jens_attacks said:next directeur sportifs for sky are matxin and bombini!
Didn't sky make all their staff/riders promise that they'd never ever been doping a couple of years ago, when Rogers and Yates left?
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jens_attacks said:next directeur sportifs for sky are matxin and bombini!
luckyboy said:Rai TV say Aru as well as Martinelli Sr + Jr to Sky
Martinelli was team boss of Carrera Jeans and Mercatone Uno through the 90s
also saying that Alonso will buy Giant-Shimano license
Race Radio said:For the last couple days RAI has been talking about Giuseppe Martinelli, and his son, joining SKY next year
Yup, Pantani's DS at SKY.
Race Radio said:For the last couple days RAI has been talking about Giuseppe Martinelli, and his son, joining SKY next year
Yup, Pantani's DS at SKY.
maxmartin said:NO way, his son maybe, but Martinelli himself??? What about zero tolerance policy???
Race Radio said:RAI talked about it yesterday and today. A couple reporters asked SKY and they said just the son, not dad
Freddythefrog said:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/acti...ma-F8-review-a-Porsche-911-on-two-wheels.html
.........This bike makes you try things that you really shouldn’t on a bicycle. It’s constantly compelling you to ride faster, brake later into the corners, push the boundaries of your cycling ability.................
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Like Dr. Ferrari & Sonmaxmartin said:that makes sense, I can see that happen after all there is no any dirty record about his son
TourOfSardinia said:Like Dr. Ferrari & Son
Cycle Chic said:So Kiriyenka had a good day - although he was swigging on a water bottle like an amateur and looked beat.
Mind you he's done naff all for the past 15 days so i suppose he could manage one decent day.
Already two-thirds in, the team is far away from its heady days in 2012 and 2013 when Bradley Wiggins and Froome dominated. Instead of arranging seating for waiting journalists on the second rest day, it simply did not bother to schedule an official press conference.
thehog said:Good times down there at the bus with mood lighting.
http://velonews.competitor.com/2014...rks-low-point-team_337858#ZQUSgD2J1AZ3gDOZ.99
But Brailsford, who stands by his decision to not pick Wiggins, admits: “I don’t like losing. I’m not going to lie. I don’t like the experience. The joy of winning has always been a small emotion for me against the strength of the emotion of not winning.
"If we win something, I’m on to the next thing. “Others want to celebrate and enjoy it, but it doesn’t even occur to me.”
However, Brailsford looks on Sky’s failure at the Tour as: “The best thing that could happen to me and us. Every now and again, every team needs a kick up the ****.
“You need to lose and you learn more from failure than you do from success.”
Meanwhile, Tinkoff-Saxo, is managed by Bjarne Riis, a master tactician who is known for his knack of fighting from out of a corner - likewise with Contador.
Their success at the Tour, even without Contador, will also have galvanised their belief that come next year’s Tour, they will be a mighty force behind the Spaniard.
“That's exactly what it is, [a] super strong team, very motivated, even without Alberto,” Riis said.
“The day Alberto went out, I told them it's going to be a long two weeks if we don't have the motivation to continue and do something.
“We agreed and shook hands on it with Oleg [Tinkoff, the owner].”
Clearly, his riders lived up their promise, as Irish rider Nicolas Roche said.
“We are a good group of fighters and friends,” Roche said.
“We were dreaming that sooner or later we could do a demonstration of how the team was.”
Their dream became a reality … unlike Sky’s.
42x16ss said:Clinic issues aside, this is why Riis the best DS getting around. Whenever you see his teams they always have a true "band of brothers" feel about them, even back in the early 2000's. IMO Riis would have to be the best manager of riders and personalities in pro cycling. Failsfraud could learn a lot by observing his management methods.
42x16ss said:Clinic issues aside, this is why Riis the best DS getting around. Whenever you see his teams they always have a true "band of brothers" feel about them, even back in the early 2000's. IMO Riis would have to be the best manager of riders and personalities in pro cycling. Failsfraud could learn a lot by observing his management methods.
Even since Overcoming, they give that impression. Things like the way CSC rode for each other in the 08 TdF, Cance's reaction to O'Grady's PR win, the way guys like Roche and Hernandez ride themselves into the ground, Rogers' reaction to Contador's abandon. What Riis creates seems a rare thing.Dear Wiggo said:Could not agree more. That feeling really came through in the Overcoming movie. Now, granted, it could have been played up to as a perception, but then you'd get awkward looks and body language from the riders, so I am calling it true enough based on what I saw.
The Garmin team has similar issues, someone linked to a forum elsewhere outlining what it was like.
That is very true. Sky doesn't seem to have the same cohesion as other teams, with the exception of 2012 and Porte's support of Froome that last year or so. Too much drama in the squad for a healthy team environment.thehog said:There's a video on Rai TV of the Astana bus. Vino was spraying champagne on everyone and then the team picks him up and tosses him in the air to 3 cheers.
Sound to me the Sky bus is like a library without Wiggos humour busting the drone of Froome, Kerrison and the ban on Nutella. For F%#% sake guys! lighten up!