivals seems like the caught him.
But Marcato maintained the difference and won this classic.
Here is the second summary for March and this is the banner to represent Pro Tour races.
6/03/2011 - 13/03/2011 Paris - Nice
Our sponsor objective was Top 10 in the OC. So, We bring to this race Coppel and De Gendt, also we bring Marcato to prepare for Milan-Sanremo. Betancourt came to Paris-Nice to try to win KOM Jersey. Let's see what happened:
6/03 Stage 1 : Houdan - Houdan (154.5 km)
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An amazing day, the breakaway was successful. The strongest teams fell asleep and didn't caught the front of the race.
7/03 Stage 2 : Montfort-l’Amaury - Amilly (198.5 km)
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A normal day because the breakaway was caught. The stage was decided at sprint. Davis was the winner.
8/03 Stage 3 : Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire - Nuits-Saint-Georges (202.5 km)
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Third day, with some dificults in the profile. 15 kms to finish O'grady attacks and De Gendt followed him.
10 kms to the finish, Hoste joined us, but the peloton was coming too fast
But De Gendt, did not surrender and continued attacking
5 kms to the finish, 30 seconds ahead of the peloton
De Gendt entered to the last km. with a low distance ahead of the peloton.
But at the end, De Gendt won the stage with 18 sec. ahead of the peloton led by Marcato. An excellent 1-2 for my team..
9/03 Stage 4 : Crêches-sur-Saône - Belleville (191 km)
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A key day for the Mountain classification, Seven Mountain ports distributed enough to go leaving the classification defined. So Betancourt became part of the breakaway and took the best points in all ports.
10 kms left to the finish, Betancourt leds the race by some seconds
5 kms to finish, De Gendt attacks again and leds the race by a little distance.
The final attack by De Gendt.
And in a tightly way, De Gendt won another stage.
10/03 Stage 5 : Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise - Vernoux-en-Vivarais (194 km)
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An stage with great difficulty because the climbs in the profile but very juicy for Betancourt that got into the breakaway of the day and left defined the classification of the mountain. My teammates protected De Gendt and Coppel very well, in the end, my leaders didn't lose time with L.L. Sanchez and Vinokourov, the most dangerous rivals in the TT. "Purito" Rodriguez won the stage and De Gendt obtained the leader jersey.
11/03 Stage 6 : Rognes - Aix-en-Provence I.T.T. (27 km)
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Coppel did a really good time!!! only 23 secs behind T. Martin
The last one, De Gendt did a good time, 29 secs behind T. Martin
12/03 Stage 7 : Brignoles - Biot (215.5 km)
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13/03 Stage 8 : Nice - Nice (124 km)
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The last stage, we had to protected our leader. Another day to put Betancourt into the breakaway for the KOM. He was caught 12kms to finish. "Purito" Rodriguez atacks, so, Coppel followed him.
But 5 kms to finish, the main group caught them.
All will be decided at the sprint.
And Voigt was the faster. But the most important, De Gendt was the winner of Paris-Nice.!!!!
A secondary cobbled classic, with few important rivals, so the full weight of the race fell on my team. And so it was, Offredo attacked 6 kms to the finish and won wihtout problems.
19/03/2011 Milano - Sanremo
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Unfortunately there was no replay, I only can tell you with images, that the breakaway of the day, had 7 minutes of advantage, but at the final 60 kms, was neutralized, just shortly before coming to the Capo Mele and Cervo.
Flecha, Langeveld and Chavanel, just after having captured the breakaway of the day, attacked on the climb to the Capo Berta, 40 kms left, so I had to be vigilant.
There was the capture of Chavanel thanks to Garmin-Cervelo. Cancellara attacked in the short flat in search of Cipressa and carried off Ballan to his wheel.
The mythical Poggio came, where our hopes were set, but Marcato isn't a superclass rider, De Gendt either, so they had lost 1/4 of the bars, meanwhile, Cancellara and Ballan crowned Poggio with 30 sec ahead of Gilbert and Thor who went in search of the leading group ... Marcato and De Gendt suffered in Poggio, but they attacked and distanced themselves somewhat from the main group of 4 looking ahead.
Marcato and De Gendt couldn't catch the front group and, in the end:
Gilbert won MSR.
Marcato 5° and De Gendt 6°. A really good result.
20/03/2011 GP Cholet - Pays De Loire
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We didn't bring here a strong team, so, A. Petit only could finish in 7° place.
