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• Rehashing the Contador-Astana Feud

  In researching my last post, I reread a bunch of articles on why Contador left Astana. Although there were issues when Armstrong was riding with them regarding pay and of course, the team almost lost its license at one point, it looks like mens sports equipment was the big issue or the straw that broke […]

  6/23/11 • (Comments Off on Rehashing the Contador-Astana Feud)

• 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?)

• Davis Cup Videos

  First set, Golubev cleans out Lammer. Warming Up Sunday for the second match by Chris Merriman

  9/20/10 • (1)

• Contador Is Leaving. Menchov is Coming?

  On the 29th of July, Contador is leaving Team Astana citing problems with equipment. Can’t find the article now, but his agent claims that among other things the TV in the Astana car was broken on the day Schlek broke his chain, meaning Contador didn’t know what was going on. This might have led him […]

  8/03/10 • (2)

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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!)

• Sports.kz

  Just discovered Sports.kz, a website that covers Kazakh sport, both national and international. Unfortunately it’s in Russian. Some other useful links on that page: RSS feed Asian Games category Newsreader a downloadable desktop app And thanks to this site, I just found the national football team site: Sbornaya.kz Sbornaya is the Russian word for team, […]

  3/24/10 • (Comments Off on Sports.kz)

• Astana Fans

  Going to the Team Astana website doesn’t get you a lot of news. Been trying to monitor it for news on when the name change to Samruk-Kazyna would go through officially and I still news reports on Bruyneel and Armstrong! But I did discover THE Astana Cycling Team Fan Club which has a lot more […]

  12/17/09 • (Comments Off on Astana Fans)

• I Spoke Too Soon

  But I was right! The UCI gave Kazakhstan a license a while back, hence the reason that Contador was not able to break his contract with Team Astana. However, there was the question of registration still on the table. The UCI wanted a bank guarantee of the $22 million that Samruk-Kazyna was offering up and […]

  11/28/09 • (1)

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  Contador Stays; Name Goes

  This week some changes were announced regarding Team Astana, the cycling team. Alberto Contador himself finally announced that he is staying with the team. After losing Armstrong and Brunyel and after a long period of doubt over whether the team would keep its UCI license or its funding, this is very good news. Despite mulling […]

  11/22/09 • (8)

• 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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