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    Manuel "Manolo" Saiz Balbás (born 16 October 1959 in Torrelavega, Cantabria) is the former team manager of one of the most successful Spanish professional...
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  • Mexican actor Manolo Poulot Ramos (born 1974), Cuban judoka Manolo Rivera Morales (1934–1996), Puerto Rican sportscaster Manolo Saiz (born 1959), Spanish...
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  • Spanish and Basque footballer José Ángel Saiz Meneses (born 1956), Spanish archbishop of the Catholic Church Manolo Saiz (born 1959), the team manager of Spanish...
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    sponsorship due to a doping scandal involving the directeur sportif, Manolo Saiz. On 2 June 2006, the team acquired a primary sponsor named Astana, after...
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  • professional road cycling was with the defunct Spanish Team ONCE directed by Manolo Saiz using Giant TCR frames in custom sizes for each individual rider. Laurent...
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  • Civil arrested the directeur sportif of the Liberty Seguros–Würth team, Manolo Saiz, and four others including Fuentes, accused of doping practices with...
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  • to social integration of its members. Their former directeur sportif, Manolo Saiz, went on to form the Liberty Seguros–Würth team. ENAT – European Network...
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  • affair, Virenque was banned together with his former teammate Hervé. Manolo Saiz, manager of ONCE–Deutsche Bank, Dr Nicolas Terrados team doctor of Team...
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    ProTour licence of the former Liberty Seguros–Würth team, held by Manolo Saiz. However, Saiz was reluctant to sell, so Astana applied for a licence in their...
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    turned out to be Manolo Saiz's Liberty Seguros–Würth team. Liberty Seguros withdrew sponsorship on 25 May 2006 after the arrest of Manolo Saiz relating to...
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    Prudencio Induráin (Vitalicio Seguros) as well as ONCE's team manager Manolo Saiz. Leblanc negotiated with the team managers and they voted 14–6 in agreement...
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    then approached Manolo Saiz, but was rebuffed because, among reasons, he did not contract riders who wore earrings. Eventually, Saiz softened and Zülle...
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    Manolo Saiz was said to have offered him to transfer to the ONCE team. Negotiations foundered over which races Induráin would ride and whether Saiz would...
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    his Bachillerato and signed with Iberdrola–Loinaz, a youth team run by Manolo Saiz, manager of the professional ONCE–Deutsche Bank team. In 2001, he won...
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  • Kazakh-backed Astana Team received the license previously owned by Manolo Saiz and his Liberty Seguros–Würth. Unibet.com and Discovery Channel discontinued...
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    facilitating Hamilton's doping. Fuentes was arrested with team director Manolo Saiz in May 2006 as part of the Operación Puerto investigation. On June 26...
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    had been asked to stay away from the 1999 Tour de France along with Manolo Saiz, manager of a Spanish team who in withdrawing his riders from the 1998...
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    together with four others: the manager of the Liberty Seguros team Manolo Saiz, José Luis Merino a haematologist at an analytical laboratory in Madrid...
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    team for the remainder of the 2004 season. Beloki switched back to Manolo Saiz's team (now called Liberty Seguros–Würth) for 2005. Beloki completed the...
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    including Richard Virenque, Laurent Roux and Philippe Gaumont, manager Manolo Saiz and the entire TVM–Farm Frites team. Virenque's team Polti then appealed...
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    before 2001, following his many years with the Spanish ONCE team of Manolo Saiz. Jalabert said that, "I wanted to retire with a French team, but nobody...
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  • Jaksche (GER) 17 16  Isidro Nozal (ESP) 72 17  Mikel Pradera (ESP) 58 18  Marcos Serrano (ESP) 68 19  Ángel Vicioso (ESP) DNF Directeur sportif: Manolo Saiz...
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    time; he did not start the seventeenth stage the day after team manager Manolo Saiz was arrested in connection with the investigation. The team folded at...
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  • 116  Isidro Nozal (ESP) 73 117  Marcos Serrano (ESP) 54 118  Christian Vande Velde (USA) 56 119  Ángel Vicioso (ESP) DNF Directeur sportif: Manolo Sáiz...
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    the 2006 Vuelta a España, but as the UCI license previously held by Manolo Saiz transferred to new ownership, headquartered in a new nation, it is considered...
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    himself as a daring sprinter. He moved on to the Spanish ONCE team under Manolo Saiz, where he reinvented himself as an all-rounder capable of winning one-day...
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  • cyclist Richard Virenque, Laurent Roux and Philippe Gaumont, manager Manolo Saiz and the entire TVM–Farm Frites team. Virenque's team Polti then appealed...
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    he became professional with the ProTour team Liberty Seguros–Würth of Manolo Saiz. That year he won a stage in the 2005 Tour de l'Avenir. In 2007 De Kort...
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  • Galdeano moved to one of the top Spanish teams in ONCE–Eroski, run by Manolo Saiz. ONCE targeted the Tour de France as well as the Vuelta a España, so...
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  • Galdeano 5 Giampaolo Caruso 6 Isidro Nozal 7 Michele Scarponi 8 Marcos Serrano 9 Ángel Vicioso Sports directors: Manolo Sáiz and Pablo Antón Idroquilis...
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