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Banco Santander Cycling - Search for the future star | Vuelta a Andalucia
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| juszta |
Posted on 29-12-2012 10:52
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Career information
Database: PCMDaily's
Evolution of attributes: 0.5
Racing difficulity: Normal-Hard
All credit goes to fcancellara for the shirt
The spanish bank company decided to sponsor a cycling team in the 2012 season, which is based on Spain and Italy. They gave us a budget to sign top quality riders so we can compete in the Pro Continental Tour in our first season.
 Igor Anton
Anton is our best rider when it comes to climbing, whether it be hills or mountains. He will be our leader in the Vuelta if our application gets accepted, and any Ardennes classics we get invited to.
As we all know, he lacks the ability of Time-Trialing, so he has to do well in the mountains instead.
 Domenico Pozzovivo
Pozzovivo is our second best climber, who will lead plenty of major stage races himself, or help Anton on some occasions.
The italian also does not like the TT bike. Not even a bit. His aims will be stage races with not a lot of TT kilometres.
 José Rujano
Rujano is basically a slightly worse variant of Pozzovivo, but he is a very valuable member of our team.
He will have similar goals as Domenico, so we will see him leading our team on various occasions.
Mikel Nieve
The spaniard is our last big climber, who will also get leading roles in some races, but he will also have to face the "super-domestique of Anton" role in a few races.
Filippo Pozzato
Pippo is our one and only leader for all the cobbled races we enter. He will have some riders to support him, but he has to rely on himself if he wants to accomplish something big.
Francisco José Ventoso
Francisco is our best sprinter, who is not scared if the finish is not exactly flat. He will be the main sprinter in every race he enters, so hopefully he can deliver some nice results.
Early schedule (January-March)
January
 Tour de San Luis
February
G.P. Costa degli Etruschi
Vuelta a Mallorca
 Tour Méditerranéen
Vuelta a Andalucia
 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Clasica de Almeria
March
Vuelta a la Región de Murcia
 Ronde van Drenthe
Nokere - Koerse
Classic Loire Atlantique
Dwars door Vlaanderen
Route Adélie de Vitré
Gran Premio Miguel Indurain
Wild Cards
What's unique about this story?
In the first season, we will send scouts all around Europe to find the most promising future rider of the era. After we sign him, we will follow his racing very closely and he will also participate in the blog writing himself.
Additional information:
Spoiler -It's my first story, so don't expect Ian Butler (or similar) level of entertainment
-Any feedback is highly appreciated
-I have some (quite a few actually) reports pre-written, so you can expect daily reports fo the upcoming days
-I will try not to lose motivation for a long time, but you can help with that by following the story 
-I might (/will) be busy after the winter holidays, but I will try to do daily reports for the most time
-Again, feel free to post!
Edited by juszta on 11-01-2013 17:59
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| juszta |
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Tour de San Luis : Preview
Route
Spoiler
Flat stage, mass sprint expected
Again, flat stage. Again, it is for the sprinters or a lucky breakaway.
This is where the first differences will be made with a bigger climb at in the first part of the stage and a short but steep climb at the finish.
This stage may crush some riders' dreams, since it is a 19,5 km long Time Trial. Again, we can expect some differences.
The hardest stage, the GC will be close to decided after this one.
Features a bigger climb, but we can expect a sprint or a lucky breakaway.
A stage most likely for the sprinters
Favourites
Squad
G.Brambilla
E.Favilli
J.Guarnieri
A.Malori
F.Sabatini
M.Trentin
Edited by juszta on 29-12-2012 10:53
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 29-12-2012 11:14
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Nice team, good luck  |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 29-12-2012 11:23
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1st, good luck and 2nd, great team presentation. I hope this story lasts. |
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 29-12-2012 11:37
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Nice presentation. Good strong team
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 29-12-2012 11:43
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Looks interesting. Wow, Anton is strong in the DB!
Good luck with the story 
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| kimiopn |
Posted on 29-12-2012 11:47
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Very interesting story. Good luck to your scouting project! |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 29-12-2012 11:57
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Jesleyh wrote:
Looks interesting. Wow, Anton is strong in the DB!
Good luck with the story
I think it has been slightly edited |
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 29-12-2012 11:59
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Guess so
Well, it's no problem for me, the story writer gets more motivated this way. It's fine 
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| juszta |
Posted on 29-12-2012 12:01
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Thank you for the great responses, it really gives some motivation.
