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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 10-05-2013 14:45
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wogsrus wrote:
Degenkolb, Kittel (now at RLT), Viviani and a couple of others. I sort of buggered up his training schedule which meant he was fatigued before he even started it.
Oh, that's a shame...
Did Kelderman develop a bit already?
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| wogsrus |
Posted on 10-05-2013 23:42
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Not so much, a couple of gains, nothing major. |
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| Blueprint |
Posted on 13-05-2013 08:39
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Domestique
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After a major stat update and other database tweaks, I finally found time to start another career with Astana.
Major objectives:
- Win Giro d'Italia & Vuelta a España (Nibali)
- Top-3 in Ardennes classics (Gasparotto & Iglinskiy)
- Win the World Championships (Nibali, Gasparotto, Iglinskiy)
- Win Il Lombardia (Gasparotto & Iglinskiy)
- Top-10 in Tour de France (Brajkovic)
No hopes for Milano-Sanremo and the cobbled classics. I also don't see Guardini winning a Tour de France stage, but we will try. At least it'll be some good sprinting practice for me, as I suck at it.
The season has started well with Gasparotto taking both hilly stages and the GC in the Tour Down Under (before Visconti and Slagter) and Fuglsang claiming the GC victory in Oman. However, on the 3rd of March we're still waiting for our first win in Europe, but maybe Brajkovic can win Tirreno-Adriatico.
Edited by Blueprint on 13-05-2013 08:39
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| alex344 |
Posted on 14-05-2013 00:21
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Haven't updated in a while. Well I did race all April races and the first two races in the Month of May.
The Maldom Dengie Tour was a nice start of the month with a 1-2 for our team. Dean Downing once again winning ahead of Liam Holohan. Bibby was also 9th in that race. The rest of the month went without victories though. The Tour Doon Hame was a disappointment as we failed to win any of the stages mostly due to being blocked. In Paris-Camembert we failed the sponsor goal of a top 3 which was tough. Downing only got 21st in that race. The two American classics the Presbyterian and the Tour of Battenkill Downing ended up 10th and 8th respectively. While in the Volkswagen Sea Otter Classic and Roonde Van Noord-Holland we were away of the race. We begun a comeback recently as Downing scored 5th in the Rutland-Melton Classic (won by Nico Eeckhout). Finally in May we already raced both the Russian one day classics. In the Memorial of Oleg Dyachenko we sent Alex Peters on the breakway and he would finish 6th in the end. While the Grand Prix of Moscow ended up with Dean Downing returning to the victories with Andrew Tennant scoring 4th. |
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| wogsrus |
Posted on 14-05-2013 06:29
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Finished 2nd at Vuelta with Nieve. Lost 4 minutes on a flat 46k TT. Lost GC by a minute. Argh. Cam Meyer ended up finishing top 10 as well. Super domestique performance. Allan Davis got 1 or 2 stage wins, whilst Nieve also did the same, along with picking up the points jersey.
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| MacC |
Posted on 14-05-2013 09:53
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MacC wrote:
Im am doing well with Ag"R, ncentini is sixth in UCI reankings, very consistent top tens in Tirreno Vasco, Romandie, Catalunya and 6th in LBL
Now for Giro with Pozzovivo
Peraud and gadret wont be worth much on the tour I fear
Down to tenth in UCI after Giro.
Pozzovivo was 8th. Dupont won KoM and he and Nocentini had stage wins.
Happy with career but my hopes of signing a major French leader next year seem to be fading, might end up with nearly the same team!
PS Hejsedal kicked Wiggins'a ass in giro
Edited by MacC on 14-05-2013 10:00
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| hajk |
Posted on 15-05-2013 18:09
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Hey guys, Im planning to play the CM12 again. I remember that there were many troubles with the gameplay at the beginning, such as unrealistic results, too short mountain stages ans unrealistic Gameplay at mountain stages.
Has Cyanide fixed this problem? Which (cyanide)patch do I have to load to get the most realistic game play?
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 15-05-2013 18:20
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Patch 1.4.0.0. fixed most of the bugs, but it's far from perfect. Though it gives you a decent gameplay. |
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 15-05-2013 18:22
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2nd season with Sky is not going as well as i'd hoped...
