General News Thread

[Fetisoff]

You'll like this Flo - Saxo just confirmed Conti for rest of 2012 AND NEXT 3 YEARS!

OK, when I read this first, I've read it as "Saxo just confirmed Conti(nental) for rest of 2012", I almost had a bit of a heart attack. Should have really read a few posts up to understand the perspective

 

[El Pistolero]

Flecha - Pozzatto - Thomas might give OPQS a decent run

Haha, in your dreams.

 

[El Pistolero]

next year PR contenders will be
Canc
Boonen
Ballan
Hushovd
Boom
Flecha
Pozatto

Terpstra was one of the best this year, so he deserves to be in it. More so then Hushovd.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Terpstra was one of the best this year, so he deserves to be in it. More so then Hushovd.

Yeah although when it really gets going, there are only 2 contenders

Fabian Cancellara and Tom Boonen.

 

[El Pistolero]

Yeah although when it really gets going, there are only 2 contenders

Fabian Cancellara and Tom Boonen.

You can always keep hoping on a Devolder scenario.

To be honest, all I want now for Boonen is one more Roubaix title. I wouldn't mind if some of his team-mates won instead of him at the Ronde or other Roubaix's. It's all about THE nickname in the cycling peloton: Monsieur Paris-Roubaix.

Anyway, last year Terpstra came off as a whiner to me, but he sure showed he has a lot of class this year.

 

[will10]

Doesn't look like Wiggins is defending his National RR title. http://www.velouk.net/2012/06/08/preview-start-lists-british-road-race-championships/

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Cycling Ireland has delayed announcing the Irish team for the Olympics, as an excluded rider has appealed.

Stickybottle.com seems to think that Dan Martin is guaranteed one of the three spots for the road race, while the other two, they believe, were between Nicolas Roche, Sam Bennett and David McCann, with both Matt Brammeier and Phil Deignan out of the running.

The TT entrant has to be one of the three road race riders and it seems that TT ability had no bearing on the decision.

Personally, I'd have sent a team of Martin, Roche and Brammeier, with Brammeier also going in the TT. Deignan's too much of an out an out climber, while Bennett is a 21 year old kid on a Conti team. McCann rides the asian Conti circuit and could probably do a similar enough job to Brammeier in the TT, but Brammeier rides day in day out at a higher level. It's a 250km race, which will be raced at a vastly higher speed than anything Conti riders can be used to. Send Brammeier as a domestique and Roche and Martin to attack.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

The Irish Times has more details. Apparently the original three man team was Martin, Roche and McCann, with Bennett as the reserve. Presumably McCann would also be TT rider.

Brammeier is the rider who has appealed. I don't know what his chances of success are, but I can't really say that I blame him. He's the national road race champion and the national TT champion, he rides for the currently most successful World Tour team, yet he's been overlooked in favour of a 21 year old and a 39 year old, both of whom are riding at Conti level.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

The Irish Times story:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2012/0609/1224317569110.html

McCann and Bennett are both talented riders, at either end of their careers. But it is just nuts to come up with a points system for selection that leaves you with 39 year old and 21 year old Conti riders ahead of the guy who is national road race and TT champion. Bennett is just too young and inexperienced at races of that length. McCann is too old and hasn't been riding races of that sort of length in years.

 

[T-Nielsen]

Quick and silly question.

Has the RSNT thread been removed or have I gone even more blind ?

 

[LaFlorecita]

Quick and silly question.

Has the RSNT thread been removed or have I gone even more blind ?

Yeah am looking for it as well.

Edit: found it http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=15099&page=170

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

Do you mean this thread? http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=15099

It had dropped to the third page, that's all.

Susan

 

[T-Nielsen]

Do you mean this thread? http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=15099

It had dropped to the third page, that's all.

Susan

Thats it... Tomorrow I will buy some glasses.

I swear I looked through the first 5 pages and missed it.

Thanks for being my guidedog.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

Considering my avatar, I'm not sure that's an appropriate comment....

Susan

 

[T-Nielsen]

Considering my avatar, I'm not sure that's an appropriate comment....

Susan

Cute kittens are cute, but have you ever followed one around ?

You would be run over in a minutte following that kind of guidance.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

Kitty is an old lady, like me. And I sometimes think her duty in life is to try and break my neck.

OK, my fault, back on topic....

Susan

 

[Gloin22]

Nervous Cavendish working hard towards Olympics, is four kilos lighter

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/1...pics-is-four-kilos-lighter.aspx#ixzz1xT8oCjTX

 

[El Pistolero]

"I have always shunned the very clinical style of training, the sports scientists and nutritionists dictating my every move."

Take it to the clinic.

 

[Boardslide]

"I have always shunned the very clinical style of training, the sports scientists and nutritionists dictating my every move."

Take it to the clinic.

Clinical = Very efficient and without feeling, coldly, detached.
(Oxford English Dictionary.)

 

[dlwssonic]

Clinical = Very efficient and without feeling, coldly, detached.
(Oxford English Dictionary.)

Not in the cycling dictionary

 

[Boardslide]

Not in the cycling dictionary

But in the context of this article, yes

 

[roundabout]

Degenkolb isn't doing the Tour.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Degenkolb isn't doing the Tour.

Why?

 

[Afrank]

Hincapie will retire at the end of this year, his last races will be the tour and us pro challenge.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/hincapie-announces-retirement

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Why?

Pre-selectie Argos-Shimano voor Tour de France 2012
Marcel Kittel, Simon Geschke, Johannes Fröhlinger, Patrick Gretsch, Tom Veelers, Koen de Kort, Albert Timmer, Roy Curvers, Tom Stamsnijder, Alexandre Geniez, Yann Huguet, Thierry Hupond, Mathieu Sprick en Bert De Backer.

The reason for not selecting Degenkolb is that he had a very busy spring with a lot of races, and the Argos management feel that the Tour would be too much for a 22-year old combined with all the races he already did. They want to rest him up and then he will ride the Vuelta and possibly the Olympics