Although Cofidis said that would not extend its sponsorship contract they have now changed its mind, meaning the team will also exist in the 2009 season
I think the only problem with the Tour Down Under being given Pro Tour status is that it's way too early in the season, and no rider will care about it other than maybe 1 or 2 Aussie's.
If they held it later in the year i think it wouild be a lot better.
Addy291 wrote:
I think the only problem with the Tour Down Under being given Pro Tour status is that it's way too early in the season, and no rider will care about it other than maybe 1 or 2 Aussie's.
If they held it later in the year i think it wouild be a lot better.
yeah, but having a stage race in the middle of nowhere right across the world in the middle of the european calendar is a bit....off-putting. the teams will want to ride it as much as Euskaltel does Paris-Roubaix.
not to mention you're not going to slam the event into the middle of the Australian winter (June, etc.)
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meh, he's not coming back, so no problem. but still, ONE??? that sets a dangerous precedent
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The Vuelta a España is staying in Spain in 2008, but that will not be the case in 2009. Two years from now, the Spanish Grand Tour will start in the Netherlands, the race organisers confirmed this week at the announcement of the 2008 parcours.
The Vuelta will open with a prologue on the TT Circuit Assen, a race track which has hosted motorcycle races since 1925. The first stage will then take the peloton through the province of Drenthe in Northeastern Netherlands.
for those interested, here's the Assen TT (the TT is just a name):
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Well, I think it's just a "cover-up" in the sense that he says he retires to make UCI stop trying to "increase" the ban. Then, after his ban has expired, he's suddenly in China to compete in the Olympics
According to Stuttgarter Zeitung, at least 5 T-Mobile riders used blood doping during Tour de France. One of the five is Sinkewitz who has admitted it - the rest? Well, time trials are usually good to conclude things like that:
General classification after stage 7
since everyone appeals, everyone else feels as though they have to...they feel as though not appealing is admiting guilt (which it kind of is).
about the tour time trial results CrueTrue posted, I'll quote you the cyclingnews article on that TT stage, which I remember so vividly: "T-Mobile morphs into T-Rex in TT"
surely a contender for worst title ever, and shows clearly how well they did. if I remember correctly, even Guerini did amazingly well...
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A few things have happened the past few days, but I'm lazy, so here's the most "debatable": The Spanish coach, Paco Antequera, has said that the new doping initiatives won't help the sport, and that he's against all of it. The sport needs to be treated like any other sport, he says. "It may be a demanding sport, but it should be allowed to treat a cold with some medicine".
p3druh wrote:
J.A.Pecharroman has been fired from SL Benfica for consumption of a product considered doping...
His defense: the product was used to prevent him from going bald...
that makes five benfica athletes who've been busted and used the exact same excuse just this season (in different sports).
lots of guys use that "medication" and that same lame excuse. the real reason they take it is that it masks steroids so that the steroids don't appear in the controls.
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