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Konica Minolta: "African cycling taking over the world."
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Posted on 11-06-2008 22:37
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Circuit Cycliste de la Sarthe (9-13 april)
For the Tour de Georgia I again wanted David George as our team leader. He road this flat stage race as preparation. Also Pieter Seyffert was here to prepare voor Georgia. Both came very close to another win.
STAGE 3 (Time Trail)
1st Michael Schär TEAM ASTANA 12'03"
2nd David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +03"
3rd Serhiy Matveyev CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE +04"
4th Andrey Mizourov TEAM ASTANA s.t.
5th Mathieu Ladagnous FRANÇAISE DES JEUX +12"
STAGE 4
1st Kenny Van Hummel SKIL - SHIMANO 4h11'43"
2nd Pieter Seyffert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
3rd Anthony Ravard AGRITUBEL s.t.
4th Stéphane Bonsergent BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX s.t.
5th Saïd Haddou BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
STAGE 5
1st René Haselbacher TEAM ASTANA 4h23'38"
2nd Pieter Seyffert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
3rd Jean-Luc Delpech BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX s.t.
4th Max Richeze CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
5th Saïd Haddou BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
GC
1st Matteo Priamo CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE 15h00'08"
2nd Mathieu Ladagnous FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
3rd Saïd Haddou BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM +08"
4th Mark Renshaw CRÉDIT AGRICOLE +12"
5th Pieter Seyffert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +18"
16th David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +47"
KOM
1st Abdelkader Belmokhtar TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 18 pt. KOM 74
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Posted on 12-06-2008 22:05
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Tour de Georgia (16-22 April)
This probably will already be David his last peak of the season. We aspect a top 10 finish from him. Our sprinter here is Pieter, he is still young and we'll see how he does in this HC race.
David George (Team leader)
Jay Thompson & Dan Craven (are here to support David and see how far they get themself)
Pieter Seyffert (Our main sprinter for this race)
Herman Fouché & Hassan Ben Nasser (They will support Pieter in the sprint)
Abdelbasser Hannachi & Abdelkader Belmokhtar (Teamhelpers and try to get in the breakaway)
STAGE 1
Stage 1 was flat, but long (210 km). This was the first of 3 possible mass sprints. We hoped Pieter could get a top 10 result. As it turned out Pieter was in great form and to our surprise he sprinted to our 4th stage victory of the season, picking up all possible jerseys with it (no KOM points this stage).
1st Pieter Seyffert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 4h55'38"
2nd Iván Domínguez TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
3rd Martin Pedersen TEAM CSC s.t.
4th Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
5th Kyle Gritters HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
6th Andrew Randell SYMMETRICS CYCLING TEAM s.t.
7th Allan Johansen TEAM CSC s.t.
8th Chad Hartley BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
9th Roy Sentjens PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
10th Herman Fouché TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
STAGE 2
Again an almost flat stage (187 km). Because we had the race leader and one of the sprint favorites in our team, the riders worked hard to pull back the breakaway to keep the jersey for another day. Pieter rewarded the team by again sprinting to victory. Two for two, what a start!
1st Pieter Seyffert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 4h25'59" SC 36
2nd Ricardo Serrano TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t. SC 1
3rd Chad Hartley BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t. SC 6
4th Manuele Mori SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
5th Martin Pedersen TEAM CSC s.t.
6th Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
7th Luke Roberts TEAM CSC s.t.
8th Iván Domínguez TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
9th Robert McLachlan DRAPAC PORSCHE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM s.t.
10th Roy Sentjens PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
STAGE 3
This was the first test for David. And he passed, finishing in the first group. Pieter couldn't hold on so we lost the jersey, but still had David in the top of the GC.
1st Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 4h23'56"
2nd Ricardo Serrano TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
3rd Manuele Mori SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
4th Alexandre Moos BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
5th David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
6th Johan Vansummeren PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
7th Pavel Brutt TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
8th Rubén Lobato SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
9th Andrea Tonti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
10th Sergio Paulinho DISCOVERY CHANNEL +20"
STAGE 4
This was the first of two stage that would be decisive for the GC. A time trail. Could David grab the leaders jersey? No he lost 54 seconds!?! But the winner was the Z-man, who beat everyone by more then a minute, beside Luke Roberts, our own David and Brian Vanborg. David had no reason to be ashamed.
