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    This site appears to say they are the former Raleigh team and also that they are new:

    https://www.velouk.net/2018/01/01/te...-cycling-team/

    Edit - yes, it's the same franchise, owned by Cherie Pridham. She parted with Raleigh in December and the team switched to Vitus.

    https://www.velouk.net/2017/12/12/ne...-part-company/
    Last edited by Kevin S; 03-01-2018, 11:26.

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      Originally posted by Kevin S View Post
      And looking down one more level, five of the six British Continental Teams are listed on Pro Cycling Stats as repeating at that level next year - BIKE Channel Canyon, JLT Condor, Madison Genesis, One Pro Cycling and Team Wiggins. The other, Raleigh GAC, appear yet to have confirmed.
      After the financial trouble hitting BIKE Channel, this team is now known as Canyon-Eisberg. Andy Tennant has joined them too, though the team is overwhelmingly made up of young hopefuls.

      So that means we have:

      Canyon-Eisberg
      JLT Condor
      Madison Genesis
      ONE
      Vitus
      WIGGINS
      Last edited by Kevin S; 03-01-2018, 14:16.

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        The Raleigh thing seems to have come about because of this:
        http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/pr...ibution-306053

        Raleigh are moving away from the business of creating performance road bikes and MTBs, and will focus on hybrids, leisure, children's bikes etc, with Lapierre taking over the higher end of the market.

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          The innovation in the Lotto NL Jumbo kit this season is that each rider has an individual number (in the form of a Lotto ball) on the back of their kit.

          Roglic is 1, and Groenewegen chose 14 in honour of Johann Cruijff

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            Ah, that's quite a nice touch.

            Something I missed brewing last year was a scheduling fight between two of the race organising groups. Flanders Classics, which owns the Ronde as well as the Gent Wevelgem, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Dwars Door Vlaanderen, said they would move the last of these to the Wednesday before the Ronde - i.e. they wanted their own race, the DDV, to be the dress-rehearsal of their big one (and indeed Gilbert showed with his powerful attacks in the 2017 DDV why he was going to be a key contender for the Ronde).

            The Dwars Door Vlaanderen has also been promoted to 1.UWT status, so this move sounds reasonable on the face of it.

            The trouble is, this puts the DDV right on the middle day of the Three days of De Panne's typical schedule, which it has occupied for over 40 years. The 3DDP is owned by a different company now, Golazo, which also is responsible for the Eneco Binck Bank Tour and the Baloise Belgium Tour. Indeed, the winner of last year's 3DDP was... Gilbert, on his way to winning the Ronde.

            The UCI adjudicated last summer and awarded the slot to the DDV. The 3DDP has therefore gone into the previous week. But it now appears to be a one-day event, on Weds 21 March. It's going to feel very lost there, coming just before E3 Harelbeke on that Friday. However on Thursday 22 March the 3DDP have added a day of women's races, which are WWT level, so some good has come out of this.

            I wonder if the way forward would be to refocus their efforts on beefing up the low countries' race count in August and/or September? There are a few World Tour events to hang the whole thing around and they might be able to stake out some ground by moving the 3DDP to that time of year.
            Last edited by Kevin S; 03-01-2018, 15:09.

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              Aru has been given a better if by no means proper Italian champion's jersey, with the UAE logo shrunk and the stripes moved up a bit. They are still somewhat narrower than Nibali's Astana one, and of course not a patch on the full tricolore that Astana then gave Aru last summer.



              Still, what we lose on one hand we gain with the other. Here's how Sunweb presented the Dutch champion Ramon Sinkeldam last summer:


              He's moved to FDJ, and you know what that means. Here he is next to French champion Demare: the team are loving this little combination of champions, as are ProCyclingTrumps.


              https://twitter.com/procycletrumps/status/948634947497193472

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                Australian men's national championships - Rohan Dennis wins the ITT for the third time in a row, followed by Durbridge and Porte. Katrin Garfoot again wins the women's race, and Callum Scotson of Mitchelton-BikeExchange (dammit, I still want to call them Orica-Greenedge) wins the U23 men's.

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                  Oh, hang on, the World Tour team is Michelton-Scott, who were Orica (weren't they briefly Orica-Bike Exchange?).

                  Anyway, Mitchelton-BikeExchange are a CT not a WT team.

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                    And Hamish Bond, whom we saw in Bergen, wins the men's ITT national championship in New Zealand. Admittedly in the absence of George Bennett and 2017 champion Jack Bauer but, for someone who has converted from another sport (rowing) this is a hell of an achievement. Reports suggest he will also compete for New Zealand in the Commonwealth Games in April.

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                      Further mither for Sky. Turns out that Gianni Moscon might well be a complete bastard, and Lappartient is after him.

