Schrödinger's Dogs: A&D

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Transfer News

Late to the party, but not too late. Our team could sign another 21 year old Austrian rider yesterday. His name: Ernst Fanta. His goal: Make money sprinters great again. His idol: Alexandros Karatzoglou. He will focus on training but will alread have a lot of races early in his carreer, as we lack a sprint strong guy with more than 49 mountain.

Ernst Fanta, 21y
Start: 49-71-67-50-66-66.5 46reg
Goal: 65-70-72+ sprint, or 60-70-78+ sprint

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Oppenheimer joined 5k Club (30.07.2024)

Our PR department nearly forgot it, but Robert Oppenheimer joined the 5k club after winning Eroica Dolomiti in his 141 race at the age of 30. He was a few days older than classic sprinter Tesla, but needed less races for the 5k. Maybe Robert will also have a very successfull 30+ age carreer as Nikola.

5k Club
Wolodymyr Drinfeld (25y, 65r)
Franz Schwackhöfer (26y, 71r)
Ferenc Krausz (26y, 53r)
Oleksij Iwachnenko (26y, 95r)
Boaz Trakhtenbrot (28y, 75r)
Robert Oppenheimer (30y, 141r)
Nikola Tesla (30y, 153r)
Jacob Wolfowitz (31y, 183r)
Alexandros Karatzoglou (31y, 195r)
Karl Prachar (32y, 136r)
Akos Detreköi (33y, 203r)
Helmut Heuser (33y, 185r)
NgôBao Châu (34y, 94r)
Geoffrey Hinton (34y, 239)
Warren McCulloch (36y, 156r)
Max Simmer (36y, 204r)

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Krausz joins 10 wins club

Ferenc Krausz wins todays 6th stage at the Vuelta a Espana and joins the 10 wins club at the age of 30 after 101 races. It is already his 2nd Vuelta stage and he is wearing the GC leader jersey there as well chasing his 7th stage race win (his 10th >+ cat 3 podium).

10 wins club

Oleksij Iwachnenko, 26 years, 57 races
Franz Schwackhöfer, 27 years, 83 races
Boaz Trakhtenbrot, 28 years, 81 races
Nikola Tesla, 28 years, 123 races
NgôBao Châu, 29 years, 67 races
Ferenc Krausz, 30 years, 101 races
August Oetker, 30 years, 105 races
Geoffrey Hinton, 33 years, 232 races
Alexandros Karatzoglou, 33 years, 247 races

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Krausz joins 15k points club

Ferenc Krausz ist the third rider to reach 15k points for AAD. He is the youngest and fastest rider to get to 15k at the age of 30 after 105 races. He got the necessary points at today's vuelta stage where he finished 7th and defended the red jersey. Next goal for Ferenc is the points record of 16,608 by Trakthenbrot.

15k Club
Ferenc Krausz, 30y, 105r
Boaz Trakhtenbrot, 33y, 152r
Alessandro Volta, 33y, 125r

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August 2024

The team could avoid a relegation to Division 2. With 10,916 points we endet up on rank 10. With 13 wins (5x Krausz, 2x Oppenheimer, 2x Drinfeld, 2x Babai, Kalman, Quickley) in 30 races, the month was very successfull. Mainly because of a small and climber weak Vuelta afternoon edition. A total of 8 Vuelta stages out of the first 13 were won. Krausz dominates the GC fight so far and Kalman and Oppenheimer could also win stages already. At San Sebastian, Drinfeld got a second place, fighting for the win there but with unlucky hanging. But Drinfeld could win Circuito de Getxo. Early in the month, we started with a cheap team around Baltuska at Vuelta a Burgos. Baltuska won white there and finished 4th in GC, Babai could win stage 1 and wear the GC leader jersey. With 7,147 points we start at rank 2 in Division 1 in September.

Rider of the month
Ferenc Krausz winning 5 stages at the Vuelta is our rider of the month. Yes the group is not that strong, but still. Krausz on the way to become the most successfull A&D rider concerning eternal points after the Vuelta.

Transfers
Michael Faraday ended his carreer when the team was in Spain. He was our pave captain in 2024 but with just x sprint, he was not really successfull. In 167 races he could achieve 2 pave wins (1 stage at TdP, Trofeo de Presa Allende). At Paris-Roubaix he ended up on place 7.

Michael Faraday, 37, 167, 2 wins, 1,171 points
Bought: 49-70-50-51-47 71,8 41reg
Peak: 53-86 with 83 pave

We also signed a new youth rider. The 21 year old German rider Hans-Görg Roos should improve your team in flat terrain. He will focus to train flat for the first month and maybe will be present in some early escapes after the Vuelta.

Hans-Görg Roos, 21y
Bought: 51-73-65-54-45-67.0 48 reg
Goal: 56-87

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Krausz joins 15 Wins Club

Ferenc Krausz celebrates his 7th Vuelta stage win and joins the team's 15 wins club at the age of 31 after 111 races. He will get 2 more stage win chances at the end of the Spanish GT by the end of the week.

15 Wins Club
Oleksij Iwachnenko, 27 years, 89 races
Boaz Trakhtenbrot, 30 years, 107 races
Ferenc Krausz, 31 years, 111 races
Nikola Tesla, 30 years, 162 races
Franz Schwackhöfer, 33 years, 124 races
Geoffrey Hinton, 34 years, 245 races
Alexandros Karatzoglou, 35 years, 292 races

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Alive And Dead celebrate 300th race win (2024-09-05)

The winning streak at the Vuelta 2024 seems endless. We nearly forgot to celebrate the 300th win in the team history. 1370 races were needed for 300 wins, which means a winning percentage of 21.9%. In the eternal ranking A&D now ranks at place 44. Togother with the 206 wins of the former teams (flockmastoR/Equipe Mathematique/Dead And Alive) we have a total winning percentage of 16.2% (507 wins in 3122 races) and would be ranked on place 16.