Gossip du Jour
by Jen See on Jul 24, 2008 11:43 AM EDT
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PrintTransfer Supplement!
A few transfers are confirmed today. Consider this post a little Gossip supplement. We simply could not add anything more to yesterday's edition!
First, Sylvain Chavanel has announced that he will ride for Quick-Step for two years. Rumor also connects Jérôme Pineau of Bouygues Télécom, and Sébastien Minard and Stéphane Augé of Cofidis with Quick-Step, though these riders are not yet confirmed.
Allan Davis will also go to Quick-Step next season. He will likely play lead-out for Tom Boonen. He replaces the departing Gert Steegmans who has signed with Katuysha.
The Hair has gone Russian. Confirming long-standing rumors, Filippo Pozzato will ride for Katuysha next season. He did not mention the details of his contract, but it is likely a very nice one. He will target the classics for his new squadra.
In the negotiating phase: Jose Enrique Gutierrez, il Bufalo, currently negotiates with Rock Racing.
Confirmed! Jerôme Pineau will reportedly ride for Quick-Step for the next two seasons. Note from Gav: This is now confirmed by Pineau on his bloggy. Thanks Lyne!
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Boonen drafting Davis
Is like a horse drafting a goat! That will be fun to watch. At least he can see over his head when they are moving through the peloton.
by australopithecine on Jul 24, 2008 12:43 PM EDT up reply actions
I think so
Il Buffalo to Rock Racing is a perfect fit.
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race
lol, yeah
that team is funny. they have aspirations next season of riding in Europe. interesting to see if they get any invites :-)
They seemed determined
to get themselves uninvited to all the best parties. Fits the image, I guess.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jul 24, 2008 1:52 PM EDT up reply actions
If Ball throws enough money at the organizers
They’ll get the invites.
If I just had one more gear, I...
Sadly true
they’ve already bought a slot at this year’s Tour of Britain.
Yup
But see, it’s not rockets that kill people, it’s people that kill people . . .
or something like that.
Indeed
with rockets.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jul 24, 2008 1:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Sticks and stones may break my bones...
... but words will never… Oh Shit! A Rocket!!!!!!!!
Ricco stole my marbles.
Reminds me of an old Saddam Hussein t-shirt
Kuwaiti vendors had these t-shirts to sell to military in Kuwait that read “Holy War…Holy Shit” as Sadam was on a camel with sword drawn charging towards the US and then Sadam in retreat with an F-16 right behind. Funny.
If I just had one more gear, I...
Sorta like the ones for
Sadaam condoms, for the prick who won’t pull out?
Brooklyn Chewing Gum: Vlaanderens Mooiste
Katyusha has become a generic term for rocket..
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/katyusha.htm
Also ’..The word Katyusha is the tender diminutive of the female name Ekatherina (Katherine)’... Also a song of longing, probably from the period of the “great war”...
Some random part of me wants to think it may be a form of the Russian word for Chrysanthymum (ack.. the flower.. don’t even want to try and spell it). At any rate an interesting choice to name a sporting venture based on the connotations.
by Christopher See on Jul 24, 2008 9:49 PM EDT up reply actions
If Kalashnikov can sell Vodka...
... then I suppose a sports marketing company can call themselves Katyusha… unless they are the Rocket People… in which case I duck and cover in obeisance.
Ricco stole my marbles.
the katyusha thingy
Okay, I was curious about this, because it confused me that the team was actually sponsored by Russian military supplier. Not the case.
They have simply adopted the term Katyusha as their team name like Slipstream is called, well slipstream. They are sponsored by Itera, an energy company, Gazpom, um a well, gas co., and Rostechnologii <- I have no idea what they do. The Russian federation also is throwing in some cash.
So, no rockets. Just the name.
phew, that hurt.
I thinking...
I have always heard the Russians are a somewhat romantic people ( I could be way off base here..).. Perhaps someone (Russian..) has drawn a weird connection between the rocket launcher that did in Hitler’s Armies, and a new force out of the east that will overcome the established world of cycling… Now wait I didn’t just somehow vaguely equate the UCI with the Nazis did I? I must now sleep on the possibilities of this that I have written…...
by Christopher See on Jul 25, 2008 12:39 AM EDT up reply actions
Maybe it's just that
rockets go fast. You know like a rocket . . . .
I hope they will ride Itera as well.
Bork, bork, bork!
by TheFigurehead on Jul 25, 2008 4:05 AM EDT up reply actions
phew
Well that makes more sense. Though it is slightly disturbing that Gazprom is involved.
Blame my wife!
valverde to csc?
after watching him give up drinks to CSC riders, attacking off the front of the Evans group, and getting a pat on the back from Sastre, one has to wonder. When does his contract with Caisse end?
i think it's a long one, actually
I’m pretty sure Caisse signed Valverde for several years just last season. But I might have dreamed that.
Interesting that Traap-Fils
Large database doesn’t have anything on his last signing. They’re usually pretty good about that sort of thing.
by Christopher See on Jul 25, 2008 12:46 AM EDT up reply actions
Of course, it might have been a Spanish thing
Maybe they’re friends or maybe a little cash changed hands, who knows. But I think Valverde is CdE’s man for the next few years at least.
If I just had one more gear, I...
So... having now witnessed all the Alpine stages...
... does anyone think that any backroom deals were made between the teams?
Ricco stole my marbles.
none that worked
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jul 24, 2008 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Exactly
At first I thought AG2R were paid to ride tempo for Evans on the Alpe but when you realized that Goubert ( who is like, 200 years old) was riding so slowly that Evans would have lost 15 minutes if he had stayed behind him.
