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  • hommelbier
    hommelbier Posts: 1,555
    Rémi Di Gregorio, having recently won his case against his former team, Cofidis, has now signed with La Pomme Marseille for next season.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    hommelbier wrote:
    Rémi Di Gregorio, having recently won his case against his former team, Cofidis, has now signed with La Pomme Marseille for next season.

    Good
  • wombly_knees
    wombly_knees Posts: 657
    RonB wrote:
    From Inrng - Trek announce Danilo Hondo and Giacomo Nizzolo stay for 2014. Also a new signing in Australia's Calvin Watson.
    Watson's likely to be a Frenchfighter favourite
    “I’m all about riding to data,” he said after referencing some of his SRM figures by way of an explanation of what sort of rider he is. “You train with data every day and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t look at it in a race. ‘Froomie’ might have, as they say, always been looking at his SRM but when you’ve done all the climbs and you know what power you can ride at then it makes sense to look because that’s the reality: the numbers that you’re putting out tell the story. You know what you can hold and I’m all for racing that way.
    http://www.ridemedia.com.au/?p=11244
  • wombly_knees
    wombly_knees Posts: 657
    double
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    wombly knees wrote:
    RonB wrote:
    From Inrng - Trek announce Danilo Hondo and Giacomo Nizzolo stay for 2014. Also a new signing in Australia's Calvin Watson.
    Watson's likely to be a Frenchfighter favourite
    “I’m all about riding to data,” he said after referencing some of his SRM figures by way of an explanation of what sort of rider he is. “You train with data every day and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t look at it in a race. ‘Froomie’ might have, as they say, always been looking at his SRM but when you’ve done all the climbs and you know what power you can ride at then it makes sense to look because that’s the reality: the numbers that you’re putting out tell the story. You know what you can hold and I’m all for racing that way.
    http://www.ridemedia.com.au/?p=11244

    Lol, for a second I was worried there and thought I would have to get behind and Aussie...
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Argos Shimano will have a new title sponsor next year:
    http://www.1t4i.com/team-argos-shimano- ... -sponsor/#
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,712
    hommelbier wrote:
    Rémi Di Gregorio, having recently won his case against his former team, Cofidis, has now signed with La Pomme Marseille for next season.
    Interesting one him.

    Appeared. Drug rumours. Lots of hype. Vanished. Astana. Vanished again.

    He certainly had potential when he burst on the scene a few years back.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    The authorities killed his career. When you have a doping tar like he did even though he was shown to be innocent, understandably not many teams will be after you. He still has the legs though - been winning this year, albeit in the lower league where he has got a ride.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,450
    'parrantly Argos-Shimano have a new top sponsor....

    http://www.telegraaf.nl/telesport/wiele ... OEG__.html
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 41,493
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    ozzzyosborn206 wrote:
    not going to believe the Blythe to NFTO until it actually happens, some drop from riding with Gilbert, Evans, Husovd and Phinney to riding with Hank Lowsley Williams, Josh Hunt and Matt Rowe with all due respect to those guys. Rumours that they are paying Russ Downing 100k wonder how much they would have to pay Blythe, crazy money for a new conti team. wonder it they will have a calendar to back it up


    I cant get my head around this team. They cant be paying Downing £100k surely. He was probably on that at Sky - and that's, what, 2/3x what the main guys are getting in the top UK domestic teams. I know that Endura were paying JTL around £30k just last year.

    I'd be amazed too. The team manager is an occassional user of this site so maybe he can elaborate :wink: The team owner is pretty well off though (I think he now owns Swift bikes) and passionate about the sport - the riders on the team last year were probably given far better kit than those in 'bigger' teams as well as being paid and taken off to Alpine and Spanish training camps. I read somewhere that the owner's philosophy is 'why give a rider £15k of kit and not help put him in a position to train properly' or something along those lines. Hopefully they are on the first rung to bigger things.
  • hommelbier
    hommelbier Posts: 1,555
    Could Samuel Sanchez have ride next year with Belgian pro conti team Wanty-Groupe Gobert (ex Accents Jobs-Wanty)?

    http://www.nieuwsblad.be/sportwereld/cnt/dmf20131030_00817700
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    hommelbier wrote:
    Could Samuel Sanchez have ride next year with Belgian pro conti team Wanty-Groupe Gobert (ex Accents Jobs-Wanty)?

    http://www.nieuwsblad.be/sportwereld/cnt/dmf20131030_00817700


    Gawd, I hope Samu likes kernesses
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    M Marcato to Cannondale.
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Argos Shimano will have a new title sponsor next year:
    http://www.1t4i.com/team-argos-shimano- ... -sponsor/#

    Thanks to Kittel no doubt.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,190
    Gabriel Rasch is retiring after the classics to become a DS with Sky.
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Heard that Emma Pooley will be back in 2014, riding for Lotto-Belisol.
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Heard that Emma Pooley will be back in 2014, riding for Lotto-Belisol.


