General News Thread

[B.Rasmussen]

RIP Ballerini.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Franco Ballerini just died in a car crash

Mentioned immediately on Eurosport's Qatar coverage. In a rally.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/italian-coach-franco-ballerini-dies-in-rally-crash
Awful.

 

[knewcleardaze]

Franco Ballerini just died in a car crash

Thanks for posting the sad news.

RIP Franco.

 

[ravens]

Chad Gerlach

Don't know if this was mentioned elsewhere.

I know a lot of people keep up with Chad. He won the masters crit.

http://www.napavalleyregister.com/sports/article_2f0477f4-147a-11df-adea-001cc4c03286.html

 

[craig1985]

CBF starting a new thread, but Jan gets to keep his gold medal.

 

[Anonymous]

Don't know if this was mentioned elsewhere.

I know a lot of people keep up with Chad. He won the masters crit.

http://www.napavalleyregister.com/sports/article_2f0477f4-147a-11df-adea-001cc4c03286.html

Thanks for the update. I am rooting for the guy for obvious reasons.

 

[craig1985]

Trophée des Grimpeurs future in doubt | Cyclingnews.com

I hope an event like this can stay because such races like the Trophée des Grimpeurs are the life blood of the sport.

 

[DAOTEC]

There were quite a few eyebrows knitted, when Alexander Serov and Alexei Markov this season had no contract provision to Katusha.
Now, little by little the can of worms is opened.

Markov would not have taken it too closely with the professional life of cycling, while Serov didn't show up on the first training camp.
He himself says that his passport wasn't in order, so he was unable to cross the border in to Italy and left his bags at home. The team doubted this claim.

The two now are running for the national team of Russia on the piste. Serov recently became Russian winter champion in individual pursuit. Cyclismag

 

[il_fiammingo]

New Gent-Wevelgem finale

http://www.gent-wevelgem.be/en/edition-2010/press-release-16-02-2010/

- 219km instead of 257km
- extra loop in France (mont des cats & mont noir)
- total of 16 climbs

 

[thehog]

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/02/news/qa-vande-velde-‘i’m-always-a-realist’_105251

Good read.

 

[thehog]

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/02/news/qa-vande-velde-‘i’m-always-a-realist’_105251

Good read.

What do you know????

Armstrong recommends the article on Twitter.

What a suck. Didn't he say CVV was slow?

 

[BroDeal]

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/02/news/qa-vande-velde-‘i’m-always-a-realist’_105251

Good read.

I don't click on links when no information is given about the link.

 

[Publicus]

I don't click on links when no information is given about the link.

I presume it's the interview Velonews conducted with Christian Vandevelde. It is a good insight into how Christian's mind works and what's holding him back (him).

 

[Anonymous]

Radio shack not invited to tirreno adriatico

 

[theswordsman]

New Astana website

It says it won't be operational until March, but this is the address for the new Team Astana website (Per press release from AlbertoContador.com)

http://www.astana.lu/

I kind of wish someone would see if the old site paid for the use of the song for the slideshow, but as they used to say on Boston Legal, bygones.

 

[Bicicleta]

Radio shack not invited to tirreno adriatico

Think its b/c they are not doing the Giro.

 

[Bike Boy]

No podium guys in Amsterdam

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giro-organiser-says-italian-girls-will-be-on-the-podium-in-amsterdam

What a relief

 

[9000ft]

No podium guys in Amsterdam

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giro-organiser-says-italian-girls-will-be-on-the-podium-in-amsterdam

What a relief

How do you know they are not? Some of those drag queens are pretty convincing. Whoever is on the podium in Amsterdam should be very suspicious if one of the podium girls is named "Lola"

 

[kurtinsc]

Radio shack not invited to tirreno adriatico

Not contesting the story, but when I click on the link it goes to a page with "headlines"... none of which seem to reference T-A. Am I overlooking something?

 

[BroDeal]

How do you know they are not? Some of those drag queens are pretty convincing. Whoever is on the podium in Amsterdam should be very suspicious if one of the podium girls is named "Lola"

Crocodile Dundee knew how to find out.

 

[Bike Boy]

How do you know they are not? Some of those drag queens are pretty convincing. Whoever is on the podium in Amsterdam should be very suspicious if one of the podium girls is named "Lola"

I guess I would have to obtain a contract with one of the participating teams, get elected for the giro squad, win the prologue and then sleep with the podium girls.

Don't worry I'm on it

 

[flicker]

I would be into podium guys esp. Bruno or a svelt filopino.

 

[craig1985]

At the Italian NRRC, the riders will climb the Ca' del Poggio, 11 times in the race (11 laps in total), which is 1.3km long and an average gradient of 15%. They are held in Treviso (home of Pinarello). The sad thing is that it comes only 1.5km in each lap so it is not enough to decide the race.

 

[auscyclefan94]

At the Italian NRRC, the riders will climb the Ca' del Poggio, 11 times in the race (11 laps in total), which is 1.3km long and an average gradient of 15%. They are held in Treviso (home of Pinarello). The sad thing is that it comes only 1.5km in each lap so it is not enough to decide the race.

At least it will make a reasonable selection...

 

[theswordsman]

Velonation says it will be announced tomorrow that the 2012 Giro d'Italia WILL start in Washington, D.C.

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/3216/Breaking-news-2012-Giro-dItalia-to-be-confirmed-tomorrow-as-starting-in-Washington-DC.aspx