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[EPIC] OPQS | Goals Set | Season Planning in Progress
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 02-01-2015 14:01
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Richie, you have come to us, because you wanted a whole new experience, in 3D. That means you will be riding the Vuelta. And on top of that, you will be our GT man there.
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 02-01-2015 23:24
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we at OPQS are looking for domestiques now. Since I am not on my PC for the next days, you could do me a favour, in contacting me, with your riders, which you want to sell. I want mostly belgian and german guys. Polish riders are welcome, as well as dutchies.
I am mostly looking for young domestiques.
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| Selwink |
Posted on 03-01-2015 09:26
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You can have Potgieter.
e: not for free of course 
Edited by Selwink on 03-01-2015 09:26
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| matt17br |
Posted on 06-01-2015 14:53
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Hi,
I'm Matteo La Bestia, OPQS' new signing. I'm a pure climber and during the next year I'll be the team leader in the Giro d'Italia. I'm very excited to start this adventure in the professional peloton and I hope that I can figure well in my first year. Even though many of you were sceptical about my premature leadership at the Giro, that has always been my dream and I'm sure that I will prove wrong any of you. By now I'm 22, so there is no time to wait anymore. Lastly, I'd like to thank the new team manager for giving me the biggest chance of my life and i hope I won't disappoint him.
Ciao, e auguratemi buona fortuna!
Edited by matt17br on 06-01-2015 14:55
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 08-01-2015 03:10
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Hey Matteo,
nice that you found the way to our HQ. We hope you are pleased with our squad and your status in it.
You could tell me, which races you want to race before the Giro.
-OPQS Management
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 10-01-2015 00:48
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Hey it's OPQS Management again.
With Thomas De Gendt, we secured ourself another belgian. He will not be a only good support in the Mountains, but he will also help to strengthen our TT squad.
But with Vandenbergh we paid a high price for him, which weakens our cobble squad. But we at OPQS think it's still a way in the right direction. The way of ruining...oh, we mean improving our squad. Yeah...thats what we had in mind. With him, we made all our transfers and are now fully focused on the FA biddings.
-OPQS Management
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 15-01-2015 16:18
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| Out | | | | | |  Michal Golas | | CCC |  Mark Cavendish | | Sky | | Andrew Fenn | | BMC |  Dries Devenyns | | BMC | | Stijn Vandenbergh | | Vacansoleil | | Guillaume Van Keirsbulck | | Belkin |  Gianluca Brambilla | | Trek | | Matteo Trentin | | CCC | | Alessandro Petacchi | | Androni |  Carlos Verona | | NetApp |  Bert Grabsch | | NetApp |  Zdenek Stybar | | Garmin |  Peter Velits | | Garmin |  Jérôme Pineau | | Europcar | | Sylvain Chavanel | | Europcar | | | | | In | | | | | | | Jan Bakelants | | Trek | | Tiesj Benoot | | Draft | | Louis Vervaeke | | FA | | Bert de Backer | | Giant | | Wout van Aert | | FA | | Yannick Eijssen | | BMC | | Thomas De Gendt | | Vacansoleil | | Tosh Van der Sande | | Lotto |  Dennis Van Winden | | Belkin |  Rohan Dennis | | Garmin | | Richie Porte | | Sky | | Campbell Flakemore | | FA | | Damien Howson | | FA | | Bjorn Thurau | | Europcar | | Phil Bauhaus | | CCC |
We will comment on the riders later on.
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 15-01-2015 16:36
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Well I won't call it an upgrade, but still some nice transfers 
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 15-01-2015 17:33
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Cobble dominance will be gone (that might be for Garmin now), but you got the team more Belgian and you really needed that second stageracer cause Kwiat can't do everything by himself. I'm not sure if I should say better or worse, you lost some big names obviously, but the team will be able to compete in every terrain, instead of an overload on cobblers and sprinters.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 15-01-2015 17:39
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@Ollfardh tbh, I think that no team has a cobble dominance. PCM isn't real life. In PCM you only need a cobble leader and 1 good helper. My team won't do the work at the front, but when the action starts, Boonen still has Terpstra, helping him. I think my old cobble team was partly unneeded(Look at last years results). So I tried to improve the team on the other parts where it didn't could compete at all...
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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 15-01-2015 17:40
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Ollfardh wrote:
Cobble dominance will be gone (that might be for Garmin now), but you got the team more Belgian and you really needed that second stageracer cause Kwiat can't do everything by himself. I'm not sure if I should say better or worse, you lost some big names obviously, but the team will be able to compete in every terrain, instead of an overload on cobblers and sprinters. I think you tried to say bEuropcar.
Who has Garmin for cobbles?
The user formerly known as 'The Schleck Fan'
Gracias Alberto.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 15-01-2015 17:50
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McDermott, with Nuyens and Vansummeren in support. But yeah, it won't be dominanance like last year, Europcar has a good team, Belkin could be good as well, and BMC, Sky, Omega Pharma and a few others have a decent team as well.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 15-01-2015 17:53
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Ollfardh wrote:
McDermott, with Nuyens and Vansummeren in support. But yeah, it won't be dominanance like last year, Europcar has a good team, Belkin could be good as well, and BMC, Sky, Omega Pharma and a few others have a decent team as well. Btw,can Turgot get a top 10 in RVV or P-R?
