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| valverde321 |
Posted on 26-10-2013 18:19
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@ all - thanks a lot for giving me the time I needed! I think I am back now, to probably consistent (only expect 1 or 2 reports a week however) reporting.
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 Memorial Henryka Lasaka (1.2)
August 10th, 2013
This is the first of two polish one day classics, back-to-back on the calendar! Today is the flatter of the two races, and should be more suited to the quick men! However, as often is the case with smaller one day races like this, the organization within the pack isn't always there and we could see some attacks make it to the finish!
That wasn't the case here though! We start the only real action of the day, with the final kms of the race only to ride and the sprint teams bringing their sprinters into the best position possible! All of the favourites are here!
Lovassy is the strongest on the day, and takes another sprint finish! Its one of his many victories this season!
| 1 | Krisztian Lovassy | Utensilnord - Ora24.eu | 4h16'12 | | 2 | Andrea Masciarelli | Utensilnord - Ora24.eu | s.t. | | 3 | Tadej Hiti | Radenska | s.t. | | 4 | Aleksey Rybalkin | Lokosphinx | s.t. | | 5 | Sebastian Salas | Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | s.t. | | 6 | Riccardo Zoidl | Team Gourmetfein Simplon | s.t. | | 7 | David Dvorský | Bauknecht - Author | s.t. | | 8 | Jaroslaw Dabrowski | Amore & Vita | s.t. | | 9 | Connor McConvey | Synergy Baku Cycling | s.t. | | 10 | Peeter Tarvis | Rietumu - Delfin | s.t. |
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Puchar Uzdrowisk Karpackich (1.2)
August 11th, 2013
Now on to the 2nd of the two races, and this one could see a lot of action! Hunal isn't here, but Krotky is and will be our man for the race, should we be in contention at all! With so many strong riders here, that could be doubtful.
The peloton was not allowing a breakaway to get clear at all today, so the first action comes with 30km to go when, Marek Rutikiewicz makes an attack! The chasing group are having trouble bringing him back, and the longer it takes the more this move looks like a good one for him and his Polish team!
In the end, this move was too good for the others, and he just barely hangs on for the win! Krotky followed some late moves by the favourites, and simply sprinted around them to grab a great 3rd place, so we can definitely take something away from these two Polish races!
| 1 | Marek Rutkiewicz | CCC Polsat - Polkowice | 5h02'37 | | 2 | Federico Rocchetti | Utensilnord - Ora24.eu | s.t. | | 3 | Rostislav Krotký | AC Sparta Praha | s.t. | | 4 | Matej Jurco | Dukla Trenčín - Trek | s.t. | | 5 | Krisztian Lovassy | Utensilnord - Ora24.eu | s.t. | | 6 | Connor McConvey | Synergy Baku Cycling | s.t. | | 7 | Patrik Tybor | Dukla Trenčín - Trek | s.t. | | 8 | Jaroslaw Dabrowski | Amore & Vita | s.t. | | 9 | Dieter Bouvry | Etixx - IHNed CT | s.t. | | 10 | Matej Mohoric | Sava | s.t. |
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 26-10-2013 18:26
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Nice result for Krotky there! 
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| HaRe |
Posted on 26-10-2013 19:13
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yay you are back. Anyway nice result for Krotky. |
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| baia |
Posted on 26-10-2013 19:33
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Nice 3rd..
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 26-10-2013 19:35
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Nice to see a post here and very good result to come back. Valv style.  |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 27-10-2013 16:24
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Great to see this back, we now have a few quality stories to follow with Mre, Pelli and you all returning to writing. A real treat to read.
Great podium for Krotky as well by the way, hopefully the season can conclude well for the team.
Edited by FroomeDog99 on 27-10-2013 16:24
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 27-10-2013 18:30
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A nice podium finish from Krotky  |
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 27-10-2013 18:54
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A nice return, with a great 3rd place. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 28-10-2013 03:06
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@ Jesleyh - Thanks. He's been good all year!
@ HaRe - Thanks! Yep, school is a little less intense right now.
@ baia - Thanks!
@ Miguel - It feels nice to post here again too Thank you!
@ FroomeDog - Thanks a lot! Its always nice to have lots of nice stories to follow  I hope the year will end well, although the form of the riders is starting to go. Hunal is too tired now! Mostly because I set his peaks wrong.
@ sutty and Freitas - Thanks!
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 28-10-2013 04:18
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 Grand Prix Kralovehradeckeho Kraje (1.2)
August 18th, 2013
We have brought a fairly strong team with us, back to our home country! This is an important race for the team and even though Martin was feeling quite tired, he has decided to race here, although not in the leaders role! Jiri Nesveda will be our man and as long as a breakaway doesn't stay clear, he has a good shot and we believe in him!
