Worst pro-tour team (per CQ numbers)

[Ryo Hazuki]

Good chance they will be without Eze as well.

no. eze is no longer prosecuted since they couldn;t find any doping in his blood samples of the vuelta. same story as with sevilla.

 

[Anonymous]

Current rankings:

1. Team Garmin - Cervélo PRT 979
2. HTC - Highroad PRT 636
4. Rabobank PRT 519
5. Movistar Team PRT 449
6. Vacansoleil - DCM PRT 436
7. Sky Professional Cycling Team PRT 430
8. Liquigas - Cannondale PRT 408
11. Ag2r - La Mondiale PRT 361
12. Lampre - ISD PRT 281
13. OmegaPharma - Lotto PRT 274
14. Team RadioShack PRT 268
15. Quick Step Cycling Team PRT 255
25. Euskaltel - Euskadi PRT 132
26. Leopard Trek PRT 124
27. Astana PRT 120
28. Katusha Team PRT 118
29. BMC Racing Team PRT 114
38. SaxoBank - Sungard PRT 73

As a comparison. This was 7th Feb Last Year
Team HTC - Columbia 523
Garmin - Transitions 462
Team Katusha 458
Liquigas - Doimo 400
Ag2r - La Mondiale 383
Sky Professional Cycling Team 362
Team Milram 354
Caisse d'Epargne 347
Footon - Servetto 276
Lampre - Farnese Vini 270
Française des Jeux 262
OmegaPharma - Lotto 140
Astana 116
Rabobank 107
Euskaltel - Euskadi 106
Team Saxo Bank 105
Team RadioShack 78

 

[will10]

So in summary looking at the rankings in Feb mean diddly squat.

I agree with Ruben, Vacansoleil will be not even be bottom 5, very strong squad

 

[kurtinsc]

As a comparison. This was 7th Feb Last Year
Team HTC - Columbia 523
Garmin - Transitions 462
Team Katusha 458
Liquigas - Doimo 400
Ag2r - La Mondiale 383
Sky Professional Cycling Team 362
Team Milram 354
Caisse d'Epargne 347
Footon - Servetto 276
Lampre - Farnese Vini 270
Française des Jeux 262
OmegaPharma - Lotto 140
Astana 116
Rabobank 107
Euskaltel - Euskadi 106
Team Saxo Bank 105
Team RadioShack 78

I wasn't trying to indicate that the current standings were indicative of what the final standings would be... just wondering what other posters thought the "bums" this season were going to be. I just gave current rankings as info

 

[Anonymous]

I wasn't trying to indicate that the current standings were indicative of what the final standings would be... just wondering what other posters thought the "bums" this season were going to be. I just gave current rankings as info

Oh yeh, i realise that, was just putting up last years to compare. Interesting to see if teams are doing better or worse v last year.

 

[Havetts]

Rabo is doing extremely good compared to last year, Matthews in the TDU and Boom .

 

[cyclingPRpro]

no. eze is no longer prosecuted since they couldn;t find any doping in his blood samples of the vuelta. same story as with sevilla.

what the hell are you talking about? both proceedings continue and have not been resolved.

 

[theyoungest]

Rabo is doing extremely good compared to last year, Matthews in the TDU and Boom .

These points are mainly from Matthews and Ten Dam, the Tour of Qatar doesn't really help much CQ-wise.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

what the hell are you talking about? both proceedings continue and have not been resolved.

Even if they are still being prosecuted, the fact that it's taken so long = no clear direction = likelihood of being referred to CAS.

And since both Eze and Babyface have been cleared to ride, that means they'll probably be on the road for some time yet, maybe a year or more if the cases of João Cabreira and Alejandro Valverde are anything to go by.

By which time Eze can probably retire anyway.

 

[jaylew]

LOL?

Why do people keep forgetting that the bulk of VSC points was not from Ricco (ricco was good for about 10%).

Just look at the quality through the team... they have some nice 2nd line sprinters that'll rack up points. They've got guys like Carrara and Marcato. Devolder, Leukemans and Hoogerland. Poels who is on the verge of breaking through, etcetera.
You dudes are seriously underestimating the team. But ok, we'll see at the end of the year I suppose.

Honestly, I spent probably 20 seconds thinking about it before posting. I thought Ricco and Eze might be gone and that they probably scored a bunch of points in smaller races last year since they were left out of a bunch of the major ones; this year they'd be competing against stiffer competition.

I didn't actually go to CQ and confirm that assumption - it was just my my 1st impression.