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Escarabajo said:
It was reported by this Cololbian magaizine http://www.revistamundociclistico.com/ 3 days ago
Buen fichaje though!
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It was reported by this Cololbian magaizine http://www.revistamundociclistico.com/ 3 days ago
Buen fichaje though!
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LOL............sorry had to laugh.......locally we call levi the angry midget....
he has the personality of a potato in an interview.......also it seems to me he has always had at least 1 very bad day while riding a GT not to mention some crap luck on several occasions
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Bala Verde said:It was reported by this Cololbian magaizine http://www.revistamundociclistico.com/ 3 days ago
Buen fichaje though!
Typical cyclingnews. If its not in English they don't report it. If it comes from Demand Media its headline news.
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Bala Verde said:It was reported by this Cololbian magaizine http://www.revistamundociclistico.com/ 3 days ago
Buen fichaje though!
I'm really looking forward to seeing Soler in the Tour
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Andrew Yoder
Could this 20 year old make the jump to pro cycling?
Here are some snippets from slowtwitch interview.
"The bike was incredibly hard," said Greg Bennett after winning the Nautica New York City Triathlon. "That Yoder! Hats off to him. Holy crap! What an awesome athlete."
"That boy is incredible," said Matt Reed. "Every race he's done has really impressed me. I think he should go straight to cycling."
Andrew Yoder’s performance at the most recent Nautica New York City Triathlon underscored and amplified his reputation as one of the hottest cyclists in Olympic distance non-drafting triathlon.
I am 5-8 and I weight 138 pounds. Power to weight ratio is the key to my success. Now I am very conscious that have to be very strong while I have found my weight sweet spot. I know if I’m at a certain point with my weight at 138 and put out certain power, I know I will do well.
ST: Any thoughts whatsoever about becoming a cyclist?
Andrew: I think about it a lot and I have considered it, especially when the Tour came on I wondered if I should be a cyclist. I want to be one of the greats in the sport. I think have a chance in triathlon and that's where I’ll be devoting all my focus and energy in the near future.
ST: What would be the steps to switch to cycling?
Andrew: I have no idea. I don't know how cycling works, I know no one in USA Cycling and don’t know the path you need to take to reach pro cycling. My size suits being a very good climber, and perhaps would work well in the time trial. So I can be a contender, but there is so much more. If I go to cycling, that first few years must be dedicated to do the little things. Pack riding in the peloton, racing in road races and criteriums, learning how to expend energy over a multi day race. There would be so many learning struggles. No matter how good you are, there are many obstacles you need to overcome before you make it. I think I have the power and work ethic to be a cyclist or triathlete.
ST: Floyd Landis is from your neck of the woods -- Pennsylvania Dutch country.
Andrew: It’s pretty bizarre we are both from there. Floyd and his parents are Mennonite. Even though my last name is Yoder, my dad and our family are not Amish.
ST: What do you think of Landis?
Andrew: Floyd is a great cyclist and came from very humble beginnings.
ST: What do you think about his doping positive, the loss of his appeal and ultimate disqualification at the Tour de France?
Andrew: One of the things that drives me away from cycling is the fact that there is always a suspicion. Say I go to cycling and win the Tour and I am clean but people will still think I am doping. I think triathlon is pretty clean and that is one of the things I like about it. With Floyd it is hard. He grew up in a very conservative family and he is a good guy. I met him once pretty early on at a banquet he put on to show supporters why the drug tests were wrong. It is hard for me to judge the man.
ST: Can you succeed and win a world championship without drugs?
Andrew: I will never use drugs. I could never live with myself. But when you get to the top level of cycling and triathlon and you are in your 30s, the pressure is on to make money for your family and your kids. But ultimately, if you think you cannot do it naturally, you ought not to be in the sport. For me drugs are just not an option.
Here is the full interview
http://www.slowtwitch.com/Interview/What_makes_cycling_prodigy_Andrew_Yoder_run__948.html
Could this 20 year old make the jump to pro cycling?
Here are some snippets from slowtwitch interview.
"The bike was incredibly hard," said Greg Bennett after winning the Nautica New York City Triathlon. "That Yoder! Hats off to him. Holy crap! What an awesome athlete."
"That boy is incredible," said Matt Reed. "Every race he's done has really impressed me. I think he should go straight to cycling."
