Ciolek

thunder said:

Looks like he is off the program

only result was Trofeo Calvia, this is the guy who was almost unbeatable in field sprints in Tour of Germany in 2007.

Wonder if they have him riding an Ardennes program. He did win that uphill stage last year in Germany.

Ronde van Vlaanderen (5/4) 111
Tirreno - Adriatico 152
11/3 Cecina - Capannori 158
12/3 Volterna - Marina di Carrara 190
13/3 Fucecchio - Santa Corce sull'Arno 14
14/3 Foligno - Montelupone 133
15/3 Loreto - Macerata 183
16/3 Civitanova Marche - Camerino 124
17/3 San Benedetto del Tronto - San Benedetto del Tront 26
Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (1/3) 26
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (28/2) 127
Volta ao Algarve
18/2 Albufeira - Olhao 17
19/2 Lagoa - Lagoa 3
20/2 V.R.-S. Antonio - Malhao (Loule) 113
21/2 Castro Marin - Tavira 149
Trofeo Calvia (12/2) 1
Trofeo Pollença (10/2) 5
Trofeo Cala Millor - Cala Bona (9/2) 11
Trofeo Mallorca (8/2) 21

Trofeo Calvia
1 Ciolek Gerald MRM 4u03'32"
2 Boasson Hagen Edvald THR
3 Sieberg Marcel THR
4 Duque Leonardo COF
5 Lastras Pablo GCE
6 Benitez Pomares Javier MCO
7 Leezer Tom RAB
8 Wegmann Fabian MRM
9 Pineau Jérôme QST
10 Hovelynck Kurt QST

Interesting. So he does have 1 win? I was under the impression he hasn't notched a win this season. I Must have been issued with lowsy information.

Grater said:

Interesting. So he does have 1 win? I was under the impression he hasn't notched a win this season. I Must have been issued with lowsy information.

you're a dumbarse grates

did anyone tell you about Sportwereld/Nieuwsblad?

Yes they did I did

http://www.nieuwsblad.be/sportwereld/yaGT/Index.aspx?pagetype=WRPloegen&id=WREL2009

go there.

Look above, after the race, the number signifies the classified finish.

Isn't Cav having Ciolek's career?

Gregers said:

Isn't Cav having Ciolek's career?

may have got his doctor.

19, beating Greipel and Zabel at Deutschland
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2006/aug06/germany06/?id=results/germany063

next year, when he moved from Wiesenhof Akud, to T-Mobile, he was virtually unbeatable except for crashes, in the finish at Deutschland.

Very perceptive post, thunder.

When he was signed to Telekom, Ciolek was touted as the next "wunderkind".

Obviously his career over the past two years, has not delivered the results which the hype had intended.

limerickman said:

Very perceptive post, thunder.

When he was signed to Telekom, Ciolek was touted as the next "wunderkind".

Obviously his career over the past two years, has not delivered the results which the hype had intended.

well, I would say, there were a few results which were remarkable.

The most remarkable was probably the uphill sprint in last years Deutschland Tour. Remember, he was working for Greipel, I do not know why, because his past performances in sprints were better.

Ofcourse, he won the 2005 Nationals on a flat course, beating Forster and Zabel.
But who remembers this stage.

1 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 5.39.35 (38.517 km/h)
2 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Scott - American Beef
3 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas
4 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia
5 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner
6 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux
7 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne
8 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre
9 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre
10 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone

[IMG]cyclingnews.comprofile5.gifOpen ↗[/IMG]

u/23 world champ on an up and down course. nothing surprising about that win in tour of Germany last year tbh. i think lack of results is more of a team/confidence issue more than anything.

