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Over the last several years, Team Saxo Bank and the company behind the team, Riis Cycling A/S, have undergone a remarkable transformation. With regard to sports and business, much has happened since the autumn of 1996 when the first step was taken to create what are today the world's best professional cycling team and a company that won the Danish business magazine Børsen's Gazelle Award in 2003. Bjarne Riis took over the team and the company in 2000 and has since headed the entire project, which continues to develop based on his vision and ideas. Latest expansion is an introduction of a distribution section within the organisation. Initially, the company had its headquarters in Herning in the west of Denmark, but in the winter of 2003, Riis Cycling A/S moved to Lyngby, north of Copenhagen. The company employs approximately 60 people and the new headquarters is the future centre for numerous new business initiatives supervised by Riis Cycling A/S. In terms of sport, the last seven seasons have included many substantial victories. In 2001, Laurent Jalabert made a real breakthrough both in popularity and with his results in the Tour de France with what was then Team CSC Tiscali. Two stage victories and winning the Best Climber's Jersey made the team and Jalabert in particular, one of the race's strongest competitors. The following year, Jalabert once again won the Polka-dot Jersey and prior to that, the team's newest gamble, Tyler Hamilton, fought for overall victory in the Giro d'Italia. With the guidance of Bjarne Riis, the American was retrained and went from being Lance Armstrong's key assistant rider to being one of the sport's strongest stage riders. With a stage victory and an overall second place finish in the Giro, the scene was set for betting on the Tour de France, a gamble which really began to pay off the following year. Along with Carlos Sastre, and the newly acquired Peter Luttenberger, Hamilton established a solid victory in team competition in the centenary Tour de France in which Team CSC brought home three sensational stage victories, making them one of the race's leading teams. After a critical start with Tyler Hamilton breaking his collarbone, the team bounced back to execute a successful race of historic proportions. The team also achieved great success in the prestigious Classics. Jalabert won Clasica San Sebastian in both 2001 and 2002, after which he ended his phenomenal career with Team CSC. Jakob Piil won his first World Cup race in the 2002 Paris-Tours. In the spring of 2003, Tyler Hamilton won the Liège-Bastogne-Liège, on top of giving a spectacular team performance. This provided the starting point for an extraordinarily successful 2003 season, which included a total of 23 victories. During the 2004 season, ambitions rose and performance improved again. Consistently garnering points throughout the season, the team came particularly close to ending the year ranked as number one in the world. With noteworthy victories in the Tour Méditerranéen, Paris-Nice and the Criterium International, the team established itself as a major player in the spring. Even though they did not win the Classics, the team had a solid lead in the rankings up to Tour de France. In keeping with tradition, the World's Greatest Bicycle Race ended up being an impressive race for Team CSC, like something out of a fairy-tale. Ivan Basso and Carlos Sastre lead the team in the overall standings, ensuring that Team CSC's first podium spot went to Ivan Basso, who completed a great Tour de France with an historic stage victory in the Pyrenees. The experts could easily agree that Team CSC was the most striking team in the 2004 Tour de France. In the weeks following the Tour, Team CSC kept up its high level of performance, continuing its winning streak. The Tour of Denmark, the LUK Challenge and an impressive bronze medal for Bobby Julich at the Athens Olympics were among the highlights of the last part of the season. With a record-breaking number of victories in the 2005 season, Team CSC finished a monumental year by being listed as number one in the world. A major, long-term goal was reached, and with 54 wins, Team CSC and Riis Cycling A/S had gained a key position in professional sports management on a worldwide scale. Thorough planning, technologically new approaches, team spirit and an exceptionally broad crew was the foundation stone of its success, which included some of the most important prestigious trophies in the sport. Ivan Basso captured the Pink Leader's Jersey in the Giro d'Italia as well as a second place in Tour de France, David Zabriskie and Jens Voigt captured two Yellow Jerseys in the Tour, Carlos Sastre finished third in Vuelta a España and the team had stage victories in all three Grand Tours. Bobby Julich's victory in Paris-Nice was also among the highlights of a phenomenal year that pointed toward a fantastic 2006. 2006 indeed gave a lot of victories: Once again the team classification in the ProTour was won and a total of 51 victories were included. Fabian Cancellara won Paris-Roubaix and the time trail world championship, while Fränk Schleck won Amstel Gold Race and the legendary Tour de France-stage victory on Alpe d'Huez as he finished the year as number three in the ProTour rankings. Ivan Basso won Giro d'Italia, and Jens Voigt gained a stage in Tour de France plus no less than three stages and the overall classifications in Deutschland Tour. Finally Carlos Sastre finished all three Grand Tours as the only rider in 2006 and he even finished fourth in both Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana. Sastre improved on these statistics in 2007, where he was fourth in Tour de France and second in Vuelta a España, where he also received a lot of praise for his eagerness to attack throughout the race. Earlier in the year Stuart O'Grady celebrated the biggest triumph of his career with the victory in Paris-Roubaix and Jens Voigt defended his victory in Deutschland Tour. The major break troughs were down to Andy Schleck and Chris Anker Sørensen. Schleck took a brilliant second place in Giro d'Italia and Sørensen a sixth place in Deutschland Tour as well as a top-20 spot in the Vuelta. Last but not least Fabian Cancellara was on a roll with seven days in the yellow jersey during Tour de France and another gold medal at the Time Trial World Championships. These championships also saw Alexandr Kolobnev take a silver medal in the road race. In 2008 the team faced a new challenge as CSC announced that they would stop their sponsorship after the season. In June Saxo Bank signed on as new sponsor. To begin with they would join as co-sponsor with CSC and as of 2009 the team will be Team Saxo Bank. After eight seasons, Team CSC Saxo Bank experiences continual goal-oriented change in the face of new, major challenges that especially concern another attempt to take the overall victory in Tour de France as well as one well-defined, distinct ambition: To always improve.

