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I'd love to express that outrage about the teams owners but we aren't allowed to discuss that in this section of the forum unfortunately.
I expressed surprise about about the signing on Brajkovic for the simple reason he's done nothing over the last 2 season in lower tier stage races, good luck to the guy for having the contacts to get another WT contract
Zinoviev Letter said:ciranda said:Lol at the outrage for Brajkovic. He has contacts, good for him. And he was a great cyclist once. He has as much a legitimate place in a good team as ~30 or more now wt riders. The discussion is similar to when Lotto signed Tomasz Marczynski and a number of people thought it was super strange. Shows that it's now established fact that to get a place in a WT team riders have to be a lot better if they are not from some particular countries. And if you already think like that it can seem weird that teams would take (established quality) cyclists like Brajkovic and Marczynski.
There's no outrage. I'm surprised and entertained by Brajkovic's return to the world tour after a couple of unimpressive years in the US, but if I was going to get outraged about the Bahraini hereditary dictatorship's involvement in cycling, I wouldn't focus on the hiring of a clapped out Brajkovic. I just find it bizarre that a guy who couldn't hold down a WT contract two years ago, when he actually had impressive results within recent memory, can get a WT contract after two years of anonymity. UHC is a place where multiple out of favour riders have gone to show that they still have it and then have got back to the WT. It's amusing to see a guy who went there for that reason and then showed that he didn't still have it get a contract.
Marczynski won eight races the year before Lotto hired him. Brajkovic last won anything four years ago. It's not some inexplicable bias against Slovenes to see a difference.
I'd love to express that outrage about the teams owners but we aren't allowed to discuss that in this section of the forum unfortunately.
I expressed surprise about about the signing on Brajkovic for the simple reason he's done nothing over the last 2 season in lower tier stage races, good luck to the guy for having the contacts to get another WT contract