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Nirvana

Nirvana

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Kirsipuu actually never stopped racing, again some months ago i've spotted him in a resultsheet of a national event.
But to be fair for national races he's not so old, it's not rare to see 50+ (even close to 60 sometimes) years old competing.

Anyway we should remember that 52 years old (only one month younger than Tafi) Lex Nederlof still ride at continental level in Asia Tour, comparing to him Mancebo, Sevilla, Nocentini are neo pros.
 
Dekker_Tifosi

Dekker_Tifosi

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Really wonder what's going on at Sunweb. There's 3/4 coaches leaving, with among others Adriaan Helmantel which is Dumoulin's TT coach.

And so far they only got Elijzen in return (almost confirmed)
 
Squire

Squire

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Sad news indeed. I thought he could become a really good rider after his great Giro della Valle d'Aosta in 2012. I see that he rode his last race in 2016, the year after he left Bardiani. Rest in peace.
 
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saunaking

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lololoolllol Simon Gerrans will work at Goldman Sachs. No doubt profiting off the work of others
Match made in heaven. He will be going places!
 
roundabout

roundabout

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roundabout

roundabout

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Re:

saunaking said:
lololoolllol Simon Gerrans will work at Goldman Sachs. No doubt profiting off the work of others
Match made in heaven. He will be going places!
Click to expand...

A 6-month internship doesn't necessarily mean a permanent future career.
 
Nirvana

Nirvana

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Lappartient in an interview for the Gazzetta (I don't post it because is mainly on clinic related stuff) said that he wants two WC in Africa in the next decade (they already have candidatures from Rwanda and Marocco for 2025).

But the really important thing (and something that could affect vastly the calendar) is that he said he's working for 2020 to have California in the first week of May and Giro start postponed to the second part of May to avoid the overlapping of the two races and allow riders to ride both. In this case I wonder if they need to postpone also every race after the Giro or they'll overlap the Giro with Dauphine and maybe even Suisse and reduce to only three or four week the break between Giro and Tour. And what they'll do with the usual preparation races for the Giro, riding in California could become more attractive than going to Tirol or Romandie with more likely cold and bad weather and almost a month before the start of the Giro.
And not to mention that for 2020 we could also have the Olympics overlapping with the Tour considering that RR is scheduled for the 26th of July, the likely Sunday of Champs Eliseé.
 
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Breh

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E3 Harelbeke changes it's name to the E3 BinckBank Classic, only minor changes to the route.
 
roundabout

roundabout

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It's at least 16 hours by plane and 9 time zones from CEST, but sure, let's *** up the calender to put make sure that California and Giro do not overlap.
 
Red Rick

Red Rick

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Re:

Nirvana said:
Lappartient in an interview for the Gazzetta (I don't post it because is mainly on clinic related stuff) said that he wants two WC in Africa in the next decade (they already have candidatures from Rwanda and Marocco for 2025).

But the really important thing (and something that could affect vastly the calendar) is that he said he's working for 2020 to have California in the first week of May and Giro start postponed to the second part of May to avoid the overlapping of the two races and allow riders to ride both. In this case I wonder if they need to postpone also every race after the Giro or they'll overlap the Giro with Dauphine and maybe even Suisse and reduce to only three or four week the break between Giro and Tour. And what they'll do with the usual preparation races for the Giro, riding in California could become more attractive than going to Tirol or Romandie with more likely cold and bad weather and almost a month before the start of the Giro.
And not to mention that for 2020 we could also have the Olympics overlapping with the Tour considering that RR is scheduled for the 26th of July, the likely Sunday of Champs Eliseé.
Click to expand...
Scheduling disaster waiting to happen. Who decides what week the race is?

Anyway, I don't believe the Tour would clash with the ORR
 
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yaco

Jun 20, 2015
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I think it is a wonderful idea - Giro has been pushing to start a week later which will 99% ensure there are no issues for bad weather.
 
Red Rick

Red Rick

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Re:

Breh said:
E3 Harelbeke changes it's name to the E3 BinckBank Classic, only minor changes to the route.
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Nirvana

Nirvana

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Red Rick said:
[quote="Nirvana":17y4irlg]Lappartient in an interview for the Gazzetta (I don't post it because is mainly on clinic related stuff) said that he wants two WC in Africa in the next decade (they already have candidatures from Rwanda and Marocco for 2025).

But the really important thing (and something that could affect vastly the calendar) is that he said he's working for 2020 to have California in the first week of May and Giro start postponed to the second part of May to avoid the overlapping of the two races and allow riders to ride both. In this case I wonder if they need to postpone also every race after the Giro or they'll overlap the Giro with Dauphine and maybe even Suisse and reduce to only three or four week the break between Giro and Tour. And what they'll do with the usual preparation races for the Giro, riding in California could become more attractive than going to Tirol or Romandie with more likely cold and bad weather and almost a month before the start of the Giro.
And not to mention that for 2020 we could also have the Olympics overlapping with the Tour considering that RR is scheduled for the 26th of July, the likely Sunday of Champs Eliseé.
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Scheduling disaster waiting to happen. Who decides what week the race is?

Anyway, I don't believe the Tour would clash with the ORR[/quote]
If they want to avoid a clash between the Tour and Olympics they need to start the Tour at the end of June so it could end the 19th of July, but in that case there will be only two or three weeks between a Giro that could start in the second half of May and the Tour. And with the Olympics RR the Sunday after the end of the Tour will still be hard for riders interested in going for gold finish the Tour, going to Japan it's not like going to San Sebastián.
 
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