Pujol is "very difficult" to find equipment

The Catalan rider Oscar Pujol settled in Valladolid has admitted on Wednesday he sees "very difficult" to find equipment for next season after finishing his contract with Omega Pharma Lotto.

One possibility which prefers not to think, though, has said he sees "very black" after "call all the doors," he commented. Their claims are not high, as it has acknowledged that it is "in a position to ask" and that all he wants is "a little calendar" to let "see" because he thinks he has "level".

"I'm doing and the preseason with uncertainty. As of December 31 there is time, but it is difficult to prepare without knowing where to run. I hope to find something even smaller," he explained. It has also to some extent blamed his former team of the situation that is because, as has been reported, was not given option to be seen.

"From the start I got with the group of Belgians and partly because of the language, I felt apart, what makes you discouraged. Then I ran like I should not do in Dauphine Libere and I no longer took the Tour of Spain . It was a stick because it was going to run and was the goal of the season, "acknowledged Pujol.

Since then, the racing cyclist attended loose only in Poland, France and Canada and was left with no options to renew with his former team, Omega Pharma Lotto. "It's been a bad year. When I walked not had to walk and I could not compete much. I am the champion of training," joked the climber.

Geox lost their chance of being World Tour

Although Joxean Fernandez and Mauro Gianetti Matxin still looking almost desperate a sponsor that will allow them to continue their project forward, the team Geox, or rather his successor, is unlikely to have more World Tour in 2012, ended yesterday as the deadline for depositing guarantees to the ICU.

"I want to be optimistic, despite the crisis, think it will bear fruit some of the conversations we are having" Matxin explained yesterday, "but unfortunately there is nothing currently closed. I will leave the soul in it," he added.

From this moment, therefore, the goal will get a Professional Continental team, which is the category that have had this year and, with the staff of brokers that possess Menchov, Cobo, De la Fuente, Blanco, I open the doors of some of the greats. For this, however, finding a sponsor seems so necessary and urgent.

Moreover, the UCI announced yesterday that Spain may have in testing route from London 2012 with the maximum of cyclists, five online and two time trials.

Proposed two-year sanction for Mosquera

Thirteen months after his positive test for hydroxyethyl in the Tour of Spain, the case looks and Ezequiel Mosquera of the solution path. Victoria Carmen Lopez, judge in the case has raised a proposal for sanction of two years to the Competition Committee of the Spanish Federation, who will finally decide.

Hydroxyethyl, expander artificial colloidal plasma, obtained from corn starch, is a possible masking of other doping products. A Mosquera was detected after stage win of the Ball of the World, which earned him second place in the Tour 2010, after Nibali.

Galician rider joined this year by the Dutch team has withdrawn Vacansoliel align all season for this case.

A world tour for 150 euros a month

Javier Martinez, an adventurer who travels the world by bicycle.

At the opposite of competitive sport, away from media recognition, there are those that combine as one sport, adventure and love of life. One of these figures is called Javier Martinez. This was Madrid's 28 years in cycling a way of relating to a world eager to learn and decided to explore it by bike. Is currently in Asia, which spans more than a year, and attended AS in Kathmandu, Nepal, in, say, the particular pit stop after passing over 16,000 miles only to Asia. Your destination, Madrid, and the next stage, Africa.

The bike is equipped with saddlebags to carry your luggage where, between 60 and 75 kilos. Far from it may seem, Javier just find entertainment wherever it goes. "I never had security problems, people called attention to my form of travel, Vietnam found only hostility from drivers." But that does not make their journeys are free of adventures: "There have been times dangerous. In Indonesia, a truck hit me. Luckily only crushed the front wheel. And in Cambodia journey through the jungle was very hard, I fell continually."

For this adventure, at the same time exciting, it's tough, "In China I have to climb up to 5,000 ports, meters and other very long, with ramps up to 20%, where I could take up to two days to finish" . Your accommodation is just a tent: "I spent nights at -15 °. I could not stop moving so as not to freeze waiting for daylight to get some sleep." Spend the winter in Asia where, among other things, intends to visit the base camp of the 14 eight thousand.

Budget.

No plans to cancel his trip to return home to her parents, Majadahonda (Madrid). At best, a fleeting visit when you finish this stage: "I had bad, but now my father is informed of the places where I go. Most know him without being more than me." Nor does he need money to survive, since it is able to continue his quest for 150 euros a month, getting money selling photos, his other great passion, of sites where you and a sponsor that provides small sums dazzled after visiting his blog (ww.bicicleting.co). And it ensures that there will be something material, which put an end to your adventure.

Chente García Acosta is retiring after 17 years as a professional

Movistar rider Navarro José Vicente "Chente" Garcia Acosta , 39, announced his retirement Tuesday after 17 as a professional. "After 17 years as a professional it's time to put an end to my career . The decision had it in a few months ago. I would like to advertise on the bike and the Tour of Spain, but did not hit me in my plans a good cookie, "he said. Chente , who was accompanied by friends, colleagues and the director Movistar sports, Eusebio Unzue, stressed that leaves "grateful" to all who supported him throughout his career, especially his lifelong team, which has felt like a "family." rider Tafalla, who announced his retirement at a hotel on the outskirts of Pamplona, ​​has played 27 major stage races (15 editions of the Tour of Spain and 12 of the Tour de France), with two stage wins in the Spanish (1997 and 2002) and one in the race gala (2000). Chente missed part of last season with a serious injury in the latest edition of the Tour of Spain and then I announced that I had to ponder his future. The Navarre fell on August 24 in the fifth stage of the Tour of Spain, a mishap that caused a fracture of the radius and ulna in the left arm and a dorsal vertebra 12. tafalla The athlete has remained throughout his career in formations of the structure created by José Miguel Echavarri and Eusebio Unzue.