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  1. Hamilton likely Giro-bound after Tinkoff gets wildcard nod
    By Andrew Hood
    VeloNews European correspondent

    This report filed February 16, 2007
    Tyler Hamilton will likely race the 2007 Giro d'Italia after Tinkoff Credit Systems was among 22 teams named Friday to start the corsa rosa in May.

    Hamilton, who returned to racing last week following a two-year racing ban, said returning to the Giro was one of his top goals for the 2007 season. Hamilton won a stage and finished second overall in the 2002 Giro.

    Giro organizers RCS Sport released its official start list Friday with some controversy. Left out was new ProTour team Unibet.com, which has been facing the scorn of Giro and Tour de France officials as part of the ever-widening battle with the UCI over the ProTour league.

    Astana, another new ProTour team for the 2007 season, was given an invitation but on the caveat that it was among four wildcard bids. Also receiving wildcard berths were Tinkoff, Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo and Ceramica Panaria-Navigare.

    Notable squads missing out were Barloworld, managed by former Saeco boss Claudio Corti, and Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni, managed by the irrepressible Gianni Savio.

    Gerolsteiner, Rabobank and Caisse d'Epargne, which earlier this week were being prompted by Giro officials to indicate their interest in being in the race, were included in the list.

    RCS Sport also released the squads for Milan-Torino (March 10), Tirreno-Adriatico (March 14-20) and Milan-San Remo (March 24). Tinkoff, Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo and Ceramica Panaria-Navigare will also be racing those events.

    Teams for the 90th Giro d'Italia (May 12 to June 3)
    Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo (Ita)
    AG2R Prevoyance (Fra)
    Astana (Swi)
    Bouygues Telecom (Fra)
    Caisse d'Epargne (Spa)
    Ceramica Panaria-Navigare (Irl)
    Cofidis, le credit par telephone (Fra)
    Credit Agricole (Fra)
    Discovery Channel (USA)
    Euskaltel-Euskadi (Spa)
    Française des Jeux (Fra)
    Gerolsteiner (Ger)
    Lampre-Fondital (Ita)
    Liquigas (Ita)
    Predictor-Lotto (Bel)
    Quick Step-Innergetic (Bel)
    Rabobank (Ola)
    Saunier Duval-Prodir (Spa)
    Team CSC (Dan)
    Team Milram (Ita)
    Tinkoff Credit System (Ita)
    T-Mobile Team (Ger)
    [22 nine-man teams]

    Teams for 92nd Milano-Torino (March 10)
    Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo (Ita)
    AG2R Prevoyance (Fra)
    Barloworld (GB)
    Ceramica Flaminia (Ita)
    Ceramica Panaria-Navigare (Irl)
    Cofidis, le credit par telephone (Fra)
    Lampre-Fondital (Ita)
    Liquigas (Ita)
    OTC Doors-Lauretana (Ita)
    Quick Step-Innergetic (Bel)
    Saunier Duval-Prodir (Spa)
    Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Selle Italia (Ven)
    Team CSC (Dan)
    Team L.P.R. (Svi)
    Team Milram (Ita)
    T-Mobile Team (Ger)
    Team Tenax (Irl)
    Tinkoff Credit System (Ita)
    [18 10-man teams]

    Teams for 42nd Tirreno-Adriatico (March 14-20)
    Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo (Ita)
    AG2R Prevoyance (Fra)
    Astana (Swi)
    Bouygues Telecom (Fra)
    Caisse d'Epargne (Spa)
    Ceramica Panaria-Navigare (Irl)
    Cofidis, le credit par telephone (Fra)
    Credit Agricole (Fra)
    Discovery Channel (USA)
    Euskaltel-Euskadi (Spa)
    Française des Jeux (Fra)
    Gerolsteiner (Ger)
    Lampre-Fondital (Ita)
    Liquigas (Ita)
    Predictor-Lotto (Bel)
    Quick Step-Innergetic (Bel)
    Rabobank (Ola)
    Saunier Duval-Prodir (Spa)
    Team CSC (Dan)
    Team Milram (Ita)
    Tinkoff Credit System (Ita)
    T-Mobile Team (Ger)
    [22 eight-man teams]

