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| rodda |
Posted on 10-02-2008 03:57
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hahaha perhpaps they will climb one of our many mountains 
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| Crommy |
Posted on 10-02-2008 09:28
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Not as bad as in England - our mountain bike course wasn't tough enough, so they're trying to find a new course. It's a shame that where they are looking, it's as flat as a pancake
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 10-02-2008 10:53
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issoisso wrote:
Aquarius wrote:
I confirm it's true.
oh I don't doubt that. I just wanted to know the details, as you gave them below  I found the story again :
https://www.cyclismag.com/article.php?...864#ancre1
Jérôme Pineau (Bouygues Télécom) tells to velomagazine.fr all the good things he thinks of his Tour Down Under Participation : "I'm not the one who wanted to go there". He would "really have prefered going to the team stage" in Brignoles, on the Mediterranean shore. He doesn't consider himself ready for the Pro Tour 2008 opening eventn especially given that he will be "asked to get results, to be present as team captain".
What Bouygues' staff thus contemplated for him is nothing more than a "punishment for his bad season ending last year" which will lead him to "fade" after the Tour Med.
During the antidoping summit, 23rd October 2007, in Paris, Jérôme Pineau claimed in front of Pat McQuaid : "[Make us race] a Pro Tour event in Australia, in January, doesn't seem to be the best way to fight doping in my eyes".
issoisso wrote:Aquarius wrote:
the Ardennes races, which are his usual objective during the first half of the season.
not that he ever does anything there... "Top 10 in La Flèche Wallone last year, if you count Kessler out" were his words, well, he can fight for top-10, top-15 positions. I think he was also 9th in Liège in 2007.
If I were to be a tad bit sarcastic, I'd say that if all the big leaders were a little less doped, and assuming Pineau is not, he could be a decent podium contender there. 
issoisso wrote:Aquarius wrote:
Time to find himself another team actually...
Yeah, they're like a family in that team. If you rock the boat you're out no matter how good you are.
Given the "philosophy" of the Bouyges team and athletes, it'll be interesting to see where he goes. Definitely another french team. Yep, definitely. There's a problem with us Frenchies, we can hardly learn foreign languages. Only guys like Vasseur managed to integrate well in foreign teams, but the man is an engineer, whereas most of his fellows are people who never really learnt anything at school.
So : French team or Belgian French-speaking team. Not much more choice.
I was amazed to check on FDJeux website the studies their riders made and the degrees they have. Most of them can feel very lucky they managed to turn pro, they would almost be homeless otherwise.
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| issoisso |
Posted on 10-02-2008 11:03
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Aquarius wrote:
I found the story again :
https://www.cyclismag.com/article.php?...864#ancre1
Jérôme Pineau (Bouygues Télécom) tells to velomagazine.fr all the good things he thinks of his Tour Down Under Participation : "I'm not the one who wanted to go there". He would "really have prefered going to the team stage" in Brignoles, on the Mediterranean shore. He doesn't consider himself ready for the Pro Tour 2008 opening eventn especially given that he will be "asked to get results, to be present as team captain".
What Bouygues' staff thus contemplated for him is nothing more than a "punishment for his bad season ending last year" which will lead him to "fade" after the Tour Med.
During the antidoping summit, 23rd October 2007, in Paris, Jérôme Pineau claimed in front of Pat McQuaid : "[Make us race] a Pro Tour event in Australia, in January, doesn't seem to be the best way to fight doping in my eyes".
thanks
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Yep, definitely. There's a problem with us Frenchies, we can hardly learn foreign languages. Only guys like Vasseur managed to integrate well in foreign teams, but the man is an engineer, whereas most of his fellows are people who never really learnt anything at school.
So : French team or Belgian French-speaking team. Not much more choice.
Maybe just in cycling, as there are so many french teams. In other sports it's clearly not the case.
The british are usually the ones who hate to leave. In cycling they have to, since there aren't any major british teams.
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I was amazed to check on FDJeux website the studies their riders made and the degrees they have. Most of them can feel very lucky they managed to turn pro, they would almost be homeless otherwise.
turning pro at a sport usually means a level of dedication that requires you to leave everything else....usually. not always.
Edited by issoisso on 10-02-2008 11:04
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| chuckie |
Posted on 10-02-2008 12:57
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Speaking of FDJeux,anyone think Gilbert will win anything this season?? |
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| Valor |
Posted on 10-02-2008 12:58
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He has just won 1st stage of Challenge Mallorca  |
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Posted on 10-02-2008 12:59
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Km 100.00 META. GANA GILGERT (FRANCAISE DES JEUX)
El belga Phillippe Gilbert se impone en la meta, después de saltar del grupo a falta de 2 km, con un tiempo de 2h03'04". Promedio: 48,75 km/h. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 10-02-2008 12:59
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attacked so close to the line and held it 
well done!
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Posted on 10-02-2008 13:08
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But Mallorca men don't want to say where ended PSK-Whirpool Author's best sprinter André Schulze :cry: |
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Posted on 10-02-2008 13:09
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Ye,good for him!
He was unlucky last year not to win Paris-Tours...Kroon and Pozzato would not work Hope he does well this season. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 10-02-2008 13:15
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sadly for him this win isn't exactly big, while Paris-Tours is one of the biggest races around
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 10-02-2008 13:58
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chuckie wrote:
Ye,good for him!
He was unlucky last year not to win Paris-Tours...Kroon and Pozzato would not work Hope he does well this season. And two years before, when Devolder wouldn't relay him, because he would finish second in a sprint-Ã -deux... |
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| Valor |
Posted on 10-02-2008 14:38
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Tomas Hruby from AC Sparta Praha Cycling was riding on main-road, while local gipsy boy collided him. Altough Hruby wasn't guilty of that accident, he was struck by gipsy's family. He wasn't injured, but his carbon fork was broken (due to the accident).
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| chuckie |
Posted on 10-02-2008 16:37
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Valor wrote:
but his carbon fork was broken.
My thoughts go out to Tomas at this difficult time.......damn gipsys |
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Posted on 10-02-2008 16:51
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do not shrink me gipsy!
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Posted on 10-02-2008 16:51
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woops
anyway, Gilbert has been unlucky quite a few times
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| issoisso |
Posted on 10-02-2008 16:56
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A few weeks ago around here, the gipsies were robbed and left without anything.
If even the gipsies get robbed, then no one is safe
I'm joking of course. this is a very quiet place. (but the part about the gipsies being robbed is no joke!)
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| MarcoPRT |
Posted on 10-02-2008 17:07
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Gipsies get robbed? Now I know the pleasures of life...
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| chuckie |
Posted on 10-02-2008 17:12
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So the morale of the story is death to gipsys......lets move on....has anyone read ''tour de life''?? |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 10-02-2008 17:24
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chuckie wrote:
So the morale of the story is death to gipsys ......lets move on....has anyone read ''tour de life''??
Considering that's a cycling book, that I have a question about cycling books as well and that we've been taking this wildly off topic, I'll just make a new thread. this is the news thread after all
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