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I have been thinking of "What we actually call teams in our heads" as a thread, as I am sure most of us don't use the full names of many teams.
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I have been thinking of "What we actually call teams in our heads" as a thread, as I am sure most of us don't use the full names of many teams.
Yes! Numbers are evil!
No. It's the letters you can use to write words like "evil" and other mean things.
Leonie are field!Exactly. For example; I'm not confused by Soudal (the company) switching allegiance. Because the teams in question are "Lotto" and "Quickstep".
And when I say I'm not confused, I mean I'm not confused until I have to use full name of a team, at which point I become very confused.
And this is a pretty cool name too. Especially for a cross rider, who sometimes rides in fields.
Leonie Bentveld (procyclingstats.com)
Numbers are evil!
Help, the link to the winner of a 1.2 race in Morocco today doesn‘t work
1 | DE *** Jules | Global Cycling Team | 40 | 15 | 2:35:35 |
2 | MAATOUGUI Nasser Eddine | Sidi Ali - Unlock Team | 30 | 10 | 0:06 |
3 | STRAVERS Jarri | Global Cycling Team | 25 | 7 | 0:13 |
Unfortunate name from a U.S. perspective — that letter means just one thing over here these days.I wasn't sure it was a Polish word.
I'll just call them the "Q Team".
I suspect this guy quite often makes the brutto troup in races.
Alberto Bruttomesso
Alberto Bruttomesso (born 2003-10-30 in Valdagno) is a professional road racing cyclist from Italy, currently riding for Bahrain - Victorious. His best results are winning a stage in Giro d'Italia Giovani Under 23 and winning a stage in Carpathian Couriers Race in memory of WacÅaw Felcz.www.procyclingstats.com
Oh, yes, the incredibly famous English expression "brutto troup".
"Brutto lineup" didn't sound quite so cool.
I suspect this guy quite often makes the brutto troup in races.
Alberto Bruttomesso
Alberto Bruttomesso (born 2003-10-30 in Valdagno) is a professional road racing cyclist from Italy, currently riding for Bahrain - Victorious. His best results are winning a stage in Giro d'Italia Giovani Under 23 and winning a stage in Carpathian Couriers Race in memory of WacÅaw Felcz.www.procyclingstats.com
I don't think anyone calls it that either.
Well, I thought "brutto" was one of those words that had basically entered every European language from some Roman past.
In other sports it's often called a preliminary squad.
I'll give you a call when a rider called "Preliminarymesso" turns up!
Or, I'll just post here...
Sometimes, I like going through team - and rider - lists, for... research purposes. And I came across this amazingly named team.
Sweet Nice Continental 2022 (procyclingstats.com)
Sounds like a team that would try to win fairplay competitions whenever possible.
They even have a rider called Lauridsen in the team.