Los Galacticos

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Vuelta - 21. San S. de los Reyes - Madrid (85 km)
Vega for the second time in a row



1. Ernesto Vega (Aixteam)
2. Peer Pils (Neutrogena)
3. Ueli Stieger (Onkel-Eddy)
4. Santiago Gonzalez (Aston Team)
5. Guilherme Callado
...
8. Emile Daems
9. Benjamin Gourgue
17. Diego del Rios
21. Ignacio Castillo
30. Adriano Perreira
35. Luiz Foguete
91. Jorge Felicandes
96. Felipe Garrido

This was the last stage of Vuelta 2010. It was much fun and also some frustrating and not so good moments. All in all a great tour for the team with 4 stages and the green jersey at the end.

Jerseys of Vuelta 2010:
Lionel Terray
Adrien Dalcin
Guilherme Callado
Erik Huseklepp

General Classement:
1. Lionel Terray (Cerro Torre RT)
2. Roberto Vera (Aston Team) +2:25
3. Wesley Boogerd (Egsdorfer) +3:00

4. Erik Huseklepp (Demuth) +3:08
5. Benjamin Gourgue +3:51
...
12. Ignacio Castillo +15:54
23. Jorge Felicandes +30:13
29. Adriano Perreira +1:02:48
30. Guilherme Callado +1:08:14
35. Luiz Foguete +1:58:20
36. Felipe Garrido +1:59:06
73. Diego del Rios +4:00:26
90. Emile Daems +5:29:16

Mountain jersey:
1. Adrien Dalcin 126 pts.
2. Lionel Terray 96 pts.
3. Adriano Perreira 75 pts.

Sprint jersey:
1. Guilherme Callado 183 pts.
2. Benjamin Gourgue 169 pts.
3. Wesley Boogerd 166 pts.

U25 classement:
1. Erik Huseklepp
2. Marko Birsa
3. Felipe Garrido

Team Classement:
1. Demuth
2. Larapana +7:58
3. Los Galacticos +12:58

Financial summary:
Salary paid: 3.500.364 €
Money earned: 3.597.250 €

benefit: +96.886 €

[el Galactico]

Transfer news
Daems out again, Walker in

One day after the Vuelta the management had to present their first move to save the team from the bankrupt. The aims for this are that no rider who had some success for the team should be sold before his retirement(Foguete,del Rios). But on the other hand the salary is way to much at the moment so that Emile Daems was sold yesterday and for him we can present our new member and the first one of Australia(after the nations commitee solved the problem).

His name is Johnnie Walker and is is an ambitious young guy especially for flat and downhill parts.

Johnnie Walker 50-73-78-49-43; 35 reg.



The next step to save the team is again very difficult. There is no rider who would be no problem to be sold. Felipe Garrido shows up a good training and developes so good that the management has big problems to lose him. Robinho on the other hand is to yound that you can say he failed with his training even if he already missed one important flat training one week ago.

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Transfer news -2-

One day later the next transfers were done. Everything from yesterday was forgotten when the manager saw Demont Mitchell on the TM.

SO he decided to sell both Robinho de Souza, who never participated in a race in his 21 days in the team and Felipe Garrido. Felipe was member of the Vuelta team and he did a good training this month so everybody is very sad about this decision but this was the only chance to buy Mitchell who is just an incredible rider even if he is already 31 years old.

1,8 millions are left for a second new rider which will be definitely a more or less young guy for less money and with a low salary.

Demont Mitchell 69-87-46-46-50 reg. 53

The last new rider:

Ricardo daSilva 49-76-65-51-56; reg.43

[olmania]

Demont Mitchell 69-87-46-46-50 reg. 53

It's CHEAT !

[el Galactico]

