General News Thread

[jens_attacks]

^^^that is pretty big, great for cycling


in other news, davide rebellin confirmed tour de san luis as first race for 2013. finally after many years, he will begin the season normally and not in june/july.


also trailer for "the last kilometer".seems like it's out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=70FEhtuT0GE

 

[Netserk]

^^^that is pretty big, great for cycling


in other news, davide rebellin confirmed tour de san luis as first race for 2013. finally after many years, he will begin the season normally and not in june/july.


also trailer for "the last kilometer".seems like it's out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=70FEhtuT0GE

A Rebellin/Contador/Schumacher fight for GC? :drooling:

 

[The Hitch]

Love the news.about Costa

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Lol, this year was horrible weather as well and he could also take huge advantage on the downhill - he just crashed.

San Fermo della Bataglia is 2.2km with an average gradient of 8.2%. That's very similar to Willunga hill for starters.

he was already dropped, he sure as hell had no chance in winning. only you think otherwise, how strange

 

[El Pistolero]

Yes, and Valverde already got dropped at Saint Nicholas by Gilbert in 2010 yet managed to beat him in the sprint at the end.

Try and make some sense will you. Plenty of people think otherwise and if he's good next season he will once again be one of the big favorites.

Cancellara also got "dropped" at the Koppenberg at the Ronde in 2010 by the way.

Maxim Iglinsky got dropped by Nibali at the Roche aux Faucons. It seems you lack any sense of how racing really works.

 

[ILovecycling]

Daniel Freibe: "Rui Costa (the cyclist, not the ex-footballer) named Portuguese sports person of the year, ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo (via @AlexandreMignot)"


https://twitter.com/friebos/status/269373533031907328

Incredible news for sport of cycling!

 

[theyoungest]

This is just because no one can't stand Ronaldo's soap opera in Portugal

Has to be. One of the best players in the biggest sport in the world loses to a reasonable cyclist.

 

[Parrulo]

Has to be. One of the best players in the biggest sport in the world loses to a reasonable cyclist.

more like people were tired of giving it to ronaldo every year so they decided to vote for some1 else.

 

[El Pistolero]

Telenet new co-sponsor for Lotto-Belisol next season. With a possibility of 2 more years after that.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Telenet new co-sponsor for Lotto-Belisol next season. With a possibility of 2 more years after that.

Don't recall significant new signings for next year, so will this result in a reduction in contribution from Lotto or Belisol?

(always nice to see a new sponsor these days)

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Lol, Telenet better put their money in their mobile and internet products than a cycling team with all the complaints i'm hearing

 

[El Pistolero]

Don't recall significant new signings for next year, so will this result in a reduction in contribution from Lotto or Belisol?

(always nice to see a new sponsor these days)

Not sure, but Telenet will support Lotto-Belisol financially. Perhaps they'll use the additional money to buy new riders next year. Most riders already have a contract now.

http://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/20400/telenet-voor-minstens-één-jaar-co-sponsor-lotto-belisol.html

 

[El Pistolero]

Lol, Telenet better put their money in their mobile and internet products than a cycling team with all the complaints i'm hearing

They already sponsor a cyclocross team and some cyclocross races. Also active as sponsors in football: Club Brugge(money waste) and KV Mechelen.

Their mobile department is not really important compared to their internet and digital/analogue cable services.

The only complaint I have about my telenet internet is the price I have to pay each month. So, now at least it's put to good use lol.

 

[RHRH19861986]

Cyclingnews publish an overview of the most important retirements after 2012, not even mentioning the name of David Moncoutie.

They issue full articles with BS statements of the likes of Freire about Armstrong, they write about Vinokourov again and again, but no space left for the clean guys.

Great, really great.

 

[Afrank]

Cyclingnews publish an overview of the most important retirements after 2012, not even mentioning the name of David Moncoutie.

They issue full articles with BS statements of the likes of Freire about Armstrong, they write about Vinokourov again and again, but no space left for the clean guys.

Great, really great.

How does a cycling website write a article about the riders that are retiring this year and not talk about Freire and Moncoutie but do talk about Grischa Niermann and Jeremy Hunt? I Don't get that.

 

[RHRH19861986]

How does a cycling website write a article about the riders that are retiring this year and not talk about Freire and Moncoutie but do talk about Grischa Niermann and Jeremy Hunt? I Don't get that.

