SB Nation User Blog: lucybears

TdF roster changes

lucybears — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:45:09 -0000

Lampre change team to
Allesandro Ballan, Marzio Bruseghin, Marco Bandiera, Angelo Furlan, David Loosli, Daniele Righi, Mauro Santambrogio, Marcin Sapa & Simon Spilak.

FdJ definite - Sandy Casar (FRA), Jérôme Coppel (FRA), Anthony Geslin (FRA), Sébastien Joly (FRA), Yauheni Hutarovitch (BLR), Christophe Le Mével (FRA), Jérémy Roy (FRA), Benoît Vaugrenard (FRA), Jussie Veikkanen (FIN).

Quick Step: Barredo, Chavanel, de Jongh, Devolder, Pineau, Rosseler, Tosatto, vd Walle + either Boonen or Davis

http://startlist.cyclingfever.com/startlist.html?_p=startlijst&id=19118

Tour rosters: Astana ? [Ed. note: Yes, this is confirmed. Check the Astana site (watch your...

lucybears — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:41:12 -0000

Tour rosters: Astana ?

[Ed. note: Yes, this is confirmed. Check the Astana site (watch your volume, though).]

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lucybears — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:06:17 -0000

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Teams for Paris-Nice

lucybears — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:17:26 -0000

AGRITUBEL

CERVELO TEST TEAM

AG2R LA MONDIALE

	DESSEL Cyril	France
	NOCENTINI Rinaldo	Italy

ASTANA

	CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto	Spain
	LEIPHEIMER Levi	United States
	POPOVYCH Yaroslav	Ukraine

BBOX BOUYGUES TELECOM

ROLLAND Pierre

France

CAISSE D'EPARGNE

	PEREIRO SIO Oscar	Spain
	SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon	Spain

COFIDIS LE CREDIT EN LIGNE

AUGE Stéphane

France

EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI

SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel

Spain

FRANÇAISE DES JEUX

	CASAR Sandy	France
	LADAGNOUS Matthieu	France

GARMIN - SLIPSTREAM

	MILLAR David	United Kingdom
	WIGGINS Bradley	United Kingdom

LAMPRE-N.G.C.

CAUCCHIOLI Pietro

Italy

LIQUIGAS

	CHICCHI Francesco	Italy
	KREUZIGER Roman	Czech Republic

QUICKSTEP

	BARREDO LLAMAZALES Carlos	Spain
	CHAVANEL Sylvain	France

RABOBANK

	FLECHA GIANNONI Juan Antonio	Spain
	POSTHUMA Joost	Netherlands

SILENCE-LOTTO

	EVANS Cadel	Australia
	GILBERT Philippe	Belgium

SKIL-SHIMANO

HUPOND Thierry

France

TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGHROAD

BURGHARDT Marcus

Germany

TEAM KATUSHA

STEEGMANS Gert

Belgium

TEAM MILRAM

KNEES Christian

Germany

TEAM SAXO BANK

	SCHLECK Andy	Luxembourg
	VOIGT Jens	Germany

Check out the 2009 course.

Rock in Argentina ?

lucybears — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:42:36 -0000

Ivan Basso starts his season, but will RR show up at all ?http://www.infobiker.com.ar/noticias.php?idnoticia=4620

Certainly not the Cuban missile as he is in Oz with Fuji. (Fuji's Javier Megias is in TDU also, Del Nero replaces him.)

El 3° Tour de San Luis cada vez está más cerca. La carrera de ciclismo más importante del calendario argentino comenzará el 19 y finalizará el 25 de enero en la capital puntana. Ya están confirmados 21 equipos y la participación del italiano Ivan Basso, ganador de Giro de Italia en 2006y Oscar Sevilla (segundo en la Vuelta a España 2001),.

Press release : The UCI presents the 2009 World Calendar

lucybears — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:14:34 -0000

08.01.2009

The International Cycling Union presented the regulations that will govern the new 2009 World Calendar in Geneva today. The World Calendar brings together the biggest road cycling events in the world.

The UCI President, Mr Pat McQuaid, said that he was delighted that the new structure had been approved by all the stakeholders in professional road cycling (organisers, teams and riders) and that its launch marked a new start for cycling. The UCI President said that the new structure would allow cycling and everyone involved in the sport to return to a calm, stable environment that would favour the global development of cycling.

Press Release Here.

Full Calender. Includes links to race organizers.

Rules and Points Assignments. (File.)

Tour de Georgia off for 2009

lucybears — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:50:43 -0000

The Tour de Georgia has been called off for 2009, with organisers citing 'tough' economic times as the reason, according to the Savannah Morning News. The race's future had been in doubt, but Georgia is not ready to give up on the Tour. The state's Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle said that they will use next year to focus on getting the race back on the road for 2010. Cagle, who serves as chairman of the race's board of directors, said this decision will strengthen the race in for future.

Source: cyclingnews.com.

Read the complete statement at tourdegeorgia.com.

Jan Ullrich Rocks ?

lucybears — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:25:46 -0000

again a rumoured comeback
http://www.velo-club.net/article?sid=48850

mmm...75 words...ok, I'll throw in the bit in Le Monde a few weeks ago, translated:-
Following Lance Amstrong's sensational return to pro cycling, we tracked down one of his biggest rivals, the German Jan Ullrich, to see if he had any plans for a similar return. We found him in a bakery in Munich, and through mouthfuls of strudel he told us of his thoughts.
"Ja, for sure I will now return to cycling," explained the big German, through a face full of Black Forest gateau. "I'm now at my racing weight of 92 kilos and have been working hard on my brunch sprints. I want to race the Paris-Nice, because I like biscuits, and in Amstel Gold for the beers." And what of the Tour de France? "Of course, this is the biggest race. I have strategies to help me here. I cannot say to you too much, but my plan is to ride hard on the bike one day and then go by train the next. This is the only way to beat Armstrong, I think. And also there is a buffet on the train for if I get hungry. Do you want the rest of that sausage roll?"

Vuelta a Espana: Sastre v Riis

lucybears — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:26:55 -0000

Spain is an uproar Thursday night over alleged comments from Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre accusing Team CSC-Saxo Bank manager Bjarne Riis of trying to undermine his efforts to win the Vuelta a España. http://www.velonews.com/article/83352/tour-winner-denies-saying-that-his-team-manager-is

the interview

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.as.com%2Fciclismo%2Farticulo%2Fsastre-riis-ha-querido-equipo%2Fdasclm%2F20080918dasdascic_2%2FTes&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=es&tl=en

Inigo Cuesta agrees

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marca.com%2Fedicion%2Fmarca%2Fciclismo%2Fvuelta%2F2008%2Fes%2Fdesarrollo%2F1166401.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=es&tl=en

Update from Gav.
Here are the original Spanish articles:
Carlos Sastre on as.com
Carlos Sastre on marca.com
Iñigo Cuesta on marca.com

Intriguing story. More lates, if time permits.

ProTour RIP

lucybears — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:17:54 -0000

All teams decide to leave UCI ProTour series

The UCI's ProTour series appears to be officially dead after all 17 teams at the Tour de France decided to leave the series and not renew their licences next season.

"It has been decided unanimously not to renew the ProTour licences for the 2009 season," read a joint statement from the teams.

The only ProTour team not present at the Tour de France, Astana, is also expected to leave the ProTour. "If everybody decides so, I can't imagine Astana will not follow," Astana chief press officer Philippe Maertens told Reuters.

UCI President Pat McQuaid told Reuters that all the teams could face exclusion from the UCI. "We'll deal with that according to the regulations," said McQuaid. "They face exclusion from the international federation. It is something we are going to discuss."