myshkin Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 (edited) Just had a squint back over the thread. Some very clever posters and comments. It’s been fun so roll on the race to the sun in March. Looking forward to it already. In true end of season style…….here’s the final league tables. Philippe Gilbert'’s year it’s fair to say. Andriy Amador Bakkazakova’s (crazy name crazy guy) report card…...must get circle shaped wheels and try harder! 1 GILBERT Philippe BEL19820705 OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO (OLO) 718 2 EVANS Cadel AUS19770214 BMC RACING TEAM (BMC) 574 3 CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto ESP19821206 SAXO BANK SUNGARD (SBS) 471 4 RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin ESP19790312 KATUSHA TEAM (KAT) 436 5 SCARPONI Michele ITA19790925 LAMPRE - ISD (LAM) 357 6 MARTIN Tony GER19850423 HTC-HIGHROAD (THR) 349 7 SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel ESP19780205 EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI (EUS) 307 8 WIGGINS Bradley GBR19800428 SKY PROCYCLING (SKY) 289 9 MARTIN Daniel IRL19860820 TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO (GRM) 286 10 SCHLECK Frank LUX19800415 LEOPARD TREK (LEO) 284 11 NIBALI Vincenzo ITA19841114 LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE (LIQ) 272 12 BOASSON HAGEN Edvald NOR19870517 SKY PROCYCLING (SKY) 260 13 CANCELLARA Fabian SUI19810318 LEOPARD TREK (LEO) 252 14 SCHLECK Andy LUX19850610 LEOPARD TREK (LEO) 252 15 FROOME Christopher GBR19850520 SKY PROCYCLING (SKY) 230 16 VINOKOUROV Alexandre KAZ19730916 PRO TEAM ASTANA (AST) 230 17 BASSO Ivan ITA19771126 LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE (LIQ) 230 18 GESINK Robert NED19860531 RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM (RAB) 222 19 GOSS Matthew Harley AUS19861105 HTC-HIGHROAD (THR) 217 20 KLÖDEN Andreas GER19750622 TEAM RADIOSHACK (RSH) 207 21 CUNEGO Damiano ITA19810919 LAMPRE - ISD (LAM) 203 22 SAGAN Peter SVK19900126 LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE (LIQ) 198 23 MILLAR David GBR19770104 TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO (GRM) 185 24 MOLLEMA Bauke NED19861126 RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM (RAB) 184 25 URAN URAN Rigoberto COL19870126 SKY PROCYCLING (SKY) 169 26 LEIPHEIMER Levi USA19731024 TEAM RADIOSHACK (RSH) 158 27 CAVENDISH Mark GBR19850521 HTC-HIGHROAD (THR) 152 28 PERAUD Jean-Christophe FRA19770522 AG2R LA MONDIALE (ALM) 151 29 HORNER Christopher USA19711023 TEAM RADIOSHACK (RSH) 143 30 BOONEN Tom BEL19801015 QUICKSTEP CYCLING TEAM (QST) 140 31 FUGLSANG Jakob DEN19850322 LEOPARD TREK (LEO) 136 32 KREUZIGER Roman CZE19860506 PRO TEAM ASTANA (AST) 135 33 GREIPEL André GER19820716 OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO (OLO) 132 34 VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen BEL19830201 OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO (OLO) 125 35 HUSHOVD Thor NOR19780118 TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO (GRM) 123 36 KRUIJSWIJK Steven NED19870607 RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM (RAB) 120 37 INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Benat ESP19860320 MOVISTAR TEAM (MOV) 118 38 GADRET John FRA19790422 AG2R LA MONDIALE (ALM) 116 39 GERRANS Simon AUS19800516 SKY PROCYCLING (SKY) 111 40 PINOTTI Marco ITA19760225 HTC-HIGHROAD (THR) 110 230 AMADOR BAKKAZAKOVA Andrey CRC19860829 MOVISTAR TEAM (MOV) 1 1 OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO (OLO) BEL 1,099 2 SKY PROCYCLING (SKY) GBR 1,059 3 LEOPARD TREK (LEO) LUX 1,024 4 HTC-HIGHROAD (THR) USA 886 5 BMC RACING TEAM (BMC) USA 877 6 TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO (GRM) USA 808 7 LAMPRE - ISD (LAM) ITA 784 8 LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE (LIQ) ITA 779 9 SAXO BANK SUNGARD (SBS) DEN 696 10 RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM (RAB) NED 673 11 TEAM RADIOSHACK (RSH) USA 639 12 KATUSHA TEAM (KAT) RUS 622 13 MOVISTAR TEAM (MOV) ESP 474 14 EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI (EUS) ESP 471 15 PRO TEAM ASTANA (AST) KAZ 422 16 QUICKSTEP CYCLING TEAM (QST) BEL 379 17 AG2R LA MONDIALE (ALM) FRA 372 18 VACANSOLEIL-DCM PRO CYCLING TEAM (VCD) NED 369 Edited October 21, 2011 by myshkin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myshkin Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 And one more thing.....Tommy Voeckler rocks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Nomad Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Reading what Prudhomme had to say about the route is encouraging. Looks like they have found some tough climbs that haven’t been used before. Think I might have been a bit harsh in my disappointment at seeing two time trials. The route is made by whoever rides. Super hard Giro this year Contador romps it. Fairly easy Tour he'll do the same. Andy Schleck should go for the Giro, made for him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Tut tut Floyd NANTERRE, France -- A French court has convicted American cyclist Floyd Landis in absentia for his role in hacking into the computers of a French doping lab. The court in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre has given Landis a 12-month suspended prison sentence -- six months fewer than the penalty sought by the state prosecutor. The WADA-accredited lab in the town of Chatenay-Malabry south of Paris uncovered unusually high testosterone levels in Landis' samples from the 2006 Tour de France, and he was later stripped of his victory. Prosecutors say Landis and coach Arnie Baker masterminded a plot to hack into the lab's computer system to obtain documents as they sought to defend the cyclist's name. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_S_A_R Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Prosecutors say Landis and coach Arnie Baker masterminded a plot to hack into the lab's computer system to obtain documents as they sought to defend the cyclist's name. amazing. floyd is a grade A nut job. one week until contador goes to CAS. if he gets off i think i'll be done with this sport. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_S_A_R Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 contador, basso and scarponi called as witnesses for the fuentes trial. fuentes witnesses fuentes could be the man to lift the lid. a lot of names were suppresed from puerto, hopefully tennis players and footballers are exposed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chico Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Would it be an idea if a mod renamed this procycling thread? 2010 seems very out of date now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Nomad Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Would it be an idea if a mod renamed this procycling thread? 2010 seems very out of date now. I`m sure they will, I`ll report it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myshkin Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 Bartali honoured for saving Jews during the Holocaust UCI releases details of how Italian smuggled photos and documents in his bike Tributes have been paid to cycling great Gino Bartali, with evidence now showing that he helped save the lives of up to 800 Jews during World War II. The Yad Vashem Memorial in Israel is looking into giving him the title "Righteous Among the Nations", a term used by Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. The details about the Italian's actions in the 1940s have only just recently come to light, through a university study. His son, Andrea, has continued the research along with the Jewish community and journalist Laura Guerra. “In 1943 Bartali, who had already won the Tour de France once and the Giro d’Italia twice, was assigned to the traffic police by the fascist regime, before leaving the job on 8 September,” according to the UCI. “That was when he went underground, choosing to help persecuted Jews by smuggling identity photos to a convent that produced counterfeit papers. “As far as the soldiers who guarded the road between Florence and San Quirico, near Assisi, were concerned, Bartali was merely on a 380-km training run. In fact, valuable documents were hidden inside the frame and saddle of his bicycle.” Bartali remained modest about his actions, not even telling his wife. His own public comment was “Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.” He was imprisoned for 45 days in late 1943, officially because of his support for the Vatican, which opposed the fascist regime. However, he was never tried and was ultimately released. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myshkin Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 17.01.2012 22.01.2012 Tour Down Under AUS - Simon Gerrans AUS (GREENEDGE) 04.03.2012 11.03.2012 Paris - Nice FRA 07.03.2012 13.03.2012 Tirreno-Adriatico ITA 17.03.2012 17.03.2012 Milano-Sanremo ITA 19.03.2012 25.03.2012 Volta Ciclista a Catalunya ESP 23.03.2012 23.03.2012 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen - Harelbeke BEL 25.03.2012 25.03.2012 Gent - Wevelgem BEL 01.04.2012 01.04.2012 Ronde van Vlaanderen BEL 02.04.2012 07.04.2012 Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco ESP 08.04.2012 08.04.2012 Paris - Roubaix FRA 15.04.2012 15.04.2012 Amstel Gold Race NED 18.04.2012 18.04.2012 La Flèche Wallonne BEL 22.04.2012 22.04.2012 Liège - Bastogne - Liège BEL 24.04.2012 29.04.2012 Tour de Romandie SUI 05.05.2012 27.05.2012 Giro d'Italia ITA 03.06.2012 10.06.2012 Critérium du Dauphiné FRA 09.06.2012 17.06.2012 Tour de Suisse SUI 30.06.2012 22.07.2012 Tour de France FRA 10.07.2012 16.07.2012 Tour de Pologne POL 06.08.2012 12.08.2012 Eneco Tour BENELUX 14.08.2012 14.08.2012 Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian ESP 18.08.2012 09.09.2012 Vuelta a España ESP 19.08.2012 19.08.2012 Vattenfall Cyclassics GER 26.08.2012 26.08.2012 GP Ouest France - Plouay FRA 07.09.2012 07.09.2012 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec CAN 09.09.2012 09.09.2012 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal CAN 29.09.2012 29.09.2012 Il Lombardia ITA 10.10.2012 14.10.2012 Tour of Beijing CHN 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myshkin Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 UCI ProTeams ALM AG2R LA MONDIALE FRA AST ASTANA PRO TEAM KAZ BMC BMC RACING TEAM USA EUS EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI ESP FDJ FDJ-BIG MAT FRA GRM GARMIN-CERVELO USA GEC GREENEDGE CYCLING TEAM AUS KAT KATUSHA TEAM RUS LAM LAMPRE - ISD ITA LIQ LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE ITA LTB LOTTO BELISOL TEAM BEL MOV MOVISTAR TEAM ESP OPQ OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP BEL RAB RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM NED RNT RADIOSHACK-NISSAN LUX SKY SKY PROCYCLING GBR SAX TEAM SAXO BANK DEN VCD VACANSOLEIL-DCM PRO CYCLING TEAM NED UCI ProContinental Teams ACC ACCENT JOBS - WILLEMS VERANDA'S BEL LAN LANDBOUWKREDIET BEL TSV TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN - MERCATOR BEL SPI SPIDERTECH POWERED BY C10 CAN CSS CHAMPION SYSTEM PRO CYCLING TEAM CHN COL COLOMBIA - COLDEPORTES COL ACG ANDALUCIA ESP CJR CAJA RURAL ESP BSC BRETAGNE - SCHULLER FRA COF COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE FRA SAU SAUR - SOJASUN FRA EUC TEAM EUROPCAR FRA FAR FARNESE VINI - SELLE ITALIA GBR APP TEAM NETAPP GER COG COLNAGO - CSF INOX IRL UNA UTENSILNORD NAMED IRL ASA ACQUA & SAPONE ITA AND ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI ITA PRO PROJECT 1T4I NED RVL RUSVELO RUS TT1 TEAM TYPE 1 - SANOFI USA UHC UNITEDHEALTHCARE PRO CYCLING TEAM USA 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_S_A_R Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 did anyone see the reports about a one day race in london that will apparently "rival the classics"? London plans to host a one-day professional road race to rival classic events such as the Paris-Roubaix. To be first staged in August 2013, the race will be part of a two-day cycling festival, which will become an annual event, as part of the Olympic legacy. London has to meet certain critera, but British Cycling's Jonny Clay said the race would "definitely" go ahead. "I'd be surprised if in a few years it isn't one of the world's biggest cycling races," Clay told BBC Sport. The Milan-San Remo is the first Classic of the season, with six more races taking place over March and April in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, culminating in the Liege-Bastogne-Liege on 24 April. As with the London marathon - where elite runners and amateurs run the same course on the same day - the London road race will involve professional and amateur cyclists who will tackle a 100-mile route, starting in the Olympic Park and based on the 2012 Games cycle road race. Cycling has a crowded calendar with the one-day classics taking place before the sport's major races such as the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France. But British Cycling's cycle sport director Clay, who won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the team cycling pursuit, insisted London's commercial pull will attract teams, riders and sponsors. "Britain now leads the world in track cycling and I'm sure that will be reflected in the Olympics," said British cycling commentator Phil Liggett. "And after Mark Cavendish's incredible road race world title win in Denmark and winning the Sports Personality of the Year award, he has the profile now, as does the sport. "The obvious next step is to bring a major road race to the heart of London. We were going to see the Olympic road race and then silence for the years ahead, but that is not going to be happen now. "We will eventually bring the best riders, who are household names now, to London. "This is no longer a cinderella, cloth-cap image sport. It's a very highly financed professional business and we've got the best riders in the world." A spokesman for the UCI, the sport's governing body, said: "[The] UCI is committed for the cycling development worldwide, and we are obviously very satisfied of such a project, but we do not know it in detail." sounds shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myshkin Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 did anyone see the reports about a one day race in london that will apparently "rival the classics"? sounds shite. There is something incredibly pompous about the utterings of these Sky/British cycling people. The quote about it rivalling the biggest races says it all really. Why not go the whole hog.....start in July, for three weeks, call it the Sky tour de London. By the way.....how out of place does Phil Ligget's quote look? Zero to do with the subject the article is about. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myshkin Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Kimmage blasts UCI legal action by McQuaid and Verbruggen ‘Hell will freeze over before I issue either of those gentlemen an apology’ Irish journalist and outspoken doping critic Paul Kimmage has described a claim in the Swiss courts against him as an attempt to enforce omerta, and insists that he won’t bow to pressure from the UCI. The Sunday Independent reported today that fellow Irishman Pat McQuaid and Dutchman Hein Verbruggen, the current and former presidents of the UCI, are each seeking damages of 8,000 Swiss francs (about €6,600) from Kimmage. The newspaper states that they have told the Swiss District Court that Kimmage has caused them ‘annoyance’ and that their ‘reputation has been seriously