Jan needs to get rid of the Klingons. What kind of fool demands an entourage AND allows one of the
members to handle negotiations? Talk about conflict of interests. I can just imagine Bjarne
calling Jan and have Rudy answer the phone. "Can I please speak directly to Jan?" "No, he is my
biker *****."
"Benjamin Weiner" <
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> Bart <
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> > This is true. Lefevere is so wrong working out a job for nurturing substitute-mum Pevenage, just
> > for Jan.
>
> Lefevere is doing that? Lefevere has a good record of reviving wayward bike racers, maybe he can
> pay Pevenage to stay home.
>
> From velonews.com:
>
> Pevenage said Ullrich comes as a package and that won't be cheap even in today's cycling
> climate.
>
> "My mobile telephone has been on all the time and so far no team has called me to make an
> offer," Pevenage told Reuters. "The problem is that there is not much money in cycling at the
> moment and there are five of us in Jan's entourage -- Jan, his training partner, me, his
> mechanic and his masseur. That's a lot of people to find money for."
>
> Sheesh. Pevenage has a sweet deal there, latched onto Jan like a suckerfish. So Jan can't go
> to a real team because they'd have to pay Pevenage? What results has Rudy got Jan in the last
> four years?
>
> BTW, VDB has made the New York Times,
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/sports/othersports/09BIKE.html
>
> Sam Abt says
>
> The last three years he was not so good," admitted his latest directeur sportif, the kindly and
> patient Patrick Lefevere of the new Quick Step team in Belgium, who rescued Vandenbroucke for
> the 2002 season from a sulky exile with the Lampre team in Italy. ...
>
> "He did it to himself," Lefevere said in an interview. He is kindly and patient only up to a
> point.
>
> Possibly the first time anyone has called Lefevere "kindly"?