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tgsgirl said:Nothing to do with Unipublic, it's the UCI's rule.
UCI's rule is that you can still enter people in the race 48 hours before it begins.
They just don't want Ricco to start in it, that's all.
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tgsgirl said:Nothing to do with Unipublic, it's the UCI's rule.
El Pistolero said:UCI's rule is that you can still enter people in the race 48 hours before it begins.
They just don't want Ricco to start in it, that's all.
tgsgirl said:Not if they're not entered as reserves you can't*. It's why Weylandt couldn't fill in for Boonen at the TdF, something to do with the UCI not being able to get extra tests done for the biological passports.
*That's how it worked for TdF, at least.
El Pistolero said:If you can add whole teams to a GT last minute then you can also add one single person to the team.
El Pistolero said:If you can add whole teams to a GT last minute then you can also add one single person to the team.
Ryo Hazuki said:the uci has nothing to say. vuelta is from unipublic and aso, they decide as always
Yesterday brought a curious contradiction in statements between a rider claiming he’d signed a new deal, and a team which insisted that nothing had been finalised as yet. Riccardo Riccò’s claim that he had secured a slot with ProTour team Quick Step after years in the wilderness was denied by the team’s press officer Alessandro Tegner, and now the rider’s agent himself has confirmed that talk of a contract was premature.
"We are indeed still debating,” said Giuseppe Acquadro to Tuttobiciweb, who contacted him and noted that he was not too pleased to make the admission. “We are working on some terms that Riccardo absolutely want to put in the contract. I remain optimistic, however.”
theswordsman said:
Neither Rasmussen nor Riccò appear anywhere on the start list, and that is the reason why they will not ride.
“It’s true that they cannot race,” said a Vuelta spokesperson to Velonation. “According to the rules of the UCI, the list can not be changed.”
According to other sources, the deadline was last Sunday, August 8th.
Riccò has just been released by his Ceramica Flaminia team, and is now a free agent. However the move has come too late for him to be an entrant in what would be his first Grand Tour since testing positive at the 2008 Tour de France.
Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5...n-due-to-UCI-deadline-rule.aspx#ixzz0wcNiB0xw
El Pistolero said:They just don't want Ricco to start in it, that's all.
Cobblestoned said:Nibali + Kreuziger
Great !
Liquigas-Doimo @ Vuelta 2010
Vincenzo Nibali, Roman Kreuziger, Daniele Bennati, Jacopo Guarnieri, Mauro Finetto, Maciej Paterski, Ivan Santaromita, Frederik Willems en Oliver Zaugg
Ryaguas said:Really like this Liquigas... mmmm the only missing there is Szmyd... a shame that He rode Le Tour... I would have really liked see him fresh and doing the same job that he made in Il Giro this year...
Yes, it has obviously helped Kreuziger to reach that higher levelDekker_Tifosi said:see....liquigas and saxo have no trouble letting guys like Kreuziger and Andy ride 2 GT a year.
Why is Rabobank always so overprotective and letting their young dudes do 1 GC a year..
karlboss said:Couldn't agree more. I'm actually hoping Kreuziger can do it for Nibali. Someone riding tempo could take a little of the sting out of the explosive climbers.