Pro Transfers for 2014

[User169]

Andy Schleck has announced his retirement. How will we know?

 

[rich p]

Does Sammy Sanchez weigh the same as a duck?

I assumed our Scottish correspondent was mixing Sammie up with Luis Leon - he has previous!
Really though, has Sammy a whiff of fish about him? It wouldn't surprise me but it's news to me.

 

[smutchin]

Sammy was against banning Lance because he "never tested positive" so he's clearly a bit of a nobber at the very least.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I assumed our Scottish correspondent was mixing Sammie up with Luis Leon - he has previous!
Really though, has Sammy a whiff of fish about him? It wouldn't surprise me but it's news to me.

No, not mixing my Sanchez's up. I'm seldom wrong either

 

[rich p]

No, not mixing my Sanchez's up. I'm seldom wrong either

So no evidence, even circumstantial then?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

So no evidence, even circumstantial then?

none at all, that's not evidence of him being clean tho

 

[rich p]

none at all, that's not evidence of him being clean tho

True, and it wouldn't surprise me, but that's slightly different from saying he is definitely a doper.
FWIW, I still think you mixed up Sammy with Luis Leon

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

True, and it wouldn't surprise me, but that's slightly different from saying he is definitely a doper.
FWIW, I still think you mixed up Sammy with Luis Leon

Sammy downhill, LL uphill.

 

[Crackle]

Not a rider transfer but Yates and Julich have gone to Tinkoff-Saxo. Two more of the old guard.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/news-shorts-yates-and-julich-to-join-tinkoff-saxo

 

[rich p]

OT but I just read 'Gallopin and Stybar marry' here

Will they ride tandem?

 

[HF2300]

OT but I just read 'Gallopin and Stybar marry' here

Will they ride tandem?

I hope they're very happy together.

 

[User169]

Not sure if this is the right place, but Lotto-Jumbo (ex-Belkin) unveiled their new kit last night. Jumbo is a supermarket chain, btw. The team is a bit unusual in that it is a cycling/speed-skating team: the blokes in the skinsuits are the skaters. The guy on the right, Sven Kramer, is a three-time olympic gold medallist and was a pretty handy cyclist as a kid.

 

[The Couch]

Not sure if this is the right place, but Lotto-Jumbo (ex-Belkin) unveiled their new kit last night. Jumbo is a supermarket chain, btw. The team is a bit unusual in that it is a cycling/speed-skating team: the blokes in the skinsuits are the skaters. The guy on the right, Sven Kramer, is a three-time olympic gold medallist and was a pretty handy cyclist as a kid.
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A bit weird that they don't have Vanmarcke on the picture... i guess 1-day races aren't important anymore?
Even weirder is that Kramer is standing on the side and not in the middle of the picture

 

[rich p]

Not sure if this is the right place, but Lotto-Jumbo (ex-Belkin) unveiled their new kit last night. Jumbo is a supermarket chain, btw. The team is a bit unusual in that it is a cycling/speed-skating team: the blokes in the skinsuits are the skaters. The guy on the right, Sven Kramer, is a three-time olympic gold medallist and was a pretty handy cyclist as a kid.
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Pretty nasty kit design and I dislike confusing yellow in the peloton in the TdF particularly.

 

[User169]

Pretty nasty kit design and I dislike confusing yellow in the peloton in the TdF particularly.

They did say that they would wear differently coloured jerseys in the TDF.