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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 14-03-2015 13:27
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Haut Var sounds good. Starting in Europe would be best as well. No long journeys in the calendar 
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 16-03-2015 17:10
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Training Camp - Basque Country
Sitting in sunny Bilbao, we had some great training days in the small streets of the Basque Country. Some form for the hills is built up - and maybe some for the cobbled classiques, thinking of a couple of streets we passed...
Being quite strong so far on almost every terrain, climbing is something we have to improve for now. Some amateur rider in Euskadi jerseys overtook all of us, when we were testing on a climb in the Pyrenees. But Frank and Johann starting later in the season and Laurent being ill no trouble on that for now.
We had quite a lot of fans talking to our riders, asking for autographs... Cycling is still a big sport in Pais Vasco, especially thinking of the time when Euskaltel was still at first-class-cycling.
Look what we found according to that:
Season opener
It is confirmed that we stay in Europe, but we will have at least a couple of racedays before Omloop. Most likely Tour de Haut Var & GP Marseilles or Algarve.
JM-Project
The JM-Project was found by a group of Belgian, mostly agents working in competitive sports. It should generate money, with which young Belgian sportsmen should be supported and professionally escorted. This should keep these guys out of physical and psychologic trouble for the way the grow up to professonal athletes.
The project was founded nearly at the same time as our team. On our sponsoring trip we had some contact with this project, and we agreed on a partnership to it.
The first event, organized by the JM-Project, is a sports competition taking part in Gent. It contains a couple of sports events:
GENT 2015
1. indoor football tournament: 4 Teams are competing in the tournement. The host KAA Gent from the Flandres, Standart Liege from the Wallonie, VFL Wolfsburg from Germany and PSV Eindhoven from the Netherlands.
2. tennis match: There will be a showmatch between the top belgian player David Goffin and young talent Kimmer Coppejans.
3.track racing: Six Teams send two riders to a track championship in the Velodrom of Gent. There will be Lotto-Soudal (Kris Boeckmans & Kenny Dehaes), Etixx-Quick Step (Iljo Keisse & Stijn Vandenbergh), Wanty Groupe Gobert (Bjorn Leukemans & Jerome Baugnies), Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (Edward Theuns & Pieter Jacobs), Leopard-Evonik ProCycling (Kristof Vandewalle & Jelle Wallays) and Wallonie-Bruxelles (Sebastien Delfosse & Antoine Demoitie)
This amazing velodrome in  Gent will be the target for Kristof and Jelle soon...
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 24-03-2015 09:06
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Gent 2015 - Sport for sport
Hi there,
we are Kristof and Jelle, writing from Gent. We spent 3 days here, meeting a lot of sportsmen, well-known pros as well as fascinated kids. A lot of talks and giveaways of autograph-cards have been done.
A lot of money has been collected, and we put our effort in for that. Firstly by riding in the JM track-event, but in secondary also by giving our jerseys to an auction after all the sports have been done. So if you see someone riding a Leopard-Evonik jersey with a small Jelle or Kristof on the side, this guy doesn´t automatically have to be one of us
The track event has been really interesting, the first time in the season we met some of the elite belgian cyclist. So this was kind of an inofficial belgian national track championship for road racers.
Finally we could both compete, but really were not near winning this competition. But winning wasn´t the main issue this time wasn´t it? The fun we had and the attention we got for both this sport and this project made this a really great event. Can you guess the final top three based on pics made a time ago?
  
Guess it´s not too hard but interesting if you are able to find out who it is.
If you are interested in the other sports, Coppejans won against Goffin in four sets and Liege took the win over Wolfsburg, Gent and Eindhoven.
If you didn´t watched this sports weekend, there is a huge chance that next year the second edition will start, maybe with us again. So stay tuned with our team announcements
Right now we are on our way back to Luxembourg, where we will have our final preparations for the season to start.
You will here form us as soon as the season starts...
Jelle Wallays and Kristof Vandewalle
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 24-03-2015 09:15
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Goffin lost? Oh man  
And, damn it! Why didn't KAA Gent win?
