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[rxgqgxnyfz]

O'Grady injured in ski accident

What is it with Stu and his off-season, off bike traumas.
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[theyoungest]

From the front page, the Mosquera article:

The team is also careful to put a certain amount of distance between itself and the controversial rider, who tested positive for EPO at the Vuelta a Espana, in which he finished second overall. He has denied the charges.

No he didn't. He tested positive for hydroxyethyl starch, a possible masking agent for EPO.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

From the front page, the Mosquera article:

No he didn't. He tested positive for hydroxyethyl starch, a possible masking agent for EPO.

Thank you, the story has been changed.

In the future, if you notice an error in a CN story, please note it in the appropriate forum, "About the Website".

Susan

 

[auscyclefan94]

New Australian TT Course looks to be in the middle of nowhere. Just a whole lot of farmland for most of it.

Here is the course. Mapped it out on google maps

 

[craig1985]

What is it with Stu and his off-season, off bike traumas.

Or the amount of times he crashes in something. And I still cop **** in the bunch for crashing twice in one week...

 

[ISDfan]

Team Farnese vini - Neri Sottoli change their name to Farnese vini - Neri Sottoli - Cecchi Logistics .

Source : http://www.isdcyclingteam.com/scheda.php?id=612

 

[Christian]

Teams invited to Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne 2011:

Omega Pharma-Lotto, Quick Step, BMC, AG2R, Katusha, Garmin Cervelo, Sky, HTC High Road, Luxembourg Cycling Project, Topsport Vlaanderen, Veranda's Willems, Cofidis, Europcar, Landbouwkrediet, Aqua e Sapone, Bretagne Schuler, Française des Jeux, Saur-Sojasun An Post-Sean Kelly, Pegaus, Vacansoleil et Skil-Shimano


Bobbie Traksel's Pegasus team has been invited, despite not yet having an official UCI license. 2 more wildcards yet to be announced

http://www.cyclismactu.net/news-kuurne_bruxelles_kuurne_les_equipes_connues-11085.html

 

[Francois the Postman]

Bobbie Traksel's Pegasus team has been invited, despite not yet having an official UCI license. 2 more wildcards yet to be announced.

Given what he cycled home through, last year, he could have joined the circus on a unicycle and they would probably still have felt obliged to hand out the invitation to their cycling troupe. Some rides give you that right.

I hope for him the UCI will bend over backwards to pass an "ozzie" Pegasus license, something that seems a given (indeed Melo), now they appear to have come this far.

 

[theyoungest]

Teams invited to Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne 2011:

Omega Pharma-Lotto, Quick Step, BMC, AG2R, Katusha, Garmin Cervelo, Sky, HTC High Road, Luxembourg Cycling Project, Topsport Vlaanderen, Veranda's Willems, Cofidis, Europcar, Landbouwkrediet, Aqua e Sapone, Bretagne Schuler, Française des Jeux, Saur-Sojasun An Post-Sean Kelly, Pegaus, Vacansoleil et Skil-Shimano


Bobbie Traksel's Pegasus team has been invited, despite not yet having an official UCI license. 2 more wildcards yet to be announced

http://www.cyclismactu.net/news-kuurne_bruxelles_kuurne_les_equipes_connues-11085.html

Interesting to see Rabo omitted from that list.

 

[Christian]

Interesting to see Rabo omitted from that list.

Seven ProTeams to miss out on Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne

 

[Anonymous]

Seven ProTeams to miss out on Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne

Rabo will get a spot. Of the seven listed, none of them will be missed. KBK really not their thing.

 

[Matthijs]

Rabo will get a spot. Of the seven listed, none of them will be missed. KBK really not their thing.

"ProTeam teams Saxo Bank-SunGard, Lampre-ISD, Astana, Liquigas-Cannondale, Team RadioShack, Team Movistar and Euskaltel-Euskadi will all be absent from the 2011 edition of Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne, with the septet not appearing on the teams list released today by the race organisers.
Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/6772/ ... z18QPn2l1m"

I know there is not that much of Saxo left, but I think Canc and Breschel weren't the only ones good on the cobbles?
Ben Hermans at RadioShack would be a good one in the flandres races? Maybe not to animate the race (he needs hills right?), but I'm sorry for the guy if he can't go...

 

[theyoungest]

Seven ProTeams to miss out on Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne

Rabobank is not among those seven teams, though. And Velonation lists them among the invites. Apparently it's just an error on Cyclismactu's part.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

There are 22 teams on the list given, with 2 more wildcards TBA. There's usually 25 teams at Omloop and KBK, so I assume Rabo were just an accidental omission from the first list.

 

[Christian]

Brice Feillu to start his season at GP La Marseillaise on January 30th.

He says it in this interesting video (French) from the Team camp in Crans Montana. No information yet on what GT(s) he will ride ... it'll be interesting to see! I don't know if there is a spot on the Tour team for him, with Fuglsang and Monfort already certain. But it'd still be fun to see him in Giro or Vuelta.

 

[theyoungest]

Brice Feillu to start his season at GP La Marseillaise on January 30th.

He says it in this interesting video (French) from the Team camp in Crans Montana. No information yet on what GT(s) he will ride ... it'll be interesting to see! I don't know if there is a spot on the Tour team for him, with Fuglsang and Monfort already certain. But it'd still be fun to see him in Giro or Vuelta.

Let's hope he can wake up from his yearlong hibernation.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Hardly thing so. He was overrated to begin with. Then won a Tour stage by accident, and now is even more overrated. That guy is the French Pieter Weening so to speak

 

[roundabout]

You don't win a Tour stage by accident unless people behind start falling over Giro del Veneto style.

 

[ingsve]

Hardly thing so. He was overrated to begin with. Then won a Tour stage by accident, and now is even more overrated. That guy is the French Pieter Weening so to speak

Well, aren't most top french riders overrated compared to other top riders? He's hardly unique as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Christian]

I don't think he has more talent than Fédrigo or Cyril Dessel for example, but he actually seems to have ambition so that's something new. He took a chance with Vacansoleil even though I'm sure any French team would have been more than glad to take him, and it didn't work out ... now he is, if I'm not mistaken, the only Frenchman with a contract on a top team (except maybe Lequatre and Moinard) so it'll be interesting to see how far he can go

 

[Christian]

The Canc got his own bridge in his hometown:

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I don't think he has more talent than Fédrigo or Cyril Dessel for example, but he actually seems to have ambition so that's something new. He took a chance with Vacansoleil even though I'm sure any French team would have been more than glad to take him, and it didn't work out ... now he is, if I'm not mistaken, the only Frenchman with a contract on a top team (except maybe Lequatre and Moinard) so it'll be interesting to see how far he can go

Sylvain Chavanel and Jérôme Pineau, Quick Step
Jean-Christophe Peraud, Omega Pharma-Lotto
Romain Sicard and Pierre Cazaux, Euskaltel-Euskadi
Christophe Le Mevel, Garmin-Cervélo
Nicolas Portal, Team Sky

 

[ingsve]

Nicolas Portal, Team Sky

Portal is a DS now and not a rider.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Although different riders I rate his brother higher.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Portal is a DS now and not a rider.

Surprised that Portal has stayed at Sky as he wasn't really given much of a go tbh. 54 race days is not much.