		For					Against
Opponent	Race	TV	SPP	Cas	Gold	Score	TV	SPP	Cas	Gold	Gate
Coghouse Convicts	Human	1000k	15	2/0/1	70k	2 - 0	980k	6	0/0/0	50k	67k
Naggaroth S(h)ado(w)s	Dark Elf	1110k	19	2/1/1	60k	2 - 1	1160k	16	1/1/1	50k	39k
Time to Man Up	Norse	1120k	16	3/0/1	60k	1 - 1	1200k	13	2/0/0	90k	76k
Blood Peak Destroyers	Ogre	1210k	28	6/3/0	60k	3 - 1	1250k	8	0/0/0	20k	40k
Chicken Biryani	Ogre	1340k	18	2/2/1	50k	1 - 0	1260k	11	1/1/1	90k	85k
British Lions	Human	1380k	19	1/3/0	40k	2 - 0	1370k	8	1/0/0	30k	65k
Cormoragh Corsairs	Dark Elf	1460k	12	3/0/0	40k	1 - 2	1470k	19	3/2/0	80k	71k
German Idealists	Wood Elf	1490k	12	1/1/0	50k	1 - 0	1800k	9	1/0/0	70k	82k
Loose Moose	Norse	1560k	13	1/0/0	40k	2 - 1	1520k	11	0/1/0	30k	85k
Blüdhaven Blockbusters	Chaos Dwarf	1630k	19	2/0/2	50k	2 - 0	1670k	11	1/1/0	50k	75k
Nightmare of Elf Street	Chaos	1650k	21	1/3/1	50k	2 - 1	1960k	9	0/0/0	10k	68k
Wrasslin II	Ogre	1750k	20	1/2/0	40k	3 - 1	1800k	12	2/0/0	50k	83k
Poker Unlimited	Ogre	1830k	17	2/0/1	70k	2 - 0	1870k	9	1/1/0	60k	85k
Wasteland Warpfires	Chaos Chosen	1750k	14	2/1/1	60k	1 - 1	1840k	10	0/0/0	30k	81k
Lizards 0f ¥umtum Mountain	Lizardmen	1840k	19	1/1/2	50k	2 - 0	1780k	5	0/1/0	60k	114k
Bestias bestiales	Ogre	1800k	21	5/2/1	30k	2 - 0	2030k	7	1/0/0	20k	60k
Bibiki Bay Bruisers	Orc	1880k	12	0/2/1	30k	1 - 1	1860k	14	1/2/0	20k	98k
Titans Vikings	Norse	1930k	11	2/1/1	30k	0 - 0	1660k	5	0/0/0	40k	66k
WenkTeam	Ogre	1970k	22	3/1/0	60k	3 - 0	2180k	7	0/1/0	50k	85k
Helena High	Skaven	2080k	22	2/1/1	70k	3 - 0	2220k	9	1/0/0	80k	121k
Lizards 0f ¥umtum Mountain	Lizardmen	2160k	9	0/0/0	90k	1 - 2	1950k	13	0/1/0	100k	141k
Dolor Venerit	Chaos Chosen	2070k	6	0/0/1	60k	0 - 2	2430k	16	2/0/0	40k	104k
Rooked Again	Shambling Undead	2140k	11	1/0/2	30k	0 - 2	2030k	21	4/0/1	80k	101k
Physics Nobel Laureates	Ogre	1980k	19	3/2/2	60k	0 - 1	1990k	16	1/2/1	80k	94k
Blistering minds BC	Human	1670k	16	3/0/1	50k	0 - 3	1700k	26	4/1/0	80k	90k
Double Hunters	High Elf	1530k	18	2/1/0	80k	2 - 1	1780k	11	1/0/0	30k	83k
Jitterbug Perfume	Skaven	1580k	15	1/2/0	70k	2 - 1	1610k	11	0/0/0	70k	74k
Arbor Beasts	Chaos	1680k	11	0/0/0	70k	2 - 1	1940k	9	0/0/0	10k	72k
Ballymun Bruisers	Human	1770k	12	2/1/0	30k	1 - 2	1580k	14	0/0/1	50k	74k
Halo Thar	Ogre	1640k	15	1/1/0	90k	2 - 2	2420k	15	1/0/0	50k	109k
Cedar Crisps	Wood Elf	1690k	25	4/2/0	50k	3 - 2	1560k	14	0/1/0	70k	84k
Brass Eyes	Chaos	1800k	8	0/1/0	70k	0 - 3	2180k	20	1/2/0	20k	91k
Miktam	Wood Elf	1880k	15	2/1/0	40k	2 - 1	1850k	15	2/1/0	30k	79k
Umbra - Tarot	Chaos	1950k	28	2/4/1	70k	3 - 0	1810k	10	0/1/0	20k	100k
Orca Whales	Orc	2080k	9	0/0/0	20k	1 - 0	2080k	12	1/1/1	10k	68k
Irate Infantry	Ogre	2120k	20	1/0/1	60k	3 - 0	2130k	5	0/0/0	10k	93k
Grand et Fort 2	Ogre	2220k	19	5/1/0	10k	2 - 1	2570k	13	0/2/0	0k	76k