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The management of Tinkoff - La Datcha Team had to make some tough decisions during the transfer period: Rigoberto Uran and Wolfgang Burmann didn't receive a new contract (Burmann later signed a new contract at Genii Hyundai N Cycling).

To keep the support team for Sivakov strong, we traded Joni Kanerva and Matvey Zubov for Petr Rikunov (Kraftwerk Man Machine: Team Popo4Ever p/b Morshynska earlier sold Rikunov to Kraftwerk) and Einer Augusto Rubio for Ildar Arslanov (Bordeaux Métropole - Euskotren: Gazelle earlier sold Arslanov to Bordeaux).

Familiar faces like Sergey Chernetskiy and Viktor Manakov were also signed (again) and a cyclist from Paraguay joins the team: German Anibal Orue, keeping our cobble team strong. Last but not least Russian talent Lev Gonov joins the team as a stagiaire.

So what do you guys think? Good enough to stay another year in the PT?

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Even though there are still 8 races left this season (Riga, Balkan, ToNE, Arenberg, Rheden, Moscow, GP Cycliste and Lombardia) it's already clear that Artem Samolenkov's mass sprint victory on the Champs-Élysées will be without a doubt the highlight of 2023!

Artem Samolenkov celebrating on the Champs-Élysées

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Leader roles for the Big Four S's at the remaining races:

(Yatsevich will be our leader during the Chrono d'Arenberg)

This year Tinkoff - La Datcha Team scored 1807 points during the Grand Tours, here are the full statistics:

Obviously Pavel Sivakov contributed most points with his double 4th place in the General Classification at the Vuelta a España and the Tour de France.

Matvey Mamykin had two solid Grand Tours (Giro/Vuelta), as did Petr Rikunov and Alexander Vlasov (Vuelta/Tour). Artem Samolenkov's victory on the Champs-Élysées added some nice points as well!

This year Tinkoff - La Datcha Team scored 1130 points during the ProTour Stage Races, here are the full statistics:

Artem Samolenkov scored most of the points for us thanks to his two stage wins during the Ronde van Nederland (Stage 1) and Praha - Karlovy Vary - Praha (Stage 4), also finishing 14th at the General Ranking of Tour of Qatar wheeled in some points.

Kiril Yatsevich only scored 3 points less than Samolenkov; stage win during the Tour of Northern Europe (Stage 1 - an Individual Time Trial (ITT) of 28.5km from Horebeke to Haaghoek), also finishing 8th at the General Ranking of Praha - Karlovy Vary - Praha and 14th at the General Ranking of Tour of Tasmania were good point collecting results!

From the total of 1130 Points; 733 were earned by General Ranking, 244 by Stage Results, 83 by Sprint Points, 54 by King of the Mountain Points, 15 by Team Ranking and 1 by Young Rider Ranking.

This year Tinkoff - La Datcha Team scored 767 points during the Monuments, here are the full statistics:

Toms Skujins scored most of the points for us thanks to his second place during Liege - Bastogne - Liege, also finishing 13th at Milano San Remo wheeled in some points.

Arman Kamyshev was our only other rider to make it into the top-10 (9th place at the Ronde van Vlaanderen), which is really bad when looking at the strength of our cobble squad!

From the total of 767 Points; 255 were earned at Liege - Bastogne - Liege, 174 at Paris - Roubaix, 173 at Ronde van Vlaanderen, 84 at Milano San Remo and 81 at Giro di Lombardia.

This year Tinkoff - La Datcha Team scored 1257 points during the ProTour Classics, here are the full statistics:

Florian Senechal scored most of the points for us thanks to his fifth place during the Strada Appia Antica, also finishing 9th at the Macskako Kerekparverseny and 10th at the E3 Prijs wheeled in some points.

Arman Kamyshev only scored 5 points less than Senechal; fourth place during the E3 Prijs, also finishing 9th at the East Midlands Cicle Classic and 10th at the Strada Appia Antica were good point collecting results!

From the total of 1257 Points; 656 were earned on the Cobbles, 282 on the Hills, 195 on the Flat and 124 on the Mountain.