UCI bans pre-season team building events
Pro peloton in disarray as one-upsmanship, injuries, and budget problems abound

UCI spokesperson Ririe Anderson today announced that effective immediately, all professional cycling team-building events are banned, pending the establishment of a suitable UCI oversight committee.

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Not all team-building exercises end as well, unfortunately. Intending to show its strength and endurance, Team Gerolsteiner set out to re-enact Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition. And while this event is indeed bringing the team closer together, the expected duration of the expedition - 18 months - is unlikely to make Gerolsteiner a factor in the 2006 Tour de France.

"We subscribe wholeheartedly to the maxim, 'that which does not kill us makes us stronger," said Levi Leipheimer, in one of the last transmissions made from the team before their ship was crushed by an ice flow. "We only regret that there are evidently so many things that can kill us."

"On the positive side," noted a Gerolsteiner representative, "due to team...um...attrition...we can now safely say that everyone on the team is now guaranteed a spot in the 2007 Tour de France. Or it might be 2008. We'll have to see how their trek progresses."

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Meanwhile, UCI spokesman Ririe Anderson has the following advice for professional cyclists: "You're professional cyclists, for crying out loud. Quit pretending you're on some freakish reality show." Concluded Anderson, "You want to work better together as a team? Here's an idea - ride your bikes together."

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Original von CV-Kelme-Fan Wenn man an Discovery Channel denkt, kann man es verstehen. Auf der anderen Seite ist es Schwachsinn! Das sind doch teaminterne Dinge. Bald legt die UCI auch noch den Trainingsplan der Fahrer fest. UCI

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Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

Chihuahuas sind sowieso "freakish"........




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Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

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Original von paolo Ich würde sagen dieser Artikel ist eine gelungene Satire von CN.

No kidding.......




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Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

...There was also some concern among teammates as to what kind of message it sends to the world to drop off an entire cycling team at a prison."

T-Mobile...When they are finished, they will not only be in the best shape of their lives, they will also have advanced degrees in mathematics and have the ability to repair any bicycle problem using nothing but dust, a length of cheesecloth, and a two-inch strip of tape.

Vielleicht gelingt es ihnen sogar in Zukunft ein Vorderrad richtig herum einzusetzen, ohne hinzusehen....
Das Beste, was ich in letzter Zeit gelesen habe!




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