50+1 for Team FL
In a weekend full of classic races, Team FL is able to win 2 out of 3 and stands now at 51 classic wins
It started on Sunday, 3rd September in Western France: Julio Juantorena almost won his first classic race, almost. He got third in the end, but the team tasted blood. After five days of meticulous preparation, Julio won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec solo after his team prepared his late attack with great effort, wearing down the opponents. Friday, 1 out of 3. And it was the 50th classic win for Team FL! Yay. But no rest for Team FL as it flew back to Europa and started at the GP de Fourmies, where Spiridon Sprenger outsmarted all the teams with sprinters (!) with again a late attack. Again a solo win. Saturday, 2 out of 3. There was kind of a pattern forming for the weekend, so back to Canada, this time the GP de Montréal. The team felt strong again, but another team was stronger. free team dominated the whole race from the beginning, leaving no chance for its opponents. So no late attack from a Team FL rider this time, still okayish placements. Sunday, still 2 out of 3. Despite a flight heavy weekend and the unsuccessful finale in Montréal, everybody felt happy at Team FL and already fit enough to start in the US today, having a little detour and running down on the way back home.
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Team FL offseason overhaul ongoing
Old riders gone, new riders in: Team FL uses offseason to build for 2024.
After major changes to the team roster in August, November offers the next big overhaul. In August, it was mainly the sprint crew that left Team FL, while a young, fresh, new one joined in Aron Abreha, Tesfaye Tsegaye and Gianni Giannelli. Now, the staff for the harder stages left. Clément "Le Clé" Clévenot, the team's polific climber and Vitor Ventura, our beloved chubby little portuguese hill specialist retired from cycling on their own whish. Both will join the management of a bodega chain in Valencia, answering Fortunato Fontdevila's call. Together with Carlos Lampe, Le Clé has been Team FL's most successful mountain stage hunter. Both gathered 10 victories in their career. Contrary to Lampe, who has a full set of Palmares, Le Clé with his 6'315 eternal points was not known for doing anything else than winning stages. The same counts for Vitor Ventura with 3 stage wins in his career.
For the moment, the Team FL hill department will only consist of Julio "JJ" Juantorena and Przemyszwoddc... dammit, the polish guy with the stupid name. Besides that, three new riders join the team: Ndamukong Nkengasong from Cameroon, Walter Walkenhorst from Germany and Keorapetse Kgositsile from South Africa. All of them will not replace Le Clé or Vitor, but rather add to the roster for the spring 2024 campaign and support the still young sprint personnel. The goal is clear now: use the offseason to develop the young talent and prepare the team for the 2024 classics, as well as the Giro and maybe the Criterium in France after the Giro. Team FL will start without a climber this time, more focused on sprint and pavé, maybe some hilly stages. In the meantime, we will have fun being rude promoting good and creative abbreviations and awesome alliterations. Now gtfo of my press center, there is nothing more to read!
Old riders gone, new riders in: Team FL uses offseason to build for 2024.
After major changes to the team roster in August, November offers the next big overhaul. In August, it was mainly the sprint crew that left Team FL, while a young, fresh, new one joined in Aron Abreha, Tesfaye Tsegaye and Gianni Giannelli. Now, the staff for the harder stages left. Clément "Le Clé" Clévenot, the team's polific climber and Vitor Ventura, our beloved chubby little portuguese hill specialist retired from cycling on their own whish. Both will join the management of a bodega chain in Valencia, answering Fortunato Fontdevila's call. Together with Carlos Lampe, Le Clé has been Team FL's most successful mountain stage hunter. Both gathered 10 victories in their career. Contrary to Lampe, who has a full set of Palmares, Le Clé with his 6'315 eternal points was not known for doing anything else than winning stages. The same counts for Vitor Ventura with 3 stage wins in his career.
For the moment, the Team FL hill department will only consist of Julio "JJ" Juantorena and Przemyszwoddc... dammit, the polish guy with the stupid name. Besides that, three new riders join the team: Ndamukong Nkengasong from Cameroon, Walter Walkenhorst from Germany and Keorapetse Kgositsile from South Africa. All of them will not replace Le Clé or Vitor, but rather add to the roster for the spring 2024 campaign and support the still young sprint personnel. The goal is clear now: use the offseason to develop the young talent and prepare the team for the 2024 classics, as well as the Giro and maybe the Criterium in France after the Giro. Team FL will start without a climber this time, more focused on sprint and pavé, maybe some hilly stages. In the meantime, we will have fun being rude promoting good and creative abbreviations and awesome alliterations. Now gtfo of my press center, there is nothing more to read!
I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said.
