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| sutty68 |
Posted on 14-09-2019 00:00
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Jungels still hanging on in there on the GC  |
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| kirosha |
Posted on 14-09-2019 11:41
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Top 5 will be a great result for Jungels. Roglic is looking strong, while, surprisingly, Froome is out of form.
Off-topic: Thank you very much for recommendation. Just bought PCM 18 on Steam sale and now have a decision to make about DB. I see you using World DB. Is it superior to Daily DB when it comes to continental circuit-level playing and career? I remember huge DBs from other editions of the games, which had plenty of teams and riders, but they were lacking quality. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 16-09-2019 17:02
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@ sutty - Yeah, hes pretty much secured a Top 10 now, but Top 5 is my goal, although a podium would be great and with solid riding is possible too.
@ kirosha - Glad you were able to buy the game on sale. I think both dbs have pros and cons. As far as I know, the World db has more teams and races in the game, and due to steam workshop they released many smaller updates fixing small things (they also have a much larger team I think). To me PCM daily probably has better stats and the added equipment is nice too. If you are wanting to play with smaller teams, the world db is probably a better choice, I have a pro cyclist mode with a Canadian team and many of the races had mostly north american and south american teams riding.
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| valverde321 |
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 La Vuelta a España (2.UWT) 2020 Week Three
Stage 15
The GC battle intensifies as Porte and Valverde take time on the rest
| 1 | Felix Grossschartner | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 2 | Ion Izagirre | Astana Pro Team | +00:55 | | 3 | Andrey Amador | Movistar Team | +01:21 | | ... | | 7 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +02:48 | | 8 | Wout Poels | Team Ineos | +02:48 | | 9 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +02:48 | | 10 | Joe Dombrowski | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +03:04 | | 11 | Thibaut Pinot | Groupama - FDJ | +03:04 | | 12 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +03:04 | | 13 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | +03:32 | | 14 | Geraint Thomas | Team Ineos | +03:32 | | 15 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Bahrain Merida | +03:32 | | 16 | Remco Evenepoel | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +03:45 | | 17 | Chris Froome | Team Ineos | +03:59 | | 18 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +03:59 | | 19 | Pierre Latour | AG2R La Mondiale | +03:59 | | 20 | Daniel Martin | UAE - Team Emirates | +04:22 |
Stage 16
Bad news as Evenepoel is forced to abandon. He was looking to move into the White jersey.
Grossschartner takes his 2nd win in a row, Valverde takes time again
| 1 | Felix Grossschartner | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 2 | Daniel Martin | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:21 | | 3 | Gorka Izagirre | Movistar Team | +00:55 | | 4 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +01:04 | | 5 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +01:40 | | 6 | Omar Fraile | Astana Pro Team | +01:40 | | 7 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +01:40 | | 8 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Bahrain Merida | +02:02 | | 9 | Rui Costa | BORA - hansgrohe | +02:02 | | 10 | Chris Froome | Team Ineos | +02:02 | | 11 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | +02:02 | | 12 | Lilian Calmejane | Total Direct Energie | +02:20 | | 13 | Adam Yates | Mitchelton - Scott | +02:36 | | 14 | Jack Haig | Mitchelton - Scott | +03:05 | | 15 | Geraint Thomas | Team Ineos | +04:46 |
Stage 17
Duchesne holds off the sprinters to take a win for FDJ
| 1 | Antoine Duchesne | Groupama - FDJ | +00:00 | | 2 | Pascal Ackermann | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 3 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +00:00 | | 4 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 5 | Luis León Sánchez | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 6 | Kiel Reijnen | Trek - Segafredo | +00:00 | | 7 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:00 | | 8 | Dmitriy Gruzdev | Trek - Segafredo | +00:00 | | 9 | Jonathan Hivert | Total Direct Energie | +00:00 | | 10 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 |
Stage 18
Costa takes the medium mountain stage, but no major gaps between the favourites
| 1 | Rui Costa | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 2 | David De la Cruz | Team Ineos | +00:56 | | 3 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +00:56 | | 4 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | +01:15 | | 5 | Jesús Herrada | CCC Team | +01:15 | | 6 | Andrey Amador | Movistar Team | +01:15 | | 7 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto - Soudal | +01:15 | | 8 | David Gaudu | Groupama - FDJ | +01:15 | | 9 | Lilian Calmejane | Total Direct Energie | +01:15 | | 10 | Merhawi Kudus | Astana Pro Team | +01:45 | | 11 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +02:21 | | 12 | Daniel Martin | UAE - Team Emirates | +02:21 | | 13 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +02:31 | | 14 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Bahrain Merida | +02:31 | | 15 | Chris Froome | Team Ineos | +02:31 | | 16 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +02:31 |
