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BMC Racing Team - Tour Down Under
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| kimiopn |
Posted on 20-04-2014 16:34
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Spoiler I decided to return to story writing and i decided to choose a team that can fight on several kinds of races. Hope it goes well and long!
Database: PCM.Daily Expansion Pack 2014 V1 (with my own updates)
Difficulty: Hard / Extreme
Evolution of Attributes: 0.3
Hello, my name is Jim Ochowitz and i am the General Manager of BMC Racing Team and i will be reporting you what our team is going to do in the world of cycling.
After we made a large investment in 2012 bringing Gilbert and Hushovd to an already strong teams our results were a bit disappointing. Last year we got 30 victories but only 5 on WT races. Our first general goal is to be more competitive on the World Tour both on Classics and Grand Tours.
Now i will introduce you to our team.
 Philippe Gilbert
 Tejay Van Garderen
Greg Van Avermaet
[img-l]https://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o621/kimiopn/BMC%202014/Intro/gilbert_zps6b42fe2f.jpg[/img-l] 
Our three leaders will be the guys with the responsibility to get the results on the stages we really need to be successful. Gilbert on the one day hilly races, Van Garderen will lead the team on the Tour and on important stage races and Van Avermaet will lead the team on the spring classics. With no really strong sprinter we hope they can give us success.
 Cadel Evans
Taylor Phinney
 Thor Hushovd
 Samuel Sanchez
 Peter Velits
 Daniel Oss
Our protected riders will lead the team in some races and on major ones they'll be working for our captains. We also expect them to give us victories.
 John Darwin Atapuma
 Dominik Nerz
Marcus Burghardt
Peter Stetina
Brent Bookwalker
 Stephen Cummings
Yannick Eijssen
Ben Hermans
Klaas Lodewyck
 Amael Moinard
 Michael Schar
Steve Morabito
Danilo Wyss
Martin Kohler
Manuel Quinziato
We trust on these riders to get the support the leaders need, to get their own results on minor races and to show our shirts when they'll have the freedom to do it.
Rick Zabel
Silvan Dillier
 Sebastian Lander
Larry Warbasse
Thinking about the future this four cyclists bring youth to our squad. They will learn with the most experienced riders and have a said when they'll have the opportunity to do it.
Spoiler Season Results:
- 1 stage win Tour Down Under (Cadel Evans)
Edited by kimiopn on 28-04-2014 12:15
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| kimiopn |
Posted on 20-04-2014 16:34
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After the initial meeting taken place we have decided the goals for this season.
The Ardennes classics will be the first priority, trying to bring Gilbert back to the wins and with a strong team on his support. Winning there is essential to this project. On the late season Gilbert will also fight on Plouay, Canada and Lombardia.
The cobbles classics will be the another major goal with Greg Van Avermaet being the team leader and trying to challenge Cancellara and Quick Step.
On the main cyclist event of the season, Tour de France, we will take a strong team in support of Van Garderen. A place between the top 5 is an achievable goal and winning stages with our very best riders is the other objective.
Van Garderen will also challenge Paris-Nice, Tour de Romandie, Amgen Tour of California and Tour de Suisse. We expect him to win the american and swiss races and a podium in France.
Evans will lead the team in Giro and Sanchez on Vuelta, while both of them will also go to the Tour of France. We believe both of them can manage a top 5 result on GC.
Edited by kimiopn on 20-04-2014 16:57
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 20-04-2014 16:40
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There is already a very popular BMC story on Daily, so you may have some competition, but good luck anyway. 
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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| kimiopn |
Posted on 20-04-2014 17:01
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baseballlover312 wrote:
There is already a very popular BMC story on Daily, so you may have some competition, but good luck anyway.
Hmmm, not good news for first comment. I only checked on PCM 13 stories, didn't knew Kentaurus was writing a story on PCM 2012. But he is on his second season and i think both stories can exist at the same time. No competition needed, i'll just play and post for fun |
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| Selwink |
Posted on 20-04-2014 17:04
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That's the spirit
Good luck, liked your previous stories, going to follow this one as well
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 20-04-2014 17:11
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Good luck with this story. Story writing isn´t a competition thing in my eyes, you really should enjoy that and have fun with it. Looking forward to this story and many great results. |
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 20-04-2014 17:15
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Great to see you back, Kimi! I enjoyed your CSC PCM12 story and I am pretty sure I'll enjoy this one even more.
