2012 Giro d'Italia wildcards:Who would you like to see?

[Netserk]

I was chatting today with a chinese cycling friend about the chance that Champion System might get invited to Giro and after sending a text by chinese twitter to ChampSys he got a reply saying they already got an invite.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[Reuell]

I hope they meant another Giro :S:S:S:S:S

 

[Kvinto]

yeah, Giro di Reggio Calabria would be perfect for them, i've just looked at their squad, hmm, i know who is Craig Lewis and Aaron Kemps

 

[stafke]

I was chatting today with a chinese cycling friend about the chance that Champion System might get invited to Giro and after sending a text by chinese twitter to ChampSys he got a reply saying they already got an invite.

of course they have , every pro cont team has to explane why they want to start in races of the organisation which are T-R , Strade Bianche , M-S , Giro , IL Lombarde ...
The team manager of CS says he have spoken with the organisation , but he told them the team will grown slowly and is normaly not ready for a 3 week race , but they want to be in the 1 day races

 

[Michele]

That makes more sense.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

I was chatting today with a chinese cycling friend about the chance that Champion System might get invited to Giro and after sending a text by chinese twitter to ChampSys he got a reply saying they already got an invite.

your friend knows nothing about cycling I suppose

 

[Michele]

How would you know?
Just cause he passed the message "invite" to me?

 

[will10]

If I'm reading this correctly, there's no chance of a Coldeportes Giro wild card

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/14-teams-to-compete-for-giro-ditalia-wildcards


Italian squads Acqua & Sapone, Androni Giocattoli, Colnago-CSF Inox and Farnese Vini, Landbouwkrediet, Project 1t4i, Team Europcar, Saur Sojasun and Team Netapp made the list for the four places available for May's Giro d'Italia.

 

[Gloin22]

If I'm reading this correctly, there's no chance of a Coldeportes Giro wild card

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/14-teams-to-compete-for-giro-ditalia-wildcards


Italian squads Acqua & Sapone, Androni Giocattoli, Colnago-CSF Inox and Farnese Vini, Landbouwkrediet, Project 1t4i, Team Europcar, Saur Sojasun and Team Netapp made the list for the four places available for May's Giro d'Italia.

You're right, same thing written on Velonation unfortunately.

 

[roundabout]

Europcar?

Saur?

Netapp?

Landbouwkrediet?

 

[will10]

Landbouwkrediet had a good relationship with the Giro pre-ProTour with Popovych.

 

[roundabout]

Ok, having calmed down a bit, I believe that Colderportes still have a chance because I haven't found anything about the wildcard bids being split into Giro and non-Giro ones already.

Strange that Cofidis didn't bother. I suppose it means that they are certain of doing the Vuelta then.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

How would you know?
Just cause he passed the message "invite" to me?

no because he said champion system was already invited to giro. that;s not true

 

[theyoungest]

Europcar?

Saur?

Netapp?

Landbouwkrediet?

Sven Nys will win the strade bianche stage.

 

[Michele]

no because he said champion system was already invited to giro. that;s not true

He reported to me the message he got from ChampionSystem themself "we got invited" which was explained by a guy 1 or 2 pages ago as getting some documents for explain to RCS why they should get invited (and which events).
Simply a mistranslation.

 

[Escarabajo]

If I'm reading this correctly, there's no chance of a Coldeportes Giro wild card

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/14-teams-to-compete-for-giro-ditalia-wildcards


Italian squads Acqua & Sapone, Androni Giocattoli, Colnago-CSF Inox and Farnese Vini, Landbouwkrediet, Project 1t4i, Team Europcar, Saur Sojasun and Team Netapp made the list for the four places available for May's Giro d'Italia.

Which proves what most of everybody said on this forum, that Duarte made a stupid mistake and went backwards on his professional career.

 

[craig1985]

Voeckler has done the Giro in 2009 and 2010 and I think once before that (2007 rings a bell), but after his 4th place finish at the Tour last year, would he really ride the Giro when he will be looking to have a real go at the Tour this year?

 

[greenedge]

I think Colnago would get a spot over Coldportes ( if only because of Modolo/ Pozzovivo ) but i would prefer Farnese, Coldportes, Acqua and Androni. I want to see Liquigas send riders like Viviani ( even if they might have conflicting leaders already GT wise )

 

[Ferminal]

Rusvelo FTW... they would destroy the TTT.

 

[greenedge]

I think Garmin will ( Rasmussen and Millar ). Besides that team is too young.

 

[will10]

Which proves what most of everybody said on this forum, that Duarte made a stupid mistake and went backwards on his professional career.

Depends on what invites they do get, missing out on the Giro is not the end of the world.

 

[Froome19]

Which proves what most of everybody said on this forum, that Duarte made a stupid mistake and went backwards on his professional career.

Look at the title of the article and then count how many teams are originally listed, 9, yet the title says 14 are listed for giro wildcards so it must be that the other 5 are still up for giro wildcards. So we may yet be seeing duarte race the giro

 

[will10]

Look at the title of the article and then count how many teams are originally listed, 9, yet the title says 14 are listed for giro wildcards so it must be that the other 5 are still up for giro wildcards. So we may yet be seeing duarte race the giro

That's not what it says in the main body of text.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Androni giocattoli (ita)
acqua & sapone (ita)
champion system cycling team (chn)
colnago-csf inox (irl)
colombia-coldeportes (col)
farnese vini (gbr)
landbouwkrediet (bel)
project 1t4i (ned)
rusvelo (rus)
saur soyasun (fra)
team europcar (fra)
team netapp (ger)
team type 1-sanofi (usa)
utelsilnord named (irl)

 

[Froome19]

That's not what it says in the main body of text.

Yes it is.
"RCS Sport, organisers of the Giro d'Italia, Milan-San Remo, Tirreno-Adriatico and Il Lombardia, has named the 14 teams which will comprise the pool of wildcard candidates for all of its events".
and it then goes on to list nine of the teams who "made the list for the four places available for May's Giro d'Italia"
and then says
"Also in the list" and lists the other five.
Nowhere there does it disclude or imply that any of the latter five are discluded