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Yukihiro Doi at the Tour de France
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 07-05-2008 20:15
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On the back of the brilliant Danish Puncheur story by A_Schleck I have been inspired to do my own one rider story
Hi, I'm Yukihiro Doi and welcome to my diary at www.cyclingnews.com. I'll be writing regular updates, at least one after every race and a monthly update. This is the story of my season and my future cycling career. Hope it will be a good one.
Doi
Edited by wackojackohighcliffe on 30-07-2008 11:51
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| Halvor |
Posted on 07-05-2008 20:29
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Pretty cool B)
Can you upload his stats? I like to know how good he is and all that stuff... I'm looking forward to the next parts  |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 07-05-2008 20:29
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January 1st 2008
My first real entry and I might as well introduce myself. I'm Yukihiro Doi, a Japanese road racing cyclist for the Skil-Shimano team. I see myself as a climber and hope to become Japan's greatest road rider yet and maybe conquer the Tour one day ( I wish! ).
I signed for the Skil team this year as I feel they are a strong outfit and fulfil my needs for cycling progression; it is nothing to do with the fact that they were the only team that would take me. It's good here as we have a strong squad, a relaxed atmosphere and coaching staff and lots of my friends and countrymen are with me in the team (9 others to be precise). I grew up with Yoshimasa Hirose as a kid and we are looking to help each other to some great results this year.
You can take a look at my stats page down there if you want. It's all the basic stuff.
Well, talk to you soon.
Doi
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 07-05-2008 20:32
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Oh, yeah. With all the marketing and competitive businesses out there our sponsors want to use this as media coverage as well and want me to plug our website. There it is: https://www.skilcyclingteam.com/index....table=home .
I don't know why there so keen to advertise. Maybe they've been hit by the credit crunch. It's a big issue for me; rice prices have gone up 400%!
Doi
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 08-05-2008 17:00
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Season Aims
I've got lots of aims for the season: primarily to help the team and to establish myself among european riders.
But racewise my goals are to:
Top 5 Tour de Langkawi
Mountain stage win
Ride Paris-Nice, Fleche Wallone, Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Olympics
Win (or help team-mate to win) Japan Cup
The team may get a ride in the tour this year and therefore I could ride the worlds biggest race. What an honour that would be!
I hope to progress as a rider and with a strong team a Protour berth next year is not unimaginable
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 10-05-2008 09:07
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The History of Yukihiro Doi
I was born in my home country of Japan on the 18th of September 1983. I grew up with a relatively priveliged life, enjoying holidays and good schooling. It was on one of those holidays that I discovered my affinity to Alpine Skiing and my ability on the slopes. I was soon practising all the time on our local dry ski slope (it is very impressive). I recieved a scholarship from The Tokyo Sports Institute and was soon training with the national team. I was loving my skiing and was in a dream position.
But then one day I realised I didn't love skiing any more. In the summer instead of hitting the dry ski slopes I was out with friends and doing other things. At that point I knew I had to give up pro skiing. And I duly did. But what next.
It came in the shape of cycling. I had always used it as another way to keep in shape in the summer and I still wanted to continue as a sportsman, if not a skier. When a Japanese team, recruiting sportsmen from different but in some ways similar sports, contacted me I jumped at the chance. I was soon training with the squad and things started to fall into place. The Japanese National Squad noted my natural ability and decided to start working with me. They trained me as a road racer and some results started coming.
#1 Tour de Hokkaido U23 (2003)
#2 in Japanese road championship U23 (2003)
#9 Tour of Korea (2004)
#9 Tour of Korea (2004)
After lots of help from the national team and some good results in Asia I decided I should try and make a proper career out of cycling. And that meant going to Europe. |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 10-05-2008 10:08
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The History of Yukihiro Doi Part 2
I arrived in Europe in 2005 looking to gain experience and get some good results to hopefully attract some good teams. 2005 didn't go exactly as planned with no real results to speak of but I did manage to get picked up by a bigger squad for the next season. 2006 was much better in terms of racing, but a lot of it was not in Europe as planned.
In 2006 I raced to:
#3 in stage #2 Tour of Japan
#5 Tour de Hokkaido
#7 Tour of Japan
#7 in stage #4 Tour of Japan
These placings obviously got me noticed as I signed with Skil-Shimano for 2007. This is when I started my first full season of European racing, including riding the Deutschland Tour. However, my best results, and my best result ever, came in Asia again.
#2 overall Tour of Siam (2007)
#8 in stage #5 Tour of Siam (2007)
#8 in overall Le Tour de Langkawi (2007)
#9 in stage #8 Le Tour de Langkawi (2007)
#10 in stage #3 Le Tour de Langkawi (2007)
Climbing in the Genting Highlands
The squad relaxing in Langkawi
This year I look to again ride a full European racing programme and improve my results in Langkawi and Quinghai Lake.
