Written by Silenzio at 15:44 1/5-2023
Our sprinters were close but got beaten again and again by Navarone and Team AEK this season. We got beaten by a former rider in Vuelta, we lost the tie with Team AEK in Copa that only was a tie because of an unintended points structure in the cup, in Nederlandse we lost one of our captains to injury, and in the world championship we had to deal with superlegs of Sukkar. 2nd in Vuelta SC (Navarone), 2nd in Copa Salsa (Team AEK), 2nd in Nederlandse (Team AEK) and 2nd in World Championship (Navarone), made for a second donutseason for the sprintsquad in its absolute prime. A 4th place in Norwich-London was better than expected, but not a win either.
Luckily fortune found us in the climbing discipline: Zurich-Bern-Zurich (Esteves) and Germany Tour GC (Piekarski) were added to the palmares. Two of the most prestigious prizes in the OCM-world were gained that way! Also, Piekarski was 3rd in Provence.
We didn't target U23-races like last season, but we scored a couple of results of which one win with Kent de Meulder. Kent is one of our most promissing trained riders and intending to make fame for himself in the seasons to come.
Furthermore good news was that the race by own design (Rubiks) was won by Sima Ervin for the 2nd time in his career. Even in cobbling we started scoring this season, most notably 7th GC/2nd YC by De Vaddere in TvA, and 6th in Roubaix by Vilmos. An unintended TF for Simoni also brought us in a good amount of points. Still, we lack a clear cobblecaptain, and our attempts to hire or train one were unsuccesful so far. We saw transfertargets Gilje and Winters choose for Alpine and Rigana respectively. With Steffen Sijmonds we have another prospect from our own school though in training.
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Top 5 scoring riders of all-time
1.  Gus Bailey*: 2 jerseys, 14 wins, 30 results, 49 times money. Prize money: 463.5k. Points: 3734.
2. Rajnay Bela*: 2 trophies, 2 jerseys, 11 wins, 30 results, 44 times money. Prize money: 422k. Points: 3390
3. Sima Ervin*: 6 wins, 19 results, 37 times money. Prize money: 350k. Points: 2882.
4. Reynardo Ceballos*: 2 trophies, 10 wins, 17 results, 30 times money. Prize money: 240k. Points: 1820.
5. Tijmen Van Lieshout: 1 jersey, 8 wins, 17 results, 27 times money. Prize money: 212k. Points: 1216.
*Still active for Silenzio
Lineup for S65:
Sprintteam
Gus Bailey 247 SP, 168 LOSP
Reynardo Ceballos 235 SP, 283 SARS, 165 LOSP
Rajnay Bela 216 SP, 290 SARS, 160 LOSP
Sima Ervin 216 SP, 286 SARS
Thijs Bouwens 220 SP, 170 LOSP
Pierrot De Baets 214 SP, 173 LOSP
Carel Bastin 219 SP, 165 LOSP
Izz al Din Abdul-Latif trainee
Climb/tour team
Maurycy Piekarski 219 Climber, 298 PS
Stephan Osberg 210 Climber, 56AV
Elmar Deimek 203 Climber, 237 Hillclimber, 286 PS
Marty Mortimer 234 Climber, 282 PS
Maximilien Esteves 219 Climber
Claudio Cacares 211 Climber
Kent De Meulder 197 Climber, 238 Hillclimber, 53TQ
Théodore Guilloux 225 Climber
Qin Kejun 207 Climber, 234 Hillclimber, 286 PS (LEAVING)
Cobbleteam
Ábrahám Vilmos 260 Cobbler, 204 PP
Grant Simoni 213 PP
Benedict Gavilán 211 PP
Domingo Aguilera 208 PP
Steffen Sijmonds trainee
Vacancy
OUT in S64
David Thonhofer
Filip Norgren
Thibault De Vaddere
Keith Lazarus
Dario Funes
Gustave Chatelin
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Comments
An impressive season all by all!
Haha thanks, yes fingers crossed. Next attempt NL, I don't think it will be wronskian who will be the main problem :|
It's always a good sign when you are in top division and 4 of your 5 top scoring riders are still active. :)
I'm sure the SP prizes will come at some point. Wronskian can't keep getting away with it. ;)
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