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few little snippets of transfernews * Maxime Vantomme (roubaix-lille-metropole) to join IAM Cycling.. one of the many riders that had to take a step back last year after not finding a new team on proconti or WT-level after his own team (crelan) stopped their sponsoring. Now taking a...

Kenneth Vanbilsen and Michael Van Stayen (both riding for topsport vlaanderen) rumoured to be joining Cofidis next season according to the newspaper "het nieuwsblad" Tom Van Asbroeck and Yves Lampaert will also leave the team, both joining a unknown protour-team.

Pieter Serry (Topsport Vlaanderen) likely to join Omega-Pharma-Quickstep next season. Turned down offers from Vacansoleil-DCM en Garmin-Barracuda... Jelle Wallays (Topsport Vlaanderen) likely the next one to sign for lefevre's team..

it may already have been mentioned here but the bosses at Vacansoleil have expressed the desire to add Sep Vanmarcke (Garmin-Barracuda) and Pieter Serry (topsport vlaanderen-mercator, 23 years old and 3rd in this years brabantse pijl) to their roster for next season with vanmarcke set to become...

quite the non-discussion going on here... 2010 with Cancellara winning was brilliant and quite the spectacle to behold... 2012 with boonen winning was also brilliant and also quite the spectacle to behold... let's be grateful that when one godlike rider isn't there to up the level of...

Vermote appeared to be absolutely gobsmacked by his win in the after-race-interview... good to see a young rider like him take this win, should give him a serious boost... though for me the conclusion of this race (and samyn) was simple, how fast and strong is demaré?:eek:

Race itself was a total snoozefest (reminded me of watching a flat stage in the tour de france)... however I must admit that I saw some impressive racing by the British team who were very strong, good on them and good for cavendish to take it, if a sprinter wins it should be the best sprinter...

if the people at Omega-Pharma-Quickstep still have half a working brain left: now would be the time for them and try to sign greg van avermaet

according to Gazet van Antwerpen (Belgian newspaper), chichi (Quick-Step) has signed a contract with Kathyusha, while quick-step has also told andreas stauff to find another team for next season...

also keeping in mind the abovementioned things about quickstep and if the belgian cycling company is correct about their contracts the following riders are all signed to the new omega-pharma-quickstep-team from omega-pharma-lotto: 1. Jan Bakelants (?radioshack?) 2. David Boucher 3. Bart...

interesting article in the belgian newspaper Hetnieuwsblad today, they have shed some light as to how it's possible that all the riders that are on the present quickstep-roster will automatically be transferred to the new omega-pharma-quickstep-team while this team is racing under the licence...

more information is emerging about the gilbert-transfersaga... according to sporza the option omega-pharma has is a right of first refusal which means that if they can match the top-offer made to him, gilbert will automatically be signed to omega-pharma-quickstep and will have to buy out his...

In an interview with sporza Lefevre said that he was happy with the merger of his outfit with omega-pharma and with the renewal of the sponsorcontract with quickstep. Also the big chiefs behind esperanza cycling team have made a statement in which they said that they were happy with the...

in the meantime Gilberts manager has responded to the claims by omega-pharma. According to him the existing contracts only continued to exist if omega-pharma (BCC) continued as one team with lotto, now that they are aligning themselves with quickstep, he claims that all contracts are null...

if the articles in the belgian press today are correct the belgian cycling company (BCC) are the licenceholder, the man behind BCC is Marc Coucke and who happens to be the big boss of team sponsor omega pharma? Marc Coucke.. I wouldn't just assume that their point about gilberts contract...