poululla

Yep, that is right. Team CSC won the TDF team contest last year. Team SATS, women's pro team is currently ranked no 1 in the world.
Go Danmark !! Go Danmark !!!!

DEKKERFAN

I must be Danish then because Tyler Hamilton was on Team CSC last year and he grew up about 10 miles away from me... Is Marblehead Massachusetts part of Denmark or the USA?

jfmckenna

You meen Mahblehead Mass

I always loved the name of that town...

lotek 

hey does that make me Danish as I work for CSC?
(no I don't know tyler, Bjarne, or Jens, they are on a different
floor than I am. . .

poululla

Dekkerfan, the nationality of a cycling team is not based on the team leader. See the UCI's rule book if you are in any doubt. Half of CSC's riders that competed last year in the TdF is Danish, the team is registered in Denmark (see the DCU's homepage), the coach, manager, team mechanic, team docter is Danish. I am currently checking, but I bet you even the bloody team bus driver is from Denmark.
Team CSC's top position in last years TdF was not due to just one persons preformance i.e Tyler Hamilton, but rather due to the preformance of the team as a whole.


PS: No, you are not Danish, Dekkerfan, I am ...you are just ill-informed.

poululla

Here is the link to the UCI trade team clasification. Please note the nationality/origin of team CSC.

https://62.50.72.82/modello2.asp?1stl...=6&idnews=2373

Laggard

Yes, CSC's best riders are German and Italian. What's yer point?

georgesnatcher

Not only that but Basso is no Tyler Hamilton. CSC is a great team and at the end of the year I expect to see them in the top 5-10. The team I see being number one when all is said is Fasso.

poululla

Whats the point you ask Laggard...it is a Danish team, that is the point!!!

Laggard

Yeah, it's a Danish team. It's Italian and German riders who make it a great team though.

girl27

I could use a few teensy upgrades on my new bicycle. Care to place yer bet?

KingRene

Go Frank Hoj!

Congratulations Poululla, on the birth of your son.

I hate to do this but, here goes:

Team SATS:

Susanne Ljungskog (swe) UCI rank #1
Anita Valen (nor) UCI rank #6
Manon Jutras (can) UCI rank #50

It gets a little dodgy from there, but you get the idea.

KingRene

Sorry, I forgot to include one of the better SATS riders, so to be fair, here she is:

Rochelle Gilmore (aus) UCI rank #17

DEKKERFAN

Point taken Poululla. I'm sorry if I offended you. Team CSC is actually one of my favorite teams to watch and they are Danish and awesome. Ride-on.

Laggard

I really like CSC.

poululla

So do I, thank you

poululla

KingRene, your sarcasm sadly does not hide your fundemental lack of understanding for the UCI's ranking of teams. Here follows a (somewhat long) piece from the BCF(British Cycling Federation) regarding team SATS. As you will see it is not the UCI ranking of individual team members, that gives Team SATS the number 1 ranking, but rather the preformance of the team AS A WHOLE throughout the last season. That means finishing races/tours with all team members, good overall placements etc.

Get informed first, then try and be smart.

Her follows the piece

S.A.T.S. - THE TEAM LINES UP FOR 2004

S.A.T.S. have issued their team line-up for 2004 and it makes impressive reading. Here is their press release.

World Number 1 Team S.A.T.S. 2004
•Team S.A.T.S. is proud to announce that S.A.T.S., the largest chain of fitness centers in Scandinavia, continues as the main- and title sponsor for a team that is now no. 1 on the Team World Rankings.In 2004, Team S.A.T.S. will be stronger than ever with some of the Word’s greatest profiles riding on the team, incl. the greatest of them all the double World Champion and Swedish Champion Susanne Ljungskog and the Norwegian Champion, Anita Valen.

