[PCM'11|HARD_1] T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft

Week 1/2 2011: Intro

T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft (UCI Team Code: TCS) is a continental cycling team based in Russia, racing in the UCI Continental Circuit and UCI WorldTour events (when invited as a wildcard team). The team is financed by Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov.

Oleg started his team manager career (in 2006) with the continental team "Tinkoff Restaurants", when promoted to the professional continental level, the teamname changed to "Tinkoff Credit Systems" (2007 and 2008).

After 4 years of hard work (2009), Oleg launched the ProTour Team Katusha Project, Tinkov managed the new team for six months but then quit after a conflict with Andrei Tchmil (who was appointed by Itera). So now, after two years of absent, he's back, with a new team(name) and co-sponsor: "T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft".

T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft will ride on Cervélo bikes with Campagnolo accessories, ZIPP wheels, and Catlike helmets. The equipment will be tested first during our pre-season trainingcamps, which will take place in Italy: Terracina.



This year T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft will consist of 24 cyclists, 22 are Russian, also the scouting will mainly focus on Russia. Next to the Russian riders we have 1 other nationality in our team: Vasil Kiryienka and Nikita Zharoven (both Belarusian).



While our riders are still on pre-season trainingcamp in Italy (Terracina), the Australian riders already started their cycling season with the Australian Championship. Rory Sutherland of Unitedhealthcare will wear the Australian colors this season.



More news from Down Under: T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft received a Wild Card for the Santos Tour Down Under! This will please our co-sponsor Rosneft, who expect us to wear the sprinter's jersey atleast for one day. Next to T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft and the eighteen WorldTour teams, FDJ, Geox and Unitedhealthcare (probably because of Rory Sutherland) received Wild Cards.



Eight of our fifteen sponsor goals are WorldTour Events, so Wild Cards will be important to make this season successful. Apart from the WorldTour Events, the race calander for 2011 is complete/confirmed.



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Kolobnev

Week 3 2011: Santos Tour Down Under



Santos Tour Down Under, Stage 1, Clare → Tanunda, 139km





16km, right from the start a group of 13 riders break away. Aleksandr Khatuntsev (T.CS Bank) wins the KoM Sprint ahead of Niki Terpstra (QuickStep) and Francisco Javier Iriarte Garro (Movistar). The sprinter teams (HTC, RadioShack and Rabobank) aren't happy with the big group and soon the 13 riders are caught by the peloton.


47km, another attack is launched, this time only 4 riders get away and the peloton let them ride. The four riders are Boris Shpilevsky (T.CS Bank), Tiziano Dall'Antonia (Liquigas), Rubén Pérez Moreno (Euskaltel) and Tomas Alberio (Geox). Shpilevsky managed to win the first Intermediate Sprint, Moreno 2nd and Dall'Antonia 3rd.


53km, Dall'Antonia takes the second Intermediate Sprint, ahead of Shpilevsky and Alberio. Great work by Boris Shpilevsky, because he will wear the sprinter's jersey tomorrow, which means our first sponsor goal of the season is achieved!


100km, Mathew Hayman (Sky) and the Australian National Champion Rory Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare) attack and will try to close the gap with the breakaway.


119km, with 20km left to go, Hayman and Sutherland join the breakaway, but minutes later they are all caught by the peloton.


139km, a chaotic masssprint started 3km from the finishline. Without team trains to guide their leaders, it's an-every-man-for-himself-sprint. But even without his important teammates, Mark Cavendish showed yet again that few can touch him when it comes to sprinting! Robbie McEwen (RadioShack) and Óscar Freire Gómez (Rabobank) completed the podium. Nikolay Vasilievich Trusov finished 5th, so it looks like his early season form might bring us some great results in the weeks to come.