Doi
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 10-05-2008 10:26
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My first race will be the Tour de Langkawi which I have been training hard for and have a good chance of leading the team in!
It would be a fantastic moment for me and the fan club, A.K.A Mum and Dad, will be out, fervently supporting me. With just one mountain stage I know I will have to perform well there.
See you at Langkawi!
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| issoisso |
Posted on 10-05-2008 10:27
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good luck. are you going to choose his race programme yourself (meaning he'll easily fulfill all his "ride race x" objectives), or are you going to go with the AI's selection of riders for each race?
either way, keep it up
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 10-05-2008 10:34
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I'm going to pick his races on his results like a team manager would. but with best climber L'Hotellerie not in great form for Langkawi, Doi is the obvious leader.
He should achieve the Olympics objective as i cant actually race that but Paris-Nice, Fleche Wallone and Liege-Bastogne-Liege will be hard to qualify for. He will need a v. strong performance in Langkawi to get a place in them
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 10-05-2008 11:06
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A nice ridwer you have chosen, i was actually thinking about making a story about him once. |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 10-05-2008 11:11
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dont upstage me by doing 1 now
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Posted on 10-05-2008 11:21
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I won't and if i do it will be on danish |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 10-05-2008 18:09
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My First Race of 2008
The start of the Tour de Langkawi and I was told I was going to be assigned the role of team leader on the road. What an honour!
My only job today was to keep out of trouble and not over-extend myself.
The break of the day went after 22k, containing Calzati and Vorarbagev.
The leaders out front
But it was clear they were going to be brought back by a vigilant bunch and they duly were with 40k to go. The pace was high but I was feeling good and didn't have to expend much energy to stay at the front of the bunch and out of danger.
I'm glad I did as with 37k to go and the bunch screaming along as a small group of riders tried to attack, one of the best climbers in the race, Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio, fell and lost 12 1/2 minutes and surely any shot at the GC went tumbling with it. One down, lots to go.
In the sprint I let the kamikazes do the racing and sat up. At the front, David Herrero passed my team-mate Robert Wagner on the inside with 300m to go and took the victory by a wheel from Rob.
The finish
Rob hopes for a victory during this race and feels he has the form to do it after taking a stage in the Jelajah Malaysia.
More of the same for me tommorow.
Doi
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 12-05-2008 17:19
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Langkawi Stage 2
A more interesting stage for me with a few hills near the end of it. I had been given a free reign and some protection today and I had hatched a plan.
We rolled out of Butterworth gently at 10.00am.
Todays TV break consisted of Aussie sprinter Clarke and a fellow Japanese rider, Ozakazi.
The break flies towards Sitiawang
They co-operated well but there were just not enough of them and I knew they'd be pulled back in.
Yesterdays biggest loser, Perez Cuapio, pre-empted their return to the peloton with an attack at th 46km to go mark, as he aimed to salvage some pride from yesterdays wreckage of a stage.
Perez Cuapio on the offensive
He began a solo ride towards the finish passing the early break.
Meanwhile, with 30km to the finish, the original break was brought back in by a red-hot peloton, who quickly left them reeling with the pace, Ozakazi and Clarke quickly losing time on the peloton.
But the seemingly succesful move by Mexican Perez was also a failure as the group quickly swallowed him up, choked and spat him out the back.
However, the pace subsequently dropped and Perez's CSF team-mate, Tiziano d'all Antonia, was allowed to move clear.
We tried to chase but he was too strong and held out for a superb solo victory.
Victory for Antonia!!!
Half a minute behind, I stuck to my original game plan and made my move early.
Doi winds it up
My strength was proven as I outsprinted all the sprinters and outclimbed all the climbers to take second on the stage and some valuable bonus seconds.
The peloton fight for the scraps on the line
I now hold fourth in GC and I lead all the GC contenders by at least 10 seconds. Some less interesting stages to come but I may try and steal some bonus seconds in intermediate sprints.
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Posted on 12-05-2008 17:24
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Good but try to cut bars and stuff out of the pictures, and press tab before taking pictures as it will remove the names, and use png instead of jpg, it gives better quilaty.
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 12-05-2008 17:27
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thanks for the headsup
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Posted on 12-05-2008 17:29
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gl, i almost picked skill instead of rabo for my story, nice team with potential to promote to PT. |
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Posted on 12-05-2008 17:29
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Yeah crop the images, that'll look a lot better. Also sorry for not commenting yet, I think it's a very interesting rider choice
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 12-05-2008 18:04
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i've done one more stage so this will be shown with all the old mistakes
but for my next ones, where is the tab button?
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