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先日、日本の HONDA, TOYOTA のＦ１撤退にふれましたが、2010年のインラインレースから最も親しまれてきた Team Rollerblade の名が消えます。名門チーム撤退・・・イヤー、もー絶望的状況になってきました。しかし、Rollerblade 社がインラインビジネスから撤退するわけではありませんので、ユーザは安心して使ってください。Rollerblade World stops: the end of a success storyby Vincent Esnault (Nov. 14, 2009) Diego Rosero and the World Team won the overall rankings of the World Inline Cup 2009. This will be the ultimate chapter of a wonderful success story, which started at the end of the 1990’s for Rollerblade World. Photo: Nicolas Iten's victory in Berlin. Rollerblade was not just a team. We used to say that it was also a family. If you consider the athletes and the people involved with the team, you can really state how true it was. The shining side of the Rollerblade World team was the athletes’ participation to many marathons or traditional races around the world. In 2009, they raced 10 months in 2009, the World Inline Cup as well as some promotion races in Eastern Europe or in Asia. Their motto was always to bring out the sport, from the very beginning in the late 1990’s. And Rollerblade World became the most successful team on the circuit. World Champions, WIC winners When it really started, in the USA, great champions such as Chad Hedrik or Derek Downing were part of the team. Arnaud Gicquel, Jorge Botero, Massimiliano Presti, Kalon and Shane Dobbin, Wouter Hebbrecht, Alexis Contin, Francesco Zangarini and Luca Saggiorato continued to wear the RB skin suit on the circuits. All of them, along with Diego, became at least once world champion or won the World Inline Cup. Few of them (Chad Hedrik, Shane Dobbin and Alexis Contin) are now chasing an Olympic dream on ice. Some others (Arnaud Gicquel, Jorge Botero) are in charge of Federations or brands to continue promoting the sport. All this is not really surprising when you remember that the Rollerblade athletes always skate for the best, and always give the best for the team. The Rollerblade World team would not have existed without the essential support of great figures involved in this project. Alain Nègre (as a coach) and Sämi Raimann (as a consultant) were part of this project from the late 1990’s. They were references for the athletes, such as Aurélie Bouvet, Tanya Dobbin (both in the past) or Hoa Wunderli (today). At least, Rollerblade was not only Rollerblade World: the team had many little national sisters mainly in European countries. Managers such as Kai Meinze (Germany), Matthieu Grandgirard (Austria) or Garikoitz Lerga (Spain) for example, achieved a great job to promote the team spirit. This is “the right moment” There are many reasons not to give up. But times have changed, and challenges too. Rollerblade had to stop the woman’s team at the end of 2008 (see article attached). Today, this is the end of the men’s squad. The decision was hard to take, but it was based on focusing on other projects, as well as for budget reasons. This was also “the right moment” to come to an end, according to this season’s fabulous results. At least, Rollerblade will not entirely disappear: the brand will continue to support speed skating teams with material and know-how. But after 11 years on the circuit, this looks like the moment to say goodbye, in all the Rollerblade athletes’ languages (auf Wiedersehen, arrivederci, good bye, adios, au revoir…), and to thank them very much for their support and their results. Rollerblade World stops. This is the end of a success story, but this story was wonderful, for us and for the sport we guess. Thank you once again for everything and keep skating and promote a strong and positive image of our sport, everywhere in the world! Team Rollerblade: Rollerblade World stops: the end of a success story
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