1 Mark Cavendish HTC-Highroad 3h21'11
2 Robbie McEwen Team RadioShack s.t.
3 Óscar Freire Gómez Rabobank Cycling Team s.t.
4 Tom Boonen QuickStep Cycling Team s.t.
5 Nikolay Vasilievich Trusov T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft s.t.
6 Greg Van Avermaet BMC Racing Team s.t.
7 F.Ventoso Movistar Team s.t.
8 Alexey Mikhailovich Markov T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft s.t.
9 André Greipel Omega Pharma-Lotto s.t.
10 Matthew Harley Goss HTC-Highroad s.t.

M.Cavendish 3h21'01 R.McEwen + 4 B.Shpilevsky + 5
B.Shpilevsky 10Pts T.Dall'Antonia 8Pts M.Cavendish 8Pts
A.Khatuntsev 16Pts N.Terpstra 12Pts F.Iriarte 8Pts
M.Goss 3h21'11 P.Korzh s.t. D.Galimzyanov s.t.
T.CS 10h03'33 HTC s.t. RadioShack s.t.



Santos Tour Down Under, Stage 2, Gawler → Hahndorf, 146km
M.Cavendish 2h58'51 A.Greipel s.t T.Farrar s.t.
M.Cavendish 6h19'42 R.McEwen + 14 A.Greipel s.t.
M.Cavendish 16Pts J.Gutiérrez 12Pts B.Shpilevsky 10Pts
N.Terpstra 20Pts J.Gutiérrez 16Pts A.Khatuntsev 16Pts
S.Ponzi 6h20'01 T.Alberio s.t. M.Goss s.t.
Saxo 19h00'06 Lampre s.t. Katusha s.t.

Santos Tour Down Under, Stage 3, Unley → Stirling, 130km
F.Ventoso 3h00'51 J.Gutiérrez s.t. M.Iglinskiy s.t.
J.Gutiérrez 9h20'41 F.Ventoso + 2 M.Iglinskiy + 8
M.Cavendish 24Pts J.Gutiérrez 18Pts E.Martínez 12Pts
N.Terpstra 20Pts J.Gutiérrez 16Pts A.Khatuntsev 16Pts
G.Thomas 9h21'07 Y.Offredo s.t. S.Spilak + 13
Movistar 28h02'53 Astana + 54 FDJ + 1'11

Santos Tour Down Under, Stage 4, Norwood → Goolwa, 125km
M.Cavendish 2h36'38 T.Farrar s.t. G.Brown s.t.
J.Gutiérrez 11h57'15 F.Ventoso + 6 M.Iglinskiy + 9
M.Cavendish 32Pts J.Gutiérrez 26Pts E.Martínez 12Pts
J.Gutiérrez 28Pts N.Terpstra 20Pts M.Iglinskiy 16Pts
Y.Offredo 11h57'42 G.Thomas + 3 S.Spilak + 16
Movistar 35h52'47 Astana + 54 FDJ + 1'11

Santos Tour Down Under, Stage 5, Snapper Point → Willunga, 131km
M.Cavendish 2h42'25 T.Farrar s.t. Ó.Freire s.t.
J.Gutiérrez 14h39'40 F.Ventoso + 6 M.Iglinskiy + 9
M.Cavendish 40Pts J.Gutiérrez 26Pts T.Farrar 16Pts
J.Gutiérrez 28Pts S.Chainel 28Pts N.Terpstra 20Pts
Y.Offredo 14h40'07 G.Thomas + 3 S.Spilak + 16
Movistar 44h00'02 Astana + 54 FDJ + 1'11

Santos Tour Down Under, Stage 6, Adelaide (Criterium), 93km
M.Cavendish 2h07'02 T.Farrar s.t. R.McEwen s.t.
J.Gutiérrez 16h46'42 M.Cavendish + 6 F.Ventoso s.t.
M.Cavendish 48Pts J.Gutiérrez 26Pts T.Farrar 22Pts
N.Terpstra 34Pts J.Gutiérrez 28Pts S.Chainel 28Pts
Y.Offredo 16h47'09 G.Thomas + 3 S.Spilak + 16
Movistar 50h21'08 Astana + 54 FDJ + 1'11







Le Tour de Langkawi, Stage 1, Dataran Lang → Kuah, 99km
A.Rasmussen 2h00'10 N.Eeckhout s.t. R.Downing s.t.
A.Rasmussen 1h59'50 N.Eeckhout + 8 R.Downing + 12
A.Rasmussen 25Pts N.Eeckhout 20Pts R.Downing 16Pts
V.Kiryienka 6Pts E.Petrov 4Pts V.Efimkin 2Pts
D.Appollonio 2h00'10 E.Favilli s.t. M.Othman s.t.
Sky 6h00'30 Farnese s.t. Garmin s.t.

