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Plenty of interest at the moment, so I thought Id start a Pro cycling thread and keep Mickeys for safooty cyclists

Recent news/signings

- GreenEDGE have signed Dutch rider Pieter Weening, who has won stages of the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia
- Thor Hushovd has joined Cadel at BMC
- Simon Gerrans has won the Tour of Denmark
- Richie Porte won a stage of the Tour of Denmark
- Simon Gerrans and Tony Martin have both been linked with GreenEDGE racing
- Meyer brothers and Bobridge all signed with GreenEDGE racing

brod wrote:Plenty of interest at the moment, so I thought Id start a Pro cycling thread and keep Mickeys for safooty cyclists

Recent news/signings

- GreenEDGE have signed Dutch rider Pieter Weening, who has won stages of the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia
- Thor Hushovd has joined Cadel at BMC
- Simon Gerrans has won the Tour of Denmark
- Richie Porte won a stage of the Tour of Denmark
- Simon Gerrans and Tony Martin have both been linked with GreenEDGE racing
- Meyer brothers and Bobridge all signed with GreenEDGE racing

Mentioned this on another thread, but that is a massive boon for Cadel and his chances of going back to back next year

Mark Renshaw has left HTC and gone to Rabobank where he will be their Number 1 sprinter

Jim05 wrote:Mark Renshaw has left HTC and gone to Rabobank where he will be their Number 1 sprinter

HTC will fold at the end of the year. One wonders where Cavendish will end up.

am Bays wrote:

Jim05 wrote:Mark Renshaw has left HTC and gone to Rabobank where he will be their Number 1 sprinter

HTC will fold at the end of the year. One wonders where Cavendish will end up.

Yes HTC will fold. Cavendish is meant to be moving to Team Sky and so was Renshaw. I think Renshaw is sick of playing second fiddle to Cavendish and will now be the main man at Rabobank

Jim05 wrote:

am Bays wrote:

Jim05 wrote:Mark Renshaw has left HTC and gone to Rabobank where he will be their Number 1 sprinter

HTC will fold at the end of the year. One wonders where Cavendish will end up.

Yes HTC will fold. Cavendish is meant to be moving to Team Sky and so was Renshaw. I think Renshaw is sick of playing second fiddle to Cavendish and will now be the main man at Rabobank

I wonder if GreenEDGE will sign Matty Goss, he's be good for their classic rides in the Spring when they need to get points up for a entry into the major tours.

Mark Cavendish wins I London, on a shortened version of the Olympic course... no surprise there... good to see Stuart O'Grady finish 4th and Matt Goss 8th.

In the Eneco tour it was good to see Boasson-Hagen take overall honours. Would that be Sky's 1st overall tour win?

SBS are going to show 8 stages live of the Vuelta (tour of Spain)
looks like all the key mountain stages will be shown.
Will post profiles of the stages closer to the date

http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral/news/32223/la-vuelta-a-espana-live-and-exclusive-on-sbs

After winning Omloop Het Nieuwsblad & finishing 5th in the Tour of Flanders this year Sebastian Langeveld has joined GreenEDGE

Simon Gerrans is the latest rider to sign with GreenEDGE

Gilbert signs 3 year deal with BMC.. Cadel is getting a lot of strong riders around him now.

Jakob Fuglsang took the leader's red jersey on the first day of the Vuelta a Espana after leading his Leopard-Trek team to victory in the team time-trial.
Leopard Trek powered over the 13.5-kilometre course in the eastern resort of Benidorm in 16 minutes, 30 seconds, four seconds ahead of the Liquigas-Cannondale team of defending champion Vincenzo Nibali.
HTC-Highroad were third, nine seconds behind the winners.

Have put $5 on Bradley Wiggins to win the tour @ $14.

Stage 8 is on sbs Saturday night.

mickey wrote:Have put $5 on Bradley Wiggins to win the tour @ $14.

Stage 8 is on sbs Saturday night.

Should've chucked a few more on him, good odds!

Triple Olympian Jens Mouris has signed with GreenEDGE Cycling ahead of the 2012 season in which the Australian-outfit is hopeful of making its World Tour debut.

more signings are to be announced later in the week

Former U23 AussieRoadChampion &past winner of the best young rider classification at the Jayco HST &TDU,Simon Clarke joins GreenEDGE

mickey wrote:Former U23 AussieRoadChampion &past winner of the best young rider classification at the Jayco HST &TDU,Simon Clarke joins GreenEDGE

Didn't I see this bloke recently on the Tour of Poland? He was in the breakaway, and then when they were reeled in, he made another attack, and held on for a long time until finally being caught. Looked impressive. Good signing.

Hot off the greenEDGE twitter

JOINING the team: Svein Tuft, silver medallist in the time trial at the 2008 world championships&current Canadian road&time trial champion

From Twitter

_GreenEDGE_ A big engine to join the team, keep an eye out for the announcment today

News headlines:

- HTC-Highroad's Mark Cavendish dropped out of the Vuelta a Espana during the 170-km stage four from Baza to Sierra Nevada.
- BMC's George Hincapie emerged from a select group of six riders to win the second stage of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, while Tejay Van Garderen became the third race leader in three days
- Joaquim "Purito" Rodriguez won the mountainous fifth stage of the Vuelta a Espana after a 187-kilometre ride from Sierra Nevada to Valdepenas de Jaen.
- Sylvain Chavanel of the Quick Step team retained the overall leader's red jersey by 9 seconds ahead of Katusha's Moreno, with Rodriguez a threatening third.