We start the action off with a breakaway of 7 riders, the most notable being Vojtich Hacecký of Dukla Praha. The others of course still pose a threat, but being a Czech he will have extra motivation over the other 6 riders with him!
With 15km to go, the peloton begin to stretch out as the front really put on the pressure to catch the breakaway who now have a lead of only 45 seconds!
In what we thought was a lead out for 1st place, Hunal gives Nesveda the perfect wheel to follow and its all looking really good!
But we have completely forgotten about Hacecky who was left out front to cross the line in first place! What bites even more is that we would have won the stage, had we realised he was still ahead of the peloton. It wouldn't have been much to ask, to bring back an extra 5 seconds or so, which is what the split ended up being. Still a 2nd place in the grand scheme cant hurt too badly.
| 1 | Vojtich Hacecký | ASC Dukla Praha | 4h16'45 | | 2 | Jirí Nesveda | AC Sparta Praha | s.t. | | 3 | Vitaliy Buts | Kolss Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Markus Hoelgaard | Etixx - IHNed CT | s.t. | | 5 | Matej Jurco | Dukla Trenčín - Trek | s.t. | | 6 | Marcin Sapa | BDC - Marcpol Team | s.t. | | 7 | José Isidro Maciel Gonçalves | La Pomme Marseille | s.t. | | 8 | Martin Hunal | AC Sparta Praha | s.t. | | 9 | Gabriele Bosisio | Utensilnord - Ora24.eu | s.t. | | 10 | Elmar Reinders | Metec - TKH Continental CyclingTeam | s.t. |
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| baia |
Posted on 28-10-2013 17:56
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Great result..
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 29-10-2013 00:21
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Jiri did well to get the runners up spot  |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 29-10-2013 18:38
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baia wrote:
Great result..
Thanks!
sutty68 wrote:
Jiri did well to get the runners up spot
Indeed! It would have been nice to get that win, but the Baltic Chain Tour is coming up now, and I hope to get a lot of good results there, providing the startlist isn't strong, which is always a fear.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 29-10-2013 19:36
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 Baltic Chain Tour Stage 1 (2.2)
August 18th, 2013
We have come to the Baltics and apparently, not many other teams have wanted to come as well, so the startlist is quite thin. Mohoric, Verhelst and Pibernik seem like the real contenders to oppose us! Hunal is going to be quite tired in his last race of the year, but Krotky and Kopecky could also have a shot at leading the team!
We had the only man in the breakaway today, as Medek claimed the 2 intermediate sprints on the day before being caught just before the mountain sprint!
With a bit of a lull in the pace of the peloton, Mohoric makes a move and creates a solid gap of 30 seconds over another chasing group with all of the big players! That chasing group was brought back to the peloton with 10km to go, and the peloton begins to make a full fledged chase of Mohoric who looks really good out front with a gap of now 45 seconds!
Inside the final km now, the win looks certain for Mohoric, but points are still available for 2nd, and of course a podium is still a coveted finish.\
Mohoric crosses the line, although his gap is actually reduced thanks to a broken down Neutral Service Car on the line. The sprinters take the lesser places, but todays star is Mohoric who executes a brilliant win to take stage one!
| 1 | Matej Mohoric | Sava | 4h46'34 | | 2 | Matej Jurco | Dukla Trenčín - Trek | + 32 | | 3 | Louis Verhelst | Etixx - IHNed CT | s.t. | | 4 | Jirí Nesveda | AC Sparta Praha | s.t. | | 5 | Pavel Kopecký | AC Sparta Praha | s.t. | | 6 | Martin Hacecký | ASC Dukla Praha | s.t. | | 7 | Toms Skujinš | Rietumu - Delfin | s.t. | | 8 | Armands Becis | Rietumu - Delfin | s.t. | | 9 | Dieter Bouvry | Etixx - IHNed CT | s.t. | | 10 | Markus Hoelgaard | Etixx - IHNed CT | s.t. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 29-10-2013 23:40
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A steady start for the guys |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 30-10-2013 16:46
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That's a frightening startlist Good news for Sparta then, you should definitely be able to get something good going here!
And of course good to see you back in action!
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| baia |
Posted on 30-10-2013 17:42
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Sparta is getting some good results , hope this can continue..
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 02-11-2013 19:05
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@ sutty - Thanks. Indeed, consistency leads to good results
@ tsmoha - Yeah, its a small team list, but the individual riders are all very strong I hope so anyway.
Thanks! Its nice to be back! Having time to play PCM again (and enjoying it again) is great!
@ baia - Thanks, I hope so too!