1st David Zabriskie TEAM CSC 33'40"
2nd Luke Roberts TEAM CSC +40"
3rd David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +54"
4th Brian Vandborg DISCOVERY CHANNEL +59"
5th Danny Pate TEAM SLIPSTREAM +01'08"
6th Pavel Brutt TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS +01'12"
7th Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC +01'13"
8th Sergio Paulinho DISCOVERY CHANNEL +01'14"
9th Christian Meier SYMMETRICS CYCLING TEAM +01'15"
10th Scott Moninger BMC CYCLING TEAM +01'19"
STAGE 5
Perhaps David could win back time on Zabriskie in this tough mountain stage?
David tried everything, but couldn't drop him. Besides Zabriskie 6 other riders hanged on and finished in the same time as David. 1 rider was to strong for everybody. Koldo Gil grabbed his 2nd stage win and the overall lead.
1st Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 4h58'25"
2nd David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +01'24"
3rd Alexandre Moos BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
4th Ricardo Serrano TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
5th Danny Pate TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
6th Sergio Paulinho DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
7th Pavel Brutt TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
8th Johan Vansummeren PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
9th David Zabriskie TEAM CSC s.t.
10th Ryder Hesjedal HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS +02'48"
STAGE 6
Stage 6 was to difficult for Pieter, but wasn't difficult enough to change the top of the GC. David finished in the top 10. He secured his 3th place overall with only a flat 126 km stage in the program for tomorrow.
1st Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO 4h04'23"
2nd Pavel Brutt TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
3rd Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC s.t.
4th Andrea Tonti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
5th Allan Johansen TEAM CSC s.t.
6th Ricardo Serrano TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
7th Alexandre Moos BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
8th David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
9th Martin Pedersen TEAM CSC s.t.
10th Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC s.t.
STAGE 7
This stage was a flat stage (126 km). Again Greg van Avermaet won the sprint. Pieter wasn't that fresh anymore after some tough stages for him and 'only' managed to finish 6th, so he couldn't prevent van Avermaet from grabbed the points jersey.
1st Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO 3h06'18"
2nd Chad Hartley BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
3rd Andrew Randell SYMMETRICS CYCLING TEAM s.t.
4th Wim Vansevenant PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
5th Ricardo Serrano TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS s.t.
6th Pieter Seyffert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
7th Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC s.t.
8th Giovanni Visconti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
9th Iván Domínguez TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
10th Kyle Gritters HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
GC
1st Koldo Gil SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 2h29'50"
2nd David Zabriskie TEAM CSC +13"
3rd David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +35"
4th Danny Pate TEAM SLIPSTREAM +01'21"
5th Sergio Paulinho DISCOVERY CHANNEL +01'27"
6th Johan Vansummeren PREDICTOR - LOTTO +01'41"
7th Alexandre Moos BMC CYCLING TEAM +02'08"
8th Ricardo Serrano TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS +02'40"
9th Phil Zajicek NAVIGATORS INSURANCE +03'03"
10th Pavel Brutt TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS +03'12"
11th Jeff Louder HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS +03'40"
12th Jay Thompson TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +03'43"
13th Giovanni Visconti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC +04'01"
14th Jürgen Van De Walle QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
15th Manuele Mori SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR +04'20"
16th Andrea Tonti QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC +04'24"
17th Pieter Mertens PREDICTOR - LOTTO +04'43"
18th Darren Lill NAVIGATORS INSURANCE +07'06"
19th Scott Nydam BMC CYCLING TEAM +07'16"
20th Burke Swindlehurst TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
21st Alberto Benítez SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR +07'48"
22nd Ryder Hesjedal HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS +08'10"
23rd Rubén Lobato SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR +08'14"
24th Rubens Bertogliati SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR +09'09"
25th John Devine DISCOVERY CHANNEL +09'19"
KOM
1st Abdelkader Belmokhtar TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 70 pt. KOM
Ab also road a good race and fought himself into multiple breakaways with as a result picking up enough points to take home the KOM jersey.