Stage 19
Mark Padun wins from the morning breakaway
| 1 | Mark Padun | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Felix Grossschartner | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 3 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +00:00 | | 4 | Valentin Madouas | Groupama - FDJ | +00:36 | | 5 | Jesús Herrada | CCC Team | +00:36 | | 6 | Luke Rowe | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +00:36 | | 7 | Alexandre Geniez | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:36 | | 8 | David Gaudu | Groupama - FDJ | +00:36 | | 9 | Lilian Calmejane | Total Direct Energie | +00:36 | | 10 | Lawson Craddock | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +00:36 |
Stage 20
Roglic wins another stage, and really stamps his authority on this years Vuelta. He will win for sure now.
| 1 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:00 | | 2 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:32 | | 3 | Geraint Thomas | Team Ineos | +01:00 | | 4 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +02:28 | | 5 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +03:13 | | 6 | Romain Bardet | AG2R La Mondiale | +03:29 | | 7 | Antwan Tolhoek | Team Jumbo - Visma | +03:56 | | 8 | Ivan Ramiro Sosa | Team Ineos | +05:19 | | 9 | Chris Froome | Team Ineos | +05:19 | | 10 | Ion Izagirre | Astana Pro Team | +05:19 | | 11 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | +05:39 | | 12 | Jack Haig | Mitchelton - Scott | +06:07 | | 13 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Team Bahrain Merida | +07:02 | | 14 | Jan Hirt | Mitchelton - Scott | +07:31 | | 15 | Gorka Izagirre | Movistar Team | +07:31 |
Stage 21
Just for safe measure, Roglic wins the TT too
| 1 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:00 | | 2 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | +00:05 | | 3 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:08 | | 4 | Andrey Amador | Movistar Team | +00:17 | | 5 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:23 | | 6 | Lawson Craddock | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +00:24 | | 7 | Josef Cerný | CCC Team | +00:26 | | 8 | David De la Cruz | Team Ineos | +00:29 | | 9 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:30 | | 10 | Fabio Felline | Trek - Segafredo | +00:30 | | 11 | Ian Stannard | Team Dimension Data | +00:32 | | 12 | Lennard Kämna | Team Sunweb | +00:33 | | 13 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +00:33 | | 14 | Pierre Latour | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:33 | | 15 | Gorka Izagirre | Movistar Team | +00:33 |
GC
| 1 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:00 | | 2 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Bahrain Merida | +02:44 | | 3 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +06:23 | | 4 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +07:04 | | 5 | Geraint Thomas | Team Ineos | +08:37 | | 6 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | +09:15 | | 7 | Chris Froome | Team Ineos | +14:36 | | 8 | Daniel Martin | UAE - Team Emirates | +15:57 | | 9 | Adam Yates | Mitchelton - Scott | +20:26 | | 10 | Gorka Izagirre | Movistar Team | +21:20 | | 11 | Romain Bardet | AG2R La Mondiale | +22:25 | | 12 | Jack Haig | Mitchelton - Scott | +23:52 | | 13 | Pierre Latour | AG2R La Mondiale | +23:55 | | 14 | Ion Izagirre | Astana Pro Team | +24:32 | | 15 | Felix Grossschartner | BORA - hansgrohe | +26:19 | | 16 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana Pro Team | +28:16 | | 17 | Fabio Felline | Trek - Segafredo | +29:12 | | 18 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +30:25 | | 19 | Lilian Calmejane | Total Direct Energie | +31:10 | | 20 | George Bennett | Team Jumbo - Visma | +32:35 |
Points
| 1 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | 237 | | 2 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Bahrain Merida | 187 | | 3 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | 166 | | 4 | Geraint Thomas | Team Ineos | 126 | | 5 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | 120 |
KOM
| 1 | Felix Grossschartner | BORA - hansgrohe | 82 | | 2 | Gorka Izagirre | Movistar Team | 49 | | 3 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | 38 | | 4 | Ion Izagirre | Astana Pro Team | 33 | | 5 | Omar Fraile | Astana Pro Team | 33 |
Youth
| 1 | Mark Padun | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Tadej Pogacar | UAE - Team Emirates | +09:44 | | 3 | Ivan Ramiro Sosa | Team Ineos | +16:12 | | 4 | Léo Vincent | Groupama - FDJ | +18:17 | | 5 | Robert Power | Team Sunweb | +26:06 |
Overall, we are very pleased with Jungels performance. He managed a 4th place, which is quite good considering the competition. We were hoping to surpass Valverde, but he was able to hang on, despite not being as strong on the mountains as he used to be.
