Specialized bikes is running an advertisment
[ http://www.specialized.com/bc/microsite/quickstep/quickstep.html ]
where Tom Boonen states QS has one of the best Classic team of all time........ And on paper he might be right with Paulo Bettini in the rainbow stripes and Tom Boonen as a sidekick. The team also has
Peter Van Petegem and Gert Steegmans among others.
The QS team is very similar to the Ti-Raleigh team of Peter Post when there was always a few world champions on the team. Jan Raas, Joop Zoetemelk, Gerrie Knetemann, and Hennie Kuiper. Peter Post backed them up with Ludo Peters, Henk Lubberding, and of course Dietrich Thurau. An dominant team made up of the best cycling had to offer at the time for the Classics.
Then we have the pre-QS team of Mapei. Johan Museeuw lit up the roads backed up by Michele Bartoli, Abraham Olano, Andrea Tafi, Oscar Camenzind, Franco Ballerini. Plenty of World Championship jerseys there.... Unbeatable.
Will we look back at the 2007 QS-Innergetic team with a historical view as a dominant team? The question that has to be asked is if Tom B and PB will be able to ride as a team.. PB has taken the title of World Champion seriously.
The other teams will have to mark both riders as the races progress.... both riders have different abilities in which to win with. Both riders have different races marked as races they both want to win, but there has been some conflict as to who will ride for who in a few races...... PB will have a hard time convincing TB, {a Belgium national } to ride for him in the Northern Classics. The crowd expects a Belgium win.
But no matter what, the peleton will have a hard time pulling out a victory from QS this year........
[ http://www.specialized.com/bc/microsite/quickstep/quickstep.html ]
where Tom Boonen states QS has one of the best Classic team of all time........ And on paper he might be right with Paulo Bettini in the rainbow stripes and Tom Boonen as a sidekick. The team also has
Peter Van Petegem and Gert Steegmans among others.
The QS team is very similar to the Ti-Raleigh team of Peter Post when there was always a few world champions on the team. Jan Raas, Joop Zoetemelk, Gerrie Knetemann, and Hennie Kuiper. Peter Post backed them up with Ludo Peters, Henk Lubberding, and of course Dietrich Thurau. An dominant team made up of the best cycling had to offer at the time for the Classics.
Then we have the pre-QS team of Mapei. Johan Museeuw lit up the roads backed up by Michele Bartoli, Abraham Olano, Andrea Tafi, Oscar Camenzind, Franco Ballerini. Plenty of World Championship jerseys there.... Unbeatable.
Will we look back at the 2007 QS-Innergetic team with a historical view as a dominant team? The question that has to be asked is if Tom B and PB will be able to ride as a team.. PB has taken the title of World Champion seriously.
The other teams will have to mark both riders as the races progress.... both riders have different abilities in which to win with. Both riders have different races marked as races they both want to win, but there has been some conflict as to who will ride for who in a few races...... PB will have a hard time convincing TB, {a Belgium national } to ride for him in the Northern Classics. The crowd expects a Belgium win.
But no matter what, the peleton will have a hard time pulling out a victory from QS this year........