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Maybe I'm jumping the gun by I see this as the continuation of a trend of "national" teams being formed. The majority of high quality US talent is on 3 US sponsored teams. Sky went after the British talent. Rumors last month were about Leferve wanting to merge QS and Omega to form a Belgian super-team. We've also read rumors about AC going to a Spanish based team and Menchov being targeted by Katousha. This is either a real trend that is developing for economic and nationalist reasons or in Saxo's case the result of Riis' failure to bring a new sponsor on board and the riders not wanting to be "caught out" in what will probably be another very active transfer season.