Welcome to Liquigas-Cannondale's team's media center.
Sponsors:
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Main Sponsors:
Liquigas
Cannondale
Bike Sponsor
Helmet Sponsor
Equipment:
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Jersey:
Bike:
Transfers Recived:
2011
Diego Ulissi Alfredo Balloni Danilo Hondo David Loosli Simon Spilak David Zabriskie
Sold:
2011
Alan Marangoni Daniel Oss Eros Capecchi Ivan Basso Valerio Agnoli Ted King Timothy Duggan Cameron Wurf Sylwester Szmyd
Team Roster
Francesco Bellotti 7 Damiano Caruso 28 Davide Cimolai Mauro Da Dalto 21 Tiziano Dall'Antonia 34 Mauro Finetto 21 Jacopo Guarnieri 50 Paolo Longo Borghini 28 Vincenzo Nibali 29 Simone Ponzi 14 Fabio Sabatini 30 Cristiano Salerno 29 Alessandro Vanotti 26 Elia Viviani 29 Diego Ulissi 34 Alfredo Balloni 7 David Zabriskie 9 Maciej Bodnar 28 Maciej Paterski Kristjan Koren 29 Simon Spilak 8 Dominik Nerz 29 Danilo Hondo 27 Peter Sagan 9 Juraj Sagan 26 David Loosli 21
Calander
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Race
days
riders
squad date
post date
end date
Tour Down Under
6
7
2-11-12
6-11-12
11-11-12
Paris - Nice
8
8
12-11-12
14-11-12
21-11-12
Tirreno - Adriatico
7
8
21-11-12
22-11-12
28-11-12
Milan - San Remo
1
8
29-11-12
30-11-12
Tour of Catalunya
7
8
2-12-12
3-12-12
9-12-12
Gent - Wevelgem
1
6-8
9-12-12
10-12-12
Tour of Basque Country
6
8
10-12-12
11-12-12
16-12-12
Tour of Flanders
1
6-8
17-12-12
18-12-12
Paris-Roubaix
1
6-8
19-12-12
20-12-12
Amstel Gold Race
1
6-8
21-12-12
22-12-12
La Fl�che Wallonne
1
6-8
23-12-12
24-12-12
Li�ge-Bastogne-Li�ge
1
6-8
25-12-12
26-12-12
Tour of Romandy
6
8
26-12-12
27-12-12
1-1-13
Giro d'Italia*
21
9
2-1-13
3-1-13
13-1-13
Crit�rium du Dauphin�
8
8
14-1-13
16-1-13
23-1-13
Tour of Switzerland
9
8
24-1-13
25-1-13
2-2-13
Tour de France*
21
9
1-2-13
3-2-13
13-2-13
San Sebastian Classic
1
6-8
15-2-13
17-2-13
Tour of Pologne
7
6-8
18-2-13
19-2-13
24-2-13
Eneco Tour of Benelux
8
8
26-2-13
27-2-13
6-3-13
Vuelta a Espa�a*
21
9
7-3-13
8-3-13
18-3-13
Vatterfall Cyclassics
1
6-8
19-3-13
20-3-13
GP Quest France
1
6-8
21-3-13
22-3-13
Quebec Grand Prix
1
8
23-3-13
24-3-13
Montreal Grand Prix
1
8
25-3-13
26-3-13
Tour of Lombardy
1
6-8
27-3-13
28-3-13
National Championships ITT**
0
1-9
27-3-13
28-3-13
National Championships RR**
0
1-9
28-3-13
29-3-13
World Championships ITT**
0
tba
29-3-13
30-3-13
World Championships RR**
0
tba
30-3-13
31-3-13
* 2 post a day
** not sure yet if going to be played
Start List:
Tour Down Under:
Leader: Diego Ulissi
Sprinter Danilo Hondo
Free Elements Alessandro Vanotti
Team-mates Simone Ponzi Juraj Sagan Maciej Bodnar Tiziano Dall'Antonia
Paris-Nice: Leader Peter Sagan
Free Elements David Zabriskie Simon Spilak Team-Mates Jacopo Guarnieri Simone Ponzi Fabio Sabatini Cristiano Salerno Dominik Nerz
Tirreno-Adriatico: Leader Vincenzo Nibali Sprinter: Elia Viviani Team-Mates Tiziano Dall'Antonia Francesco Bellotti Damiano Caruso Diego Ulissi Kristjan Koren
Paolo Longo Borghini
Milan-San Remo Leader: Peter Sagan Free Element: Vincenzo Nibali Team-Mates Elia Viviani David Zabriskie Danilo Hondo Fabio Sabatini Tiziano Dall'Antonia Kristjan Koren Alessandro Vanotti Tour of Catalunya
Vuelta a España: Leader: Simon Spilak Sprinter: Fabio Sabatini Team-mates: Mauro Da Dalto Damiano Caruso Jacopo Guarnieri Maciej Bodnar David Loosli Juraj Sagan Mauro Finetto
Quebec Grand Prix:
Tour of Lombardy:
Results: coming soon
I hope all you fans of Liquigas-Cannondale will follow our season intensely,
Thank you
Maxime86, DS of Liquigas-CannondaleEdited by maxime86 on 31-12-2012 09:15
Many Internal sources in Liquigas-Cannondale's system belive that Ivan Basso, One of the best climbers around will not be on the team at the start of the season. Liquigas has been offered up to 110k for Basso acording to our sources. The team alreaady has young Vincenzo Nibali so this could become a huge movefor their team.