And I can agree with others, story-writing really isn't a competition, but something that everyone should enjoy doing.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 20-04-2014 17:27
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Good luck, it will be an interesting change from Brewers' relentless criticism 
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 20-04-2014 17:55
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Best of luck, I totally loved your earlier stories. This is a great team to lead, I wish you the best! |
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| FonsDeSpons |
Posted on 20-04-2014 18:05
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good luck! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 20-04-2014 23:08
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Nice to see you back in the story section mate , hope you have lots of success with BMC |
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| the_hoyle |
Posted on 20-04-2014 23:23
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Nice to see you back! Good luck with BMC
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| VoetsT |
Posted on 21-04-2014 08:19
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Good luck with this story, BMC is a really nice team (to play with)
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| kimiopn |
Posted on 21-04-2014 09:54
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This is why this community is so great! Every project has a lot of support. Thank you guys, really!  |
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| kimiopn |
Posted on 21-04-2014 10:10
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With the start of the season everyone is really excited about starting to race. So let me brief you about our first three months of racing.
The team will start the season in Australia with Tour Down Under but before that Cadel Evans will challenge the national championships.
We will only return in February for  Tour of Qatar and  Tour of Oman.
Our cobbles team will then go for the classics in Belgium where we will race Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Kurne-Brussels-Kurne and Le Samyn.
In Spain we will race Clasica de Almeria and then Strade Bianche in Italy.
All this races will lead us to our first important goals of the season: Paris - Nice and Tirreno Adriatico.
With the new route on Milano-San Remo we will have a word to say and then we will fight for stage wins in Volta a Catalunya.
Finally the first trimester of 2014 will end in Belgium with Dwaaars Door Vlaanderen, E3 Harelbeke, Gent-Wevelgem and, of course, Ronde Van Vlaanderen. |
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 21-04-2014 10:30
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Good Luck
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 21-04-2014 16:18
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Nice looking early season schedule |
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| kimiopn |
Posted on 21-04-2014 20:12
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Cadel Evans started the season on his homeland on the national championships. He will stay at Australia to lead the team on Tour Down Under.
Time Trial
With a lot of competition Evans didn't felt so good and he was just 11th and lost over a minute and a half to the new Australian TT champion, Richie Porte.
| 1 | Richie Porte | Team Sky | 1h00'43 | | 2 | Michael Rogers | Tinkoff - Saxo | + 11 | | 3 | Luke Durbridge | Orica GreenEdge | + 12 | | 4 | Rohan Dennis | Garmin Sharp | + 13 | | 5 | Brett Lancaster | Orica GreenEdge | + 22 | | 6 | Cameron Meyer | Orica GreenEdge | + 34 | | 7 | Michael Hepburn | Orica GreenEdge | + 39 | | 8 | Damien Howson | Orica GreenEdge | + 55 | | 9 | William Clarke | Drapac Pro Cycling | + 1'01 | | 10 | Travis Meyer | Drapac Pro Cycling | + 1'21 | | 11 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | + 1'33 |
Spoiler | 12 | Simon Clarke | Orica GreenEdge | + 1'35 | | 13 | Cameron Wurf | Cannondale | + 1'37 | | 14 | Rory Sutherland | Tinkoff - Saxo | + 1'40 | | 15 | Jack Bobridge | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | + 1'47 | | 16 | Simon Gerrans | Orica GreenEdge | s.t. | | 17 | Adam Phelan | Drapac Pro Cycling | + 1'50 | | 18 | Ben Day | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 1'53 | | 19 | Luke Roberts | Team Stölting | + 2'09 | | 20 | Jack Anderson | Drapac Pro Cycling | + 2'11 | | 21 | Adam Hansen | Lotto Belisol | + 2'19 | | 22 | Heinrich Haussler | IAM Cycling | + 2'23 | | 23 | Michael Matthews | Orica GreenEdge | + 2'24 | | 24 | Luke Davison | Synergy Baku Cycling Project | + 2'27 | | 25 | Lachlan Morton | Garmin Sharp | + 2'32 | | 26 | Zakkari Dempster | Team NetApp - Endura | + 2'40 | | 27 | Darren Lapthorne | Drapac Pro Cycling | + 2'45 | | 28 | Glenn O'Shea | An Post - Chain Reaction | + 2'46 | | 29 | Jay McCarthy | Tinkoff - Saxo | + 2'49 | | 30 | Nathan Earle | Team Sky | + 2'54 | | 31 | Christopher Sutton | Team Sky | s.t. | | 32 | Jordan Kerby | Drapac Pro Cycling | + 2'57 | | 33 | Joseph Lewis | Hincapie Sportswear Development Team | + 3'00 | | 34 | Nathan Haas | Garmin Sharp | + 3'07 | | 35 | Matthew Lloyd | Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | + 3'15 | | 36 | David Jai Crawford | Drapac Pro Cycling | + 3'18 | | 37 | Bernard Sulzberger | Drapac Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 38 | Samuel Spokes | Etixx | + 3'19 | | 39 | Justin Morris | Team Novo Nordisk | + 3'23 | | 40 | Jonathan Clarke | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 3'26 | | 41 | David Tanner | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | + 3'27 | | 42 | Robert-Jon McCarthy | An Post - Chain Reaction | + 3'28 | | 43 | Mark Renshaw | Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team | + 3'32 | | 44 | Patrick Lane | Synergy Baku Cycling Project | + 3'43 | | 45 | Christopher Williams | Team Novo Nordisk | + 3'48 | | 46 | Graeme Brown | Belkin Pro Cycling Team | + 3'49 | | 47 | Steele Von Hoff | Garmin Sharp | + 3'51 | | 48 | Karl Menzies | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 3'54 | | 49 | Hilton Clarke | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 3'56 | | 50 | Calvin Watson | Trek Factory Racing | + 4'24 |
Road Race
Cadel was alone against a very powerful Orica where Gerrans was the natural leader. Richie Porte was also a favorite...