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Front page update: Current team roster
In the upcoming weeks, Team FL will update the front page of the press center and present the latest information and statistics. For the beginning, this is the current and updated team roster:
In the upcoming weeks, Team FL will update the front page of the press center and present the latest information and statistics. For the beginning, this is the current and updated team roster:
team fl wrote: ↑Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:57 amCurrent Team Roster (November 2023):
-Aron Abreha, 24, Sprinter, Eritrea
48-60-77-48-89, 63 Pavé, 41 Reg
-Chérif Cissé, 23, Helper/Allrounder, Senegal
56-76-79-47-51, 70 Pavé, 38 Reg
-Gianni Giannelli, 22, Lead out sprinter, Italy
49-75-67-58-71, 69 Pavé, 42 Reg
-Gilberto Godoy, 30, Helper/Allrounder, Brasil
53-81-77-50-47, 78 Pavé, 63 Reg
-Holger Hässig, 29, Helper, Switzerland
50-81-50-52-53, 72 Pavé, 42 Reg
-Julio Juantorena, 33, Hill/Pavé specialist, Cuba
75-83-71-48-46, 81 Pavé, 40 Reg
-Keorapetse Kgositsile, 21, Flat specialist, South Africa
50-74-51-51-54, 71 Pavé, 53 Reg
-Ndamukong Nkengasong, 28, Helper/Flat specialist, Cameroon
48-73-71-49-55, 66 Pavé, 52 Reg
-Przemyslaw Pszczolarski, 32, Hill specialist, Poland
72-79-74-55-64, 69 Pavé, 43 Reg
-Spiridon Sprenger, 27, Allrounder, Liechtenstein
58-86-77-53-53, 79 Pavé, 39 Reg
-Tesfaye Tsegaye, 23, Flat sprinter/Pavé specialist, Ethiopia
53-79-48-46-69, 79 Pavé, 37 Reg
-Walter Walkenhorst, 21, Pavé specialist/Allrounder, Germany
50-74-77-57-58, 73 Pavé, 47 Reg
I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said.
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Next front page update: Team statistics - Stage wins
The Team FL PR department proudly presents the all time stage/race wins by riders (with a complete date set, hopefully).
Four rider stand out in this statistic: Fran Peterlin, Ngo Nguyen, Stefano Benni and Eduardo Spohr are the only four Team FL riders with 20 or more race wins. Phineas Federspiel, the only Team FL rider who won the same race twice (Scheldeprijs 2014 and 2015) comes close with 18, while everybody else is under 15 race wins. The most current riders that have 10 or more race wins are Frits Flaskjer (11) and Clément Clévenot (10), both retired in 2023. From the current roster, which is very young (25.5 in average, 7 under 25), only 4 have race wins, with Julio Juantorena leading with 5, followed by PrzPszcz with 4, Spiridon Sprenger with 3 and Tesfay Tsegaye with 1.
The Team FL PR department proudly presents the all time stage/race wins by riders (with a complete date set, hopefully).
Four rider stand out in this statistic: Fran Peterlin, Ngo Nguyen, Stefano Benni and Eduardo Spohr are the only four Team FL riders with 20 or more race wins. Phineas Federspiel, the only Team FL rider who won the same race twice (Scheldeprijs 2014 and 2015) comes close with 18, while everybody else is under 15 race wins. The most current riders that have 10 or more race wins are Frits Flaskjer (11) and Clément Clévenot (10), both retired in 2023. From the current roster, which is very young (25.5 in average, 7 under 25), only 4 have race wins, with Julio Juantorena leading with 5, followed by PrzPszcz with 4, Spiridon Sprenger with 3 and Tesfay Tsegaye with 1.
Stage Wins (553):
25 -Fran Peterlin
22 -Ngo Nguyen
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20 -Eduardo Spohr
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13 -Perry Henzell
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12 -Iwan Franko
11 -Frits Flaskjer
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10 -Carlos Lampe
10 -Clément Clévenot
9 -JungGi Kim (NC)
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8 -Joe Friesenbichler
8 -Elwyn Oxley (NC)
8 -Afshin Pirhashemi
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7 -Ryan Kilfeather
7 -Nodirkhan Kadyrkhanov
7 -Karl Kopinski (NC)
7 -Zach Wheeler
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5 -Pedro Garrido
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5 -Kari Steinsson
5 -Martti Rosenblatt
5 -Carlos Tejeda
5 -Harrison Tasher (2x NC)
5 -Pavel Sitko
5 -Feliciano Centurion (NC)
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4 -Gilles Braas
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4 -Jan Flachbart (NC)
4 -Royston Lighting
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4 -Tony Woodcock
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3 -Victor Fargas
3 -Eddie Sixpence
3 -Ariel Weisman
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3 -Jay Blankenau
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2 -Janis Smedins
2 -Wilhelm Wahlforss
2 -Paul Betancourt
2 -Valentin Bratoev (NC)
2 -Hassan Dif
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2 -Amartya Sen
2 -Anselmo Grau
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2 -Carlos Kaiser
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2 - TTT (TdS'18, TdF'18)
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1 -Alain Yoda
1 -Elvis Bodganic (NC)
1 -Desideriu Vatca
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1 -Samir Sellami
1 -Dong Dong (NC)
1 -Juan Villafuerte
1 -Kahlid Satour (NC)
1 -Wael Afifi (NC)
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I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said.
