Is Vuelta a Chihuahua dead?

[TopCarbon]

now the accusations on the President.......geezus.

 

[krebs303]

You make your statements based on what? The news? The internet? Please. Wow, thats credible.

I can tell you that the media blitz on the drug problem here in Mexico has been blown way out of proportion just like the swine flu. Remember that swine flu?

The reporting in the states is very misleading.
crime is down 30% in my town

 

[boardhanger]

It should be a great event. Whether or not we agree on the behind the scenes thing. Chapo!

 

[DAOTEC]

Not dead

'Last year'

This year:

Website: http://www.vueltaachihuahua.com/2010/

 

[flicker]

A flat bed truck loaded with Tarahumara women watching the race. Epic. Cycling in Mexico is gritty and real, how it should be.

 

[TopCarbon]

A flat bed truck loaded with Tarahumara women watching the race. Epic. Cycling in Mexico is gritty and real, how it should be.

you got that right.

 

[auscyclefan94]

I thought this race was going to the dogs as well but with Birillo in the field I think it will be alright!

 

[La Pandera]

I don't wish for a political debate.

...and yet you introduced politics into a thread that had none prior to your post.

 

[boardhanger]

...and yet you introduced politics into a thread that had none prior to your post.

A merely mentioned a fact. Which snowballed. If you care to read the rest, I wished for a safe and good race.

 

[DAOTEC]

Who is on the grid Oct, 24 ?

Brothers Schleck, Sammy Sanchez, and Alexandre Vinokourov headline star-studded startlist

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5283/Worlds-best-racers-headed-to-Chihuahua-for-October-24th-criterium.aspx

 

[Fester]

Brothers Schleck, Sammy Sanchez, and Alexandre Vinokourov headline star-studded startlist

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5283/Worlds-best-racers-headed-to-Chihuahua-for-October-24th-criterium.aspx

Obviously they've turned the budget of the stage race into cache money for the criterium. FUnny thing is I don't think these famous cyclists would have the legs for a hard, fast north american crit. You'd need Cav and Greipel not Shleck and Sanchez.

 

[DAOTEC]

The Bottleneck ...

720,000 Euro crit. lottery on a holiday

Mexican riders grind their teeth after the transformation of the stage race in to a kirmesse Criterium.
Jesus Grajeda, a native of Chihuahua and spokesperson of the home riders, believes that this event will not serve the cause of local cycling: "What we used to have was Basso, Vinokourov, the Schleck, Freire and other riders out of shape, wasting large sums for their holiday and pay to ride a couple of hours stage.
The profit for the few riders from Chihuahua was committed to ride with them without being able to try to beat them. "

The budget for the 2009 event was 14.6 million pesos (approximately € 890,000).
In 2010, the criterium will cost 11.8 million pesos (approximately € 720,000). The protesters would have preferred that the organizers drop the level 2.1 to organize a smaller but profitable Tour for cycling in Mexico instead of turning gratitude in to a circus.
Ricardo Creel Ryan, event director, sees things differently: "We have a world event, the best criterium of the world will be in Chihuahua, the international press is already getting prepared and talking about it".
Source: El Heraldo de Chihuahua

 

[flicker]

A total burn on the Mexican Stage race riders. What is up with the crit. Not really sport just a celebration of stars. Why not just send them 10000 Euro each and let them vacation in Cancun Acapolco or Vallerta. Some Mexican bankers and businessmen are just padding their pockets with stolen money again.Vive le MeXico. Where the real gangsters are the legitimate businessmen and poiticians. Not the cartels.

 

[BroDeal]

The reporting in the states is very misleading.
crime is down 30% in my town

That's because the bad guys have killed 30% of the other bad guys. Wait a little longer and crime will be down 50%.

I thought Chihuahua left Mexico and got a spokesdog job with Taco Bell.

 

[DAOTEC]

This are the Spaniards already on the StartersList:

Antonio Cabello,
Josep Jufre,
José Gutiérrez,
Gorka Izaguirre,
Jonathan Castroviejo,
Samuel Sánchez,
Beñat Intxausti,
David Gutiérrez,
Ion Izaguirre,
David Blanco,
Óscar Freire,
Francisco Mancebo,
Ezequiel Mosquera,
Gonzalo Rabuñal,
Serafin Martínez,
David García.

 

[DAOTEC]

A week later October 30 ...

"Cancun cycling challenge"

Website: http://cancuncc.com/en.html

And guess who is also there: http://www.velochrono.fr/actu/2010/valverde-donnera-le-depart-du-cancun-challenge/

 

[Grand Tourist]

There's been 25,000 people murdered since 2006 in the drugs war in Mexico. Chihuahua being in the middle of it. More suspect money in cycling. Shame. And don't tell me cycling in Mexico is apart from that. Sadly it's ingrained itself (drug money) in all aspects of sports in said country. Lets hope the race is a safe one and all riders don't crash either.

Quite, Chihuahua is extremely dangerous at the moment. I would have though the only way to ensure the race was safe would be sort the cartels financially.

