Any idea, when Robin Orins will start his season?
Heard some rumours, that he is out for some time? Does anybody have information about that?
He's out "for a relatively long time" is the only info I got. I asked multiple people who should know, but no one really wanted to say the details so it's a bit weird. He stopped training at the beginning of December out of nowhere, so it's probably a pretty big injury.
a very disappointing start of the season, Menten is absent in the sprints, weak teams at the start of the races... but even then not one single rider in the bunch at la Marseillaise...
Veistroffer seems to be good element for the moment, given his fysical appearance he could do P-R...
hopefully Van Eetvelt will deliver in the UAE tour...
Was to be expected sadly. I think people still underestimate how hard the team got hit by the sponsor problems. The amount of quality that left and wasn't replaced is pretty insane. Van de Wouwer and Heulot can pretend like it isn't that bad and bla bla it obviously hit. Combine that with a spree of injuries/sicknesses and obviously you're in throuble as a team. Apart from Orins we obviously had De Lie missing his opener, Slock injured, Orins out with a serious injury, Giddings now out with a collarbone fracture, lots or riders that got sick during training camp meaning they lost some crucial days of training, Van de Paar has gotten sick like 3 times in one month resulting in missing Mallorca and Menten having to do the sprints, and he has completely lost his touch.
But yes even with all that they should've done better, it's a horrendous start of the season. The worst that I can remember, luckily they have the points from the last 2 years, but if you're going to lose 500-900 points to the bottom teams every 2 weeks, you're not going to be certain of that WT status after all. I don't see it getting better anytime soon. They have to pray De Lie doesn't crash again (I'm scared for Besseges) and Van Eetvelt performs in UAE (watch him lose time in echelons or something).
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