News today that Woss-is-name Alonso, former F1 driver, has totally failed to get a cycling team together in time for next year. For the third year running.
He came in all bouncy and keen back in 2012, talking the talk and hinting of enormous F1-style sponsorship, and it all looked so good: he even bought the Eskaltel-Eskardi licence in 2013, but instead of keeping the Carrots going, he scrapped the lot in order to raise his "own" team. And instead of creating a new team, he lost us the team, the riders, the management, the distinctive kit, the lot.
Then it was all "oh, next year, next year" but 2014 came and went, and he again missed the boat for this year.
Now apparently he won't be ready in time for 2016, even.
Huh.
The chap I feel most sorry for is Bettini, who left his post as Italian national coach in Jan of last year, and has wasted a year doing nothing. He's now jobless, we assume that Italy found itself a new national coach so he can't return to his old job, and there is no sign of a new job for him.
Poor guy.
Never mind, we shall put at that aside and look forward to another sunny, sandy day in Dubai: it's the allegedly hilly stage today, so that should be interesting, as I thought Dubai was flat all the way to halfway across the peninsula, so either they are going halfway across the peninsula, or they have built some hills especially for the event.
Which is possibly possible!
Not related to Alonso. Stalk-a-Schleck vacations, now officially a thing, apparently:
ReplyDeletehttp://trektravel.com/news/andy-schleck-and-trek-travel/
*eyes piggy bank with malevolence* *laughs at bank account balance*
Woo hoo! Go, Andy! Good boy!
ReplyDeleteWell done Figgy, my pet, gold star and a year's pass to the Naughty Corner for you, for bringing that little nugget of information to my attention. Can't wait to see LLB's face when I tell him mwaah haah haah!
So, will there be a queue of pink-faced girlies with brand new bikes and not a hope in hell of keeping up, beating a path to Trek's door for this? *laughs*
It doesn't sound like much of a holiday, if you have to pedal your own bike.... so no, I won't be first in the queue. I'd hate to have to stand next to Scary Italian Stalker Bitch, I might be tempted to thwack her with a puncture repair kit...