Road News and Results – April 23, 2009

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Ivan Basso second at Giro del Trentino, Fuji Servetto goes to the big dance while Italian champ Filippo Simeoni stays home, Heinrich Haussler and Thor Hushovd take a pass on the Giro and more…..

Results:

• Przemyslaw Niemiec (Miche) finished 22 seconds ahead of Liquigas’ Ivan Basso to win the second stage of the Giro del Trentino. Janez Brajkovic (Astanta) takes the leader’s jersey away from teammate Andreas Kloden.

Disabled List:

• Barloworld’s Daryl Impey has recovered enough to return home to South Africa. He will take a special flight that will allow him to lay down for the entire trip.
• Rabobank’s Bram Tankink will undergo surgery to have a boil removed – the so called “third ball”
• Rabobank’s Robert Gesink has come off the bench and will ride in Sunday’s Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

LBL teams:

• Milram: John Fröhlinger (DUI) Linus Gerdemann (DUI) Christian Knees (GER), Matthias Russ (GER), Björn Schröder (GER), Peter Velits (SLK), Fabian Wegmann (GER) and Peter Wrolich (OOS)
• Quick Step: Carlos Barredo (SPA), Allan Davis (AUS), Dries Devenyns (BEL), Addy English (EN), Kevin Hulsmans (BEL), Jérôme Pineau (FRA), Francesco Reda (ITA) and Jurgen Van De Walle (BEL)
• Astana: Assan Bazayev, Alexandr Dyachenko, Jesús Hernández, Maxim Iglinskiy, Berik Kupeshov, Benjamin Noval and Haimar Zubeldia

News:

• The complete team list for the Giro was announced today and Fuji-Servetto got an invite. The rest of the teams are: Acqua e Sapone, ISD, Lampre, Liquigas, AG2R, Bouygues Telecom, Astana, Barloworld, Caisse d’Epargne, Xacobeo, Cervelo, Garmin, Columbia, LPR, Quick Step, Silence-Lotto, Rabobank, Serramenti, Katusha, Milram and Saxo Bank.
• The Flaminia Bossini team, home of Italian national champ Filippo Simeoni, was excluded from the Giro and is “disappointed and angry” about the snub.
• Diquigiovanni Androni’s Gianni Savio is calling for new rules regarding the participation of teams in the major races.
• Damiano Cunego and the Lampre team will recon some of the climbs for Sunday’s Liege-Bastogne-Liege tomorrow. They will depart from Stavelot and successively run the Cote de la Haute-Levée, the Cote du Rosier, la Cote de la Vecquée, la Redoute, the Cote de la Roche aux Faucons and Saint Nicolas before finishing Ans Rue Jean Jaurès.
• While Cadel Evans was satisifed with his fifth place finish at Fleche-Wallone, his teammate and co-captain Phillipe Gilbert was more critical. Gilbert said that Evans told the team he did not feel good, then he took off in the race. “But we knew that he was not good enough to win,” Gilbert continued. “It is not easy for us to have a captain who does not know what he wants.”
• The Marco Pantani Foundation is running a week long auction of many personal items of Pantani’s to raise funds for the victims of the Abruzzo earthquake. Specifically, the fundraiser will to buy equipment for schools or kindergartens affected by the earthquake. The link to the auction is here
• [http://members.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=fondazionemarcopantanionlus]
• Italy’s Ministry of the Environment is offering a 30% discount (up to 700 euros) towards the purchase of a new bike. Each person can buy up to three bikes.
• Heinrich Haussler and Thor Hushovd will focus on the Tour de France, leaving Carlos Sastre and others to contest the Giro. Contrary to a prior announcement, Sastre will not contest the Tour of Romandie.
• Garmin Slipstream’s David Millar will hit all three of the Grand Tours this year. [Whether he will actually race or just yell "doper!" at everyone who passes him remains to be seen. - Ed.]
• The town of Norfolk will be hosting a stage in the 2010 Tour of Britain.
• Former Fidea and Morgan Blue rider Wim Jacobs has been banned for 2 years following a doping positive. The sentence is back dated to February 5th, 2009, the date of the positive. No word has yet been handed down as to the substance that was cause for the positive.
• Austria will announce the first arrests under their new anti-doping laws “in a few weeks”.

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