Finally done with my 1st season with Novo-Nordisk. And I stayed in the PCT division. Mainly because of Samoilau result's but moving on. Samoilau won Strade Bianche, Tour of Utah, USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Then, rider's like Mejias did good, making podium's and a lot of top 10's. Sheldon Deeny, Guy East and Jason Donald gave a lot of points too. For the 2nd season, signed Barry Markus, Robin Eckmann, Ian Boswell, Higinio Fernandez, Rasmus Quaade, Balloni and a couple of U23 rider's. Every single rider that was on last year of contract didn't renew, so a lot of wage budget to bring rider's. Already played Mediterraen and 1st stage of Tour of Haut Var, and there's one thing to say: FUCK THE AI!!!
Miguel98 wrote:
Finally done with my 1st season with Novo-Nordisk. And I stayed in the PCT division. Mainly because of Samoilau result's but moving on. Samoilau won Strade Bianche, Tour of Utah, USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Then, rider's like Mejias did good, making podium's and a lot of top 10's. Sheldon Deeny, Guy East and Jason Donald gave a lot of points too. For the 2nd season, signed Barry Markus, Robin Eckmann, Ian Boswell, Higinio Fernandez, Rasmus Quaade, Balloni and a couple of U23 rider's. Every single rider that was on last year of contract didn't renew, so a lot of wage budget to bring rider's. Already played Mediterraen and 1st stage of Tour of Haut Var, and there's one thing to say: FUCK THE AI!!!
Nice that you could stay in the PCT with almost the worst team in the game
Nice signings too, they have lots of potential. Some of them(especially Markus) can bring you a lot of wins in the current
Wow! The last Dauphine stage almost made up for the unfortunate Giro! I was sitting in 6th position with Pozzovivo and followed an attack by Rodriguez and Contador. Contador crushed everything and the trio managed to get to the breakaway. Eventually, we finished two minutes in front of the other top riders, which brought Pozzo up to second overall (Rodriguez third). A really nice result, but Contador was insanely strong, I'm glad I'm not competing for the GC in the Tour. Froome finished 157th, btw
Nationals Champs went over without a title for me, unfortunately, especially since I got several 2nd, 3rd and 4th places. The first two mountain stages of the Tour have passed now, Dupont is in the polkadot jersey, I'm trying my best with Gadret for the GC (currently 18th, Top 15 is the goal). Hutarovich has no chance whatsoever in the bunch sprints which is kinda disappointing, but Dumoulin grabbed a stage win from a break so the Tour is already a success.
Meanwhile, Peraud finished fourth in the Österreich-Rundfahrt, only 16 seconds behind Moser, as he prepares for the Tour de Pologne. Kern and Georges each took a stage win from breaks along the way.
Oh, and the transfer season has begun: 5 riders will leave me, most reknown name is Appolonio. With the recent success, I've decided to spread the cash and so far signed Nerz (nice, huh? has developed to 77 MO), Taaramäe and ... Cancellara!! That's right! At the moment I'm still trying to sign either Tony Martin or Rui Costa. If that doesn't work, I'm going to sign a second young rider instead.
Edited by cunego59 on 24-03-2013 21:33
Just started 2nd season with CCC as a World Tour Team Roulston won New Zealand Championship and get 1-2-3 with Ginani - Roulston -Rebellin on 1st stage in TDU
@Jesleyh - I always play on hard because the only way of winning on extreme is going on training camps, but we know this is some kind of cheating. So why the AI must cheat me? Reason of 1-2-3 position is the 'catch breakaway bug' when bunch suddenly stop about 5km before end so my train just run away
playing CCC with Rebellin + two 'good' riders like Di Gregorio and Manan is easy as a pro conti team. Davide was 7th in catalunya, Rutkiewicz was 2nd in Tour de Pologne (also Marycz was 4th after succesful breakaway on stage to Krakow)wins in Turkey, Austria or Portugal + few nice results and welcome second time 1st division for Polish team
Started new career with Allianz - Focus cycling. Here are some of my riders,we're Continental tour.
