Road Bike Racing - Landis - Healthnet

All these guys coming back to domestic teams, do they have tour hopes? linky (http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2008/sep08/sep10news2)

Tour in 2010? possible..

Tour in 2010? possible..

Not for Healthnet.

Not for Healthnet.

Quite true. Jump to the next superteam that Oleg Tinkov/crazy millionare dude might sponsor? possible.

Not sure why he didn't follow the Euro trail.
Domestic racing will seem like such a let down after winning the Tour, but then maybe he's just looking for some easy dollars until his stint at the police academy is finished.

Not sure why he didn't follow the Euro trail.
Domestic racing will seem like such a let down after winning the Tour, but then maybe he's just looking for some easy dollars until his stint at the police academy is finished.

Bingo. The dude needs cash. Why go fishing in a pond that might not have any fish if he has a sure thing here.

Not sure why he didn't follow the Euro trail.
Domestic racing will seem like such a let down after winning the Tour, but then maybe he's just looking for some easy dollars until his stint at the police academy is finished.

I hate to admit it, but I don't know what you mean by police academy. :o

Clue?

i like seeing all these guys racing domestically

^^Hamilton!!:) U.S. racing is lookin good lately. Especially with so many euro pro's loving the TDCali...if only thy moved it up in the season.

Landis did not win the tour. He only briefly made you think he did. Please try to keep this distinction in mind.

I thought Healthnet was no longer next year?

They have a new sponsor on board, yet to be revealed.

I'm guessing it's Smith & Nephew.

I hate to admit it, but I don't know what you mean by police academy. :o

Clue?

As he looks for his second career. I could have just as easily said, as he waits for an opening at the DMV.

Landis did not win the tour. He only briefly made you think he did. Please try to keep this distinction in mind.

incorrect.

Not sure why he didn't follow the Euro trail.
Domestic racing will seem like such a let down after winning the Tour, but then maybe he's just looking for some easy dollars until his stint at the police academy is finished.

It could be he's just burnt out on the Euro racing scene, what ever your perspective is on his guilt or innocence, he has to think he was wronged. Here he gets to live and race in the US, make some money doing what he loves and most likely get a warmer reception from the fans. Don't forget he's had a hip replaced, and he isn't 25 years old anymore. The lure of racing for a continental team in Europe probably wasn't enough to offset the downside.

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It could be he's just burnt out on the Euro racing scene, what ever your perspective is on his guilt or innocence, he has to think he was wronged. Here he gets to live and race in the US, make some money doing what he loves and most likely get a warmer reception from the fans. Don't forget he's had a hip replaced, and he isn't 25 years old anymore. The lure of racing for a continental team in Europe probably wasn't enough to offset the downside.

And he probably saw that crap that Tinkoff pulled with Hamilton last year.

And he probably saw that crap that Tinkoff pulled with Hamilton last year.

I hadn't even considered that. Think of all the dis-invites any Euro squad would suddenly see if they signed Flandis.