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A very successful year for the Czech CT team ATT Investments.

The article below gives quite a dry, statistical overview of it, but the important stats as I see it are:

• Finishing ahead of Elkov in the UCI rankings and the Czech Cup

• Ranked as the third best European CT team just behind the devo duo of Alpecin and Jumbo which should still guarantee an invite to every .2 race in the continent

• Lots of wins. Many more than previous years

A lot of that success is of course down to Otruba who deserves to go to a higher level, but that is still up in the air.

The article does get a bit more interesting towards the end when it talks about transfers (~50% of the work force will change) and they give some clues about the riders - three foreign nationalities (Slovak, Hungarian? and ????), a pure sprinter and some youngsters.

Boguslawski? Toupalik Jr? Sivok? A few of my guesses.

www.roadcycling.cz

S jakými změnami vstoupí do nové sezóny ATT Investments, třetí nejúspěšnější evropský kontinentální tým? | RoadCycling.cz

ATT Investments se poprvé ve své historii stal nejúspěšnějším českým týmem. Jeho letošní vzestup byl tak masivní, že se podle zisku UCI bodů i počtu dosažených vítězství stal třetím nejúspěšnějším evropským kontinentálním týmem a Jakub Otruba druhým Evropanem! Pojďme si vedle sezónní bilance...
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How is the diabetes team going?
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Novo Nordisk or Team Skyline? I'll presume you mean the former.

It all depends on which metric you use to judge them.

Obviously in comparison to other teams from the same level they've not had a great season. Zero wins and the only Pro Team to finish outside the top-50 in the UCI ranking and thus not eligible for a GT wildcard next year (not that they were going to ask for one anyway).

However if you view them as a special case and judge them accordingly then things are looking quite rosy I feel. The sponsor has renewed for another three years which is always good no matter who you are. The veterans (Lozano, Kusztor and Peron) gave some decent performances here and there through the season. A couple of podiums for Peron, top-ten in GC in Rwanda for Kusztor and 13th in Hainan for Lozano.

At the younger end of the spectrum, Ridolfo is far from ridiculous on his day, but the real nugget is of course Kopecky. Still only 20, but fifth at the Euro U23s and a top-ten in Dwars door het Hageland this year. That's a real result in a real race. He's been linked with a move away which is almost unheard of.

So I think things are going well.
 
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Leadbelly said:
Novo Nordisk or Team Skyline? I'll presume you mean the former.

It all depends on which metric you use to judge them.

Obviously in comparison to other teams from the same level they've not had a great season. Zero wins and the only Pro Team to finish outside the top-50 in the UCI ranking and thus not eligible for a GT wildcard next year (not that they were going to ask for one anyway).

However if you view them as a special case and judge them accordingly then things are looking quite rosy I feel. The sponsor has renewed for another three years which is always good no matter who you are. The veterans (Lozano, Kusztor and Peron) gave some decent performances here and there through the season. A couple of podiums for Peron, top-ten in GC in Rwanda for Kusztor and 13th in Hainan for Lozano.

At the younger end of the spectrum, Ridolfo is far from ridiculous on his day, but the real nugget is of course Kopecky. Still only 20, but fifth at the Euro U23s and a top-ten in Dwars door het Hageland this year. That's a real result in a real race. He's been linked with a move away which is almost unheard of.

So I think things are going well.
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That's good, multi billion sales pharmaceutical company is probably an ideal what sponsor.
Pity there are not more of them.
 
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A very successful year for the Czech CT team ATT Investments.

A lot of that success is of course down to Otruba who deserves to go to a higher level, but that is still up in the air.

The article does get a bit more interesting towards the end when it talks about transfers (~50% of the work force will change) and they give some clues about the riders - three foreign nationalities (Slovak, Hungarian? and ????), a pure sprinter and some youngsters.
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Otruba is currently at the first ATT get-together in preparation for 2024, so we can assume no move up to Pro Tour.....

Dina is also there and with a bit of snooping and educated guesswork we can assume the other returning riders are Turek, Petrus, Schuran, Kaspar and Jakoubek along with the already known Stocek.
 
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1731267542939836815
View: https://twitter.com/jauzy19/status/1731267542939836815


Radsport have provided an update and thankfully it seems things aren't as bad as they could have been.

Lieferwagen an Ampel mit 100 km/h auf Felbermayr-Auto gerast | radsport-news.com

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On Sunday afternoon, sporting director Rupert Hödlmoser was at least able to give the all-clear. None of his drivers are in mortal danger. "As brutal as the accident was, the boys escaped almost unscathed. Given the circumstances, they are doing well. Final checks are still being carried out to simply rule out everything.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1737538271129874736
View: https://twitter.com/WielerFlits/status/1737538271129874736


The good ship Savio keeps on sailing. He and his long time sponsors are linking up with the Mexican CT team Petrolike.