2 Top10's in TDU and 11th GC
8th in Paris-Nice was ok for Porte
Sagan dominated Tirreno and Henao also got 6th
4th in Catalunya with Henao, and then 2nd in Pais Vasco, also bagging stage wins in each. Uran also Top10'd them both
Sagan finished Top10 in all cobbles in a poor season. Thomas, Stannard, Eisel all missed at least one race which hurt a lot
Very good Arddenes as usual, with Henao on the podium in all 3 events, but missed out on a win
Henao also finished 2nd in Romandie as his Giro warm up.
And for Jesl. Kelderman was 6th in Trentino as leader, and Top20 in Paris-Nice. Now also 81TT 
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 19:09
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Having a great career with AG2R 
Got second overall Down Under with Bardet, which got us some points. Peraud then got 11th at Paris-Nice, while Pozzovivo started his season well by getting 8th in Tirreno.
Moving onto Sanremo, Betancur won it after an attack on the Poggio. Dumoulin also got 14th. Peraud got a good 9th in Catalunya but Betancur failed in Pais Vasco with 24th.
Roubaix then brought us a great 8th place with Chainel. The Ardennes also porved successful. Betancur was the leader, getting 4th at Amstel, 10th at Fleche and 5th in Liege.
Next up is the Giro where I'd expect us to move up from 11th out of the WorldTour teams. Will have to see how the Pozzovivo-Betancur double act performs! |
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 15-05-2013 19:18
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TheManxMissile wrote:
2nd season with Sky is not going as well as i'd hoped...
2 Top10's in TDU and 11th GC
8th in Paris-Nice was ok for Porte
Sagan dominated Tirreno and Henao also got 6th
4th in Catalunya with Henao, and then 2nd in Pais Vasco, also bagging stage wins in each. Uran also Top10'd them both
Sagan finished Top10 in all cobbles in a poor season. Thomas, Stannard, Eisel all missed at least one race which hurt a lot
Very good Arddenes as usual, with Henao on the podium in all 3 events, but missed out on a win
Henao also finished 2nd in Romandie as his Giro warm up.
And for Jesl. Kelderman was 6th in Trentino as leader, and Top20 in Paris-Nice. Now also 81TT
Kelderman develops nicely in most careers 
But those results aren't that great as we expected(overall, not just Kelderman ofc ). That's a shame. Sagan and Henao were good though.
@Froomedog Sounds good.
@Hajk I think the Databases offer a better gameplay in terms of gaps, along with a lot of nice features.
Try the 2013 DB, if you'd like
[url]
https://www.pcmdai...wstart=220[/url]
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| Blueprint |
Posted on 15-05-2013 21:48
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Finally won my first mass sprint on hard after trying a gazillion times.
Having a good Tour de San Luis anyway with Jamis - Hagens Berman. On the first stage, we conquered the mountain jersey with Jacques-Maynes and the group stayed ahead of the peloton, so he gained some time. Second stage was won in the mass sprint by JJ Haedo and in the third stage Jacques-Maynes lost the mountain jersey, but changed it for the leader's jersey by not losing too much time uphill. He disappointed in the time trial though, so now he's second in the GC and the next two days he will drop quite a lot. Now the two mountain stages are coming and we hope to attack with Acevedo, who is quite far down in the GC, for a stage victory. Also, Haedo still has a small chance of winning the points jersey in the final stage. Very exciting to play with a team like this.
Edited by Blueprint on 15-05-2013 21:50
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 15-05-2013 22:19
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Chelyakov's Grand Tour career continues in truly unbelievable fashion. So he lead the Vuelta in only his 2nd ever stage for the team, damn amazing. So roll round the 2014 Tour. 2nd stage TTT, Sky wins, Chelyakov inherits Yellow Jersey!!! This guy is a magnet for GT success.
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| MacC |
Posted on 16-05-2013 09:37
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FroomeDog99 wrote:
Having a great career with AG2R
Got second overall Down Under with Bardet, which got us some points. Peraud then got 11th at Paris-Nice, while Pozzovivo started his season well by getting 8th in Tirreno.
Moving onto Sanremo, Betancur won it after an attack on the Poggio. Dumoulin also got 14th. Peraud got a good 9th in Catalunya but Betancur failed in Pais Vasco with 24th.
Roubaix then brought us a great 8th place with Chainel. The Ardennes also porved successful. Betancur was the leader, getting 4th at Amstel, 10th at Fleche and 5th in Liege.
Next up is the Giro where I'd expect us to move up from 11th out of the WorldTour teams. Will have to see how the Pozzovivo-Betancur double act performs!
