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[creekster]

Boonen out of the Tour.

Haussler out of the Tour.

Little AC is worried about the cobbles.

[beelzebabette]

Just so you know, I'm boycotting this thread.

[bluegoose]

Juan-hit wonder Soler out of tour for Caisse D'Esargne due to knee injury.

Cav taking a lot of criticism this week for his Suisse crash that is taking out much of his competition.

SaxoBank director quits team one week before start of tour, likely to start his own team of Luxembourgers. Don't be surprised to be the Schlecks jump ship after the season.

[creekster]

Juan-hit wonder Soler out of tour for Caisse D'Esargne due to knee injury.

Cav taking a lot of criticism this week for his Suisse crash that is taking out much of his competition.

SaxoBank director quits team one week before start of tour, likely to start his own team of Luxembourgers. Don't be surprised to be the Schlecks jump ship after the season.

Nice soler play. Well done.

The Schlecks 'admitted' today they are going to start the luxembourger team next season, according to a tweet I got. Did you notice theat Frank beat Andy int he Luxembourg national championships? ANyone know if this was a give away Andy or if I am just right that Frank is having a better eyar? .

[bluegoose]

Nice soler play. Well done.

The Schlecks 'admitted' today they are going to start the luxembourger team next season, according to a tweet I got. Did you notice theat Frank beat Andy int he Luxembourg national championships? ANyone know if this was a give away Andy or if I am just right that Frank is having a better eyar? .

Wait.... Are you talking about the Road ITT championships or was there another race that I hadn't heard about? Cuz Andy beat Frank in that one.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/lux...trials/results

And somehow you must have missed my tweet in the tdf team thread last week.

http://www.cougaruteforum.com/showpo...4&postcount=27

[creekster]

Wait.... Are you talking about the Road ITT championships or was there another race that I hadn't heard about? Cuz Andy beat Frank in that one.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/lux...trials/results

And somehow you must have missed my tweet in the tdf team thread last week.

http://www.cougaruteforum.com/showpo...4&postcount=27

I will ahve to go back and comb through my tweets. You realize this takes time away from my efforts to post heart warming stories abotu my exepreinces with vertifo, don't you?

[creekster]

Here it is:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/lux...-races/results

It was the road race, not the ITT, and they ahd the same time and so clearly domanted the field that my guess is that Andy let Frank have this one. This way they both get to wear Luxembourg colors in different stages of the TdF, and we all know how cool that is.

Btw, you are getting a little uppity around here, IMO. It appears that there was a race that you hadnt heard about, amazing as that is. As yo9u know, the natioanl Champiosnhips include ITT and road races over a weejkend or so. Btw, El Pistolero did not even try to defend his Spanish ITT championship so this year he lines up in the start house in Astana's baby blues and not in Spanish colors.

[bluegoose]

Yikes! Now that is embarrassing. Why has there been no mention of this on any headlines anywhere?

So who gets to/has to wear the national jersey at the tour? Honest question. I assumed it was the road race champion but you mentioned el pistolero winning the ITT last year. Do both the road race champ and the ITT champ wear their country's jersey?

[creekster]

Yikes! Now that is embarrassing. Why has there been no mention of this on any headlines anywhere?

So who gets to/has to wear the national jersey at the tour? Honest question. I assumed it was the road race champion but you mentioned el pistolero winning the ITT last year. Do both the road race champ and the ITT champ wear their country's jersey?

They are permitted to wear the national championship jersey in the even they won. So Andy can wear Luxembourg's colors in the ITT but Frank gets them in the road race. Not all national champions opt to wear them, but some do.

[bluegoose]

Hold on - did you just edit your previous post to answer my question or did I just skip the last sentence of the first paragraph about both of them wearing the jersey altogether?

Either way,them wearing the national jersey next week fits nicely with their plan to throw Saxobank under the bus and ditch them at the end of the season.

[creekster]

Hold on - did you just edit your previous post to answer my question or did I just skip the last sentence of the first paragraph about both of them wearing the jersey altogether?

Either way,them wearing the national jersey next week fits nicely with their plan to throw Saxobank under the bus and ditch them at the end of the season.

no edits. It looks like you may have missed it the first time and misread it the second time. They both can wear the colors but not at the same time, as I explained above.

[bluegoose]

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. Now I can impress my friends and colleagues when they ask me about who gets to wear what jersey when.