Wild rumours
by Bruce Suomi on Sep 7, 2008 3:58 PM EDT
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1. Lance will make a comeback next year in Astana colours
2. Vino will make a comeback next year in Astana colours
3. Kohl signs with Rabo/Columbia/*Lotto/somewhere else
4. Rasmussen found a new team
5. UCI& ASO having a piece pipe
Rumours, oh rumours , oh words, don't come easy, to me............
well, I'll try again..........
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Here's a very strange one
This guy is piecing together the possible route that the TdF will take next year, based on reports in the local papers, rumours of mass hotel bookings in July etc. and stuff that appears on French forums from handily placed insiders. And the route they have looks truly bizarre. Leave Monaco and head due East into Italy. Then turn around and go due west along the southern French coast to Montpellier, Perpignan, and across the border into Barcelona before heading into the Pyrenees and Andorra. At this point there would be a long transfer to central France, just south of Paris. Then they head almost directly east for a few days before dipping south in to the Swiss Alps. Hence Paris and the Champs.
So the mountains come in the first and third week, and the furthest north they go is Paris. It could all be very odd, and there is a danger of the GC being pretty settled within five days.
well.... that would be .. interesting...
add with the 2009 vuelta starting in the netherlands….
wonder what part of the world the giro is going to start in… tho, since it’s the giro’s 100th anniversary, one would think it would stay entirely in italy…
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
Whoa
Any track record of success? Hey, it makes sense… unless they want to go up the Alpe on stage 3, they need to mess around down south someplace.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 7, 2008 8:35 PM EDT up reply actions
This guy is a friend of a friend of mine.
He often does seem to have uncanny insights…..but yes, does seem odd. I’ve heard the Barcelona/Andorra stuff elsewhere too.
Bernard Hinault ...
… out of retirement, back on his bike and out for glory. Like Wiggy, he’s saying the peloton has slowed down enough for a guy like him to be able to show the young Turks a think or three.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
The question is whether Kohl's breakout performance
was a fluke or if he’s going to be on that level for he next 5 years. I’m not sure.
Kohl showed real promise while with T-Mob.
He left when it looked like being an Austrian on a German team with the likes of Kloden, Kirchen, Gerdemann and Sinkewitz etc. would keep him in a support role. Next question, will signing with *Lotto allow him to be a leader in a grand tour or just second fiddle to Evans?
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. - G. Marx
Good question
But I think Kohl will be free to target the Giro or the Vuelta next year as long as he rides support for Evans in July. So I predict *Lotto has Kohl as the leader in May. Here’s to Bernard doing better than \o/ once he’s on *Lotto!
Vino and HWMNBN come back...
… and someone’s hittin’ some kind of pipe… and not the peace variety.
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.
this is so old... and so not true...
did velonews lose track of what the date was? and, if not, are is it just descending into a gossip rag?
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
hey... i resemble that remark ;-)
lol, just kidding.
VN has become much more quick to publish rumorage than in the past. They used to be very conservative and not publish until they had verified, blah blah. I s’pect they’re trying to get up to internet speeds, and make sure that all the forums and bloggage don’t make them irrelevent. Me, I think they need to do a somewhat better job of writing these things – to distinguish what is and what is not confirmed. But I’m also sort of a dork about that kind of thing. Their strength has traditionally been real journalism – like, interviews and careful sourcing and going to races and whathaveyou. I feel like lately they’ve been losing some of that, which is too bad. A blog like the Cafe, we can get stories up fast and translate and whathaveyou, but we don’t have the access always to verify things (much as I’d like it), and we certainly don’t have the resources to be going to all the races, etc. It would be a shame if in an effort to be more like us – and others in blogworld – VN lost sight of the real contribution they can be making.
I just heard the velonews article quoteded onESPN radio.
Man I hope this ends up being a joke. That said if he does do it and does have all his values posted it will be great to see how he does as a clean rider vs. other riders even if he is over the hill for his sport.
Just spinning the pedals in the hills of Western Maryland
I have decided this thread is an improbability drive
and I am using my non-authority to forbid the posting of anything we don’t want to see happen unless followed by a tag that says…“not.”
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