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Rui Costa ! The Rise of a Champion
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| afonso |
Posted on 04-09-2012 20:29
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Hi everybody! It's me, Rui Costa, from Movistar Team! After getting some good results in 2011 my team promoted me as one of the team leaders for 2012!
This is great news! They told me to keep training hard and to be prepared to lead the team in Giro d'Italia and to help Alejandro Valverde to win La Vuelta.
So, I sitted down with the team staff and we've decided to race only in Giro del Trentino before Giro d'Italia. Do you think I should participate in more races before Giro? They said to me that is extremely important to get a top-5 and a stage win at Giro and that is necessary to be at top condicion there.
After Giro, I will try to get a decent result at Dauphine Libere and then I'll rest and plan the rest of the season in order to be fit at Vuelta. But I also want to make sure I have some strenght left to represent Portugal the best as I can in the World Championships.
Is that for now, I'll keep you all updated! Thank you,
Rui Costa
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Posted on 04-09-2012 20:41
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First of all, good luck with this story
I would also ride the tour de romandie before the Giro, but that's just my opinion
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| Jeremy |
Posted on 04-09-2012 20:52
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Hi! I think you definitely should do the April Classics (AGR, FW and LBL). After all, we know for a fact you can get a top 20 result and perhaps even help Alejandro  |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 04-09-2012 23:14
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I think you should ride more than just the Trentino prior to the Giro 
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| afonso |
Posted on 04-09-2012 23:28
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January:
Nothing much to do this month. After the Christmas and New Year celebrations, I needed to lose some weight, so my season begun in mental and feeding terms. After spending those holly times with my family and friends I've become focused 100% in the 2012 cycling season. Re-started going to the gym, sometimes rode my bike, but nothing to hard, waiting for the next few months where I'll need to practice hard, now it's just soft and easy. I've also talked to the staff and it's confirmed that I will also ride in Tour of Romandie. But don't expect me to have a good result there, a top-20 would be good.
In the end of the month I've watched on TV my mates who rode in Tour Down Under and had great results! Good work and congratulations! Unlucky we didn't get 1st place! Here are the final results of the 1st World Tour race of the year:
Next month the work will be harder. Till then, have a good time! Thank you for following me,
Rui Costa
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 04-09-2012 23:30
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The Team has had a Great start to the season |
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| afonso |
Posted on 04-09-2012 23:40
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sutty68 wrote:
The Team has had a Great start to the season
Indeed! Hope this could be an encouragement to all of our team. We are all motivated and know that hard work pays off! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 04-09-2012 23:45
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afonso wrote:
sutty68 wrote:
The Team has had a Great start to the season
Indeed! Hope this could be an encouragement to all of our team. We are all motivated and know that hard work pays off!
Well let's hope that Rui gets off to a flyer in his first race |
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| afonso |
Posted on 04-09-2012 23:51
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February:
This gotta be the worst month of the year! My legs hurted so bad in the first days of real training! My coach really steped up this year with the trainings. But you gotta do what you gotta and this is the life that I've chosen and the life that I love. It's really hard in the first days of practices but it gets better and now I'm felling good and happy. Next month will not be easy as I'll continue the hard work to be at 100% at Giro.
I'll keep you updated!
Rui Costa
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| Jeremy |
Posted on 05-09-2012 00:14
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What? You missed the Tour of Algarve? Shame on you Rui! That's the portuguese top event... |
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| afonso |
Posted on 05-09-2012 00:16
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March:
This month I've went to Italy where I've recognized some of the stages I'll race in Giro and also went to Ajaccio, France, where I've climbed some hard mountains.
Giro is 1 month and some days away from now and I'm becoming to feel a little anxious. But I guess it's normal. I'm felling good and excited since April is the month I'll start racing.
My legs are working good and I really have great expectacions from me. Hope I don't disappoint myself and the people who follow me!
Almost forgot to mention Kyrienka, who finished 7th in Paris-Nice, which was won by Voeckler, and to Karpets who finished 6th in Tirreno, where Luis Leon Sanchez got the 1st place.
I'll keep training hard and improving my mountain habilities. I will also report Giro del Trentino here so keep in touch!
To all of you, thanks for following me,
Rui Costa
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| afonso |
Posted on 05-09-2012 00:30
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Giro del Trentino:
Here it is! My first race of the year! Felling excited but at the same time a little nervous, because I don't know how my legs will be. Don't expect me to have a good result here, I'm just here to prepare Giro d'Italia.