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Posted on 24-03-2015 09:25
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Yeah indeed why didn't Ghent win they are by far better then standard de liege this season. BTW wolfsburg is even much stronger
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 25-03-2015 09:37
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@Ian Butler & Krisa: Indoor anything can happen
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 15-04-2015 11:40
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Just a short update...this story is NOT done, racing will start as soon as the pcm.daily2015 database is out...
I was away a couple of weeks, so that´s why no updates were made here...for the moment I´m just out of ideas about pre-season content, what can be used without having the DB yet...
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Posted on 15-04-2015 11:43
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Good to know that it will be continuing, I'll follow when it starts again.  |
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 18-04-2015 23:03
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I think we all know that you are waiting for the new DB patience of a saint waiting for it
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 27-04-2015 18:37
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Here we go again...
We all noticed the sad news...no PCM daily database. A heartbreak after the long time we waited for it to start racing, but now we have to go another way.
We will go with the JESGD 2015DB V1.75, some individually (but only marginally) edited stats based on the Ardennes Classics included. Our riders were left untouched, so that we have a clear look on the stats. Martijn & Julian were created based on the pcmdaily 2014 database; David based on his 2014 results...his stats are near the ones of Sebastian Balck.
Stay tuned, it´s time for some racing action soon!
Special thanks
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Posted on 27-04-2015 22:30
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Good news, was coming here to suggest that but you were one step ahead! Looking forward to starting!
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 28-04-2015 12:52
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Season 1
Beginning this season 21 teams will compete in the Pro-Continental division, with more or less ambitions to go up to the highest league of cycling. The strongest sides are the french teams Cofidis and Europcar as well as south african team MTN-Qhubeka. behind that a couple of teams want a part of the cake, especially Leopard, Androni, Bardiani, Wanty and Bora seem to be able to fight for the first places.
Team-Schedule Part 1
The final plan for the first three months of racing is out! We have a special interest in the bold races; the italic ones are not confirmed yet. The other races are to build up form, let young riders get special experiences or have a financial background.
| January | | | | | 19.1.-25.1. |  | Tour de San Luis | 2.1. | | 29.1.-1.2. |  | Vuelta a Mallorca | 2.1. | | | | | | February | | | | | 4.2.-9.2. |  | Etoile de Besseges | 2.1. | | 18.2.-22.2. | | Vuelta a Andalucia | 2.1. | | 18.2.-22.2. |  | Volta ao Algarve | 2.1. | | 28.2. | | Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | 1.HC | | 28.2. | | Classic Sud Ardeche - Souvenir Francis Delpech | 1.1. | | | | | | March | | | | | 1.3. | | Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne | 1.1. | | 1.3. |  | GP di Lugano | 1.HC | | 4.3. | | Le Samyn | 1.1. | | 6.3.-8.3. | | Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen | 2.1. | | 7.3. |  | Strade Bianchi | 1.HC | | 14.3. |  | Albert Achterhes Pet Ronde van Drenthe | 1.1. | | 14.3. | | Vuelta a la Region di Murcia | 1.1. | | 18.3. | | Nokere Koerse - Danilith Classic | 1.1. | | 20.3. | | Handzame Classic | 1.1. | | 21.3. | | Ronde Van Zeeland Seaports | 1.1. | | 21.3. | | Classic Loire Atlantique | 1.1. | | 22.3. | | Cholet - Pays de Loire | 1.1. | | 25.3. | | Dwars door Vlaanderen | 1.HC | | 26.3.-30.3. | | Settimana Coppi e Bartali | 2.1. | | 27.3. | | E3 Harelbeke | Classic | | 30.3. | | Gent - Wevelgem | Classic | | 31.3.-2.4. | | Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde | 2.HC |
Some hard decisions, we went with not too many pre-action races, but especially our young men, who don´t have to deliver early in the season, told us that they really want to try something in the early races. So at the beginning we won´t hunt for big results that much, but try something for our young men.
We thought about the point to limit the time-trials in our pre-goal races, but our team has a lot of talent for TTs, so we think that we should give them the chance of performing on their preferred terrain already before the big races are coming.