Again we were more then happy with the results.
- 2 stage wins (Pieter)
- KOM jersey (Ab )
- 3rd overall (David)
- and 12th overall (Jay)
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Posted on 12-06-2008 22:47
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The last two goals before we sent the team on a well deserved summer vacation are:
Lancaster Classics (3 june)
Philadelphia Intl. Championship (10 june)
Before we started our preparation for those races we had a German one day race to finish off the month April. Chris got a top 10 spot.
Rund um Düren (22 April)
RESULT
1st Alexander Gottfried TEAM SPARKASSE 3h26'31"
2nd Tony Martin THÜRINGER ENERGIE TEAM s.t.
3rd Edvald Boasson Hagen TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI +24"
4th Jakob Fuglsang TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
5th Wolfram Wiese TEAM REGIOSTROM - SENGES +42"
6th Paul Voss TEAM 3C-GRUPPE LAMONTA s.t.
7th Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +01'00"
8th Elnathan Heizmann TEAM 3C-GRUPPE LAMONTA +01'17"
9th Michael Reihs TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN +01'35"
10th Gabriel Rasch TEAM MAXBO BIANCHI s.t.
11th Christian Knørr CONTINENTAL TEAM DIFFERDANGE s.t.
12th Marek Wesoly CCC POLSAT POLKOWICE +01'53"
13th Fredrik Johansson TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
14th Lars Wackernagel TEAM SPARKASSE s.t.
15th Mateusz Mroz CCC POLSAT POLKOWICE +02'03"
16th Philip Patzer ATLAS - ROMER'S HAUSBÄCKEREI +02'19"
17th Jonas Aaen Jørgensen TEAM GLS +03'45"
18th Jaroslaw Rebiewski CCC POLSAT POLKOWICE +03'59"
19th Matthias Hahn THÜRINGER ENERGIE TEAM +04'30"
20th Tomasz Lisowicz CCC POLSAT POLKOWICE +04'42"
21st Alexander Gut ATLAS - ROMER'S HAUSBÄCKEREI +04'52"
22nd Andreas Henig ATLAS - ROMER'S HAUSBÄCKEREI s.t.
23rd Tiaan Kannemeyer TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +05'12"
24th Dirk Müller TEAM SPARKASSE +06'52"
25th Holger Sievers TEAM 3C-GRUPPE LAMONTA +07'05" |
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Posted on 12-06-2008 23:45
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May 2007
Our preparation started off with two France stage races.
Tour de Picardie (17-20 May)
This is a stage race for the sprinters. It consisted out of 4 more or less flat stages, which all result in a mass sprint. We sent our 2 best sprinters, who were not in great shape jet, but did gather up some points.
STAGE 1
10th Juan Van Heerden TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
STAGE 2
2nd Juan Van Heerden TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
STAGE 3
9th Juan Van Heerden TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
STAGE 4
5th Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
GC
1st Jérôme Pineau BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM 12h37'46"
2nd Fabrizio Guidi BARLOWORLD +08"
3rd Romain Feillu AGRITUBEL +20"
4th Aart Vierhouten SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
5th Angelo Furlan CRÉDIT AGRICOLE +24"
6th Juan Van Heerden TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
14th Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +40"
Circuit de Lorraine Professionnel (23-27 May)
This race we got some varying results. Stage 1 & 2 resulted in a mass sprint. All of our sprinters managed a top 5 place. But the team screwed up a high GC spot in the 3th and 4th stage which were hilly stages.
STAGE 1
2nd Juan Van Heerden TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
STAGE 2
4th Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
5th Hassen Ben Nasser TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
STAGE 4
10th Hassen Ben Nasser TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
But we had a strong finish. Rafaâ again got in the break away to defend his KOM jersey. They seemed the get a big enough lead to fight for the win. But the pack got closer and closer. Rafaâ left his break away companions behind and managed to keep a 21 second gap and take home the win.
