Rebellin signs for Miche per now

[Ryo Hazuki]

Wow you must admit that team has guts _O_

 

[jens_attacks]

definitely better than andalucia.at least he can win something in those beautiful little italian races.

and damn right they have balls,they just replaced muto with rebellin crazy management

 

[will10]

Not surprising in any way shape or form

So thats:
Rebellin
Muto
Schumacher
Zaballa
Rasmussen
Giunti
...
have I missed anyone?

 

[hrotha]

They needed a replacement for Muto, they weren't going to throw away all his PEDs.

 

[theyoungest]

Lol, what a team. If your team ethics are to have no ethics whatsoever, you better do it right.

 

[jens_attacks]

Lol, what a team. If your team ethics are to have no ethics whatsoever, you better do it right.

haha they don't have the good pr of vaughters which wets the teenagers."davide if you want to sign with us, you have to do some tests to see if your body can compete clean"=))))))))))))))))))))))))gtfo!!!
ethics bullshiit,you are free to ride,move your asz here and win some races.who knows,maybe thomas dekker will follow at miche "if his body can't compete clean" at the virgins,clean,angels garmin team

 

[Christian]

How do you say "Rock Racing" in Italian?

 

[theyoungest]

haha they don't have the good pr of vaughters which wets the teenagers."davide if you want to sign with us, you have to do some tests to see if your body can compete clean"=))))))))))))))))))))))))gtfo!!!
ethics bullshiit,you are free to ride,move your asz here and win some races.who knows,maybe thomas dekker will follow at miche "if his body can't compete clean" at the virgins,clean,angels garmin team

I was praising them for their lack of hypocrisy. Thanks for agreeing with me.

 

[Descender]

Not surprising in any way shape or form

So thats:
Rebellin
Muto
Schumacher
Zaballa
Rasmussen
Giunti
...
have I missed anyone?

Rasmussen isn't with them anymore.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Rasmussen isn't with them anymore.

Seems like you missed the point

He was summing up all dopers that rode their, present AND past...

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Lol, what a team. If your team ethics are to have no ethics whatsoever, you better do it right.

they don't care so much that it becomes fun and entertaining _O_

they are also one of the poorest teams out there. their teambus is a ran down camper

 

[hrotha]

they don't care so much that it becomes fun and entertaining _O_

they are also one of the poorest teams out there. their teambus is a ran down camper

They still don't have the "in your face" appeal of Rock Racing. Maybe signing Riccò would help.

 

[Descender]

Seems like you missed the point

He was summing up all dopers that rode their, present AND past...

Ah well, not that impressive in that case.

 

[hfer07]

and don't forget that Ballan will be signed too when he gets back from his up coming sentence

 

[luckyboy]

haha, terrible

 

[jonjungel]

they are also one of the poorest teams out there. their teambus is a ran down camper

I guess this explains it then. They need to get the most publicity (wins/scandals) with the small funds they got. (Ex-)dopers are cheap for their palmares, and one can always hope that there was atleast _some_ talent behind their results prior to suspension.

 

[El Pistolero]

Yay, Rebellin is back! Any change of seeing him at Lombardia? First year will probably be nothing, but perhaps he can show some glimpse of his former self in the second year.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I guess this explains it then. They need to get the most publicity (wins/scandals) with the small funds they got. (Ex-)dopers are cheap for their palmares, and one can always hope that there was atleast _some_ talent behind their results prior to suspension.

Also, with Niemiec and Baliani gone the source of most of their recent results (Niemiec was always good for a win in a .1-rated Italian race and to hunt GPMs in all the Italian stage races) was cut off. They were comparatively quiet in races like Trentino and Coppi e Bartali compared to when Niemiec was winning mountain stages, but then they had a better Asturias than usual - thanks to hiring known dopers in Schumacher and Zaballa.

Yay, Rebellin is back! Any change of seeing him at Lombardia? First year will probably be nothing, but perhaps he can show some glimpse of his former self in the second year.

Miche are Continental level, so no chance of seeing him in anything above .HC. If Miche could do World Tour races you'd have been seeing Niemiec tear up the Italian races for the last five years.

 

[hrotha]

Come on, you're not going to defend Zaballa's post 2006 results like with Valverde?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Is Tino being treated like the antichrist around here? No, I don't believe he is.

Besides, I don't know a thing about whether Tino or Don Alejandro did anything post-Puerto - the fact of the matter remains that they were both known dopers, and Tino was hired by Miche, who have a history of hiring known dopers because they come cheap (same as the Portuguese teams, who feasted on Puerto castoffs).

Tino could theoretically have been riding clean since 2006, same as Valverde theoretically could have been (he was certainly under close scrutiny - though as we know, the tests are easy enough to beat). But that's irrelevant when what happened before 2006 is taken into account, because it's that which hurts his market value.

 

[hrotha]

Haha, I know, I'm just teasing you. Anyway, I registered when Piti was already suspended, so I didn't get to see that Antichrist treatment you're speaking of.

 

[usedtobefast]

How do you say "Rock Racing" in Italian?

"Rock Racing"

 

[Met de Versnelling]

Kudos to Christian for getting the Rock Racing gag in first, that was i came here to post.

 

[Sasquatch]

Floyd Landis shouldnt' have retired. He could get a gig on that team.

 

[la.margna]

I prefer a team having the courage to sign doper who comes back after a ban, instead of teams that sign people, where it is obvious for everybody with a brain, that they have been doping, but were not (yet) banned, for example LA, amigo de birillo, Valv.Piti (initially), etc. The team takes the risk not to be invited and its image becoming questionable.

These are the rules. Two year ban. So why not sign them?

What Is outrageous is the fact that dopers who come out with the truth and tell too much for the omertà brothers, don't get any contract anymore (Jaksche, Kohl, ...).

But to solve the problem: 5 year ban instead of 2 year!