Team S.A.T.S. is Scandinavia’s only professional women’s cycling team. Never before has a women’s team from Scandinavia been home to the World Champion and had a Team World number 1 ranking. The team will be representing the World Champion rainbow jersey in all of the high profile races throughout the word in 2004, including the entire World Cup Circuit and Giro de Italia. 2004 is Olympic year, and Team S.A.T.S’ succesful Danish mountainbiker, Mette Andersen, is close to certain of going to the Olympics in Athens. In addition, all of the international riders on Team S.A.T.S. will be going to Athens. A great representation for the Team.

However, it is the overall power of the entire team that is impressive and has placed the team on the very top of the UCI World Rank list.

Team S·A·T·S

Susanne Ljungskog (Sweden)
Born 16.03.1976
World Champion (2002 and 2003)
Goal in 2004: to win the Olympic Gold, and end the season with Team S.A.T.S. ranked number
1 in the World.

Anita Valen (Norway)
Norwegian Champion in 2003.
7th in the World Championships in Canada
Goal in 2004: Gold in the Olympic Games in Athens

Rochelle Gilmore (Australia)
Born: 14.12.1981
2nd in the World Championships (track)
1st and 2nd in World Cups (track)
3rd World Cup (road)
Goals in 2004: To gain selection for the Olympic Games in Athens both on the road and on
the track.

Casey B. Gibson (Canada)
Born: 25.11.1967
2nd Valley of the Sun Stage Race (Phoenix, AZ) 2003
2nd Solano Cycling Classic (Fairfield, CA) 2003
3rd overall Redlands Bicycle Classic 2003

Mette Fischer Andreasen (Denmark)
Born: 13.04.1983
Winner of the Vittoria cup 2003
Overall winner of the D.C.U. Pinse Cup 2003

Sara Symington (Great Britain)
3rd in the 2004 Criterium Series Geelong, Australia
Winner of stage in Tour de L’Aude 2002
Winner of stage in Tour of Netherlands
Goals in 2004: The Olympic Games in Athens, and to win a medal in road
race.

Emma James (Australia)
Born: 07.09.1976
2002 3rd in the Australian Road Championships
Tour de Snowy, 1st stage 3, 7th GC
Goal 2004: Medal at Athens

Meredith Miller (USA)
Born: 26.12.1973
1st Santa Cruz Criterium, USA
Goals in 2004: to make the US World's Team 2004, stage win in a major tour, to contribute to
the success of the World's Number 1 Team

Mette Andersen (Denmark)
Born: 01.09.1974
Danish Champion MTB 01, 02, 03
Danish Champion cyclo-cross 01, 02

Trine Hansen (Denmark)
Born: 11.05.1975
5th in the 2003 Danish Championship Timetrial
3rd in the 2003 Danish Championship roadrace

Christina Peick Andersen (Denmark)
Born: 04.10.1974
2003 Tour de France (FRA) GC finish 37th
Danish Championchip Timetrial – 3.rd

roadbuzz

...and an outstanding Danish DS, no?

brent_dube

Its those foreign riders that do the pedaling though.

Although I do think he is an outstanding DS.

KingRene

The sarcasm was not meant to hide anything. It was clearly a joke. You know it was. I would mention that something was lost in translation, but you picked up on the tone right away.

While I could concentrate this reply on the number of times you chose to be insulting and display no sense of humour, I will simply say this:

Go Frank Hoj!

girl27

Hoohoo! A good job again by the CSC folks at the Criterium International. Jens Voigt took the whole thing, as well as his third TT in a row at CI. Bobby Julich ended up in 4th on the GC. (Go Bobby Julich!)

Neither of those guys are Danish, mind you... But Bjarne Riis sure as hell is. And he's going to end up with a lot of the credit this year.

Laggard

CSC is on fire. 3 stage race wins already this year.

Thor Hushovd surprised me the most. I knew he could sprint but didn't expect to see him in a break on a final climb.

Congrats to Voigt!

poululla

KingRene, I leave you with this. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. If you would like to say something in jest, as you claim, I suggest you use the smilies to indicate so.

girl27

Now, see, I'd have said that puns are waaay worse than sarcasm.