Goodbye OmegaPharma-QuickStep

iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited July 2014 in Pro race
Hello Etixx-QuickStep
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    I eagerly await the Sean Kelly pronounciation of this.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    So this is the big news as per:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Omega Pharma-QuickStep is set to reveals its plans for the future of the team at a special "Mussels Party" on the Tour de France rest day.

    The second rest day is usually a day of recovery before the final mountain stages but for Omega Pharma-QuickStep, it is expected to be an important day in the team's long-term future.

    The Belgian squad has invited the media and fans to its official OPQS Fan Park in Lastours au Belvedaire near Carcassone, where they will reveal "good and important news regarding the future". The venue can hold up to 250 fans, with places only available on the day.

    Mark Cavendish will be at the event, despite injuring his shoulder at the end of stage 1 in Harrogate, along with all the riders competing at the Tour de France, plus the team's staff and management.

    @MarkCavendish · 6h
    Early start to France, to see my boys @opqscyclingteam, on the rest day of @letour. Proud of what they've done the last 2 weeks.

    Three years is one more than OP stayed at Lotto.

    Etixx is an existing sponsor so could to see them step it up.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    redvee wrote:
    I eagerly await the Sean Kelly pronounciation of this.
    If he tries to say Ethics he should get it spot on.

    This isn't really a change. Etixx is just one of Omega Pharma's brands.
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  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    is there a lot of Etixx in fish?
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Thread title is pure clickbait. Chapeau.
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  • OPQS
    OPQS Posts: 187
    Bah - I shall have to change my user name now :(
  • Omar Little
    Omar Little Posts: 2,010
    When the Etixx development team was set up i think it mentioned that it was a subsidiary of Omega Pharma, so presumably just a branding change rather than a change in sponsor.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,643
    OPQS wrote:
    Bah - I shall have to change my user name now :(

    Was one of the first things I thought of when I saw the news... :lol:
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,643
    Great news! Though I note some media reports that Omega Pharma are also considering a sale of the company.

    List of Omega Pharma's brands below... I think they should have gone with Jungle Formula but hey?

    Wartner
    Dermalex
    Bodysol/Galenco
    ACO
    Lactacyd
    Prevalin/Beconase
    Phytosun
    Physiomer
    Bittner/Aflubin
    Paranix
    Jungle Formula
    Paravet/Clément Thékan
    Solpadeine/Optalidon
    Biover/Abtei
    Bional/Granufink
    Opticalm
    XLS/XLS Medical
    Predictor
    Davitamon/Etixx
    Silence/Nytol
    Biover
    Bional
    Opticalm
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    They backed Lotto for a good few years - Predictor, Silence, Davitamon (?) all co-sponsors before they were Omega-Pharma Lotto.
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    There's something very pleasing about Granufink. Would have been great to have that in the team name.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • florerider
    florerider Posts: 1,112
    surely Lactacyd - Quick Step:D
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    dish_dash wrote:
    Great news! Though I note some media reports that Omega Pharma are also considering a sale of the company.

    List of Omega Pharma's brands below... I think they should have gone with Jungle Formula but hey?


    XLS/XLS Medical

    I would have liked to see them go with XLS as it's a fat binder/weight loss drug. That almost certainly doesn't work. (Not from personal experience).
  • NeXXus
    NeXXus Posts: 854
    They should lend the Nytol brand to SKY as a sponsor :lol:
    And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    A mussels party?
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    iainf72 wrote:
    Hello Etixx-QuickStep

    Now that you can use proper nouns in Scrabble! Wey hey! Top score galore. :D
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    edited July 2014
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Now that you can use proper nouns in Scrabble!
    Can you? That's BS. It completely undermines the game. Scabble obsessives will be calling their kids Xqjz and Eeee now.
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  • ad_snow
    ad_snow Posts: 469
    Above The Cows wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Hello Etixx-QuickStep

    Now that you can use proper nouns in Scrabble! Wey hey! Top score galore. :D

    But there's only one X.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    RichN95 wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Now that you can use proper nouns in Scrabble!
    Can you? That's BS. It completely undermines the game. Scabble obsessives will be calling their kids, XQJZ and EEEE now.

    Apparently you can.
    ad_snow wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Hello Etixx-QuickStep

    Now that you can use proper nouns in Scrabble! Wey hey! Top score galore. :D

    But there's only one X.

    I was waiting for someone to come out with that.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • ad_snow
    ad_snow Posts: 469
    Above The Cows wrote:
    ad_snow wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Hello Etixx-QuickStep

    Now that you can use proper nouns in Scrabble! Wey hey! Top score galore. :D

    But there's only one X.

    I was waiting for someone to come out with that.
    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    What about the blank tile?
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    What about the blank tile?

    Ha ha and we're back in the game! :D
    Correlation is not causation.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    frenchfighter wrote:
    So this is the big news as per:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Omega Pharma-QuickStep is set to reveals its plans for the future of the team at a special "Mussels Party" on the Tour de France rest day.

    The second rest day is usually a day of recovery before the final mountain stages but for Omega Pharma-QuickStep, it is expected to be an important day in the team's long-term future.

    The Belgian squad has invited the media and fans to its official OPQS Fan Park in Lastours au Belvedaire near Carcassone, where they will reveal "good and important news regarding the future". The venue can hold up to 250 fans, with places only available on the day.

    Mark Cavendish will be at the event, despite injuring his shoulder at the end of stage 1 in Harrogate, along with all the riders competing at the Tour de France, plus the team's staff and management.

    @MarkCavendish · 6h
    Early start to France, to see my boys @opqscyclingteam, on the rest day of @letour. Proud of what they've done the last 2 weeks.

    Three years is one more than OP stayed at Lotto.

    Etixx is an existing sponsor so could to see them step it up.

    Mussels party? nicked that off the Dutch teams.

    Bloody thieving Flemish bastards. or something.
    _
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    TailWindHome wrote:
    A mussels party?

    Dutch PDM and later Vaconsoleil always did a mussels party on the 2nd rest day.

    Exactly as it sounds. Get a bowel of mussels and a big plate of friet. Everyone who turned up (with Tour accreditation, later on) got some.
    _
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    A mussels party?

    Dutch PDM and later Vaconsoleil always did a mussels party on the 2nd rest day.

    Exactly as it sounds. Get a bowel of mussels and a big plate of friet. Everyone who turned up (with Tour accreditation, later on) got some.

    Beer?

    Betcha Sky aren't allowed to eat shellfish :wink:
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  • OPQS
    OPQS Posts: 187
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    A mussels party?

    Dutch PDM and later Vaconsoleil always did a mussels party on the 2nd rest day.

    Exactly as it sounds. Get a bowel of mussels and a big plate of friet. Everyone who turned up (with Tour accreditation, later on) got some.

    What is friet?
  • FoldingJoe
    FoldingJoe Posts: 1,327
    Chips
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    OPQS wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    A mussels party?

    Dutch PDM and later Vaconsoleil always did a mussels party on the 2nd rest day.

    Exactly as it sounds. Get a bowel of mussels and a big plate of friet. Everyone who turned up (with Tour accreditation, later on) got some.

    What is friet?

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    Correlation is not causation.
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,716
    Macaloon wrote:
    Thread title is pure clickbait. Chapeau.
    +1 he properly had me going. :D
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