Tour of San Luis
We thought about that Tour of San Luis invitation a long time. Our plan was not to go out of Europe (we had invitations from Dubai, Oman, Qatar and Malaysia), but this one is a special offer. Cycling in South America is growing fast, a lot of talented riders float from there to World Tour Cycling. They offered us a really interesting package:
On the one hand we start there with a team of six riders, come there three days early to have some rides out with young regional cyclists and the San Luis Somos Todos team. Andy Schleck will lead the team out of the car, and will take part in a special event. He will race the Mirador del Portrero against the colombian legend Felix Cardenas, Argentinas top cyclist Eduardo Sepulveda and the national u23 champion Emiliano Contreras.
On the other hand all the money for the trip (like flight, transport, hotel) will be paid by the organisers of the Tour and the cycling federation of Argentina. Another positiv effect is the massive increase of popularity and the growing network for the future market South America.
Leaders - Goals
Lieuwe Westra
 Frank Schleck
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Bob Jungels
Kristof Vandewalle
Feedback Corner
@jandal7, the_hoyle & trekbmc: great to see you still interested in the story, you guys are amazing 
If you want to see more individual rider goals or if you would like to change something, just write down here.
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Posted on 29-04-2015 09:54
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Tour de San Luis
19.1.-25.1. Cat. 2.1
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
| Mathieu van der Poel | Hilly Sprints | | Johann Tschopp | Mountain Stages | | Laurent Didier | Mountain Stages |  | Petr Vakoc | last man for Mathieu | | Julian Kern | Breakaways/Domestique |  | Sebastian Balck | Domestique |
Goals: Top 10 in a stage; Top 10 in the GC or win the Mountains Jersey
Stage 1
San Luis - Villa Mercedes 165 km
A short, flat stage at the beginning. It has to be a bunch sprint today, they won´t want to giveaway the first chance to a breakaway. The favourites are:
Right from the beginning two riders attack. They are Giuseppe Fonzi (Southeast) and Maciej Paterski (CCC Sprandi). The peloton didn´t really react to this, so that the couple increased their lead to a maximum of 6"10 with 90 km to go.
The sprinters didn´t want to loose the first stage to a breakaway. The domestiques, especially of Lampre and Androni, increased the pace, and at the second intermediate sprint the lead was down to 2"40 with 60 km to go. Each one of the couple upfront won one of the sprints, while Appollonio (Androni) took both of the peloton sprints. This made him the favourite for the final sprint, so Androni organized the chase to break down Paterski&Fonzi.
We wanted to sit back this and next stage, just to get fresh into the hilly stages.
8 km were just left when the peloton catched the chase. Nearly at the same time Movistar and Southeast had a heartbreak, a bunch of their main man crashed and could not come back until the end (Ponzi, Gavazzi, Izagirre, Amador, Gadret).
Androni set up a great pace to lead Appollonio into the sprint. But from his backwheel the Yauheni Hutarovich came around and took the stage. The belorussijan sprinter and Appollonio opened up a big gap to Ventoso (Movistar) on P3.
We didn´t plan to participate in the sprint, but with 1km to go Mathieu decided to put his head down and just ride as hard as he can to see what he can get. He surprisingly ended up at P5, which also meant that he took the Youth Classification for at least one day. Great job by him!