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Next front page update: Team statistics - Classic wins
One of the main things Team FL has been focussing on since it's founding in 2006 are classic races.
And who is the Team FL king of the classics? Well, there has been only two kings in the history of Team FL: King Küng and Pierluigi Piano, the King of Flanders. But looking at the number of classic and monument wins, we come to the following conlusions:
Most classic wins (3) are shared among Phineas Federspiel, who even won a classic race twice (Scheldeprijs), Iwan Franko and Pierluigi Piano with a Flandrian hattrick, although slighlty different, but both inluding RVV.
The classic race that has been won the most by Team FL is the Scheldeprijs. 7 victories by 6 different riders (sorted chronologically): Frits Flaskjer ('23), Eduardo Spohr ('20), Thibault Rossard ('19), Phineas Federspiel ('14+'15), Kari Steinsson ('13), Roger Schnitzer ('09). Interstingly, among the winners are sprinters (Flaskjer, Spohr, Federspiel), lead out sprinters with a decent flat skill (Schnitzer), pavé specialists (Steinsson) and early escapers (Rossard).
Team FL has 10 monument victories in its palmares: 3 x RVV, 3x PR, 2x MSR, 1x LBL, 1x Lombardia. Most monument wins (2) are held by Team FL all time favourite rider Stefano Benni with the Italian monument double: Lombardia and MSR.
Most 2nd places in classics (2): JungGiKim (Harelbeke, PR), Karl Kopinski (Omloop, PR), Perry Henzell (Fourmies, Hamburg), Stefano Benni (Omloop, LBL), Steve Hasler (Hamburg, Placci), Zacharias Zahn (Tre Valli, Montreal)
Most 3rd places in classics (2): Iwan Franko (Scheldeprijs, Harelbeke), Fran Peterlin (RVV, San Sebastian)
Most disappointing rider in classics: Fran Peterlin. He's the rider with the most stage wins for Team FL (25) but managed not to win a single classic race in his whole career. Second most eternal points (behind Stefano Benni), 4 stage race wins, 4 podiums, 6 sprint jerseys (incl. Giro), 2 youth jerseys. But no fucking single classic race win! grrrrrrr.....
Finally, the full overview:
One of the main things Team FL has been focussing on since it's founding in 2006 are classic races.
And who is the Team FL king of the classics? Well, there has been only two kings in the history of Team FL: King Küng and Pierluigi Piano, the King of Flanders. But looking at the number of classic and monument wins, we come to the following conlusions:
Most classic wins (3) are shared among Phineas Federspiel, who even won a classic race twice (Scheldeprijs), Iwan Franko and Pierluigi Piano with a Flandrian hattrick, although slighlty different, but both inluding RVV.
The classic race that has been won the most by Team FL is the Scheldeprijs. 7 victories by 6 different riders (sorted chronologically): Frits Flaskjer ('23), Eduardo Spohr ('20), Thibault Rossard ('19), Phineas Federspiel ('14+'15), Kari Steinsson ('13), Roger Schnitzer ('09). Interstingly, among the winners are sprinters (Flaskjer, Spohr, Federspiel), lead out sprinters with a decent flat skill (Schnitzer), pavé specialists (Steinsson) and early escapers (Rossard).
Team FL has 10 monument victories in its palmares: 3 x RVV, 3x PR, 2x MSR, 1x LBL, 1x Lombardia. Most monument wins (2) are held by Team FL all time favourite rider Stefano Benni with the Italian monument double: Lombardia and MSR.
Most 2nd places in classics (2): JungGiKim (Harelbeke, PR), Karl Kopinski (Omloop, PR), Perry Henzell (Fourmies, Hamburg), Stefano Benni (Omloop, LBL), Steve Hasler (Hamburg, Placci), Zacharias Zahn (Tre Valli, Montreal)
Most 3rd places in classics (2): Iwan Franko (Scheldeprijs, Harelbeke), Fran Peterlin (RVV, San Sebastian)
Most disappointing rider in classics: Fran Peterlin. He's the rider with the most stage wins for Team FL (25) but managed not to win a single classic race in his whole career. Second most eternal points (behind Stefano Benni), 4 stage race wins, 4 podiums, 6 sprint jerseys (incl. Giro), 2 youth jerseys. But no fucking single classic race win! grrrrrrr.....
