Vuelta teams leaked

iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited June 2010 in Pro race
http://www.marca.com/2010/06/07/ciclism ... 1275981577

The teams from the UCI agreement AND

Radioshack
Xacobeo
Andalucía-Cajasur

Cervelo dependant on Sastre riding.
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    The same thing being said on CN.
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vuelta- ... ist-leaked

    I'm not sure the numbers add up. It says 22 teams, but I keep reading
    the 16 pre selected, plus the 4 above..........

    No mention of Sky..........anywhere.

    Half a leak?
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ju5t1n
    ju5t1n Posts: 2,028
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    No mention of Sky..........anywhere.
    ...it’s still on the race calendar on the Team Sky website

    No Garmin either
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Don't laugh but it clashes with the Tour of Britain. So Sky would probably send a "B" team to Spain. That said some riders need a Grand Tour in their legs to test them so perhaps the team would like to ride, even if they can't promise too much to the organiser.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Bit of a shame for Deignan if no Cervelo. He might have tried to build on last year's performance.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    3 GTs for a 36yr old?

    Seems a little steep.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Vacansoleil and Skil have been well and truly shafted this year.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    no garmin?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    afx237vi wrote:
    Vacansoleil and Skil have been well and truly shafted this year.

    Especially Vacansoleil, they've won in practically every race they've entered.

    Forgive me if I'm wrong, but does this include Cofidis in the preselected?
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Yes, Cofidis were pro tour at the time the deal was signed in 2008. But remember they took the KOM jersey last year.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Yes, Cofidis were pro tour at the time the deal was signed in 2008. But remember they took the KOM jersey last year.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    It's the 16 teams + ACA / Cervelo / Garmin / Sky / Katusha and XAC

    No Shack or Vacansoliel.

    Official, innit.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    I am a bit surprised that the Shack have been snubbed.
    I wonder if it's somehow related to the Giro goings on?

    Vacansoleil have had it rough this year.
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  • JSB24
    JSB24 Posts: 37
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/organis ... lta-espana
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Interesting because with RadioShack there would be an increased chance of selling the TV rights to a US audience, something that most race organisers would be desperate for.

    I can't see what BMC are doing there. Evans isn't going to ride the Vuelta as well, is he? Or will he be there for a Worlds tune up?
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Kléber wrote:
    I can't see what BMC are doing there. Evans isn't going to ride the Vuelta as well, is he? Or will he be there for a Worlds tune up?

    They're not there
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    :oops:

    Makes you wonder what Vacansoleil has done to upset some race organisers. Especially since they spend money sponsoring Paris-Nice to cosy up to ASO, who part own the Spanish race these days.
  • csp
    csp Posts: 777
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    I am a bit surprised that the Shack have been snubbed.
    I wonder if it's somehow related to the Giro goings on?

    Vacansoleil have had it rough this year.

    Guess they got His letter Jan 23 saying they wouldn't be coming.
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    really surprised at non selection of shack...what a bum deal that company gets...they'll leave the sport before the end of their contract. Good to see Armstrong shown who is boss, but JV is right-sponsors need guarantees to be attracted into the sport -a certain number of hours on live TV will be what Riis and others are putting up on their power point presentations, inducements to potential sponsors.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Hog Unhappiness:
    @johanbruyneel: Just got word that TRS got snubbed for a bike race in Spain. Stay tuned for my comments. Gonna be interesting and spicy!

    Will make a change, if they are.
    “We really wanted to ride the Vuelta but we weren’t invited,” RadioShack team spokesman Philippe Maertens told Cyclingnews from the Tour de Suisse.

    “The organisers said we didn’t have a strong team on a sporting level, that other teams are better. That’s strange because we wanted to send a very strong roster.”

    Maertens refused to name riders who were scheduled for the RadioShack Vuelta roster but Critérium du Dauphiné winner Janez Brajkovic and possibly Levi Leipheimer were likely to be in the team.

    Odd reasoning, IMO.
    However, I'm afraid the young Shack riders end up paying the price for the old Shack riders myopic ambitions.
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    I can't imagine Sky will be on anything other than the ragged end of a knackered squad by September.

    No sprinter or GC hope, yet they still get the nod over a recent podium-er. 'Tis odd, unless the organisers realise Levi will be cooked after his ToC and TdF exertions.
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  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    calvjones wrote:
    I can't imagine Sky will be on anything other than the ragged end of a knackered squad by September.

    No sprinter or GC hope, yet they still get the nod over a recent podium-er. 'Tis odd, unless the organisers realise Levi will be cooked after his ToC and TdF exertions.

    I wonder if this is why they have been holding back with releasing their tour squad to see if they get a Vuelta invite
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Full comments fro Bruyneel. The sooner he is gone the better.

    http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/4542/ ... ction.aspx

    It also occured to me that one of the reasons the Giro was so good was because him and Lance were not there.
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  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Team Sky have in effect the perfect sponsor - love em or loathe them Murdoch's brand is a one of the few global brands in the peleton. The fact that it is a media sponsor in effect triples their pulling power - Team Skty at your race, it's going to be mentioned on Sky TV, written about in(even if it's just amention) in all Murdoch's printed media. As an organiser being able to offer that sort of exposure to advertisers/sponsors (hoardings/roadside barrier banners/ prize sponsors etc) might just tip the balance in your favour


    As an aside Team Sky might have worked out how to do a sprint lead out by then
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    "Our 2010 Team goals were the Tour de France and the Tour of Spain. That’s why - together with the need to perform well in the Tour of California – we skipped the Tour of Italy this year.”
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  • SunWuKong
    SunWuKong Posts: 364
    What amused me about his comments is JB's long history of sticking by team agreements. The name Ivan Basso springs to mind.
  • Snorebens
    Snorebens Posts: 759
    frenchfighter wrote:
    The sooner he is gone the better.

    It also occured to me that one of the reasons the Giro was so good was because him and Lance were not there.

    + 1
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    I'm surprised no one has commented upon the implications of this decision, for the remainder of the season.

    RS are a stage race team. Other than the Vuelta, there remains only Poland and ENECO, during August and NOTHING during September.

    Apart from a couple of HC one dayers in Belgium and France, plus Paris-Tours, the majority of top day races take place in................
    ...........ITALY.
    I can't see a flood of September invites coming through JB's postbox.

    Effectively, RS's season mirrors Armstrong's since it all but ends, after the Tour.

    Why would riders such Brajkovic's, Marchado etc, wish to remain with a team that has them involuntarily sidelined, from June on?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Isn't a system based on performance what we used to have before the agreement with a few wildcard teams? If so there were still the same problems then. I wasn't watching the sport at all when it changed to the current system - what was the reason for it? The danger with performances and results being the determining factor for race entry is that it puts even more pressure on riders to get results any way possible.
  • greeny12
    greeny12 Posts: 759
    Hearing Bruyneel go on about "abuse of power" given his record in the sport is probably the most inintentionally hilarous thing I've ever come across in this wacky sport of ours....
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  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    Kléber wrote:
    "Our 2010 Team goals were the Tour de France and the Tour of Spain. That’s why - together with the need to perform well in the Tour of California – we skipped the Tour of Italy this year.”
    porkpie.jpg
    PORKIE PIE ALERT
    It had nothing to do with being snubbed by Zomegnan at all, oh no    .

    Is it possible to be snubbed after lettering to say you are not going then ?
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