XDS Astana team

[Carols]

Best wishes VAE.

Nibbles in that shirt hurts my eyes, sorry, not intended to insult, if taken so my apologies.

Nibbles in those shorts attracts my attention

 

[calinmarian]

With the help of Vino, Nibali will take the final step up togheter with the very best gc riders.

If Contador comes to the Giro (I hope he doesn't) Tiralongo is the gregario of Nibali or Contador?He will have like a super-domestique role in 2013 giro astana?

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

If Contador comes to the Giro (I hope he doesn't) Tiralongo is the gregario of Nibali or Contador?He will have like a super-domestique role in 2013 giro astana?

Tira repayed AC in the Vuelta. Yes, he will be a super-dom this years giro.

 

[Forunculo]

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

He will look even better in a pink astana jersey

 

[Fearless Greg Lemond]

With the help of Vino, Nibali will take the final step up togheter with the very best gc riders.

I think Nibali is already on the top of his abilities. Let's hope he doesn't 'go Kreuziger' while on Astana.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

http://proteam-astana.com/en/news/upcoming-pro-team-astana-race-schedules

fun fun fun

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

ANDREA GUARDINI

JANI BRAJKOVIC

ALESSANDRO VANOTTI

ALEXANDR DYACHENKO

ALEXEY LUTSENKO

ANDREI GRIVKO

ANDREY KASHECHKIN


ANDREY ZEITS

ARMAN KAMYSHEV

ASSAN BAZAYEV

BORUT BOZIC

DMITRI GRUZDEV

DMITRI MURAVYEV

EGOR SILIN


ENRICO GASPAROTTO

FABIO ARU

FRANCESCO GAVAZZI

FREDRIK KESSIAKOFF

JACOPO GUARNIERI

JAKOB FUGLSANG

KEVIN SEELDRAEYERS


MAXIM IGLINSKIY

PAOLO TIRALONGO

RUSLAN TLEUBAYEV

SIMONE PONZI

TANEL KANGERT

VALERIO AGNOLI

VINCENZO NIBALI


roster for 2013.
What do we expect?
Who will suprise?
who will dissapoint?

I can't wait to find out!

 

[Netserk]

Such a shame with the new kit It is so fugly....

'10 was godlike though

 

[Afrank]

Such a shame with the new kit It is so fugly....

'10 was godlike though

It would have been much better if the eagle under the Astana logo was gold or yellow. Would have made it stand out more.

 

[The Hitch]

What a photo

The guy who won the 2012 Giro. The guy who won the 2012 Vuelta. And the guy who hopefully 1 day will be named the winner of the 2012 Tour

All just casually relaxing on their bikes.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

What a photo

The guy who won the 2012 Giro. The guy who won the 2012 Vuelta. And the guy who hopefully 1 day will be named the winner of the 2012 Tour

All just casually relaxing on their bikes.

We call him the winnner of giro 13

 

[The Hitch]

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Vino thinking: I will kill you with my bare hands if you don't win the giro little boy.

 

[Netserk]

Please do some Vino-magic on Nibs, so he will destroy the poor Sky-train.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Now that Hitch found this thread again we Astana fans might just as well start thinking of our gt teams this year.

For the Giro the team seems pretty much set in stone with:

Nibali - leader and the new king of awesome
Brajkovic - super domestique and second in command
Tiralongo - super mountian domestique and free role for a stage victory or 2
Kessiakoff - tt'er, climber and all round swedish guy
Agnoli - Italin climer domestique
Vanotti - Nibalis buddy
Aru - hopefully Nibalis third strongest mountain domestique
Kangert - all round team mate
last place open (No idea what Gasparotto, Grivko and so on are going to do after spring classics)

 

[LaFlorecita]

Do you know what races Aru will ride? On procyclingstats.com the only race on his schedule is il Giro.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Tour team is going to be something like:

Birdsong - gc "leader" and professional dissapointer
Kasheckin - Free role to dominate the mountains
Guardini - something something flat sprint?
Bozic - helping Guardini
Ponzi - helping Guardini
Iglinsky - probably fat and out of form, but still love his hair
Grivko - super strong stage hunter

Last 2 spots depend on what Niabli is going to do after the giro is my guess

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Do you know what races Aru will ride? On procyclingstats.com the only race on his schedule is il Giro.

I have no idea, buy i can guess TA + alot of different italian races like Trentino and so forth

 

[LaFlorecita]

I have no idea, buy i can guess TA + alot of different italian races like Trentino and so forth

okay.
thank you.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

okay.
thank you.

He will make Wiggos legs hurt, no worries. Vino will make sure of that

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

For the Vuelta there is anyboyds guess. Lutsenko might get his gt debut, but doubt it. He is still very young, and has yet to show how he handles week long races and so forth.
Probably alot of kazakhs like Zeits and Dyachenko might get their chance to shine

 

[Afrank]

Last 2 spots depend on what Niabli is going to do after the giro is my guess

Nibali will probably do the Vuelta to prepare for worlds after the Giro.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Nibali will probably do the Vuelta to prepare for worlds after the Giro.

Then my money will be on Seeldrayers and Muryayev for the last 2 places

 

[The Hitch]

Yeah Nibali will do the Vuelta and imo thats his best chance for a gt win this season