Other than that, it was all about our young riders here. Evenepoel and Padun both showed lots of potential, as Padun just narrowly missed out on the Top 20, and in the end won the Under 25 classification. Evenepoel was gaining back lots of time on Padun and looked to be heading towards taking the lead from Padun in the final week before he crashed out of the race. At just 20 years of age, to win the U25 jersey would have been something special for sure. Perhaps as soon as next year he will be able to compete in Grand Tours.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 03-10-2019 23:03
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 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec 2020
It wasn't even close
| 1 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Yves Lampaert | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 3 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:17 | | 4 | Tiesj Benoot | Team Ineos | +00:25 | | 5 | Maximilian Schachmann | Team Sunweb | +00:25 | | 6 | Peter Sagan | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:25 | | 7 | Simon Yates | Mitchelton - Scott | +00:25 | | 8 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:25 | | 9 | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:25 | | 10 | Gianni Moscon | Team Ineos | +00:25 |
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 2020
Lampaert completes the weekend sweep for Deceuninck
| 1 | Yves Lampaert | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Gianni Moscon | Team Ineos | +00:00 | | 3 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 4 | Peter Sagan | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 5 | Maximilian Schachmann | Team Sunweb | +00:00 | | 6 | Tiesj Benoot | Team Ineos | +00:00 | | 7 | Nils Politt | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 8 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 9 | Bjorg Lambrecht | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 10 | Sacha Modolo | Total Direct Energie | +00:48 |
Up Next
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| Timmsoski |
Posted on 03-10-2019 23:51
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Great to see this back, hope the travels were enjoyable! What are Remco's stats? Doesn't seem to quite be the dominant force it looks like he's becoming irl, yet... |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 04-10-2019 17:15
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Timmsoski wrote:
Great to see this back, hope the travels were enjoyable! What are Remco's stats? Doesn't seem to quite be the dominant force it looks like he's becoming irl, yet...
Thanks! I had a great time in Europe, its so different from North America. I definitely want to go back one day and check out all the countries I missed.
At the time of the Vuelta, Remco had 74 MO, 73 Hill and 76TT I believe, but he may or may not have improved since then...
I will post his, along with everyone elses stats probably in a week or so, as the season is just about over, and then it will finally be time to see all the new transfers. There will be some big surprises I think.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 08-10-2019 22:52
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UCI World Championships (France) 2020
Bob Jungels gave it his best go, but it was not enough
No one could come close to Rohan Dennis today
| 1 | Rohan Dennis | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:00 | | 2 | Victor Campenaerts | Lotto - Soudal | +00:25 | | 3 | Tony Martin | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:41 | | 4 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:54 | | 5 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +01:09 | | 6 | Maciej Bodnar | BORA - hansgrohe | +01:15 | | 7 | Mads Würtz Schmidt | Team Katusha - Alpecin | +01:17 | | 8 | Karl-Heinz Schulte | BORA - hansgrohe | +01:17 | | 9 | Søren Kragh Andersen | Team Sunweb | +01:22 | | 10 | Jos Van Emden | Team Jumbo - Visma | +01:45 | | 11 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Team Ineos | +01:59 | | 12 | Alex Dowsett | Team Katusha - Alpecin | +02:07 | | 13 | Nelson Oliveira | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +02:10 | | 14 | Damien Howson | Mitchelton - Scott | +02:10 | | 15 | Daniel Martinez | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +02:20 | | 16 | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo - Visma | +02:31 | | 17 | Kasper Asgreen | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +02:34 | | 18 | Stefan Küng | Groupama - FDJ | +02:43 | | 19 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Bahrain Merida | +02:44 | | 20 | Yves Lampaert | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +02:46 |
Roglic attacks on the final climb. Going over the top he has a gap of 45 seconds on the chasing group, but it all comes back together
And in the sprint, Alaphilippe snags the victory. He may have completed one of the greatest cycling seasons ever!
