Armstrong team, Radioshack, earns tour licence
Armstrong team, Radioshack, earns tour licence.
American legend Lance Armstrong’s new team, RadioShack, has been given permission to race in many of cycling’s elite events for the next four years.
The International Cycling Union has confirmed it has granted Team RadioShack a licence to compete in ProTour races for the 2010-13 seasons.
But the team still needs an invitation to race in next year’s Tour de France and Giro d’Italia.
The season-long ProTour series will feature 16 races in 2010.
It includes one-day classics such as the Amstel Gold Race in the Netherlands and Belgium’s Tour of Flanders, plus stage races including the Dauphine Libere in France and Switzerland’s Tour de Romandie.
Membership of the ProTour will likely give teams an advantage from 2011 in gaining entry to the grand tours and prestigious one-day races such as Milan-San Remo and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8311746.stm
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Chris Hoy to feature in Track World Cup 2009
Chris Hoy to feature in Track World Cup 2009
Sir Chris Hoy will make his return to major international competition at the first World Cup event of the season, at Manchester Velodrome later this month.
The triple Olympic gold medallist suffered a hip injury in February and returned to action in France in August.
He will warm up for the event, which starts on 30 October, at this week’s national championships in Manchester.
Hoy will ride for Team Sky+HD but his fellow Olympic champion Rebecca Romero is absent.
Cycling’s world governing body are believed to be considering axing the individual pursuit from the Olympic programme, a move which would leave Romero without a title to defend at London 2012.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8315575.stm
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Britain’s Bradley Wiggins won the first stage race of his professional career at the Herald-Sun Tour in Australia
Britain’s Bradley Wiggins won the first stage race of his professional career at the Herald-Sun Tour in Australia.
Wiggins, 29, who has won six world titles and three Olympic gold medals on the track, took the race lead by winning Friday’s 14km time-trial.
And he defended a five-second lead over Aussie team-mate Chris Sutton in a 15-lap circuit of Carlton, in Melbourne.
“My father was Australian, so I’m half-Australian I guess… to be here now as a winner myself is great,” he said.
Garmin-Slipstream team boss Matt White opted to support Wiggins over Sutton, who won three stages of the race, in the final criterium stage.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8312494.stm
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