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maltiv

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Thomas Dekker invited to Garmin training camp next week, where (supposedly) a one year deal will be finalized.

Bring on the Ardennes classics, with Valverde, Rebellin, Di Luca, and Dekker!
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Considering what we saw last year it would be quite...uhm, mysterious, if Dekker were able to compete with the best in the ardennes again. I think he'll come back merely as a decent domestique who can do a good time trial.
 
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maltiv said:
Considering what we saw last year it would be quite...uhm, mysterious, if Dekker were able to compete with the best in the ardennes again. I think he'll come back merely as a decent domestique who can do a good time trial.
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Obviously I was just kidding. I'm not convinced by Dekker at all, after his return, and I think he's very lucky to get a contract with a WT team.
 
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Obviously I was just kidding. I'm not convinced by Dekker at all, after his return, and I think he's very lucky to get a contract with a WT team.
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Let's be fair though. Vino wasn't exactly convincing in the 2009 Vuelta, and he took his comeback a lot more seriously than Dekker was taking some local crits and one-day races in the Netherlands, followed straight away by the Volta a Portugal, a race he was in no way shape or form prepared for.
 
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There have been rumours of some bigger teams looking at Rebellin. Acqua e Sapone sure used to get Classics invites when they had Paolini. It depends on who's available really. Farnese got an Amstel invite last year but now Visconti's at Movistar there's not really a reason to invite them - though with Pozzato I'm sure they've got a good chance at plenty of the flatter and/or cobbled classics.

Di Luca on his own may be good enough for an invite in Italy, but elsewhere no way. Betancur may be of interest at some races though after his Emilia success.
 
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There have been rumours of some bigger teams looking at Rebellin. Acqua e Sapone sure used to get Classics invites when they had Paolini. It depends on who's available really. Farnese got an Amstel invite last year but now Visconti's at Movistar there's not really a reason to invite them - though with Pozzato I'm sure they've got a good chance at plenty of the flatter and/or cobbled classics.
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Farnese Vini will be invited to all the cobbled classics and the Gold Race, Luca Scinto said. But most probably they won't do L-B-L and the Flèche, of course, I can't see any of their riders doing something of note there either (unless they really sign Felline, who at least rode a promising Lombardia this year).

People tend to overestimate the difficulties of getting wildcard invites to the cobbled classics. In this year's Paris-Roubaix, 7 teams got a wild card invite: Saur, FDJ, Cofidis, Europcar, Skil, Bretagne-Schuller (!) and Team NetApp (!!). Timon Seubert did pretty well, featuring in the break of the day and still being the best NetApp finisher in 64th place, 10' down. Bretagne-Schuller did worse, their best rider being Jean-Luc Delpech, 74th, 13' down. You could argue Topsport Vlaanderen, Veranda's Willems and especially Landbouwkrediet deserved an invite, but let's face it: those teams got to do the Ronde and while Staf Scheirlinckx did great for Veranda's Willems (something few people would have expected beforehand), Topsport Vlaanderen did absolutely nothing of note (Geert Steurs finishing 73th in the gruppetto... 6 minutes down on the lone Gorka Izagirre) and Bert Scheirlinckx was the only Landbouwkrediet rider to perform well, finishing in the Farrar group sprinting for 13th place. All the other Landbouwkrediet riders finished in the gruppetto or abandoned. Well, it's not as if not having Landbouwkrediet in Paris-Roubaix is a national disaster, is it. Maybe they would have done better than Bretagne-Schuller, maybe they wouldn't. The depth of the cobbled field is nearly unexisting (which is actually quite alarming). The only valuable top 10 candidate whose team did not get invited to Paris-Roubaix was Staf Scheirlinckx, and while I'm sure everybody feels sorry for him, I can understand why ASO chooses, for example, Bretagne-Schuller over a CQ-wise very similar Belgian team.
 
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If you think about quality of the roster only i guess probably Acqua e Sapone deserves an invite for fleche and LBL, Betancour looks really promising, Di Luca and Garzelli might be old but they were both protagonist in the past of the race, while Taborre and Ginanni can do something as well. The problem is that Aso organize those races and i guess they don't want the killer to be there.

Beside a couple of years ago Acqua e Sapone got an invite for Fleche and Liege, but they basicly sent the b-team to Fleche in order to race at the tour of Trentino, so i guess that Aso is still quite ****ed off with the team
 
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If you think about quality of the roster only i guess probably Acqua e Sapone deserves an invite for fleche and LBL, Betancour looks really promising, Di Luca and Garzelli might be old but they were both protagonist in the past of the race, while Taborre and Ginanni can do something as well. The problem is that Aso organize those races and i guess they don't want the killer to be there.

Beside a couple of years ago Acqua e Sapone got an invite for Fleche and Liege, but they basicly sent the b-team to Fleche in order to race at the tour of Trentino, so i guess that Aso is still quite ****ed off with the team
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Yeah, don't count on ASO to invite A & S. I agree, though, that they should be there.
 
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We get it, you don't like Gesink and love Colombians. Isn't this the transfer thread tho? As far as I know Gesink is staying with Rabobank for the next years. If you want to talk about Gesink you can necro that Gesink is weak thread again.
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Our good friend theyoungest said Gesink was going to Geox next year because that is where all the good riders retire at when they are past it. Don't you remember?:D
 
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Thomas Dekker invited to Garmin training camp next week, where (supposedly) a one year deal will be finalized.

Bring on the Ardennes classics, with Valverde, Rebellin, Di Luca, and Dekker!
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I heard Bettini is coming out of retirement to race the Ardennes classics too.

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