    Yay! Back riding full-time and for a major team. And surely that means riding the Womens Tour here next May
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Heard that Emma Pooley will be back in 2014, riding for Lotto-Belisol.

    Whoop-di-doo! I admit to having a bit of a girl crush on Emma.
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,237
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Heard that Emma Pooley will be back in 2014, riding for Lotto-Belisol.

    Great news, although I was slightly hoping she would continue doing tri and running - she won a marathon last weekend in 2hrs 45!
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,058
    surely that means riding the Womens Tour here next May

    which means you may get to see Marion Rousse in the flesh. Win win.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    LLS wont be riding for Movistar:

    Alejandro Valverde, Nairo Quintana, Andrey Amador, Jonathan Castroviejo, Alex Dowsett, Eros Capecchi, Javi Moreno, Sylwester Szmyd, Imanol Erviti, Iván Gutiérrez, José and Jesús Herrada, Beñat Intxausti, Pablo Lastras, Rubén Plaza, José Joaquín Rojas, Enrique Sanz, Francisco Ventoso and Giovanni Visconti.

    The new signings are John Gadret (Ag2r La Mondiale), Ion and Gorka Izagirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Juanjo Lobato (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Adriano Malori (Lampre-Merida), Alejandro Marque (OFM), Dayer Quintana (Lizarte) and Jasha Sütterlin (Thuringer).

    There are six riders who are leaving, namely former Vuelta winner Juan Jose Cobo, world champion Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida), Vladimir Karpets, Ángel Madrazo (Caja Rural-RGA), Argiro Ospina and Eloy Teruel (Jamis).
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Rob Ruijgh, 20th in the GC of the TdF 2 years ago, signs for the new Belgian continental team Vastgoedservice, with what seems like mostly a Belgian kermesse programme. Tough times
    http://nos.nl/artikel/569421-ruijgh-zet ... -2014.html
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,271
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    ThomThom wrote:
    Stannard is a beast in the making. Surely he's worrying more about how much rather than where to.


    Word is he's getting a very big increase with his new contract.


    Not wrong there. Looks like someone's been over-celebrating...
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    ThomThom wrote:
    Stannard is a beast in the making. Surely he's worrying more about how much rather than where to.


    Word is he's getting a very big increase with his new contract.


    Not wrong there. Looks like someone's been over-celebrating...
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  • andytee87
    andytee87 Posts: 406
    Paul 8v wrote:
    What's with the helmet?[/quote]

    Its Barney Storey, paralympian, not Stannard after pie festival
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Ah!
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,597
    frenchfighter wrote:
    LLS wont be riding for Movistar:

    Alejandro Valverde, Nairo Quintana, Andrey Amador, Jonathan Castroviejo, Alex Dowsett, Eros Capecchi, Javi Moreno, Sylwester Szmyd, Imanol Erviti, Iván Gutiérrez, José and Jesús Herrada, Beñat Intxausti, Pablo Lastras, Rubén Plaza, José Joaquín Rojas, Enrique Sanz, Francisco Ventoso and Giovanni Visconti.

    The new signings are John Gadret (Ag2r La Mondiale), Ion and Gorka Izagirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Juanjo Lobato (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Adriano Malori (Lampre-Merida), Alejandro Marque (OFM), Dayer Quintana (Lizarte) and Jasha Sütterlin (Thuringer).

    There are six riders who are leaving, namely former Vuelta winner Juan Jose Cobo, world champion Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida), Vladimir Karpets, Ángel Madrazo (Caja Rural-RGA), Argiro Ospina and Eloy Teruel (Jamis).

    I'm guessing that Dowsett's spanish is going to be pretty decent....
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Anyone know where Leukemans is headed?
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    “Desperate needs lead to desperate deeds,” Weening said. “Rasmussen comes up with different stories every time. He declared something else when he was under oath at the court. It’s obvious he is frustrated because he lost the case against Rabobank.”

    Rasmussen received €665,000 in damages when a court found that Rabobank wrongfully sent him home from the 2007 Tour de France while the Dane was in the yellow jersey. Both parties appealed the decision and when Rasmussen eventually lost, he had to re-pay the original sum.

    Grischa Niermann, who was also part of the 2007 Rabobank Tour de France team has also reacted to Rasmussen's statement that 100% of the team was on doping. “I don’t know where he gets that from,” the now-retired German rider said on national television. “I can say for myself that I only received vitamins and supplements from the team doctor but no banned substances.”
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,190
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Anyone know where Leukemans is headed?
    Wanty. (Formerly Accent Jobs)

    Unrelated, but the rumour mill is saying that Horner is joining United Healthcare
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