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Tag archive for ‘Alexandre Vinokourov’

• Team Saxo Astana Bank?

  L’Equipe, a French sports website, has an interesting article up. They claim that the CFO of Team Astana wants to merge with Saxo Bank or Liquigas. What’s interesting about this story is that apparently no one else on Team Astana knew anything about this, although L’Equipe claims that Aidar Makhmetov, newly appointed as chief financial […]

  6/23/11 • (Comments Off on Team Saxo Astana Bank?)

• Vino Shines

  Without international stars Alberto Contador or Lance Armstrong among their ranks, Team Astana hasn’t been getting as much world press for their wins. But Kazakhstan-born star Alexandre Vinokurov has actually been doing his team proud. Maybe because he announced that this will be his last season or maybe because he no longer plays support to […]

  5/07/11 • (Comments Off on Vino Shines)

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  Congratulations Contador and Golubev!

  As everyone knows by now, Alberto Contador won the Tour de France! It was a great race between him and Andy Schleck. And teammate Alexandre Vinokourov won the 13th stage, so it was a great Tour de France for Kazakhstan! Also, for all the talk about how Armstrong was 38 years old and therefore we […]

  7/27/10 • (Comments Off on Congratulations Contador and Golubev!)

• Working Hard (Hardly Working)

  As is usual, I’ve become busy particular as school has started. This year, I’m working very closely with a school and I have all sorts of interesting experiences to relate and some observations but I prefer to let a little time and distance pass before blogging about them so that they are less recognizable. And […]

  10/10/09 • (1)

• Astana says, “Stay” and Contador says, “Go, go, go.”

  With talk everywhere that Alberto Contador is thinking of leaving Team Astana (See my post, The Dream Team is Over), the Astana Cycling Team Management released a statement this weekend that the two-time Tour de France winner from Spain has one more year left in his contract: In order to clarify some misunderstandings reported in […]

  8/25/09 • (Comments Off on Astana says, “Stay” and Contador says, “Go, go, go.”)

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  The Dream Team is Over

  After Contador’s win at the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong’s third place finish (not to mention Team Astana’s Andres Kloden in sixth place), Team Astana seemed to have demonstrated itself as a cycling power on the world stage. Unfortunately that will all come to an end now. Lance Armstrong has confirmed that he will […]

  8/08/09 • (2)

• Is Team Astana Going for a Tour de France Win in 2009?

  Now that Team Astana has Alberto Contador, the Tour de France champion, Johan Bruyneel, the former coach of Discovery, and now Dirk Demol also of Discovery, it makes sense that rumours are flying that Lance Armstrong will join the team in 2009. However, all that Lance is saying is that he will return to cycling […]

  9/22/08 • (1)