damaged’ by articles. Kimmage has confirmed to VeloNation that he received documentation about the case ‘about ten days ago,’ and has given a strong response. “My reaction to this can be summed up very simply. Unlike Mr Verbruggen and Mr McQuaid, I do not accept donations from Lance Armstrong, so I am not really in a position to defend this,” he said. “Hell will freeze over before I issue either of those gentlemen an apology for anything.” Kimmage states that the case appears to relate to an interview he gave l’Equipe during the summer, plus the French translation of the interview transcript with Floyd Landis that the website NYVelocity.com carried in January of last year. “They also mention the Sunday Times, but I don’t see how this actually covers anything from the Times piece,” he said. He has been critical about large donations given by Lance Armstrong to the UCI. Armstrong and his former US Postal Service team are currently amongst the subjects of a federal investigation currently being carried out in the United States. Former US Postal Service rider Floyd Landis has said that the UCI was paid money by Armstrong to cover up a positive EPO test in 2001. The UCI denies this suggestion of a positive sample, and says that money donated was used for anti-doping. McQuaid and Verbruggen’s action has been taken against Kimmage personally, rather than against l’Equipe and his former employer, the Sunday Times. In the legal case, the two UCI officials are demanding that he doesn’t repeat the statements made before about the governing body, and also that he pays for advertisements in international media publicising the final judgement of the court. According to the Sunday Independent, the statement of claim says that Kimmage was ‘dishonest’ in accusing them of ‘having knowingly tolerated tests, of being dishonest people, of not having a sense of responsibility, of not applying the same rules to everyone.’ Since the publication of his book A Rough Ride in 1990, Kimmage has built a reputation of speaking out against doping and corruption in cycling. He has won multiple awards as a journalist, and has had several clashes with the UCI. He believes a deliberate decision has been made to name him alone in the claim. “Clearly they don’t want this addressed properly in court, because if they did, they would have addressed their letter to L’Equipe,” he told VeloNation. “L’Equipe would have sent along their finest barristers and presented a defence of this. They would also have brought all of the witnesses that you would need to defend it. “Clearly they [McQuaid and Verbruggen] don’t want that to happen, which is why they have targeted me rather than the newspapers. That would be my reading of it.” Asked what action he would take, he said he didn’t intend entertaining the claim. “I am reluctant to even put a stamp on an envelope and send it back, as that is going to cost me money…the cost of a stamp is actually too much money to waste on those people,” he said. “But I suppose it will come to that at least. It is at least going to cost me a stamp. “We talk about omerta all the time in the sport. This is how they enforce it. Is this what they would say is part of the fight against doping? I don’t think so. This is all about the omerta, and enforcing the omerta.” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Nomad Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Despite the CAS case still looming in the background Contador has taken two stages of the Tour De San Luis in South America. Leipheimer and Boonen also showing some early season form. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_S_A_R Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Despite the CAS case still looming in the background Contador has taken two stages of the Tour De San Luis in South America. Leipheimer and Boonen also showing some early season form. enjoy it while you can bertie. the judgement is due on the 6th of february and if it's anything less than a two year ban the game is up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_S_A_R Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 i'm going to greet. the case against armstrong has been dropped. no word as why yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 i'm going to greet. the case against armstrong has been dropped. no word as why yet. Because it's in America, with an American investigation, into an American sporting icon? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myshkin Posted February 5, 2012 Author Share Posted February 5, 2012 i'm going to greet. the case against armstrong has been dropped. no word as why yet. Save your tears till Monday. AC will get off and the circle will be squared. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myshkin Posted February 5, 2012 Author Share Posted February 5, 2012 It's the people that buy the wee shitty yellow wrist bands, the clobber and donate to his livestrong foundation that I fell sorry for. All that money going on legal fees and bungs to the UCI to cover up positive tests. Well I don't feel sorry for them. Hell mend them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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