    Teams for 100th Milan-San Remo (March 24)
    Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo (Ita)
    AG2R Prevoyance (Fra)
    Astana (Swi)
    Barloworld (GB)
    Bouygues Telecom (Fra)
    Caisse d'Epargne (Spa)
    Ceramica Panaria-Navigare (Irl)
    Cofidis, le credit par telephone (Fra)
    Credit Agricole (Fra)
    Discovery Channel (USA)
    Euskaltel-Euskadi (Spa)
    Française des Jeux (Fra)
    Gerolsteiner (Ger)
    Lampre-Fondital (Ita)
    Liquigas (Ita)
    Predictor-Lotto (Bel)
    Quick Step-Innergetic (Bel)
    Rabobank (Ola)
    Saunier Duval-Prodir (Spa)
    Team CSC (Dan)
    Team L.P.R. (Svi)
    Team Milram (Ita)
    Tinkoff Credit System (Ita)
    T-Mobile Team (Ger)
    [24 eight-man teams]

  2. It really depends on Tyler's postmenopause hormones HMG.

    Only Tyler's Gynocologist knows for sure.

    Free Floyd!

  3. Flyer's.Finale! said:

    It really depends on Tyler's postmenopause hormones HMG.

    Only Tyler's Gynocologist knows for sure.

    Free Floyd!

    I bet he'll do pretty good. He's had two years to train without drug testing, so he's probably been hitting the test and the HGH like it's nobody's business. I hear he's put on 10 pounds of lean muscle. I bet his heart grew some too. I saw some pics and his head looks a little bigger.

  4. helmutRoole2 said:

    I bet he'll do pretty good. He's had two years to train without drug testing, so he's probably been hitting the test and the HGH like it's nobody's business. I hear he's put on 10 pounds of lean muscle. I bet his heart grew some too. I saw some pics and his head looks a little bigger.


    If Tyler's liver does not do a Tugboat---he may win a stage.

  5. I think he'll do really well. He absolutely crushed the field in the cycling leg of the triathlon he did in November. If he keeps the rubber side down I bet he podiums.

  6. Bro Deal said:

    I think he'll do really well. He absolutely crushed the field in the cycling leg of the triathlon he did in November. If he keeps the rubber side down I bet he podiums.


    Cant wait to see him and Basso flying up the mountains together.
    Should be quite a duel.
    Basso will edge him out on the climbs and Hamilton will edge him out in the ITTs.
    But will age gave dwindled Tyler's prime time efforts?

    One thing I cannot wait to see is Tyler give Miss Danielson the look as they drop his little a@@ on the first big climb--for breaking Tyler's Mgt Washington record.

  7. bobke said:

    Cant wait to see him and Basso flying up the mountains together.
    Should be quite a duel.
    Basso will edge him out on the climbs and Hamilton will edge him out in the ITTs.
    But will age gave dwindled Tyler's prime time efforts?

    One thing I cannot wait to see is Tyler give Miss Danielson the look as they drop his little a@@ on the first big climb--for breaking Tyler's Mgt Washington record.

    Hell yeah, bro! But I'm with BroDeal. I think he'll at least podium. As for age, HGH and Test can actually reverse the aging process. Check his head, though. It is bigger. And his face is always red. Probably high bp.

  8. helmutRoole2 said:

    Hell yeah, bro! But I'm with BroDeal. I think he'll at least podium. As for age, HGH and Test can actually reverse the aging process. Check his head, though. It is bigger. And his face is always red. Probably high bp.

    That's what the vasodiliation is for.

    hGH & test ACCELERATE aging eventually----a quick and sudden fall off.

  9. I wouldn't of thought Hamilton will rule the Giro. He won't be any better than in previous major Tours. Can't say i've got much time for him really. He is a rider from the old school who isn't abiding by today's rules.

  10. NJK said:

    I wouldn't of thought Hamilton will rule the Giro. He won't be any better than in previous major Tours. Can't say i've got much time for him really. He is a rider from the old school who isn't abiding by today's rules.

    Todays rules?

    Was there a policy change?

    After Eddie merkx's drug busts (three)
    After Jacques Anquitel drug busts (seven)
    After Laurent Fignon's drug busts (two)
    After Tom Simpson's death?
    After 1991 PDM EPO overdosing?
    After the 1998 Festina-TVM scandal?
    After the creation of WADA?
    After Lance's miracle comeback in 1999?
    After Dario Frigo?
    After Johan Museeuw?
    After Raimundas Rumsas
    After Marco Pantani's death?
    After the 2001 San Remo police raids?
    After Floyd Landis?
    After Operation Puerto?