Finally, the full overview:
Classic Wins (51):
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-> 2. Plätze: Josef Fichtl (Züri-Metzgete'06), Ewald Wolf (P-B'07), Steve Hasler (Placci'08, Hamburg'08 ), Sylvain Boss (Piemonte'08 ), Elmar Goop (Harelbeke'09), Mavolio Bent (Omloop'10), Luigi Mastrangelo (AGR'11), Cédric Schmarotz (MSR'12), Toni Hassler (E3'12), Stefano Benni (Omloop'13, LBL'13), Jean Ollé Ollé (GW'13), Jan Flachbart (MSR'14), Fran Peterlin (LBL'15), Perry Henzell (Hamburg'16), Iwan Franko (Omloop'17), Feliciano Centurion (PR'17), Ngo Nguyen (Scheldeprijs'18), JungGi Kim (PR'18, Harelbeke'18), Karl Kopinski (PR'19, Omloop'19), Uros Kovacevic (GP de Bruxelles'21), Aaron Armleder (RVV'22), Zacharias Zahn (Tre Valli'22), Montreal'22), Terry Tiktak (Omloop'23), Clément Clevenot (Emilia'23)
-> 3. Plätze: Schavi Nator (LBL'07), Ewald Wolf (Fourmies'07), Andrea Clavadetscher (MSR'08 ), Tim Hamberger (PR'11), Stefan Küng (E3'12), Xaver Unsinn (Tre Valli'12), Arni Steinsson (RVV'13), Wilhelm Wahlforss (Harelbeke'14), Eric Lichtenstein (GW'15), Fran Peterlin (RVV'15, San Sebastian'15), Perry Henzell (MSR'16), Breyten Breytenbach (San Sebastian'16), Iwan Franko (Harelbeke'17), Pieter Coolman (Omloop'19), Karl Kopinski (RVV'19), Baltasar Banzer (Tours'19), Nicola Nicoli (GW'20), Halvor Haugen (Brabant'20), Fiorino Fontdevila (Fourmies'22), Fiorino Forte (Harelbeke'23), Volkmar Vogt (Schledeprijs'23), Julio Juantorena (Plouay'23)
I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said.
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Next front page update: Team statistics - Stage race wins
Something Team FL doesn't do often is riding stage races. But 30 times so far it has led to a stage race win.
Out of these 30 stage race wins, the Tour des Pavés with 5 times has been won the most, followed by Sachsen Pflaster (3). Shows kind of the faible for pavés here... Next in line are the Tour Down Under and Three Days of De Panne, each won 2 times. It is very telling, that Team FL hasn't won a single stage race since 2021.
Team FL riders with the most stage race wins are Fran Peterlin and Carlos Lampe (4), followed by Gaudenz Taverna (3), one of the few time trial specialists in the history of Team FL.
The most important win arguebly is Afshin Pirhashemi's victory at the Tour de France in 2018. It certainly was also the most stressful stage race ever ridden by Team FL. Anyway, the Tour de France is not the favourite stage race, the Giro d'Italia is. Although Team FL has never won it and the team is not really built for stages race, the Giro is one of the highlights in the cycling season. It is also the stage race that Team FL attended the most so far: 13 times in 17 years of existance.
Something Team FL doesn't do often is riding stage races. But 30 times so far it has led to a stage race win.
Out of these 30 stage race wins, the Tour des Pavés with 5 times has been won the most, followed by Sachsen Pflaster (3). Shows kind of the faible for pavés here... Next in line are the Tour Down Under and Three Days of De Panne, each won 2 times. It is very telling, that Team FL hasn't won a single stage race since 2021.
Team FL riders with the most stage race wins are Fran Peterlin and Carlos Lampe (4), followed by Gaudenz Taverna (3), one of the few time trial specialists in the history of Team FL.
The most important win arguebly is Afshin Pirhashemi's victory at the Tour de France in 2018. It certainly was also the most stressful stage race ever ridden by Team FL. Anyway, the Tour de France is not the favourite stage race, the Giro d'Italia is. Although Team FL has never won it and the team is not really built for stages race, the Giro is one of the highlights in the cycling season. It is also the stage race that Team FL attended the most so far: 13 times in 17 years of existance.
Stage races (30):
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I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said.
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Next front page update: Team statistics - Classement wins
Youth, Points, Mountain or Team classement: Team FL has won them all. At least a few times.
As we've already established, Team FL is not much of a stage rage type of team. Hence, the number of classements won has accumulated over the years, but doesn't look that impressive. Anyway, there have been some important jersey gatherings, worthy to be mentioned here:
Fran Peterlin is not only Team FL's most successful stage race rider, he's also the only rider that won a youth classement twice. Afshin Pirhashemi is the only one that managed to do it in a GT, at the Giro 2018, right before winning the Tour de France in the same year. The tours Team FL has won the youth classement the most is the same as in stage race wins: Tour des Pavés (4) in front of Sachsen Pflaster (3). Every other youth classment has only been won once.
Even rarer than youth classement wins have been mountain classement wins. Not only because Team FL doesn't ride stage races often, but also because it barely goes for mountain points. Hence, it has either been a lucky coincidence or a very intensly and well planned out strategy for special occasions (haha, as if...). The result is, that Team FL riders have never won the mountain classement more than once. But, it has been won twice at the Giro d'Italia by Luigi Mastrangelo in 2011 and Bana Hassana in 2021 (for the 10 years anniversary!) and once at the Tour de France by Prometheus Proulx in 2022. The most lucky win has to be considered Wesley Lichtenkiesel's at Paris - Nice in 2012, a guy that retired with 45 mountain at 35 years old. It was not planned, it was not chased, it just happened somehow.