STAGE 5
1st Rafaâ Chtioui TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 4h26'29"
2nd Mathieu Drujon AUBER 93 +21"
3rd Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
4th Stéphane Bonsergent BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX s.t.
5th Tyler Farrar COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
KOM
1st Rafaâ Chtioui TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 72 pt. KOM 68
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Posted on 13-06-2008 00:26
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To finish of May and our preparation for our two goals in the U.S.A. we had 2 German races and 1 more French race on the 2th of June.
Neuseen Classics (28 May)
With our sprinters close to top shape it was a bit disappointing to miss out on the win in this flat one day race.
1st René Weissinger TEAM VORARLBERG - VOLKSBANK 4h06'33"
2nd Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
3rd Juan Van Heerden TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
4th Gorik Gardeyn UNIBET.COM s.t.
5th Stefan Radochla TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
6th Robert Retschke TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
7th Tobias Erler TEAM 3C-GRUPPE LAMONTA s.t.
8th Tom Stamsnijder GEROLSTEINER s.t.
9th Rodney Green TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
10th Alexei Schmidt MOSCOW STARS s.t.
Bayern-Rundfahrt (30 May - 3 June)
Again we gathered some points with Hassan in the sprint (although not being a mass sprinter he showed he is pretty fast), Chris for the GC (His 7th place in this HC race shows his talent) and Abdelkader (He has a nose for smelling out the wright break away).
STAGE 1 (Flat)
1st Kenny De Ketele CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN 5h02'35"
2nd Werner Riebenbauer TEAM VORARLBERG - VOLKSBANK s.t.
3rd René Haselbacher TEAM ASTANA s.t.
4th Hassen Ben Nasser TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
5th René Weissinger TEAM VORARLBERG - VOLKSBANK s.t.
STAGE 2 (Hilly)
1st Hugo Sabido BARLOWORLD 4h13'18"
2nd Moisés Dueñas AGRITUBEL +14"
3rd Giampaolo Cheula BARLOWORLD +36"
4th Peio Arreitunandia BARLOWORLD s.t.
5th Erik Hoffmann TEAM 3C-GRUPPE LAMONTA s.t.
6th Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
STAGE 3 (Hilly)
1st Björn Papstein TEAM 3C-GRUPPE LAMONTA 4h09'39"
2nd Danail Petrov SPORT LISBOA E BENFICA s.t.
3rd Gerrit Glomser TEAM VORARLBERG - VOLKSBANK s.t.
4th Hassen Ben Nasser TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
5th David Zabriskie TEAM CSC s.t.
6th Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
STAGE 4 (Time Trail)
1st David Zabriskie TEAM CSC 32'49"
2nd Olaf Pollack TEAM WIESENHOF FELT +21"
3rd Marco Velo TEAM MILRAM +26"
4th Sven Krauss GEROLSTEINER +28"
5th Ondrej Sosenka ACTION - UNIQA +36"
9th Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +01'10"
STAGE 5 (Flat)
1st René Weissinger TEAM VORARLBERG - VOLKSBANK 4h08'17"
2nd Kenny De Ketele CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
3rd René Obst TEAM 3C-GRUPPE LAMONTA s.t.
4th Hassen Ben Nasser TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
5th Giairo Ermeti TEAM TENAX - MENIKINI s.t.
GC
1st David Zabriskie TEAM CSC 18h07'14"
2nd Hugo Sabido BARLOWORLD +12"
3rd Marco Velo TEAM MILRAM +26"
4th Sven Krauss GEROLSTEINER +28"
5th Ondrej Sosenka ACTION - UNIQA +36"
6th Torsten Schmidt TEAM WIESENHOF FELT +01'01"
7th Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +01'04"
8th Moisés Dueñas AGRITUBEL +01'10"
9th Mikel Pradera SPORT LISBOA E BENFICA s.t.