| 1 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Tom Dumoulin | Team Sunweb | +00:04 | | 3 | Vincenzo Nibali | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:06 | | 4 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:10 | | 5 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:10 | | 6 | Tony Gallopin | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:10 | | 7 | Miguel Angel Lopez | Astana Pro Team | +00:10 | | 8 | Warren Barguil | Team Arkéa - Samsic | +00:53 | | 9 | Pierre Latour | AG2R La Mondiale | +00:53 | | 10 | Ion Izagirre | Astana Pro Team | +04:47 | | 11 | Lilian Calmejane | Total Direct Energie | +04:47 | | 12 | Dylan Teuns | Team Bahrain Merida | +04:47 | | 13 | Rui Costa | BORA - hansgrohe | +04:47 | | 14 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +04:47 | | 15 | Adam Yates | Mitchelton - Scott | +04:47 | | 16 | José Gonçalves | Team Katusha - Alpecin | +04:47 | | 17 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +04:47 | | 18 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | +04:47 | | 19 | Daniel Martin | UAE - Team Emirates | +04:47 | | 20 | Felix Grossschartner | BORA - hansgrohe | +04:47 |
The first major action starts with a Jungels attack, as he tries to soften up the peloton and see if he can get a good gap
As he reaches the 2nd last climb of the day he gets swallowed up. On the descent Alaphilippe crashes from the lead group, which was only a group of 8 at that point, his race is over, and what could have been another huge win. Perhaps the Rainbow Curse is striking already?
Instead, Dan Martin takes the win, ahead of Tim Wellens and Gianni Moscon.
| 1 | Daniel Martin | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:00 | | 2 | Tim Wellens | Trek - Segafredo | +00:00 | | 3 | Gianni Moscon | Team Ineos | +00:00 | | 4 | Wilco Kelderman | Roompot - Charles | +00:28 | | 5 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +01:28 | | 6 | Tiesj Benoot | Team Ineos | +01:28 | | 7 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team | +01:28 | | 8 | Dylan Teuns | Team Bahrain Merida | +01:28 | | 9 | Michael Valgren | Team Dimension Data | +01:28 | | 10 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | +01:28 | | 11 | Tony Gallopin | AG2R La Mondiale | +02:39 | | 12 | Ion Izagirre | Astana Pro Team | +03:04 | | 13 | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | +03:04 | | 14 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Team Bahrain Merida | +03:50 | | 15 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Team Ineos | +04:15 |
Spoiler Sorry the WC was so brief. I dont think PCM really handles it very well in terms of fitness and objectives for other riders. My teams riders consistently outperform better riders the past 2 seasons, so Im going to try and fix that for next year.
Up Next
- Offseason News
- Transfers
-Velo d'Or Winner (Who will it be  )
-Final Rankings
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 10-10-2019 20:18
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After a historic season in which he won the Ardennes Triple, the Tour de France, and the World Championships. He is the first rider to ever do so, and thus rightly wins the rider of the year award. He showed that he can hang in there with the best climbers in the world, and on the short steep climbs, he's virtually unbeatable. He outscored about half of all the World Tour teams himself.
He has decided to hold off on announcing his decision for which team he will sign for, until later in the offseason, but he says the team knows who it will be.
