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Marcin Bialoblocki has discovered the form of his life and wants to share that at the PCT division this year for Arrinera. Many teams wanted this guy, but in the end found a polish team wanting him the most. He will be our TT leader and will hopefully be able to take some Top 5's and perhaps even win a TT out there. We're glad to have him aboard and maybe he will be the highlight of the season.

The name is Lebris, Cedric Lebris

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Cedric Lebris is quite an unknown presence in the MG so far and he is here at Arrinera to change that. He will be the sole cobbler to support Maes this season, as we didn't have the capacity to go full in on this area. When he is not on a cobblestone terrain, he will mostly feature in the breakaway and should be able to make his wage worth a living here at Arrinera.

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Ran Margaliot is both Israelean NC in TT and in Road Race and hope to feature his new shirt on the highest level. He will be an important Lieutenant for both Froome and Roche throughout the year and should do that job perfectly. I know he has a lot to prove by going from PT to PCT. We're glad to have a NC feature from this guy the most though

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Giorgi Nareklishvili is a TT talent for the future and will max at 78 TT once maxed. He will be an important asset in the years to come and we hope he can prove himself useful in a TTT. We don't expect much from him this season, but be sure to see him around the team on top in the coming years. Georgian cycling hasn't reached its highest level yet and maybe we will see more talents like him from Georgia.

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Manager Thoughts

There has been a lot of discussions in the HQ about the teams plans and we have gotten to an conclusion. This will be the season we will aim for promotion to the PT, which is the holy ground for us. An PT spot can secure a more straightforward development of Polish and Israeli riders for the future. However cross roads come with development and the road for glory, thus this season we looked slightly away from talents and looked upon the opportunity to do it from the PT. If we fail in our hunt for promotion, the plan is to start training the current generation of polish/Israeli riders and work our way up the PCT through the upcoming seasons.

Enough about the future, cause we now have our first PCT squad in the making and not everything went our way this transfer season. What we're referring to is our grand escape to the British Islands, after our set primary targets was competed for in a pace we couldn't follow.

This meant we had to sacrifice some of our main nationality riders and the team was not completed as planned. On the bright side we have gotten ourselves some nice leaders and can't wait to see them in action. Our hope is to compete for the Top 10. We have leaders in every terrain and our only weakness in doing so, we do lack the depth to be the ideal Promotion hunter.

We'll see you at the battlefield and we hope to complete our race planning very soon. Please leave a comment about our plan and if our dreams are not totally what you call "wishful thinking"!

	J.Berard		B.Matysiak
	M.Bialoblocki		G.Nareklishvili
	M.Bodnar		L.Owsian
	N.Cohen		W.Pszczolarski
	D.Eliad		N.Roche
	B.Feillu		J.Sagan
	C.Froome		G.Sagiv
	A.Lavoine		I.Shapira
	C.Lebris		K.Stimulak
	N.Maes		K.Zielinski
	R.Margaliot

Grzegorz Stepniak oaned out to Team I-Gen Festina
Pawel Poljanski loaned out to Evonik - ELKO

National Champions are celebrated riders for their performance in the National Championship of their respective country. We're proud to say that we have 2 celebrated riders, who can't wait to show off these NC's throughout the season. So let's celebrate their performance with an applause and give them these jerseys to show around the world of the 2016 ManGame Season!




Maciej Bodnar joined this transfer season from the African PT outfit Team Kenya Airways and was looking to reprise his role as Time Trialist in the PCT again. He also got the Polish NC in the TT category and we're hoping to see this jersey come to the test several times (hopefully)




Ran Margaliot joins from the legendary talent factory that is Red Bull - Huawei and we spent our last available money to secure (overprized for sure though). All that so we could go into please our Israeli fans and watch Margaliot take the task of wearing the NC in the PCT. This NC is for both categories and especially on the road we expect to see it. Unlike with the Polish NC, it seems the TT category will be hard to regain with us failing to secure Goldstein, but oh well!

Thanks to the_hoyle for making these fantastic NC's

Pawel Poljanski winning the Polish NC last year

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Pawel Poljanski has chosen a rather annoying year to wear the Polish RR NC Jersey, where he is loaned out to PT outfit Evonik - ELKO. Here he will be gaining the last bit of growth before getting fully maxed. Poljanski is not that young again, but he might see himself as a target for training in the future.

Poljanski is set to make a really strong Lieutenant in the coming years and we hope that a trip to the PT and the experience of riding an Grand Tour should be able to help just that. We can begin to compare him to what Roche will be doing for us this year and Roche is indeed a strong role model for Pawel. Then again there are many other alternatives for training, even ones that isn't on the team.

We're gonna try and follow his PT adventure closely and hopefully he will bring home good memories!

Grzegorz Stepniak joins the PT winners!

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Grzegorz Stepniak joined from the Free Agency this transfer season and now to finish his final progression he has joined Team I-Gen - Festina, the legendary talent factory and also reigning PT winner. Grzegorz Stepniak will also be a possible target for training and we think that Poland still need a top sprinter. Again age is late for Stepniak, but nonetheless he is strongest candidate for this.