Main sprinter : Gerald Ciolek
Main stage racer : Peter Velits
Main cobblestone rider: Marcus Burghardt
Best young rider : Dominik Nerz
Our goals for this season is to get wild card for any of GT and to get stagewin there,to win some smaller classic and some hilly race with Jonathan Tiernan Locke.
I'm playing with me own Statoil pack. My main focus, is signing young riders, and turn them into stars, so young riders are pretty dominant on my team I've made it to 2017 so far, and I still haven't moved up to the UCI Pro Tour, so that is obviously my goal for this season. The start of the season, was pretty good. Bobridge finished 3rd in the Australian Road Race championship, and Durbridge 2nd in TT. I prepared a pretty strong team for the Tirreno Addriatico, my two best mountain riders, Naumov and Preidler, and my big talent Will Parker. Naumov finished 2nd in the Le Tour de Langkawi, and Preidler 4th. I also finished on a top position in a different race, can't remember which one it was.
I have just started the Tirreno Addriatico, where my goal is to finish in the top5 with Naumov
Continuing in the Novo Nordisk carrer, Ginnani won Strade Bianche, finished 2nd at Laigueglia and finished on top 10 on two more races. Boswell did his best at Taiwan with his bad shape, still, he finished 7th. Markus won in Almeria and now we reached Trentino. Curiously, the bad shape of Boswell doesn't make him the leader here, but the main helper for Higinio Fernandez (75 MO). Already played 3 stages from Trentino, currently his sitting 4th in the GC, already beeing 9th and 2nd at the mountain stage's.
Edited by Miguel98 on 26-03-2013 22:18
Just lost San Luis by 6 seconds,i won with 55" at last hill with Locke but that just wasnt enough (mainly because of bad TT)
Lastras 1st
Riblon 2nd - 5"
Tiernan Locke 3rd - 6"
Had a very interesting spring classics campaign with Astana in 2014.
It all started in Milano-Sanremo, where the peloton was dropping the pace completely after the Poggio. This is where Sagan should have started the sprint, but I was afraid of others profiting from his slipstream, so waited too long and couldn't accelerate fast enough anymore to overtake Pozzato and Bennati. A missed chance, because all real sprinters were dropped by Astana's hard work.
Then weird stuff happened in the E3 Prijs Harelbeke. A group of six strong outsiders attacked from far, taking more than four minutes before I realised it. Unfortunately, Astana doesn't have a strong team for the cobbled classics, so we were relying on teams like OPQS and RadioShack, who decided to react far too late. Another missed chance, because once the favourites finally started moving, Sagan could easily keep up and won the sprint for 7th place.
Gent-Wevelgem was more successful though. After the Kemmelberg, Sagan sat comfortably in the first group, ahead of fast guys like Boonen and Degenkolb. However, once again Sagan was isolated and the other teams missed the chance to keep the second group at a distance. So I feared to be beaten in the sprint because of having to guess which wheel to take, but Sagan luckily took the right one (Pozzato's) and sprinted to his first spring classic victory. This race also clearly showed the need for a master helper though, so that's what we will be looking for on the transfer market in July.
Next up. Ronde van Vlaanderen! A very eventful race with rain, crashes and everything you would expect from this classic. In the finale, Cancellara and Boonen attacked, to be followed by Sagan? Unfortunately not: our young protagonist just couldn't make the jump and saw them riding away meter by meter, to be overtaken by a suprisingly strong Vansummeren who did make it to the iconic duo. Sagan ended up beating Pozzato and Ballan in the sprint for fourth place, well over a minute behind winner Boonen, who had no trouble keeping Cancellara at a distance in the sprint after dropping Vansummeren a little bit earlier.
Cancellara was obviously not happy with his performance in Vlaanderen, so in Paris-Roubaix he attacked much earlier, together with Chavanel. With Boonen nowhere to be found, the duo eventually battled it out on the Velodrome with Cancellara coming out on top. Pozzato, strong as always, ended third, more than two minutes behind. What about Sagan? The Astana leader was struggling, being tired from already peaking in Sanremo and lacking the power to keep up on the long and falt cobblestone sections. He finished anonymously as sixteenth, completely worn out.
