Pro Team Luxembourg

[Christian]

Australians:

Win a Trek Madone 5.2 and ride with Team Leopard-Trek or Team RadioShack in Adelaide on January 17th.

http://www.trekbikes.com/au/en/general/tdu2011

Press release from Enovos, the main sponsor besides Trek:

http://www.syklingensverden.com/baglercms.php?articleID=26344&catID=-1

Enovos is the main provider of natural gas, electricity and services in the Greater Region particularly in Luxemburg, and serves a growing number of international customers ranging from industrial clients to municipal distributors and private households.

(...)

Enovos has already established an attractive customer base in Germany, France, Belgium and Austria and intends to strengthen and develop its presence in the B2B segment of the natural gas and electricity sectors of these countries.

(...)

Amongst many other sporting events, Enovos has been sponsoring cycling events like the "Gala Tour de France" and the "Tour de Luxembourg" for quite some time.

(...)

In addition to its core business, the company is significantly expanding its involvement in the renewable energy sector. The group's annual turnover for 2010 is expected to amount to two billion Euros.

The State of Luxemburg and the state-owned investment company S.N.C.I. own 25.44% and 10.01% of the shares respectively. Other shareholders are: Luxemburg City (8.00%), the world's largest steel supplier ArcelorMittal (23,48%) as well as leading German energy providers like E.ON(10.00%), RWE (18.36%) and the Belgian company Electrabel (4.71%).

 

[Christian]

Schlecks and Cancellara meet Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker:

This afternoon, after the press conference, the Schlecks and Cancellara met with Luxembourg's prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker. Flavio Becca and Lucien Lux, deputee of the Social Democratic Party and member of the executive committee of Leopard SA were also there.

Juncker received a jersey of Team Leopard-Trek.

http://www.wort.lu/wort/web/sport/a...an-cancellara-treffen-jean-claude-juncker.php

 

[Christian]

Watching the live stream of the presentation .... Pat McQuaid doing a speech right now

 

[euanli]

What the hell is McQuaid doing there? Obviously to pick up his new Dannish tailored suit and a Mercedes E Class.

 

[stefrees]

Why is mcquaid there? I really don't like this teams attitude.

 

[Christian]

What the hell is McQuaid doing there? Obviously to pick up his new Dannish tailored suit and a Mercedes E Class.

lol so far nothing spectacular about it ... don't think we're gonna see Prince or Janet Jackson

 

[Christian]

first show performance of the night by german robert maser, some kind of artistic gymnastics, he is dressed like a zebra

 

[screaming fist]

he is dressed like a zebra

lol, now the leopard will come and eat him

 

[born65]

That was exactly the animators comment

 

[Christian]

first team members presented: "young professionals"

denifl, pedersen, nizzolo, klemme

jersey is exactly the same as the one posted earlier

 

[Christian]

second round: "sprinters", bennati, weylandt, wagner, vigano

 

[Michele]

Bennati was able to say 1 whole sentence in english.
Imprezzive.

 

[Beech Mtn]

The Jersey

From this article.

 

[Christian]

second artist: "didi die toursau", a.k.a. jens schmitt, world champion in trick riding

not so bad, changed his front wheel while riding

 

[Mambo95]

second artist: "didi die toursau"

not so bad, changed his front wheel while riding

Maybe he can show Andy how to put a chain on.

 

[Christian]

Maybe he can show Andy how to put a chain on.

directeurs sportifs now on stage

 

[Christian]

interesting choice of "climbers":

zaugg, pires, lund, feillu, fuglsang, wegmann

wonder what they're gonna introduce gerdemann as; i'd maybe have put fuglsang as "gc candidate"

 

[screaming fist]

Wegman has won the climber's jersey in the Giro...

 

[Beech Mtn]

Now it's a man in a wheel. I want to see Fat Pat come out and roll around the stage in that wheel.

 

[Christian]

oh wow f. schleck national jersey very, very discreet. won't be easy to tell him apart

only difference is the blue part is red-white-blue

 

[Beech Mtn]

I prefer Frank's jersey to the team's standard issue. Better looking, IMO.

Edit - I do not like jerseys where the bibs show through. One drawback to the Leopard Tracks jerseys.

 

[Christian]

I prefer Frank's jersey to the team's standard issue. Better looking, IMO.

true, they could have done that for everyone since it's a luxembourg team ... astana also has the flag colours on the jersey

 

[Christian]

cancellara "the bike has no engine"

lol he's producing the only laughs of the evening

 

[Beech Mtn]

Cancellara is losing his hair. Getting thin on top.

 

[screaming fist]

I'm a bit surprised by Cancellara's sense of humor.