Combine (cycling)

Under kombine is understood in cycling the unofficial, covert and sometimes spontaneously produced Cooperation or colluding by drivers of different racing teams or clubs to stop by a certain competitors in the victory.

The word goes back to the French term combine = Kniff, Trick, Dreh.

The term is rarely used today. In 2003, however, the journalist Andreas Burkert wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about a combination between Jan Ullrich and Alexander Winokurow against Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France .

literature

• Ralf Schröder: Lexicon cycling . The workshop, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-473-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Duden. The big foreign dictionary . Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-411-04163-3 , p. 726 .
2. ↑ Andreas Burkert: Union of the persecutors. In: sueddeutsche.de . July 17, 2003, accessed January 9, 2018 .