Gp de Bielsko-Biala
Mitchell's first race, Callado wins an interesting race

Today the team started in Poland for the first time after the end of the Vuelta. Finanicial problems and a big transfer activity lead to it. Today all of our 3 new guys were part of the team which started to win here. As we saw our competitiors we began to have fear because Radler brought Tour de France winner and Vuelta-2. Jean Colieu with him.
The race was a course of 5 rounds. Every round the peloton had to climb up to the Mont Gorska.
Radler controlled the race at the beginning where a 9 man group tried to win the race by an escape. Our team sometimes helped Radler with the new rider Johnnie Walker, an 21 year old australien.
After the 4th passage of Mont Gorska not much had happened and the gap to the group was closed more and more by the work of Radler. About 30 kms before the finish line it was Egsdorfer with Joel Berkhout and Michael Huntelaar who tried to escape from the field, but now our team became more active. Diego del Rios, Ricardo daSilva and Eddy Wouters hold the gap to Egsdorfer at about 10 seconds.
Then the first little climb has to be done and it was Equipe Legende who forced the tempo and the peloton falls into peaces. Luckily our 4 important guys Castillo, Perreira, Mitchell and of course Callado were able to stay in the first group.
This changed when the real climb began with 2 kms with 6% slope. There it was a selection by Coulieu who spread the field completely into parts.
Our group with Callado came 13 seconds behind the first group over the mountain. Between them there was a second group with the other favorites like Pete Feete (Radler) or Benoit Chellis (Olcycle).
On the downhill it was Adriano Perreira who was able to hold the gap and when it became more and more flat he closed the gap up to 10 seconds. Then our new star domestique Demont Mitchell started with tempo and he closed the gap when the group reaches the flamme rouge. In the sprint of a now 25 men big group it was no problem for Guilherme Callado to win.
It's his 8th win of his career. This are more wins than Leandro daSouza has to this time. Maybe a excellent sign for Callado. Or not? Demont Mitchell is already 31, but now we dont think about that.
We will try to use the time we have with such an incredible strong team in hill sprint.

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Season review September

The team participated in 20 races this month and we won 3 out of them. One stage was for Ben Gourgue during the Vuelta. The 2 other stages won Guilherme Callado, one at the Vuelta and one after the Vuelta in Poland with the big help of Demont Mitchell in his first race for the team. Ben Gourgue finished 5th in GC of the Vuelta while Callado was able to win the sprint jersey at the end.
With Johnnie Walker and Ricardo daSilva and of course Demont Mitchell 3 new guys signed a contract in our team this month. Therefore Emile Daems, Felipe Garrido and Robinho deSouza had to leave us.


Rider of the Month

There are 2 candidates this month for our rider of the month.

One is of course Benjamin Gourgue with 1 stage, a 5th place GC Vuelta and all in all 2030 eternal points this month.

The second one is Guilherme Callado with 2 stages, the sprint jersey and 1503 eternal points.

The win of the jersey makes the difference, so its again Guilherme Callado who has to honour to be rider of the month. Congratulations!

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Franco-Belge
Callado wins last stage, but misses GC victory

From the 29th of September up to the 2nd of October the team was in Belgium and particpated at the little 4-days-tour Franco-Belge. Our goals were to win the last stage and maybe the GC.
The other teams of our little field with 11 teams were:
OLcycle (with his stars Arturo Vencho, Benoit Chellis and sprinter Augustin Lozano)
Aston Team (S.Gonzalez, M.Birsa)
Team Fuchser (sprinter Siedney Crosby)
Elaska (Boudra,Wazari)
Dreizehn
Sport
SkyFire
team aralsee
EQfriends
Lausitz Racing

The first 3 stages were more or less flat except of some early hills were the fight for the climbers jersey has to be decided. The last stage was different. There it was a steep hill 10 kms before the finish line. The chance for Guilherme Callado to win stage and maybe GC as well.

The first stage ended up with an easy sprint which was won by the best sprinter Siedney Crosby before Lozano and Wazari. Callado came in on 8th place. Arturo Vencho won the most mountain points and so was the first guy in the red jersey.

01. 00:00:00 Siedney Crosby (Team Fuchser)
02. 00:00:00 Augustin Lozano (OLcycle)
03. 00:00:00 Jalel Wazari (Elaska)
04. 00:00:00 Santiago Gonzalez (Aston Team)
05. 00:00:00 Karim Boudra (Elaska)
08. 00:00:00 Guilherme Callado (Los Galacticos)

The second stage and the same procedure.

Again a sprint, this time it was Santiago Gonzalez from Aston. Good for Callado. He finished on place 9 this time.

01. 00:00:00 Santiago Gonzalez (Aston Team)
02. 00:00:00 Hans Holm (EQfriends)
03. 00:00:00 Jamal Zimba (Dreizehn)
04. 00:00:00 Siedney Crosby (Team Fuchser)
05. 00:00:00 Augustin Lozano (OLcycle)
09. 00:00:00 Guilherme Callado (Los Galacticos)

On the 3rd stage we had again a sprint, no wonder with the strong team of Fuchser. Even if he nearly had no help of the other sprinter teams he always easily managed to win. Joey Lennon took over the climbers jersey because OLcycle missed the first kms. IN the sprint it was again Siedney Crosby with the deserved victory.

