Women's Transfer News - part deux

all came from this article, although Monica Holler has a great blog too. Hands up all those who don’t peel the little stickers off the bananas before throwing them away.

to finish her studies

may be Katusha, and the talk of Cipollini acting as a consultant gives lots of possibilities. Is the new MCipollini-Giordana going to be that team, or is the fact that Fenixs have a new sponsor for next year more important. What will happen to the old Petrogradets squad?

Elena Cecchini will be going to Gauss.

definitely staying at Lotto. We probably knew that already

Iris Slappendel leaves Cervelo TestTeam, revealing that her new team is, erm, Garmin Cervelo

Rimma Shidlovskaja, junior Russian MTB and cyclocross champ. Next year’s team name looks to be Fenixs Kuota, but the Russian connection is strong still

the last news I have is that ESGL may be teaming up with men’s team Big Mat – Auber 93 in 2012.

Eleonora Suelotto

from Luisa Tamanini

Champagne-Ardenne, to be directed by one-time National selector/coach Jackie Millet, and including Pauline Ferrand-Prévot. I can’t find the story she refers to on Direct Velo

plus Valentina Bastianelli from Top Girls

but young Italian Rossella Ratto will be riding for Giusfredi next year. And the Cycling Oscars talked about in that story will be shown on Rai Sport tomorrow (Thursday) at 19:45 European time

In two minds about the Iturriaga thing. Good: Basque team at more races. Bad: Favourite rider at fewer.

Also, is it wrong that of the 3 rainbow jersey wearers at Cipo’s team I’m most happy to see Marta there?

and if any Canucks are looking for a new bike then she’s flogging off a couple on her blog

to Trine Schmidt’s blog in the hope that some kindly speaker of Danish can explain what the bit about power penises and sock gnomes really means.

here

Viktoria Vologdyna, a 21 year old Ukrainian who has ridden for Chirio for the last couple of years. And interestingly Fenixs seem to be setting up a junior and under 20 squad, Team Vitruvio (building for the future? – will anyone else but Majope understand that). I can’t think of any other teams that are just for under-20’s; usually the girls get dumped straight in with the seniors when they hit 18.

The junior women’s cyclocross race at Miramas on Sunday was won by a certain, Axelle Dubau Prevot, while her big sister Pauline Ferrand Prevot could only manage third to Christel Ferrier Bruneau in the main race. That’s two names for Pigeons to confuse in future years.

taken straight from Gwena. Most of those names mean nothing to me, so if anyone does know something then please share.

Francesca Anichini
Valentina Bastianelli
Irene Falorni
Rasa Leleivyte
Corinna Mari
Alessia Martini
Simona Martini
Silvia Moroni
Katazina Sosna
Eleonora Spaliviero
Chiara Vanni

source

Bridie O’Donnell to Top Girls Fassa Bortolo

The only name that we haven’t got so far is Carla Ryan, but she is calling it the team “at 24th November” That’s just nine riders as compared to 14 this year, so I’m hoping they’ve still got a few more surprises to come. Or that they get round quickly to hiring a DS who can sign more girls up.

Michela Fanini have signed Vanessa Elettra Ricci, 21 years old and from Genova.

Adrie Visser will be staying on at HTC

but I’m sure I’ve read at least four times that they’ve signed rider X to finish off their 2011 squad. This week’s rider X is Swede Karin Aune, ex-Fenixs.

And if anyone knows where the Fenixs web-site now is then I’d be very grateful for a clue. www.fenixs-petrogadets.com now goes to a domain parking page.

I’ve tried to link riders to their personal websites in the table above. Look at the name in the 2011 team list (I couldn’t be bothered including it in 2010 rosters too) and if it is red then go and see what they have to say. I’ve no doubt missed out loads, so if you know one of them then let me know in the comments and I’ll update it.

on what’s happening to Gervais Lilas 93. I’ve extracted the raw names to the table above. Poor Mélodie Lesueur must be wondering if that national champions jersey is cursed. First she lost her job, then she crashed and missed the Worlds and now her team has all but collapsed.