Andrew Yoder’s performance at the most recent Nautica New York City Triathlon underscored and amplified his reputation as one of the hottest cyclists in Olympic distance non-drafting triathlon.
I am 5-8 and I weight 138 pounds. Power to weight ratio is the key to my success. Now I am very conscious that have to be very strong while I have found my weight sweet spot. I know if I’m at a certain point with my weight at 138 and put out certain power, I know I will do well.
ST: Any thoughts whatsoever about becoming a cyclist?
Andrew: I think about it a lot and I have considered it, especially when the Tour came on I wondered if I should be a cyclist. I want to be one of the greats in the sport. I think have a chance in triathlon and that's where I’ll be devoting all my focus and energy in the near future.
ST: What would be the steps to switch to cycling?
Andrew: I have no idea. I don't know how cycling works, I know no one in USA Cycling and don’t know the path you need to take to reach pro cycling. My size suits being a very good climber, and perhaps would work well in the time trial. So I can be a contender, but there is so much more. If I go to cycling, that first few years must be dedicated to do the little things. Pack riding in the peloton, racing in road races and criteriums, learning how to expend energy over a multi day race. There would be so many learning struggles. No matter how good you are, there are many obstacles you need to overcome before you make it. I think I have the power and work ethic to be a cyclist or triathlete.
ST: Floyd Landis is from your neck of the woods -- Pennsylvania Dutch country.
Andrew: It’s pretty bizarre we are both from there. Floyd and his parents are Mennonite. Even though my last name is Yoder, my dad and our family are not Amish.
ST: What do you think of Landis?
Andrew: Floyd is a great cyclist and came from very humble beginnings.
ST: What do you think about his doping positive, the loss of his appeal and ultimate disqualification at the Tour de France?
Andrew: One of the things that drives me away from cycling is the fact that there is always a suspicion. Say I go to cycling and win the Tour and I am clean but people will still think I am doping. I think triathlon is pretty clean and that is one of the things I like about it. With Floyd it is hard. He grew up in a very conservative family and he is a good guy. I met him once pretty early on at a banquet he put on to show supporters why the drug tests were wrong. It is hard for me to judge the man.
ST: Can you succeed and win a world championship without drugs?
Andrew: I will never use drugs. I could never live with myself. But when you get to the top level of cycling and triathlon and you are in your 30s, the pressure is on to make money for your family and your kids. But ultimately, if you think you cannot do it naturally, you ought not to be in the sport. For me drugs are just not an option.
Here is the full interview
http://www.slowtwitch.com/Interview/What_makes_cycling_prodigy_Andrew_Yoder_run__948.html
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Alessandro Petacchi is going to leave LPR. Lampre is rumoured to be his new home. I actually like Petacchi as a sprinter/rider and when he does an interview. He was one the few able to beat Cavendish this year, which despite being 35, he still has it a sprinter and then when the road went uphill, he was on the front doing work for di Luca.
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Jan Bakelants expected to join Belgium's Silence-Lotto from Topsport-Vlaanderen
Silence-Lotto is setting up its team for the 2010 season, letting four riders go and considering a contract for Jan Bakelants from team Topsport-Vlaanderen. Roy Sentjens, Pieter Jacobs, Géry Gardeyn and Bart Dockx might leave the Belgian ProTour team at the end of the year, according to Het Nieuwsblad.
"The decision is not yet final," said sports director Herman Frison. He said contract talks could continue if the four do well in the coming races.
Sentjens, who has been with the Belgian team since 2007, expected to search for a new team. "It obviously has to do with my protest after not being selected for the Tour," he told the Gazet van Antwerpen. "I have never regretted my words. I think that as a rider I should state my own opinion."
The 28-year-old is currently riding the Eneco Tour. "I am doubly motivated to do something there."
Bakelants, 22, told Sporza that he has "an attractive offer. Several teams have made me offers, but Silence-Lotto is currently in the pole position."
He denied media reports that he had signed with Team Columbia-HTC. "The team has never made me a firm offer and I have never spoken with them. This story is not true."
Bakelants lacked victories this year, but in 2008 won the Circuit des Ardennes, Under-23 Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the Tour de l'Avenir overall classification.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/silence-lotto-lets-four-riders-go-and-hires-one-for-2010
Silence-Lotto is setting up its team for the 2010 season, letting four riders go and considering a contract for Jan Bakelants from team Topsport-Vlaanderen. Roy Sentjens, Pieter Jacobs, Géry Gardeyn and Bart Dockx might leave the Belgian ProTour team at the end of the year, according to Het Nieuwsblad.
