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| ihavenofingerprints |
Posted on 10-12-2009 05:03
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Columbia - HTC have announced a 6 man squad for the Aussie road championships, including bert grabsch and andre griepel????
last time i checked, they were german, werent they? |
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| kumazan |
Posted on 10-12-2009 06:14
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The question is, how does Footon-Servetto find a new sponsor year over year, despite all the scandals and their not exactly good squad, and Riis is unable to find a decent sponsor to complement Saxo Bank? Damn, they are likely the best team right now. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 10-12-2009 08:56
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ihavenofingerprints wrote:
Columbia - HTC have announced a 6 man squad for the Aussie road championships, including bert grabsch and andre griepel????
last time i checked, they were german, werent they?
"Those dumb australians" allow anyone in their nationals. Literally. You can sign up to ride if you want.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 10-12-2009 09:18
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Riis has several times been criticised for not being good enough to negotiate with sponsors.
... but yeah, I agree. With that much media coverage, you really should be able to find a sponsor. |
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Posted on 10-12-2009 09:50
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issoisso wrote:
"Those dumb australians" allow anyone in their nationals. Literally. You can sign up to ride if you want.
Could be worse. I think the one that won the Turkey national ITT last year was Evgeni Wacker from that country in central asia that arent Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan.
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Posted on 10-12-2009 10:50
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Waghlon wrote:
issoisso wrote:
"Those dumb australians" allow anyone in their nationals. Literally. You can sign up to ride if you want.
Could be worse. I think the one that won the Turkey national ITT last year was Evgeni Wacker from that country in central asia that arent Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan.
Tajikistan?
Turkmenistan?
or my favourite, Kyrgyzstan?
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| ihavenofingerprints |
Posted on 10-12-2009 12:05
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issoisso wrote:
ihavenofingerprints wrote:
Columbia - HTC have announced a 6 man squad for the Aussie road championships, including bert grabsch and andre griepel????
last time i checked, they were german, werent they?
"Those dumb australians" allow anyone in their nationals. Literally. You can sign up to ride if you want.
Hmm...they'd let an u17 ride elite nationals?
God, if thats the case then we really are stupid 
So if Greipel wins, what happens? Surely the Australian champion has to be from australia? |
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Posted on 10-12-2009 12:18
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ihavenofingerprints wrote:
issoisso wrote:
ihavenofingerprints wrote:
Columbia - HTC have announced a 6 man squad for the Aussie road championships, including bert grabsch and andre griepel????
last time i checked, they were german, werent they?
"Those dumb australians" allow anyone in their nationals. Literally. You can sign up to ride if you want.
Hmm...they'd let an u17 ride elite nationals?
God, if thats the case then we really are stupid
So if Greipel wins, what happens? Surely the Australian champion has to be from australia?
I imagine it works a lot like the nationals do here in the states. The winner, no matter what country they're a citizen of, get the prize money and plaques and what not, but the first Australian to cross the line gets the jersey for the season, and maybe a monetary prize comes with the jersey depending on how they have it set up.
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Posted on 10-12-2009 12:42
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Oh right, that makes sense. Speaking of which, the guy who won your crit championship is Australian, isn't he? Ben Kersten, I think? |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 10-12-2009 14:03
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Armstrong says that his final season will be the one in 2011.
On the same press conference, he said that he'd stop publishing his blood values. |
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Posted on 10-12-2009 15:23
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40, thats hardcore |
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Posted on 10-12-2009 20:17
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CrueTrue wrote:
Armstrong says that his final season will be the one in 2011.
On the same press conference, he said that he'd stop publishing his blood values.
Oh! Why? It was perfect, like a constant proof on his doping. |
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Posted on 10-12-2009 20:31
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Too much ungrounded suspicion, he said |
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Posted on 10-12-2009 21:03
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What did he expect?
-Hey, I'll post my blood values to fool the people and make them think I'm clean.
-Yeah, sure, brilliant. But what about the not gullible people?
-Eh, umm. *brain explodes* Yeah, I'd better stop that.
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Posted on 10-12-2009 21:31
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[quote]issoisso wrote:
Damsgaard speaks out
https://news.bbc.c...517332.stm[quote]
Posting a more than 16 month old interview in the news thread is a bit confusing.
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| issoisso |
Posted on 10-12-2009 21:31
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kumazan wrote:
What did he expect?
-Hey, I'll post my blood values to fool the people and make them think I'm clean.
-Yeah, sure, brilliant. But what about the not gullible people?
-Eh, umm. *brain explodes* Yeah, I'd better stop that.
He once had a far better aneurysm moment than that one....and awesomely enough, it was when he was a guest on the tonight show. July 11th 2006.
Jay Leno asked him something about people claiming he doped. You know, typical staged question to allow him to do a rebuttal and have the audience applaud.......except he tried to go for the convoluted explanation (this was shortly after Ullrich and Basso and others had been implicated in Puerto ) and ended up driving himself into a dead end.
IT. WAS. AWESOME.
(I don't remember the exact lines, so this is paraphrased until the last few words of the first quote...after that it's verbatim)
Armstrong: "I've proven it so many times that you just have to look and think for yourself. If those guys have been caught and it's been shown what they were doing....and I beat those guys........then.............then I..............."
*realizes what he's implying*
*monster pause*
"I.....then....."
Leno, cutting in with a matter-of-fact tone, to save armstrong: "Hey lance, you never tested positive, right?"
Armstrong: "Never"
*audience cheers*
I wish I had it on tape
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Posted on 10-12-2009 21:40
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Scott (the brazillian team) announced their calendar. Tour of California plus a bunch of small races throughout the americas. Nothing in europe.
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 10-12-2009 21:48
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markene2 wrote:
40, thats hardcore
Yeah, though i think the limit is either 48 or 50 percent or points however you measure those things they use to test for EPO...
Oh you meant age?
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| ihavenofingerprints |
Posted on 11-12-2009 08:51
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https://www.cyclin...pside-down
R.I.P track endurance cycling......
hopefully someone realises how stupid this is, and everything will be back to normal by Rio |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 11-12-2009 09:00
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I doubt it. There have already been huge complaints, yet nothing happened :/ |
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