Silent89 said:

u/23 world champ on an up and down course. nothing surprising about that win in tour of Germany last year tbh. i think lack of results is more of a team/confidence issue more than anything.

kidding mate.

that course, Salzburg I think, was not like that. Cavendish was 6th if I remember. That is enough evidence.

thunder said:

kidding mate.

that course, Salzburg I think, was not like that. Cavendish was 6th if I remember. That is enough evidence.

this is just not a hilly parcours, near 100 riders 30 seconds within Ciolek

[IMG]cyclingnews.comRoadU23 women elite.jpgOpen ↗[/IMG]

1 Gerald Ciolek (Germany) 4.00.50 (44.146 km/h)
2 Romain Feillu (France)
3 Alexander Khatuntsev (Russian Federation)
4 Francesco Gavazzi (Italy)
5 Jelle Vanendert (Belgium)
6 Robert Gesink (Netherlands)
7 Jos Van Emden (Netherlands) 0.04
8 Sergey Kolesnikov (Russian Federation) 0.05
9 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway)
10 Danilo Wyss (Switzerland)
11 Mark Cavendish (Great Britain)
12 Andris Buividas (Lithuania)
13 Anatoliy Pakhtusov (Ukraine)
14 Yukiya Arashiro (Japan)
15 Diego Milan Jimenez (Spain)
16 Michal Golas (Poland)
17 Grega Bole (Slovenia)
18 John Devine (United States Of America)
19 Jure Kocjan (Slovenia)
20 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukraine)
21 Gil Suray (Belgium)
22 Peter Velits (Slovakia)
23 Rene Mandri (Estonia)
24 Filipe Duarte Sousa Cardoso (Portugal)
25 Roman Kireyev (Kazakhstan)
26 Anders Lund (Denmark)
27 Stefan Denifl (Austria)
28 Christoph Sokoll (Austria)
29 James Meadley (Australia)
30 Nikolas Maes (Belgium)
31 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Colombia)
32 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Colombia)
33 Denis Cioban (Republic of Moldova)
34 Sebastian Langeveld (Netherlands)
35 Jan Barta (Czech Republic)
36 Andrey Zeits (Kazakhstan)
37 John-Lee Augustyn (South Africa)
38 Josef Kugler (Austria)
39 Leopold Konig (Czech Republic)
40 Anton Reshetnikov (Russian Federation)
41 Thomas Peterson (United States Of America)
42 António Manuel Campos Jesus (Portugal)
43 Andre Fernando S. Martins Cardoso (Portugal)
44 Alexandr Pliuschkin (Republic of Moldova)
45 Chris Froome (Kenya)
46 Tiago Jose Pinto Machado (Portugal)
47 Cameron Evans (Canada)
48 Christian Meier (Canada)
49 Mark Cassidy (Ireland)
50 Thomas Frei (Switzerland)
51 Andriy Buchko (Ukraine)
52 Martin Velits (Slovakia)
53 Piotr Zielinski (Poland)
54 Simon Spilak (Slovenia)
55 Edwin Arnulfo Parra Bustamante (Colombia)
56 Ignatas Konovalovas (Lithuania)
57 Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium)
58 Stefan Trafelet (Switzerland)
59 Dominique Cornu (Belgium)
60 Ermanno Capelli (Italy)
61 Steve Bovay (Switzerland)
62 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spain)
63 Andrei Kunitski (Belarus) 0.12
64 Francesco Ginanni (Italy)
65 Daniel (Irl) Martin (Ireland)
66 Jerome Coppel (France)
67 Tom Stamsnijder (Netherlands)
68 Istvan Cziraki (Hungary) 0.25
69 Dalivier Ospina Navarro (Colombia) 0.35
70 Timothy Gudsell (New Zealand)
71 David Veilleux (Canada)
72 Paidi O'brien (Ireland)
73 Hanco Kachelhoffer (South Africa)
74 Gatis Smukulis (Latvia)
75 Lars Petter Nordhaug (Norway)
76 Kristijan Durasek (Croatia)
77 Florian Morizot (France)
78 Cyril Gautier (France)
79 Oleg Opryshko (Ukraine)
80 Bartlomiej Matysiak (Poland)
81 Pawel Cieslik (Poland)
82 Lars Boom (Netherlands)
83 Pierre Rolland (France)
84 Maciej Bodnar (Poland)
85 Benoît Sinner (France)
86 Craig Lewis (United States Of America)
87 Davide Malacarne (Italy)

true. i thought it was a bit more severe than that but looking at profile obviously not. still don't think ciolek is/was on a program.