Given a free choice, which team would you join?
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Christina Watches Onfone. Awash with drugs, just the way I like it.0
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Specialized Lululemon or Vanderkitten... mmmm lady pros!0
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AG2R for the brown shorts. And the chance to ride with Nicky Roche.
Team Sky just looks too intense.Ecrasez l’infame0 -
Garmin!point your handlebars towards the heavens and sweat like you're in hell0
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I'd create something new and as it turns out I just got an email from a guy at Sony who wants to start a team built around me.It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.0
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Lampre!!0
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Thinking about, what team is Liz Hatch on these days? I'll join that one!0
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Pross wrote:Thinking about, what team is Liz Hatch on these days? I'll join that one!Liz: No, I will never ever race pro again. When I started I didn’t set out to be a pro. When I started cycling I didn’t even know that women raced. Sadly, I wish I had started earlier. I started cycling when I was 25 and racing at 26 just for fun. I wasn’t an athlete before, so it was a steep learning curve. One thing happened and another thing happened and then I found myself racing in Europe. I was really excited about doing it, but it wasn’t a life time goal. It just came about. I really appreciate the experience it has brought me, the travel, and all the great people I’ve met. Coming from nothing it’s a pretty cool thing to happen, but I just realized this year you just can’t make a living doing it. Also, there comes a point, I’m 31 years-old now, when you see there is no future in racing for me. Cycling is in my future, but not professional racing. Professional by definition it is something you make a living doing. It was becoming too much of a struggle to stay at a good level and live a life. For example, the team I was on; we weren’t paid and we had to pay our own travel. This was one of the best UCI teams, so there was no reward for all the effort. I still love riding my bike, but I stopped loving racing because you have to be fulfilled emotionally, spiritually and financially. It got to the point where I don’t want to risk my health and my life anymore for nothing. I don’t want that to sound ungrateful, it’s just a fact.
It’s such a shame because I can see so much talent wasted. You hear the men asking for 3 million a year, and well that’s great, I feel happy for them. Then you see us and the chasm is so large, it’s like two continents with oceans between. I had a conversation with someone at the UCI, asking how things could be different with contracts etc. They look at women’s teams like they are just clubs, so there is no minimum wage, it’s not a profession for them.
I will ride some Gran Fondos though.0 -
T.M.H.N.E.T wrote:Liz: I will ride some Gran Fondos though.
So she's still racing, then?Ben
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I may be completly mis understanding what tehy are about but it seems like a great bus to be on pre race!0 -
Ben6899 wrote:T.M.H.N.E.T wrote:Liz: I will ride some Gran Fondos though.
So she's still racing, then?
I just need to find out what ones she's doing - no problem getting an A standard by sitting on her wheel all day0 -
Ben6899 wrote:T.M.H.N.E.T wrote:Liz: I will ride some Gran Fondos though.
So she's still racing, then?0 -
Christina Watches, obviously.
- Owners are extremely experienced in the sport.
- Christina Hembo is not fucking annoying in any way.
- Christina Hembo would be my warm up instead of coffee.
- They genuinely want the best for the sport. Signings of Michael Rasmussen and Schumacher prove that.
- They bought a bus.0 -
Garmin. But only on the basis that they employed Jens Voight.0
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For those of us who said Garmin this says it all really!
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... rance.html'Google can bring back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.'
Neil Gaiman0 -
I would suggest signing for the team with the most up-front money and with any bikes and gear you can keep when you're no longer in the team.
I think this makes the most sense as we'd all be sacked within a matter of days for not being good enough.0