Cofidis, Bouygues Telecom denied ProTour status

[SHAD0W93]

15 years since Cofidis’s last Tour de France win and getting passed over for ProTour status. Now look at them, a World Tour team and a Tour de France win in their pocket book.

 

[RedheadDane]

15 years since Cofidis’s last Tour de France win and getting passed over for ProTour status. Now look at them, a World Tour team and a Tour de France win in their pocket book.

That is some epic thread revival!

 

[HelloDolly]

In the incoming Netflix video of the 2023 Tour Marc Madiot and Vincent Lavenu will have to move over and let the poetry, the passion and the tears be played out by the Cofidis team

 

[Devil's Elbow]

You know you can also make a new thread, right? In fact this one wasn't only about Cofidis to begin with...

 

[SHAD0W93]

You know you can also make a new thread, right? In fact this one wasn't only about Cofidis to begin with...

I could but if they went this long without a thread, would it be warranted. They were the only team on the rider and team directory without a thread. Thus, it being 15 years since their last Tour win and it aligned with the Pro Tour denial I thought it was fitting with their win and that they’re WT status now to show how far they’ve come.

 

[tobydawq]

I could but if they went this long without a thread, would it be warranted. They were the only team on the rider and team directory without a thread. Thus, it being 15 years since their last Tour win and it aligned with the Pro Tour denial I thought it was fitting with their win and that they’re WT status now to show how far they’ve come.

I think you should be banned for necrobumping. How to destroy a forum...

 

[SHAD0W93]

I think you should be banned for necrobumping. How to destroy a forum...

I’ll go put myself in timeout.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I could but if they went this long without a thread, would it be warranted. They were the only team on the rider and team directory without a thread. Thus, it being 15 years since their last Tour win and it aligned with the Pro Tour denial I thought it was fitting with their win and that they’re WT status now to show how far they’ve come.

Well, at least it would have been used again in another 15 years when they win their next Tour stage.

 

[SafeBet]

The thread title is like a time travel machine.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I’ll go put myself in timeout.

You're allowed to bump the goodbye thread on your way out

 

[SHAD0W93]

Well, at least it would have been used again in another 15 years when they win their next Tour stage.

Looks like we didn’t have to wait that long for another win

 

[Anderis]

Cofidis has as many stage wins this Tour as Jumbo-Visma, UAE, Ineos and Quickstep combined.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Today was 1st Cofidiis, 2nd Bougues (in its 4th incarnation since then)

 

[Wyndbrook]

Cofidis has as many stage wins this Tour as Jumbo-Visma, UAE, Ineos and Quickstep combined.

They've gat a lot of catching up to do for years of under performance.

 

[tobydawq]

Weird ending to their race. At the beginning of the final week, they still had all their riders in the race. Now they only have 4.

The only riders to abandon the race in the third week were Wout, Bauhaus and then 4 Cofidis riders.

 

[RedheadDane]

Has this officially become the Cofidis thread, and we're just ignoring the Bouygues Telecom (TotalEnergies) part of the equation?

 

[SHAD0W93]

Has this officially become the Cofidis thread, and we're just ignoring the Bouygues Telecom (TotalEnergies) part of the equation?

Honestly it could be both their threads as Total doesn’t have one either.

 

[RedheadDane]

Honestly it could be both their threads as Total doesn’t have one either.

And I guess we aren't talking about them much, coz they haven't really been doing much.

 

[SHAD0W93]

And I guess we aren't talking about them much, coz they haven't really been doing much.

To be fair, a lot of the Cofidis talk happened in Bouhanni’s thread.

 

[RedheadDane]

To be fair, a lot of the Cofidis talk happened in Bouhanni’s thread.

Even after he changed teams?

 

[SHAD0W93]

Even after he changed teams?

Then the talk just went to the respective top rider threads that they still had about that specific rider.

 

[RedheadDane]

After five months of not getting a win for either team, both teams gets a win in a day.

First Thomas in the Giro.
Then Ludwig Navarra.