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    Caisse d'Espargne and Katusha TDF

    This line up was announced in russia about two weeks ago. McEwen definitly will take part in Tour and i think he will do well. He is getting his form back. It took a while to recovery from an injury but he is in good shape now.
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    Caisse d'Espargne and Katusha TDF

    Rodriguez and Karpets will lead Katusha. Karpets used giro as preparation for the tour. Also for Katusha will ride Kolobnev, Sergey Ivanov, Pavel Brutt, Eduard vorganov, McEwen. Kim Kirchen should take part in tour also, but due to health problems Nikolay Trusov and Stijn Vandenbergh will...
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    Alexandre Pliuschin

    What about Sivtsov (Siutsou) and Branislav Samoilov (Branislau Samoilau) all definitions are right. Teoricly their surnames are russians what means "-ov" at the end. But belarussian language is a bit different from russian and very often people in Belarussia using transliteration of their...
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    Alexandre Pliuschin

    I don't think this is a mistake. There are two definitions. Here is some information about Moldova: Nationality: noun: Moldovan(s) adjective: Moldovan Ethnic groups: Moldavian/Romanian 64.5% Ukrainian 13.8% Russian 13% Gagauz 3.5% Jewish 1.5% Bulgarian 2% other 1.7% (1989 figures)
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    Criterium de Dauphine - 2eme etape

    He got injury yesterday: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/crashes-and-injuries-in-dauphine
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    Have All GC contenders given up?

    Joaquin Rodriguez will be one of the two captains of Katusha and will be interesting to see what he can do by riding for himself. I think top 10 would be great for him. The only concern about Rodriguez performance are long TT. Karpets will be another captain for Katusha. He used Giro as...