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| HaRe |
Posted on 03-09-2013 19:00
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good results. but you can do better. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 03-09-2013 20:49
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HaRe wrote:
good results. but you can do better.
Thanks. I agree 
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| The Rider |
Posted on 03-09-2013 21:39
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A bit harsh from HaRe, but I agree.
I want to see the team infiltrating those top 10 places, then all will be right with the world!  |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 04-09-2013 10:48
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Good results will come in time, Progress is the name of the game  |
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 05-09-2013 11:58
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Really great transfers you have made.  And hopefuly the team will get back to its winning ways. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 07-09-2013 01:05
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@ The Rider - Hopefully we can do that in the upcoming races then I raced two stages a while ago but its been so long ago that I forget what happened
@ sutty - Thanks
@ Freitas - Thanks, I am really excited about the riders I brought in. Hopefully you are right! I need some wins
@ all - University started, which means Im really busy now and when I get home Im exhausted from walking all over campus all day So I think its safe to assume I will have less frequent reports than what I had at the beginning of the story.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 15-09-2013 23:32
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@ all - sorry for no updates lately. Life has really picked up again, so that means less time for reporting, and less motivation for PCM, as it is elsewhere with school, friends, girls etc.
I also decided to skip the Dookola Malopolska. It wasn't a race I really wanted to ride, and I want to get to the final segment of the season.
Season Review June to End of July
| Date | Race | Winner | | 02.06 - 09.06 | Criterium du Dauphine | Froome | | 08.06 - 16.06 | Tour de Suisse | Van den Broeck | | 29.06 - 21.07 | Tour de France | 1. Contador | | | 2. Wiggins | | | 3. Van den Broeck | | 27.07 | Clasica San Sebastian | Gilbert |
The Tour de France wrapped up with a bit of a surprising podium! Contador was the strongest rider of the race, and Bradley Wiggins outrode the biggest favourite in Chris Froome who was expected to win this race by a landslide as the strongest climber and strongest TT rider of the race favourites, that was until Wiggins showed himself as a contender too!
Cavendish and Kittel shared many sprint wins, and Thor Hushovd managed to win on Stage 9, a classified mountain stage from a breakaway. It was a very confusing Tour, and surprising for many. There had been rumours from cycling fans that Team Sky and especially Chris Froome were doping, but maybe this was a clean Chris Froome who finished way back in 5th place almost 10 minutes back of Contador. Dan Martin rode well for Garmin taking 4th overall, and as said earlier Froome completes the Top 5 of Contador, Wiggins, Van den Broeck, and Martin in that order.
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Contador moves up a lot this month, but Froome is still above him. Purito has the lead, not something that will be a shock to him or his fans, as he's often leading the points rankings. With a large portion of the biggest Tours done this season a lot more GC riders have moved up in the ranking, as well as sprinters like Cav and Kittel.
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A Czech rider leads the rankings, Leopold Konig of NetApp a very promising sign for the future of Czech cycling. It was a quiet few months for the team but Martin Hunal ranks 40th, a huge achievement for himself as well as for our team!
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AC Sparta Praha ranks 29th which is just massively higher than we thought would be possible. This means that we are so close to being a team that has the quality to be in the Pro Continental Division, although that division can only be reached with a high ranking in the CQ ranking, which we are not as high in, as you will see in a moment. Still, this is great and we hope to move up even a little higher with a few season goals to go.
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With the season on its final legs, the fight to promote is on! Team NetApp and Team Europcar look like the two favourites but Androni and IAM are close behind and could still steal a spot!
Likewise the two teams likely to relegate from the ProTour are AG2R and Argos who both sit at the bottom of the WT Rankings for WT teams. Even Kittel's stage wins at the Tour may not be enough, while AG2R have been in the Top division for over a decade and it would be a shame to see them relegate down to Pro Conti.