Degenkolb only has 76 COB
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Gracias Alberto.
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 15-01-2015 18:12
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Ollfardh wrote:
McDermott, with Nuyens and Vansummeren in support. But yeah, it won't be dominanance like last year, Europcar has a good team, Belkin could be good as well, and BMC, Sky, Omega Pharma and a few others have a decent team as well.
... and Stybar
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 15-01-2015 18:57
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Atlantius wrote:
Ollfardh wrote:
McDermott, with Nuyens and Vansummeren in support. But yeah, it won't be dominanance like last year, Europcar has a good team, Belkin could be good as well, and BMC, Sky, Omega Pharma and a few others have a decent team as well.
... and Stybar
Oh yeah, forgot about that transfer. Cobble dominance!
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 22-01-2015 16:55
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Tom Boonen
Jan Bakelants
Tiesj Benoot
Louis Vervaeke
Kevin De Weert
Bert de Backer
Gianni Meersman
Serge Pauwels
Pieter Serry
Gert Steegmans
Wout van Aert
Yannick Eijssen
Kristof Vandewalle
Julien Vermote
Thomas De Gendt
Tosh Van der Sande
Rohan Dennis
Richie Porte
Campbell Flakemore
Damien Howson
Bjorn Thurau
Phil Bauhaus
Tony Martin
Niki Terpstra
Dennis Van Winden
Matteo La Bestia
Michal Kwiatkowski
We at OPQS are proud to present our Roster for the 2014 Season. We got rid of almost our whole cobble department and of Mark Cavendish and we made our team more an overall condender. With Richie Porte and Matteo La Bestia, we have signed some GT riders. Otherwise did we sign some good domestiques with Bakelants and De Gendt. But last but not least, we signed some raw talent with Benoot, Vervaeke, Howson, Flakemore and Van Aert.
-OPQS Management
UCI Youth Program
Name: Matteo La Bestia
His Introduction: Click Here
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 22-01-2015 20:58
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OPQS Season Planning in Progress
We at OPQS write the word Calendar big. Why? Because it is a noun. But also do we at OPQS think, that a good Calendar is an important part of Cycling. Because of that, we at OPQS applied for a few CT races. We, at OPQS, hope that we'll get some wildcards. We applied for only 4 Races, because we at OPQS have other plans. It's more important for us at OPQS, to have a decent summer this year. We at OPQS are actually working at our season plan. That means that we at OPQS will talk to Matteo La Bestia in the next days, because we want him to be happy, here at OPQS. That means that we at OPQS want him to ride the races he wants. If "Matt" wants to, he could write us at OPQS an E-Mail with his wishlist of races. That's it for today. We at OPQS, thank you for reading.
-OPQS Management
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 23-01-2015 14:30
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Paul23 wrote:
Part 1:
Easy goal: E3 Harelbeke Top 10
Medium goal: Paris-Nice Top 3
Hard goal: Milan-San Remo Win
Countered goals:
Easy goal: Stage Win Tirreno
Medium goal: Top 5 GC Catalunya
Hard goal: Podium Wevelgem
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 23-01-2015 16:36
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@Ollfardh: sounds good
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 26-01-2015 07:27
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Richie Porte
Richie Porte is our biggest transfer. He came from Sky, where he had to be the domestique for Chris Froome. Richie came to us for Mark Cavendish. Mark didn't had the season, we expected him to have, and we needed a proper stage racer to tackle our aims of riding every GT with an overall contender.
Niki Terpstra
Niki was not quite happy with the Team last season. He expected more room for himself, but last year that room was given to Zdenek Stybar. We decided to give Niki another year at OPQS, because we know he can do much better, when he has some room given.
Tom Boonen
Mr. Cocaine will officially be our main rider in the cobbled races. But he also said us, that this maybe will be his last season at OPQS. We know he can perform well on the cobbles, in the Sprint and in TTs.
Tony Martin
The Panzerwagen is back on track. Tony will ride for us another year in his famous rainbow jersey. He will tackle the Tour this year, but he will also be ready for some smaller races and loads and loads of TTs.
Michal Kwiatkowski
Michal Kwiatkowski. Our future star. He already is quite a star, but we think he will improve. He will tackle the Tour this year with Tony and with the cobbled stage 5, it will be very interesting, if he maybe could pull a bit time out of his opponents. We expect a Top 5 from him. And also he is maybe our ticket for Strade Bianche.
Jan Bakelants
Jan will be our main domestique for Michal in the ardennes, but he will be allowed to ride some smaller races as a leader. He came from Trek for Gianluca Brambilla.
Thomas De Gendt
Thomas is an interesting pick. He will strengthen our TTT squad for sure, but can he deliver in the Mountains, too? He is quite a fighter and I hope that we will see him in some breakaways. Also he will ride 1 or 2 GTs this year as a super domestique.
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