Team Discovery to Cease Operations?
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Team Discovery to Cease Operations?
Postby Aushiker » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:32 pm
The ABC (radio) just reported on the news that Team Discovery cannot find a new sponsor and will cease operations at the end of the year.
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Postby europa » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:00 pm
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Postby Aushiker » Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:59 pm
.The dissolution of the Discovery Channel team leaves one ProTour license up for grabs, leading to speculation that Team Slipstream could be the next American ProTour team. Manager Jonathan Vaughters told Cyclingnews that he wasn't sure his team would be able to take on three Grand Tours. "The ProTour requires that teams race the Giro, the Tour and the Vuelta - and that's a huge undertaking," said Vaughters. His team has already signed ProTour riders David Zabriskie, David Millar, Christian Vande Velde, Magnus Backstedt, Julian Dean and Christophe Laurent.
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Postby europa » Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:07 pm
As I said, America needs at least one pro team. With the size of the place and the money there, more would be appropriate, but when you consider that the pro-tour is Europe based, I'm willing to forgive aberrations. But the yanks need one good team to follow. Bit hard with the cheats but I'm willing to believe that we will get a basically clean pro-tour. I'd like to imagine it'll happen soon.
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Postby Kev365428 » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:20 am
Your assuming were all clean. I know for a fact that some of the people on here from time to time have indulged in copious amounts of red wine, beer, or spirits (or sometimes all three in the one night ).....at least I know I haveKalgrm wrote:How 'bout a "Bicycles.net.au" team? Since we're clean, we couold do a Bradbury and come from last place as they all fall to drug scandals ....
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Postby senator52 » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:27 am
And just ask Floyd what alcohol does to your testosterone levels...Kev365428 wrote:Your assuming were all clean. I know for a fact that some of the people on here from time to time have indulged in copious amounts of red wine, beer, or spirits (or sometimes all three in the one night ).....at least I know I have
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Postby moosterbounce » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:47 pm
It would be an interesting experience...I would be interested to know if I was "clean"...god help my riding if I stopped taking these "performance inhancing substances"...I'd fall off
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Postby tallywhacker » Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:20 pm
the WADA removed the restriction on caffeine back in 2003 (bet Alex Watson is pissed). Unusual because there was an article in Ride a couple of years ago where they did tests and found that caffeine was worth about a pool length in a 1500m swim and something like 10 minutes in a marathon.nimm wrote:what about caffeine?
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Postby mikesbytes » Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:31 pm
I think thats correctsogood wrote:As in no upper ceiling?tallywhacker wrote:the WADA removed the restriction on caffeine back in 2003 ...
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Postby tallywhacker » Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:05 pm
try a can of mother http://www.energyfiend.com/caffeine-content/mothersogood wrote:Stocking up on Coke this weekend.... (just kidding)mikesbytes wrote:I think thats correct
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Postby europa » Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:10 pm
That's horrible stuff. They were giving it away at a local servo and it was obvious why they were giving it away, it's dreadfultallywhacker wrote:try a can of mother http://www.energyfiend.com/caffeine-content/mothersogood wrote:Stocking up on Coke this weekend.... (just kidding)mikesbytes wrote:I think thats correct
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