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Sky News

A few tidbits...

  • Their new kit was launched today. You can see it on the site of their new supplier rapha. Here's the jersey. And here are the shorts. Basically not many differences... the white back's gone, and a rapha band has been added to the left arm and leg. Guess you'll like it if you liked the old one. I'm already predisposed against it in expectation of how many replica kits I'll see on the roads around London.
  • More interesting is Sky's new DS, Dan Hunt. He comes from a sports science background and has no pro cycling experience. I guess he's the kind of guy you have to recruit when a zero tolerance approach to doping means you rule out DSs like Sean Yates, Steven De Jongh and others from the bad old days of cycling. Given Sky haven't shown the greatest tactical nous in races like the classics - and have an all or nothing approach to stage-racing - it will be interesting to see how this one pans out