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Most professional winning per season by a team

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Currently this year-OPQS-60 wins
2013-OPQS- 55 wins (Sky 35)
2012-Sky- 51 wins
2011-HTC- 53 wins
2010-HTC- 59 wins
2009-HTC- 81 wins
2008-Team Columbia- 67 wins
2007-Quickstep- 36 wins
2006-CSC- 52 wins
2005-Fassa Bortolo- 43 wins
2004-Quick Step- 46 wins
2003-Fassa Bortolo- 51 wins
2002-Mapei Quick Step- 47 wins
2001-Mapei Quick Step- 45 wins
2000-Mapei Quick Step- 71 wins
1999-Mapei Quick Step- 48 wins
 
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Sasquatch said:
I miss that HTC team.

Looking back it's pretty remarkable how dominant they were. And technically they're still doing it under the Guise of the Omega Pharma name and colors.
 
Pricey_sky said:
Me too, I was gutted when they folded. An absolute machine that had unbelievable talent in their roster.

Giant is starting to remind me of HTC nowadays. Kittel, Degenkolb, Mezgec, Sinkeldam, Ahlstrand as talented sprinters.. Dumoulin the ITT beast, now also a talented climber in Barguil.
 
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Dekker_Tifosi said:
Giant is starting to remind me of HTC nowadays. Kittel, Degenkolb, Mezgec, Sinkeldam, Ahlstrand as talented sprinters.. Dumoulin the ITT beast, now also a talented climber in Barguil.

They still have a long way to go. HTC had third tier riders on a GT podium and winning TT worlds. Goss, EBH and Burghardt had a (classic-winning) level in that team they achieved again. Cav climbed like an angel up the Poggio in 2009, let's see if Giant can apply the same on Kittel.
 
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Pentacycle said:
They still have a long way to go. HTC had third tier riders on a GT podium and winning TT worlds. Goss, EBH and Burghardt had a (classic-winning) level in that team they achieved again. Cav climbed like an angel up the Poggio in 2009, let's see if Giant can apply the same on Kittel.

No need for that since Degenkolb is the leader for MSR as long as he stays with Giant. And with the new route, no pure sprinter can win it.
 
It's easy to rack up those wins when you're sending the top two sprinters in the world and a full strength sprint train to some decidedly average races against fish-in-a-barrel sprinting fields.

Why anybody would pine for the days when absolutely any flat race other than Roubaix was even more boring than the 2009 Tour de Suisse is beyond me. And what's worse, you actually had teams trying to emulate this crap, helping make more and more races into unwatchable group rides, only without the strength to actually justify the work by winning at the end that HTC had.
 
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Libertine Seguros said:
It's easy to rack up those wins when you're sending the top two sprinters in the world and a full strength sprint train to some decidedly average races against fish-in-a-barrel sprinting fields.

Why anybody would pine for the days when absolutely any flat race other than Roubaix was even more boring than the 2009 Tour de Suisse is beyond me. And what's worse, you actually had teams trying to emulate this crap, helping make more and more races into unwatchable group rides, only without the strength to actually justify the work by winning at the end that HTC had.
Libertine strikes again :D
that was some 81 enjoyable days of that season for you :D:p