23/03/2011 Dwars door Vlaanderen - Waregem
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Posthuma won the race in a breakaway. The others teams didn't want to caught them, so, nothing else to tell you.
26/03/2011 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen - Harelbeke
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Cancellara attacked and had seemed to be victory, but in the end reach the chase and Thor was the fastest. 14° Offredo, 15° Vanmarcke. Not a good result.
A.I. is so stupid, i don't know why the peloton didn't caught the breakway, my team is weak and non-favorite. Anyway, the breakaway was succesful.
Stage 2
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Another day, another A.I. stupid. So, I put Duarte into the breakway he finished 4°.
Stage 3
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A hard day, Vinokourov won the stage, Duarte was the best of our team in the main group.
Stage 4
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Well, something annoying happened. P. Bilbao was in the breakaway and, suddenly, when only 8 kms left to the finish and with more than 6 mins ahead to the peloton, the game crashed so, i simulated that stage.
Stage 5
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The same that stage 4, Elissonde was in the breakway to get KOM points, and 10 kms to finish, 4 min ahead the peloton and 2 ahead the persecutor gruop, the game crashed again ...oh!!! my goodness!!!!
So, i simulated again.
Stage 6
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I didn´t want anything from Catalunya, so I simulated
Stage 7
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Simulated again
General classification
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29/03/2011 - 31/03/2011 Driedaagse De Panne - Koksijde
29/03 Stage 1 : Middelkerke - Zottegem (194 km)
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The breakaway of the day was caught, so we attack with Offredo, Ballan join him with 10 kms left.
But the favorites caught us with 6 kms left.
And we launched another attack, this time with Degenkolb. 5 kms left.
Last km!!! Degenkolb sprinted.
And He was victorious!!!
30/03 Stage 2 : Oudenaarde - Koksijde (219 km)
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A quiet day, T. Hushovd won and get the 20 secs. from bonus. So, Degenkolb lost the jearsy leader.
31/03 Stage 3a : De Panne - De Panne (111 km)
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Another quiet day. Thomas defeated Thor.
31/03 Stage 3b : De Panne - De Panne I.T.T. (14.7 km)
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Boom was the best in this ITT. We could not do better.
at 15 kms to the finish, De Gendt atacks and nobody could follow him.
3/04/2011 Ronde van Vlaanderen
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And the second monument of the year arrived, with the maximum figures in this type of classic. The breakaway of day, conformed, among others, De Waele and Avermaet, who remained alone and in the rise to Kappelmuur maintained some seconds ahead of the main group, where they were: Boonen, Cancellara, Thor, Haussler, Flecha, Ballan, Chavanel, Breschel, Vansummeren and ours Offredo and Vanmarcke. A gruop with Gilbert, Leukemans, Nuyens, Pozzato, Langeveld.. were cut behind.
Cancellara attacked in Kappelmuur, we just held our, we could not do anything else.
At Bosberg, we were hunted to Cancellara and 13 in the leading group. The chase group, led by Gilbert could not reach us. Offredo was still suffering, he had no energy, as Vanmarcke, all we wanted is that the race finish
But Cancellara attacked again.
But in the plain, looking for goal, the group of favorites could reach him, making the race was defined between them. Vanmarcke Offredo and could only stand to prevent the Gilbert group reached them.
At the end, Boonen won, 2nd Ballan and 3rd Thor.
12th Offredo and 13th Vanmarcke.
Top 20
4/04/2011 - 9/04/2011 Vuelta al Pais Vasco
4/04 Stage 1 : Zumarraga - Zumarraga (149.5 km)
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Cunego attacked several times in the last kms and finally won.
De Gendt finish 9°, losing 16 secs.
5/04 Stage 2 : Zumarraga - Lekunberri (167 km)
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This time, was Purito Rodriguez the strongest men of the day.
De Gendt 5th
6/04 Stage 3 : Villatuerta - Zuia-Murgia (177 km)
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Evans won, Bakelants and De Gendt in the main group.
Cunego and Evans without opponents. De Gendt and Bakelants lost more than 2 mins.
8/04 Stage 5 : Eibar - Zalla (179 km)
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Another very complicated day, the mountain ports that were raised were very hard for De Gendt that left another 2 min for the group of favorites. Sagan achieved victory.
9/04 Stage 6 : Zalla - Zalla I.T.T. (24 km)
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De Gendt finished with the best time of the day.
But Evans was ON FIRE!! and beat us.
Cunego finished with a poor time, so, he lost the race in the last stage.
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