1. Top 5 Volta a Portugal - Robert Gesink 12th
2. Win Vuelta al Pais Vasco - Robert Gesink 14th
3. Top 5 Tour de Pologne - Robert Gesink 5th
4. Win Tour of Slovenia - Jakub Kaczmarek 11th
5. Top 5 PCT Team Standings - Team 3rd
Goals 1. Win, GP Torres Vedras - Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio 6th 2. Top 5, GP Llodio - Angel Vicioso 5th 3. Stage Win, Volta a Portugal - crap 4. Top 10, Team Rankings - #5 Team Rankings 5. Top 10, Subida al Naranco - Antonio Colom Mas 3rd
Goals 1. Win Volta Ciclista a Catalunya - Domenico Pozzovivo 5th 2. KoM jersey in Tour de France - Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio 20th 3. Top10 in Giro d'Itália - Domenico Pozzovivo 4th 4. Top3 Vuelta a Asturias - Domenico Pozzovivo 6th 5. Avoid Relegation - Team 17th
Major results
4 Stage Victories + 9 podium places
17th in the Final ProTour Team Rankings (relegated)
2 KoM jerseys won
1 green jersey won
Victory in Rund um Koln + 5 top-10 places in one-day races
4th in the Giro d'Italia + 4 top-10 places in stage-races
NCs: Brazilian TT + RR
2012
Cerne Continental Tour
Goals 1. Top10 Volta a Portugal (Luis Leon Sanchez Gil -1st) 2. Win Volta ao Algarve (Luis Leon Sanchez Gil - 1st) 3. Win Vuelta a Mallorca(Luis Leon Sanchez Gil - 3rd) 4. Top5 Clasica San Sebastian (Luis Leon Sanchez Gil - 12th) 5. Top10 Team Standings (Team - 27th)
Target Races 1. Tour de Luxembourg (Luis Leon Sanchez Gil - 5th) 2. Giro del Capo (Luis Leon Sanchez Gil - 4th) 3. GP di Lugano (Bruno Pires - 26th) 4. GP Montreal (Bruno Pires - 33rd) 5. GP Plouay (Luis Leon Sanchez Gil - 5th)
Loaned In Amaro Antunes Nelson Oliveira Jon Ander Insausti
Loaned Out Samuel Caldeira Marc Machado Daniel Allonca
Major results
8 stage victories
18 appearances on the podium
1 Green jersey
27th in the Final Continental Team Rankings
Overall Victory in Volta ao Algarve and Volta a Portugal
NCs: Brazil (TT)
Major results
20 stage victories
29 appearances on the podium
3 Green jerseys
1 KoM jersey
9th in the Final Continental Team Rankings (promoted to ProTour)
Overall victory in Tour of Britain, GP Montreal, Manx International, GP Tunis, Baltic Chain Tour, Volta ao Alentejo and Tour do Rio
NCs: Portugal, Brazil (TT)
2014
Prio - Porto Pro Tour
Goals
1. Top 3 - Vuelta a España: Tiago Machado - 4th
2. Top 5 - Tour de France: Markus Fothen - 18th
3. Win - Vuelta a Colombia: Tiago Machado - 2nd
4. Win - GP Liechtenstein: Tiago Machado - 7th
5. Avoid Relegation: not even close
Loaned Out Rodrigo Nascimento Lluis Mas Rui Pedro Vinhas Bruno Borges Dario Antonio
Major results
3 stage victories
8 appearances on the podium
1 KoM jersey
23rd in the Final PT Team Rankings (relegated to Pro Continental Tour)
NCs: Angola (RR & TT) and Brazil (TT)
2015 - 2019
Spoiler
2015
Prio - Porto Pro Continental Tour
Goals 1. Win Volta a Portugal - Tiago Machado: 1st 2. Win Tour of Ukraine - Rui Costa: 2nd
3. Top 5 Tour of South Africa - Rui Costa: 44th
4. Top 5 Tour of Britain - Rui Costa: 9th
5. Top 5 PCT Team Standings - Team: 11th
Squad Tiago Machado Rui Costa Óscar Avelino Nelson Oliveira Rafael Reis Samuel Caldeira Domingos Gonçalves Carlos Baltazar Daniel Allonca Bruno Silva Ricardo Ferreira Frederico Figueiredo Luis Afonso Lionel Coutinho Antonio Carvalho Jaoa Costa Rodrigo Nascimento Lluis Mas Rui Pedro Vinhas Dario Antonio Ramon Domene
Loaned Out Bruno Borges
Major results
10 stage victories
22 appearances on the podium
2 Points jerseys, 1 KoM jersey and 1 U25 jersey
Overall victory in Volta a Portugal
11th in the Final PCT Team Rankings
NCs: Angola (RR & TT) and Portugal (TT)
2016
Porto - Prio Pro Continental Tour
Goals 1. Win Volta a Portugal - Rafael Reis: 2nd 2. Win Tour d'Andorra - Tiago Machado: 6th
3. Win Giro del Trentino - Rafael Reis: 5th 4. Win Colombian Venteaux - Tiago Machado: 1st
5. Top 5 PCT Team Standings - Team: 2nd
Squad Tiago Machado Ruben Guerreiro Óscar Avelino Nelson Oliveira Rafael Reis Samuel Caldeira Domingos Gonçalves Carlos Baltazar Daniel Allonca Bruno Silva Ricardo Ferreira Frederico Figueiredo Luis Afonso Lionel Coutinho Antonio Carvalho Jaoa Costa Rodrigo Nascimento Lluis Mas Rui Pedro Vinhas Dario Antonio Manuel Betilson Bruno Borges
Major results
Countless stage victories
