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Quaranta prolly got fat like Dario Pieri, and opened up his own chain of pizza stores. Kash wanted his own team and gov't money to underwrite it too, but Vino as Vino was more connected to the mafiaso contacts back home, so it was a bad gambit by Kash, needless to say, he has no teamchiocciolis_calves said:
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Apparently, Quaranta is the DS of an Italian youth team, the UC Cremasca.
http://www.cremaonline.it/sport/08-01-2015_Vailate,+Stefano+Baffi+passa+alla+Cc+Cremonese/
He's big but not as big as you'd expect.
http://www.cremaonline.it/sport/08-01-2015_Vailate,+Stefano+Baffi+passa+alla+Cc+Cremonese/
He's big but not as big as you'd expect.
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Konovalovas was the only time trialist to ride in dry roads. Then the rain poured. He was never good.
Ferminal said:
Konovalovas was the only time trialist to ride in dry roads. Then the rain poured. He was never good.
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Cândido Barbosa. Yes Libertine, that's Brôco by his side.
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That's him. I guess he's been selling 'rugs' to Vladimir Belli and Antonio Conte. Why do Italians - denizens of style and proportion - love crappy glue-on wigs so much? Embrace the razor!!!
JackRabbitSlims said:
That's him. I guess he's been selling 'rugs' to Vladimir Belli and Antonio Conte. Why do Italians - denizens of style and proportion - love crappy glue-on wigs so much? Embrace the razor!!!
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However, Popo is also one of the absolute easiest to point at what happened to him. Volodymyr Bileka was his running buddy early in his career; he was a talented junior and contemporary of Popo (a year older or so) who also turned pro with Landbouwkrediet at the same time; he rode most of the same races as Popo but never progressed beyond a dom as a pro, and moved with him to Discovery Channel in 2005, then to Lotto in 2008.
Popo's 2008 season started well, especially in Paris-Nice, but rather fell apart as the year went on. Coincidentally (or not), Bileka got busted for EPO in May. Popovych was weak for the rest of 2008, only to be a strong domestique again (albeit not at the level he was 2005-7) when reunited with Bruyneel in 2009. Popo had an injury-ridden 2010 season, then in 2011 the Landis stuff and the computer raids happened, and since then he's been a nobody.
It looks an awful lot like Popo was an obvious charger early in his career, but as a result there wasn't that much room for improvement as a pro; he was successful early on but the next step was perhaps too risky. His running buddy getting busted in 2008 scared him off the program or at least made him scale his program back, but returning to a situation he felt comfortable with (and probably had protection in given what we now know) with Bruyneel rejuvenated him to some extent. Since the Landis allegations and his computer being confiscated, however, he's probably been in the position where he's got an agreed contract but is no longer motivated to take the risk.
He was also 3rd in the 2003 Giro and wore the maglia rosa in 2004 with another top 10.chiocciolis_calves said:
However, Popo is also one of the absolute easiest to point at what happened to him. Volodymyr Bileka was his running buddy early in his career; he was a talented junior and contemporary of Popo (a year older or so) who also turned pro with Landbouwkrediet at the same time; he rode most of the same races as Popo but never progressed beyond a dom as a pro, and moved with him to Discovery Channel in 2005, then to Lotto in 2008.
Popo's 2008 season started well, especially in Paris-Nice, but rather fell apart as the year went on. Coincidentally (or not), Bileka got busted for EPO in May. Popovych was weak for the rest of 2008, only to be a strong domestique again (albeit not at the level he was 2005-7) when reunited with Bruyneel in 2009. Popo had an injury-ridden 2010 season, then in 2011 the Landis stuff and the computer raids happened, and since then he's been a nobody.
It looks an awful lot like Popo was an obvious charger early in his career, but as a result there wasn't that much room for improvement as a pro; he was successful early on but the next step was perhaps too risky. His running buddy getting busted in 2008 scared him off the program or at least made him scale his program back, but returning to a situation he felt comfortable with (and probably had protection in given what we now know) with Bruyneel rejuvenated him to some extent. Since the Landis allegations and his computer being confiscated, however, he's probably been in the position where he's got an agreed contract but is no longer motivated to take the risk.
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Ah, so Popo going from GT podium to struggling to break the top-100 is because he doesn't want to take the risk, but Cobo going from crap to GT winner and back to crap again is because he is occasionally in no mood to train and the obvious doping is glossed over.
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