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| Farmer Sam |
Posted on 24-03-2013 21:06
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| Database? | DBVNC 2012 | | Difficulty? | Hard | | Development of attributes? | 0,5 |
I introduce to you Idemasport-Biowanze. We are a small Continental team from Wallonie in Belgium. We have a very modest budget, but big ambitions for the future, we hope to be one the biggest Belgian teams, and pick up some good results in the next season or two to secure us a bigger budget
Here is our squad, very young, very modest, but there's some talent in there, Boris Vallée and Antoine Demoitié are our main hopes for the future, they may not be world beaters but they'll be handy! we'll be focussing mainly this year on the breakaways, and may have some chances in some of the lesser cobbled races and the odd sprint, but lack any real talent in the hills.
Which is why we introduce to you our new signing for the season, welcome Tom Stubbe, he will give us some much needed firepower in the hills!
We may have a very small, relatively weak squad, but we have ambitions to be big! Rome wasn't built in a day! |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 24-03-2013 21:09
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Nice intro, will be one hell of a story hopefully.
Nice to see a small Belgian squad, good luck mate 
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| BikeRoel |
Posted on 24-03-2013 21:31
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good luck with this story 
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 24-03-2013 23:11
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Farmer Sam - Good Luck, hope it turns out good for you |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 25-03-2013 09:15
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Best of luck, excellent team choice |
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| Farmer Sam |
Posted on 25-03-2013 09:22
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Thanks all! Hoping to keep this going for a while, looking forward to seeing all the young riders progress, and building a very good Belgian team!
Round-up of January, followed by our first race coming soon! |
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| Farmer Sam |
Posted on 25-03-2013 09:36
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January Round-Up
No races for us in January, a month that was dominated by Luis Leon Sanchez, winning 2 stages and the overall in the Tour Down Under followed by the Grand Prix la Marseillaise.
Gerrans won the Australian Championships ahead of Evans and team-mate Cam Meyer.
February Race Schedule
 Tour of South Africa - 19/02 - 26/02
 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - 25/02
Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne - 26/02
Le Samyn - 28/02
A quiet start to February, but some good racing in the back end, going to the Belgian races more for the experience than anything, we don't expect anything out of them, the Tour of South Africa though would be nice if we could pick up a win! |
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| Farmer Sam |
Posted on 25-03-2013 09:56
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Tour of South Africa
Here's our team for the Tour of South Africa, we've got Stubbe here for GC and Boris Vallée here for the sprints. There's only 8 teams at the race so we're hopeful of some success!
Stage 1
A flat stage that should end in a sprint, might be a bit too hilly for Vallée but he is our leader nonetheless, Stubbe will be a backup if Boris isn't strong enough.
Favourites - Remco Te Brake, Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg and Nikias Arndt
We go on the attack early with Maxime Anciaux, who is part of a two man escape with Boelen (De Rijke). Maxime takes maximum points on the only categorised climb of the day and will be in polka dots tomorrow!
With the peloton in sight Anciaux tries one last time to stay away, but to no avail.
With 3 km to go and the stage heading for a sprint it is LKT who are well in control leading out Arndt, but Stubbe and Vallée are well placed behind their train.
Coming round the final bend Arndt is leading but he opened up his sprint a little early, Van Rensburg is coming round him. Stubbe and Vallée are right on his tail though. Can we get around him?!
While Stubbe falls away, Vallée keeps going strong, and a perfect sprint sees him pip Van Rensburg to the win. Unbelievable!!
An incredible day for the team sees Vallée in yellow, we hold all the jerseys after the first stage with Boris in Yellow, Green and White while Maxime is the KOM. What a start!!!
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1) Boris Vallée - Idemasport-Biowanze - 3h56'22
2) Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg - MTN Qubeka - st.
3) Sondre Holst Enger - BMC Plussbank - st.
4) Arran Brown - MTN Qubeka - st.
5) Remco Te Brake - De Rijke - st.
6) Adam Phelan - Drapac - st.
7) Floris Goesinnen - Drapac - st.
8) Nikias Arndt - LKT - st.
9) Nikola Airstrup - Concordia - st.
10) Jani Tewelde Weldegabe - MTN Qubeka - st.
An awesome start for the team, tomorrow is a hilly stage, so while Boris probably won't hang on to yellow we're hopeful Stubbe might take it instead! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 25-03-2013 10:05
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Great start to the season in South Africa |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 25-03-2013 10:05
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Wow, a win to start, that's odd and unexpected
Omloop will be great for the team to profile itself! |
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| TTspecialist |
Posted on 25-03-2013 10:06
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Great squad,great story,keep it up!