01. 00:00:00 Siedney Crosby (Team Fuchser)
02. 00:00:00 Jalel Wazari (Elaska)
03. 00:00:00 Torben Becker (SkyFire )
04. 00:00:00 Santiago Gonzalez (Aston Team)
05. 00:00:00 Augustin Lozano (OLcycle)
06. 00:00:00 Guilherme Callado (Los Galacticos)

The last stage then was our stage. Luckily we had more help than we needed for this. Fuchser did a great job for another time. Vencho won his climbers jersey back and Joey Lennon won the jersey for the best rider under 25. But this was only because nobody really wanted it. Lausitz did so much mistakes.
At the last +6 the tempo was then raised by Castillo and all sprinters fell behind. Adriano Perreira and Demont Mitchell then managed easily to bring Callado to his next victory. Unfortunately only 9 seconds before the group of Crosby. Henrik Kielland could stay in the group of Callado as well and with his seconds from the intermediate sprints he ended up with 3 seconds before Callado on the 2. place in the GC.

01. 00:00:00 Guilherme Callado (Los Galacticos)
02. 00:00:00 Alberto Pepe (Sport)
03. 00:00:00 Marko Birsa (Aston Team)
04. 00:00:00 Henrik Kielland (Dreizehn)
05. 00:00:00 Benoit Chellis (OLcycle)
...
15. 00:00:09 Siedney Crosby (Team Fuchser)

General Classement:

01. 00:00:00 Siedney Crosby (Team Fuchser)
02. 00:00:09 Henrik Kielland (Dreizehn)
03. 00:00:11 Guilherme Callado (Los Galacticos)
04. 00:00:16 Joey Lennon (Lausitz Racing)
05. 00:00:23 Marko Birsa (Aston Team)
06. 00:00:25 Ignacio Castillo (Los Galacticos)
07. 00:00:25 Christian Stucki (Dreizehn)
08. 00:00:28 Augustin Lozano (OLcycle)
09. 00:00:31 Benoit Chellis (OLcycle)
10. 00:00:31 Peter Nix (Aston Team)
11. 00:00:31 Demont Mitchell (Los Galacticos)
12. 00:00:31 Vilin Czosic (SkyFire )
13. 00:00:31 Pedro Lenito (Dreizehn)
14. 00:00:31 Adriano Perreira (Los Galacticos)
15. 00:00:31 Jack Hilton (Dreizehn)
16. 00:00:32 Torben Becker (SkyFire )
17. 00:00:32 Jamal Zimba (Dreizehn)
18. 00:00:32 Arturo Vencho (OLcycle)
19. 00:00:33 Santiago Gonzalez (Aston Team)
20. 00:00:33 Jalel Wazari (Elaska)
...
23. 00:00:40 Luiz Foguete (Los Galacticos)
63. 00:10:41 Ricardo daSilva (Los Galacticos)
79. 00:19:06 Johnnie Walker (Los Galacticos)
83. 00:20:52 Eddy Wouters (Los Galacticos)
87. 00:35:55 Diego DelRios (Los Galacticos)

Team Classement:
1.Los Galacticos 00:00:00
2.Dreizehn 00:00:00
3. Aston Team 00:00:09
4. OLcycle 00:00:18
5. SkyFire 00:00:18

[el Galactico]

