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Teams & Riders The Great Big Cycling Transfers, Extensions, and Rumours Thread

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The (mutual) termination has immediate effects and was motivated by the breach of trust between Clube Desportivo Fullracing and Mauricio Moreira, resulting from the fact that the athlete made a commitment to another team, despite being aware that he had a contractual link, both verbal and written, with our club until 2025”, explains the note signed by the chairman of the board, Carlos Pereira.

Back to ol' Caja?
 
TBF it may be more benign than that. He was clearly not in a good way in the Volta, literally collapsed on the bike, his DS basically announced that he was now surplus to requirements and his team manager publicly slated him. There was clearly animosity or disagreement between Mauri and the team before the Volta - while given his last couple of seasons there's plenty of reason to suspect that another part of the forum may be where we're headed, it's also very plausible that it's just a termination by mutual consent and he'll crop up on another Portuguese team or go back to South America or crop up somewhere random on the Asia Tour or something.
Thanks, I only hinted at that other part of the forum cause my translation came back very vague and somehow involved porcupines. But intrigued to see which Portuguese conti-team will pick him next.
 
The normal EF deal seems to be low pay but freedom to pursue individual results plus a loud kit to draw attention to yourself. After you collect your chips it's natural to cash in with a team that will pay for UCI points. I think it used to be the case you could also trade in results for elite gregario duties and a more comfortable retirement at places like Sky (or money and bad support riders at a mom n pop shop like Total Energies), but these days you can skip the race results and just use your power meter readout as your résumé.

Now we will see if the weird helmet and Lab71 paint really did anything to help with results.
 
Infusion of Chinese money.

TBH I thought Bettiol was hugely underperforming since winning Flanders but this year he's looking like a grade A rider. I would bet he's on 1.5 million plus salary at Astana (and I wouldn't be surprised to see a team name change).
 
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Amber van der Hulst will ride for the Liv Jayco CT team for the rest of the season before joining the WWT outfit in 2025. Artery issues made her miss the entirety of last season, and it took three surgeries before they were fixed earlier this year. Her former team manager at Liv, Eric van den Boom, kept in touch with her and has now helped her get a new contract at the merged team.
 
TBH, Realini is disappointing me this year. I took her in a few games and she's not bringing the return I expected. She doesn't seem to climb as well as last year.

I was assuming, they've tried to hold her back a little to avoid her losing form at the end of the season like last year. But the crash in the Vuelta certainly didn't help, and her weaknesses on flat roads and descents also seem much more evident this year. However we probably have to wait until Alpe d'Huez to see how strong she really is at the moment.
 
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Amber van der Hulst will ride for the Liv Jayco CT team for the rest of the season before joining the WWT outfit in 2025. Artery issues made her miss the entirety of last season, and it took three surgeries before they were fixed earlier this year. Her former team manager at Liv, Eric van den Boom, kept in touch with her and has now helped her get a new contract at the merged team.

Its a decent throw at the stumps by Jayco. She's definitely WT level.