Originally Posted by jfmckenna
The teams have been announced for Paris-Roubaix. Domina-Vacanze has been selected. This is the team of Mario Cippolini.
Do they want to see Cippo ride P-R and use that as a test to see if he rides the tour this year.
This is a good point in that two years ago when Mario was World Champion and was leading the WC points, he blew off P-R. P-R is run by the Tour organizers and they wanted Mario in P-R. He decided not to race. Guess what? No Tour invite.
And he was shocked.
He will not be in the Tour. He's not in shape. He was going to go to Australia to train for the indivudual pursuit in Athens, and he's even dropped that.
David Clinger'd have a better chance, anyway.