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 02-11-2013 21:23
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@ all - stage 2 wouldn't load, so I decided to sim
Baltic Chain Tour Stage 2 (2.2)
August 19th, 2013
| 1 | Louis Verhelst | Etixx - IHNed CT | 3h49'34 | | 2 | Alois Kankovský | ASC Dukla Praha | s.t. | | 3 | Daniel Hoelgaard | Etixx - IHNed CT | s.t. | | 4 | Armands Becis | Rietumu - Delfin | s.t. | | 5 | Roman Fürst | ASC Dukla Praha | s.t. |
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Baltic Chain Tour Stage 3 (2.2)
August 20th, 2013
Stage 3 is another flat stage, and we will hope it comes down to a sprint for one of our 3 capable riders to bring us a good result! If the past few stages have been anything to go by, there will not be a breakaway allowed to get clear, which makes the prediction that it will go down to a sprint a little easier.
The first (read: only) action of the day before the sprint is the uncontested sprint for the KOM points with Okrouhlicky grabbing the maximum amount of points and extending his KOM lead, which is of course a good thing for the team.
The dominance of Verhelst continues as he wins his 2nd straight stage of the race! He is showing to be the top of the sprinting class here. Our guys couldn't really position themselves well and its looking more and more like the guys are too tired for the later weeks of the year here.
| 1 | Louis Verhelst | Etixx - IHNed CT | 3h36'21 | | 2 | Armands Becis | Rietumu - Delfin | s.t. | | 3 | Luka Pibernik | Radenska | s.t. | | 4 | Patrik Tybor | Dukla Trenčín - Trek | s.t. | | 5 | Michal Kolar | Dukla Trenčín - Trek | s.t. | | 6 | Matej Mohoric | Sava | s.t. | | 7 | Daniel Hoelgaard | Etixx - IHNed CT | s.t. | | 8 | Matej Jurco | Dukla Trenčín - Trek | s.t. | | 9 | Erki Pütsep | Alpha Baltic - Unitymarathons.com | s.t. | | 10 | Toms Skujinš | Rietumu - Delfin | s.t. |
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Baltic Chain Tour Stage 4 (2.2)
August 21st, 2013
Classified as a flat stage, however with some challenging speed bumps in the final 15kms of the stage, could provide a nice set up point for any late stage attackers. With our lack of sprinting results here, we will try to do something, if any of the riders are feeling at all like they have the legs for it.
So on to the descent towards the finish line, no attacks made until after the first hill, however Okrouhlicky made a strong move to the front of the race! He was looking good for the win, but Bouvry followed his move, and slowly but surely made his way past! Both look to be tiring, and the sprinters are pushing hard as they want to win badly, with the two out front in sight!
But Bouvry holds on for the win, and Okrouhlicky settles for the 2nd place! Quite a nice contrast from the other stages for Sparta Praha, but we are still searching for the win we feel we can get! The sprinters claim the final spots in the top 10, but will hope they can grab atleast one more win before we gravitate towards some hillier terrain as well as a TT.
| 1 | Dieter Bouvry | Etixx - IHNed CT | 3h50'01 | | 2 | Tomáš Okrouhlický | AC Sparta Praha | s.t. | | 3 | Matej Jurco | Dukla Trenčín - Trek | s.t. | | 4 | Armands Becis | Rietumu - Delfin | s.t. | | 5 | Louis Verhelst | Etixx - IHNed CT | s.t. | | 6 | Matej Mohoric | Sava | s.t. | | 7 | Alois Kankovský | ASC Dukla Praha | s.t. | | 8 | Patrik Tybor | Dukla Trenčín - Trek | s.t. | | 9 | Luka Pibernik | Radenska | s.t. | | 10 | Roman Fürst | ASC Dukla Praha | s.t. |
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| 1 | Matej Mohoric | Sava | 16h02'17 | | 2 | Louis Verhelst | Etixx - IHNed CT | + 18 | | 3 | Matej Jurco | Dukla Trenčín - Trek | + 35 | | 4 | Dieter Bouvry | Etixx - IHNed CT | s.t. | | 5 | Tomáš Okrouhlický | AC Sparta Praha | s.t. | | 6 | Armands Becis | Rietumu - Delfin | + 39 | | 7 | Alois Kankovský | ASC Dukla Praha | s.t. | | 8 | Václav Viktorín | AC Sparta Praha | s.t. | | 9 | Daniel Hoelgaard | Etixx - IHNed CT | + 40 | | 10 | Luka Pibernik | Radenska | + 41 |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 02-11-2013 21:58
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Good move in that Last stage, judging from the last screen, it was a quite close finish for 2nd place ahead of the nearing bunch
So far so good, but just like you say: it can be better
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