                      Report from L'equipe today

                      In 2017, Moscon:
                      Used racist language towards Kevin Reza in the Tour de Romandie
                      • Was DQ'd from the Worlds for getting a tow
                      • Has (as in the L'equipe link above) been accused of sending Reichenbach down deliberately, leading to a fractured pelvis and elbow. Reichenbach, coincidentally or otherwise, was one of the riders who called out Sky regarding the racism

                      Lappartient quite rightly notes that the UCI (while Cookson was in charge) should have punished Moscon, rather than leaving it up to Sky to do.

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                        Marginal gains, innit?

                        The Ausssie team have been

                        GreenEDGE
                        Orica-Green EDGE
                        Orica-Bike Exchange
                        Orica-Scott
                        Mitchelton-Scott

                        ursus minor and I were discussing team lineages the other day, noting that there doesn’t seem to be a hard and fast rule for just how far one goes back (see, e.g., QuickStep and Domo Farm Frites)

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                          Yes, like for example how we take the EF-Drapac team to be the successors of the Slipstream team because it's run by Vaughters and ignore the fact that they exist as the result of a merger with the (ex-Liquigas) Cannondale team. I suppose it's the fact that Vaughters is at the helm, even though the Liquigas-Cannondale team were fairly big players - they had both Nibali and Sagan in the 2012 Tour de France for example.

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                            It so happens that the conversation started with "What exactly happened to Liquigas?"

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                              Be a cycling hipster by replying "First or second iteration?"

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                                Tour de France wildcards are out. Cofidis (boooo!), Direct Energie, Fortuneo - Samsic, Wanty Groupe Gobert. No place for Vital Concept so no Coquard again this year. ASO have gone and rubbed salt into their wounds a bit by giving them a wild card to, erm, the Dauphine.

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                                  Then again, Vital Concept are brand new, so I can understand why ASO would rather invite them to the Dauphiné than the Tour in their first season. Aqua Blue were thought to have done well to get a Vuelta invitation in their debut year.

                                  Why does the Tour do this before the Giro does?

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                                    Sky would like us to get used to seeing the name Egan Bernal. He's a 20 year old Colombian who last season was racing for Androni, winning the Tour de l'Avenir and getting reasonable placings in big races such as 13th in Lombardia, 9th in the Tour of the Alps (ex-Trentino) and 16th in Tirreno-Adriatico.

                                    Most of the World Tour teams wanted him, but he was under contract and Androni wanted some return on the development (having plucked him from MTB races in Colombia I think). Sky gave them the biggest packet, and now he will line up for them in the Tour Down Under.

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                                      Originally posted by Kevin S View Post
                                      Why does the Tour do this before the Giro does?
                                      (Ha - wouldn't it be funny if RCS invited Vital Concept now...!)

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                                        Be amusing but unlikely to happen given that RCS usually choose Italian teams as their wildcards. That said there's a certain expectation they'll invite Israel Cycling Academy (hmm) and Aqua Blue Sport this year. See that Bardiani have rejoined the MPCC which is presumably a final roll of the dice at getting a wildcard themselves.

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                                          Gilbert has announced his primary targets are Milan-Sanremo and Paris-Roubaix: winning these would complete the set of five monuments.

                                          This is something which has been done by only three riders and not since Roger De Vlaeminck won the Ronde to complete his set in 1976 (Merckx completed the set in 1971 with a Lombardia and Rik Van Looy in 1961 with Paris-Roubaix and Liège-Bastogne-Liège).

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                                            Campbell Flakemore writes about his career and its ending

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                                              New season starts tonight then as the Tour Down Under gets underway. Usual format round Adelaide, three sprint stages, two punchy finishes and the queen stage on Saturday up Willunga Hill. Better field for the race than in some years, all the Australians are present as usual but they've been joined by several sprinters such as Viviani, Sagan and Greipel and a few riders for the more selective days such as Ulissi, Soler and Rui Costa. Never an easy race to predict because of the lack of form lines but it'll probably end up being won by Rohan Dennis or Richie Porte.

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                                                Porte duly won the queen stage but Daryl Impey sprinted for second, took a time bonus and kept close enough to take the overall lead on countback as they're tied on time. That's a very Richie Porte thing to happen.

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                                                  Try to pretend you're surprised by this news everyone:
                                                  http://www.velonews.com/2018/01/news...mpression=true

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                                                    Originally posted by longeared View Post
                                                    Porte duly won the queen stage but Daryl Impey sprinted for second, took a time bonus and kept close enough to take the overall lead on countback as they're tied on time. That's a very Richie Porte thing to happen.
                                                    And with no change resulting from the final gallop, won by Greipel for his second stage victory, Impey got the overall win. Sagan took the points jersey because Sagan.

                                                    Nibali has a dodgy tummy, and pulled out of the San Juan with Gaviria taking a stage win.

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