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
Squad Juan Miguel Mercado Antonio Colom Mas Sergio Pardilla Oscar Sevilla Angel Vicioso Gustavo Veloso Jorge Nogaledo Igor Astarloa Eloy Teruel José Carlos Rodrigues Silva André Cardoso Bruno Pires André Vital Jaoa Costa Diamantino Gamboa Paulo Lucas Martins Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha Claudio Corioni Maurizio Biondo Emiliano Rodomonti Pedro Nicácio Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio Mauricio Soler Paúl Torres Yoann Bagot Branislav Samoilev
Major results
11 stage victories
5th in the Final Continental Team Rankings (promoted)
7 KoM and Points jerseys won
Overall Victory in Tour of Slovénie and Rund um den Henninger Turm
Lots of top10s in Stage Races and One-day Races
NCs: Spain (RR), Brazil (TT), Mexico (RR)
2011
Energie-Diesel Pro Tour
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
Squad Luis Léon Sanchez Gil Antonio Colom Mas Gustavo Veloso Constantino Zaballa José Joaquin Rojas Gil Angel Vicioso Jorge Nogaledo Jesus Tendero Eloy Teruel Francisco Javier Echarri Domenico Pozzovivo Claudio Corioni Maurizio Biondo Elia Viviani Davide Viganò José Carlos Rodrigues Silva André Vital André Cardoso Bruno Pires Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha Mauricio Soler Leonardo Duque Pedro Nicácio Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio Paúl Torres César Rojas Villegas Fredy Colop
Loaned Out Daniel Allonca Paulo Lucas Martins
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
Cerne // Prio - Porto // Porto - Prio 2012 - 2018
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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)
Squad Luis Leon Sanchez Gil Pedro Nicácio Maurizio Biondo Elia Viviani Bruno Pires André Vital André Cardoso José Carlos Rodrigues Silva Ricardo Martins Bruno Santos José Martins Rafael Reis Bruno Borges Lionel Coutinho Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha Carlos Baltazar Luis Afonso Bruno Silva Antonio Carvalho André Mourato Marcio Portela Marco Cunha Ricardo Vilela Paulo Lucas Martins Gabriel Cerveira
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)
2013
Prio - Porto Pro Continental Tour
Goals 1. Win - GP Tunis ----- Óscar Avelino - 1st
2. Top 10 - Manx International ----- Francisco Ventoso - 1st
3. Top 10 - Clasica San Sebastian ----- Francisco Ventoso - 2nd
4. Top 5 - Volta a Portugal ----- Rubén Plaza - 3rd
5. Top 5 - America Tour Standings ----- Team - 2nd
Squad Rubén Plaza Francisco Ventoso Óscar Avelino Pedro Nicácio Marc Machado Bruno Santos Jose Mendes Rodrigo Nascimento Daniel Allonca Nelson Oliveira Carlos Baltazar Bruno Silva Bruno Pires André Vital Luis Afonso Samuel Caldeira José Martins Bruno Borges Lionel Coutinho Antonio Carvalho Rui Pedro Vinhas Ricardo Ferreira
Loaned-out Rafael Reis Vitor Rodrigues
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
Squad Tiago Machado Markus Fothen Rui Costa Óscar Avelino Nelson Oliveira Rafael Reis Kiel Reijnen Samuel Caldeira Vyacheslav Kuznetsov Domingos Gonçalves Carlos Baltazar Alfredo Balloni Daniel Allonca Bruno Silva Ricardo Ferreira Frederico Figueiredo Luis Afonso José Martins Lionel Coutinho Antonio Carvalho Jaoa Costa
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
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)
Duolingo 2019 - 2022
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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
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)
2022
Duolingo Pro Tour
Goals
1. Win Copenhagen-Malmo TTT - Team 3rd
2. Win Tour de France - Eastman 7th
3. Win Tour of Slovenia - Bobridge 11th
4. 12 Stage wins - 3 stage wins
5. Top 5 PT Team Standings - Team 3rd
Jack Bobridge Damien Howson Glenn O'Shea Kaden Groves (loaned-in from Amaysim Cervelo) Cameron Scott (loaned-in from BNZ) Tosh Van Der Sande Michael Van Stayen Alexandr Kulikovskiy Nikita Razumov Joao Almeida Rasmus Quaade Zoltan Sipos Gergely Szarka (loaned-in from Jura-GIANTS) Ryan Eastman Mark Christian Kamil Gradek Gaetan Pons Norman Vahtra Joel Yates (loaned-in from ELCO) Davide Gabburo Mekseb Debesay Choon Huat Goh Elias Abou Rachid
Major results 3 stage wins (Tour of Slovenia, Vuelta a España, Tirreno-Adriatico) + 20 podium appearances (stages)
0 Events won;
Bobridge 4th @ T-A, 5th @ AGR, LBL
Debesay 2nd @ P-R, Roma Maxima, 4th @ Rheden GP, 5th @ RVV, 7th TONE
Eastman 4th @ Vuelta 5th GP Liechtenstein 7th @ Tour 18th in the Final PT Team Rankings; 32nd in Final PCT Individual Rankings (Eastman) NCs: Singapore (RR & TT), Lebanon (RR & TT), Eritrea (RR), Denmark (TT), Hungary (TT), Luxembourg (RR)
