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Project 2100 and beyond!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 29-06-2012 13:53
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Spain and Colombia looking very good in the Grand Tours  |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 29-06-2012 19:35
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2024
Time to say goodbye.
Spoiler Santos Tour Down Under: Pierre Rouanet (FRA)
Paris-Nice: Augustas Vasiliaukas (LIT)
Tirreno-Adriatico: Antonio Soria (ESP)
Milan-Sanremo: Roberto Bossi (ITA)
Vulta Catalunya: Johan Le Bon (FRA)
Gent-Wevelgem: Marko Kump (SLO)
Ronde van Vlaanderen: Tosh van der Sande (BEL)
Vuelta... Pais Vasco: Loic Collignon (FRA)
Paris-Roubaix: Tosh van der Sande (BEL)
Amstel Gold Race: Cesare Tomasi
La Fleche Wallonie: Jozef Poplawski (POL)
Liege-Bastogne-Liege: Juan Carlos Preciado (ESP)
Tour du Romandie: Loic Collignon (FRA)
Dauphine: George Preidler (AUT)
Tour du Suisse: Arthur Meyer (GER)
San Sebastian: Jason Mills (AUS)
Tour du Pologne: Jan Ghyselinck (BEL)
Eneco Tour: Tosh van der Sande (BEL)
Vattenfall: Marcel Valade (FRA)
GP Quest France-Plouay: Tom Marchand (FRA)
GP Quebec: Tom Marchand (FRA)
GP Montreal: Andrei Muntean (MOL)
Tour de Beijing: Wout Poels (NED)
Giro di Lombardia: Cesare Tomasi (ITA)
Giro di Italia:
- GC: Nairo Quintana (COL)
- Point: Nairo Quintana (COL)
- Kom: Bastian Kroger (GER)
- Youth: Gabrielle Cinzia (ITA)
Tour de France:
- GC: Joost Dieter (GER)
- Point: Marcel Valade (FRA)
- KoM: Thomas Bonnin (FRA)
- Youth: Ronaldo Amado (POR)
Vuelta A Espana:
- GC: Cesare Tomasi (ITA)
- Point: Robert Bossi (ITA)
- KoM: Tiago Machado (POR)
- Youth: Brayan Morales (COL)
WC ITT: Dmitri Shikalov (RUS)
WC RR: Cesare Tomasi (ITA)
Four major riders retired this season; Lars Boom, Marcel Kittel, Andy Schleck and Vincenzo Nibali. Andy Schleck has struggled to achieve any significant results lately and decided it was time to retire. However, retiring might not be the hardest thing to do when you can look back at 4 TdFs, 1 Giro and 2 Vueltas.
France continues its trend of doing well in one-week races and classics, but come up short in 3-week Tours. There is a growing fear within France that Thibaut Pinot, argueably their best rider (on paper) might be considering retirement. The frenchman is definately in danger of going down in history as erhaps the best climber in the world to never have won a 3-week race.
Someone who knows how to win Grand Tours however, is Colombia and Italy. Nairo Quintana was able to secure yet another Giro for his homecountry. The Italian Cesare Tomasi also showed us how it's done in Spain by taking his 2nd Vuelta. Fellow Italian Gabrielle Cinzia might have dissapointed abit in the GC, but won yet another Young Riders-classification in the Giro, aswell as coming 2nd in the Vuelta, just behind Colombian Brayan Morales.
Belgian rider Tosh van der Sande has been a force to be reckoned with in the spring classics and shorter races for several years now and this was no exception. By winning both Gent - Wevelgem and Eneco Tour he has equalled the overall record in both races with 3 wins. Gent - Wevelgem also gave us a new equalled record with Marko Kump taking his 3rd win.
And if some of you think that you've seen a similar result in the end of the season before, then you are correct. Tomasi winning the Vuelta and the WC RR aswell as a russian winning the WC ITT has happened before, this is the excact same result that we got back in 2022. Back then is was Artem Overchin winning the ITT.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 29-06-2012 19:43
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Tosh van der Sande
Cesare Tomasi
Thibaut Pinot
Vincenzo Nibali
Jan Ghyselinck
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 29-06-2012 19:47
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How does a 71 mtn guy win a GT?
