- Apr 30, 2011
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It's the first search result on google for me: https://www.google.com/search?q=battistella
- Aug 29, 2009
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- 7,108
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Jaakko Hänninen (Ag2R) joins Nice Métropole. One year deal, confirmed by himself.
Jaakko Hännisen pyöräilyura jatkuu Ranskassa - TWD
Kansainvälisen maantiepyöräilyn suomalainen kasvattajaseura TWD-Länken
www.twd.fi
- Dec 28, 2010
- 4,138
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Now this is a transfer that actually makes sense. Contrary to the Cavagna announcement of last year.
- Jul 27, 2009
- 6,610
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Pretty harsh that Hänninen can't get a contract at a team like Corratec even!
I guess he's going to ride his bike as some sort of payed hobby and not fully professional anymore in the future.
Hänninen's career never took flight sadly. Stalled completely during his time at AG2R.
- Apr 10, 2019
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- 15,990
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Yeah, strange because they and Cofidis have been the most international French teams for a long time and they have been doing well during the last few years.
Talking about mildly different paths after that 2018 podium in Worlds when comparing Hirschi, Lambrecht and Hanninen.
Aiming back to the high market 2026?
Perhaps a season riding more of the regional French races he grinded as a prospect is a better way of finding his feet again than some more uncertain PCT.
- Aug 29, 2009
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I'd think so too. He probably can't afford to get stuck at that level for more than a year or two, but he lives in Nice, so it's his local team, and usually the French CT teams have quite a good calendar.
- May 5, 2010
- 51,696
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- 28,180
- Jul 15, 2024
- 1,009
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Widar is set to stay with Lotto for another year due to a combination of money and out of fear of a media frenzy.
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- Sep 12, 2022
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I don't see how that's a good solution for both parties. And he really should ignore the media, and don't let it influence your decision.
- Apr 13, 2021
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Ivan Sosa, the former 'next bernal', has been given a contract for 2025 by kern pharma
View: https://x.com/EqKernPharma/status/1849717487375368259?t=K1sxlTb5JMJJo0n-RjW6DA&s=19
View: https://x.com/EqKernPharma/status/1849717487375368259?t=K1sxlTb5JMJJo0n-RjW6DA&s=19
- Jul 8, 2017
- 2,291
- 2,975
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Given how crazy (kern) Pharma were at the Vuelta, I won't be surprised to see him winning 2 stages in the Vuelta next year.
- Sep 20, 2017
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This assumes that Unipublic won't do their usual spiel of rotating through the Spanish PCTs with zero regard for sporting merit.
- May 10, 2015
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Not money, just not wanting the legal throuble even tho he would always win a court case (which was only thing that could keep Widar and/or Van Gils at Lotto, them not wanting to go through the proper legal stuff as it could take time and is annoying). Not really sure why Lotto just doesn't let him go if he's about to leave at the end of 2025 anyways. What is even the point.
- Apr 10, 2019
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Plus Ivan Ramiro Sosa can score them a decent amount of points in Asian stage races that are usually decided by a big unipuerto stage (Langkawi or the Chinese stage races). Even without those races he'd have been a top 5 points scorer for them this year.
- Mar 12, 2009
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Until he leaves and has actually signed a contract with someone else there is always an outside chance they would get him to stay.
Other than that I guess the only real point would be to get the publicity from his wins for another year,
- Aug 31, 2019
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Uno-X confirms a new contract for Magnus Kulset. They might be a bit low on money, but atleast the nepotism still is going strong.
What's up with the Kulsets? Are they family to someone in the Uno-X leadership or are they just all hired on the basis of being brothers to each ohter?
- Sep 26, 2020
- 25,352
- 27,868
- 23,180
They are sons of the CEO of Uno-X, Vegar Kulset. But a lot of other signings across their men's and women's teams have been somewhat based on relations between them and other riders/staff
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- Feb 20, 2010
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Good ol' fashioned Movistar relationships with the neighbours.
Sign their young promising riders, give them your offcuts.
Sosa is still a pretty capable rider and a good rider for a team like Kern Pharma to have, but he is what he is at this point. He will have a lot more freedom at Kern Pharma than he would have at Movistar, and his lack of durability limits his effectiveness as a domestique, so he's an ideal kind of rider for a ProTeam to target smaller races (especially the Unipuerto types as that's the kind of thing that suits him best), and stagehunt and target mountains jerseys at the bigger ones.
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