Stage & GC
| 1 | Yauheni Hutarovich | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | 3h35'42 | | 2 | Davide Appollonio | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 3 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 4 | Michael Mørkøv | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 5 | Mathieu van der Poel | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 6 | Peter Kennaugh | Team Sky | s.t. | | 7 | Rubén Plaza | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 8 | Andrew Fenn | Team Sky | s.t. | | 9 | Jonathan Hivert | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 10 | Jarlinson Pantano | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | Lars Petter Nordhaug | Team Sky | s.t. | | 12 | Sérgio Pardilla | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 13 | Francesco Lasca | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 14 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 15 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 16 | David Arroyo | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 17 | Sérgio Paulinho | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 18 | Franco Pellizotti | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 19 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 20 | Maxim Belkov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 21 | Petr Vakoč | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 22 | Chun Feng | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 23 | Fabio Duarte | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 24 | Sebastian Henao | Team Sky | s.t. | | 25 | Maciej Paterski | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 26 | Miguel Rubiano | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 27 | Vicente Reynès | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 28 | Emanuele Sella | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 29 | Julian Kern | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 30 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 31 | Johann Tschopp | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 32 | Mikaël Chérel | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 33 | Kristijan Durasek | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 34 | Damien Gaudin | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 35 | Pello Bilbao | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 36 | Hayden Roulston | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 37 | Blel Kadri | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 38 | Fabio Felline | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 39 | Vyacheslav Kuznetsov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 40 | Alexey Tsatevitch | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 41 | Dayer Quintana | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 42 | Alessandro Bazzana | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 43 | Florian Vachon | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 44 | Adriano Malori | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 45 | Mauro Finetto | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 46 | Hugo Houle | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 47 | Salvatore Puccio | Team Sky | s.t. | | 48 | Przemyslaw Niemiec | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 49 | Jesse Sergent | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 50 | Pawel Poljanski | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 51 | Daniele Ratto | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 52 | Andrea Zordan | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 53 | Jarosław Marycz | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 54 | Luke Rowe | Team Sky | s.t. | | 55 | Matthias Brändle | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 56 | Marco Canola | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 57 | Stefan Denifl | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 58 | Florian Guillou | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 59 | Nelson Oliveira | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 60 | Fabio Silvestre | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 61 | Sebastian Balck | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 62 | Nikolai Trusov | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 63 | Marco Haller | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 64 | Laurent Didier | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 65 | Alexander Porsev | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 66 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 67 | Tsgabu Grmay | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 68 | Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 69 | Jonathan Fumeaux | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 70 | Rafael Andriato | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 71 | Luke Keough | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 72 | Reto Hollenstein | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 73 | Leonardo Duque | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 74 | Stijn Devolder | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 75 | Eryk Laton | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 76 | Javier Francisco Aramendia | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 77 | Michael Valgren | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 78 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 79 | Leszek Pluckinski | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 80 | Jakub Kaczmarek | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 81 | Kiel Reijnen | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 82 | Nikolay Mihaylov | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 83 | Carlos Mario Ramírez | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 84 | Axel Domont | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 85 | Jean-Marc Bideau | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 86 | Carlos Gimenez | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 87 | Carlos Alzate | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 2'16 | | 88 | Simone Ponzi | Southeast Pro Cycling | + 8'28 | | 89 | Ion Izagirre | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 90 | Michael Kolar | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 91 | Edwin Ávila | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 92 | Andrey Amador | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 93 | Brayan Ramírez | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 94 | John Gadret | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 95 | Quentin Jauregui | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 96 | Francesco Gavazzi | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. |
Points Classification
| 1 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast Pro Cycling | 5 | | 2 | Maciej Paterski | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | 5 | | 3 | Davide Appollonio | Androni Giocattoli | 2 |
Mountains Classification
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Young Rider Classification
| 1 | Mathieu van der Poel | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | 3h35'42 | | 2 | Andrew Fenn | Team Sky | s.t. | | 3 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. |
Spoiler | 4 | Petr Vakoč | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 5 | Sebastian Henao | Team Sky | s.t. | | 6 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 7 | Pello Bilbao | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 8 | Fabio Felline | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 9 | Dayer Quintana | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 10 | Hugo Houle | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 11 | Pawel Poljanski | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 12 | Andrea Zordan | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 13 | Luke Rowe | Team Sky | s.t. | | 14 | Fabio Silvestre | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 15 | Marco Haller | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 16 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 17 | Tsgabu Grmay | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 18 | Luke Keough | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 19 | Eryk Laton | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 20 | Michael Valgren | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 21 | Leszek Pluckinski | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 22 | Jakub Kaczmarek | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 23 | Carlos Mario Ramírez | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 24 | Axel Domont | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 25 | Carlos Gimenez | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 26 | Michael Kolar | Tinkoff - Saxo | + 8'28 | | 27 | Brayan Ramírez | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 28 | Quentin Jauregui | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. |
Team Classification
| 1 | Team Sky | 10h47'06 | | 2 | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 3 | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. |
Spoiler | 4 | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 5 | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 6 | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 7 | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 8 | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 9 | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 10 | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 11 | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 12 | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 13 | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 14 | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 15 | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 16 | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. |
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Posted on 29-04-2015 10:08
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Nice sprint and white jersey from van der Poel.  Exciting for the next stage(s) |
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Posted on 29-04-2015 10:32
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Off to a great start!
