First Edition TdF Cycling News for June 18, 2005
Edited by Jeff Jones & Hedwig Kröner
Rogers to T-Mobile
Although he is enjoying good support from Quick.Step in the Tour de
Suisse and is the team's designated general classification contender for
the Tour de France, Michael Rogers will ride his next season in the pro
peloton in the colours of T-Mobile. The official announcement is due only
after September 1, 2005 - the beginning of the transfer period - but Belgian
paper Het Nieuwsblad had the story already today.
"It's a pity," said Quick.Step's manager Patrick Lefévère. "But it's
a reality. He's leaving us." Although Lefévère did not say whether he
knew if Rogers was signing with T-Mobile, he said, "When I heard the price
from his manager Paul De Geyter, I said 'Good luck'. The problem is that
boys of his level get paid for what they are expected to achieve, not
on the basis of what they've achieved in the past. But he will not be
substituted for another big Tour hope. We simply cannot pay for that."
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