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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 01-03-2010 14:59
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Alonso's still considering starting a cycling team:
He is also stimulated by his outside interest in creating a new Tour de France team with his friend Alberto Contador, who won the race in 2007 and 2009. "It's a project for me – a kind of dream I have because I love cycling. Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors. So I don't think we are in the right moment to start a project like this, because of the world economy."
Would he wait until he has retired from Formula One before he attempts to fulfil his Tour fantasy? "No, it can happen at the same time. It is something Alberto and I can work on. As I said I'm very open. I know this year he is with Astana but from next year onwards, for sure, if there is an opportunity I will be very interested. I think he will be interested as well."
(Okay, okay, it's a few days old, but...  )
https://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/...ormula-one |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 01-03-2010 22:00
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sounds like quickstep has some competition since i beleive the team manager was claiming they had signed contador for 2011. |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 01-03-2010 22:39
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I really hope Contador will join Quick Step next season.Would be great to see him in one team with Boonen.I would just take Quick Step in PCM |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 01-03-2010 22:41
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Batista15 wrote:
I really hope Contador will join Quick Step next season.Would be great to see him in one team with Boonen.I would just take Quick Step in PCM
Except then boonen would leave because he knows contadors a terrible teammate |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 02-03-2010 11:34
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in what situation would contador be a team-mate? he's a leader in the mountains, boonen's a cobbles leaeder.
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 02-03-2010 12:38
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wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
in what situation would contador be a team-mate? he's a leader in the mountains, boonen's a cobbles leaeder.
Yes you´re right,I don´t know where the problem is??
Contador for the Tour and maybe Vuelta and Boonen for the cobbles and tour sprinter |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 02-03-2010 13:26
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but still someone like armstrong or sastre might helpout a little on flat stages were as to me contador is a one man show. |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 02-03-2010 13:27
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valverde321 wrote:
but still someone like armstrong or sastre might helpout a little on flat stages were as to me contador is a one man show.
Contador doesn´t need any help
We will see that this year at the Tour |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 02-03-2010 15:17
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Apparently, Thomas Lövkvist is now calling himself Thomas Löfkvist.
In fact, his name has always been Löfkvist (in his passport and other official documents), but his family has been using the Lövkvist variant. |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 02-03-2010 17:16
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Batista15 wrote:
valverde321 wrote:
but still someone like armstrong or sastre might helpout a little on flat stages were as to me contador is a one man show.
Contador doesn´t need any help
We will see that this year at the Tour
bollocks - armstrong would never do anything except for personal gain. and i don't believe that sastre is any better on the flat than contador
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| Bosskardo |
Posted on 02-03-2010 18:43
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valverde321 wrote:
Batista15 wrote:
I really hope Contador will join Quick Step next season.Would be great to see him in one team with Boonen.I would just take Quick Step in PCM
Except then boonen would leave because he knows contadors a terrible teammate
Well, Boonen can be quite unpleasant too.
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| lagetcher |
Posted on 02-03-2010 22:53
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CrueTrue wrote:
Apparently, Thomas Lövkvist is now calling himself Thomas Löfkvist.
In fact, his name has always been Löfkvist (in his passport and other official documents), but his family has been using the Lövkvist variant.
I think Ruben mentioned that before, but it was probably not in the news thread. It's funny, because I first saw the Löfkvist spelling on the Team Sky website and hoped for their sake they hadn't embarassingly spelt his name wrong, but then it started to appear everywhere without explanation (although now we have one). |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 03-03-2010 14:11
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Dekker has received his suspension - he'll be back on the 1st of July 2011.
Herald Sun Tour will move from October to February in the 2011 season. |
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| Wolfos |
Posted on 03-03-2010 14:30
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CrueTrue wrote:
Dekker has received his suspension - he'll be back on the 1st of July 2011.
Herald Sun Tour will move from October to February in the 2011 season.
I suppose there will be no Herald Sun Tour in 2010 then? |
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| Batista15 |
Posted on 03-03-2010 15:04
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Wolfos wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
Dekker has received his suspension - he'll be back on the 1st of July 2011.
Herald Sun Tour will move from October to February in the 2011 season.
I suppose there will be no Herald Sun Tour in 2010 then?
Yes I suppose that ,too |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 04-03-2010 08:10
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Rock Racing has officially been denied a continental license.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/rock-...ro-license |
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| ruben |
Posted on 04-03-2010 10:13
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And the complete arrogant idiot asshole award goes to....
*drum*
Thomas Dekker!
https://www.cyclin...suspension
@#%@#% fuck off. They'd better give him another extra 2 years as reward for his complaining.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 04-03-2010 10:27
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Oh dear - complaining about getting a 2 year ban when you have tested positive for doping?
That's sick.
(Don't forget that Dekker admits that he has used doping, so it's not one of the cases where the rider denies everything...) |
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| ruben |
Posted on 04-03-2010 10:51
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Yeah and comparing it with other riders and different cases again, even expecting to ride at the end of the year (in the dutch article).
He doesn't realise anything.
Let's hope he crashes into a ravine. Seriously.
I haven't heard 1 word from him personally since the day he was caught. Says enough about the person he really is. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 04-03-2010 10:58
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CrueTrue wrote:
Oh dear - complaining about getting a 2 year ban when you have tested positive for doping?
That's sick.
(Don't forget that Dekker admits that he has used doping, so it's not one of the cases where the rider denies everything...)
There's barely any difference. He says he only took it once and never during a race.
As if that makes ANY sense at all.
To me he's no different to the others. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of how a blood doping program works knows that if you dope in the off-season, then it's blatantly obvious it wasn't your only time. You're doping to have blood extracted and to increase natural production long-term.
Not to mention that injecting yourself with EPO one single time will have about as much of an effect as eating candy. You need to reinject every once in a while, to make it a cumulative effect. And if you stop, within two weeks it's all gone.
Wanna bet his next (very dumb, illogical) excuse is going to be "I only took it once so I could train harder"? It's easy to shoot that down with facts as well (in short: it won't work), but he's dumb enough to try it next.
And does he seriously not understand why Riccò got 4 months less? Is he that dense? Riccò named names. Dekker didn't name anyone.
As we say around here: does he want the explanation drawn to him in the form of a picture?
The others are jackasses. He's a dumb, dumb jackass. So yeah, I guess he is different after all.
Edited by issoisso on 04-03-2010 11:01
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