Kurnool - Komarolu
Callado with big footsteps

Today the team started in India for a one-day-race which could be a good one for Guilherme Callado. As we saw our opponents we were a little bit scared about the strong team of topsport with 5 classic riders. With temperatures near to 30° Celsius and sun it was a very hard race for the team from the beginning on because we had to control the gap to a big group alone.
After Walker, daSilva and Wouters did what they could it was the team of Radunion who began to help our next guy in tempo, Diego del Rios. The group in front would have won the race quite easy but they didnt manged to work together so that they missed this chance.
About 50 kms before the finish it was as expected topsport with an attack. After the second last mountain he was in a big group with 4 guys from his team and several other riders form different teams. But this group was only max. 25 seconds before the group with Callado where now Luiz Foguete and a rider from Radunion made tempo.
Thanks to this good cooperation it was no problem to get the group back on the flat part on the way to the last hill. Some other attacks were no problem so that the group came together to the steepest part of this hill which was on the last km with a slope of 6%.
There it was Ignacio Castillo who forced the tempo and left a group of 43 riders in front. In this group was also the hill sprinter of Radunion, Mihail Tepes.
The last 5 kms were no problem and Demont Mitchell again hold everything together so that it came to a mass sprint at the end.
In the sprint Callado took the early wheel of Karl Grimsbo (Team PDM) and was able to win by a half wheel in front of Tepes.
It is already his 10th victory and this with only 27 years and after 97 races.

[Lizard]

30°C? We had 40! Nevertheless, good rider, nice victory rate!

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Giro dell Emilia
Gourgue signs new contract and wins his first classic race ever

Benjamin Gourgue wins second classic race of team historie. What a great race and one of the closest finishes ever.

First there was a group which was max. 9 minutes in front of the peloton where Radler and Radlerinnen chased them. Nothing deciding happened until the first passage of the 2 km climb up to San Luca, there it was Demont Mitchell with a selection. Only Coulieu and one helper of top-favorite Radler were able to stay in the first group of the favorites.
With 4 guys in front it was then our team which closed the gap to the escapers in front. When the second round up to San Luca started the tempo was again raised by our team. This time it was Jorge Felicandes and at the last km of the climb he attacked together with Ben Gourgue. Only Michel Zakarian and Lorenz Lindelöf were able to follow them.
After that Jorge did a great race by holding the gap to the group behind which was 1:20 behind them when they came again to the San Luca climb. There it was Michel Zakarian who took over the tempo and lead the group on the top. In the following flat part Lorenz Lindelöf started an attack and Gourgue was forced to chase him while Zakarian could stay and wait in his wheel. Gourgue catched Lindelöf back on the second last climb up to San Luca. Behind them there was now a group of 2 climbers which were about 30 seconds behind, Frank Dagewo (fresim) and Gabriele Corvia (US Lecce). But with the help of Lindelöf in the flat parts our group was able to hold the gap up to the last 2 kms where they again had to climb up to San Luca (all in all 5 times). Ben Gourgue tried a last attack but the fit Zakarian was able to stay in his wheel while Lindelöf fell behind them. On the last meters both waited long and then it was Gourgue who opened the sprint a second earlier but Zakarian countered this attack and they both roll over the finish line. Nobody could say who had won. But the foto said it was Gourgue by milimeters. Great race and with Wookie a great opponent who deserved the win as well.

01. 00:00:00 Benjamin Gourgue (Los Galacticos)
02. 00:00:00 Michel Zakarian (Wookie)
03. 00:00:22 Frank Dagewo (fresim)
04. 00:00:22 Gabriele Corvia (Us Lecce)
05. 00:00:22 Lorenz Lindelöf (Wookie)

By the way it is the 70th victory for the team.

After the race the team announced another good news. They thought about to sell Gourgue but after this win they decided to give him a new contract.

[el Galactico]

Paris - Tours
Callado finishes in Top 10

After the third place from Leandro last year we wanted to shoot up the big coup with a victory in Tours, the finish of one of the most important one-day-races for sprinters. Several attacks by Diego del Rios, Demont Mitchell and Ignacio Castillo were destroyed by the good work of the sprinter teams, especially by ZL and Ciclistas. So at the end it came to a mass sprint where Guilhe was able to get the wheel of Ryder Hesjedal (JPS Classics) but the other sprinters were attentive enough and started their sprint so early as well so that there was no chance for Callado to win. At the end he finished the race on P8, 5 places behind the result of last year.
Winner of the race became Luigi Razzo( ZL) in front of Markus Kügerl (Team Warriors) and Rotem Rabbi (Ciclistas).