Mathieu to become a leader in 1 - 2 seasons tops |
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Posted on 29-04-2015 10:51
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@trekbmc: We did not expect that, but we like what we see
@Ian Butler: The great thing is that he can already lead us on smaller races. That´s what we want to see by giving him the "young riders free role".
@all: Should we keep the reviews like this for every stage/race? We would have a detailed season then, and a slow but detailed pace.
Or should we shortcut the less important races like San Luis and only make a review for the whole race in cases like these? The focused races would stay like this first review. We would have faster pace for developement, more seasons,... , but we would have less details and screenshots from smaller races. |
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Posted on 29-04-2015 11:43
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I'd say, for starters we keep it like this. Gradually we could start focusing on the bigger races and have smaller reviews for other races? |
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Posted on 29-04-2015 13:00
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Tour de San Luis
19.1.-25.1. Cat. 2.1
Stage 2
Tilisarao - Terrazas del Portezuelo 174,4 km
Pretty similar to the last stage, it´s slightly more hilly but there is no change looking at the pre-race favourites.
Julian was the first man to attack on the day, but he was followed by a bunch of riders, which the sprinters didn´t want to let go.
The next attack came from Nikolai Trussov (Tinkoff-Saxo), and no one wanted to follow. No action from the peloton in response to that, one rider alone is always nice for a peloton to control, especially on a flat stage.
He carried on to the mountain sprint, where he finished first with an advantage of 2"30 to the peloton.
In there Julian came to the fore to achieve the second place at the KOM point, maybe it could be helpful later this tour. Further the peloton decided to push, a big battle for the first intermediate sprint took place. CCC-Sprandi tried to bring Paterski into the lead of the sprinters jersey with five men, but at the end Appollonio took it one again in front of Hutarovich.
The race slowed down a lot after that, so that Nikolai extended his advantage to 3"57 with 40 km to go (at the first intermediate sprint he had only 20 secondds left). The peloton didn´t really chase with full power, and at the second intermediate sprint just after the hill he had still 1"04 for 10 km. On the downhill section they couldn´t really chase him down, and with 33 seconds for 4,4 km it didn´t look too bad. But Androni and Bretagne found something left in the tank, with what they catched Trusov inside the last 500 meters. Van der Poel stayed behind Vakoc, who had his turn upfront around 1,5 km to go, but then couldn´t find a good wheel. From the backwheel of Benfatto (Androni) he could sprint to P8, securing his first place in the youth classification. Yauheni Hutarovich (Bretagne) took the stage once again after some great work of his team in the final kilometers.