10th Tom Stamsnijder GEROLSTEINER +01'18"
KOM
1st Abdelkader Belmokhtar TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 25 pt. KOM 74
Grand Prix de Plumelec (2 June)
With Daryl and Juan we had two race favorites in our team in this flat one day race and when the break away needed to be reeled back in everybody was looking at us. But we had placed Rodney in the breakaway. To give him a breather we put a few of our men in front, but we never planned on reeling the break away back in. Rodney didn't disappoint and easily won the sprint of the break away group.
1st Rodney Green TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 4h27'56"
2nd Carl Naïbo AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
3rd Giovanni Bernaudeau BOUYGUES TÉLÉCOM s.t.
4th Stéphane Pétilleau BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX s.t.
5th Juan Miguel Mercado AGRITUBEL s.t.
6th Florian Vogel ATLAS - ROMER'S HAUSBÄCKEREI s.t.
7th Mathieu Heijboer COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
8th Jean-Luc Delpech BRETAGNE - ARMOR LUX +01'39"
9th Tyler Farrar COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
10th Yauheni Hutarovich ROUBAIX LILLE MÉTROPOLE s.t.
14th Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
16th Juan Van Heerden TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
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Posted on 13-06-2008 19:08
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Lancaster Classic (3 June)
Reading Classic (7 June)
Philadelphia International Championship (10 June)
Here it goes, the "Commerce Bank Triple Crown of cycling". It consists out of 3 one day races in the U.S.A. that take place within 1 week.
Lancaster Classic (3 June)
This flat race was first on the agenda. We wanted a top 10 finish. Juan was our race leader. He was in good shape and was eager for a win. He hadn't won jet this season and his sprint buddies Pieter (Seyffert), Daryl (Impey) and Rodney (Green) all picked up a win. So he was getting a bit frustrated.
We tried to get someone in the break away, but nobody was allowed to go until half race. Off course at that time our riders had given up. Luckily other teams helped out to bring everything back together for a mass sprint.
Juan wasn't very lucky, picked the wrong wheel and 'only' managed to get 6th. Goal achieved, but we (Juan included) had hoped for more.
1st Bert Grabsch T-MOBILE TEAM 3h09'57"
2nd André Korff T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
3rd Nicolas Sanderson SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS s.t.
4th Henk Vogels TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
5th Matthew Goss TEAM CSC s.t.
6th Juan Van Heerden TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
7th Andrew Randell SYMMETRICS CYCLING TEAM s.t.
8th Greg Henderson T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
9th Jackson Stewart BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
10th Iván Domínguez TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
11th Bernard Van Ulden NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
12th Lars Ytting Bak TEAM CSC s.t.
13th David O'Loughlin NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
14th Luke Roberts TEAM CSC s.t.
15th Rodney Green TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
16th Adam Hansen T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
17th Kilian Patour TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
18th Stefano Barberi TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
19th Rafaâ Chtioui TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
20th Will Routley SYMMETRICS CYCLING TEAM s.t.
21st Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC s.t.
22nd Cory Lange SYMMETRICS CYCLING TEAM s.t.
23rd Karl Menzies HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
24th Zachary Bell SYMMETRICS CYCLING TEAM s.t.
25th Kristian House NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
Reading Classic (7 June)
For the second one Hassan and Chris (Froome) had joined the team. They arrived later, because they road the Bayern-Rundfahrt.
Christoff Van Heerden got in the break away, which got a lot of room from the bunch, but in the last round some riders tried to jump away from the bunch to reach the breakaway. Hassan anticipated.
The last few kilometers everything became a bit chaotic. Christoff had to settle for 3th, being beaten by two 'fresh' riders who managed the jump, and Hassen came just to late to reach the front settling for 5th.
As you can see from the results everything was very close, because no time gaps where giving by the organization.
1st Valery Kobzarenko NAVIGATORS INSURANCE 3h40'19"
2nd Adam Hansen T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
3rd Christoff Van Heerden TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
4th Matthew Goss TEAM CSC s.t.
5th Hassen Ben Nasser TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
6th Kilian Patour TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
7th David Galvin BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
8th Russell Downing HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
9th Scott Moninger BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
10th Wes Sulzberger SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS s.t.