Team told us that Karpets is felling good and that he can get a top-3 here. If he correspond to the expectations I'll try to help him, if not, I'll just try to finish as high placed as I can.
Rui Costa
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| afonso |
Posted on 05-09-2012 00:31
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Jeremy wrote:
What? You missed the Tour of Algarve? Shame on you Rui! That's the portuguese top event...
The organization tried to conviced me to go there! I've went there one stage, but not raced, only gave some authografs to my fans around there, had a really nice time!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 05-09-2012 02:32
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Good Luck in Trentino, lets hope all that training has paid off |
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Posted on 05-09-2012 02:40
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Good luck with this
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| afonso |
Posted on 05-09-2012 11:26
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Stage 1:
A short team time trial were we have condicions to win it.
We were the last team to go to the road, so we had time to see the other teams. We know that Scarponi is the biggest thread for de GC, and we were happy to see that Lampre has done an horrible time.
And then our time has come! We were the last but lots of teams were racing at the same time that we did. Here's a picture of me leading my teamates!
We've done a good time, but not enough to be the fastest! BMC were, and Pinotti will be the leader tomorrow. Nothing to worry too much.
My legs worked fine but I'm a little tired. Now I have to rest since tomorrow it will be a hard day!
Here is the complete classification of this stage:
1 Marco Pinotti BMC Racing Team 18'55
2 Stephen Cummings BMC Racing Team s.t.
3 Amaël Moinard BMC Racing Team s.t.
4 Mauro Santambrogio BMC Racing Team s.t.
5 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team s.t.
6 Steve Morabito BMC Racing Team s.t.
7 Danilo Wyss BMC Racing Team s.t.
8 Ivan Santaromita BMC Racing Team s.t.
9 Beñat Intxausti Movistar Team + 17
10 Rui Costa Movistar Team s.t.
Spoiler 11 Vasil Kiryienka Movistar Team s.t.