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 29-06-2012 20:39
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Team Wii?  |
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| jph27 |
Posted on 29-06-2012 20:43
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baseballlover312 wrote:
How does a 71 mtn guy win a GT?
Probably more hilly than mountainous parcours. Like this year's Vuelta. |
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| pcm2009fan |
Posted on 29-06-2012 21:15
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curiouser and curiouser...
maybe you already mentioned, but i was wondering what is the rider progression rate in your save?
Keep it coming  |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 29-06-2012 21:23
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jph27 wrote:
baseballlover312 wrote:
How does a 71 mtn guy win a GT?
Probably more hilly than mountainous parcours. Like this year's Vuelta.
Yeah but still. 71?
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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| jph27 |
Posted on 29-06-2012 21:24
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baseballlover312 wrote:
jph27 wrote:
baseballlover312 wrote:
How does a 71 mtn guy win a GT?
Probably more hilly than mountainous parcours. Like this year's Vuelta.
Yeah but still. 71?
A good Hilly rider can win the Vuelta in PCM11 by creating decent sized gaps over the better Mountain riders on the easier stages. |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 29-06-2012 21:30
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I know. Gilbert won in mine to prove that, but he had 75 mtn by that point. I agree with you though. Thanks for helpig clear it up.
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 29-06-2012 22:47
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I'd like to know if you have any suggestion about how I can improve the story? More images, more updates, etc... How is the lay out with results and such?
Keep in mind, since this is a bit of a "different" story I can't give detailed reports about the stages in the races since I don't race them.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 29-06-2012 23:10
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Very interesting to follow. More detail on the Grand Tour GCs would be nice though. How close has Pinot come to winning one during his career?
Edited by SportingNonsense on 29-06-2012 23:10
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| Neillster |
Posted on 30-06-2012 09:01
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More images would be good Just so that it's easier to identify with the rider who are winning the races. That said it's been very interesting so far |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 30-06-2012 09:52
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Maybe some more info about new teams/sponsors/riders?
Still it's better than I expected it to be! |
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| JohnWayn3 |
Posted on 30-06-2012 21:21
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Nice, I like seeing this. furthest i played was 2021, so your past me.
I'd like to see more pictures with stats of the new riders, especially Joost Dieter being the second German to win the TdF |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 30-06-2012 23:23
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2025
The man of the year
Results
Spoiler Santos Tour Down Under: Brian Smith (IRE)
Paris-Nice: Johan Le Bon (FRA)
Tirreno-Adriatico: Loic Collignon (FRA)
Milan-Sanremo: Markus Schneider (GER)
Vulta Catalunya: Jason Mills (AUS)
Gent-Wevelgem: juan Chamoro (ESP)
Ronde van Vlaanderen: Tosh van der Sande (BEL)
Vuelta... Pais Vasco: Jason Mills (AUS)
Paris-Roubaix: Andreas Peeters (BEL)
Amstel Gold Race: Loic Collignon (FRA)
La Fleche Wallonie: Arend Hulslander (NED)
Liege-Bastogne-Liege: Loic Collignon (FRA)
Tour du Romandie: Loic Collignon (FRA)
Dauphine: Song Tao (CHI)
Tour du Suisse: Wilco Kelderman (NED)