I did wonder too but then
I read taht ag2r DS told his boys that they must finish in top 5 of the team classifiation
they are now 2nd and they are protecting that spot.
was that the only reason? we’ll never know.
Yeah Dessel
has commented on that after his stage win as well. They thought they were close enough to pinch the team win and so were going to give it everything. Unfortunately (for them) Kreuziger kind of spoiled Dessel’s attack on stage 18 so they missed out on making up a little time there.
Nothing that I could see
Although I’m surprised there weren’t any blatanly obvious ones, ala Leipheimer and Gesink in the ToC.
If I just had one more gear, I...
here we go
cyclismag.fr repeats that chavanel has confirmed to l’equipe that he will ride for quickstep next year.
pretty much every French cycling mag picked it up
It was also mentioned by Boyer (I think) during this morning’s telecast on eurosport.fr
The Harry Redknapp effect
He was once chatting to a reporter denying that he had had any contact with a particular player when said player stuck his head round the door “Bye, Harry.”
lol, i was looking for the lequipe
online link and couldn’t find it. d’oh.
but yes, this one’s for reals. i’m pretty careful about what i call confirmed. fwiw, it has to come from the rider or the team in a statement to the press. until then, it’s still a rumor. pozzato told rai after the stage about katuysha. so that’s also confirmed.
it's also on l'equipe
pozzato leaving is not a surprise given that Basso is joining the team.
Chavanel is a bigger surprise imho. It’s interesting that according to rumors Quick-Step is looking at many French riders.
yes, it is
And even more surprising to see French riders racing outside French teams. That hasn’t been happening lately much at all. Chav to Quicky? Weird. I had to read it a few times to make sure it really was confirmed. Strano.
Have you seen the photos from the schleck's father affair?
Seriously, WTF? Is that cop really holding a gun against the car?
Gendarme: "No... wait... wait...I think I see the mosquito... hold on, I'll get it..."
Ricco stole my marbles.
Are we sure he wasn't just doing
the water sprinkler move?
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
that's pretty harsh!
Or maybe his cheek just itches and he’s scratching it with the gun.
camera phone
or maybe a Garmin edge
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jul 24, 2008 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Silly Gendarme
You can’t fire a gun sideways like that unless you’re in a Biggie video.
Sigh…I miss Biggie.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
no you don't
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jul 24, 2008 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, for all we know this could be Schleck Pere
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Wait
is is that Ricco?
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jul 24, 2008 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions
oooooh. I wonder if he had the bottle opener ones on? :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Total sidenote but
I was absolutely livid when the TSA made me remove my $5 rubber flip-flops last time I traveled.
For effs sake, they’re 5mm thick and bubble gum pink. Grrrrrrr.
Looks like it is
a great way to lose an eye or a good portion of ones hearing. silly gendarme.
by Christopher See on Jul 24, 2008 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions
anybody knows
if the three teams afected by doping in this Tour, are at risk to entry in Vuelta 2008? I think i listen some rumours about Liquigas.
I’m still hoping for a Benfica participacion…
I think Saunier D's paricpation...
is in doubt. As well as the continuation of the sponsor.
by Christopher See on Jul 24, 2008 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions
i think is confirmed
Saunier Duvall withdrawal. I read that Scott will be the only name and sponsor.
by semprenaroda on Jul 24, 2008 10:04 PM EDT up reply actions
si
scroll down my friends. yes, saunier has withdrawn, scott continues.
the vuelta thingy has not yet been confirmed, though the vuelta people made noises about disinvitin’ after the whole ricco thingy. they have been removed from the tour of germany. hardcore, that race.
i liked very much
the double Chavanel and Nuyens. After the classics i was so exciting to see next year this two making combos, hopping at least in one big classics they triumph…
hmmm interesting
but I really didn’t need the white guys wearing erm ah smiles…
by Christopher See on Jul 24, 2008 9:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I saw the cute one with the little girl and then that one.
Oh my. My eyes might be bleeding…
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Oh boy... she was certainly thinking somethin' LOL!
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
"Hey Lady!
My eyes are up HERE!”
Poor Balaverde – objectified like a piece of meat.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Oh if I weren't a tour favorite...
and my ream car were to get lost…
the time I could spend.
Damn off to racing.
by Christopher See on Jul 25, 2008 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions
So I was just sitting
minding my own business in a cafe….
by Christopher See on Jul 25, 2008 12:42 AM EDT up reply actions
Pineau confirms that he signed for 2 years w/ QS
in his blog
Other interesting info in there:
He lost 20 beats in his heart race since the beginning of the Tour (holy freakin cow <—that part is mine).
He wants to win for his Bouygues team to thank them for everything.
On the note
in Gavia’s (excellent) post about Pineau’s signing being not yet confirmed by the teams, I believe that the teams are not allowed to officially reveal rider transfers until later in the year. QS has announced the riders they’ve re-signed like Weylandt, but has to wait till later (don’t know when) to officially announce outside contracts even if they have already been signed. Someone else might know the full details . . .
true
but this is more and more ignored these days. the chavanel signing was confirmed by the teams, for ex.
and *Lotto had a big press conference about Gilbert
when they signed him back in June. though one of the articles on the team website refers to a 3 year “intention contract”, maybe that’s the loophole – they can announce the rider’s “intention” to sign for their team, but not that they’ve really actually truly signed??? whatever the difference is in reality, who knows…
Last year, several confirmations came on Sunday.
Once the Tour was kind of done, it seemed like more confirmed where they were going.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
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