Stage
| 1 | Yauheni Hutarovich | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | 3h57'43 | | 2 | Davide Appollonio | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 3 | Michael Mørkøv | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 4 | Hayden Roulston | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 5 | Jonathan Hivert | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 6 | Florian Vachon | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 7 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 8 | Mathieu van der Poel | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 9 | Jesse Sergent | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 10 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | Nikolai Trusov | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 12 | Alexey Tsatevitch | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 13 | Leonardo Duque | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 14 | Franco Pellizotti | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 15 | Andrew Fenn | Team Sky | s.t. | | 16 | Andrea Zordan | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 17 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 18 | Luke Rowe | Team Sky | s.t. | | 19 | Chun Feng | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 20 | Salvatore Puccio | Team Sky | s.t. | | 21 | Rubén Plaza | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 22 | Stijn Devolder | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 23 | Fabio Silvestre | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 24 | Lars Petter Nordhaug | Team Sky | s.t. | | 25 | Sebastian Henao | Team Sky | s.t. | | 26 | Nelson Oliveira | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 27 | Petr Vakoč | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 28 | Sérgio Pardilla | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 29 | Jean-Marc Bideau | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 30 | Emanuele Sella | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 31 | Tsgabu Grmay | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 32 | Jarlinson Pantano | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 33 | Miguel Rubiano | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 34 | Peter Kennaugh | Team Sky | s.t. | | 35 | Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 36 | David Arroyo | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 37 | Reto Hollenstein | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 38 | Fabio Duarte | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 39 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 40 | Maciej Paterski | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 41 | Daniele Ratto | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 42 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 43 | Sérgio Paulinho | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 44 | Carlos Alzate | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 45 | Fabio Felline | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 46 | Dayer Quintana | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 47 | Julian KernLeopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 48 | Quentin Jauregui | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 49 | Przemyslaw Niemiec | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 50 | Johann Tschopp | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 51 | Simone Ponzi | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 52 | Michael Valgren | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 53 | Nikolay Mihaylov | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 54 | Mikaël Chérel | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 55 | Adriano Malori | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 56 | Stefan Denifl | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 57 | Pello Bilbao | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 58 | Mauro Finetto | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 59 | Marco Canola | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 60 | Sebastian Balck | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 61 | Leszek Pluckinski | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 62 | Laurent Didier | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 63 | Matthias Brändle | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 64 | Francesco Lasca | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 65 | Ion Izagirre | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 66 | Jakub Kaczmarek | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 67 | Andrey Amador | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 68 | Jarosław Marycz | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 69 | Vyacheslav Kuznetsov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 70 | John Gadret | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 71 | Michael Kolar | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 72 | Luke Keough | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 73 | Alessandro Bazzana | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 74 | Maxim Belkov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 75 | Alexander Porsev | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 76 | Eryk Laton | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 77 | Axel Domont | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 78 | Kristijan Durasek | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 79 | Blel Kadri | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 80 | Francesco Gavazzi | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 81 | Florian Guillou | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 82 | Pawel Poljanski | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 83 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 84 | Edwin Ávila | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 85 | Jonathan Fumeaux | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 86 | Vicente Reynès | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 87 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 88 | Hugo Houle | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 89 | Damien Gaudin | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 90 | Marco Haller | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 91 | Javier Francisco Aramendia | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 92 | Rafael Andriato | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 93 | Brayan Ramírez | Team Colombia | + 4'19 | | 94 | Carlos Mario Ramírez | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 95 | Kiel Reijnen | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 96 | Carlos Gimenez | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
General Classification
| 1 | Yauheni Hutarovich | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | 7h33'25 | | 2 | Davide Appollonio | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 3 | Michael Mørkøv | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 4 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 5 | Mathieu van der Poel | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 6 | Jonathan Hivert | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 7 | Andrew Fenn | Team Sky | s.t. | | 8 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 9 | Rubén Plaza | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 10 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. |