Oh, I see I didn´t notice Freire´s also missing... Yes, that further decreases the value of the composition of the article.

At least they didn´t forget Soler, which I like, but in all, they (CN), like all the others, like Velonation, Velonews and so on, still refuse to change attitude. Write and talk about cheaters and self-called cycling rescuers like Vaughters and Millar, instead of reading between the lines and giving a voice to those who got and get cheated.

Interviewing Nibali is great, but how about interviewing Lövqvist?

AAh, that´s lame, Lövkvist is a guy who never had his breakthrough and now even moves down to ProConti.

Or why not even interviewing Houanard? He´s a cheat, but for other reasons someone like Vino cheated, and Vino got so much attention throughout the years, and still gets.

These editors are intelligent, but - I´m sorry - coward people.

I think Jean-Francois Quenet is his name, he writes here about the French guys, knows them well and would have all knowledge and sensations about clean guys, especially French. Why doesn´t he have possibilities here to issue stuff about that?

Omerta, also amongst those who damn it.

 

[jens_attacks]

i'm sure they wrote and they will write about david too. they wrote about oscarito also. why so angry?on the other hand, i should be.
all those damn news about anti doping, anti doping...what the hell is that stuff, i'm beginning now to afraid that next year will lack in entertainment if everyone is whining like babies. vai uci,do your job!

is lovkvist still racing, thought he retired? he should talk with the legs just like grande vino says .and why the hell i will read about the clean french blabla, i want to read about rolland,t-blanc and the other superstars. it's entertainment people, stop getting so sensitive about sports.

 

[Gloin22]

Tbh CN did an full article on Freire some time ago as jens_attacks. That's why the omission I guess.

Better to have ( cyclingnews and it's articles and reports ) this than nothing at all.

 

[gerundium]

if this is about the notable retirements artictle, i think it was a 2 part article and this is just the first part.

 

[theyoungest]

Oh, I see I didn´t notice Freire´s also missing... Yes, that further decreases the value of the composition of the article.

Two posts ago you dismissed him as an irrelevant drug cheat...

That's how the brains of (some) cycling fans work these days: you don't call Armstrong the biggest son of a biatch on the planet (but part of a whole system of sons of biatches) and immediately you're suspect yourself.

 

[RHRH19861986]

Two posts ago you dismissed him as an irrelevant drug cheat...

That's how the brains of (some) cycling fans work these days: you don't call Armstrong the biggest son of a biatch on the planet (but part of a whole system of sons of biatches) and immediately you're suspect yourself.

Well, Freire is important, at least more important than Niermann and Hunt, with regard to victories.

I think Freire´s comments were ridiculous. He better shuts up instead of saying really insane things. Never had any suspicion about Armstong... The whole world, also outside cycling, considered LA as an epitome of doping in sports over many years, it was only evidence that was lacking.

 

[The Hitch]

Two posts ago you dismissed him as an irrelevant drug cheat...

That's how the brains of (some) cycling fans work these days: you don't call Armstrong the biggest son of a biatch on the planet (but part of a whole system of sons of biatches) and immediately you're suspect yourself.

Im surprised by you. Usually you are better than this. Obviously calling freire an irrelevant drug cheat is really pushing it, but to suspect people who side with Armstrong makes perfect sense. Its clear as water that large numbers of.uncaught riders have/had some.skeletons in the closet and going by who openly sides with la and the like seems to.me to be 1 of the more effective ways cycling fans have of putting some names.to.the blanks.

 

[janraaskalt]

Don't recall significant new signings for next year, so will this result in a reduction in contribution from Lotto or Belisol?

(always nice to see a new sponsor these days)

Actually, they lost 2 sponsors, so besides Telenet the teams needs another sponsor to have a budget equal to last year's.

 

[El Pistolero]

Actually, they lost 2 sponsors, so besides Telenet the teams needs another sponsor to have a budget equal to last year's.

Yeah, they still have room left for one more partnership. I didn't know about any sponsors leaving though, but Telenet is a big company. We don't know how much they're putting in(obviously not as much as the title sponsors, but still.).

 

[stafke]

Meersman (Lotto) ends his contract with the team , he has already a new team but it's still unknow