That's cool we can compare! See my post #526 |
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 16-05-2013 09:58
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Just had to post this, in a career with selfmade team it was Gent-Wevelgem, but the worst edition I've ever seen. Wind was constantly over 60. I had Boasson Hagen, Vanmarcke, and some smaller riders like Keukeleire, Van der Sande, Devreese. The idea was to wait for a sprint with Bo Hagen, but then Vanmarcke showed up with a +5 (and fitness was 95ish), so I decided to attack, hoping a few would follow. I think it was on the Kemmelberg, with 80km to go. But no one followed (people like Boom and Eisel alwas attack around that point :/).
So I started an impossible solo, but it went rather well. I quickly gained a few minutes because no one was really chasing. Until about 50K Quickstep and Radioshack started to go for it and burned everything down with +70 wind, destroying my team. At 40 Cancellara and Boonen started joining in as well, and they completely destroyed the peleton, including Bo Hagen. Vanmarcke's bonus had dropped to 2 minutes.
Then they started attacking, and another minute came off with about 30K to go, and Vanmarcke was completely empty and Hagen was in a lost position. But somehow Cancellara and Boonen could not cooperate, no one wanted to close the final 30". Gap went back to 45" and Ballan and Sagan came back, still nothing. Gap was back at 1 minute when Nuyens, Flecha and a few others came back. Boonen and Cancellara attacked again and came very close to Vanmarcke, but the same thing happened and the others came back. Already at the 10km mark, I suddenly started to believe in it again. Gap was back to 30" when Cancellara, Boonen and Ballan went and they came to 10 seconds, but again no one wanted to close the final gap with the sprint coming up. The gap stayed about 15-20 seconds until the sprint, and on the line Vanmarcke still had half a wheel left on Boonen. Probably the most exciting race I've had in PCM.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 16-05-2013 15:39
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@Ollfardh Wow, that sounds like a great race! Nice solo win!
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 16-05-2013 15:47
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Giro has turned Sky's season around!
Henao bagged 3 stage wins and 3rd GC, with Uran 4th GC. Cataldo win the closing TT to finish 13th GC.
Swifty grabbed a couple of Top10's and Aru finished 2nd in KoM.
Porte finished 4th in Dauphine, with Sagan taking 3 stages, Points, KoM and Youth in the race.
Kelderman lead Suisse finishing 6th GC after a slow start. Cataldo also finished 10th in a solid race.
Henao won the COL ITT and Martin the GER ITT in a very sub-par Nationals week 
Kicked off the Tour. Sagan 6th on Stage 1, before Sky won the TTT (putting Chelyakov into Yellow for some reason). Sagan then finished 3rd, 4th and 2nd over the next three stages, before crashing out of the race over some cobbles... He was leading the Points competition so now our Tour is mostly buggered.
On the up side, signed Vodafone as a sponsor for 2 seasons. Brought in 3 U23 riders, two brits of decent ability and one czech who is dissapointing... Oh and Degenkolb, Phinney and Cavendish
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 16-05-2013 15:57
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Wow, some amazing signings for Sky!
A few solid results as well, but some are slightly disappointing, considering your team. Giro was great, though
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| Blueprint |
Posted on 16-05-2013 22:13
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After winning two stages and wearing (but not keeping) all the jerseys in San Luis (Acevedo won one mountain stage), team Jamis - Hagens Berman totally dominated the Valley of the Sun Stage Race. Jacques-Maynes won the time trial and the GC, while Haedo took the other two stages. World domination is inevitable.
Edited by Blueprint on 16-05-2013 22:13
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 16-05-2013 22:26
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So the TDF was massively hampered after losing Sagan early on. The team rallied well, with Martin taking 2 TT wins, Markus a surprising breakaway win, Chelyakov 2nd in the Youth and Porte 7th GC.
Pologne finished with Knees in 11th, which wasn't bad.
Eneco saw Thomas win 2 stages, Marksu 1 stage podium, Eisel 1 stage podium and Thomas finishing 7th GC
The Vuelta team saw their first real warmup action in Utah with Wiggins, Kelderman, Kiriyenka, Tiernan-Locke and Koubek taking a 1-2-3-4-5 in the GC
JTL followed that up with an impressive 10th in San Sebastian.
The shaky start has built into an incredibly consistent season. Going into La Vuelta Henao leads the WT Individual, Sky the Team. And Sky leading team CQ with Henao 2nd behind Valverde. Our number of wins is currently behind last year, with only 24 (we had around 35 this time last season) but with Wiggins about to smash the Vuelta, and Sagan returning without a GT in his legs i expect us to bag a ridiculous number of stages now
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