Spoiler | 11 | Franco Pellizotti | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 12 | Lars Petter Nordhaug | Team Sky | s.t. | | 13 | Peter Kennaugh | Team Sky | s.t. | | 14 | Sérgio Pardilla | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 15 | Hayden Roulston | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 16 | Chun Feng | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 17 | Jarlinson Pantano | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 18 | Petr Vakoč | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 19 | Sebastian Henao | Team Sky | s.t. | | 20 | Florian Vachon | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 21 | David Arroyo | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 22 | Alexey Tsatevitch | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 23 | Emanuele Sella | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 24 | Jesse Sergent | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 25 | Miguel Rubiano | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 26 | Sérgio Paulinho | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 27 | Fabio Duarte | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 28 | Maciej Paterski | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 29 | Salvatore Puccio | Team Sky | s.t. | | 30 | Andrea Zordan | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 31 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 32 | Luke Rowe | Team Sky | s.t. | | 33 | Nikolai Trusov | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 34 | Julian Kern | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 35 | Francesco Lasca | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 36 | Johann Tschopp | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 37 | Fabio Felline | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 38 | Fabio Silvestre | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 39 | Nelson Oliveira | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 40 | Mikaël Chérel | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 41 | Leonardo Duque | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 42 | Dayer Quintana | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 43 | Pello Bilbao | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 44 | Daniele Ratto | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 45 | Maxim Belkov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 46 | Stijn Devolder | Trek Factory Racing | s.t. | | 47 | Przemyslaw Niemiec | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 48 | Tsgabu Grmay | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 49 | Adriano Malori | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 50 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 51 | Mauro Finetto | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 52 | Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 53 | Vyacheslav Kuznetsov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 54 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 55 | Reto Hollenstein | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 56 | Kristijan Durasek | Lampre - Merida | s.t. | | 57 | Vicente Reynès | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 58 | Stefan Denifl | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 59 | Jean-Marc Bideau | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 60 | Alessandro Bazzana | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 61 | Marco Canola | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 62 | Blel Kadri | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 63 | Matthias Brändle | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 64 | Jarosław Marycz | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 65 | Sebastian Balck | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 66 | Damien Gaudin | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 67 | Laurent Didier | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | | 68 | Michael Valgren | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 69 | Pawel Poljanski | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 70 | Hugo Houle | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 71 | Nikolay Mihaylov | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 72 | Florian Guillou | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | s.t. | | 73 | Alexander Porsev | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 74 | Leszek Pluckinski | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 75 | Luke Keough | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | | 76 | Jakub Kaczmarek | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 77 | Eryk Laton | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | | 78 | Marco Haller | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 79 | Jonathan Fumeaux | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 80 | Axel Domont | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 81 | Rafael Andriato | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 82 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 83 | Javier Francisco Aramendia | Caja Rural - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 84 | Carlos Alzate | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 2'16 | | 85 | Kiel Reijnen | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 4'19 | | 86 | Carlos Mario Ramírez | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 87 | Carlos Gimenez | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. | | 88 | Simone Ponzi | Southeast Pro Cycling | + 8'28 | | 89 | Quentin Jauregui | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | 90 | Ion Izagirre | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 91 | Andrey Amador | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 92 | Michael Kolar | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 93 | John Gadret | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 94 | Edwin Ávila | Team Colombia | s.t. | | 95 | Francesco Gavazzi | Southeast Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 96 | Brayan Ramírez | Team Colombia | + 12'47 |
Points Classification
| 1 | Nikolai Trusov | Tinkoff - Saxo | 6 | | 2 | Davide Appollonio | Androni Giocattoli | 5 | | 3 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast Pro Cycling | 5 | | 4 | Maciej Paterski | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | 5 | | 5 | Yauheni Hutarovich | Bretagne - Séché Environnement | 3 |
Mountains Classification
| 1 | Nikolai Trusov | Tinkoff - Saxo | 3 | | 2 | Julian Kern | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | 2 | | 3 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | 1 |
Young Rider Classification
| 1 | Mathieu van der Poel | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | 7h33'25 (1) | | 2 | Andrew Fenn | Team Sky | + 0 (2) | | 3 | Petr Vakoč | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | + 0 (3) | | 4 | Sebastian Henao | Team Sky | + 0 (4) | | 5 | Andrea Zordan | Androni Giocattoli | + 0 (5) |
Team Classification
| 1 | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 22h40'15 (1) | | 2 | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | + 0 (2) | | 3 | CCC Sprandi Polkowice | s.t. | + 0 (3) | | 12 | Leopard-Evonik ProCycling | s.t. | + 0 (12) |
We are happy with the stage. Another Top 10 for Mathieu and no trouble for our climbers.
Tomorrow the first stage with a bigger chance of time gaps appears. We will try to defend the white jersey at the Mirador del Portrero, but especially Henao, Quintana and Sepulveda will bring us into trouble. No big attacks from us then, because the Mountains jersey will be taken by the stage winner, and our riders don´t have the shape for that. Our climbers pointed out stage 5 and 6 for being offensive.
Feedback Corner
@Ian Butler: I like that opinion. San Luis will defenitly stay at this pace as it´s the debut race for Leopard |
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 29-04-2015 22:45
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Good start for the team! Keep the reports like they are. Yes, it is slower than other types of reporting, but it is a good base to start from.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 29-04-2015 23:11
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A steady start for Mathieu in Argentina |
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