This year he will be leading out either Bryand Coquard or Georgos Tzortzakis on many occasions and if he'll be useful to these sprinters, then he will be useful to every MG team existing. We have an assurance he will join a Grand Tour, so will be interesting to see how long he will be useful for this team. It is hard to shine through at a team like this, but if he does his job, we will be very happy

Last year the team had it's debut stage race Down Under and also only 1 of 2 wildcards to the C1 race category. So as the race was intended as a chance to see the jersey feature throughout many breakaways as possible. The team had a quiet start, but on the 4th stage Kamil Zielinski took his chance.

It all started from the breakaway together with Haugaard, Jelfs and Smirnovs from the very start of the stage. However the pack had a hard time trying to catch the breakaway and even sprint trains were made and made little impact on the gap. Zielinski was together with Smirnovs the best in a direct sprint and Zielinski kept a strong line and won our first stage win of the total 16 in that season.




Oh no we weren't done and Brice Feillu joined Busche, Weening, Dyachenko and Chiarello in the breakway the day after. Here Feillu was told that the pack as having trouble catching them with 7km to go. As the stage was the most important of the race, it was finished on the mighty Old Willunga Hill and is the key icon of this race. The winner of the race would be found here, but Feillu eyed his chance and attacked with 1,6km left of the stage.

Busche had failed his attack and now Feillu broke through leaving everyone behind, even going faster than Di Maggio (the GC winner) up the hill. This set a fantastic opportunity to win the queen stage of the race.




One big thing about our 2015 season was the curse of not getting three stage wins in a row, an achievement that we couldn't achieve with 3 opportunities to do so. On the last stage that was ironically stopped by no other than a breakaway (!!), where Nic Hamilton managed to hold everyone behind him to win the stage.

Mathieu Drujon was set alone after Anthony Lavoine wasn't able to follow the pace and had struggled with his energy after a hard time getting over the hills in the race. Mathieu Drujon saw himself beating the likes of Impey and Serebiakov in a tame set of sprint trains trying to help out. So in the final stages we got an 1-1-2, something that Zielinski would replicate in the Tour of the Middle East.

Overall a strong race from the team and something to look forward to for this season.

The old classic annual event that is Tour Down Under is iconic in the way that it's route is one of the most reliable to be the same each year and then still manage to entertain! The climb at the Old Willunga Hill is the most classic stop and the place the GC gets claimed each year. Last year we got a lot of good experiences in our first ever stage race.

2 stage wins and a decent GC position is hard to beat, but we come here with last years stage winners and an even better GC leader, so it is possible. We come here to win and last year we got a good idea on how to manage the profile and predict the outcome before it happened. Chris Froome will have his debut race here and our expectations are pretty high, so we are here to go for the overall GC win!

Startlist

Nat	Rider	Role
	FROOME, Chris	Leader
	ZIELINSKI, Kamil	Lieutenant
	FEILLU, Brice	Lieutenant
	LAVOINE, Anthony	Sprinter
	MATYSIAK, Bartlomiej	Leadout
	COHEN, Noam	Leadout
	MARGALIOT, Ran	Helper
	SAGAN, Juraj	Helper

In short January is a short month for us, but we promise that we will be quite visible in February, which will be one of the most busiest months for us. In February we will participate in

Nat.	Date	Race	RDs	Cat.
	14-jan	Tour Down Under	6	C1
	03-feb	Tour of Eritrea	6	HC
	07-feb	Tour de San Luis	8	HC
	15-feb	Volta a Catalunya	6	C1
	25-feb	Strade Bianche	2	HC
	25-feb	Gisborne GP	2	C1
	02-mar	GP Herning	2	C1
	07-mar	Kandy Cycling Classic	2	HC
	12-mar	Bayern Rundfahrt	5	C1
	18-mar	Gent-Wevelgem	2	C1
	27-mar	Corsica International	3	HC
	29-mar	Ringerike GP	2	C1
	01-apr	Tour of Vancouver	7	HC
	14-apr	Tour of South Africa	6	C1
	18-apr	Philadelpha International Champ	2	C1
	24-apr	Tour de Romandie	6	HC
	07-maj	Kenya Mountain Classic	2	HC
	12-maj	Scandinavian Open Road Race	2	C1
	16-maj	Berlin ProRace	2	HC
	22-maj	Olympia's Tour	7	C1
	01-jun	Tour of Norway	5	HC
	18-jun	Grozny Classic	2	C1
	20-jun	Nelspruit Classic	2	HC
	25-jun	Tour d'Andorra	5	HC
	15-jul	Tour of the Battenkill	2	HC
	26-jul	Tour of Beijing	5	HC
	05-aug	Int. Österreich Rundfahrt	8	HC
	07-aug	Nakhon Ratchasima Trophy	2	C1
	14-aug	Baltic Chain Tour	5	HC
	19-aug	Grand Prix de Cyclistes	2	C1
	07-sep	Tour of Britain	8	C1
	24-sep	Rheden GP	2	HC
	26-sep	Nantou Classic	2	C1
	26-sep	Grand Prix de la Ville	2	C1
	30-sep	Milano-Torino	2	C1
	02-okt	Paris - Tours	2	HC
	09-okt	Course de Solidarnosc	4	HC
	18-okt	Japan Cup	2	HC

Croatia14 wrote:
February could become a stunning month for you, your Froome/Roche line-ups look deadly