Roster and calendar in the tweet below. Another one or two U23s will surely sign to enable them to have a full strength team for the espoir events.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1737171877779435626
View: https://twitter.com/Biarnes72/status/1737171877779435626


Going ProTour is mentioned in the original article, but a lot of teams say that. They can join the list of CIC Nantes, JCL UKYO, Felt-Felbermayr and REMBE who have all talked about this recently.
 
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Leadbelly said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1737538271129874736
View: https://twitter.com/WielerFlits/status/1737538271129874736


The good ship Savio keeps on sailing. He and his long time sponsors are linking up with the Mexican CT team Petrolike.

Roster and calendar in the tweet below. Another one or two U23s will surely sign to enable them to have a full strength team for the espoir events.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1737171877779435626
View: https://twitter.com/Biarnes72/status/1737171877779435626


Going ProTour is mentioned in the original article, but a lot of teams say that. They can join the list of CIC Nantes, JCL UKYO, Felt-Felbermayr and REMBE who have all talked about this recently.
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Leadbelly said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1737538271129874736
View: https://twitter.com/WielerFlits/status/1737538271129874736


The good ship Savio keeps on sailing. He and his long time sponsors are linking up with the Mexican CT team Petrolike.

Roster and calendar in the tweet below. Another one or two U23s will surely sign to enable them to have a full strength team for the espoir events.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1737171877779435626
View: https://twitter.com/Biarnes72/status/1737171877779435626


Going ProTour is mentioned in the original article, but a lot of teams say that. They can join the list of CIC Nantes, JCL UKYO, Felt-Felbermayr and REMBE who have all talked about this recently.
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Mauricio Zapata is also on the 2024 roster. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
 
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search said:
+ Philippe Wagner and Global 6. But will over or under 0,5 of those teams really do so in 2025? ;)
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and there's more. Sabgal, Colpak (see below) and some Visconti led effort I read about the other day too.

www.tuttobiciweb.it

NEL 2025 LA COLPACK DIVENTERA' PROTEAM, MBH BANK E ' IL NUOVO PRIMO NOME E GILBERTO SIMONI...

Un progetto di crescita che coinvolge l'istituto di credito ungherese. Gibo seguirà la formazione juniores
www.tuttobiciweb.it www.tuttobiciweb.it

So that's nine (!) potential new Pro teams in the coming years.
 
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It won't be the same without Van Aert there, we were all hoping for a Belgium catastrophe after we were cruelly robbed of one at the Olympics but not this way :(

Lovely little team though, hoping their best shot maverick puncheur maxine von gilles can nab a handy top 15 for some UCI points.
 
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Leadbelly said:
A very successful year for the Czech CT team ATT Investments.
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It's weird.

My gut feeling this year was that the team were having a bit of a stinker. Otruba was injured early in the year, Rudyk's results didn't seem much better than Raim's from 2023, Jakoubek had to retire (with health issues?) and Stocek couldn't find his form either. Dina was the only one I thought who was doing well.

Anyway they've nearly scored as many points as last year. o_O

As i mentioned in the IPT thread, they're the fourth best euro CT team at the moment and have some races left (including CRO) to try and get themselves into that important top-3.
 
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Leadbelly said:
The good ship Savio keeps on sailing. He and his long time sponsors are linking up with the Mexican CT team Petrolike.

Going ProTour is mentioned in the original article, but a lot of teams say that. They can join the list of CIC Nantes, JCL UKYO, Felt-Felbermayr and REMBE who have all talked about this recently.
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search said:
+ Philippe Wagner and Global 6. But will over or under 0,5 of those teams really do so in 2025? ;)
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Leadbelly said:
and there's more. Sabgal, Colpak and some Visconti led effort I read about the other day too.
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So of all those teams, are any making the move up?

Wagner kinda is. They're merging with Bingoal, but I'd be surprised if they take more than 2-3 riders. So not really imo.

I'm sure I saw that the Colpak and CIC Nantes moves weren't going to happen, but don't think I've read anything about the various other teams, and no news is probably bad news in this case.

Anybody heard anything on the grapevine?
 
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L'exploit della JCL Ukyo, tra metodo di lavoro e futuro

Con Alberto Volpi analizziamo l'exploit della JCL Ukyo: metodo di lavoro, materiali e futuro. Presto una professional?
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A chat with Volpi about JCL and their successful year.

Going up a level to Pro? Maybe it 2026, but it's not a given.

Their Italian imports (Carboni, Pesenti and Malucelli) all had pretty good seasons, but that success does mean that all three of them won't be riding for the team next year. He talks about "starting again with young (Italian) guys, guys who intuitively have certain margins for growth". A poster on cicloweb has mentioned D'Amato, Garibbo and Raccani as potential signings.
 
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