“There is nothing concrete yet for next year” - Emanuel Buchmann open to BORA - hansgrohe exit after recent controversy
Cycling
Could Emanuel Buchmann's time with BORA - hansgrohe be coming to an end? After his controversial Giro d'Italia omission and the subsequent war of words with claims and counter-claims, all it not well for the German National Champion and his employers.
After being left out of the BORA - hansgrohe team for the opening Grand Tour of 2024, Buchmann took to his official Instagram account to complain and alleged that he was "promised the Co-Leadership for the GC" at the Giro d'Italia. Sadly for Buchmann, he was then told he would miss the race completely, just 16 days before the Grand Depart.
“I was cancelled because my form would be enough for the top ten, but not for the podium,” Buchmann confirmed to Radsport-News.com, still clearly frustrated to miss out. "It is indeed a strange reason. I don't understand the decision, but there's nothing you can do about it now."
For their part, BORA - hansgrohe have denied Buchmann's claims of promised leadership, with sports director Enrico Gasparotto telling Sporza how "I was quite surprised to read that we had promised him co-leadership. That is something new for us. It is not right. During the first meeting with the riders in November, we discussed that Daniel Martinez and Lennard Kämna would be our two classification men in the Giro."
Having finished 4th overall at the Tour de France back in 2019, could Buchmann now switch his attentions and support Primoz Roglic later this summer? "Theoretically that would be possible, but in practice I don't know whether it will work," the German assesses, refusing to confirm or deny if he will stay at BORA - hansgrohe when his contract finishes at the end of this year, given all that has happened in the last few weeks. “There is nothing concrete yet for next year.”
Just in
Popular news
Latest comments
- i don’t know nearly as much about bruyneel or hincapie as most of us do about lance, but we judge people by the company they keep. i hand no idea what psychological problems the other two have, but there’s gotta be something pretty severely wrong with them if they continue to choose to be close to armstrong.OCexile26-12-2024
- Ayuso and Rodriguez are only 22 and 23. Don't pressure it as they're still so sooo young.
James2631826-12-2024 - Not sure that can be true, in that USA Cycling is part of the UCI.acem8226-12-2024
- Oh, and yes: I am no psychiatrist/psychologist, but Bruyneel and Texas Turd are both sociopaths. It goes well beyond "protect my world and anyone would" that is the usual zeitgeist of their bullshit. No normal person has Bob Roll go at Greg Lemond with an audio recording device at Ron Keifel's bike shop...for example.EricJensenRidesBikes26-12-2024
- Funnier: this website keeps giving credo to their ramblings. In this case, why in any possible way would Boonen want to create a fantasy world to attach himself to these two clowns when more likely he would want to forget he was even there? Laughable.EricJensenRidesBikes26-12-2024
- A sociopath is an informal term used to describe someone with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), a mental health condition characterized by a chronic pattern of disregard for social norms, laws, and the rights and feelings of others.EricJensenRidesBikes26-12-2024
- Rowe spent his whole career on one team being nothing more than a thug for Skyneos. I have no idea why another team would want import this type of person into their program.Sweep26-12-2024
- “CyclingUpToDate would like to extend it's condolences to family and friends of Pascal.” Paging a copy editor….menk26-12-2024
- yeah, that’s a more fair assessment. “reaching mathieu’s level” doesn’t mean you’re planning to replicate his whole career. the former IS doable, potentially. it’s just the latter that likely is not.OCexile25-12-2024
- That’s not entirely true. Every person follows their own development path and peaks differently. Remco and Primoz had hardly started cycling before elite level. Jonas was pretty much under the radzr until he unexpectedly had to take over responsibility at JV. Some guys only get real good in their thirties others have peaked mid-twenties. You can’t tell in advance how and upto what level they will progress, obviously his career might not have MVDPs length but nothing says he could not end up doing a few seasons at his level.Mistermaumau25-12-2024