San Sebastian: Guillaume Lopez (FRA)
Tour du Pologne: Andrea Danesi (ITA)
Eneco Tour: Tosh van der Sande (BEL)
Vattenfall: Markus Schneider (GER)
GP Quest France-Plouay: Markus Schneider (GER)
GP Quebec: Lars Boos (GER)
GP Montreal: Lars Boos (GER)
Tour de Beijing: Romain Sicard (FRA)
Giro di Lombardia: Reimundo Ynes (CUB)
GT-Results
Spoiler
| GIRO | TOUR | VUELTA | | 1 | Gabrielle Cinzia (ITA) | Arthur Meyer (GER) | Marks Ozolins (LAT) | | 2 | Brayan Morales (COL) | Joost Dieter (GER) | Ignatiy Shatilov (UZB) | | 3 | Ottari Russo (ITA) | Thibault Delestre (FRA) | Dier Gomez (ESP) | | 4 | Nairo Quintana (COL) | Thibaut Pinot (FRA) | Loic Collignon (FRA) | | 5 | George Preidler (AUT) | Mikhail Turov (RUS) | Arend Hulslander (NED) | | 6 | Taras Seleznyov (RUS) | Elliot St-Pierre (CAN) | Guillaume Lopez (FRA) | | 7 | Felicio Radie (ITA) | Wilco Kelderman (NED) | Francisco Jose Losada (ESP) | | 8 | Mikhail Turov (RUS) | Song Tao (CHI) | Janar Leok (EST) | | 9 | Alessandro Brusschi (ITA) | Antonio Soria (ESP) | Franky Lejeune (BEL) | | 10 | Juan Carlos del Bosque (EPS) | Luiz Mario Kleina (BRA) | Tiago Olivera (POR) | | Point | Arnaud Augereau (FRA) | Arnaud Augereau (FRA) | Marks Ozolins (LAT) | | KoM | Gabrielle Cinzia (ITA) | Arnaud Augereau (FRA) | Marks Ozolins (LAT) | | Youth | Leonardo Penissi (ITA) | Markus Pelz (GER | Casper Meyer (NED) |
| WC ITT | WC RR | | 1 | Franky Moreau (BEL) | Jozef Poplawski (POL) | | 2 | Jim Vandenlangenberg (NED) | Kirill Kuanyshev (KZH) | | 3 | Timon Braun (GER) | Manuel Gomez (COL) |
| | CQ-RANKING | | | RIDER | TEAM | NATION | | 1 | Arnaud Augereau (FRA) | TEAM Vespa | France | | 2 | Loic Collignon (FRA) | RadioSchack | Italy | | 3 | Marks Ozolins (LAT) | Highroad | Spain |
Tosh van der Sande has written his name in the history - with capital letters. By winning both Ronde van Vlaanderen and Eneco Tour for a 4 time he now holds the record for both races with 4 overall wins. He won RVV in 2017, 2020, 2024 and 2025 and Eneco Tour in 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2025.
Van der Sande wasn't the only one who had yet another great season. Frenchman Loic Collignon yet again dominated the early parts of the season. He crowned his season by coming first in the CQ-classification aswell as winning the Velo d'Or.
The Grand Tours gave us several memorable moments. In the Giro Gabrielle Cinzia finally took the top place on the podium after winning the Youth Jersey 3 years in a row. Germany has cemented their place as a nation of stage races yet again. Arthur Meyer won the Tour de France coming just infront of last years winner, Joost Dieter, making it a 1-2 for Germany.
The Vuelta however was a completely different story. You can argue that this season gave us the biggest surprise we have ever seen when Latvian rider Marks Ozolins not only won the Vuelta, but also took both the Point- and KoM-jersey. It was a shock indeed, but he did get a 15th place last year.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 30-06-2012 23:26
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It's really impressive to see how things quickly change. |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 30-06-2012 23:39
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By the way, how is the new layout? I will be uploading some new photoes of major rider within tomorrow.
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| fernando97 |
Posted on 30-06-2012 23:40
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I really like it, it improves every time a lot. A very interesting story, keep it up! |
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| pcm2009fan |
Posted on 01-07-2012 00:02
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I thought that report was nicer than before. And yay for Latvia taking a grand tour!
and sorry to be a pest but I'm intrigued..
pcm2009fan wrote:
maybe you already mentioned, but i was wondering what is the rider progression rate in your save?
Edited by pcm2009fan on 01-07-2012 00:03
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