Individual WT
| 1 | Julian Alaphilippe | France | Deceuninck - Quickstep | 6463 | | 2 | Primoz Roglic | Slovenia | Team Jumbo - Visma | 4564 | | 3 | Bob Jungels | Luxembourg | Deceuninck - Quickstep | 3551 | | 4 | Daniel Martin | Ireland | UAE - Team Emirates | 3251 | | 5 | Vincenzo Nibali | Italy | Team Bahrain Merida | 3219 | | 6 | Peter Sagan | Slovakia | BORA - hansgrohe | 3120 | | 7 | Enric Mas | Spain | Deceuninck - Quickstep | 3099 | | 8 | Tom Dumoulin | Netherlands | Team Sunweb | 2450 | | 9 | Romain Bardet | France | AG2R La Mondiale | 2332 | | 10 | Fernando Gaviria | Colombia | UAE - Team Emirates | 2200 |
WT Team
| 1 | Deceuninck - Quickstep | 21808 | | 2 | Team INEOS | 12437 | | 3 | Trek - Segafredo | 9956 | | 4 | Team Bahrain Merida | 8981 | | 5 | Team Jumbo - Visma | 8968 | | 6 | UAE - Team Emirates | 8389 | | 7 | BORA - hansgrohe | 7078 | | 8 | Team Sunweb | 6544 | | 9 | Astana Pro Team | 5665 | | 10 | Mitchelton - Scott | 5527 | | 11 | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | 5387 | | 12 | Movistar Team | 5242 | | 13 | AG2R La Mondiale | 5101 | | 14 | Lotto - Soudal | 4590 | | 15 | Team Dimension Data | 3387 | | 16 | CCC Team | 3000 | | 17 | Total Direct Energie | 2533 | | 18 | Groupama - FDJ | 2486 |
Victories
| 1 | Gabriel Cullaigh | United-Kingdom | Team Wiggins | 26 | | 2 | Frederic Philibert | France | Vendee U23 | 21 | | 3 | Alan Banaszek | Poland | Caja Rural | 19 | | 4 | Julian Alaphilippe | France | Deceuninck - Quickstep | 18 | | 5 | Dylan Groenewegen | Netherlands | Team Jumbo - Visma | 17 |
| 1 | Deceuninck - Quickstep | 60 | | 2 | Team Jumbo - Visma | 48 | | 3 | Trek - Segafredo | 45 | | 4 | Team Sunweb | 36 | | 5 | Team Wiggins | 35 |
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| Timmsoski |
Posted on 14-10-2019 15:09
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Nice one! Unreal season from Julian. Looking forward to seeing if he stays or leaves, my gut tells me he’s moved on... |
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Posted on 14-10-2019 15:29
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Quickstep totally smashed that season.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 15-10-2019 15:48
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Timmsoski wrote:
Nice one! Unreal season from Julian. Looking forward to seeing if he stays or leaves, my gut tells me he’s moved on...
Thanks! He is just so strong. I should have the next update up this week. I'm just doing a bit of behind the scenes editing which I need to complete first.
Yeah, we didn't dominate the monuments, but we were able to "overperform" in many Stage races.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 15-10-2019 23:03
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Alaphilippe had a great season, let's hope there is more to come next year  |
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Posted on 16-10-2019 12:09
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Fantastic season for the team!
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-10-2019 17:42
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sutty68 wrote:
Alaphilippe had a great season, let's hope there is more to come next year
Thanks. Next update should be coming soon finally.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-10-2019 20:34
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With the off-season well underway, a press conference was held, with Patrick Lefevere to put rumours to rest. The first bit of news is that Patrick Lefevere's Deceuninck kit will not remain with Specialized Bikes after a long and synonymous partnership. They had been partners since 2007, but with the contract running up at the end of 2020, it was time to find a new supplier.
The next big announcement is related to the first one! Deceuninck will be joined by a new co-sponsor, in order to facilitate a transfer. Deceuninck - Quickstep will become, Deceuninck - Corendon! Deceuninck are, despite some misconceptions, not a rich cycling team. Julian Alaphilippe demanded more than they could pay and so he is moving on, however bringing in another co-sponsor with WT ambitions helps raise the budget a bit. Not only that, but it was necessary in order to sign Mathieu Van Der Poel, who is under contract for one final year with Corendon. This move allows Lefevere to bring in arguably the most exciting rider in the world, after Alaphilippe, and the timing of it all works perfectly for him.
