Stuart O'Grady has a
new contract finally, but might miss the Tour de France - O'Grady had thought he signed a legit contract with a team just starting up, only to find that the person negotiating on behalf of major sponsor Sony-Ericsson actually had no authorization from them - hence no team at a time when all the other teams had already pretty much used up their budgets and filled their rosters. So, I'm sure he's sleeping better now that he's signed with CSC - except that their team goal would be for Ivan Basso to win the Tour, they won't be interested in helping O'Grady go for the green jersey.
(and I'm sure Robbie McEwen (R) lost no sleep over poor Stuey's (L) predicament ...)
And the ASO (organizing committee) announced the
2006 Tour de France route today. No team time-trial this year... as neat as it looks, that's actually a really good thing for my favourite team (Davitamon-Lotto) as they won't have to bring specific riders for the TTT, and instead can bring more sprinters to help Robbie McEwen and more climbers to help Cadel Evans. Plus, Cadel won't get so far back in the overall classification (GC) just because his team isn't good at the TTT.
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No - Robbie didn't lose any sleep at all because he got all his beauty rest sleeping on Stuey's shoulder...
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