ASPTT Dijon Bourgogne Cyclisme Féminin, see fanshot for more details.

I make it six new so far: Topsport (BE), Dolmans (NL), Nutrixxion (DE), Skil (NL), MCipollini (IT), and Dijon Bourgogne (FR), against a possible five losses: ESGL (FR), Red Sun (NL), Noris (DE), Valdarno (IT) and MTN (SA). I’m not sure about MTN and haven’t heard anything but Cicloweb thought they were shutting and their sources are usually very good. That’s one team up at least, although I’ve not bothered to go and count actual roster size.

Marie Lindberg to Nutrixxion. now to be named ABUS Nutrixxion. German team, Belgian website. You figure that one out. I’m still trying to work out why Cycling News has renamed Topsport-Ridley. Just because the DS came from the other team …..

Veronica Andreasson and Liz Hatch. Swedish speakers are asked to explain exactly what damcyklingen are in the phrase that Google rends thus:

We feel very good team in the Lotto Ladies Team. Unfortunately, it is plain that there is much bickering and crap conflicts within damcyklingen. So we have not in our team and I enjoy

but his piece about a new team registered in Uzbekistan is so brief and details elsewhere so non-existent that I’ll just smile and hope that no-one notices:

TEAM PRATOMAGNO FOR 2011

A new women’s team for 2011, Team Pratomagno, based in Romignano Alto in Abruzzo, Italy but registered in Uzbekistan marks the return of team managers Ilio Donnini and Alessia Donnini. The eight riders registered on the team are Olga Drobisheva (Uzbekistan), Olga Krivokomeva (Uzbekistan), Sandra Gomeze (Colombia), Fazli Hokm, Abad Nikmaz (Iran – Asian Champion), Gita Arami (Ungheria), Angla Krylyndja (Ucraina), Marsela Morales (Porto Rico) , Maribel Gonzales (Guatemala).

There seems to be a website still alive from the last time the team rode (in 2008). Anyone with an eye for fashion should avoid scrolling down to the bottom of that page and the 2006 strip.

First of all today at the chapel of the Madonna of Ghisallo there was a sort of end of season party/prize-giving for Italian riders known as Champion Day, and guest of honour was Marina Romoli who also received an award. It’s the first news I’ve had of her since an interview in Repubblica a couple of months ago, and if the hospital are letting her go out, even if only for a day, then she clearly is improving. Good luck to her from all here.

Annalisa Cucinotta finished her two year ban after being found with boldenone in a sample she gave at a track meet in Columbia in December 2008. She will be returning to the track, and has tried to keep training, supported by the GS Forestale (The Lumberjacks). Read interviews with her at Cicloweb and Il Messaggero Veneto.

And Flavia Oliveira will be free to find another team after Feb 28 next year after CAS reduced her suspension by four months, ruling that she had not deliberately taken dope.

with Emilie Blanquefort. Some here may wish to explore that site a little further and show off their identification skills on Mister Décembre

1. the Settimana Ciclistica Valenciana scheduled from 1-5 March has been cancelled

2. The GP Commune di Cornaredo is back on the calendar.

3. Drenthe is down to 2 races: the Novilon Eurocup Ronde van Drenthe has disappeared and the Drenthe 8 looks to be one day later than previously scheduled.

4. The second race of the Luxembourg weekend, the GP Mameranus has got a posher name, the Grand-Prix Nicolas Frantz. Anyone who thinks that they suck at Trivia Mondays should download that pdf and swot up a bit. Anyone who already knew that stuff is just too clever.

5. The two Canadian races, the Chrono Gatineau and the Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau have been moved forward a couple of weeks to not clash with the Iurreta-Emakumeen Bira.

6. The Sparkassen Giro has been moved forward a month where it now clashed with the Vargarda weekend. Consequently it is now a 1.1 race and the World Cup series is back to nine races and ends with Plouay.

7. The season now ends with three races in Brazil in November: two short three-day stage races and a one-day in between.

No doubt there are more changes to come.

is Kiwi cycling website Roadcycling.co.nz

young Italian sprinter Barbara Guarischi from Michela Fanini to Chirio, presumably to lead out Giorgia.