Le Tour de Langkawi, Stage 2, Kangar → Butterworth, 145km
D.Lapthorne 3h11'06 J.Bobridge s.t. A.Rasmussen + 24
D.Lapthorne 5h10'48 J.Bobridge + 4 A.Rasmussen + 20
A.Rasmussen 45Pts D.Lapthorne 33Pts J.Bobridge 32Pts
V.Kiryienka 6Pts E.Petrov 4Pts V.Efimkin 2Pts
J.Bobridge 5h10'52 D.Appollonio + 48 I.Stannard + 48
Drapac 15h34'36 Garmin s.t. Sky + 24







Injuries

Bad news for Ovechkin; during stage 1 of Le Tour de Langkawi he fractured his skull, this will keep him from racing at least 2 months. Trusov, who dislocated his elbow during the Santos Tour Down Under, probably will be racing again soon (begin February).


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Week 4 2011: Le Tour de Langkawi



Le Tour de Langkawi, Stage 3, Taiping → Sitiawan, 145km
S.Vanmarcke 3h06'22 M.Santambrogio s.t. R.Bertogliati s.t.
S.Vanmarcke 8h17'42 M.Santambrogio + 8 R.Bertogliati + 12
A.Rasmussen 59Pts R.Downing 42Pts A.Schulze 38Pts
V.Kiryienka 14Pts S.Kozubek 10Pts E.Petrov 10Pts
S.Vanmarcke 8h17'42 D.Appollonio + 1'35 M.Othman + 1'35
Garmin 24h56'12 BMC + 24 Type 1 + 24

Le Tour de Langkawi, Stage 4, Ayer Tawar → Cameron Highlands, 138km
R.Bertogliati 4h16'05 L.Bodnar s.t. M.Othman s.t.
R.Bertogliati 12h33'25 M.Othman + 1'33 L.Bodnar + 1'39
A.Rasmussen 59Pts R.Bertogliati 55Pts R.Downing 42Pts
R.Bertogliati 42Pts V.Kiryienka 32Pts M.Othman 32Pts
M.Othman 12h34'58 T.Van Garderen + 52 R.Kišerlovski + 1'23
Astana 37h48'01 Saxo + 39 Sky + 1'02

Le Tour de Langkawi, Stage 5, Tapah → Genting Highlands, 124km





0km, today the Queen Stage is on the menu, appetizer a 100km flat pancake and main course Genting Highlands, a 25km tasty climb. In advance, we had three leaders in mind for Le Tour de Langkawi: Vasil Kiryienka, Evgueni Petrov and Vladimir Alexandrovich Efimkin, but after four stages it's clear that Kiryienka is best placed in the general ranking, so the renewed team tactic is clear -> All for Kiryienka, Kiryienka for T.CS Bank.


54km, 14 riders decided to go for the pancake appetizer:
Bert Grabsch HTC-Highroad
Michael Valgren Andersen Glud & Marstrand - LRØ
Wilmar Jahir Pérez Muñoz Colombia es Pasión - Café de Colombia
Jack Bauer Endura Racing
Travis Meyer Team Garmin-Cervélo
Björn Brems An Post - Sean Kelly
Petr Bencík PSK Whirlpool - Author
André Steensen Saxo Bank SunGard
Svein Tuft Team Spidertech Powered By C10
Floris Goesinnen Drapac Cycling
Max Jenkins UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling
Jason McCartney Team RadioShack
Kamil Zielinski CCC Polsat Polkowice
Vladimir Alexandrovich Efimkin T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft

None of them were interested in the intermediate sprints, they just wanted to get at the foot of climb with enough time advantage to go for a stage win. Only Efimkin had other plans, he was there to maybe help Kiryienka later in the stage and also his presents in the breakaway group made sure that we didn't have to chase the group ourselves.