The team will therefore ride on Canyon bikes now, as VdP has a contract with the bike supplier.
Of course Corendon are owned by Triton, a company which also owns Sunweb, so this will likely be the final season of the Corendon sponsorship, which means there is still a lot of uncertainty with the team in the future. Quickstep has remained on as a sponsor, but are probably not thrilled that they are now the 3rd sponsor on a team they were formally the main sponsor of. Canyon may be looking to become a major sponsor for a new team, which could lead to the swift departure of Van der Poel after only one season if they decide to form their own team, rather than team up with an already existing one.
So in the end, lots of changes for the team, as they have a new star, new bike supplier and a new sponsor. But as Lefevere says, it was almost like the stars aligning to make this all happen. Without the end of contract of Specialized, the entire thing probably wouldn't have been possible.
| Old Team | New Team | | Correndon - Circus | Merges with Deceuninck | | Deceuninck - Quickstep | Deceuninck - Correndon | | Team Dimension Data | Team NTT | | Bahrain Merida | Bahrain McLaren |
| Rider | New Team | Old Team | | Julian Alaphilippe | Total Direct Energie | Deceuninck - Corendon | | Rohan Dennis | Trek - Segafredo | Team Bahrain McLaren | | Sep Vanmarcke | AG2R La Mondiale | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | | Alexander Kristoff | BORA - hansgrohe | UAE - Team Emirates | | Marcel Kittel | Israel Cycling Academy | Astana Pro Team | | Roman Kreuziger | Lotto - Soudal | Total Direct Energie | | Mikel Landa | Bahrain McLaren | Movistar Team | | Oliver Naesen | Team NTT | AG2R La Mondiale | | Sonny Colbrelli | Astana Pro Team | Team Bahrain McLaren | | Miguel Angel Lopez | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | Astana Pro Team | | Steven Kruijswijk | Team NTT | Team Jumbo - Visma |
New Riders
Davide Ballerini
 Nacer Bouhanni
Dario Cataldo
 Bauke Mollema
 Gerben Thijsenn
Mathieu Van der Poel
Ilan Van Wilder
Departures
| Julian Alaphilippe | Total Direct Energie | | Enric Mas | Movistar | | Tim Declercq | Trek Segafredo | | Remi Cavagna | Cofidis | | Fabio Sabatini | UAE | | Iljo Keisse | Retires |
Spoiler jersey is made by Froomeyy on legrupetto, edited by myself.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 17-10-2019 22:44
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Excited for a new chapter with VdP. Chapeau to Julian for a huge season and leaving in a positive way on the bike at least!
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 18-10-2019 16:42
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jandal7 wrote:
Excited for a new chapter with VdP. Chapeau to Julian for a huge season and leaving in a positive way on the bike at least!
Thanks. As I said at the start of the story, the goal was to look for the next Boonen and not to compare the two, but its nice to have a "perfect" classics rider. Also, things were just getting too boring with Alaphilippe. He's probably my favourite rider atm irl, but it wasnt fun anymore. Also Alaph wanted 200,000 a month, and Van der Poel only wanted 50,000 so saved a lot of money too.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 18-10-2019 19:08
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Deceuninck Rider Presentation
|  | | Name | Jasper Stuyven | | Age | 28 | | Specialty | Classics | | Career Wins | 3 | | Best Result | Kuurne Brussel Kuurne (16' ) | | Objectives | Paris Roubaix | | Tour de France | | Binckbank Tour |
Jasper will be the team leader for Paris Roubaix. His biggest result to date is KBK 2016, but he was 3rd at Milan San Remo and Dwars Door Vlaanderen last season. He will then look to be a support rider at the Tour de France.
|  | | Name |  Bob Jungels | | Age | 28 | | Specialty | All Rounder | | Career Wins | 12 | | Best Result | WC ITT (19' ) | | Objectives | Ronde van Vlaanderen | | Giro d'Italia | | World Championships |
Bob will challenge the early season classics, like Strade Bianche, MSR and RvV before riding his only GT of the year, the Giro. His end of season objective will be the World Championships and Il Lombardia.