01. 00:00:00 Luigi Razzo (Zauberlehrlinge)
02. 00:00:00 Markus Kügerl (Team Warriors)
03. 00:00:00 Rotem Rabbi (Ciclistas)
04. 00:00:00 Tibor Toth (Riding Stars)
05. 00:00:00 Aija Inese (NoPikouze)
06. 00:00:00 Axel HallinWiklund (Nano team)
07. 00:00:00 Karl Eiterolloid (Petit Singe)
08. 00:00:00 Guilherme Callado (Los Galacticos)
09. 00:00:00 Rudolf Kral (Team Suessem)
10. 00:00:00 Jawad Azizi (NoPikouze)

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Tour de Crimèe - Stage 1
Callado wins first stage in Ukraine

The first stage of this tour in Ukraine over 5 days had a 20 km long mountain at the beginning and after the downhill the field still had to ride about 80 kms flat to the finish. So for a hill sprint our team had to do much work because they needed a big selection at the beginning and they had to win much time on the way up. After Jorge Felicandes spread the field into parts on the first steep km it was himself who did the rest of the mountain. On the top his group was about 4 minutes in front of the sprinters so that there was no problem to hold them behind.
But at the end Luiz Foguete was not so strong and an attack by Dachdecker and Smith became dangerous because they created a hole of 14 seconds to the group. Because of a great work of Mitchell and del Rios they were able to get these 2 back and Callado had no problem to win the sprint of the group. He is now leader of GC and sprint classement. A lot of money for the team.
The 11th victory for Guilhe and already the 3rd one this month.

Stage 1: Yalta - Simferopol

01. 00:00:00 Guilherme Callado (Los Galacticos)
02. 00:00:00 Emma Green (Vuvuzela)
03. 00:00:00 Mathieu Zorko (Fours Once)
04. 00:00:00 Andrej Lawrov (Team Erdalkfrei)
05. 00:00:00 Angel Ramos (Team Franconia)

Stage 2: Simferopol - Dzhankoy

01. 00:00:00 Jakob Hoddis (Piz Nair)
02. 00:00:00 Philippe Lemaitre (Fours Once)
03. 00:00:00 Simon Terode (SachsenPower)
04. 00:00:00 Bernhard Riemann (Equipe Mathematique)
05. 00:00:00 Fokke Zylstra (Team Kajutschka)
06. 00:00:00 Guilherme Callado (Los Galacticos)

Stage 3a: Lystvynne - Feodosiya

01. 00:00:00 Simon Terode (SachsenPower)
02. 00:00:00 Guilherme Callado (Los Galacticos)
03. 00:00:00 Fokke Zylstra (Team Kajutschka)
04. 00:00:00 Jakob Hoddis (Piz Nair)
05. 00:00:00 Philippe Lemaitre (Fours Once)

Stage 3b: Feodosiya - Pidhirne

01. 00:00:00 Angel Ramos (Team Franconia)
02. 00:00:02 Iwan Kokorin (Team Kajutschka)
03. 00:00:18 Tobias Dachdecker (Team Erdalkfrei)
04. 00:00:23 Viktor Scholz (MorBraz)
05. 00:00:27 Alejandro Moreno (bigmat)
20. 00:01:58 Ignacio Castillo (Los Galacticos)

Stage 5: Feodosiya - Partyzans_ke

01. 00:00:00 Mark Kerller (TheBestOff)
02. 00:00:00 Colo Regenschein (Piz Nair)
03. 00:00:09 Iwan Kokorin (Team Kajutschka)
04. 00:00:09 Ignacio Castillo (Los Galacticos)
05. 00:00:09 Mat Smith (bigmat)

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Tour de Crimèe - Stage 5
Callado ends tour in Ukraine with his second stage win and green jersey

Stage 5: Vinohradnyi - Sevastopol

01. 00:00:00 Guilherme Callado (Los Galacticos)
02. 00:00:00 Emma Green (Vuvuzela)
03. 00:00:00 Michael Mullermann (DJK Nilkheim)
04. 00:00:00 Iwan Kokorin (Team Kajutschka)
05. 00:00:00 Mathieu Zorko (Fours Once)

At the end we won the green jersey, 2 stages and with Ignacio Castillo one guy was able to ride under the Top 10 in GC. He became 9th at the end. Financially it this Tour was okay. A win of 273.530 € is not bad even if we hoped for more at the beginning of this tour.

For the money we now bought a helper which will get about 25k salary. Jacques Dore from France is 28 years old and a pure helper with a good regeneration.

