the discovery team

sibike
sibike Posts: 257
edited May 2008 in Pro race
Dont rip my head off as im no racer ,just like to watch it on tv sometimes .how come the discovery team is not in the giro , Are they still a team or have they quit racing ?

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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    sibike wrote:
    Dont rip my head off as im no racer ,just like to watch it on tv sometimes .how come the discovery team is not in the giro , Are they still a team or have they quit racing ?

    They don't exist anymore. Look at Astana they are nearly Discovery.
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  • sibike
    sibike Posts: 257
    thanks.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    The sponsor, Discovery Channel, quit the sport at the end of last season. The management company that ran the team, Tailwind Sports, decided to stop as they struggled to find a new sponsor.

    As redddragon says, a lot of the management and the riders have now joined the Astana team.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    sibike wrote:
    Dont rip my head off as im no racer ,just like to watch it on tv sometimes .how come the discovery team is not in the giro , Are they still a team or have they quit racing ?

    Discovery pulled the plug on their sponsorship at the end of last year. Bruyneel tried finding a new sponsor but couldn't, so the team folded and Bruyneel retired.

    But then Astana went pear-shaped at the TdF last year and the Kazakhs offered Bruyneel a big chunk of cash to take control of the team, so he went to Astana and took a load of Discovery riders (Contador, Leipheimer, Brajkovic and more) with him.
  • deltadawn
    deltadawn Posts: 168
    Just to add to what has already been posted, here is a list I got from their old website of what teams their riders and other personnel went to:


    Fumy Beppu, Skil Shimano

    Volodymyr Bileka, Predictor-Lotto

    Jani Brajkovic, Astana

    Johan Bruyneel, Astana (Manager)

    Alberto Contador, Astana

    Tony Cruz, BMC

    Steve Cummings, Barloworld

    Tom Danielson, Slipstream

    Dirk Demol, Quick Step (DS)

    John Devine, T Mobile

    Stijn Devolder, Quick Step-Innergetic

    Viatcheslav Ekimov, Astana (DS)

    Vladimir Gusev, Astana

    George Hincapie, T Mobile

    Laurenzo Lapage, Astana (Logistics Manager)

    Levi Leipheimer, Astana

    Fuyu Li, Marco Polo Cycling Team

    Trent Lowe, Slipstream

    Egoi Martinez,> Euskaltel-Euskadi

    Jason McCartney, CSC

    Gianni Meersman, FDJ

    Uros Murn, Krka/Adria Mobil

    Benjamin Noval, Astana

    Sergio Paulinho, Astana

    Yaroslav Popovych, Predictor-Lotto

    Chechu Rubiera, Astana

    Tomas Vaitkus, Astana

    Brian Vanborg, Team GLS (Danish)

    Jurgen Van Goolen, CSC

    Matt White, Slipstream (DS)

    Sean Yates, Astana (DS)

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