11th Nathan O'Neill HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
12th Bert Grabsch T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
13th Óscar Álvarez UNE - ORBITEL s.t.
14th Roman Kilun HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
15th Ciaran Power NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
16th Ken Hanson BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
17th Thomas Peterson TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
18th Walker Ferguson TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
19th Henk Vogels TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
20th Frank Pipp HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
21st Gene Bates SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS s.t.
22nd Andrew Pinfold SYMMETRICS CYCLING TEAM s.t.
23rd Iván Domínguez TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
24th Ivan Stevic TOYOTA - UNITED PRO CT s.t.
25th Lars Ytting Bak TEAM CSC s.t.
Philadelphia International Championship (10 June)
This was a long and though race. Hassan was our team leader, because the race had some short hills. Everything went according to plan. We held the break away at a short leash. Hassan attacked at the second to last climb. He ended up with Ytting Bak. Together they distant the rest. In the last kilometers Hassan was much stronger and could drop Ytting Bak to solo to the win!! Chris and Juan also jumped away from the pack and both finished in top 5.
1st Hassen Ben Nasser TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 7h23'42"
2nd Lars Ytting Bak TEAM CSC +25"
3rd Mike Sayers BMC CYCLING TEAM +03'17"
4th Chris Froome TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
5th Juan Van Heerden TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +04'02"
6th Volodymyr Gustov TEAM CSC +04'39"
7th Ben Day NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
8th Darren Lill NAVIGATORS INSURANCE +07'59"
9th Alexis Castro COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES s.t.
10th Olmedo Capacho COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES s.t.
11th Nathan O'Neill HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
12th Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC s.t.
13th Michael Friedman TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
14th Jackson Stewart BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
15th Kilian Patour TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
16th Alexis Rojas Diaz COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES s.t.
17th Svein Tuft SYMMETRICS CYCLING TEAM s.t.
18th Juan Carlos López UNE - ORBITEL s.t.
19th Jairo Hernández COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES s.t.
20th Luis Orán Castañeda COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES s.t.
21st Julián Rodas UNE - ORBITEL s.t.
22nd Scott Moninger BMC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
23rd Timothy Johnson HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS s.t.
24th Giovanny Báez UNE - ORBITEL s.t.
25th Kristian House NAVIGATORS INSURANCE s.t.
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good results so far.
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Posted on 13-06-2008 19:26
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This is a great story. Keep it up.
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Great results! 
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Posted on 14-06-2008 16:28
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Vacation
To round up the first half of our season together with the team management we planned a nice surprise for the riders
We had got an invitation to the HC race Veenendaal-Veenendaal in the Netherlands. We wanted to take the whole team to the Netherlands to ride/watch the race after which we planned a 10 days relaxing vacation in Luxembourg for all the riders paid by the team.
Veenendaal-Veenendaal (13 June)
Hassan had showed great form in America, so he was our race leader again.
Early on it became clear the majority of the teams wanted a mass sprint, so the team did everything to make sure Hassan had to do as little as possible and drop him off in front for the sprint. Was it the his teammates cheering for him at the finish, the prospect of a period of relaxation or the confidence after his great win in America? What ever it was, with the finish in sight he sprinted to the lead, which he wouldn't let go. It's Hassan again!!
1st Hassen Ben Nasser TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 5h11'16"
2nd Geert Verheyen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
3rd Arnaud Coyot UNIBET.COM s.t.
4th Dariusz Rudnicki ACTION - UNIQA s.t.
5th Kenny Van Hummel SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
6th Jonas Ljungblad UNIBET.COM s.t.
7th Johan Vansummeren PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
8th Koen Barbé CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
9th Gorik Gardeyn UNIBET.COM s.t.
10th Alain Van Katwijk VAN VLIET - EBH ADVOCATEN s.t.
11th Huub Duyn TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
12th Stefan Radochla TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
13th Michael Friedman TEAM SLIPSTREAM s.t.
14th Wim Stroetinga UBBINK - SYNTEC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
15th Robert Radosz ACTION - UNIQA s.t.
