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Talking about the Giant?
Strange.
Dutch national squad MUST ride Koga.
Other dutch riders are only allowed to ride other branded bikes (world champs, perhaps word cup, too) in individual disciplines.
Serious issue for riders like Marianne Vos and Annemiek van Vleuten. They also like to be in the team pursuit team for London 2012. Kirsten Wild had to switch to AA Drink team for this reason.

Perhaps those people were talking about RABOBANK riders like Theo Bos. Rabobank is also the sponsor of the national squad, but there is no direct like between the Giant equipped Rabo pro team (Theo Bos, Lars Boom, both interested in team pursuit) and the Koga equipped national squad.

The earlier 2005 version you saw were bikes with ALU frames?
Giant supplied them to BALK, who does the rental bikes in the Amsterdam velodrome.
That were stock frames, nowadays called OMNIUM. I still have one like that, but the M-size is a bit too small for me.

I may have been mistaken of course. While we were training out there we were staying at the same hostel as the Belgian, German and Dutch junior squads - All for one race at Alkmaar.

At Amsterdam they had a lot of the Alu bikes there but also the 15 carbon bikes away in the corner all locked up. You couldn't get near the bikes as they'd laid out barriers around them. They had the ISP and the slightly more aero HT but no BB30 (don't think it was out yet)

Here's me (rider at the back) on my white Omnium. Can never remember the years of each colour though. Mine was possibly the 3rd yr they'd made the frame?