DuckDuckGo - Everesting // Everesting 2023 -
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2023
DuckDuckGo - Everesting Pro Continental Tour
Goals
1. Top 5 Tour de Suisse - Guerreiro 8th
2. Win Tour of California - Rachid 26th
3. Win Tour of Japan - Arndt 19th
4. Top 5 Tour of the Battenkill - Debesay 7th
5. Win 5 PCT Team Standings - Team 16th
Robert Stannard Nikolaos Zegklis Nikias Arndt Ruben Guerreiro Tomohiro Hayakawa Adrien Petit Alexandr Kulikovskiy Sebastian Henao Rasmus Quaade Zoltan Sipos Kevin Inkelaar(loaned-in from Polar) Clement Kusi Joel Ponce Andy Alihonay Diaz Suarez Santiago Montenegro Norman Vahtra Mekseb Debesay Elias Abou Rachid Kevin Orosco Francisco Guerreiro (Stagiare) Eipor Eiriksson (Stagiare)
Major results Victories: Clasica San Sebastian - Nikias Arndt Runner-up: Strade Bianche, GP Wallonie, Tour of Britain - Robert Stannard Third: GP Kigali - Mekseb Debesay Fourth: Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne - Mekseb Debesay Fifth: Viana do Castelo, Le Samyn - Mekseb Debesay; Tour of South Africa - Robert Stannard 16th in the Final PCT Team Rankings; 27th in Final PCT Individual Rankings (Stannard) NCs: Andorra (RR), Estonia (RR), Ghana (RR & TT), Hungary (TT), Iceland (RR & TT), Lebanon (RR & TT)
2024
Everesting Pro Continental Tour
Goals
1. Win GP Wallonie - Stannard 12th
2. Win Milano Torino - Stannard 5th
3. Win Japan Cup - Stannard 10th
4. Win Giro dell'Emillia - Stannard 3rd
5. Top 5 PCT Team Standings - Team 17th
Robert Stannard Joao Rodrigues Jai Hindley Tomohiro Hayakawa Sebastian Henao Lorenzo Fortunato Dylan Sunderland Miguel Angel Benito Clement Kusi Santiago Montenegro Peter Kennaugh Elias Abou Rachid Kevin Orosco Thomas Silva Martijn Tusveld Wan Yau Lau Matthew Riccitello Levente Vasko Gil Gelders Patompob Phonarjthan
Major results Victories: Strade Bianche, GP Cycliste Montreal - Robert Stannard Runner-up: USA PCC - Robert Stannard; Tour of California - Joao Rodrigues Third places: Tour of Japan - Joao Rodrigues; Tour of Britain - Robert Stannard 4th places: Tour of Romandie - Joao Rodrigues; Euskal Bizikleta - Robert Stannard 5th places: Great Ocean Road Race - Clement Kusi (5th); Volta a Portugal - Joao Rodrigues; Milano-Torino - Robert Stannard 6-10th places: Lisbon Classic - Tomohiro Hayakawa (8th); Tour de Suisse - Joao Rodrigues (7th); Tour d'Andorra - Joao Rodrigues (6th); Japan Cup - Robert Stannard (10th) 17th in the Final PCT Team Rankings; 7th in Final PCT Individual Rankings (Stannard) NCs: Ghana (RR & TT), Lebanon (RR & TT)
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [PT] Xero Racing
Is that Stannard guy any good actually?
Guess you've got a solid base there, even though one of the "yellow" dudes would be welcome to come over for lunch... and stay
Hey guys, thanks for helping raise awareness about papal genitalia, an issue often overlooked by the media and one which affects so many people on a daily basis around the world.
However I must remind you all of rule no. 91 of transfers:
91. In case a papal testicle is involved in a trade between teams, the side of the testicle requested by the selling team must be respected. If the testicle provided by the purchasing team is the wrong one, the deal will be considered invalid.
Hopefully we can all respect this very important topic!
Santiago Montenegro is a great name, I have never noticed him in the DB before. And I can in fact do the dishes, our dishwasher broke this weekend so I did a lot. Just wish he didn't look exactly like Narvaez, minus the best things about Narvaez.
Definitely a few interesting options and excited to see an Ecuadorian on the market, just for the status of Ecuadorian cycling of course. A number of other very interesting riders too, although I'll abstain from discussing your value scale.
Thanks for the comments guys. Will be glad to entertain any negotiation, but will unfortunately have some real-life shenanigans in the way:
Disclaimer for the weekend:
Dinner with friends on friday when the chaos starts. Then saturday with the in-laws. Sunday at my grandparents. Groceries, house chores , playtime with the kid and some 450-500km total travel between locations
Apologies in advance if I'm too slow to respond. Bare with me.
So, we have a new kit. It's not the top notch quality we are used to, but given the lackluster season we had, that's all our budget accounted for. Hope you like it:
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We're also sporting some NC champions. You'll be meeting them soon enough. Suffice to say that our budget didn't stretch to accomodate a new kit for Clement "Top Ghana" Kusi, so we're just recycling last years':