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...
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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.
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...
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...
First Edition Cycling News, Saturday, November 7, 2009Cyclingnews.comLampre team manager Giuseppe Saronni puts his faith in Damiano Cunego for next season's one-day classics. 'The Damiano Cunego who won the Giro d'Italia in ...and more »
Cycling WeeklyCunego's 2010 Giro d'Italia: stage winsCyclingnews.comItalian Damiano Cunego (Lampre) saw potential in the 2010 Giro d'Italia route unveiled in Milano on Saturday. He counted three or four stages he could win ...2010 Giro to start in the NetherlandsAFP2010 Giro d'Italia route: Riders' reactionsCycling Weeklyall 50 news articles »
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 ...
Double Giro winner Simoni holding out hopes for one more seasonVeloNationThe news was surprising given that Damiano Cunego currently leads the team, and the two had a very bitter falling out in 2004. Simoni and Cunego started ...
VeloNationLampre adds new co-sponsor Farnese ViniVeloNationEarlier this year the LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini team was rocked by team leader Danilo Di Luca's positive test for EPO. The doping scandal hit at the core of ...