Micaela told Italiandaily sports Gazzetta dello Sport: "A new beginning." In the interview Micaela looks back at the difficult times after her husband was banned from the Tour. Micaela Basso continued by saying: "Our family went through the muddle in unity. I talked a lot with him, Santiago [Basso's son, Cyclingheroes] distracted him and he played a lot with Domitilla [Basso's daughter, Cyclingheroes]. The love of our family saved him."

T-Mobile on Lanzarote

Six weeks after their first get-together in Lugano (Switzerland), the T-Mobile squad is ramping up its preparations for the coming season. On Sunday, 15 T-Mobile riders assembled on Lanzarote to begin a short training camp, which will end on December 2.

The magenta team will stay at the west coast of the Canary Island. For the European riders of the team, it’s a chance to do some warm weather training, as well as getting to know the new riders in a relaxed informal setting.
 
"Our first training ride is on Monday. We are taking a relaxed approach. Those who want to spend time on other non-sporting leisure pursuits will have the chance to do so," says Linus Gerdemann of the week’s program. 
  
The 15 riders who take part in the training camp are: Erik Baumann, Thomas Ziegler, Bernhard Eisel, Stefan Schreck, Marco Pinotti, Kim Kirchen, Linus Gerdemann, Lorenzo Bernucci, Frantisek Rabon, Giuseppe Guerini, Marcus Burghardt, Jakob Piil, Roger Hammond, Andre Greipel and Gerald Ciolek. The sporting directors and support staff are also on the island.
 
Rolf Aldag's team of sporting directors have laid on an extensive program of leisure pursuits for the riders to follow over the coming days. The training conditions are perfect: "Rolf Aldag has already been here a week and raves about the mild 25 degrees. That's fantastic of course, but we will also have to deal with the hard wind that constantly blows across the island," says Gerdemann, who knows that he has a busy week ahead of him.

Thomas Dekker moves to Monaco

The 22 years old Dutch talent Thomas Dekker (Rabobank) moves to Monaco. Dekker lives in Tuscany, Italy at the moment and also owns an apartment in Lanaken, Belgium. Dekker admitted to Belgian daily sports sportwereld.be that he followed the advice of Tom Boonen, who also lives in Monaco. Dekker told sportwereld.be: "It is not only interesting because of the taxes. In no time I ride in the mountains and that is my working place."

Dekker, who won this years edition of the Tirreno-Adriatico will keep working with his trainer Luigi Checchini and will do some training camps in Tuscany.

On his personal website Thomas Dekker reacted on the fatal crash of Isaac Galvez: "This is realy aweful. I am devastated by it. That you have to gon today, that you have to go training again while somebody else died. I know Isaac as a classy rider, I saw him win at Mallorca. Cycling is a dangerous sport but you don't think about losing your life., this kind of situations makes you put things into perspective."