When Team FL gathered a classement's jersey, it was the points/sprint jersey most often. And the two most prolific riders in the category, you've heared their names already a couple of times during these front page update posts, are Stefano Benni and Fran Peterlin, both winning it 6 times, both also at the Giro d'Italia. But they are not the only ones with GT points classement wins at Team FL. The Giro sprint classement has been won 5 times so far, by the aforementioned two (2013 and 2015), Elwyn "the Ox" Oxley (2016), Pavel Sitko (2017) and Magnus Marxer (2022).The maillot vert at the Tour de France has only been won once so far by Ngo Nguyen in 2017. You see the priorities.
Last but not least, or maybe least: The team classement. A nice addition, you happily take the money, but nothing to chase for. 25 times, it happend for Team FL to win it, most at the Tour des Pavés (the pattern again) and the Tour Down Under with each 4 wins. Team FL has never managed to win it at a GT though, maybe something to go for in the future. Or rather not.
Youth, Points, Mountain or Team classement: Team FL has won them all. At least a few times.
As we've already established, Team FL is not much of a stage rage type of team. Hence, the number of classements won has accumulated over the years, but doesn't look that impressive. Anyway, there have been some important jersey gatherings, worthy to be mentioned here:
Fran Peterlin is not only Team FL's most successful stage race rider, he's also the only rider that won a youth classement twice. Afshin Pirhashemi is the only one that managed to do it in a GT, at the Giro 2018, right before winning the Tour de France in the same year. The tours Team FL has won the youth classement the most is the same as in stage race wins: Tour des Pavés (4) in front of Sachsen Pflaster (3). Every other youth classment has only been won once.
Even rarer than youth classement wins have been mountain classement wins. Not only because Team FL doesn't ride stage races often, but also because it barely goes for mountain points. Hence, it has either been a lucky coincidence or a very intensly and well planned out strategy for special occasions (haha, as if...). The result is, that Team FL riders have never won the mountain classement more than once. But, it has been won twice at the Giro d'Italia by Luigi Mastrangelo in 2011 and Bana Hassana in 2021 (for the 10 years anniversary!) and once at the Tour de France by Prometheus Proulx in 2022. The most lucky win has to be considered Wesley Lichtenkiesel's at Paris - Nice in 2012, a guy that retired with 45 mountain at 35 years old. It was not planned, it was not chased, it just happened somehow.
When Team FL gathered a classement's jersey, it was the points/sprint jersey most often. And the two most prolific riders in the category, you've heared their names already a couple of times during these front page update posts, are Stefano Benni and Fran Peterlin, both winning it 6 times, both also at the Giro d'Italia. But they are not the only ones with GT points classement wins at Team FL. The Giro sprint classement has been won 5 times so far, by the aforementioned two (2013 and 2015), Elwyn "the Ox" Oxley (2016), Pavel Sitko (2017) and Magnus Marxer (2022).The maillot vert at the Tour de France has only been won once so far by Ngo Nguyen in 2017. You see the priorities.
Last but not least, or maybe least: The team classement. A nice addition, you happily take the money, but nothing to chase for. 25 times, it happend for Team FL to win it, most at the Tour des Pavés (the pattern again) and the Tour Down Under with each 4 wins. Team FL has never managed to win it at a GT though, maybe something to go for in the future. Or rather not.
Youth jerseys (17):
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Team classement (25):
4 - Tour des Pavés ('10,'11,'16,'17)
4 - Tour Down Under ('15,'16,'17,'19)
2 - Dunkerque ('12,'14)
1 - Alberta ('14)
1 - BinckBank ('18)
1 - California ('12)
1 - Denmark ('12)
1 - De Panne ('12)
1 - Deutschlandtour ('16)
1 - Dubai ('18)
1 - Giro della Toscana ('17)
1 - Oman ('13)
1 - Romandie ('13)
1 - Sachsen Pflaster ('12)
1 - Sibiu ('16)
1 - Tour de Suisse ('13)
1 - Tour du Maroc ('09)
1 - Trentino ('13)
I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said.
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Internal irritations while in India
While Team FL is riding the December Tour in India, you will never believe what happend back in Liechtenstein!
Julio Juantorena was furious when he got the message. He was one of the three Team FL riders that have not been nominated for the December Tour 2023 that started in India on Monday. During the team meeting when Hugo Marxer told the team, he was furious, left the room and never came back. Later that day, he announced his retirement from cycling. He also wrote that as long as Hugo Marxer has anything to say at Team FL he doesn't want to have anything to do with the Liechtenstein cycling team anymore. Rumour has it, that he ist now working at the Cuba Club in Vaduz.
The other two rider that had to stay at home didn't seem to be unhappy about the decision. Przemyslaw Pszsxczcvs....dammmit... the polish guy is now on holiday in Poland at his parents house while Keorapetse Kgositsile is just happy that he still has a job as a cyclist, being named one of the worst riders bought in November.
