Sagan probably would have won the final stage as he took the sprint for third meaning he would have won GC, thankfully giorgio brambilla and stanard were already out ahead!!! Unfortunately Felline got knocked off the podium on the final stage.
Volkswagen Sea Otter Classic turned out quite okay for KLM, we managed to get the KoM jersey(a team-speciality) with Van de Hoek and got 6th in the GC.
Then, there was Tour of Korea. Only 44 riders showed up, but the gameplay was quite normal, except that there was a 1/2 man break most of the time.
A strong lineup, with especially Rabo CT being strong.
Jetse Bol got a lot of top 10's, and a few Top 3s. No victories though. A bummer was that one of the team-leaders, Hamelink, had to withdraw during the race, and is injuried for a bit more than a month.
But the team(Talented Casper van de Hoek again) grabbed the KoM, and Jetse Bol grabbed a big lot of bonus seconds with Intermediate Sprints. In the end, he grabbed the leaders jersey on the last day, and he won the General Classification!
So the first team victory!
Still, the team didn't have any road(non ITT) victories yet.
It's time for that
I got my first signing too, this guy looked very talented, and got a lot of Top 3's on the U23 calendar, even though he's only 18.
I was pretty happy when I saw his stats, I hope he has some potential...
@The Rider: What a great performance! How did you do that? Edited by Jesleyh on 07-04-2013 12:56
Jesleyh wrote:
Time for an update on KLM - Airfrance.
Volkswagen Sea Otter Classic turned out quite okay for KLM, we managed to get the KoM jersey(a team-speciality) with Van de Hoek and got 6th in the GC.
Then, there was Tour of Korea. Only 44 riders showed up, but the gameplay was quite normal, except that there was a 1/2 man break most of the time.
A strong lineup, with especially Rabo CT being strong.
Jetse Bol got a lot of top 10's, and a few Top 3s. No victories though. A bummer was that one of the team-leaders, Hamelink, had to withdraw during the race, and is injuried for a bit more than a month.
But the team(Talented Casper van de Hoek again) grabbed the KoM, and Jetse Bol grabbed a big lot of bonus seconds with Intermediate Sprints. In the end, he grabbed the leaders jersey on the last day, and he won the General Classification!
So the first team victory!
Still, the team didn't have any road(non ITT) victories yet.
It's time for that
I got my first signing too, this guy looked very talented, and got a lot of Top 3's on the U23 calendar, even though he's only 18.
I was pretty happy when I saw his stats, I hope he has some potential...
@The Rider: What a great performance! How did you do that?
Jesleyh wrote:
Time for an update on KLM - Airfrance.
Volkswagen Sea Otter Classic turned out quite okay for KLM, we managed to get the KoM jersey(a team-speciality) with Van de Hoek and got 6th in the GC.
Then, there was Tour of Korea. Only 44 riders showed up, but the gameplay was quite normal, except that there was a 1/2 man break most of the time.
A strong lineup, with especially Rabo CT being strong.
Jetse Bol got a lot of top 10's, and a few Top 3s. No victories though. A bummer was that one of the team-leaders, Hamelink, had to withdraw during the race, and is injuried for a bit more than a month.
But the team(Talented Casper van de Hoek again) grabbed the KoM, and Jetse Bol grabbed a big lot of bonus seconds with Intermediate Sprints. In the end, he grabbed the leaders jersey on the last day, and he won the General Classification!
So the first team victory!
Still, the team didn't have any road(non ITT) victories yet.
It's time for that
I got my first signing too, this guy looked very talented, and got a lot of Top 3's on the U23 calendar, even though he's only 18.
I was pretty happy when I saw his stats, I hope he has some potential...
@The Rider: What a great performance! How did you do that?
Blocking is officially the worst shit ever in PCM. Playing Milan-San Remo, Tyler Farrar, +5 daily form, is on perfect position on Cipressa and the Poggio to win. Cav falled on a downhill, only Greipel and Goss as top sprinters in the group. Then, Sergio Henao, who was in the breakway, burst and falls behind. And what happens? He blocks Farrar. Farrar goes all the way to the back of the pack and looses contact. Ginnani was in the front but bursted when Terpstra caught up to him. In the end, his 25th sounds a little bit too less.
warchex wrote:
I'm using the PCMDaily 2013 DB. The question is; Which stats should Ciolek (Win M-SR), Stybar, and Kristoff (3 OL,8 M-SR,4 RVV, 9 P-R) have?
Froome took the first stage just beating Felline so I thought it was over for the GC.
Farrar took the win on stage 2, and we kept the GC lead from there to the finish.Farrar was in great form so he was just able to finish with the main bunch on the uphill finishes, fortunately the peloton looked to coca cola to ride on the front so a few breaks were able to succedd and gain the vital bonus seconds.
On the penultimate stage, there was a real hairy moment. Slagter (@,45) attacked with a group on a steep climb with 30KM to go, and pulled out 1:40, but Thomas and Felline buried themselves and brought the group back just before the finish.
On the final stage, Farrar just needed to finish safely and hope Sagan didn't win the sprint, Sagan won the sprint but it was for thrid.
Afterwards, Felline won Milan - Sanremo, attacking on the cipressa, gaining an advantage of 50 and just pipping Cavendish and the rampant peloton to the line.
Felline stats have really developed, FL:84, Hill:74, STA:85, also Niels Albert has Hill:78.
Great results after only managing smaller results with 9th in the previous seaon with Pinot in the tour de france for example..
Voeckler was 2nd in Stage 2 and was in a few breaks. He finished 12th overall.
Rolland was 3rd on the opening MT stage, grabbed some T10's then broke away to win the stage up L'Alpe d'Huez! He finished 8th overall as the best Frenchman.
Various other riders were in breaks.
Not bad for our first ever grand tour! We won the TTT and Preidler and Bibby have held on over the hilly stages. First mountain top finish tomorrow though so it will be tough to hold on. It's Bibby's first ever GT aswell btw!! Looks like the white jersey's in the bag already, only Felline and Olivier are within reach and Preidler is much better than them in the mountains.
Well, I started the Giro hoping to squeeze into the top five with Preidler and get the white jersey. This is what happened.
I can't believe it! He won three stages on the way to clinch the points jersey aswell! In the young riders' classification, he narrowly pipped Olivier for the win by 57 minutes! AG2R tried to do me over every day by using Nibali as a super domestique for Pozzo but I only ever reacted when Moreno and Henao went.
Won the TTT and the MITT, then I just used my team to look after him at all times and only responded to the attacks by those closest to him. There were people like Mollema, Van Den Broeck etc. that kept attacking right at the start of climbs but they were no danger, so I let the others chase them down and saved as much energy as possible for the final few kilometres. It does help that the closest rival was only Dani Moreno aswell!
If Schleck and Nibali had been in shape then it would have been a LOT more difficult!
I decided to give myself a real challenge with the self-made Domina Vacanze - Belavia team. The team consists of six Italians and six Belarussians. Team captains are Samoilau and Bisolti, while we have great hopes for the future with Bazhkou, a highly talented 21-year old puncher. Looking forward to riding 2.2 races and challenging the big teams in races like Trentino and Emilia.
I'd also consider a story about Bazhkou, but I'm too lazy to deal with screenshots Edited by Blueprint on 12-04-2013 14:35
