03.09:
Walter Planckaert will not become Sport Director of Lotto-Domo. Marc Sergeant is Sport Director,
assisted by Claude Criquielion and Hendrik Redant. The team has 18 riders now and is still
negociating with Leif Hoste (Bel), Koos Moerenhout (Ned) and Wim Vansevenant (Bel).
Those with Servais Knaven (Ned) and Geert van Bondt (Bel) have been stopped.
Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) prolongued his contract with FDJeux.com with 2 years.
iBanesto.com will have only one "foreign" rider next year, viz Denis Menchov (Rus). As mentioned earlier
Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) is going to Fassa Bortolo and Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) goes to Phonak. Also both
Polish riders will leave: Dariusz Baranowski to CSC-Tiscali and Tomasz Brozyna to Lotto-Domo ? (Marca)
Also Mart Louwers (Ned) = Rabo-Espoirs is going for 2 years to the Axa-VvZ team
Palmans-Collstrop which has sofar 8 riders under contract is aiming for a Division 1 team with 20 riders.
Next year Belgian riders Davy Commeyne - Mario de Clercq - Björn Leukemans - Geert Omloop - Bert Roessems
Erwin Thys - Tom Vannoppen and Roger Hammond (GBr) are sure of a place. The team is also interested in
Geert Verheyen (Bel) = now Rabobank.
Team "Tchmil-Braeckevelt" still tries to find a Belgian sponsor. It seems that Andrei Tchmil has already
extensive contacts with Itera. The team will have 18 riders with some names as Russian riders
Pavel Tonkov (= Lampre-Daikin), Evgueni Petrov (= Mapei-Quick Step-Espoirs) and Dimitri Konichev
and Serhiy Honchar (both = Fassa Bortolo). Jef Braeckevelt is thinking also of Tom Steels and
Fabien De Waele (both = Mapei-Quick Step). In total there will be 5 Belgianb riders and a few Dutch riders.
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Das wären ja starke Namen bei Tchmils Team, das gefiele mir.
Erstaunlich finde ich dass Banesto nun auch die Polen nicht mehr haben will, die nach meinem Daf+rhalten eigentlich ganz respektabel waren.
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Iro...Iro...Iro-was?
Nicht aus Versehen.