Euskatel-Euskadi to fold

[tiermat]

Sad news, the pro-peloton is to lose the orange shirts

http://road.cc/content/news/90588-euskaltel-confirms-team-fold-end-season-search-co-sponsor-ends

[clarion]

That's unfortunate.

[ran doner]

CCC Polsat are MORE oranj 

[Cudzoziemiec]

But CCC is a cheap shoe shop chain, not known for support of romantic minority breakaway (sorry) movements.

[Ray 6701]

Sad news 

Who are the crazy drunken Basque fans gonna cheer for now 

[tiermat]

Sad news 

Who are the crazy drunken Basque fans gonna cheer for now 

Probably NOT Movistar

[marcusjb]

And Fernando Alonso has bought the team:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/f1-star-fernando-alonso-to-take-over-euskaltel

[David Martin]

Excellent news.

[Karla]

He's my new favourite F1 driver

[Biff]

I'm liking the new team cars:

[Dibdib]

I imagine the next thing will either be a Euskadi domestique deliberately crashing to help their CG contender secure a win, or them leaking confidential info to another team and then grassing them up to the UCI.

(the fact that I'm a McLaren fan is completely coincidental. And yes I know Fernando wasn't there at the time of spygate.)

[spesh]

I imagine the next thing will either be a Euskadi domestique deliberately crashing to help their CG contender secure a win, or them leaking confidential info to another team and then grassing them up to the UCI.

(the fact that I'm a McLaren fan is completely coincidental. And yes I know Fernando wasn't there at the time of spygate.)

Regarding the latter scenario ITYM the GC contender blackmailing the Directeur Sportif about the team's domestique doping program (which he benefitted from). 

Oh, and by the way, who was Hamilton's team mate at McLaren for the 2007 season? 

[Dibdib]

I imagine the next thing will either be a Euskadi domestique deliberately crashing to help their CG contender secure a win, or them leaking confidential info to another team and then grassing them up to the UCI.

(the fact that I'm a McLaren fan is completely coincidental. And yes I know Fernando wasn't there at the time of spygate.)

Regarding the latter scenario ITYM the GC contender blackmailing the Directeur Sportif about the team's domestique doping program (which he benefitted from). 

Oh, and by the way, who was Hamilton's team mate at McLaren for the 2007 season? 

Yeah and I still hated him even at McLaren. Smug git.

[Biff]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/alonso-and-euskaltel-agreement-falls-apart

Looks like its all coming on top. There must be a formula one would have thought.