    Nah---no changes whatsoever. Full speed ahead with doping!

  11. Flyer's.Finale! said:

    Todays rules?

    Was here a policy change?

    After Eddie merkx's drug busts (three)
    After Jacques Anquitel drug busts (seven)
    After Laurent Fignon's drug busts (two)
    After Tom Simpson's death?
    After 1991 PDM EPO overdosing?
    After the 1998 Festina-TVM scandal?
    After the creation of WADA?
    After Lance's miracle comeback in 1999?
    After Dario Frigo?
    After Johan Museeuw?
    After Raimundas Rumsas
    After Marco Pantani's death?
    After the 2001 San Remo police raids?
    After Floyd Landis?
    After Operation Puerto?

    Nah---no changes whatsoever. Full speed ahead with doping!


    I would say post 2000. Can't class anquitel or simpson. The knowledge wasn't high enough or the rules. Pantani's death wasn't due to doping to my knowledge.

  12. NJK said:

    I would say post 2000. Can't class anquitel or simpson. The knowledge wasn't high enough or the rules. Pantani's death wasn't due to doping to my knowledge.

    You mean they are doing more blood transfusions now.

    More than at the 1984 Olymoics then?

    More hGH? More micro dosing of aranesp?

    You do mean----more drug cheating?

    and yes: Marco Pantani died at age 34 from a chocolate cake overrdose.

  13. What i'm saying is that these days everyone knows about it, even more than the cycling itself. It is definately cleaner today, Britain has quite a few in pro tour teams and there must be no tolerance for old riders stuck in there ways.

  14. bobke said:

    Cant wait to see him and Basso flying up the mountains together.

    Will the site of these two grown men flying up mountains together cause you masturbate furiously, unleashing your yogurt cannon on to the screen of your plasma tv?

    I'm sorry. That was bad. I'm bad. Call the police.

  15. NJK said:

    What i'm saying is that these days everyone knows about it, even more than the cycling itself. It is definately cleaner today, Britain has quite a few in pro tour teams and there must be no tolerance for old riders stuck in there ways.

    I think what you mean is that Brad Wiggens is on the sauce too.

    That's no stretch.

  16. Flyer's.Finale! said:

    I think what you mean is that Brad Wiggens is on the sauce too.

    That's no stretch.


    Your talking rubbish now. At least spell his name right. We have a decent system over here. Can't do anything on the road up until last few years down to what i believe is a decrease in doping.

  17. NJK said:

    Your talking rubbish now. At least spell his name right. We have a decent system over here. Can't do anything on the road up until last few years down to what i believe is a decrease in doping.

    Sure--and the Easter Bunny heads up your doping controls too:

    Everything gets past dope control:

    testsoterone
    hGH
    insulin-glucose injections
    eGH
    IGF-1
    hCG
    Clomid
    Salbutamol
    EPO
    Pot Belge

    Dopers are considered clean by naive consumers of Nike miracles.

  18. Flyer's.Finale! said:

    Sure--and the Easter Bunny heads up your doping controls too:

    Everything gets past dope control:

    testsoterone
    hGH
    insulin-glucose injections
    eGH
    IGF-1
    hCG
    Clomid
    Salbutamol
    EPO
    Pot Belge

    Dopers are considered clean by naive consumers of Nike miracles.

    Damn ! You left you Jalapeno enimas.

  19. I think cycling has become cleaner, just witness the last Tour de France when I think a lot of riders showed considerable weakness the day after they went in a break etc. It is human nature to not perform as well the next day when you've made a crazy effort. All the top riders had bad days which is a sign that they are not all doped up machines like before. The same thing happened in the Giro where Savoldelli, Simoni, Cunego, Piepoli all took turns getting dropped. The only ones who were consistently up there was Basso and Enrique Guti and they were implicated in Puerto. However I don't believe in a totaly clean peloton. Simply too many guys getting caught for that assumption. However it is no point arguing with flyers finale cause he's decided that everyone is doping and always have been and that is how it is always going to be.....
    It is not all black and white I say.

  20. The big question with Hamilton is not whether he is doping, but can he stay on the bike? It will be interesting to see if Mr Crash And Burn can remain upright for the duration of the Giro.

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