General News Thread

[ILovecycling]

So wiggins to get back to back Pn's

Of course .As for Wiggins I think Alberto is something like evil competitor for Wiggo,he wont meet with him in single race next year

 

[maltiv]

So wiggins to get back to back Pn's

That's weird, I was sure I read somewhere that Wiggins would do T-A to prepare for the Giro. Surely, they're not sending Froome and Wiggins to the same race again?

 

[MartinGT]

Of course .As for Wiggins I think Alberto is something like evil competitor for Wiggo,he wont meet with him in single race next year

Thats because Contador will show Wiggo up and highlight what a bore Wiggo is.

 

[trevim]

I would prefer to see a Wiggins vs Contador battle here since they should be both in decent shape. I would rather keep Froome and Velasco apart until July in order to keep the suspense

 

[auscyclefan94]

Cronulla Criterium:

1. Michael Matthews
2. Aaron Gate
3. Jens Mouris

The three sprinted for victory after they went away from the bunch in an early breakaway.

 

[Michele]

Any video or picture gallery?

 

[PCutter]

This is for Zam and Libertine who often remind us that women race too. The latest edition of Australia's premier cycling magazine has one of their favourite riders on the cover - remarkable for the fact that the rider is a female (and not an Australian one at that). I'm not 100% sure (will have to check back issues), but I think this is the first time a female has been on the cover. Congrats to Ride magazine.

http://www.ridemedia.com.au/

 

[greenedge]

why not? already this year he scored major points everywhere and acqua had perhaps the s***iest program of any pct team.

That last part is true but he might need to take some time to adjust/ get teammates to support him.
In races like the classics Valverde, Gilbert and others will beat him, whilst at the Giro riders like JROD (if he can ride now) would beat him on those stages.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

That last part is true but he might need to take some time to adjust/ get teammates to support him.
In races like the classics Valverde, Gilbert and others will beat him, whilst at the Giro riders like JROD (if he can ride now) would beat him on those stages.

you can become top ten wt without winning any monument and betancurt doesn't need a team. I have yet to see a rider other than sagan who can place himself and read a race as well as he does.

 

[Gloin22]

Team Sky squad for the Tour Down Under

Edvald Boasson Hagen
Chris Sutton
Matthew Hayman
Bernhard Eisel
Luke Rowe
Ian Stannard
Geraint Thoma

 

[Ben Aroundo]

Dumping on Lance

I am totally against performance enhancing drugs being used in competitive cycling. But I'm also against the draconian treatment Lance Armstrong is getting from the cycling leadership and anti drug in sports organizations.

We can go back a long way before we can be completely sure Tour de France winners were squeaky clean. Landis, Contador, Ullrick, Pantani, Anquetil, etc. etc. were either caught or suspect. Are steroids and stimulants okay and accepted but EPO is wrong?

To use Lance Armstrong as "dirty cycling's" fall guy, whipping boy, sacrificial lamb is unfair, bias and wrong.

Just about everyone was victim and succumbed to the drug culture. Destroying and nailing to the cross one sinner for the sins of all is a greater travesty.

I say stop and decist. There are other more fair ways to deal with the problem and one is to treat and penalize everyone equally and not go back to infinitum to negate suspected dirty victories.

 

[LaFlorecita]

*sniped clinic related content*

You need to post doping related stuff in the clinic subforum Maybe the mods can move it for you

 

[Angliru]

*sniped clinic related content*

I guess your opinion on this matter is "general news" to you?

 

[Parrulo]

i thought some1 that registered himself back in 2009 on this forum, would know it's rules by now.

the clinic related post was deleted

 

[Pentacycle]

you can become top ten wt without winning any monument and betancurt doesn't need a team. I have yet to see a rider other than sagan who can place himself and read a race as well as he does.

You mean like Daniel Martin in 2011? Every other rider in the top 10 of the WT achieved something like a GT podium, or WC podium except him and Rodriguez. The difference between those two being that Martin was totally invisible in the spring. Betancur could do something similar or maybe even better next year, no doubt about that.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Any video or picture gallery?

Sorry, no.

 

[del1962]

2014 TDF - starts in Yorkshire, great news.

Be great if they could get Sutton Bank on the route

 

[cineteq]

Only-cycling channel is coming up. Commentary and gossip seem to be the thing.

Global Cycling Network (GCN)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rAdgsFHxZI

 

[The Hitch]

2014 TDF - starts in Yorkshire, great news.

Be great if they could get Sutton Bank on the route

Im unhappy as I wanted Britain to get a Giro depart first - Zomegnan talked about it 2 years ago.

 

[The Hitch]

It says their doing a leeds -London leg. Christ thats Milano San Remo lenght.

 

[El Pistolero]

Should've started in Ieper.

 

[Pentacycle]

Should've started in Ieper.

Or Verdun, a TdF start in France is becoming very rare nowadays. Even Corsica could be considered a foreign Grand depart.
They just have to put in a Roubaix stage, the 2010 Tour wouldn't have been the same without them.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

In other news, big interview with Gesink in the Volkskrant, with some newsworthy quotes..

It appears he didn't want to ride the Tour 2012 at first, he wanted to try Giro/Vuelta, but the Rabobank more or less pressured/convinced him into going to the Tour.
He also said he thinks the decision from Rabobank to stop is completely wrong and the reason is stupid. He says they are being punished for something that happened years ago and also says the culture has changed a lot in recent years. He also said he never had any 'medical' support and they can control him all they want (then again, Armstrong said so as well lol).

He also says what Armstrong did was not top sport but top logistics and had more to do with maffia practices than with cycling. He says in the winter months he often thought "against what kind of guys have I ridden all these years and did it hurt my palmares, thinking of Rebellin (who beat him in PN) Mosquera, Valverde ... "
He also says he suspects some other riders whos performances he doesn't believe, but says he won't call them out with no proof ("they could also say, what a strange rider that Gesink, winning California after a broken leg, could also be suspected).

 

[El Pistolero]

In other news, big interview with Gesink in the Volkskrant, with some newsworthy quotes..

It appears he didn't want to ride the Tour 2012 at first, he wanted to try Giro/Vuelta, but the Rabobank more or less pressured/convinced him into going to the Tour.
He also said he thinks the decision from Rabobank to stop is completely wrong and the reason is stupid. He says they are being punished for something that happened years ago and also says the culture has changed a lot in recent years. He also said he never had any 'medical' support and they can control him all they want (then again, Armstrong said so as well lol).

He also says what Armstrong did was not top sport but top logistics and had more to do with maffia practices than with cycling. He says in the winter months he often thought "against what kind of guys have I ridden all these years and did it hurt my palmares, thinking of Rebellin (who beat him in PN) Mosquera, Valverde ... "
He also says he suspects some other riders whos performances he doesn't believe, but says he won't call them out with no proof ("they could also say, what a strange rider that Gesink, winning California after a broken leg, could also be suspected).

Lol, what a Calimero.

Though it's better than Valverde and Nibali interviews about Armstrong.

 

[jens_attacks]

weak from gesink by putting the blame on someone else and not on himself. don't like it

but i still like the guy and wish him a good giro.