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Joost De Maeseneer
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Goblin
MA
6
ST
2
AG
3
AV
7
R
171
B
24
P
0
F
21
G
34
Cp
0
In
0
Cs
2
Td
10
Mvp
5
GPP
59
XPP
0
SPP
59
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Country: Belgium

Joost De Maeseneer and his colleague Piet De Moor are actually the two people, who have been with the team for the longest period of time. Jesper Skibby recruited them already during the very first season, when the team was called Team Home Jack&Jones.

”We weren't there from the actual beginning, but it was about a month into the season, when we came onboard. It was in 1998, when Jesper [Skibby] and Henrik Schlüter persuaded us to join. Before that we'd worked at TVM with Jesper,” explains De Maeseneer.

”I've tried almost everything as a doctor in the cycling world. I've worked with Eddy Merckx, when I was with the Belgian Cycling Federation for many years – and actually I still am as part of a sports committee, where my role is advisor without participating in any races,” continues De Maeseneer.

Joost was born in Belgium in 1955 and finished his education as a medical doctor in 1981. After that he did a course as a sports doctor in 1983. Since then his professional life has been all about cycling, cycling and more cycling beginning with the Panasonic Team in 1984.

”Piet and I had worked from home for many years for the Belgian Cycling Federation, Panasonic and TVM, but in 2000, when Bjarne Riis took over the team with Riis Cycling, we were asked to decide if we'd like to join the team on a more steady basis, which we were happy to do. So now we are responsible for all the sports physiology on the team along with Piet Daneels. All training programs and treatment go through us,” says De Maeseneer and continues:

”All three of us in the medical department are Belgians and we live practically next door to each other. I think this is a huge advantage as we communicate all the time. It also means, that we all take care of all the riders on the team, because we keep each other up to date continuously. When some of the riders are treated for something by either Kalle [Flebbe] or Ole
or maybe one of our soigneurs, it's of course very important that we know about it,”
Match performances
Date
Opponent
Comp
TD
Int
Cas
Mvp
Spp
2009-07-30
-
-
-
-
1
5
2009-07-30
-
-
-
1
-
2
2009-07-31
-
-
-
-
1
5
2009-08-01
-
1
-
-
-
3
2009-08-01
-
1
-
-
-
3
2009-08-01
-
1
-
-
-
3
2009-08-02
-
-
-
1
1
7
2009-08-03
-
1
-
-
-
3
2009-08-27
-
1
-
-
-
3
2009-08-27
-
1
-
-
-
3
2009-09-27
-
1
-
-
1
8
2009-10-05
-
1
-
-
-
3
2009-10-23
-
2
-
-
1
11