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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 21-05-2013 20:01
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The Rider: I thought that too. Well, apperantly. And, it's PCM. The place where almost everything can happen in the world of cycling.  Yeah, hope he will do there well.
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 22-05-2013 18:54
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Tour of Qatar – Stage 6
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The last stage of this year’s Tour of Qatar. It’s not a very long stage. At the start, we tried to attack. But the peloton was chasing the breakaway, so we decided to let our rider get back in the peloton. After he did that, the peloton stopped chasing the breakaway. It was really annoying. There were other riders who attacked, so we got a breakaway with 18 man. Saur didn’t want that so they got the breakaway back at 30 kilometre before the finish.
With around ten kilometres to go, our best sprinter Ian Watson fell. A lot of riders fell to, because Watson was at the front of the peloton. The peloton broke in two parts.
The first part was sprinting for the win. Our riders were at the front but they lost too much energy by staying there, so they fell back in the sprint. It was leader Julien Simon who took his third stage in a row! And because there were a lot of riders involved by the crash of Watson, we took a lot of places in the general classification. Rodrigues was our best rider; he finished at a 17th place in the general classification, which is not bad for us!
Today's winner and winner of the final classification
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| atlanta |
Posted on 23-05-2013 00:29
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At least you tryed 17th is not bad at all really with your team in Qatar, will you sign more young talents in future or maybe an experianced leader to help bring the team more together and experiance.
Edited by atlanta on 23-05-2013 00:30
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 23-05-2013 19:44
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atlanta: Good question! And it's still a question which I ask to myself; what will I do at the end of the season? Well, of course there are coming some new talents, because I want to introduce a few talents every year. We also have six riders of who the contracts will end, and we'll see if we renew them all (some riders definately have no potential). About the experienced leader; I'll see what the stats of my riders are at the end of the season. And if I think there's no leader needed, then I won't contract one.
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 23-05-2013 20:49
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Tour du Haut Var – Stage 1
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Today was the first of the two stages of the Tour du Haut Var. We wanted to attack so we did; we got Watson into a breakaway of two. He won the first mountain sprint, but lost the second one.
So it had to happen in the third mountain sprint. We really wanted the mountain jersey, and Watson did a great job: he won the third mountain sprint! Tomorrow he’ll wear the mountain jersey, which is a great effort to us. Meanwhile, all our riders lost the connection to the peloton. Watson also won the first intermediate sprint, but when he got caught, he had to let the group go.
Zabriskie won the sprint in front of his teammate Thomas Dekker. Garmin has a really strong team over here so it’s looking like they will dominate the second stage too.
Watson finished as our best rider today, around the 40th place. But we have the mountain jersey, and we’ll try to keep that jersey tomorrow. We got a big chance to win this jersey!
Today's winner
Edited by MrUfo87 on 24-05-2013 20:09
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 24-05-2013 09:01
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Great to see Watson in the Mountains Jersey  |
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 24-05-2013 15:00
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sutty68: Yeah, we hope to win the mountain jersey in the second stage. 
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 24-05-2013 15:04
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The team can keep the jersey, I'm certain of that
I would try and sign a leader though, a young existing guy can suffice as well.
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| tmr96 |
Posted on 24-05-2013 19:22
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Hopefully wins he the mountain jersey! He's at the halve!
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 24-05-2013 19:52
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Jesleyh: Well, you'll see soon. Yeah, that's possible (Wilco Kelderman? ) but I'll see in the future. If these riders are good enough I don't think I'll contract one, but more news about that in the future. It's only March.
tmr96: Well, I hope too.
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 24-05-2013 19:53
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MrUfo87 wrote:
Jesleyh: Well, you'll see soon. Yeah, that's possible (Wilco Kelderman? ) but I'll see in the future. If these riders are good enough I don't think I'll contract one, but more news about that in the future. It's only March.
Wasn't pointing at Kelderman, he's too good for the CT
But you're right, season just started
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 24-05-2013 20:07
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Tour du Haut Var – Stage 2
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The second and already last stage of the Tour du Haut Var. Our main goal was to win the mountain jersey, so we sent Watson into the breakaway.
This is a picture of the start. As you can see, Watson is smiling and seems to be very happy to ride with the mountain jersey today.
But back to the race. Watson was in a breakaway of eighteen riders. He won the first mountain sprint, but at the second one Beltran took it in the last few metres in front of Watson. At the third mountain sprint Watson took a third place.
Watson really wanted to win the mountain jersey, so he decided to take the lead on the next climb. He rode around seven kilometres on the head of the breakaway, just to be sure that he’ll be at the front. He won the last mountain sprint and his mountain jersey was save! After that, the breakaway got caught and the best riders made the last part of the stage.
But not only the best riders made it; also our man Rodrigues. He fell when he was taking water bottles, but fortunately he had no injuries.
Today it was not the stage of Garmin, but the stage of Michael Albasini. He won the stage, and the general classification!
And we have finally got a price; the mountain jersey of the Tour du Haut Var! Maybe it’s not a very big price, but we are also not a very big team. We hope to continue this in the next races.
Today's winner and winner of the final classification
Edited by MrUfo87 on 25-05-2013 16:38
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 24-05-2013 20:14
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Yay, great that he managed to win it!
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| baggieboys32 |
Posted on 24-05-2013 20:34
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Nice win for the team, hopefully it gives them the boost they need to take some more wins!
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 24-05-2013 22:06
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Jesleyh: By a small number of points (34).
baggieboys32: Yep, I hope too. But I think that this result will motivate the other riders too, because they see that it is possible to get a good result. And this also shows that Watson could be a great cyclist in the future.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 25-05-2013 00:33
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Nice to see Watson win the Mountains prize |
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| tmr96 |
Posted on 25-05-2013 15:23
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Great to see that you've win you're first classification!
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 25-05-2013 16:36
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sutty68: Hopefully he'll take some more this season.
tmr96: Now waiting for our first (stage)win.
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| tmr96 |
Posted on 25-05-2013 17:19
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@MrUfo87: Hopefully comes it soon
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| tmr96 |
Posted on 25-05-2013 17:20
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@MrUfo87: Hopefully comes it soon
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