So many appearances on the podium that I can't be bothered to count
Various Points jerseys, numerous KoM jersey and maybe even a few U25 jerseys
Overall victory in Colombian Venteaux and perhaps other races too
2nd in the Final PCT Team Rankings
NCs: Angola (RR & TT)
2017
Porto - Prio Pro Tour
Goals
1. WinVolta a Portugal:14th
2. PodiumVuelta a España:5th
3. Stage winsevery Grand Tour: 2nd (TTT - Giro)
4. PodiumCopenhagen - Malmo TTT:4th
5. Top10Pro Tour Team Standings:16th
Squad Tiago Machado Ruben Guerreiro Óscar Avelino Nelson Oliveira Rafael Reis Jacob Fiedler Domingos Gonçalves Marlen Zmorka Daniel Allonca Bruno Silva Ricardo Ferreira Frederico Figueiredo Luis Afonso Lionel Coutinho Antonio Carvalho Jaoa Costa Rodrigo Nascimento Lluis Mas Rui Pedro Vinhas João Gaspar Christian Egidio Roy Goldstein Krzystof MArchewka Manuel Betilson Bruno Borges
Major results
Sorry didn't count this year
16th in the Final PCT Team Rankings
NCs: Angola (RR & TT), Portugal (RR & TT), Ukraine (TT), Germany (TT), Israel (TT)
2018
Porto - Prio Pro Tour
Goals
Giro d'ItaliaTop 3 Tour of CaliforniaWin Tour de SuisseTop 3 Chrono des HerbiersWin Team Standings Top 10
Squad Tiago Machado Dimitri Claeys Óscar Avelino Rafael Reis Beñat Intxausti Bruno Silva Antonio Barbio Andre Looij Hugo Nunes Frederico Figueiredo Luis Afonso Chun Wing Leung Antonio Carvalho Reda Aadel Rodrigo Nascimento Lluis Mas Rui Pedro Vinhas Paul Junior Maroga Christian Egidio Girogi Nareklishvili Stefan Petrovski Manuel Betilson Bruno Borges
Major results
4 stage wins
20th in the Final PCT Team Rankings
NCs: Angola (RR & TT), Brazil (TT), Portugal (RR)
2019
Duolingo Pro Continental Tour
Goals
1. Top 5 Berlin Pro Race: 15th Oscar Avelino
2. Top 5 Down Under Classic: 3rd Oscar Avelino
3. Win Tour of America: 8th Rafael Reis
4. Top 5 Deutschland Tour: 2nd Zakkari Dempster
5. Top 5 PCT Team Standings: 9th
Squad Rafael Reis Óscar Avelino Antonio Barbio Frederico Figueiredo Antonio Carvalho Bruno Borges Ivo Oliveira Rui Oliveira Yuri Trofimov Nikita Razumov Dominique Cornu Tim Merlier Nicola Bagioli Edoardo Affini Fabio Duarte Choon Huat Goh Zakkar Dempster Georgios Bouglas Libin Chen Walter Trillini David Veilleux Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka Shane Archbold Markus Kopfauf Rodrigo Nascimento
Major results
6 stage wins (Romandie x2, Slovenie, Olympia's, Colombiar and ToA)
+ 16 podium appearances (stages and GC)
Overall victory in the Tour de Romandie - R. Reis
9th in the Final PCT Team Rankings
NCs: Singapore (RR & TT), Brazil (TT), Portugal (TT), Belgium (TT)
2020 - 2021
Spoiler
2020
Duolingo Pro Continental Tour
Goals
1. Top 5 Volta a Portugal - Robert Gesink: 2nd
2. Win Vuelta al Pais Vasco - Robert Gesink: 1st
3. Win Monterrey TTT -Team: 2nd
4. Win Tour of Slovenia - Robert Gesink: 3rd
5. Top 5 PCT Team Standings - Team: 10th
Squad Robert Gesink Bruno Borges Yoeri Havik Gerald Ciolek Damien Howson Kyeng Ho Min Kristian Sobota Zoltan Sipos Siim Kiskonen (loaned-in from Farfetch) Alexandr Kulikovskiy (Stagiare) Elias Abou Rachid Gijs van Hoecke Norman Vahtra Antonio Barbio Rui Oliveira Nikita Razumov Dominique Cornu Tim Merlier Nicola Bagioli Choon Huat Goh Zakkari Dempster Walter Trillini Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka Shane Archbold Markus Kopfauf
Major results 14 stage/classics wins (Tour Down Under, Strade Bianche, Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Tour de Pologne, Vuelta a España, Tour du Maroc, Franceville Classique, Hong Kong Challenge, Olympia's Tour, Tour of South Africa, Tour of Slovenia)
+ 18 podium appearances (stages) Overall victory in the Tour of South Africa (Borges), Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Tour de Pologne (Gesink); 2nd @ Volta a Portugal, 3rd in @ Tour of Slovenia (Gesink), 2nd @Olympia's Tour (Howson) Points jersey in the Tour of South Africa, U25 jersey in the Tour of Cyprus 10th in the Final PCT Team Rankings; 3rd in Final PCT Individual Rankings (Gesink) NCs: Singapore (RR & TT), Portugal (RR), Korea (RR & TT), Lebanon (RR & TT)
2021
Duolingo Pro Continental Tour
Goals
1. Top 5 Volta a Portugal - Robert Gesink 12th
2. Win Vuelta al Pais Vasco - Robert Gesink 14th
3. Top 5 Tour de Pologne - Robert Gesink 5th
