2021 Transfer rumours and facts

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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Still no sign of Hirschi. Nothing from his camp about the DSM allegations. Zero. Zilch. No claim of an injury. Just total silence and a rider who blew last season up in a big way has apparently vanished.

    This is very weird.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    We'll probably have to start a new thread soon, but there's a rumour that Joao Almeida is on his way to UAE.


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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    gweeds said:

    Still no sign of Hirschi. Nothing from his camp about the DSM allegations. Zero. Zilch. No claim of an injury. Just total silence and a rider who blew last season up in a big way has apparently vanished.

    This is very weird.

    It's also the wrong thread.

    https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13114996/marc-hirschi#latest

    As both Rick and I mentioned in said thread, debut pushed back to March 21st and the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya.
    At the moment, his name is still on the startlist.
    No show there and your post may have a point.
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,486
    What exactly is the innuendo? Doping? Why is it special that he isn't racing right now. Plenty of riders in the past have started their seasons "late". We aren't even at MSR yet.
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,587
    m.r.m. said:

    What exactly is the innuendo? Doping? Why is it special that he isn't racing right now. Plenty of riders in the past have started their seasons "late". We aren't even at MSR yet.

    Isn't it more that they keep announcing he's racing somewhere then pulling him (on top of his sudden change of team at the end of last season)?
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,486
    But what does that signify exactly?
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,620
    edited March 2021
    m.r.m. said:

    But what does that signify exactly?

    That there's something going on. Beyond that, not much.
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited March 2021
    m.r.m. said:

    But what does that signify exactly?

    There was an article in a Dutch newspaper saying that the reason he left subweb or whatever they're called was because he "refused to answer certain questions" and it was not, as per previous reports, to do with the money.

    Hence the strange timing of it and the secrecy around it (NDA signed etc).

    Now if you watched cycling before 2012 you that is code for doping. But we don't know.
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,486
    Seems weird in 2021 to then not report such things to anti doping as a team if that were the case and not sanctioned by the team.
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023

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