"The decision is not yet final," said sports director Herman Frison. He said contract talks could continue if the four do well in the coming races.
Sentjens, who has been with the Belgian team since 2007, expected to search for a new team. "It obviously has to do with my protest after not being selected for the Tour," he told the Gazet van Antwerpen. "I have never regretted my words. I think that as a rider I should state my own opinion."
The 28-year-old is currently riding the Eneco Tour. "I am doubly motivated to do something there."
Bakelants, 22, told Sporza that he has "an attractive offer. Several teams have made me offers, but Silence-Lotto is currently in the pole position."
He denied media reports that he had signed with Team Columbia-HTC. "The team has never made me a firm offer and I have never spoken with them. This story is not true."
Bakelants lacked victories this year, but in 2008 won the Circuit des Ardennes, Under-23 Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the Tour de l'Avenir overall classification.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/silence-lotto-lets-four-riders-go-and-hires-one-for-2010
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Levi Leipheimer is leaving Astana for Lance Armstrong’s new RadioShack team, Christophe Moreau is moving from Agritubel to Caisse d’Epargne and Edvald Boasson Hagen is jumping ship at Columbia probably for the new Sky team in England.
Minnows are moving too. The Cofidis team from France whacked a half-dozen of them recently, as did AG2R in France and Silence in Belgium. Spanish and Italian teams are also churning through their rosters, replacing failed hopes with the speed of a fruit fly’s half-life.
What mystery there is surrounds the biggest fish in the pond: Alberto Contador, at 26 the winner of all three grand Tours, including his second Tour de France last month.
Although he has a contract for another year with Astana and it would cost about $2 million to buy his liberty and another $2 million to sign him, what team doesn’t want him? The line that does forms to the right.
The Garmin team from the United States is among the suitors. It offers a structured environment, a base in Girona, in Contador’s native Spain, a rigorous anti-doping policy and a roster of unselfish riders who need a leader and a winner. But there’s the question of money.
Quick Step from Belgium is also in the hunt, or so says Patrick Lefévère, the team’s manager. He said last week that he had held preliminary discussions with Contador's manager and brother, Francisco.
It would be a strange match. Quick Step is a powerhouse in the one-day classics, not Contador’s forte, and a no-show in the big Tours, especially in the mountains. Then there’s the weather: Spaniards rarely flourish in the cold rain of Belgium.
Caisse d’Epargne, a Spanish team sponsored by a French bank, is a more likely landing spot. It too has a solid structure, built on the Banesto franchise that developed Miguel Indurain into the Tour de France dominator a decade and more ago, and it will need a leader, since the incumbent, Alejandro Valverde, faces a two-year suspension for doping.
Contador himself has described a move to Caisse d'Epargne as the most attractive of several offers. He told the Spanish news agency EFE this month that the team directed by Eusebio Unzué could well support his ambitions.
“Unzué has plenty of experience,” Contador said. Caisse d’Epargne “is a team that knows the mentality of working for a leader.”
Again, despite the link to a bank, there’s the question of money. Unzué said last week that he was looking for a second sponsor to cover hiring Contador.
“I have several possibilities, some of them attractive,” Contador reports, “and I'm giving them all due consideration. There are plenty of offers.”
Minnows are moving too. The Cofidis team from France whacked a half-dozen of them recently, as did AG2R in France and Silence in Belgium. Spanish and Italian teams are also churning through their rosters, replacing failed hopes with the speed of a fruit fly’s half-life.
What mystery there is surrounds the biggest fish in the pond: Alberto Contador, at 26 the winner of all three grand Tours, including his second Tour de France last month.
Although he has a contract for another year with Astana and it would cost about $2 million to buy his liberty and another $2 million to sign him, what team doesn’t want him? The line that does forms to the right.
The Garmin team from the United States is among the suitors. It offers a structured environment, a base in Girona, in Contador’s native Spain, a rigorous anti-doping policy and a roster of unselfish riders who need a leader and a winner. But there’s the question of money.
Quick Step from Belgium is also in the hunt, or so says Patrick Lefévère, the team’s manager. He said last week that he had held preliminary discussions with Contador's manager and brother, Francisco.