|  | | Name | Fabio Jakobsen | | Age | 24 | | Specialty | Sprinter | | Career Wins | 19 | | Best Result | Gent Wevelgem (20' ) | | Objectives | Milan San Remo | | Tour de France | | Gent Wevelgem |
Fabio is again the teams top sprinter, and will hope to win stages throughout the year. His main target will be Milan San Remo, which has eluded him so far, as well as the Tour de France where he will target stage wins.
|  | | Name |  Alvaro Jose Hodeg | | Age | 24 | | Specialty | Sprinter | | Career Wins | 8 | | Best Result | Tour de France Stage win | | Objectives | UAE Tour | | Giro d'Italia | | La Vuelta |
Hodeg is hoping to start his season off with a bang at the UAE Tour, before going to the Giro to hunt for stages. The Vuelta will be his other main target, where he can hopefully win some stages as well.
|  | | Name | Mathieu Van der Poel | | Age | 25 | | Specialty | Classics | | Career Wins | 7 | | Best Result | Tour of Britain Stage win | | Objectives | Ronde van Vlaanderen | | Ardennes Classics | | Tour de France |
Our biggest acquisition will have most of the early months off, to ride Cyclocross, before taking on the big spring classics. His middle of the season will include the Tour de France for the first time, where he is hoping to win multiple stages, and possibly challenge for the Green jersey, or support Jakobsen. He will end the year challenging the Canadian classics, and Il Lombardia.
| Stage Races | Climber | Puncheur | | Remco Evenepoel | Bauke Mollema | Andrea Bagioli |  Mark Padun | Bjorg Lambrecht | Pieter Serry | | Dario Cataldo |  Julius Johansen | | Michael Ries | | |  James Knox | | | Ilan Van Wilder | |
| Classics | Time Trial | Sprinter | | Yves Lampaert |  Nelson Oliveira | Nacer Bouhanni |  Zdenek Stybar | | Davide Martinelli | | Florian Senechal | | Gerben Thijssen | | Jens Keukeleire | | Michael Honore | | Rinie Longuet | | | | Kasper Asgreen | | | | Davide Ballerini | | |
"Welcome to the rider presentation, I am Patrick Lefevere, manager of the team, and I will introduce the team, and try to answer any questions you may have!
We've highlighted our big 5 leaders, Jasper, Bob, Mathieu, Fabio and Alvaro, but we feel we have many other strong riders that can lead in their absence. Bauke and Bjorg will head to the Tour, looking to challenge for a Top 10, and take stage wins. Nacer has struggled a lot in the last few years, but I think that with a little more focus and having a great leadout, which I believe we do, I think he can get back to his former level.
Our two biggest talents are Van der Poel and Evenepoel. The two of them could be two of the best in the world and we hope it will be part of a long partnership they have with our team and each other. In fact, not a lot of people know this, but their fathers both rode together in the 1990's for Collstropp so bringing together the next generation just felt right to me. Remco we hope will take that next step this season, he will ride the Vuelta again and look to take the leadership role, although he will face competition within the team.
Lampaert and Stybar are not our top leaders, but both guys have shown they can outperfrom Jasper and Mathieu on a good day, so its almost like we go into every race with 2 or 3 leaders, which gives us a huge advantage. They will no doubt get races where they will be riding for themselves.
Ballerini will look to support the classics riders all year. He can be dangerous from a breakaway as well and the autumn classics will be races he targets as well.
Dario has ridden for my team before, and with his contract up at Astana I thought it would be a good rider to bring back. His climbing ability should help our guys in the mountains, and there should also be breakaway opportunities for him as well.
Finally, Ilan and Gerben are two young riders that our scouts have noticed in U23 races. Ilan we feel can be a good climber, while Gerben should be a sprinter. We will monitor their race days carefully, so they dont burn themselves out, but they will be strong enough to ride in support of our leaders for this season.
I'd like to thank everyone for their time, but thats all the time I have for today!"
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 18-10-2019 20:44
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