After the team management was initially shocked about Julio Juantorenas reaction, it acted swiftly and successfully. One day after "JJ" left, Team FL presented its latest acquisition already: Zacarias Zuzunaga from Valencia, Spain. The young prospect for hilly races fits well among all the young riders in the team. It is not just a lucky coincidence that the spanish prodigy landed in Liechtenstein. His agent is nobody else than Team FL hall of famer Stefano Benni. Benni now has also the mandate to look out for more talent to support Zuzunage in the future, while he is able to learn from Przemyslaw Pszczvczxxz... oh for fuck's sake!
While Team FL is riding the December Tour in India, you will never believe what happend back in Liechtenstein!
Julio Juantorena was furious when he got the message. He was one of the three Team FL riders that have not been nominated for the December Tour 2023 that started in India on Monday. During the team meeting when Hugo Marxer told the team, he was furious, left the room and never came back. Later that day, he announced his retirement from cycling. He also wrote that as long as Hugo Marxer has anything to say at Team FL he doesn't want to have anything to do with the Liechtenstein cycling team anymore. Rumour has it, that he ist now working at the Cuba Club in Vaduz.
The other two rider that had to stay at home didn't seem to be unhappy about the decision. Przemyslaw Pszsxczcvs....dammmit... the polish guy is now on holiday in Poland at his parents house while Keorapetse Kgositsile is just happy that he still has a job as a cyclist, being named one of the worst riders bought in November.
After the team management was initially shocked about Julio Juantorenas reaction, it acted swiftly and successfully. One day after "JJ" left, Team FL presented its latest acquisition already: Zacarias Zuzunaga from Valencia, Spain. The young prospect for hilly races fits well among all the young riders in the team. It is not just a lucky coincidence that the spanish prodigy landed in Liechtenstein. His agent is nobody else than Team FL hall of famer Stefano Benni. Benni now has also the mandate to look out for more talent to support Zuzunage in the future, while he is able to learn from Przemyslaw Pszczvczxxz... oh for fuck's sake!
I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said.
Re: Team FL
Eritrean festivities in Kerala
Aron Abreha wins his first race and is the first Eritrean rider to ever win a race in C4F.
It was a long fight to allow Eritrean cyclists to start in C4F races, until 2023. One of the first riders from Eritrea to join a team was Aron Abreha, a young sprinter talent from Asmara, who found an employer in Team FL. Now, with 25, he won his first race and is the first Eritrean rider to win a race in C4F. He did it on the 9 December 2023 at the Tamil Nadu & Kerala International Bicycle Race, stage 6 from Ooty to Kozhikode. In Kozhikode, a spontaneous party emerged, including friends and family and - according to sources - fellow Eritrean rider Haregot Woldemariam from Big Donkey. Besides common Italian cuisine the partygoers could also enjoy indigenous Eritrean specialities served on Injera, including Tsebhi, Alicha birsen, Zigini and Zigini assa, Tibzi, Ful, Kitcha fitfit and more. Everything was accompagnied with traditional coffee (Bun) or tea (Shahi). Of course, Eritrean drinks like Siwa, Mess, Daga, Caticala or Abake (for Muslims) fostered the good mood. And in the middle of everything was Aron Abreha, happily enjoying the festivities and answering the questions from journalists. Unfortunately, he got a bit too much Siwa (ok before the rest day) and started answering the questions in Tigrinya. Asked how he won the race, his answer was: ክሳብ ሕጂ ስትራተጂ ቅጽበታዊ ውድድር ድኹም እዩ ነይሩ። ሁጎ ማርክሰር ኣብ ኬራላ ዘሎ መግቢ ክጻወሮ ኣይክእልን እዩ። ስለዚ እየ ድማ እንታይ ክገብር ከም ዘለኒ ባዕለይ ወሲነ። ጽቡቕ ኣፍንጫ ነይሩኒ ኣዝየ ድማ ዕጉብ እየ። ንኤርትራ በረድ ሰቢረ ምህላወይ ሕቡን እየ። ኣብዚ’ዩ ንብዙሕ ካልእ ዓወታት! ካብ ታሕቲ ንላዕሊ!
Aron Abreha wins his first race and is the first Eritrean rider to ever win a race in C4F.
