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| chuckie |
Posted on 28-08-2009 12:03
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issoisso wrote:
Was just about to post this: it's being reported that QuickStep have signed Contador.
Can't find anything on this..
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| mrlol |
Posted on 28-08-2009 12:54
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As we know, Steven de Jongh will stop cycling after this season. And now hes got an offer from Team Sky to become directeur sportif. Good move by Sky, he's got loads of experience(for setting up a sprint train for Cav may he come over afterall sometime?  ) 
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| Stijn_vranken |
Posted on 28-08-2009 13:41
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chuckie wrote:
issoisso wrote:
Was just about to post this: it's being reported that QuickStep have signed Contador.
Can't find anything on this..
Same
last i read about conta was that Astana would never sell him(although it has been a while)
prevent hangovers --> stay drunk
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RIP WW. Gone but not forgotten
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| issoisso |
Posted on 28-08-2009 21:40
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Kirchen to renew with Columbia. An agreement is "extremely close"
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
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| JDC |
Posted on 29-08-2009 08:56
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Couldn't find this posted before, but the rumours about Wiggins going to Sky are apparently true. That could explain why Garmin suddenly had enough money to pay Vansummeren. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 29-08-2009 10:36
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Rasmussen finally has a believable cover story for whenever he wants to say he's in Mexico.
He signed for Tecos de Guadalajara 
Just look out for the bird flu, chicken
Edited by issoisso on 29-08-2009 10:37
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 29-08-2009 10:55
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What an excellent team
Arvesen says that he has offers from three teams: Saxo Bank, RadioShack and another one that he doesn't want to name. Any guesses on the last one? Cervelo, perhaps? |
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| johnnyjur |
Posted on 29-08-2009 11:03
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CrueTrue wrote:
What an excellent team
Arvesen says that he has offers from three teams: Saxo Bank, RadioShack and another one that he doesn't want to name. Any guesses on the last one? Cervelo, perhaps?
Norwegian media says it is one of the largest Italian World Tour teams |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 29-08-2009 12:00
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issoisso wrote:
Rasmussen finally has a believable cover story for whenever he wants to say he's in Mexico.
He signed for Tecos de Guadalajara
Just look out for the bird flu, chicken
The first Danish media has now published the story (Politiken.dk).
There's more 'news' to it than Rasmussen signing with Tecos, though. The article says that the Mexican politician Bernardo de la Garza has offered Mexican citizenship to Rasmussen. |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 29-08-2009 13:57
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And Mexican media started writing about it now.
One article says that MR has offered himself for free to Contentpolis and some other teams, but had been rejected. Tecos eventually accepted.
But more importantly, it's being said that MR has already accepted to ride under Mexican license (as a Mexican) and will compete for them at e.g. the Olympics. |
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 29-08-2009 14:28
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This means Rasmussen will be racing at the biggest races Tecos goes to, aka the Tour of the Gila, the Tour of Utah, and other southwest USA races.
This is ridiculous, this has to be the strangest signing in recent cycling history. |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 29-08-2009 14:31
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Strange? Why?
No pro team wants him, so it's natural to ride for a team where his wife (and himself, partly) live. |
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 29-08-2009 14:34
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CrueTrue wrote:
Strange? Why?
No pro team wants him, so it's natural to ride for a team where his wife (and himself, partly) live.
But still, he's Michael Rasmussen. If you asked me which riders I thought would not ride for a small team no matter what because they thought it would be beneath them, Rasmussen would have been up near the top. I just can't see him content with having the Tour of Utah as the hardest race on his calendar...
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 29-08-2009 14:40
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I'm pretty sure he's only signing for the rest of this season. It's more of a PR-thing, I think. Now that he's back in the peloton, even though it's for a small team, it's more 'acceptable' to sign him than if you're the first team trying to sign him after the ban. |
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 29-08-2009 20:17
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Okay, that makes more sense |
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| bobcatsman |
Posted on 29-08-2009 20:20
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Rasmussen racing the Vuelta a Chihuahua, it had be my dream, it will maybe become reality !  |
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| SotD |
Posted on 29-08-2009 21:04
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It's a farce really... The pack is filled with former doped top riders like Basso and Vinokourov. It's acceptable for them to ride, but not Michael Rasmussen... I can't get it really. Probably because I'm Danish, but I really don't get it. |
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| KurtinSC |
Posted on 30-08-2009 01:09
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SotD wrote:
It's a farce really... The pack is filled with former doped top riders like Basso and Vinokourov. It's acceptable for them to ride, but not Michael Rasmussen... I can't get it really. Probably because I'm Danish, but I really don't get it.
Well Basso was apologetic and Vino had his own team in Astana where he was a national hero.
Rasmussen wasn't apologetic, and didn't have the ready made team that Vino had. Floyd Landis is a better comparison... older rider who got hit with doping, wasn't apologetic and hasn't exactly found a great ride. |
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| MikeSurb |
Posted on 30-08-2009 03:40
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Is it still clear that Rasmussen even doped though. There are just as many people who say he was in Mexico as Italy, and I never read that he tested positive. :/
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| Stijn_vranken |
Posted on 30-08-2009 08:01
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MikeSurb wrote:
Is it still clear that Rasmussen even doped though. There are just as many people who say he was in Mexico as Italy, and I never read that he tested positive. :/
it clearly states that a rider should inform where he is every day. not informing would result in a ban. As the doping inspectors could not test em. those are the rules , and they are unbendable.
prevent hangovers --> stay drunk
pozzato, basically the most stupid cyclist around
RIP WW. Gone but not forgotten
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