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Giro di Lombardia
Gourgue not in form only on place 9

Young Jamie Bearclaw from Team Bearclaw won the morning edition of the last monumental race this year in a sprint out of a 5 man group. Benjamin Gourgue was able to be in the first group until the last km where an attack splitted it into 2 groups. In front it was Jamie Bearclaw from the wheel of Manuele diVaio with the win. Favorite Damian Hewitt only ended up on place 2. In the second group Gourgue sprinted late and so was only able to reach the 9th place at all. Ignacio Castillo finished the race as 23rd after a good performance as helper for Gourgue.



National Championships

Australia: not started
Bahamas: not started
Belgium: 21. Gourgue
Brazil: 5. Callado
Spain: 3. Castillo
France: not started

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Tour du Jura
Gourgue grab the last stage and 2nd in GC

The Tour du Jura was a very mountainous 4 stage Tour with one 22 km TTT on the second day. Benjamin Gourgue, our leader, was in an excellent shape when he arrived in Switzerland for his first race after the disappointing race at the last classic race of the year in Italy. On the first day he had to realize that he had two strong opponents with Jean Coulieu and Lionel Terray. At the end of this first stage he became 3rd and lost a over 30 seconds to winner Coulieu. A bad day for him, even Terray was faster at the end. On the second day Terray had to say goodbye from GC because 6 riders had to give up the race on the first day. With only 3 riders left for the TTT he got a 20 minutes penalty. Coulieu with his strong team around him won about another 45 seconds to Gourgue, the GC was decided after 2 days. The third day brought no changes in front. Coulieu won his second stage, Ben became second and lost another 10 seconds.

Then on the last day he tried a different tactic and didnt try to follow Coulieu. Instead he only forced the tempo when he attacked. And then on the 2 km of the 4 km climb he attacked by himself and this time Coulieu was not able to follow. At the end Ben was only 2 seconds in front of Coulieu but it was the stage win as he hoped. With a good 2. place in GC and also a 2. in the sprinters classement the team was able to gain some important money for the following changes in the teams line-up in the next time.

[el Galactico]

Season review October 2010

The month started with the little tour Franco-Belge. 3 flat stages and then one which were perfect for Callado. So he had hopes to win this tour maybe. The strong sprint team of Fuchser destroyed this dream by winning to stages with his sprinter and getting the time bonus by that and on the last stage he showed an impressive performance when he was able to defend his lead easily. Nevertheless Callado won this last stage and finished 3rd place in GC. The team also won the teams classement.

After that the month continued with one day races. Callado was again able to win a cat. 1 race on the 6th somewhere in India from Kurnool - Komarolu.

3 days later it became Benjamin "Gurke" Gougues big day when he won the Giro dell Emilia with an impressive early attack. The second classic for the team and the first one for him. Last autumn classic, the monument Lombardia one week later was then a more or less desaster when Gourgue was only able to finish on place 9 in this important last race of the real season.

Between these 2 races the team started in the Ukraine for the Tour de Crimée. Guilherme Callado won 2 stages and the green jersey.

The last event this month then was the Tour du Jura. Ben Gourgue was in a good shape and was able to win the last stage and became 2nd in GC with that. Over one minute behind Jean Coulieu (Radler).

At the end the team started in 22 races and won 6 out of them. With a 4th place in the 1st Division we were easily able to stay with the best teams in RSF universe.

Rider of the month October

As usual there are only 2 riders with the chance to become rider of the month.

Callado won 4 stages and the green jersey of the Tour de Crimée.
Ben Gourgue won the Giro dell Emilia (Cat.4) and one stage at the Tour du Jura.

This time we decided to give the award to Gourgue because the quality of the races he won this month is much bigger than the ones of Callado. Congrats Ben!

[el Galactico]

Transfer news

Silent ending of the career of Jorge Felicandes last night. The former Paris-Nice 2010 and Tour de France-stage winner canceled his contract with the team. With now 32 years he could have done 2 additional years in the team but his race days became less in the last 2 months since Castillo trained better. Then after the managers saw a nice talent coming up on the transfermarket they reacted and Jorge left the team. Unfortunately this young talent then decided to sign a better contract for another team in the last minutes before he should have signed for us. We are curious about how he developes in the next time.
But the team had another good plan. We went back to our original plan to buy a follower for Diego del Rios. And we found one which is nearly a copy of him.