12 Branislau Samoilau Movistar Team s.t.
13 Rubén Plaza Movistar Team s.t.
14 David Arroyo Movistar Team s.t.
15 José Herrada Lopez Movistar Team s.t.
16 Vladimir Karpets Movistar Team s.t.
17 Andreas Dietziker Team NetApp s.t.
18 Matthias Brandle Team NetApp s.t.
19 Marcel Wyss Team NetApp s.t.
20 André Schulze Team NetApp s.t.
21 Jan Barta Team NetApp s.t.
22 Cesare Benedetti Team NetApp s.t.
23 Timon Seubert Team NetApp s.t.
24 Reto Hollenstein Team NetApp + 30
25 Jens Voigt RadioShack Nissan Trek + 36
26 Linus Gerdemann RadioShack Nissan Trek s.t.
27 Jakob Fuglsang RadioShack Nissan Trek s.t.
28 Thomas Rohregger RadioShack Nissan Trek s.t.
29 Jan Bakelants RadioShack Nissan Trek s.t.
30 Laurent Didier RadioShack Nissan Trek s.t.
31 Matthew Busche RadioShack Nissan Trek s.t.
32 George Bennett RadioShack Nissan Trek s.t.
33 Gustav Larsson Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team s.t.
34 Marco Marcato Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team s.t.
35 Marcello Pavarin Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team s.t.
36 Thomas De Gendt Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team s.t.
37 Stefan Denifl Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team s.t.
38 Pim Ligthart Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team s.t.
39 Nikita Novikov Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team s.t.
40 Sergey Lagutin Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team + 42
41 Edward King Liquigas - Cannondale + 51
42 Maciej Bodnar Liquigas - Cannondale s.t.
43 Ivan Basso Liquigas - Cannondale s.t.
44 Eros Capecchi Liquigas - Cannondale s.t.
45 Mauro Da Dalto Liquigas - Cannondale s.t.
46 Timothy Duggan Liquigas - Cannondale s.t.
47 Dominik Nerz Liquigas - Cannondale s.t.
48 Stefano Agostini Liquigas - Cannondale s.t.
49 Fabio Duarte Colombia Coldeportes + 57
50 Luis Laverde Colombia Coldeportes s.t.
51 Darwin Atapuma Colombia Coldeportes s.t.
52 Dalivier Ospina Colombia Coldeportes s.t.
53 Esteban Cháves Colombia Coldeportes s.t.
54 Victor Hugo Peña Colombia Coldeportes s.t.
55 Michael Rodriguez Galindo Colombia Coldeportes s.t.
56 Juan Pablo Suarez Colombia Coldeportes s.t.
57 Ben Day UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team s.t.
58 Philip Deignan UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team s.t.
59 Marc De Maar UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team s.t.
60 Rory Sutherland UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team s.t.
61 Adrian Hegyvari UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team s.t.
62 Davide Frattini UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team s.t.
63 Jay Thomson UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team s.t.
64 Jason McCartney UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team + 59
65 Jérôme Pineau Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team + 1'02
66 Martin Velits Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team s.t.
67 Bert Grabsch Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team s.t.
68 Michal Golas Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team s.t.
69 Nikolas Maes Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team s.t.
70 Gert Steegmans Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team s.t.
71 Andrew Fenn Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team s.t.
72 Matteo Trentin Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team s.t.
73 Luca Paolini Katusha Team + 1'05
74 Alberto Losada Katusha Team s.t.
75 Joan Horrach Katusha Team s.t.
76 Pavel Brutt Katusha Team s.t.
77 Xavier Florencio Katusha Team s.t.
78 Alexander Kristoff Katusha Team s.t.
79 Petr Ignatenko Katusha Team s.t.
80 Vladimir Gusev Katusha Team s.t.
81 Simon Geschke Team Argos - Shimano s.t.
82 Yann Huguet Team Argos - Shimano s.t.
83 Johannes Fröhlinger Team Argos - Shimano s.t.
84 Alexandre Geniez Team Argos - Shimano s.t.
85 Thomas Damuseau Team Argos - Shimano s.t.
86 Ronan Van Zandbeek Team Argos - Shimano s.t.
87 Tobias Ludvigsson Team Argos - Shimano s.t.
88 Dominic Klemme Team Argos - Shimano + 1'12
89 Mickael Buffaz Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne + 1'18
90 Leonardo Duque Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne s.t.
91 Aleksejs Saramotins Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne s.t.
92 Arnaud Labbe Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne s.t.
93 Samuel Dumoulin Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne s.t.
94 Yoann Bagot Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne s.t.
95 Nicolas Edet Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne s.t.
96 Rudy Molard Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne s.t.
97 Julien Bérard Ag2r La Mondiale s.t.
98 Manuel Belletti Ag2r La Mondiale s.t.
99 Mikael Chérel Ag2r La Mondiale s.t.
100 Hubert Dupont Ag2r La Mondiale s.t.
101 Boris Shpilevsky Ag2r La Mondiale s.t.
102 Christophe Riblon Ag2r La Mondiale s.t.
103 Blel Kadri Ag2r La Mondiale s.t.
104 Jean-Christophe Péraud Ag2r La Mondiale s.t.
105 Andriy Grivko Astana Pro Team s.t.
106 Paolo Tiralongo Astana Pro Team s.t.
107 Tanel Kangert Astana Pro Team s.t.
