Popovych to retire?
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edit: nm im just being mean hehe0
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Didn't his mate suddenly retire from Silence-Lotto this year? Bileka was it?
I smell something fishy...0 -
Blimey, you've got a good memory. I remember reading that but had totally forgotten about it. They were both on Landbouwkrediet, Discovery and Lotto at exactly the same time (buy one get one free, obviously).
http://www.silence-lotto.com/site2007/E ... php?id=689On Saturday 3 May, the rider Volodymyr Bileka has informed by fax the team management of his resignation from Belgian Cycling Company nv and the Silence-Lotto cycling team, and this, for personal reasons.
Think that was the last anyone heard of him :shock:0 -
He did win a stage in P-N last year.......
But very surprising if he calls it quits so suddenly, maybe it has something to do with the Tour testing? (though looking his performance there that's hard to believe...)0 -
Maybe he was clean and those were his true performances and that's why he's retiring.You live and learn. At any rate, you live0
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Jez mon wrote:Maybe he was clean and those were his true performances and that's why he's retiring.
That's something you're bound to think, isn't it? Although we will probably never really know...
It is the most incredible anti-climax career possible though. Being so dominant at junior and U23 level, and a certain future Tour-winner going into the pros. And then this, unglamorous retirement at 28...0 -
maybe he made enough money to retire.0
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FJS wrote:It is the most incredible anti-climax career possible though. Being so dominant at junior and U23 level, and a certain future Tour-winner going into the pros.0
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Cadel probably had enough of Popos "support" and threw a "it's him or me" strop
'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'0 -
Kléber wrote:FJS wrote:It is the most incredible anti-climax career possible though. Being so dominant at junior and U23 level, and a certain future Tour-winner going into the pros.
Quite - he could well just be one of those people who peak physically very early and can't ever recaputure it. And if he came up through the Ukranian system he's probably been living as a pro away from his family since he was about 12 - perhaps he thinks it's about time he had a life.0 -
Kléber wrote:Exactly, he was winning everything from the Baby Giro to Paris-Roubaix. If he turned up to a race, he'd be marked all day but still win in style, his dominance in the late 90s was outrageous.
Here's his palmares:
http://www.trap-friis.dk/cykling/ukraine.Popovych.htm
Sure, he has some fine victories, but he was never a dominant figure. It was pretty clear he was overhyped when he couldn't win the Giro against less than stellar competition. Of course, many GT riders don't bloom until their thirties, so he may be leaving his cards on the table, so to speak.0 -
Derby, I'm referring to his amateur career, hence the reference to the Baby Giro.0
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His wikipedia entry gives you some indication of his amateur career;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslav_P ... arly_Years0 -
I was off the opinion that going to USP/Discovery probably did for him, as it seems to for others.'Google can bring back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.'
Neil Gaiman0 -
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