2019 PRO thread

[flying]

Man check out Wout van Aert's week

[rainerhq]

My 3 weeks

[mrlobber]

200+ TSS per day... I'd fall off the bike by Thursday.

[Willier]

Quite disappointing that national champions riding Specialized don`t get special edition paint schemes on their bikes...

[Hawkwood]

Sky take over: https://news.sky.com/story/team-sky-sir ... m-11670136

[Kjetil]

So what's Ineos then, you may ask?
https://www.ineos.com/the-ineos-20th-an ... lebration/

[tymon_tm]

^ACME by the looks of it

for those of you who aren't familiar with WB cartoons: A Company that Makes Everything

[AJS914]

Roglic looked really happy to take the Tirreno trident trophy. That is one of the coolest looking trohpies in cycling.

[Karvalo]

Sky take over: https://news.sky.com/story/team-sky-sir ... m-11670136

"Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the 66-year-old billionaire boss of Ineos, will pump in up to £40m a year and the new team will continue to be run by current team principal Sir Dave Brailsford...

Sky unexpectedly announced in December that it would be terminating its reported £35m-a-year cycling deal at the end of 2019 but multibillionaire Ratcliffe's investment will be "even greater", according to a source close to the negotiations."

Crikey. I honestly thought they had pretty much zero chance of being able to maintain their current budget with a new sponsor, let alone get even more to spend. That's pretty scary for everyone else with eyes on GC.

[pastronef]

INEOS supplies TORAY "It also supplies Acrylonitrile (the core ingredient needed to make carbon fibre) to Japanese synthetic fibre maker Toray Industries, the world’s number one in the manufacture of carbon fibre"

https://www.ineos.com/globalassets/inch ... nglish.pdf

[sychen]

Irony of the save the whales jersey last year.
Looking forward to may 1st jersey presentation.. "screw the planet!"

Radcliffe is also one of the main backers of brexit.. And promptly moved his company to Monaco (into EU) to get tax benefits.

Should make this team even more popular.
Traded one hated billionaire for another.

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[maquisard]

Ideal backer for Brailsford, the British fans will love it and dig themselves deeper into a hole. An industrial chemical company seems an ideal sponsor of such a toxic team.

[Wookski]

Irony of the save the whales jersey last year.
Looking forward to may 1st jersey presentation.. "screw the planet!"

Radcliffe is also one of the main backers of brexit.. And promptly moved his company to Monaco (into EU) to get tax benefits.

Should make this team even more popular.
Traded one hated billionaire for another.

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Incorrect. His country of residence for personal tax purposes is Monaco (not EU) and ineos’ parent company is domiciled in Switzerland however they do operate a number of entities out of other favourable tax jurisdictions such as Jersey. All of us would do the same if faced with a multi billion pound tax saving.

[sychen]

Right.. Got mixed up.

He ran away to Monaco after his knighthood then for personal financial reasons..

We'll he's a triathete.

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[Wookski]

Right.. Got mixed up.

He ran away to Monaco after his knighthood then for personal financial reasons..

We'll he's a triathete.

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Yes!