I don't know what'll come
Category: Cycling
David Moncoutié (Cofidis) has made the same decision as Linus Gerdemann (who will not race the German national championships). Moncoutié will not race the French road championships. But they have different reasons for their decisions.
His wife gave birth to the couple's second child, a baby boy, on Friday. So he shall stay at home instad and spend time with his family. But really, Cofidis will have 17 riders in the race. 17 riders, it's a lot. Stéphane Auge, Alexandre Blain, Guillaume Blot, Florent Brard, Mickaël Buffaz, Jean Eudes Demaret, Hervé Duclos-Lasalle, Remi Pauriol, Sébastien Portal, Roman Villa, Amaël Moinard, Sébastien Minard, Damien Monier, Maryan Hary, Julien El Fares, Samuel Dumoulin and Christophe Kern will all participate. Incredible. I wonder how many riders the other French ProTour-squad will bring. Anyway, the French road race championships will have more participants than the road race championships in Uzbekistan. It will be harder for the French riders to win, but don't think it will be easier in Uzbekistan. It's always tremendously hard to win a race - no matter where you come from.
