Alberto Loddo is on fire in Malaysia, no I am not talking about some disease, but the rate of winning that the Italian is achieving. Five wins is not unusual for a sprinter in Malaysia as Graeme Brown acheived this number only two years ago. But Loddo is the lastest sprinter to totally dominate the… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Selle Italia
Belli’s Back, Rujano is a jerk
Wladmir “Sugar Ray” Belli is in fourth place 7:35 behind Ivan Basso. Thanks to a breakaway that let the Italian veteran gain back some time on GC and a very good performance on La Thuile, Selle Italia has a new team leader. This is good news for a team that had to deal with the… Read more »
The Rujano Factor
Jose Rujano nearly stole the Giro last year in the epic stage to Sestriere which tackled some brutal climbs. I still remember seeing the look of exhaustion on Gilberto Simoni’s face as he could simply no hold on the the tiny climbers wheel on the “big ring” climb to Sestrierre. Rujano was not far off… Read more »
Giro Picks 22 Teams
RCS, the organizers of the Giro D’Italia announced that 22 teams will compete in the next edition of the Giro D’Italia. The 20 major ProTour teams are included in the mix along with Panaria and Selle-Italia. Panaria has earned their place with great performances of Emanuele Sella and Brett Lancaster. Brett Lancaster wore the Maglia… Read more »
Serpa Makes It a Double
Rujano who?…. The new discovery of the Selle Italia team Jose Serpa is making Gianni Savio quickly forget the Jose Rujano troubles as he takes another victory in Langkawi. Serpa took another solo victory in the Genting mountains today. Serpa is showing he is an all-round talent winning in the mountains and on flat terrain…. Read more »
Langkawi: Raisin and Serpa Win
The last two days at Langkawi brought out two interesting victories. First, the young American phenom Saul Rainsin got a great victory after his breakaway succeeded. Saul is still very young and he will take on more of a leadership role in the Tour for Credit Agricole. Hmm, an American leading a french team in… Read more »
Rujano Pulls a Terrell Owens
Jose Rujano is pulling a Terrell Owens type move on his small Italian team Selle Italia. Rujano wants to renegotiate his contract to get more money and focus his efforts on the Tour de France. Jose Rujano was the bust out revelation of a legendary Giro D’Italia in 2005. The little Venezualan climber looks to… Read more »
Jose Rujano Troubles
Jose Rujano and Selle Italia team manager Gianni Savio have been having problems lately. Rujano’s scratch from the Tour of Langkawi is a sign of bigger problems between the small Italian team and Venezualan climber. Since the little climber’s surprising third place finish at the Giro in 2005 things have not gone smoothly for Rujano… Read more »
Selle Italia Breaks the Ice
Selle Italia Diquigiovanni (love how that rolls off the tonge) broke the ice for the 2006 season by getting a win in the South Australian Open Road Championships. That is right, the new season has already started in the warmer climes of the Southern Hemisphere. Russel Van Hout took the win for the Selle Italia… Read more »
Selle Italia Gets New Sponsor
Gianni Savio has been signing more Italians lately and that may be due to a change in sponsorships. Sprinter Angelo Furlan formerly of Liquigas, Italian Santo Anza and Columbian Fredy “so fast he only needs one d” Gonzalez were signed to the squad to join such veterans as Vlad “Casius” Belli. They round out the… Read more »