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First World Tour Event 2016! A must for Team FL. Therefore, the Liechtenstein cycling team will attend with the following riders (most likely):

x1 Hassan Dif
x2 Perry Henzell
x3 Carlos Lampe
x4 Ignatz Lichtenstein
x5 Otto Ospelt
x6 Elwyn Oxley
x7 Robertlandy Simon
x8 Carlos Tejeda
x9 Barton Zwiebach

Substitutes may be Tasher or Breytenbach for Zwiebach.

Last year, Paul Betancourt won the Tour Down Under. A title defence will be difficult though, mainly because Paul has already retidert and because the team is not as strong as last year. Anyway, I hope more teams will be attending that at the Tour des Pavés. Which should not be very difficult... So, no worries, mate!

Team Liquigas-CND is already in Australia with the following 11 riders:

Massimo Croce - out
Matias Delgado
Predrag Zivkovic
Dario Malacarne
Miguel Perez
Milan Kovacevic
Dejan Markovic
Carlos Murillo
Alessandro De Marco
Vito Calabrese
Krasimir Tonev

We came here to ride for Massimo but this old dirty bastard spent all night with 2 whores therefore the team manager decided to let him enjoy the trip in Australia....
Still 10 riders... we have to make another choice...

1 Tibault Vlietinck
2 Cristophe Callens
3 Thijs Aerts
4 Mats Vandeputte
5 Nathan Gressens
6 Gilles Sweeck
7 Jens Teuckens
8 Dante Stevens
9 Brent Luyckx

7 Teams only... And only three climbers over 80 mountain (which might change tonight during training though). Anyway, here is the favourite check:

General classement:

***** Dario Costaaa (Lubazim Team)
**** Uffe Bech Tulpengeneral), Oswaldo Montero (kernabateam)
*** Christophe Callens (No More Idols)
** Dario Malacarne (Liquigas-CND), Taigo Machado (Lubazim Team), Carlos Lampe (Team FL)
* a surprise rider (Classic rider, early escape, ...)

Points classement:

*** a sprinter (Vlietinck, Henzell)
** a classic rider with sprint (Oxley, Vandeputte, Castillo, etc.)
* a surprise rider

Youth classement:

*** Uffe Bech (Tulpengeneral)
** Oswaldo Montero (kernabateam)
* Dario Malacarne (Liquigas-CND), Carlos Lampe (Team FL)

Mountain classement:

*** the one who wants it
** another rider
* a surprise rider

Team classement:

*** no idea
** no idea
* no idea

First stage ended with a bunch sprint as expected, lead by No More Idols and Team FL who caught the early group quite, well, early. Also kernabateam blocked during the last km after Tulpengeneral launched another attack. Finally, it was Viletinck from No Mor Idols who could defend a very short gap against Henzell and win the stage 1. Mountain jersey will be worn by Dias (Lubazim team) tomorrow.

Semper Fidelis here without any Goals and leaders.

having some fun in Australia and having some nice small talk are the main reasons to start here.

earning some Money for buying helpers here and lets see if there is a chance to win a stage.

Tulpen favo as always

Another exciting stage ended with an unexpected winner: Schoissengeier had the right instinct and was the only who followed Callens attack at the last km and then outsprinted him on the final meters. Behind them, it was Rui Costaaa who could gain some seconds against the peloton with the other GC guys. So at the moment it's SChoissengeier in yellow, 4 secs in front of Callens who then again is 4 secs in front of Costaaa. The rest of the bulk is at 15 seconds. The stage itself begun with another Lubazim attack for red with Dias and a helper together with the flower Vit Turtenwald. After a while, Team FL reacted and sent two rider in front itself, Otto Ospelt and Carlos Tejeda. Obviously, Liquigas-CND didn't like that and controlled the gap until others took over. Eventually, it was No More Idols who did the most work for his stage chances. The rest is history.

The results:

24.01.2016,14 Uhr Down Under
1. Platz: Uffe Bech (Tulpengeneral)
2. Platz: Cristophe Callens (No More Idols)
3. Platz: Rui Costaaa (Lubazim team)
Bergtrikot: Rui Costaaa (Lubazim team)
Sprinttrikot: Tibault Vlietinck (No More Idols)
Jungfahrertrikot: Uffe Bech (Tulpengeneral)
Mannschaftswertung: Team FL (!)

Stage wins by riders:
1 - Uffe Bech (Tulpengeneral)
1 - Rui Costaaa (Lubazim team)
1 - Perry Henzell (Team FL)
1 - Victor Romero (kernabateam)
1 - Johannes Schoissengeier (Tulpengeneral)
1 - Tibault Vlietinck (No More Idols)

Stage wins by teams:
2 - Tulpengeneral
1 - kernabateam
1 - Lubazim team
1 - No More Idols
1 - Team FL