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Wiggins only has 75 MO and Contador took 2.5 mins on Froome in the final TT even though his TT stat is 73 while Froomes is 78, so I think he must have been seriously out of form or something. A bunch of the results are a little strange, but they dont generally have to do with stats being too good or too bad.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 16-09-2013 14:04
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Froome colapsed. Only on PCM definetelly.
And the 29th place in the CT team classification is really good.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 16-09-2013 19:13
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Miguel98 wrote:
Froome colapsed. Only on PCM definetelly.
And the 29th place in the CT team classification is really good.
Yeah, I was extremely surprised too
Yeah. Its really nice to be up that high.
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 16-09-2013 19:18
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Strange for that to happen to Froome, in my game he won by five minutes to Valverde and Contador, haven't had many strange results thankfully.
The team is doing really well, hopefully that can continue in the next few races. Promotion push anyone? |
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 16-09-2013 21:44
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You're doing really well, inside the top-30... keep it up, maybe you can aim for the top-25. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 22-09-2013 20:33
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@ Froome - Yeah but Im not complaining It makes PCM more fun, than just seeing him win all the time!
Haha, I'll try for promotion, but it will be near impossible this season! Maybe next year though
@ Freitas - Thanks a lot! Its great to see you around more often now! I'll try for the Top 25. I believe I was in the Top 25 at one point of the year, but I dont exactly remember so I could be wrong.
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I have added the schedule for the final 1/4 of the year to the first page so be sure to check that out! We've got the Tour Bohemia one of our season goals, to close out the season, and the Baltic Chain Tour as probably the biggest race we will be riding. I'll start racing the stages as soon as today!
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| MrTeamSky |
Posted on 22-09-2013 21:46
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Wiggins didn't win it the second time unlucky Wiggo
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| baia |
Posted on 23-09-2013 13:11
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Really like your new signs Valv
Sparta is doing good, about promotion, i do think it´s way more realistic like this...
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 03-10-2013 01:39
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Thanks guys!
Kind of inevitable but I have 5 mid terms over the next month as well as a major paper so I think I will but this on hold for the time being. I have an extremely busy schedule over the next 2 weeks, so if Im posting here in the next 2 weeks I'm procrastinating After that my schedule opens up slightly and I might have time for something then, but I've grown to love the gym at my university and Im trying to find an intramural team, and I can legally go to the bar soon so as you can guess, Im going to be busy
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| baia |
Posted on 03-10-2013 02:38
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valverde321 wrote:
Thanks guys!
I can legally go to the bar soon so as you can guess, Im going to be busy
Yeaaaahh... get drunk, smoke some weed and conceive some girls... have fun.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 03-10-2013 20:10
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baia wrote:
valverde321 wrote:
Thanks guys!
I can legally go to the bar soon so as you can guess, Im going to be busy
Yeaaaahh... get drunk, smoke some weed and conceive some girls... have fun.
Thanks, I will
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 03-10-2013 23:24
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valverde321 wrote:
baia wrote:
valverde321 wrote:
Thanks guys!
I can legally go to the bar soon so as you can guess, Im going to be busy
Yeaaaahh... get drunk, smoke some weed and conceive some girls... have fun.
Thanks, I will
Yeah, go get some girls pregnant and pay child support until you can't afford the weed and booze anymore!
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 04-10-2013 00:45
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baseballlover312 wrote:
valverde321 wrote:
baia wrote:
valverde321 wrote:
Thanks guys!
I can legally go to the bar soon so as you can guess, Im going to be busy
Yeaaaahh... get drunk, smoke some weed and conceive some girls... have fun.
Thanks, I will
Yeah, go get some girls pregnant and pay child support until you can't afford the weed and booze anymore!
Thats the plan
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 04-10-2013 18:21
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valverde321 wrote:
I can legally go to the bar soon so as you can guess, Im going to be busy
aah I remember when I reached the age to do that. did nothing for two years 
and I have been told I live in the second most beer drinking village in the Netherlands
Spoiler don't know if that's true though
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