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AG2R La Mondiale - 2010
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| fightinchicken26 |
Posted on 28-07-2010 11:47
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AG2R LA MONDIALE
AG2R is set to kick off the 2010 season. The squad has a lot of talent but needs the results to go with this. Our sponsors have given the team the following goals:
- Finish in the top 3: 4 Jours de Dunkerque
- Finish in the top 10: Giro d'Italia
- Finish in the top 5: Criterium du Dauphine
- Stage win(s): Tour de France
- Stage win(s): Vuelta a Espana
Meet our leaders:
Vladimir Efimkin
Rinaldo Nocentini
Lloyd Mondory
Here is the rest of our squad:
Tadej Valjavec has been suspended until 2011 for obvious reasons. He will be released after pending litigation. Nicolas Roche is one of our best climbers at the age of 25 and will certainly be used to fight for our season goals. We also have some experienced climbers in men like Cyril Dessel and John Gadret. We do not really have any riders for the cobbles, though Kristof Goddaert shows potential.
Our first race of the year will be the Down Under Classic before the start of the Tour Down Under in mid-January.
This story uses asmod's 2010 DB, which can be found here: https://pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread....d_id=12765. Now that it has been updated after the 2010 Tour, I expect that we will see realistic results throughout the year. |
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| misterxxt |
Posted on 28-07-2010 12:47
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Succes and thanks for playing with our database and the updated cdb is a gift for your N. Roche  |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 28-07-2010 12:56
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Good luck with the story! 
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| asmod |
Posted on 28-07-2010 13:03
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thanks for using our pack. |
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| fightinchicken26 |
Posted on 29-07-2010 07:55
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misterxxt wrote:
Succes and thanks for playing with our database and the updated cdb is a gift for your N. Roche
asmod wrote:
thanks for using our pack.
Thank you guys for making it; it is excellent.
Pellizotti2 wrote:
Good luck with the story!
Thank you. |
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| fightinchicken26 |
Posted on 29-07-2010 08:06
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The first national championships of the year are over. AG2R did not attend since it has no riders from either country. Here are the results:
Australian ITT: Ben Day
New Zealand ITT: Hayden Roulston
Australian RR: Rory Sutherland
New Zealand RR: Julian Dean
They will be able to carry their nations' colors for the rest of the year. |
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| fightinchicken26 |
Posted on 29-07-2010 09:38
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Down Under Classic
The Down Under Classic is a good warmup for the Tour Down Under. Because the latter is the first race to give out UPT points, the winner should hold the overall lead for almost two months.
I doubt we will see a breakaway today. The race is too short and the sprinters' teams will seek to keep the field together. Because of this, I did not pay much attention to the breakaway at about the 15KM mark. AG2R and Astana worked together to reel in the breakaway and caught almost everyone as they approached the finish.
The sprint is off! Garmin has a bunch of riders at the front of the field to set up Tyler Farrar. All the main sprinters have lined up behind him.
With about a kilometer to go, Gerald Ciolek jumps out from behind Farrar. It appear he is clear. But wait...
Rabobank's Kai Reus has held out from the break. He is not a sprinter, though, so it will be a close finish at the line.
Had the race lasted another 100 meters, Ciolek would certainly have won. However, Reus holds on to pull off the upset!
| 1 | Kai Reus | Rabobank | 1h04'22 | | 2 | Gerald Ciolek | Team Milram | s.t. | | 3 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 4 | André Greipel | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 5 | Julian Dean | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 6 | Allan Davis | Astana | s.t. | | 7 | Jurgen Van Goolen | Omega Pharma - Lotto | s.t. | | 8 | Gert Steegmans | Team Radioshack | s.t. | | 9 | Sandy Casar | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 10 | Daniele Righi | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 15 | Kristof Goddaert | AG2R - La Mondiale | s.t. | | 71 | Guillaume Bonnafond | AG2R - La Mondiale | s.t. | | 73 | Maxime Bouet | AG2R - La Mondiale | s.t. | | 75 | Julien Berard | AG2R - La Mondiale | s.t. | | 76 | Julien Loubet | AG2R - La Mondiale | s.t. | | 79 | Ben Gastauer | AG2R - La Mondiale | s.t. | | 81 | Blel Kadri | AG2R - La Mondiale | s.t. | | 92 | Nicolas Rousseau | AG2R - La Mondiale | + 1'31 |
Edited by fightinchicken26 on 29-07-2010 09:47
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| misterxxt |
Posted on 29-07-2010 11:48
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Nice! Kai Reus did it excellent after all those years of misery; he opens the season with a win! |
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| fightinchicken26 |
Posted on 30-07-2010 15:15
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Tour Down Under - Stage 1
AG2R has no major plans for this race. I am saving our best sprinters for later, and there is no real climbing to this race. We may try to get into a couple of breakaways, but I doubt they will last on a short tour made up entirely of flat stages.