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| Farmer Sam |
Posted on 25-03-2013 12:01
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Thanks all, a super start, and so unexpected! Stage 2 is hilly, so I don't see Boris hanging on to yellow, so let's hope Stubbe can carry on our good start and take it off him! |
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| Farmer Sam |
Posted on 25-03-2013 13:32
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Stage 2
Today is a hilly stage, don't expect to see Boris hanging in, so we're working for Tom Stubbe today.
Favourites - Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg, Tsgabu Grmay, Tom Stubbe
Today we're looking to control the race, with the yellow jersey on our shoulders and having one of the stage favourites the impetus is on us. There's a 2 man break up the road with Bartl (LKT) and Handley (Rapha), Handley takes the categorised climbs meaning he swipes the KOM jersey from Anciaux.
With 15 km left and the break away back in the peloton the big boys come out to play, with Goesinnen the first to try get away. Vliegen however is doing a super job for us not letting anyone get away.
With 10 to go an elite group forms, we have 2 men in there Stubbe and Vliegen, sadly Boris couldn't hang on in there.
Grmay managed to slip away from the elite group and with 2km left he's looking good. Stubbe can see it's now or never so he attacks!
In the last km he catches and passes Grmay to take an excellent win, 2 from 2 from the team. In all my excitement I forgot to take a screenshot though! 
Stage 2
1) Tom Stubbe - Idemasport - 4h09'23
2) Tsgabu Grmay - MTN - s.t.
3) Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg - MTN - s.t.
4) Adam Phelan - Drapac - s.t.
5) Meron Russom - MTN - s.t.
6) Jani Tewelde Weldegaber - s.t.
7) Adrien Niyonshuti - MTN - s.t.
8) Adam Semple - Drapac - s.t.
9) Floris Goesinnen - Drapac - s.t.
10) Lorents Aasvold - Plussbank BMC - s.t.
GC
1) Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg - MTN - 8h05'25
2) Tom Stubbe - Idemasport-Biowanze - s.t.
3) Tsgabu Grmay - MTN - +8
4) Adam Phelan - Drapac - +20
5) Floris Goesinnen - Drapac - s.t.
Edited by Farmer Sam on 25-03-2013 13:35
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 25-03-2013 13:43
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You're doing great so far!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 25-03-2013 14:17
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Two out of two |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 25-03-2013 14:54
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 amazing results. hope the difficulty isn't on easy  |
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| Farmer Sam |
Posted on 25-03-2013 15:21
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Ian Butler wrote:
amazing results. hope the difficulty isn't on easy
Most definitely on hard! Lacking in major competition other than Van Rensburg! |
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| SweatyViking |
Posted on 25-03-2013 17:43
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Incredible results, keep'em coming!
Edited by SweatyViking on 25-03-2013 17:44
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| Farmer Sam |
Posted on 25-03-2013 18:08
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Stage 3
A pretty flat day with a cat 2 climb just 12 km from the finish. Might be a little hard for Boris who'll have to work hard to hang in there. It's very windy, so there is a chance echelons could be formed.
Favourites - Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg, Remco Te Brake, Sondre Holst Enger
Without a breakaway at all today the race was very quiet until the last 25 km when LKT and De Rijke came to the front and put the hammer down trying to split the peloton.
All to no avail though as the peloton stayed more or less intact, even over the cat 2 climb. So we're going to have a sprint. Boris and Tom are well placed, but struggling a little after the combination of a very high pace the climb.
And our dominance is broken by Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg who storms to victory, our boys had nothing left in the tank today, Tom and Boris finishing in the top 20.
Stage
1) Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg - MTN - 4h32'40
2) Adam Phelan - Drapac - s.t.
3) Arran Brown - MTN - s.t.
4) Sondre Holst Enger - Plussbank BMC - s.t.
5) Remco Te Brake - De Rijke - s.t.
6) Jani Tewelde Weldegaber - MTN - s.t.
7) Nikias Arndt - LKT - s.t.
8) Nikola Aistrup - Concordia - s.t.
9) Tsgabu Grmay - MTN - s.t.
10) Meron Russom - MTN - s.t.
GC
1) Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg - MTN - 12h37'45
2) Tom Stubbe - Idemasport-Biowanze - +20
3) Adam Phelan - Drapac - +28
4) Tsgabu Grmay - MTN +28
5) Jani Tewelde Weldegaber - MTN - +40 |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 25-03-2013 18:31
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Tom still good in the GC |
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