It would be a strange match. Quick Step is a powerhouse in the one-day classics, not Contador’s forte, and a no-show in the big Tours, especially in the mountains. Then there’s the weather: Spaniards rarely flourish in the cold rain of Belgium.
Caisse d’Epargne, a Spanish team sponsored by a French bank, is a more likely landing spot. It too has a solid structure, built on the Banesto franchise that developed Miguel Indurain into the Tour de France dominator a decade and more ago, and it will need a leader, since the incumbent, Alejandro Valverde, faces a two-year suspension for doping.
Contador himself has described a move to Caisse d'Epargne as the most attractive of several offers. He told the Spanish news agency EFE this month that the team directed by Eusebio Unzué could well support his ambitions.
“Unzué has plenty of experience,” Contador said. Caisse d’Epargne “is a team that knows the mentality of working for a leader.”
Again, despite the link to a bank, there’s the question of money. Unzué said last week that he was looking for a second sponsor to cover hiring Contador.
“I have several possibilities, some of them attractive,” Contador reports, “and I'm giving them all due consideration. There are plenty of offers.”
You read cyclismag.com too?issoisso said:Feillu brothers -> Vacansoleil. Trust me on this one. It's legit
samb01 said:
It's on the news already? Damn that was fast
Also, I don't appreciate the insinuation.
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issoisso said:Feillu brothers -> Vacansoleil. Trust me on this one. It's legit
Seems a few of the non-English cycling sites are also saying Vacansoleil, but they all seem to be quoting Cyclismag.
We'll have to wait till the 25th to find out for sure, from Romain's website via google translate "Many of you ask us to Brice and me where we are in 2010 know that we know our future destination, but it will be disclosed Tuesday 25 August, it is the wish of our future employer ..."
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Didn't want to start a new thread but some bad news for Piet Rooijakkers of Skil: From their web page...
The results of hospital examinations at the end of last week have shown that Piet Rooijakkers’ injuries after his fall in the team time trial at the Tour de France are even worse than first thought. As well as a broken third finger on the right hand and a triple fracture of the left lower arm, the new examination has now also revealed a broken wrist.
Here is to hoping that this young rider recovers quickly!!
The results of hospital examinations at the end of last week have shown that Piet Rooijakkers’ injuries after his fall in the team time trial at the Tour de France are even worse than first thought. As well as a broken third finger on the right hand and a triple fracture of the left lower arm, the new examination has now also revealed a broken wrist.
Here is to hoping that this young rider recovers quickly!!
Armstrong wants Arvesen for The Shack and Alain Gallopin goes there as director
http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/08/21/..._arvesen/lance_armstrong/radio_shack/7748093/
http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/08/21/..._arvesen/lance_armstrong/radio_shack/7748093/
TRDean said:I know...but I am old and 29 seems young to me. Don't hang me for it
It is young. Just not for a pro cyclist
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Fernando Alonso will move from Renault to Ferrari next year and spark a cascade of other driver changes, according to McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh.
The double world champion's expected switch is an open secret in Formula 1, but Whitmarsh is the first senior figure publicly to acknowledge it.
"I think we all know that the Fernando-Ferrari move has a knock-on effect that ripples through the other teams," he said.
Ferrari said Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa were already contracted for 2010.
"He (Whitmarsh) can say what he wants, there is no 'Fernando-Ferrari move'," said a spokesman for the Italian team.
"Things can happen and not happen. But you cannot talk about any Fernando-Ferrari move. We have two drivers with a contract until the end of 2010. We are not under pressure to change anything."
The double world champion's expected switch is an open secret in Formula 1, but Whitmarsh is the first senior figure publicly to acknowledge it.
"I think we all know that the Fernando-Ferrari move has a knock-on effect that ripples through the other teams," he said.
Ferrari said Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa were already contracted for 2010.
"He (Whitmarsh) can say what he wants, there is no 'Fernando-Ferrari move'," said a spokesman for the Italian team.
"Things can happen and not happen. But you cannot talk about any Fernando-Ferrari move. We have two drivers with a contract until the end of 2010. We are not under pressure to change anything."
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Hey, Hog, that's the wrong sport.......
And please don't insert entire articles. Just a few lines and a link to the source.
Otherwise we may have to start deleting.
Susan
And please don't insert entire articles. Just a few lines and a link to the source.
Otherwise we may have to start deleting.
Susan
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