The favorites include Tyler Farrar and Gerald Ciolek, who fought hard to (almost) win the Down Under Classic, as well as a home-country rider in Allan Davis.
A breakaway of 11 riders reaches a maximum lead of about five minutes before halfway, but Omega Pharma-Lotto, Astana, and Garmin slowly chew away at it until they are all caught within the final 20 kilometers.
Although Andre Greipel supposedly came into this race as HTC's leader, he pulls teammate (and Australian) Matthew Goss to the front as the end nears. Behind him are Gerald Ciolek, Tyler Farrar, Allan Davis, and Baden Cooke, respectively.
As Goss passes Greipel, Ciolek emerges to their right. At that same moment, Farrar jumps out to the left.
No one can catch Farrar, so he will wear the leader's jersey tomorrow! Davis manages to outsprint Ciolek for second.
| 1 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Transitions | 3h19'15 | | 2 | Allan Davis | Astana | s.t. | | 3 | Gerald Ciolek | Team Milram | s.t. | | 4 | Matthew Goss | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 5 | Nikolai Trussov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 6 | Baden Cooke | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 7 | Francesco Gavazzi | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 8 | Wes Sulzberger | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 9 | Gert Steegmans | Team Radioshack | s.t. | | 10 | Leigh Howard | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. |
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| fightinchicken26 |
Posted on 30-07-2010 16:11
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Tour Down Under - Stage 2
Sergio Paulinho attacks from within the breakaway group early on as the peloton starts gaining ground. Sergio will spend most of the day alone.
A couple of riders hit the ground with about 40 kilometers to go, including Philippe Gilbert. Most of his team slows to help him pace his way back up to the field, but it appears their race is ruined.
Three sprint trains develop. Nikolay Trussov is directly in front of Farrar in the leader's jersey on the left line. Ciolek is second in the middle one behind a teammate. The Haedo brothers are 1-2 in the line to the right.
Ciolek leads with 1KM to go. Farrar is gaining on him, but he still has to pass two more riders.
Ciolek wins Stage 2 in front of Farrar and Trussov!
Stage 2 Results
| 1 | Gerald Ciolek | Team Milram | 3h19'10 | | 2 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Transitions | s.t. | | 3 | Nikolai Trussov | Team Katusha | s.t. | | 4 | Gert Steegmans | Team Radioshack | s.t. | | 5 | Allan Davis | Astana | s.t. | | 6 | Matthew Goss | Team HTC - Columbia | s.t. | | 7 | Baden Cooke | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 8 | Sebastian Haedo | Team Saxo Bank | s.t. | | 9 | Assan Bazayev | Astana | s.t. | | 10 | Francesco Gavazzi | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. |
GC Standings
| 1 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin - Transitions | 6h38'09 | | 2 | Gerald Ciolek | Team Milram | + 2 | | 3 | Allan Davis | Astana | + 10 | | 4 | Pablo Urtasun | Euskaltel - Euskaldi | + 11 | | 5 | Nikolai Trussov | Team Katusha | + 12 | | 6 | Wes Sulzberger | Française des Jeux | s.t. | | 7 | Tom Stamsnijder | Rabobank | s.t. | | 8 | Marco Bandiera | Team Katusha | + 13 | | 9 | Daniele Righi | Lampre - Farnese Vini | s.t. | | 10 | Peter Wrölich | Team Milram | + 14 |
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| misterxxt |
Posted on 30-07-2010 17:03
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Nice story, although there is no news of Ag2r riders . Maybe you could have add the lineup for Tour Down Under ... so we know which riders are trying to get some form. And which difficulty level you are playing? grtz |
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