From Recife in Brazil we like to present to you:

Joaquim Tigre 49-73-77-51-56 reg. 50

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Back to Jorge Felicandes. Maybe he has the chance to end his career in another little team. When i came in the team he was the new hope for another strong classic rider after Alejandro Espinoza, to this time he was one of the supertalents in RSF. But he developed not as good as we hoped. With 22 he won the climbers jersey of the Tour de Marmara. But his training was not that good. Disappointing from 22 to 24 years. But nevertheless in march 2010 he had his best month when he won the GC of Paris-Nice, additionally he got one stage and the jersey for the best young rider. In June he won a the mountain jersey of La Dauphiné after an great fight with several other riders. One month later his second big victory. Maybe the biggest one. Starting at the Tour de France he was able to win stage number 12 from Sisteron to Bourg les Valence. IN the same month he showed his talent for the last time by winning the little criterium Route de Feurs.



Jorge Felicandes

178 races
3 stages
winner of Paris-Nice
2 mountain jerseys
1 young riders classement

5055 eternal points (actual: Place 6 in team history)

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Criterium de Lafontaine
old man Luiz Foguete survives 75 km breakaway by 15 seconds

Nice little race. The first 6-men-race for the team, we are not really a friend of this at the moment. But of course we tried everything and at the end we took the win away from this race by great performance.
75 kms before the finish Luiz and teammate Diego del Rios started the deciding breakaway. With a gap of maximum 3 minutes the manager never thought of having a chance to win. After the last mountain Luiz then was still over 2 minutes in front, the first time we started to hope for more.
At the end he won the race by only 15 seconds in front of the big group with the sprinters. Castillo finished 22nd.

The 74th win for the team and again one month were we reached our minimum goal to win at least one stage per month. Great!!

[el Galactico]

Stratford - Dargo
Gourgue wins again!

Benjamin Gourgue today won already the second race for the team this month.

In absence of most of the top climbers he easily decided the short race with the finish on the top of the Hibernian Hill. At the end he had 33 seconds before the second Pascal Völker came in. Ignacio Castillo finished on a good 14th place as well.
From the start on it was no problem to control a little 3 men group which had a maximum lead of 6:30 minutes. With some help of teams like Radlerinnen and DJK Nilkheim it was an easy work in the peloton, nobody really tried to attack serious before the last mountain. At the end Castillo lead the peloton into the first more or less flat part of the mountain. On the second km then it was Ben with his strong attack. On this 1 km he build up a gap of nearly 30 seconds to the other climbers and he was able to open this gap to over 30 seconds. Behind the other climbers decimated theirselves by several attacks.

Its now the 8th victory for Gourgue in his career. Without form, but nevertheless an easy thing for him.
Btw it was the 75th victory for the team.

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Awaso Cycling Cup
Callado again on the top, 12 to go...

Nearly one month after his last victory Guilherme Callado continued his way of success with a close win in the sprint against another hill sprinter Rodrigo Lonna.

A good cooperation between us and the team of Lonna, Bayern Power, compensated the hot weather in Africa and the fact that it was a race for only 8 riders per team. Quite a hard work but at the end it was for the win, so everything was okay and good. At the beginning a group of 4 attacked and got over 9 minutes before Jacques Dore began to chase them. At the end they were catched short after the last steep hill where the deciding separation to the sprinters was done by Ignacio Castillo. Like always in these days it was Demont Mitchell with a great performance at the end who catched the last attackers and brought the group to the finish line. There Callado hang on the wheel of the early sprinting Rajan Gandhi while Lonna was in his wheel but he sprinted to late from Guilhe's wheel so that he was able to bring this win to home.

Already the 3rd victory for the team this month.

Meanwhile Luiz Foguete is on the way to become the rider with the most races for our team. He is only 6 races away from our legend and leader in this category Alejandro Espinoza. The link to the statistics is down below in the signature if you want to get to know more about our team and our history.

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Kaptai Lake Road
Callado reigns again...
The short race "Kaptai Lake Road" today was at the end an really easy victory for Guilherme Callado. He won the sprint out of the first group easily while his main opponent Tom Bacher from RC Lukas crossed the finish line 15 seconds after him, beaten by a great work from Castillo and Mitchell.
The only dangerous attack was destroyed by Mitchell nearly immediately after they escaped out of the first group a few kms before the end.

This is win number 14 for our current superstar and again some money for a new classic rider hopefully coming in the next days.

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Gran Premio de Lanzarote
victory number 4 in November. Callado and Mitchell with a top performance!