108 Robert Kiserlovski Astana Pro Team s.t.
109 Alexandre Vinokourov Astana Pro Team s.t.
110 Egor Silin Astana Pro Team s.t.
111 Andrey Kashechkin Astana Pro Team s.t.
112 Andrey Zeits Astana Pro Team + 1'27
113 Francesco Failli Farnese Vini Selle Italia + 1'31
114 Thomas Bertolini Farnese Vini Selle Italia s.t.
115 Diego Caccia Farnese Vini Selle Italia s.t.
116 Oscar Gatto Farnese Vini Selle Italia s.t.
117 Alfredo Balloni Farnese Vini Selle Italia s.t.
118 Roberto De Patre Farnese Vini Selle Italia s.t.
119 Elia Favilli Farnese Vini Selle Italia s.t.
120 Luca Ascani Farnese Vini Selle Italia s.t.
121 Julien El Fares Team Type 1 - Sanofi + 1'34
122 Jure Kocjan Team Type 1 - Sanofi s.t.
123 William Dugan Team Type 1 - Sanofi s.t.
124 Alessandro Bazzana Team Type 1 - Sanofi s.t.
125 Kiel Reijnen Team Type 1 - Sanofi s.t.
126 Julien Antomarchi Team Type 1 - Sanofi s.t.
127 Filippo Fortin Team Type 1 - Sanofi s.t.
128 Georg Preidler Team Type 1 - Sanofi s.t.
129 Claudio Corioni Acqua & Sapone s.t.
130 Francesco Di Paolo Acqua & Sapone s.t.
131 Ruggero Marzoli Acqua & Sapone s.t.
132 Francesco Ginanni Acqua & Sapone s.t.
133 Simone Masciarelli Acqua & Sapone s.t.
134 Paolo Ciavatta Acqua & Sapone s.t.
135 Alessandro Proni Acqua & Sapone s.t.
136 Alessandro Donati Acqua & Sapone + 1'41
137 Filippo Savini Colnago - CSF Inox + 1'44
138 Gianluca Brambilla Colnago - CSF Inox s.t.
139 Stefano Pirazzi Colnago - CSF Inox s.t.
140 Paolo Locatelli Colnago - CSF Inox s.t.
141 Angelo Pagani Colnago - CSF Inox s.t.
142 Sonny Colbrelli Colnago - CSF Inox s.t.
143 Stefano Locatelli Colnago - CSF Inox s.t.
144 Marco Coledan Colnago - CSF Inox s.t.
145 Daniele Pietropolli Lampre - ISD + 1'47
146 Daniele Righi Lampre - ISD s.t.
147 Matteo Bono Lampre - ISD s.t.
148 Marco Marzano Lampre - ISD s.t.
149 Michele Scarponi Lampre - ISD s.t.
150 Diego Ulissi Lampre - ISD s.t.
151 Massimo Graziato Lampre - ISD s.t.
152 Winner Andrew Anacona Lampre - ISD s.t.
153 Fabio Felline Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela s.t.
154 Salvatore Mancuso Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela s.t.
155 Emanuele Sella Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela s.t.
156 Antonino Casimiro Parrinello Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela s.t.
157 Miguel Angel Rubiano Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela s.t.
158 Tomas Aurelio Gil Martinez Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela s.t.
159 Francisco Javier Moreno Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela s.t.
160 José Serpa Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela + 1'53
161 Craig Lewis Champion System Pro Cycling Team + 1'54
162 Cameron Wurf Champion System Pro Cycling Team s.t.
163 Christopher Butler Champion System Pro Cycling Team s.t.
164 Steven Wong Champion System Pro Cycling Team s.t.
165 Kun Jiang Champion System Pro Cycling Team s.t.
166 Biao Liu Champion System Pro Cycling Team s.t.
167 Anuar Manan Champion System Pro Cycling Team s.t.
168 Gang Xu Champion System Pro Cycling Team s.t.
169 Dirk Bellemakers Landbouwkrediet - Euphony s.t.
170 Kevin Peeters Landbouwkrediet - Euphony s.t.
171 Kurt Hovelynck Landbouwkrediet - Euphony s.t.
172 Reinier Honig Landbouwkrediet - Euphony s.t.
173 Baptiste Planckaert Landbouwkrediet - Euphony s.t.
174 Jonathan Breyne Landbouwkrediet - Euphony s.t.
175 Kevin Claeys Landbouwkrediet - Euphony s.t.
176 Vincent Baestens Landbouwkrediet - Euphony s.t.
177 Paolo Bailetti Utensilnord Named s.t.
178 Patxi Vila Utensilnord Named s.t.
179 Fabio Piscopiello Utensilnord Named s.t.
180 Federico Rocchetti Utensilnord Named s.t.
181 Matteo Fedi Utensilnord Named s.t.
182 Gabriele Bosisio Utensilnord Named s.t.
183 Cristiano Monguzzi Utensilnord Named s.t.
184 John-Lee Augustyn Utensilnord Named + 2'03
185 Nicola Dal Santo Miche - Guerciotti + 2'10
186 Alessandro Malaguti Miche - Guerciotti s.t.
187 Enrico Franzoi Miche - Guerciotti s.t.
188 Cristiano Fumagalli Miche - Guerciotti s.t.
189 Gianluca Randazzo Miche - Guerciotti s.t.
190 Davide Rebellin Miche - Guerciotti s.t.
191 Julian Arredondo Team Nippo s.t.
192 Henry Frusto Team Nippo s.t.
193 Vincenzo Garofalo Team Nippo s.t.
194 Tomohiro Hayakawa Team Nippo s.t.
195 Junya Sano Team Nippo s.t.
196 Fortunato Baliani Team Nippo + 2'13
Rui Costa
Edited by afonso on 05-09-2012 11:33
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 05-09-2012 11:34
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Good luck with this. |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 05-09-2012 11:49
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Seems like a nice story
Best of luck in Italy! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 05-09-2012 12:21
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Getting second place in the Team TT was a great result |
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Posted on 05-09-2012 12:29
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Nice result in TTT (best I have ever seen in PCM  )
Good luck in the rest of the race
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
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