16th Olaf Pollack TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
17th Jos Pronk TIME - VAN HEMERT s.t.
18th Paul Van Schalen UBBINK - SYNTEC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
19th Steve Schets CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
20th Ondrej Sosenka ACTION - UNIQA s.t.
21st Wouter Van Mechelen LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER s.t.
22nd Dimitri De Fauw CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
23rd James Vanlandschoot LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER s.t.
24th Peter Velits TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
25th Gert Vanderaerden DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t. |
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Posted on 14-06-2008 16:30
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Nice win you had beat some great names for a small race like this 
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this is a fantastic story - season 2 will be even better
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Posted on 14-06-2008 18:06
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July 2007
After last months great results this are the rankings in the continental circuit:
Unexpected third place, but as you can see a long way behind the first two and the planning is to take a break from racing until the end of august. So we'll see what position we are at that time. But a place in top 20 looks to be secured and even a top 10 place looks within reach.
With some great results, especially in our key races, the confidence of our sponsors was excellent. They already confirmed they would be head sponsor of our team for at least an other year.
Our mostly young riders learned a lot and have shown great progress. We hope we can get a wild card for the Eneco tour (22-29 August) or the Tour de Pologne (9-15 September) to let some of our riders gain experience in a ProTour race. And of course there is one more race on the agenda where we want preform at our best;
Herald Sun Tour (7-13 October)
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Posted on 14-06-2008 18:53
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Posted on 14-06-2008 19:11
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As I told in the first post, screen shots will come when I start telling about the second season. I played the first season before I decided to tell this story, so I didn't make any screen shots during the first season.
I want to tell about the first season, because it think it's fun to see how it started off and how the team develops. I'm trying to tell it as interesting as I can make it without screen shots.
So hold on! Screen shots will come.
P.S. Thanks people for the positive reactions.
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Transfers
July and the first part of August we didn't have any races, but it was a very busy period. We had scouted around Africa for young riders and in this period tried to sign a couple of them for next year. We were a bit disappointed to see 1 or 2 talented African riders sign with other teams, but we managed to sign 10 young riders making next year sqaud a total of 28. I'll show or new riders a the start of the season.
10 may seem a lot, but next season we want to try out a lot of young riders to see who has talent. This gives our top riders to opportunity to focus on a few key races and hopefully ride 1 or 2 ProTour races.
Also non of our signings will earn more then 2000 euro/month, so the total wage budget will not increase that much.
Actually we have money and place left to sign 2 more riders at the end of the season. We had two riders in mind, who we already talked with:
John-Lee Augustyn: He is one of South Africa's biggest talents and was bought away from our team last year by Barloworld. Barloworld is probably not that willing to let him go, but we'll see what we can negotiate. John doesn't necessarily wants to leave Barloworld, but said he is personally certainly willing to talk to us and is enthusiastic about what we have done with the team.
Erik Hoffman: Erik is 'already' 26, but we see in him someone who can become a good helper and mentor for our young riders. Besides that he is an all round rider, who certainly can deliver us some results. Erik was also very enthusiastic and is willing to sign with us if we can work it out with his team.
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August 2007
In august we began working to get in shape for the last two months of the season.
We picked out a nice race to start racing again.
Tour de Slovaquie (28 august - 2 September)
Only some of the smaller continental teams participated in this race, so we hoped we wouldn't do that bad here.
Our only Sprinter was Rodney (Green) and we had two man would try to finish in the top of the GC classifications: David (George) and Dan (Craven).
STAGES 1-3
The first three stages where flat or not selective enough, but Rodney couldn't get in to the top 10.
STAGE 4
Stage 4 was a time trail and we were curious how David and Dan had come out of the rest period. Time after time we get surprised at what our riders are capable of. David won the TT with Dan taking 3th.
Ok, the field isn't that strong, but David and Dan haven't raced for more then two months!
1st David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA 06'50"
2nd Frantisek Kloucek PSK WHIRLPOOL HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ +05"
3rd Dan Craven TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
4th Mads Christensen TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN s.t.