It was a long fight to allow Eritrean cyclists to start in C4F races, until 2023. One of the first riders from Eritrea to join a team was Aron Abreha, a young sprinter talent from Asmara, who found an employer in Team FL. Now, with 25, he won his first race and is the first Eritrean rider to win a race in C4F. He did it on the 9 December 2023 at the Tamil Nadu & Kerala International Bicycle Race, stage 6 from Ooty to Kozhikode. In Kozhikode, a spontaneous party emerged, including friends and family and - according to sources - fellow Eritrean rider Haregot Woldemariam from Big Donkey. Besides common Italian cuisine the partygoers could also enjoy indigenous Eritrean specialities served on Injera, including Tsebhi, Alicha birsen, Zigini and Zigini assa, Tibzi, Ful, Kitcha fitfit and more. Everything was accompagnied with traditional coffee (Bun) or tea (Shahi). Of course, Eritrean drinks like Siwa, Mess, Daga, Caticala or Abake (for Muslims) fostered the good mood. And in the middle of everything was Aron Abreha, happily enjoying the festivities and answering the questions from journalists. Unfortunately, he got a bit too much Siwa (ok before the rest day) and started answering the questions in Tigrinya. Asked how he won the race, his answer was: ክሳብ ሕጂ ስትራተጂ ቅጽበታዊ ውድድር ድኹም እዩ ነይሩ። ሁጎ ማርክሰር ኣብ ኬራላ ዘሎ መግቢ ክጻወሮ ኣይክእልን እዩ። ስለዚ እየ ድማ እንታይ ክገብር ከም ዘለኒ ባዕለይ ወሲነ። ጽቡቕ ኣፍንጫ ነይሩኒ ኣዝየ ድማ ዕጉብ እየ። ንኤርትራ በረድ ሰቢረ ምህላወይ ሕቡን እየ። ኣብዚ’ዩ ንብዙሕ ካልእ ዓወታት! ካብ ታሕቲ ንላዕሊ!
I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said.
Re: Team FL
Colour of 2024
Team FL has chosen green as its colour of 2024. Why? Read the text you lazy bugger.
2024 arrived and the Team FL refresh is complete. as last of the "old" generation, Przemsl..., Przszzczw..., ehm the polish tounge twister left the Liechtenstein cycling team while the African revolution is ongoing in the team roster. Latest addition is Thierry Tiendrébéogo from Burkina Faso. So, most flags of our riders' nationalities have green in it. No blue, no red, no yellow. Green. The colour, eritrean rider Aron Abreha has in his flag too and hence was more than happy to win green with 3 stage wins in the december tour 2023: Tamil Nadu & Kerala International Bicycle Race (TN&KIBR). So, green is Team FL's colour for 2024. Green is also the colour of hope and hope dies last, as it is known. The hope for a succesful start into the new year (the team is still on vacation), a successful spring classics season, a successful Giro, the heck, a succesful year. And the hope is, that Thierry Tiendrébéogo may contribute to that success as a valuable helper on hilly terrain and in the Giro. Happy green 2024!
Team FL has chosen green as its colour of 2024. Why? Read the text you lazy bugger.
2024 arrived and the Team FL refresh is complete. as last of the "old" generation, Przemsl..., Przszzczw..., ehm the polish tounge twister left the Liechtenstein cycling team while the African revolution is ongoing in the team roster. Latest addition is Thierry Tiendrébéogo from Burkina Faso. So, most flags of our riders' nationalities have green in it. No blue, no red, no yellow. Green. The colour, eritrean rider Aron Abreha has in his flag too and hence was more than happy to win green with 3 stage wins in the december tour 2023: Tamil Nadu & Kerala International Bicycle Race (TN&KIBR). So, green is Team FL's colour for 2024. Green is also the colour of hope and hope dies last, as it is known. The hope for a succesful start into the new year (the team is still on vacation), a successful spring classics season, a successful Giro, the heck, a succesful year. And the hope is, that Thierry Tiendrébéogo may contribute to that success as a valuable helper on hilly terrain and in the Giro. Happy green 2024!
I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said.
Re: Team FL
Spiridon secures solo success
After 136 km, Spiridon Sprenger won the Gravel and Tar classic solo with a succesful late attack.
Team FL celebrated its first race win in 2024 in New Zealand. At the Gravel and Tar classic, Spiridon Sprenger crossed the finish line first. In the short but intense race, Team FL's routinier and angry bird Holger Hässig hat a good eye and followed an early attack to represent his colours in the escape group. In the peloton, it were r Quick and enzano veloclub who controlled the tempo, while Holger found himself among riders from S L Benfina, Giotti Victoria and Fraegg. 40 km before the finish line, it was r Quick who stopped playing games and got serious with a hard split on a slightly steep gravel part. With the 7% hill waiting at km 126, this looked like a superb groundwork for Maximiliano Montealegre (r Quick) and maybe Ronny Weller (Fraegg). For Team FL, Spiridon Sprenger and pavé leader Tsefaye Tsegaye were still present in the group of favourites, still feeling good. So good in fact, that at km 118, Tsegaye got rid of the two classic riders and their helpers with a courageous effort. Only his teammate Sprenger, two rider from Giotti Victoria, Abdelhafid Messaoudi (Fraegg) and Ricardo Santinho (S L Benfica) could follow the pace that he continued with the help of Klaus Meiers (Giotti Victoria), to increas the gap against the classic riders from r Quick and Fraegg. While Tsegaye powerd himself out for Sprenger's chances, Folke Holmstrom (Giotti Victoria) tried to attack at km 126, where he got a slight advantage. But now enough to be ahead for a long time as Sprenger increased the pace at the upcoming gravel part and successfully attacked with nobody else being able to follow him. And nobody else being able to catch him in the process. He crossed the finish line with a 14 second gap to Abdelhafid Messaoudi while Tsegaye could ended up on place 8, happy for his teammate. With this victory, Spiridon Sprenger is the active rider with the most races wins (4) for Team FL at the moment. So we proucde praise the Team FL rider of the hour: "Spiridooom!"
