We do like a bit of cyclo-cross on a Monday to get things going for the week. We look at two races: Valkenburg and Androoie. Don’t worry we also have road action from Japan and the Chrono des Nations time trial from France. Video, photos, reports and rider quotes from the racing, plus more contract news and year end report cards from Lotto Soudal and Orica-GreenEDGE. Get the coffee!TOP STORY: Good-Bye SaxoAfter a very long time in the sport, Saxo has bowed out of the WorldTour as it has been announced that the Danish bank will not co-sponsor the Tinkoff-Saxo team next season. With World champion, Peter Sagan, on the roster you would think this would be a good time to stay, Sagan gets a lot of press coverage even when he doesn’t win. Also with Grand Tour winner Alberto Contador riding what will probably be his final year, must be worth some investment?Of course we don’t know what has gone on behind the scenes at the (now) Russian team, although there has been different versions. Saxo gentlemanly announced they were stepping down, whereas Oleg Tinkov said the bank didn’t have the money. Recently Bjarne Riis, ex owner of the team, has been trying to get back into the sport saying he had the backing of Saxo, but no one seems to want to know. Add to that that there has been a change at board level at the top of the bank and you have to think that Mr....
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