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[EPIC] Omega Pharma - Quick Step | Unlucky in Spain, good in Netherlands
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| Shonak |
Posted on 23-01-2014 10:36
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You do know that G-W and Paris - Roubaix are two utterly different races? There will be probably 3-4 riders from OPQ in Top 10.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| The Rider |
Posted on 23-01-2014 10:38
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Shonak wrote:
You do know that G-W and Paris - Roubaix are two utterly different races? There will be probably 3-4 riders from OPQ in Top 10.
I was just about to say the same.
I reckon you could run this race 50 times and 49 times you would get multiple OPQ men in the top 10, maybe 50/50.  |
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| kubys |
Posted on 23-01-2014 10:38
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Shonak wrote:
You do know that G-W and Paris - Roubaix are two utterly different races? There will be probably 3-4 riders from OPQ in Top 10.
Of course I do... But we are weak, really weak (mindgames approved by Jose Mourinho)
Edited by kubys on 23-01-2014 10:39
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| welker3257 |
Posted on 01-02-2014 19:38
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Hey guys, Jaxton here. Just finished up on riding the American TT Championships. I think I did solid, finishing 8th. I look forward to seeing my full schedule for part 2. Definitely excited for the Giro.
- Jaxton McNutt
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| kubys |
Posted on 05-02-2014 11:17
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welker3257 wrote:
Hey guys, Jaxton here. Just finished up on riding the American TT Championships. I think I did solid, finishing 8th. I look forward to seeing my full schedule for part 2. Definitely excited for the Giro.
- Jaxton McNutt
Nice performance there.
But we decided your calendar for this part of season. It consist of Scheldeprijs and Giro, while we'll reel on you more in next part.
Adam Wróbel
Sports Director
Omega Pharma - Quick Step
Edited by kubys on 05-02-2014 14:24
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 05-02-2014 13:36
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Here's your schedule for part 2:
Ronde van Vlaanderen
Pais Vasco
Paris-Roubaix
Amstel Gold Race
La Fleche Wallone
Liege-Bastogne-Liege
Tour de Romandie
Giro d'Italia
Criterium du Dauphine
Tour de Suisse
Scheldeprijs
Brabantse
California
Belgie
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| kubys |
Posted on 05-02-2014 14:28
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Here are our EPIC riders schedules.
 Niels de Vries is going for gaining experience in  Tour de Romandie,  Tour of California and  Criterium du Dauphine. While he's rather inactive, it was hard for us to make his schedule.
Jaxton McNutt as mentioned is going to  Scheldeprijs and  Giro d'Italia.
Both have 22 days for this part of season
Adam Wróbel
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Omega Pharma - Quick Step
Edited by kubys on 24-02-2014 10:11
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| kubys |
Posted on 06-02-2014 17:54
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Jaxton McNutt - 60 -> 61 ACC
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| welker3257 |
Posted on 06-02-2014 18:57
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I will do my best in the Giro 
A little sad to see no P-R or RVV, but I'm still young and I can ride them later in my career
-Jaxton McNutt
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| kubys |
Posted on 07-02-2014 06:14
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welker3257 wrote:
I will do my best in the Giro
A little sad to see no P-R or RVV, but I'm still young and I can ride them later in my career
-Jaxton McNutt
Hi Jaxton,
We understand your disappointment, but don't worry. As we said, you'll have your time to shine. At moment we count with you for ENECO, Vattenfall, both canadian races. Participation in Poland, Beijing, ToB will depend on you.
Adam Wróbel
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| welker3257 |
Posted on 22-02-2014 19:26
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Jaxton McNutt Post Scheldeprijs Blog
There was some terrible weather, lots of rain and it was much colder than I'm used to in April. I did my turn early, and pulled off at around 10 km to go.
At this point Mark was in perfect position, but Greipel was on a different level today, and he had to settle with second place. I'm going on a month long training camp now before the Giro. You see guys in Italy.
- Jaxton McNutt
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| kubys |
Posted on 24-02-2014 10:10
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Things aren't going well at all
As you all know, since the times of Mapei, the succes of our season always depended on cobbled classics. As cobble powerhous we were expecting to show our best and beat the opposition, but somehow all went the wrong way.
In Ronde, we were controlling situation most of the time but we awfully failed on chasing of Greg van Avermaet, who were awesome and even Tommeke wasn't able to catch him.
Tommeke was so close...