 

[DAOTEC]

Yeah, but not only that - we might have another Jerseygate on our hands in these 2 races, with riders already announced not riding for their current teams anymore.
For example Schleck just announced the Vuelta was the last race for Saxobank, I wonder what's he gonna wear then ?

 

[flicker]

Cancun? Why bring bicycles. Just bring the penny loafers and golf clubs. Cancun is a trash receptacle.

 

[The Hitch]

"Cancun cycling challenge"

Website: http://cancuncc.com/en.html

On the Starter-List:
Ivan Basso
Roman Kreuziger
Alexandr Kolobnev
Andy Schleck
Frank Schleck
Peter Sagan
Manuel Quinziato
Daniel Oss
Juraj Sagan
Oscar Freire
Alexandre Vinokourov
Francisco Mancebo
Samuel Sanchez
David Garcia
Beñat Intxausti
Christophe Le Mével
Serafin Martinez
Rui Faria Da Costa
Jose Ivan Gutierrez
Josep Jufre
Christophe Moreau
Gonzalo Rabuñal

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Mother of God, what a list.

 

[Highlander]

"Cancun cycling challenge"

Website: http://cancuncc.com/en.html

On the Starter-List:
....
Christophe Moreau
....

Will this be Moreau's last race since he announced that he was retiring during the Tour?

 

[DAOTEC]

Reminder !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

.
Criterium - Vuelta a Chihuahua Criterium Sunday October 24, 2010, with Schleck, Basso, Samuel Sanchez, Freire ...

First in the history of Mexico, made an unprecedented event in the presence of a large cast of figures in world cycling's Tour Chihuahua Critérium International 2010 to be held on Sunday 24 October in a spectacular circuit 4.4 kilometers along the main avenues of the capital of the state.

Riders as Ivan Basso (Liquigas Doimo), winner of the Giro d'Italia 2010, Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank), second best young, and winner of two stages in the overall standings of the Tour de France 2010 Frank Schleck (Saxo Bank), winner of the Tour of Switzerland, Oscar Freire (Rabobank), triple world champion on the road and this year first in Milan San Remo, or Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel), Olympic champion in Beijing 2008, will give the opportunity for the community and Chihuahua the country to experience a sporting event in the highest level, being both a showcase for cyclists and Mexican Chihuahua, to compete in the biggest cycling event held in Latin America in recent years.

In a press conference in the presence of Engineer Miguel Angel Rodriguez Gallegos, director of the Chihuahua Institute for Sport and Physical Education, and Ricardo Creel Ryan, CEO of the event, accompanied by Gabriel Cano Olivas, technical director Leonardo Llamas Jimenez, president State Association of Cycling.

Francisco Mancebo-double winner of the Vuelta a Chihuahua, Beñat Intxausti, Roman Kreuziger, Peter Sagan, Christophe Moreau, Alexander Kolobnev, Ivan Gutierrez and Rui Costa are other prominent participants from Europe, while American men should be pointed out the Colombian Gregorio Ladino and the best Mexican cyclists, where Luis Fernando Macías, Francisco Matamoros, Pablo Magallanes, Antonio and Moises Aldape and Raul Alcala.


Website: http://www.vueltaachihuahua.com/2010/

(so it looks to me Valv-Piti will also be at the Chihuahua Crit ?
Website: http://www.vueltaachihuahua.com/2010/#

 

[DAOTEC]

Official Starter List:

Saxo Bank
Andy Schleck
Fränk Schleck
Jakob Fuglsang

Liquigas
Ivan Basso
Roman Kreuziger
Peter Sagan
Juraz Sagan
Daniel Oss
Manuel Quinziato

Euskaltel
Samuel Sanchez
Beñat Intxausti
Jonathan Castroviejo
Gorka Izaguirre

Astana
Alexandre Vinokourov
Maxim Iglinskiy
Josep Jufre

Rabobank
Oscar Freire

Team Iles Balears
Francisco Mancebo

San Marcos
Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio

Katusha
Alexandr Kolobnev

Caisse d'Epargne
José Iván Gutiérrez
Christophe Moreau
Rui Faria Da Costa

Palmeiras
David Blanco

FDJ
Chrisophe Le Mével

Cervelo
Xavier Tondo

Xacobeo Galicia
Gonzalo Rabuñal
Serafin Martinez

Boyaca
Gregorio Ladino

Garmin
Michel Kreder - DNS

Footon-Servetto
Noe Gianetti
Johnny Walker
David Gutierrez

Andalucia
Antonio Cabello

Orbea
Ion Izaguirre

[http://cyclismactu.net]

 

[zapata]

Is this a real race, or a gimmick criterium like the ones after the Tour de France? That's quite a startlist. Also, I like the name of team Boyaca.

 

[DAOTEC]

VINO WINS CHIHUAHUA


2. Andy Schleck

3. Samuel Sánchez


wonder what jersey AS was wearing ... let us wait for the pics