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Wednesday, December 18, 2019
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Upcoming racing:
- Dec 22: World Cup, Namur
- Dec 26: World Cup Heusden-Zolder
- Dec 27: Azencross
- Dec 29: Superprestige Diegen
- Jan 1: GP Sven Nys
- Feb 22: GP Leuven
Latest completed racing:
- Dec 15: Vlaamse Druivencross
- Dec 7: IKO Cyclocross-Essen
- Nov 17: Flandriencross
- Nov 10: European Cyclocross Championships
- Nov 3: Telenet Superprestige Ruddervoorde
- Oct 27: Superprestige Gavere Cyclocross
- Oct 26: Cincinnati Cyclocross
- Oct 17-22: Tour of Guangxi
- Oct 20: Japan Cup
- Oct 20: Chrono des Nations
HEMA to co-sponsor Jumbo-Visma for four years
The team sent me this release:
Department store chain HEMA becomes co-sponsor of the skating and cycling team Team Jumbo-Visma. For the next four years, HEMA will be on the competition apparel of both sports teams.
Jumbo Visma (shown at the 2019 Tour de France) gets a new sponsor for 2020. Sirotti photo
The co-sponsorship provides Team Jumbo-Visma with the opportunity to achieve further growth. On the other hand, the partnership contributes to the development of HEMA’s brand strategy. In origin, HEMA is a Dutch chain of department stores with more than 750 branches in eleven countries.
“We are very happy with our new co-sponsor”, says Richard Plugge, director of the skating and cycling team Team Jumbo-Visma. “Speed skating and cycling are leading sports in the Netherlands. Just like us, HEMA is very Dutch, with international branches and visibility. The long-term contracts of our other sponsors are very attractive. We are a stable factor with which a large and renowned company like HEMA likes to identify.”
On 20 December, the two cycling teams of Team Jumbo-Visma will be presented at the headquarters of HEMA in Amsterdam. That presentation will be live broadcasted from 1 PM on Eurosport 1 BeNeLux and the Eurosport Player.
UAE Team Emirates set sights on the Grand Tours for 2020
Here's the team's announcement:
During the media day of their annual training camp in Benidorm, the leaders for the three big Tours were made official for 2020.
Tour of Italy: Davide Formolo, Alexander Kristoff and Diego Ulissi.
Tour de France: Tadej Pogačar, Fabio Aru, Fernando Gaviria.
Vuelta a España: David De La Cruz, Davide Formolo, Jasper Philipsen.
Davide Formolo (shown at the 2019 Tour of Poland) will race for the GC at the Giro. Sirotti photo
Joxean Matxin, Team Manager: “We think we have succeeded in designing a balanced season to achieve our objectives, given the resources we have on our team. The aim is to be competitive in the General classifications of the big stage races, as well as in the sprint finishes.
For the Giro we will have the option of Kristoff, who has been keen to race the Giro for some time. Formolo will be the leader for the General, while Ulissi will go in search of stages.
At the Tour de France we will go with Pogačar, who will race without any pressure, taking the race day by day. Aru will focus more on the GC and Gaviria will have his chances in the sprint.
Finally, Formolo will ride alongside De la Cruz at the Vuelta, while the young Belgian sprinter Philipsen will also debut in Spain for his second Grand Tour”.
Campagnolo – Mechrom Industry – expanding production in Romania
Bike Europe sent me this:
CURTISOARA, Romania – Italian investors are behind the founding of one of the biggest bike factories in Europe which is to be located in Timisoara, Romania. Italians and more specifically, the renowned Campagnolo Group is already for years operating in the Eastern European country. And it recently expanded its operations there.
Campagnolo is the (100 percent) owner of Mechrom Industry SRL located in Curtișoara, Romania. Here the company is making various bicycle components including complete wheelsets. Last year Campagnolo – Mechrom built a new production hall and equipped it with the latest technology in production machinery.
You can read the entire story here.
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