105km, with less than 19km to go the peloton reeled the breakaway group back in (the long chase was led by Astana and Sky). To keep the pressure on the peloton Efimkin decided to attack again!


114km, T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft tactic seemed to be working; with still 10km climbing ahead, the race leader Rubens Bertogliati wasn't able to keep up with Astana's high pace and was dropped by the peloton (25 riders). Efimkin was still leading at this point but only had a few seconds left.


120km, eventually Efimkin was joined by the best climbers of the peloton. The 15 riders that were left slowed down a little bit to oversee the situation, but soon after that (with 4 km left to go) Kanstantsin Sivtsov of HTC jumped away.


124km, everybody tried top get to the wheel of Sivtsov, but he was just too strong today, a great solo of the young Belarusian rider of HTC followed. Our Belarusian rider Kiryienka was riding in the first group behind Sivtsov, along with Knees (Sky), Navarro (Saxo), Kišerlovski and Kashechkin (Astana). And while Sivtsov already had finished his main course and was enjoying his well deserved yellow jersey dessert, Kiryienka finish 4th, just behing Knees.


1 Kanstantsin Sivtsov HTC-Highroad 3h29'56
2 Andrey Kashechkin Pro Team Astana + 1'03
3 Christian Knees Sky ProCycling + 1'12
4 Vasil Kiryienka T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft s.t.
5 Daniel Navarro García Saxo Bank SunGard s.t.
6 Robert Kišerlovski Pro Team Astana s.t.
7 Yaroslav Popovych Team RadioShack + 1'50
8 Rémy Di Grégorio Pro Team Astana s.t.
9 Evgueni Petrov T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft s.t.
10 Thomas Danielson Team Garmin-Cervélo + 2'10

K.Sivtsov 16h05'57 A.Kashechkin + 40 V.Kiryienka + 1'01
A.Rasmussen 59Pts R.Bertogliati 55Pts R.Downing 42Pts
R.Bertogliati 42Pts V.Kiryienka 42Pts M.Othman 30Pts
R.Kišerlovski 16h07'29 T.Van Garderen + 1'02 F.Masciarelli + 2'12
Astana 48h21'54 T.CS + 2'52 Sky + 4'13



Le Tour de Langkawi, Stage 6, Rawang → Putrajaya Loop, 113km
L.Haedo 2h23'24 A.Rasmussen s.t. N.Eeckhout s.t.
K.Sivtsov 18h29'21 A.Kashechkin + 40 V.Kiryienka + 1'01
A.Rasmussen 79Pts R.Bertogliati 63Pts L.Haedo 61Pts
V.Kiryienka 48Pts R.Bertogliati 46Pts M.Othman 32Pts
R.Kišerlovski 18h30'53 T.Van Garderen + 1'02 F.Masciarelli + 2'12
Astana 55h32'06 T.CS + 2'52 Sky + 4'13

Le Tour de Langkawi, Stage 7, Banting → Tampin, 150km
L.Haedo 3h02'04 A.Schulze s.t. A.Rasmussen s.t.
K.Sivtsov 21h31'25 A.Kashechkin + 40 V.Kiryienka + 1'01
A.Rasmussen 95Pts L.Haedo 86Pts A.Schulze 66Pts
V.Kiryienka 48Pts R.Bertogliati ]46Pts M.Othman 32Pts
R.Kišerlovski 21h32'57 T.Van Garderen + 1'02 F.Masciarelli + 2'12
Astana 64h38'18 T.CS + 2'52 Sky + 4'13