FroomeDog99: Thanks, hope you will be enjoying the story!
Miguel98:: Thank you, sir. I will do everything I can to make this story last long.
the_hoyle: Thanks! I wanted to create a strong team for the Pro Continental division, but not an overpowered one, which could dominate even the ProTour. Only time will tell if I accomplished this goal
Jesleyh:Thank you! Yes, indeed he is strong in this one. To be honest I'm kind of lazy about updating the databases and also I got used to the stats of the riders in this version. Hopefully the results won't be too unrealistic.
kimiopn: Thanks. I sent scouts to Portugal too, so there is a chance that that future star will come from there
FroomeDog99: It's actually not edited, it's just an older version, where Anton looked more promising than he really is |
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 29-12-2012 12:43
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Yay, you're using my jersey
I'll definitely follow
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| juszta |
Posted on 29-12-2012 12:47
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fcancellara: Thanks! Your jersey really gave me inspiration, brilliant work!
Will post the first stage of the Tour de San Luis soon! |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 29-12-2012 12:51
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Really love the team. No real TT riders right? That's good, sounds like an exciting team. Now let's scout those talents and make this one hell of a team!
Best of luck, will definitely follow closely |
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| juszta |
Posted on 29-12-2012 12:55
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Ian Butler: Thanks, I was counting on you to follow this story! Yes, I found myself playing passively in the mountains when I had a leader, who was really good at Time-Trialing. So this should bring some action! |
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| Daggen |
Posted on 29-12-2012 13:09
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Great presentation. Really hope this story and this team lasts long |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 29-12-2012 13:43
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juszta - Good Luck mate, hope you have a successful time |
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| juszta |
Posted on 29-12-2012 14:03
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Daggen: Thanks, hopefully you will like the story, so you don't have to smash me!
sutty68: Thank you, sir! Hopefully you will like what you see!
Tour de San Luis : Stage 1
A flat stage with a mass sprint finish expected. The breakaway members will probably take the points in the first two Intermediate Sprints.
Gerdemann, Nerz and Mangel broke away right at the beginning.
A few kilometres later Ochoa broke away from the pack and gave it all to join the BoTD.
He managed to join them in less than 10 kilometres.
Both Intermediate sprints were easily taken by Mangel, since he was the only sprinter in the breakaway.
The break was cought by Lampre and Farnese-Vini with 25 km to go. We began to set up our Italian sprint train. Here you can see Brambilla pushing the pace.
Luckily we managed to trap the train of Lampre in a slight turn, so they had to follow Sabatini.
Guarnieri and Favilli gave a perfect leadout, and Sabatini finished his job easily, and took the well-deserved stage win for Banco Santander Cycling.
| Rank | Name | Team | Time | Player | | 1 | Fabio Sabatini | Banco Santander Cycling | 3h47'16 | juszta | | 2 | Federico Canuti | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | | 3 | Sébastien Turgot | Team Europcar | s.t. | | | 4 | Elia Favilli | Banco Santander Cycling | s.t. | juszta | | 5 | Raymond Kreder | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | | 6 | Gianluca Brambilla | Banco Santander Cycling | s.t. | juszta | | 7 | Alexandre Pichot | Team Europcar | s.t. | | | 8 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Banco Santander Cycling | s.t. | juszta | | 9 | Matteo Trentin | Banco Santander Cycling | s.t. | juszta | | 10 | Roberto Ferrari | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | |
Spoiler | 11 | Jonas Vangenechten | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | | 12 | Julien Simon | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | | 13 | Klaas Lodewyck | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | | 14 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | | 15 | Cyril Lemoine | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | | 16 | Aitor Galdos | Caja Rural | s.t. | | | 17 | Adriano Malori | Banco Santander Cycling | s.t. | juszta | | 18 | Luke Roberts | Team Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | | 19 | Vicente Reynès | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | | 20 | Jan Bakelants | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | | 21 | Nicolas Roche | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 22 | George Hincapie | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | | 23 | Koen De Kort | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | | 24 | Maciej Paterski | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | | 25 | Patrick Gretsch | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | | 26 | Josué Moyano | Caja Rural | s.t. | | | 27 | Fabian Wegmann | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | | 28 | Gregor Gazvoda | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 29 | Gianni Meersman | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | | 30 | Daniele Pietropolli | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | | 31 | Francisco Javier Moreno | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | | 32 | Sander Cordeel | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | | 33 | Brent Bookwalter | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | | 34 | Arnaud Coyot | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | | 35 | Jürgen Van de Walle | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | | 36 | David Le Lay | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | | 37 | Javier Francisco Aramendia | Caja Rural | s.t. | | | 38 | Alessandro De Marchi | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | | 39 | Guillaume Levarlet | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | | 40 | Franck Bouyer | Team Europcar | s.t. | | | 41 | Dominik Nerz | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | | 42 | Carlos José Ochoa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | | 43 | Yohann Gène | Team Europcar | s.t. | | | 44 | Rafael de Mattos Andriato | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | | 45 | Christophe Kern | Team Europcar | s.t. | | | 46 | Tiago Machado | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | | 47 | Marco Marzano | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | | 48 | Matteo Rabottini | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | | 49 | Laurent Mangel | Saur - Sojasun | s.t. | | | 50 | Yuriy Krivtsov | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | | 51 | Morris Possoni | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | | 52 | Thomas Dekker | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | | 53 | Moreno Moser | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | | 54 | Markel Irizar | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | | 55 | Maciej Bodnar | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | | 56 | Nathan Haas | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | | 57 | Grega Bole | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | | 58 | Leonardo Bertagnolli | Lampre - ISD | s.t. | | | 59 | Antonio Piedra | Caja Rural | s.t. | | | 60 | Igor Romero | Caja Rural | s.t. | | | 61 | Hernâni Brôco | Caja Rural | s.t. | | | 62 | Blel Kadri | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 63 | Leonardo Giordani | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | | 64 | Manuele Boaro | Team Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | | 65 | Kevin Hulsmans | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | | 66 | Dominic Klemme | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | | 67 | VÃctor Hugo Peña | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | | 68 | Fabio Duarte | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | | 69 | Laurent Didier | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | | 70 | Frederik Willems | Lotto Belisol Team | s.t. | | | 71 | Oscar Gatto | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | | 72 | JarosÅ‚aw Marycz | Team Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | | 73 | Bert De Backer | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | | 74 | Andrew Talansky | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | | 75 | Juan Forero | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | | 76 | Christophe Riblon | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 77 | Ben Hermans | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | | 78 | Mads Christensen | Team Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | | 79 | Ramunas Navardauskas | Garmin - Sharp | s.t. | | | 80 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | | 81 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Argos - Shimano | s.t. | | | 82 | Guillaume Bonnafond | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. | | | 83 | Linus Gerdemann | RadioShack - Nissan | s.t. | | | 84 | Jarlinson Pantano | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | | 85 | José Serpa | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | | 86 | Andrea Guardini | Farnese Vini - Selle Italia | s.t. | | | 87 | Amaël Moinard | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | | 88 | David Veilleux | Team Europcar | s.t. | | | 89 | Alessandro Bertolini | Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela | s.t. | | | 90 | Eros Capecchi | Liquigas - Cannondale | s.t. | | | 91 | Nicki Sørensen | Team Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank | s.t. | | | 92 | Steve Morabito | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | | 93 | Manuel Quinziato | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | | 94 | Dalivier Ospina | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | | 95 | Luis Felipe Laverde | Colombia - Coldeportes | s.t. | | | 96 | Maxime Bouet | AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. |
Note: This was my first report written, and since I have some more in my pocket (pre-written) I can tell you, that things will change a bit for the next ones, it will hopefully get better! Also, it was after San Luis that I realized that normal difficulity is too easy for me and swapped to hard. But we will get to that later!
Edited by juszta on 29-12-2012 14:04
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 29-12-2012 14:05
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A perfect start for the team, you'll be getting known fairly quickly if you keep this up
A decent first report, good pics, good text, a tad short but who cares |
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| dienblad |
Posted on 29-12-2012 14:08
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Ian Butler wrote:
A perfect start for the team, you'll be getting known fairly quickly if you keep this up
A decent first report, good pics, good text, a tad short but who cares
+1
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| juszta |
Posted on 29-12-2012 14:12
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Ian & dienblad: Thanks, I will obviously try to improve as much as I can! |
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