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Pro Cycling News – Simoni to Saunier, Linus Iscariot

Posted on 22 October 2005 by cosmo

Sorry for not posting yesterday. I try for every day, but dang it, I’m not a machine. Too bad that I didn’t post, too. Big news on the transfer front: Gibo Simoni’s chosen to hit up Saunier Duval for his paychecks next season. The two-time Giro winner said he went to the yellow machine “not for the money, but to help the group of young riders.” Right. Like you helped Cunego in the 2004 Giro. Between the arrival of Simoni and the return of David Millar, the 2006 Saunier Duval sqaud could also be one of the whiniest in recent memory.

Also making transfer headlines was young Linus Gerdemann, switching from CSC to T-Mobile. The 23-year-old Gerdemann, billed (somewhat portentously) by his *former* DS Bjarne Riis as “the next Jan Ullirch,” was signed to ride for CSC through 2006, but the Boss wasn’t too happy to hear his young protogé had inked a contract with the magenta whirlpool of dysfunction for 2007, and cancelled the contract. Why would you switch to T-Mobile, the team that killed Kevin Livingston’s career, almost killed Bobby Julich’s, put two-year gaps into the palmares of Cadel Evans and Santiago Botero and Paolo Savodelli, where riders regularly retire at age 26, from CSC, a team well-know for its sensationally positive environment and unparalelled rider development? Money is the only reason I can think of.

thoughts on “Pro Cycling News – Simoni to Saunier, Linus Iscariot”

  1. Anonymous says:
    22 October 2005 at 9:54 pm

    Really funny story about Linus.

    Last year at the Tour de Beauce in Quebec Linus, Davidenko, Tyler Wren, Svein Tuft, and Bruno Langlois were in the early break on the Magantic Mountain Top finish. A some point Wren stopped working, team orders. Linus got really pissed. Started yelling abuse a Wren and just going off the handle. He then started to take Wren all of the road trying to crash him. Finally, he started swinging at Tyler. The end result of this altercation was that both Tyler and Linus got droped and never rejoined the break. Funniest thing that happened all tour.
    Cheers,
    Andrew Pinfold

    ps above is a second hand account via Svein.

    Reply
  2. asssssssssss says:
    23 October 2005 at 4:20 pm

    eeeee-the hell with him, CSC will manage to dominate next season as it did this one anyway.

    Reply

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Best known for his How The Race Was Won® video series, Cosmo Catalano began blogging about pro cycling from a bike shop in 2005. Between then and now, he's designed cycling infographics, built cycling web apps, and supplied cycling content to print and broadcast media, all in the name of backing up his near-endless criticism with proof that it can be done better. He complains about cycling on Twitter at @Cyclocosm.

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