...and he tried with 17 km to get clear but several guys responded to his attack, including our own Aussie.
With the group reduced to 6, Evans was trying to follow when with 7 km to go Simon Gerrans made his decisive move.
Evans sprinted for 5th place. Orica GreenEdge made a 1-2 with Simon Clarke getting 2nd.
| 1 | Simon Gerrans | Orica GreenEdge | 4h41'34 | | 2 | Simon Clarke | Orica GreenEdge | + 45 | | 3 | Richie Porte | Team Sky | s.t. | | 4 | Nathan Haas | Garmin Sharp | s.t. | | 5 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 6 | Michael Rogers | Tinkoff - Saxo | s.t. | | 7 | Luke Roberts | Team Stölting | + 1'10 | | 8 | Zakkari Dempster | Team NetApp - Endura | s.t. | | 9 | Steele Von Hoff | Garmin Sharp | + 1'27 | | 10 | Jonathan Clarke | UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team | + 1'34 |
Spoiler 11 Calvin Watson Trek Factory Racing s.t.
12 Bernard Sulzberger Drapac Pro Cycling s.t.
13 Adam Hansen Lotto Belisol + 2'05
14 Heinrich Haussler IAM Cycling s.t.
15 David Tanner Belkin Pro Cycling Team s.t.
16 Mark Renshaw Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team s.t.
17 Ben Day UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team s.t.
18 Cameron Wurf Cannondale s.t.
19 Matthew Lloyd Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis s.t.
20 Samuel Spokes Etixx + 4'41
21 Wesley Sulzberger Drapac Pro Cycling + 7'14
22 Benjamin Johnson Drapac Pro Cycling + 7'35
23 Jack Bobridge Belkin Pro Cycling Team + 7'45
24 Joseph Lewis Hincapie Sportswear Development Team + 8'04
25 Karl Menzies UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team s.t.
26 Patrick Lane Synergy Baku Cycling Project s.t.
27 Glenn O'Shea An Post - Chain Reaction + 8'17
28 Graeme Brown Belkin Pro Cycling Team s.t.
29 William Clarke Drapac Pro Cycling s.t.
30 Travis Meyer Drapac Pro Cycling + 8'27
31 Michael Matthews Orica GreenEdge s.t.
32 Matthew Goss Orica GreenEdge s.t.
33 Christopher Sutton Team Sky s.t.
34 Jonathan Cantwell Drapac Pro Cycling s.t.
35 Lachlan Morton Garmin Sharp s.t.
36 Cameron Meyer Orica GreenEdge s.t.
37 Nathan Earle Team Sky s.t.
38 Luke Durbridge Orica GreenEdge s.t.
39 Rory Sutherland Tinkoff - Saxo s.t.
40 Rohan Dennis Garmin Sharp s.t.
41 Brett Lancaster Orica GreenEdge s.t.
42 Jay McCarthy Tinkoff - Saxo s.t.
43 Leigh Howard Orica GreenEdge s.t.
44 Robert-Jon McCarthy An Post - Chain Reaction s.t.
45 Darren Lapthorne Drapac Pro Cycling s.t.
46 Luke Davison Synergy Baku Cycling Project s.t.
47 Adam Phelan Drapac Pro Cycling s.t.
48 Justin Morris Team Novo Nordisk s.t.
49 Hilton Clarke UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team s.t.
50 Christopher Williams Team Novo Nordisk + 8'48
At the end Cadel Evans was a bit disappointed because he wanted more from this championships but he will now have a World Tour competition on his homeland to shine.
We can also now announce our squad for Tour Down Under:
Cadel Evans
Steve Morabito
Dominik Nerz
Sebastian Lander
Martin Kohler
Brent Bookwalter
Manuel Quinziato
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| VoetsT |
Posted on 21-04-2014 23:25
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ITT wasn't that good but the road race was better. Good luck at the tour down onder.
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| baia |
Posted on 21-04-2014 23:33
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Good luck..
Sure not the result that Cadel wanted but it´s the first race, fitness isn´t the best.. i´m sure he will do better at Willunga..
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