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Chat with the Director Sportivo, Matteo Algeri

6 February 2006

Visas for California and Donoratico

Matteo Algeri with Tafi in Qatar, photo: Graham Watson

BiciRace.com: Ciao Matteo.
BiciRace.com: Got a minute?
Matteo: Yes...
Matteo: I'm trying to prepare the docs to go to Cali... [Tour of California]
Matteo: It requires too much time to get a VISA!!
BiciRace.com: Have you talked with the other team directors?
Matteo: No.
BiciRace.com: Or, with the Organizers?
Matteo: I'm going to call Kevin [Livingston] today.
BiciRace.com: Yes, Kevin Livingston.
Matteo: Yep
BiciRace.com: T-Mobile is going ... Team CSC.
BiciRace.com: But they are not Italian, but is Saunier? he he.
Matteo: Not the team, but some riders, yes.
BiciRace.com: Oh ... Like Simoni.

Matteo (left of) Gilberto at Presentation, photo: BiciRace.com

BiciRace.com: Did you go to Saturday's race in Donoratico? [GP Costa degli Etruschi]
Matteo: Yes
BiciRace.com: The team looked good in the final 10K.
BiciRace.com: M. Mori and R. Bertogliati were up there in the finale.
BiciRace.com: What happed to your Brazilian friend?
Matteo: Luciano [Pagliarini]?
BiciRace.com: Yes
Matteo: He had problems with the fall at 3K to go...
Matteo: So in the last meters he had no more energy...
BiciRace.com: Was everyone in the team OK after the crash?
Matteo: Yes
Matteo: ... And young [Riccardo] Riccò was up front too!
Matteo: He is strong.
Matteo: Phone... [Matteo returns to phone call with US Embassy.]
BiciRace.com: OK ... Talk later.
Matteo: OK
Matteo: Ciao
BiciRace.com: Good luck with Kevin and getting visas.
BiciRace.com: Ciao

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