Ivan Basso and Valerio Agnoli have been sold by Liquigas-Cannondale. Valerio Agnoli was traded for 5.5k in a no one cares deal. However Basso was dealed for 82.5k to Leopard-trek. Basso is now part of a super team at Leopard-Trek. Mean while Liquigas has given Nibali the absolute leader role.Edited by maxime86 on 16-10-2012 02:27
Acording to sourses, Liquigas is look to sign a good Climber or a good Cobblestone rider before the transfer window closes today. They are stocked with young talent but they want good veteran.Edited by maxime86 on 18-10-2012 00:39
Early this morning maxime86 manager of liquigas Cannondale announced the team's roster for the Giro and la vuelta
Maxime86:
"Hello and welcome to our official press conference to confirm riders for the Giro d'Italia and La Vuelta Espana. I hope you will agree with decisions taken by this organization and I for these riders, so here we go!,
we will start with the Giro,
Our first rider is......
Jacopo Guarnieri!!!!!"
Reporter:
"Why did you decide to select Guarnieri for this squad as he hasn't preformed up to par this year"
Maxime86:
"He is a good sprinter with a lot of talent and lets be honest here, no one is ridering as I expected them to this year. Also, the Giro was high on his personal list this year. However, he will be riding for our sprinter here.
...
"Now our second rider is....
Paolo Longo Borghini!!!"
Reporter:
" PLB as most people call him is a good helper but doesn't do much else, why him?
Maxime86:
"Woah, wait up, PLB is one of the most underated helpers in the hills and on the flat, he will be a great addition for our squad.
...
Now our third and fourth riders,
Tiziano Dall'Antonia and Dominik Nerz!!!!!"
Reporter:
"I understand the call for Tiziano but it seems like you have sent Nerz to more than his fair share of races"
Maxime86
"Nerz has surprised me with his work ethic and other things this season, I expect him to develop well this year while racing well
...
now our sixth rider: Cristiano Salerno!!!!!"
Reporter:
"please refer to Nerz question"
Maxime86:
"Please refer to Nerz answer
...
Now our free ekement/team-mate: Kristjan Koren
now if there is no question our last team-mate is Diego Ulissi!"
Reporter:
"Ulissi seems like he will become a great rider in the future, where do you see him in 3 years"
Maxime86:
"I see him with a top 5 in the Giro at least and hopefully on our team still
.....
Now our team's sprinter: Danilo Hondo
and team leader: Vincenzo Nibali
Reporter:
"Good luck in the Giro"
Maxime86:
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thinks* go jump off a cliff*
"thank you"
Vuelta Updates will continue through the day
Edited by maxime86 on 31-12-2012 08:55
"Hi I am a DS on team Liquigas, my name is Joe Belton and will present our Vuelta squad without any comments until the end,
so our team-mates are:
Mauro Da Dalto Damiano Caruso Jacopo Guarnieri Maciej Bodnar David Loosli Juraj Sagan Mauro Finetto
and our sprinter:
Fabio Sabatini
and our leader
Simon Spilak
now any questions?"
Reporter:
"You seem to have gone with a very light squad for the Vuelta this year, any particular reason?"
Joe Belton
"We don't have any riders really targeting the Vuelta this year, also we don't have any Spanish riders on the roster so everyone wanted tour or Giro and even some other races, but when push came to shpve this is the only squad we could really come up with"
Reporter:
"Simon Spilak is a good young rider however, he doesn't seem ready for a leader's role in a GC do you think that this will be a good experience for him?'
Maxime86
"'I think he will blossom as a rider when people are working for hime, I don't think a top 15 is reason able for him but a stage him + a top 30 should b obtainable, and hopefully he will blossom in this tour, now if there aren't anymore questions thankyou for coming and our TDF line up will be announced soon"
Edited by maxime86 on 01-01-2013 07:04
Diego Ulissi
Danilo Hondo
David Loosli
Simon Spilak
David Zabriskie 
Cameron Wurf
Sylwester Szmyd
Peter Sagan 9
