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Angliru

Angliru

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When you say there is an English version and digitial version does that mean a hard copy in English is also available?
 
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Sky announced their March squads :

MSR :

Edvald Boasson Hagen, Mark Cavendish, Bernhard Eisel, Mathew Hayman, Jeremy Hunt, Christian Knees, Thomas Löfkvist, Ian Stannard

Volta a Catalunya :

Davide Appollonio, Danny Pate, Richie Porte, Michael Rogers, Kanstantsin Siutsou, Rigoberto Urán, Bradley Wiggins, Xabier Zandio

Criterium International :

Chris Froome, Sergio Henao, Thomas Löfkvist, Lars-Petter Nordhaug, Salvatore Puccio, Luke Rowe, Ben Swift

Catalunya squad is monstrous again. Crit with Henao, Froome and Nordhaug should be great too :)

http://www.teamsky.com/races/0,27631,2012,00.html#month=03
 
Justin Pain

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Gloin22 said:
Sky announced their March squads :
Volta a Catalunya :

Davide Appollonio, Danny Pate, Richie Porte, Michael Rogers, Kanstantsin Siutsou, Rigoberto Urán, Bradley Wiggins, Xabier Zandio

...Catalunya squad is monstrous again.
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Indeed! Wonder who will be their leader? Richie got Algarve, Brad is on his way in Paris-Nice. Maybe Uran will get his chance to shine? Could boost his motivation in supporting Wiggo in the Tour
 
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Gloin22

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Justin Pain said:
Indeed! Wonder who will be their leader? Richie got Algarve, Brad is on his way in Paris-Nice. Maybe Uran will get his chance to shine? Could boost his motivation in supporting Wiggo in the Tour
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Indeed. Uran likes riding Cataluyna. He got 4th last year and is already looking strong in PN. As you said trying to set him up for the win would be good motivation later on to support Wiggo. It's good opportunity as well to get his first vicotory for Sky here and improve his general cofidence and morale before Ardeenes. Obviously if he won't be strong enough then Wiggo more likely will lead. Will be interesting definitely :)
 
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Yeah, I'm sure it will be Uran. As stated, he did will there last year and there's no TT for Porte and Wiggins to get an edge.
 
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Gloin22 said:
Indeed. Uran likes riding Cataluyna. He got 4th last year and is already looking strong in PN. As you said trying to set him up for the win would be good motivation later on to support Wiggo. It's good opportunity as well to get his first vicotory for Sky here and improve his general cofidence and morale before Ardeenes. Obviously if he won't be strong enough then Wiggo more likely will lead. Will be interesting definitely :)
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Am sure I read somewhere that Catalunya was a target for Uran so suspect they will ride for him there. Great looking lineup, well and truely UK Postal.
 
boomcie

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No Flecha in Milano-Sanremo, due to his hand injury from Tirreno (he broke his hand).

Sky will try getting him into the Criterium International or E3, but otherwise he'll return in the Tour of Flanders.

Source: VRT teletekst
 
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janraaskalt

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boomcie said:
No Flecha in Milano-Sanremo, due to his hand injury from Tirreno (he broke his hand).

Sky will try getting him into the Criterium International or E3, but otherwise he'll return in the Tour of Flanders.

Source: VRT teletekst
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He didn't enter Tirreno because of that hand injury. You can hardly call this "news".
 
Dekker_Tifosi

Dekker_Tifosi

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Remarkable 'news' in the column of Raymond Kerckhoffs in dutch paper 'De Telegraaf' this morning.

According to Kerckhoffs the team directors weren't involved in the decision to get Renshaw. And the team directors noticed Jonathan Tiernan-Locke last year (possible in Leon where Rabo CT rider Marc Goos just beat him with 3 seconds) and wanted to get him to the PT squad. But Knebel and co didn't listen. Furthermore there was a lot of unhappiness about contracts getting renewed very very late.
 
El Pistolero

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To be honest, I don't find that remarkable coming from Rabobank :eek:

Pretty obvious they were clueless if you listened to what Freire had to say about them.
 
El Pistolero

El Pistolero

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"Thanks so much for my team who upped the pace when someone who was ahead of me crashed even though the race wasn't on at that point ."

I can understand why someone doesn't wait in the final of a race, but there was still 50km to go or something in an indecisive stage.
 
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theyoungest

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Dekker_Tifosi said:
Remarkable 'news' in the column of Raymond Kerckhoffs in dutch paper 'De Telegraaf' this morning.

According to Kerckhoffs the team directors weren't involved in the decision to get Renshaw. And the team directors noticed Jonathan Tiernan-Locke last year (possible in Leon where Rabo CT rider Marc Goos just beat him with 3 seconds) and wanted to get him to the PT squad. But Knebel and co didn't listen. Furthermore there was a lot of unhappiness about contracts getting renewed very very late.
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Raymond Kerckhoffs, the master of "kick 'em when they're down". Knebel and Breukink indeed aren't the most inventive or daring of team managers, but come on, Adri van Houwelingen being dissatisfied is hardly news, it's his modus operandi.

Last spring when they had 10 wins at this point they had structurally changed and blablabla.
 
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