2 days after his last victory it was again Guilherme Callado who was able to win a one day race for our team this month. For him it was the 3rd time in this month and the 15 win overall.
At the beginning the race was very easy and only 2 men tried their luck in an escape. About 70 kms before the finish the team Indy Colts started to raise the tempo and splitted the peloton into 2 parts. All strong riders form our team were in front but the helpers were missing by hard. An good attack then by Indy again who had one guy from Liquigas in his wheel became dangerous because they immediately created a big gap from nearly one minute. ON the last possible km to leave the sprinter behind it was Castillo with the selection and then Foguete who closed the gap little by little. It looked good for the 2 escapers but the about 7 kms before the finish it was Demont Mitchell who came into tempo and destroyed all their hopes by just 1 km tempo.

At the end he easily managed to get these 2 and he also destroyed all followind tries to jump away.

The sprint was then again no problem for leader Callado. A race which was much more interesting than we expected at the start.

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Transfer news
new classic rider hope signed contract for next season...

Some days of waiting and hoping are over, we have a new classic rider youngster. He took a lot of time to sign this contract but at the end he did and the price plus salary showed that the hard discussions were worth the effort. He is not the perfect rider but with some luck in training he can become a good rider in classic races. We wished for a better sprint and pave skill but the price is more than good for him.
Lets come to the presentation.. ähh noo we have to mention before that Diego del Rios ended is career today with 34 years so that we had enough money to buy our new youngster.

So now lets present to you:


Inacio Araujo 55-74-72-51-53-65,6, reg. 43

He comes from the beaches of Rio de Janeiro and is the 6th rider form Brazil currently in the team. We wish him very much success and luck in the training. Hopefully he can help Callado to some victories and maybe he can show his own talent as well with some good results.

A tribute to Diego del Rios will follow later...

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Classique du Kachkadaria
Gourgue: 2nd win in 2nd race in November

It was his 2nd race this month but again he was able to win it. A very agressive races seemed to be over for the team after an attack by Perreira and Castillo failed. But Ben Gourgue doesnt show any bad signs and tried to keep his power for the end. He was focused on the wheel of Johannes Breitenbach and at the end this was the best decision he could make. Even with about 60 kms without a helper he was able to follow the germans attack on the last steep km short before the finish. A very good race by Nilkheim, the team of Breitenbach. At last steep km the two were able to fly away from the last escaper in front and they saved the gap into the finish.
The sprint was then so close that nobody has the power to raise his hands so that the foto finish showed the winner some minutes later. It was Ben Gourgue who took the 6th win in the 12th race of the team this month. A win percentage of 50! Great season for the team.

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Diego del Rios

Today the best flat rider of our team history retired with 34 years. Even if he was still in a very good shape he told us that the time had come and that he wants to give his place away for a young rider.
Diego signed his contract for our team with 22 years on the 1st of November 2009. He was a good flat rider with strong allround skills on pave, sprint and mountain. He developed very good and became more and more an important part of the team, even if he always got a high salary for a flat rider. In March '10 he showed up his incredibly good allround skills when he was able to win the first classic in team history. In preperation for Paris-Roubaix he won the E3 Harelbeke after a great attack on the last kms. A great result and in April he was able to show that he was not only a one hit wonder when he reached the 4th place in Roubaix behind Luiz Muchacho, Jan Vermaart and one other strong pave star. Maybe the best race of his career.
In June his big aim was to win the National Championship in Brazil and again it was the first time in team history that one guy won a NC. The first little flag. Unfortunately he was not able to defend his title 3 months later.
With his new title in the bag he started into the Tour de France with one clear aim, stage number 4 Wanze - Arenberg. The pave stage which destroyed so much GC dreams this year. It was his favorite terrain and at the end he won it in the sprint against one other rider. Close but nevertheless his 3rd stage win.
All 3 were very important ones for the team. The Tour stage was the first one in history as well.
After that Diego went out of the spotlight and took his role of one of the best helpers we ever had in our team. He leads Callado and all the others to several wins and always showed up great performances.
At the end of his career on this Friday in November 2010 he participated in 193 races. He won 3 times, always great wins. With 1988 eternal points he missed the 2000 points barrier by only 12 points. Nevertheless a great career ends today. Thank you Diego!

Diego del Rios

193 races

1. E3 Harelbeke
1x Brazilian Champion
1x Tour de France-stage
4. Paris-Roubaix

1988 eternal points