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Team Lampre
Lampre N.G.C. (or LAM) is an Italian cycling team competing in the Tour de France. The team consists mostly of Italian riders, and has a strong presence in the grand tours, especially the Giro d'Italia. The manager Giuseppe Saronni... [more]
Lampre N.G.C. (or LAM) is an Italian cycling team competing in the Tour de France.
The team consists mostly of Italian riders, and has a strong presence in the grand tours, especially the Giro d'Italia. The manager Giuseppe Saronni was himself a famous professional cyclist and former winner of the Giro d'Italia. The directeur sportif is Giuseppe Martinelli.
Following the tradition at Saeco, the team is well-known for its publicity stunts. In the 2005 Giro d'Italia the team engaged in a press campaign Battaile d'Italia featuring their co-captains Gilberto Simoni and Damiano Cunego.
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Veteran German sprinter Danilo Hondo will return to the big leagues next season after inking a deal to join Lampre.
Hondo, 35, has been at the fringes of the sport since he tested positive for carphedon, a banned stimulant, in the 2005 Vuelta a Murcia. He was fired by his then-team Gerolsteiner and served a one-year ban.
Hondo denied wrong-oing but eventually served out his ban only to find major teams hesitant to sign him up. He rode for...
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Teams, riders, results, oh my! Here is the second part of the monster Chris created last week, an overview of the teams after the transfer season is all-but closed. The list follows no particular order, because that would be far, far too organized. Okay, let’s go.
Lampre-Vini Farnese
v. 2009. It was a forgettable season for Lampre this year. World Champion Alessandro Ballan lost most of his season to illness, and left Lampre with...
From podiumcafe.com
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- Ballan and Cunego withdraw (uk.eurosport.yahoo.com)
Spain and Italy have forged a healthy rivalry in the men's world championship road race, with four wins apiece this past decade. But both were left behind to watch on Sunday as Cadel Evans soloed away to claim the latest rainbow jersey on offer.
Thanks to Paolo Bettini in 2006 and 2007, and Alessandro Ballan in 2008, Italy has been the team to beat of late. Damiano Cunego, second to Ballan last year, was hoping to make it four straight wins...
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The team of Mario Galbusera and Giuseppe Saronni add three new riders to their program and resign Francesco Gavazzi to join Damiano Cunego and Alessandro Petacchi et. al. As the season ends and Lampre-NGC's general manager Saronni is reaching ...
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Just a quick post on a rare day off -- from work, kids, etc., (translation: ride!) -- to ask the question that is on a lot of minds in the peloton just now. You can bet it's on Damiano Cunego's mind right now. He is well acquainted with the strength of Cadel Evans at the moment: Cunego was one of the protagonists struggling desperately to bridge up to Evans, in vain, over the last 3km of the Mendrisio course. Cunego, or his teammates, saw...
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Damiano Cunego’s second stage victory at this year’s Vuelta a España shows he’ll be one of the riders to beat at the world championships later this month at Mendrisio.
His dramatic win up the steep La Pandera climb ahead of Jakob Fuglsang (Saxo Bank) only fuels his ambitions ahead of the worlds.
“The worlds is the top goal for me and the Vuelta is ideal preparation,” Cunego said. “These victories at the Vuelta confirm that I am enjoying...
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ITALIAN Damiano Cunego claimed his second mountains victory of this year's Tour of Spain when he stamped his climbing prowess over the rain-hit 14th stage held over 157km from Grenada to La Pandera. Spanish race leader Alejandro Valverde of Caisse d ...
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Cliquable Cunego Damiano COPIE INTERDITE Copyright © 2005-2009 Fotoreporter Sirotti Italia - Tutti i diritti riservati.www.sirotti.it Cliquable Valverde Alejandro COPIE INTERDITE Copyright © 2005-2009 Fotoreporter Sirotti Italia - Tutti i diritti riservati.www.sirotti.it Damiano Cunego COPIE [...]
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From cyclisme-roltiss-over.com
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Damiano Cunego (Lampre) collected his second win of the 2009 Vuelta a España on Sunday atop the Alto Sierra de la Pandera.
Cunego jumped away from a crumbling nine-man break to climb the Pandera alone to victory as the battle for the overall was fought behind him. Fellow breakaway Jacob Fuglsang (Saxo Bank) hung on for second at 2:23, with a resurgent Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) third at 3:08.
Race leader Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d...
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- Second stage win for Cunego (story.chicagochronicle.com)
UCI ProTour : License Commission Decisions
"Following the examination of requests received, the License Commission has awarded a UCI ProTour license to two teams and two events.
The Lampre team (ITA) has obtained a four-year license for the period 2010 to 2013. As for the Milram team (ITA), it has received a license for one year, valid in 2010.
On the other hand, the Commission has decided not to award a UCI ProTour license to the French...
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