Le Tour de Langkawi, Stage 8, Kuala Pilah → Jasin, 157km
A.Rasmussen 3h20'53 L.Haedo s.t. A.Schulze s.t.
K.Sivtsov 24h52'18 A.Kashechkin + 40 V.Kiryienka + 1'01
A.Rasmussen 122Pts L.Haedo 112Pts A.Schulze 82Pts
V.Kiryienka 49Pts R.Bertogliati 46Pts M.Othman 32Pts
R.Kišerlovski 24h53'50 T.Van Garderen + 1'02 F.Masciarelli + 2'12
Astana 74h40'57 T.CS + 2'52 Sky + 4'13

Le Tour de Langkawi, Stage 9, Melaka → Nilai, 152km
A.Rasmussen 3h17'01 L.Haedo s.t. M.Fischer s.t.
K.Sivtsov 28h09'19 A.Kashechkin + 40 V.Kiryienka + 1'01
A.Rasmussen 149Pts L.Haedo 136Pts A.Schulze 100Pts
V.Kiryienka 50Pts R.Bertogliati 46Pts M.Othman 32Pts
R.Kišerlovski 28h10'51 T.Van Garderen + 1'02 F.Masciarelli + 2'12
Astana 84h32'00 T.CS + 2'52 Sky + 4'13

Le Tour de Langkawi, Stage 10, Shah Alam → Kuala Lumpur, 103km
D.Appollonio 2h11'31 A.Rasmussen s.t. L.Haedo s.t.
K.Sivtsov 30h20'50 A.Kashechkin + 40 V.Kiryienka + 1'01
A.Rasmussen 169Pts L.Haedo 152Pts A.Schulze 114Pts
V.Kiryienka 54Pts R.Bertogliati 46Pts E.Petrov 41Pts
R.Kišerlovski 30h22'22 T.Van Garderen + 1'02 F.Masciarelli + 2'12
Astana 91h06'33 T.CS + 2'52 Sky + 4'13







Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria, Stage 1, Melito → Catanzaro, 162km
F.Vila 4h01'03 A.Proni s.t. D.Müller s.t.
F.Vila 4h00'39 A.Proni + 2 V.Zagorodniy + 4
V.Zagorodniy 34Pts A.Proni 30Pts F.Vila 29Pts
F.Vila 16Pts A.Proni 12Pts D.Müller 10Pts
D.Ulissi 4h01'16 P.Sagan + 52 S.Modolo + 52
Lampre 12h04'05 Acqua + 39 Miche + 56

Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria, Stage 2, Soverato → Vibo Valentia, 183km
A.Kolobnev 4h17'58 M.Carrara + 14 P.Niemiec s.t.
A.Kolobnev 8h18'54 P.Niemiec + 26 M.Carrara + 39
V.Zagorodniy 34Pts A.Kolobnev 33Pts A.Proni 30Pts
F.Vila 16Pts A.Proni 12Pts P.Niemiec 12Pts
D.Ulissi 8h20'04 R.Hardy + 52 M.Kump + 1'00
Lampre 24h59'22 Vacansoleil + 3'35 Acqua + 3'55

Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria, Stage 3, Pizzo → Reggio Calabria, 171km
A.Kolobnev 4h14'32 R.Pidgornyy s.t. M.Carrara + 46
A.Kolobnev 12h33'06 M.Carrara + 1'37 R.Pidgornyy + 2'01
A.Kolobnev 58Pts A.Proni 42Pts M.Carrara 41Pts
A.Proni 20Pts F.Vila 16Pts P.Niemiec 12Pts
D.Ulissi 12h35'46 M.Kump + 2'05 D.Ratto + 4'09
Lampre 37h47'10 Vacansoleil + 1'19 Geox + 7'56

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Summary January 2011
The first month of 2011 was a good one for T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft. Boris Shpilevsky managed to achieve our first sponsor goal at the Santos Tour Down Under and Aleksandr Kolobnev won the Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria. HTC-Highroad had a great start of the season aswell: Mark Cavendish won 5 stages in January and Kanstantsin Sivtsov won Le Tour de Langkawi.




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Time Trial Equipment
This month we'll ride our first time trial of the season (Tour of Qatar), therefore we decided to test the new equipment. Here are some screens of the time trial training.