Like Cancellara in Roubaix, Astana was out for revenge in the Amstel Gold Race. An attack by Iglinskiy forced our main rivals to spend energy on chasing him down and when he got caught, Gasparotto took advantage of a moment of hesitation to attack himself. The gap he created was just big enough to keep Gilbert off on the Cauberg and take his second victory in this race.
In La Flèche Wallonne, we had to close a gap on other attackers in the finale, so Iglinskiy had to chase, instead of applying the same tactics as in the Amstel Gold Race. So we ended up with a group sprint on the Mur de Huy, where Gilbert ended up being the fastest, barely beating Gasparotto and Valverde at the finish line.
So, will Gasparotto take his revenge in Liège - Bastogne - Liège? Not at all. Halfway the race, BMC and Movistar suddenly pushed hard on a small hill, breaking the peloton in two and leaving Gasparotto on the wrong side of the break. He chased hard together with Van den Broeck and Rodriguez, but they never made it back. With Gasparotto gone, Lutsenko decided to attack together with Moser, but the merciless teams of Gilbert and Valverde had no trouble reeling the youngsters back in. Then, at 6.5 kilometers from the finish line, Iglinskiy made a powerful attack. The other favourites were left without an answer, so the world champion rode solo to his second win in La Doyenne! A perfect ending of the spring classics.
The results:
Milano-Sanremo
F. Pozzato
D. Bennati
P. Sagan
E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
B. Leukemans
H. Haussler
A. Kristoff
Gent-Wevelgem
P. Sagan
J. Degenkolb
F. Pozzato
Ronde van Vlaanderen
T. Boonen
F. Cancellara
J. Vansummeren
Paris-Roubaix
F. Cancellara
S. Chavanel
F. Pozzato
Amstel Gold Race
E. Gasparotto
P. Gilbert
L. Sanchez
La Fleche Wallonne
P. Gilbert
E. Gasparotto
A. Valverde
Liege-Bastogne-Liege
M. Iglinskiy
A. Valverde
P. Gilbert
If you are still reading, one question remains: how do I make sure that a rider can perform excellently from Sanremo until Roubaix? This seems a bit tricky, with fatigue building up quickly on high training intensity.
And my Novo Nordisk carrer keeps going. Finished Trentino, with a 3rd place on the last stage with Higinio, that putted him 5th GC, a great result. Then, 1 week later, he won the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey, where he won stage, adding that the point's jersey with Markus, he won 1 stage, and the mountain jersey with De Raemaeker. Ginnani started to regain form for the 1 week races and finished 12th at a italian classic. Boswell did great at AtoC, he finished 3rd in the GC, beeing 2nd in two stage's. He also took the mountain jersey and the young rider's jersey. Markus won another 1 day classic, capitalising a great round off of May for us. Currently, we are sitting 4th at the CT rankings, behing 2 PCT teams and one CT team.
Voeckler has a few small GC wins (Tour Med, Etoile and Andalucia). He came 4th in Paris Nice and won the KoM as well as a stage.
Rolland won a stage of Paris Nice as well and finished 8th. He won the mt stage of the Crit. Int.
Turgot got a Top10 in Omloop, KBK and Dwars Door. He finished 11th in E3.
Got a few other stage wins from people like Coquard, Chavanel, Gautier and Veilleux.
My aims are to win the Tour (it could happen ) and get WT promotion.
There will be plenty of potential signings with both Demare and Bouhanni out of contract along with Jeanesson and Coppel. Taaramae and a few other 75-76SP are on my list, as is Ladagnous and Vanmarcke for the cobbles.
Mainly because of Samoilau result's but moving on. Samoilau won Strade Bianche, Tour of Utah, USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Then, rider's like Mejias did good, making podium's and a lot of top 10's. Sheldon Deeny, Guy East and Jason Donald gave a lot of points too. For the 2nd season, signed Barry Markus, Robin Eckmann, Ian Boswell, Higinio Fernandez, Rasmus Quaade, Balloni and a couple of U23 rider's. Every single rider that was on last year of contract didn't renew, so a lot of wage budget to bring rider's. Already played Mediterraen and 1st stage of Tour of Haut Var, and there's one thing to say: FUCK THE AI!!!
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