HTC-High Road Women

Judith Arndt (GER)
Charlotte Becker (GER)
Emilia Fahlin (SWE)
Chloe Hosking (AUS)
Amanda Miller (USA)
Amber Neben (USA)
Evelyn Stevens (USA)
Carla Swart (RSA)
Ina Teutenberg (GER)
Adriana Visser (NED)
Eleonora Van Dijk (NED)
 

Diadora Pasta Zara

Mara Abbott (USA)
Alona Andruk (UKR)
Inga Cilvinaite (LTU)
Claudia Hausler (GER)
Oxana Kozonchuk (RUS)
Sinead Miller (USA)
Rachel Neylan (AUS)
Shelley Olds (USA)
Eleonora Patuzzo (ITA)
Amber Pierce (USA)
Francesca Stefani (ITA)
Jessica Uebelhart (SUI)
Olga Zabelinkskaya (RUS)
 

Team TIBCO/To the Top

Megan Guarnier (USA)
Joanne Kiesanowski (NZL)
Emma Mackie (AUS)
Meredith Miller (USA)
Joelle Numainville (CAN)
Alison Powers (USA)
Kendall Ryan (USA)
Samantha Schneider (USA)
Carmen Small (USA)
Carlee Taylor (AUS)
Tara Whitten (CAN)
Erinne Willock (CAN)
Lia Winfield (USA)

Source

Team Peanut Butter & Co 2012 have got a new teamlist up that includes Alison Starnes ex Tibco. Other new signings there include Kristin Armstrong plus a load of juniors, the only one of whom I recognise is Tayler Wiles who rode with the junior-ish team that the US sent when they were warming up Coryn Rivera for the Junior Worlds, then managed to get a guest rider spot with Chirio Forno d’Asolo at the Tour de Charente-Maritime. She also writes a nice blog.

They are certainly talking about racing in Belgium and in the World Cup. Those in the museum trade looking to develop useful contacts might be interested in the other activities of the team spokesman Dr Raccagna

but it looks like the Belgian Wielertrofee Vlaanderen will be renamed the Lotto Cycling Cup and a few more prizes will be added to try and get the bigger riders and teams to turn up for every round.

but it seems that US team BMW-Bianchi are shutting up at the end of the year.

is up at wielerland. It’s up from five races to seven in 2011. The full series (new races in bold) is:

07-04-11 10-04-11 van Lauwerszee tot Dollard tou Aduard Elite Women 2.2
17-04-11 Ronde van Gelderland Apeldoorn Elite Women 1.2
23-04-11 Omloop van Borsele s-Heerenhoek Elite Women 1.2
28-05-11 5e Verti advies 7 Dorpenomloop Aalburg Aalburg Elite Women 1.2
05-06-11 Therme Kasseien Omloop Exloo Elite Women 1.2
16-06-11 – 18-06-11 Rabobank Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden Diversen Elite Women 2.2
07-08-11 Valkenburg Hills Classic (Datum O.V.) Valkenburg Elite Women 1.2

and if that looks like only four races rather than five carried over from 2010 then you’re sort of right. The fifth race, the Omloop door Middag Humsterland which has never yet found a consistent spot in the calendar will now be run as the third stage of a wholly new four-day spring stage race, the Van Lauwerszee Tot Dollard Tou. The Therme Kasseien Omloop was on the UCI calendar last year but not part of the KNWU series, while the Dorpenomloop Aalburg Aalburg was just a Dutch domestic race, albeit with a very strong field. Watch the 2010 finish here

Giancarlo Montedori moves from Valdarno to Fenixs Kuota.

And to replace Manel, the USA have signed up recently retired BMC rider Jackson Stewart

Mari Grandt Petersen moves from Hitec to ABUS-Nutrixxion

And Floyd Landis’ old personal sponsor Dr Brent Kay has signed up three US pursuit riders for his OUCH team, Sarah Hammer, Dotsie Bausch and Lauren Tamayo. Tamayo is currently on the PB&Co roster, but I don’t know whether that is a real change of team, or if she will ride on the road for the Monkey and on the track for Batman.