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Greg Van Avermaet | BMC Racing Team | 7h07'48 | | 2 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 49 | | 3 | Peter Sagan | Cannondale Pro Cycling | + 4'04 | | 4 | Peter Pal | FDJ | + 5'05 | | 5 | Fabian Cancellara | RadioShack - Leopard | s.t. | | 6 | Sep Vanmarcke | Belkin Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 7 | Thabo Jango Sithembile | Sky Procycling | s.t. | | 8 | Sébastien Turgot | Team Europcar | s.t. | | 9 | Sylvain Chavanel | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 10 | Filippo Pozzato | Lampre - Merida | + 6'17 |
While Pais Vasco was in progress part of our squad lined up in Belgium for Scheldeprijs. Because of having Mark Cavendish in the team, we were top favourites for the win. And we have proved it... Well without one single detail, that Mark finished second, despite awesome placing for the final sprint.
Too bad for us, Greipel won
| 1 | André Greipel | Lotto Belisol | 4h30'15 | | 2 | Mark Cavendish | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | Elia Viviani | Cannondale Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 4 | Matthew Goss | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 5 | Marcel Kittel | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | 6 | Fabian Brookes | Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox | s.t. | | 7 | Willem Brouwer | Belkin Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 8 | Gerald Ciolek | MTN - Qhubeka | s.t. | | 9 | Mark Renshaw | Belkin Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 10 | Jürgen Roelandts | Lotto Belisol | s.t. |
And here we go, Queen of the classics, the awesome Paris-Roubaix. Our best squad here, on list it looks like, it will be Cancellara against us. Because we set our goal probably too low, we were confident of achieving it. But it wouldn't be us, if things didn't went in the wrong way. We were succesful of chasing Cancellara, but when Vanmarkce attacked we were completely exhausted, even Tom. In th end Tom was so depressed, that he lost the sprint for second place with Langeveld.
Boonen losing with Langeveld, enough said...
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | | 1 | Sep Vanmarcke | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | 6h02'17 | | 2 | Sebastian Langeveld | Orica - GreenEdge | s.t. | | 3 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Greg Van Avermaet | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 5 | Jürgen Roelandts | Lotto Belisol | s.t. | | 6 | Erik McDermott | Team Saxo - Tinkoff | s.t. | | 7 | Peter Pal | FDJ.fr | + 1'04 | | 8 | Lars Boom | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | + 1'31 | | 9 | Johan Vansummeren | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | 10 | Damien Gaudin | Team Europcar | s.t. |
Edited by kubys on 24-02-2014 11:41
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 24-02-2014 11:31
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Podiums right! Such a failure to podium all the big races, it's just so devastatingly bad that perhaps the whole team should quit out of shame.
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| kubys |
Posted on 24-02-2014 11:44
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That's right, if the season will continue in that way, the team will be disbanded and sent to Siberia.
Edited by kubys on 24-02-2014 11:44
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| Shonak |
Posted on 24-02-2014 11:49
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Tell Kwiatkowski, Stybar and Boonen that I'll be waiting with some warm coats and coffee in Siberia, ready to take them with me to NetApp - Endura HQ.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 24-02-2014 11:50
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kubys wrote:
That's right, if the season will continue in that way, the team will be disbanded and sent to Siberia.
Dibs on Chavanel
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 24-02-2014 12:01
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kubys wrote:
Shonak wrote:
You do know that G-W and Paris - Roubaix are two utterly different races? There will be probably 3-4 riders from OPQ in Top 10.
Of course I do... But we are weak, really weak (mindgames approved by Jose Mourinho)
haha 
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 22-04-2014 17:54
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Kaixo Omega Pharma - QuickStep!
You may have heard of the Basque Country Championship Series, which is a race series for Basque riders.
For the next edition we have decided to invite a few other riders, who did well in Vuelta al PaÃs Vasco.
Michal Kwiatkowski looked like he enjoyed his trip to our country, so we would love to invite him back for a one-off. Since it wouldn't be fair to have him join alone he is welcome to bring either his countryman Golas or one of the participating Flemish riders (Serry, De Weert, Pauwels & Vermote) of his/your own choice.
If they want to participate and you will allow them to do so please respond either in the Euskaltel - Euskadi HQ of by PM.
We hope to see them back in Euskal Herria!
~ Alaon Etxeberdea
Manager of Euskaltel - Euskadi
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 22-07-2014 13:46
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Your races for part 3:
Tour
San Sebastian
Pologne
Eneco
Vuelta
Vattenfall
Plouay
Quebec
Montreal
Lombardia
Beijing
Qinghai
Tour de Wallonie
Danmark
Dutch Food Valley
Paris-Bruxelles
GP Wallonie
Hainan
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 02-11-2014 02:01
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Hi,
I would just like to make OPQS management aware of Vaconsoleil's interest in Stybar.
Thanks,
"What done is, is one." - Benji Naesen
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