Astana in financial difficulties

[DRM]

http://inrng.com/2018/02/astana-team-financial-alert/

Found this on inner ring, it looks quite complicated so I’ve added a link, doesn’t look good.

 

[bpsmith]

Strangely enough, they had a core group of riders, which resulted in the winner last week, all while there are sponsorship woes. Focuses the mind I guess.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

INRNG linked to an update yesterday (hopefully you all have translate enabled)
https://www.caravan.kz/news/darkhan...-finansirovanii-pk-astana-v-2018-godu-423199/

 

[StuAff]

Couldn't happen to a nicer dictatorship and doping nobber. I agree with one of the comments on that INRG piece though, bad for all the honest riders and staff.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Couldn't happen to a nicer dictatorship and doping nobber. I agree with one of the comments on that INRG piece though, bad for all the honest riders and staff.

The nobbers blocked me on twitter a few years ago for calling them doping twats

They have a few riders I quite like now - Valgren, Cort, de Vreese, Lutsenko, Fuglsang - but mostly I still think they are dirty

 

[Bollo]

Strangely enough, they had a core group of riders, which resulted in the winner last week, all while there are sponsorship woes. Focuses the mind I guess.

Shop-window riding?

 

[bpsmith]

Shop-window riding?

Indeed. Does anyone blame them?

 

[dragon72]

Not about team Sky, but in the absence of an Astana thread... do you think that they'll rename the team Nursultan like they did the capital city?