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ingsve

ingsve

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Valv.Piti said:
Lol. Per Strand Hagenes? Have you missed the part where Christophe Laporte, Tiesj Benoot and Matteo Jorgenson are quite good in the classics, [[deleted]]?
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I just used that name to make a hyperbolous point that the classics team losing 4 riders including their far and beyond best classics rider would he a lot weaker. Of course they would have some sort of classics team still but not nearly as strong as before without replacements.
 
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Armchair cyclist said:
But rather wierdly, these restictions only apply to JP joining a WorldTeam: UCI seem to have lost sight of the fact that some ProTeams are quite big enough to be aggressors in a transfer market.
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Would be interesting to see what would happen if Astana failed to make the WT in 2026. They are currently last of all WT teams in that ranking and they have 3 ProTeams ahead of them. So they need a lot of points next season to get into the top 18.

If they fail then we'd have a superteam with chinese money in the ProTour.
 
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ingsve said:
Would be interesting to see what would happen if Astana failed to make the WT in 2026. They are currently last of all WT teams in that ranking and they have 3 ProTeams ahead of them. So they need a lot of points next season to get into the top 18.

If they fail then we'd have a superteam with chinese money in the ProTour.
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I would hope that the rule will be rewritten (not specific to Astana-China, but because it seems an obvious oversight in drafting)
 
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ingsve said:
Kristian Blummenfelt says it's 90% sure he'll switch to road cycling next season and is looking to do the Tour in 2026 and will fight for the yellow jersey by 2028. No contract signed yet though hence the 90%.

www.tv2.no

Mot norsk overgang: Avslører ellevill Tour de France-plan

PARIS (TV 2): En overgang er på trappene for den norske stjernen Kristian Blummenfelt (30).
www.tv2.no www.tv2.no
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The team is apparently rumored to be Jayco-Allula
 
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FDJ - SUEZ have announced that Célia Gery will be joining them, making her the second current female junior, after her rival Cat Ferguson, to have a confirmed pro contract for the future. The team has missed out on other French talents in recent years, but not this time around. It sounds like she will continue to ride CX for AS Bike Racing.
 
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Samu Cuenca said:
FDJ - SUEZ have announced that Célia Gery will be joining them, making her the second current female junior, after her rival Cat Ferguson, to have a confirmed pro contract for the future. The team has missed out on other French talents in recent years, but not this time around. It sounds like she will continue to ride CX for AS Bike Racing.
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Gery staying with AS Bike for CX is interesting; they're currently on Specialized whereas FDJ-Suez are currently on Lapierre - though rumours about Vollering bringing Specialized.
 
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Axel Hangleck said:
Gery staying with AS Bike for CX is interesting; they're currently on Specialized whereas FDJ-Suez are currently on Lapierre - though rumours about Vollering bringing Specialized.
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Yeah, that is indeed interesting. But since Lapierre doesn't make CX bikes, it doesn't necessarily mean anything either. If they do switch to Specialized, then I assume they will also have to work out a new deal for Molengraaf, if she is to continue with CX and MTB.
 
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Yeah, that deal for Molengraaf is strange; 3 different teams for 3 different disciplines......Two have a common bike sponsor - Lapierre (for now), I'm not sure if it's workable long term. And if Specialized to come on board, then her deal with Lapierre Mavic MTB is surely under review; though it's possible she bins MTB off.....
 
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pastronef said:
he says TDF ambitions for 2028. he's got 4 years. would be a "joke", as you say, if he aimed at the TDF for 2025
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You think it's possible to do a big enough body transformation in that time? He also said losing weight would sacrifice VO2max so he seemed a little apprehensive about changing too much it seemed.
 
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Valv.Piti said:
Fatco is gone, Fatfelt is here
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Vingegaard better watch out!

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When I heard a story about some guy called Blummenfelt saying he was going to transition to cycling and clean everyone I assumed he was some wiry guy in the prime of his life, maybe needs to sharpen up a kilo or two to get in mountain shape, but that lad they wheeled out today looks like my Uncle Roy.
 
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ingsve said:
You think it's possible to do a big enough body transformation in that time? He also said losing weight would sacrifice VO2max so he seemed a little apprehensive about changing too much it seemed.
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I'm gonna go out on a limp, but I think the dude has a better understanding of how a VO2max relates to his weight than most of us here on the forum.
 
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We'll see one of the upcoming days which of the bad French teams Aranburu is (for god knows what reason) is gonna end up. Benson mentioned he's going to Cofidis while it looked like he was going to Arkea for the longest time (Spanish press still mentioned Arkea a few days ago).

Cofidis has a lot of money to spend with Martin and Zingle leaving, but also their bigger budget (20M at least).
Teuns, Moniquet, Carr, Ferron, Izquierdo, Maisonobe and now also Aranburu are apparently all gonna end up there. Then you have Buchmann too who has supposedly signed there already in February/March, even tho Benson hasn't confirmed this and has spoken about UAE interest for example.

I think with those guys Cofidis makes a step forwards, even tho 2 good riders are leaving. Or at least if Aranburu is coming (cause like I said, Spanish press and some French journo's are still saying Arkea), he's still underrated. Not sure what happened with him at Movistar, how are they letting him go. His agent typically wanting to move their riders every 2 years I guess?
 
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