"""And because you're a faithful reader of this column, I'll tell you to look for a major signing announcement Tuesday morning, US time! It's big and you're gonna like it… ""
Anyone care to venture a guess as to who it could be? Do I hear Vino, Valverde?
Note: Floyd is already locked into Phonak thru '07."
New Discovery Team Acquisition- Announcement Tomorrow AM
Mon, 07/24/2006 - 10:45am
Mon, 07/24/2006 - 10:54am
#1
Tyler Hamilton or Ulrich?
Mon, 07/24/2006 - 2:20pm
#2
Levi.
Tue, 07/25/2006 - 4:41pm
#3
Looks like Levi L!!!
Mon, 07/24/2006 - 10:54am
#4
Vino... he has not team to ride for!
Valverde just had bad luck this year.
Mon, 07/24/2006 - 11:01am
#5
Christy Guzzetta!
It's GOTTA be him!
Mon, 07/24/2006 - 12:31pm
#6
Nah, sorry. I'm signed up to the SIG till the year 2097.
Mon, 07/24/2006 - 12:45pm
#7
I thought maybe you were...
Holding out for the pink T-mobile team kits?
Mon, 07/24/2006 - 1:42pm
#12
new disco?
Hm. Its not Tomas Vaitkus, winner of a stage of the Giro in May... thats old news right?
Mon, 07/24/2006 - 2:16pm
#13
Definitely not Vaitkus....it has to be a GC contender no? It's a rather interesting question to speculate. There really aren't a lot of choices out there.
Mon, 07/24/2006 - 2:57pm
#14
It's Levi.
That'll make them moderately less snoozy. Maybe.
Tue, 07/25/2006 - 5:20am
#15
You are correct sir.....
"Leipheimer to Discovery
Levi Leipheimer is leaving the Gerolsteiner team at the end of the season, and will sign for Discovery Channel, which is expected to confirm this later today. According to Gerolsteiner's bike sponsor Specialized, Leipheimer called them after the Tour to announce his transfer to the Discovery Channel team, effective January 1, 2007. ""My best results, wins at the Tour of Germany and Dauphiné Libéré, happened on my S-Works Tarmac SL, but Discovery (Channel) made me an offer I could not refuse,"" he was quoted as saying, while further expressing his thanks for Specialized's support.
Gerolsteiner spokesman Mathias Wieland told www.Radsport-Aktiv.de, ""We had agreed with Levi that we would sit down together after the Tour and make the decision. Levi wanted to know earlier, and told us that he was having discussions with other teams.""
Leipheimer is expected to ride the Deutschland Tour, where he is the defending champion.
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Tue, 07/25/2006 - 6:06am
#16
Floyd stays at Phonak
And Phonak announced resigning all of their TdF riders. Floyd signed a one year contract.
Mon, 07/24/2006 - 4:09pm
#17
My contract is only through 2006
Mon, 07/24/2006 - 9:18pm
#18
Could be Floyd. Lance has been very open about wanting to bring him on to the Discovery team. It's probably in Floyd's interest to sign a phat contract before he gets his hip replacement to lock things in.
Tue, 07/25/2006 - 9:37am
#19
from 'the paceline'
American Levi Leipheimer returns to the squad from Gerolsteiner, Portugal's Sergio Paulinho arrives from the former Wurth squad, and Lithuanian Tomas Vaitkus arrives from AG2R.
Tue, 07/25/2006 - 11:23am
#20
So who's leaving?
Who is leaving to make room for these new riders? Ekimov is retiring and taking a job as a director for Discovery. Others???
Tue, 07/25/2006 - 12:33pm
#21
That may not matter...
Well, they lost Lief Hoste so that makes 2 and remember this is not like they are limited to 9 riders like the Tour, I don't believe that they are compelled to replace one for another.