5th Bart Boom TEAM LÖWIK MEUBELEN +08"
STAGE 5
Stage 5 was a short (61 km) tricky hilly stage. David and Dan nicely finished close to the winner and consolidated there top GC places.
1st Martin Mortensen TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN 1h36'27"
2nd Luis Orán Castañeda COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES +10"
3rd David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +22"
4th Dan Craven TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
5th Lucas Persson UNIBET.COM CONTINENTAL s.t.
STAGE 6
Stage 6 was again not selective enough to change the GC, so we took home 3th and 4th place. A great start of or second part of the season.
GC
1st Martin Mortensen TEAM DESIGNA KOKKEN 16h10'42"
2nd Luis Orán Castañeda COLOMBIA ES PASIÓN - COLDEPORTES +15"
3rd David George TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +17"
4th Dan Craven TEAM KONICA MINOLTA +30"
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September 2007
We road a lot of mostly flat one day races in the month September. So I'm going to bore you with a lot of results;
Giro del Vento 1.HC (1 September)
No results worth mentioning.
Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 1.1 (2 September)
Very nice top 10 finish for Daryl in his first race in months.
1st Maarten Tjallingii SKIL - SHIMANO 5h20'59"
2nd Bert De Waele LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER s.t.
3rd Nico Eeckhout CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
4th Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
5th James Vanlandschoot LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER s.t.
7th Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
Coppa Placci 1.HC (2 September)
Tiaan got a decent 12th place and was the first non-Italian finisher in difficult Italian one day hilly race.
1st Matteo Priamo CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE 4h49'23"
2nd Alessandro Bertolini SERRAMENTI PVC DIQUIGIOVANNI - SELLE ITALIA s.t.
3rd Luca Mazzanti CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
4th Stefano Garzelli ACQUA & SAPONE - CAFFÉ MOKAMBO s.t.
5th Francesco Failli LIQUIGAS s.t.
12th Tiaan Kannemeyer TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt 1.1 (16 September)
Radochla sprinted to victory in his home country with Pieter finishing on a decent 4th place.
1st Stefan Radochla TEAM WIESENHOF FELT 4h02'39"
2nd Borut Bozic TEAM LPR s.t.
3rd Błażej Janiaczyk ACTION - UNIQA s.t.
4th Pieter Seyffert TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
5th Sven Teutenberg TEAM VORARLBERG - VOLKSBANK s.t.
Tour de la Somme 1.1 (20 September)
Tiaan got in the successful breakaway, but wasn't fast enough to win it.
1st Morten Reckweg TEAM GLS 4h01'54"
2nd Tiaan Kannemeyer TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
3rd Geoffrey Coupé JARTAZI PROMO FASHION s.t.
4th Benoit Sinner AGRITUBEL s.t.
5th Roberto Traficante TEAM LPR s.t.
Tour de Rijke 1.1 (22 September)
Daryl only managed 9th in a very flat race in Holland.
1st Hilton Clarke NAVIGATORS INSURANCE 4h39'41"
2nd Aart Vierhouten SKIL - SHIMANO s.t.
3rd Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
4th Steve Schets CHOCOLADE JACQUES - TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN s.t.
5th Marvin Van der Pluijm UBBINK - SYNTEC CYCLING TEAM s.t.
9th Daryl Impey TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
GP Industria e Commercio di Prato 1.1 (23 september)
Hassan and Juan got 6th and 12th working towards their last peak of the season, which should be during the Herald Sun Tour (7-13 October).
1st Samuele Marzoli TEAM LPR 4h10'55"
2nd Gabriele Balducci ACQUA & SAPONE - CAFFÉ MOKAMBO s.t.
3rd Ivan Quaranta AMORE E VITA - MCDONALD'S s.t.
4th Mattia Gavazzi KIO-ENE - TONAZZO - DMT s.t.
5th Robert Hunter BARLOWORLD s.t.
6th Hassen Ben Nasser TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
12th Juan Van Heerden TEAM KONICA MINOLTA s.t.
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