4. Win Tour of Slovenia - Jakub Kaczmarek 11th
5. Top 5 PCT Team Standings - Team 3rd
Squad Robert Gesink Bruno Borges Yoeri Havik Jakub Kaczmarek Damien Howson Kyeng Ho Min Rasmus Quaade Zoltan Sipos Elias Abou Rachid Mark Christian Norman Vahtra Antonio Barbio Rui Oliveira Nikita Razumov Tosh Van Der Sande Tim Merlier Nicola Bagioli Choon Huat Goh Hayden McCormick Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka Shane Archbold
Major results 8 stage wins (Tour of Southland, Tour of Britain, Intertnational Osterreich Rundfahrt, Olympia's Tour, Tour of America, Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Tour de Romandie, Tour of Slovenia)
+ 20 podium appearances (stages) Overall victory in the Tour of Southland (Borges), Tour of Britain (Gesink); 2nd @ Olympia's Tour, Celtic Chrono (Howson), Tour of Vineyards (Min), GP Lugano (McCormick), Vilnius GP (Team) 3rd @ Tour Down Under (Borges) Points jersey in the Volta a Portugal (borges) U25 jersey in the Tour de Vineyards, Tour of Lithuania, Tour of America (Min), Tour of Southland, Tour of South Africa (Oliveira) 3rd in the Final PCT Team Rankings; 22nd in Final PCT Individual Rankings (Gesink) NCs: Singapore (RR & TT), Lebanon (RR & TT)
We are proud to announce our kit for the 2021 season. Our lads will be displaying the beautiful work of hillis91 who was kind enough to deliver this quality design:
Massive thanks to hillis for his work. We hope to see it prominently throughout the season that's about to start.
Admitedly our staff has been quite misterious with regards to our team composition this year. Renewals, transfers and training have not seen official statements from the team which has expectedly produced a lot of distress in many Duolingo users. Mass demonstrations have been taking place while the teams' spokesperson continues to linger on the crucial announcement as to which courses will be available this year.
As an educational platform with a social commitment, Duolingo strives to create the conditions for a world without squalor. As such, we firmly condemn all the violent clashes between the so-called Duolingo Ultras and the police.
However, we also understand our absence from the press, as justified as it may have been, would inevitably lead to individual emotional breakdown and collective sense of dispair. With that in mind we hereby divulge our available courses and respective tutors for the 2021 season:
English for non-English speakers
Damien Howson
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Mark Christian
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Shane Archbold
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Hayden McCormick
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Portuguese for loudspeakers
Bruno Borges
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Rui Oliveira
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Antonio Barbio
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Dutch for quietspeakers
Robert Gesink
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Yoeri Havik
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French for slices of ham who are looking to find their way into the baguette world
Tim Merlier
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Tosh Van der Sande
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Danish for all sorts of speakers
Rasmus Quaade
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Hungarian for anti-speakers
Zoltan Sipos
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Italian for half-speakers
Nicola Bagioli
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Japanese for non-speakers
Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka
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Korean for golden retrievers
Kyeng Ho Min
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Arabic for bi and/or/if trans-speakers
Elias Abou Rachid
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Polish for snickers
Jakub Kaczmarek
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Russian for strippers
Nikita Razumov
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Klingon for people who are a little bit annoying but are good cooks
