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Tour of Estonia winner Karl-Patrick Lauk (20) to Astana as a stagiaire: http://www.directvelo.com/actualite/59888/karl-patrick-lauk-stagiaire-dans-le-worldtour
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Another Estonian national jersey. :)
Garmin used to have something like that few years ago which I used to get confused with Taaramäe's Estonian national jersey.
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He means WT races like Tour of Romandia, Paris-Nice, Vuelta Catalunya etc.
Also I remember him saying when he first joined Astana that joining WT team gives him chance to rider the Giro that he couldn't ride for Cofidis. That didn't happe.... In Tour he was pretty much wasted on the...
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He hasn't had health problems in this year except in the Tour. But that was just common illness. Nothing too serious. Shared room with Lars Boom who first got sick.
I just think Rein is too explosive rider to work for someone in headwinds or on climbs (like in Astana). He's probably too inconsistant to do top5/top10 in 3 week GT's but he's good enough to podium in one week tours and maybe stage hunt in GT's. I think team like GreenEdge or maybe Etixx would...
Kanger could move in 2017 when his current contract expires with Astana. Kirsipuu hinted that he might want to try something else than just work for Italians on mountains.