After 136 km, Spiridon Sprenger won the Gravel and Tar classic solo with a succesful late attack.
Team FL celebrated its first race win in 2024 in New Zealand. At the Gravel and Tar classic, Spiridon Sprenger crossed the finish line first. In the short but intense race, Team FL's routinier and angry bird Holger Hässig hat a good eye and followed an early attack to represent his colours in the escape group. In the peloton, it were r Quick and enzano veloclub who controlled the tempo, while Holger found himself among riders from S L Benfina, Giotti Victoria and Fraegg. 40 km before the finish line, it was r Quick who stopped playing games and got serious with a hard split on a slightly steep gravel part. With the 7% hill waiting at km 126, this looked like a superb groundwork for Maximiliano Montealegre (r Quick) and maybe Ronny Weller (Fraegg). For Team FL, Spiridon Sprenger and pavé leader Tsefaye Tsegaye were still present in the group of favourites, still feeling good. So good in fact, that at km 118, Tsegaye got rid of the two classic riders and their helpers with a courageous effort. Only his teammate Sprenger, two rider from Giotti Victoria, Abdelhafid Messaoudi (Fraegg) and Ricardo Santinho (S L Benfica) could follow the pace that he continued with the help of Klaus Meiers (Giotti Victoria), to increas the gap against the classic riders from r Quick and Fraegg. While Tsegaye powerd himself out for Sprenger's chances, Folke Holmstrom (Giotti Victoria) tried to attack at km 126, where he got a slight advantage. But now enough to be ahead for a long time as Sprenger increased the pace at the upcoming gravel part and successfully attacked with nobody else being able to follow him. And nobody else being able to catch him in the process. He crossed the finish line with a 14 second gap to Abdelhafid Messaoudi while Tsegaye could ended up on place 8, happy for his teammate. With this victory, Spiridon Sprenger is the active rider with the most races wins (4) for Team FL at the moment. So we proucde praise the Team FL rider of the hour: "Spiridooom!"
I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said.
Re: Team FL
First Ethiopian classic win!
Tesfaye Tsegaye won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. With his 26 years, he is the first Ethiopian rider ever to win a classic race in C4F. With 2 race wins, he's also the Ethiopian rider with the most race wins currently. Thanks go out to Spiridon Sprenger, who could have won the race himself but followed the team orders, got second and was happy for his African team mate. The race itself was very quiet in the first half, until olafcelts decided to send three riders into escape. In the peloton, it was Bearclaw Cycling that started the chase. Its impressive pavé armada including Flanders prototype Roni Kytonen domated the second half, but never got rid of the Team FL riders. They just did the unexpected cuddeling tactic and held on to the Bearclaw Cycling riders with their dear life. In the end, this tactic payed off and the rest is history.
The first race of the spring classic season has alway been a good "pavé" for Team FL. Tsegaye's victory was the 5th win for the Liechtenstein cycling team. His predecessors were: Guus Nederlof (2010), Pedro Garrido (2011), Stefan "King" Küng (2011) and Iwan Franko (2016). After the 2010-2012 hattrick and Franko's win in 2016, it's been time after 8 years without winning Omloop.Surprisingly, it was one of the few races, Pierluigi Piano, the Kind of Flanders, could not win in 2023.
Tesfaye Tsegaye won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. With his 26 years, he is the first Ethiopian rider ever to win a classic race in C4F. With 2 race wins, he's also the Ethiopian rider with the most race wins currently. Thanks go out to Spiridon Sprenger, who could have won the race himself but followed the team orders, got second and was happy for his African team mate. The race itself was very quiet in the first half, until olafcelts decided to send three riders into escape. In the peloton, it was Bearclaw Cycling that started the chase. Its impressive pavé armada including Flanders prototype Roni Kytonen domated the second half, but never got rid of the Team FL riders. They just did the unexpected cuddeling tactic and held on to the Bearclaw Cycling riders with their dear life. In the end, this tactic payed off and the rest is history.
The first race of the spring classic season has alway been a good "pavé" for Team FL. Tsegaye's victory was the 5th win for the Liechtenstein cycling team. His predecessors were: Guus Nederlof (2010), Pedro Garrido (2011), Stefan "King" Küng (2011) and Iwan Franko (2016). After the 2010-2012 hattrick and Franko's win in 2016, it's been time after 8 years without winning Omloop.Surprisingly, it was one of the few races, Pierluigi Piano, the Kind of Flanders, could not win in 2023.
I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said.
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