Catalan U23 rider Arantxa García, which takes them to eleven.

They’ve signed up young Swiss rider Jasmine Achermann. Plus staying on are Svetlana Bubnenkova, Natalia Boyarskaya, Irina Molicheva, Suzie and Trixy Godart.

Miffy’s inside info, the last two Garmin Cervelo riders will be Carla Ryan and Amanda Spratt. And I don’t think we’ve got any bad gossip from Australia yet.

Michela Fanini come out with their version of “do you come here often” once more, announcing that they have signed one final rider to finish off their squad for 2011. This week’s Shirley Valentine is Israeli rider Michal Ella, who may be familiar to some of the peloton as she has spent much of 2010 in Belgium.

Wielerland is reporting that the Thüringen Rundfahrt would like to add another day to the race to make seven.

Giuseppina Grassi (Alessandra Giuseppina Grassi Herrera if you want it in full), who rode with them in the second half of last year, plus new signing Maira Roca Guerrero. They have their eye on one more young rider, as yet unnamed.

go here then select the women’s teams. It’s good to see that GSD Gestion managed to get up and running in the short time they had after, well we’re not really sure what after. That makes three French teams next year. Kuota Speed Queens have their 2011 team there too, while we missed them completely.

over at CN also included a new rider, but only in the photo gallery. That’s Ally Stacher, ex-Webcor, who according to her bio over at Webcor got into road cycling via ’cross and wrestling. Maybe next time they all get held up by a strike at the Giro they can build a ring out of bikes and let her and ex-boxer Sara Mustonen fight it out for the title of toughest in the peloton.

And shoved in a load more links to personal web-sites. Lots of reading for the Ben Greenwoods of this world. My favourites of today’s new links are the home site of Gabriela Slamova, a Czech rider with Vienne Futuroscope. Probably just for the woman in fur bikini on a derny photo, but then I’m cheap. And here’s a nice photo from Kuota rider Daniela Pintarelli

Edwige Pitel

Corine Hierckens who rode for Fenixs in 2009 and 2010 is pregnant and due to give birth in May

there will be a brand new Canadian registered team riding in 2011, team Juvederm-Specialised. Riders with blogs include Anne Guzman, Jenny Trew and Denise Ramsden. Juvederm seems to be some sort of anti-wrinkle cream which is probably very appropriate if you spend half your working life in the sun.

It looks like Brazilian Flavia Oliveira will be racing for UCI woman’s team Fenix Kuota in 2011. Confirm with team management.

new signings on Lotto include Ludi Henrion (a personal yay because I love her website), and another SA name to watch, Cherise Taylor

so much so that Giorgia Bronzini, Theresa Cliff-Ryan and Barbara Guarischi have been included in the " specialists in other disciplines " category in an attempt to get round UCI rules on squad sizes.

Kate Bates, ex Columbia, to Abus Nutrixxion

(i.e. I’ve not watched it yet), but you can see a half hour programme about team Giusfredi Verinlegno, the new home of Italian junior Rossella Ratto

Vienne Futuroscope rider Nadia Triquet retired after the French CX championship to the LBS she runs with her husband (?)

On the subject of French CXers, Caroline Mani will be spending this year’s off-season continung her studies in the USA, first in Colorado then in Chicago. Any CXers from there might like to look at this interview in Cyclismag, so they have at least one chance to see her face.

Alberto Rigamonti has a nice summary of where the top non-Italian under-18s are riding in 2011. I won’t steal the lot (scroll down to CICLOMERCATO – TUTTE LE NUOVE GIOVANI ELITE ALL’ESTERO from 10/01) but apparently three to watch at Moving Ladies are Charlotte Lenting, Iris Ockeloen and Laura Trott.

there will be 28 teams registered in 2011 up from 27 last year. So MTN have definitely gone – they may ride more races as the SA national squad – and also missing are Fenixs Kuota. Fenixs were expected to be Russian registered this year so it may just be a bureaucratic thing.