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More HTC-Highroad personnel will be joining Omega Pharma-Quick Step in 2012, as Rolf Aldag will be an advisor to the team and Jan Schaffrath will join as a directeur sportif. Two physiotherapists from the American -based team are making the move, as are five riders, including ime trial world champion Tony Martin.
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Aldag is said to come to the team as a technical advisor, but denied that any agreement has been reached. “I gladly take care of Tony and his affairs. Next year he will need a lot of support,” he told the SID news agency.

The German had served as team manager at Highroad since 2007 and recently announced that he had accepted a position as the managing director for Germany at the World Triathlon Corporation.

“Aldag is one of the best team bosses in the world,” Martin told the dpa news agency. “Rolf has already given important suggestions.” He added, “I am very happy that Rolf will still be at my side.”

His main goal for the coming year is the Olympic Games in London, despite the temptation of riding the Tour de France. “Even though the Tour course with three time trials and fewer mountains is especially good for me, I don’t want to toss out my planning to not focus on the overall placing over the next two or three years.

“I will pick out the time trials – the prologue in Liege should be good for me.”

Criterium of Oviedo. “It was a very special day for everything – for the environment I’ve lived in, for the reception of my peers… they can say goodbye by making me feel appreciated after all this time fighting out on the road,” said Sastre. “The truth is that it was an exciting day that I really enjoyed.”
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The 36-year-old from Madrid, whose career highlight was undoubtedly an overall win in the 2008 Tour de France, announced his retirement a few weeks ago and was happy to be bowing out. “It’s time to say goodbye to many years of suffering, defeats, joys, a lot of experiences, all of them memorable – the truth is that I am happy I made the decision. I’ve been in professional cycling all these years and, especially, have been able to shine and do what I liked,” he continued.

Sastre won’t be completely walking away from the sport, however. “From January 1 there will open a small parenthesis in my life, but I want so much to continue to be involved in this sport, in one way or other in the near future I will be.

“In the short term I will continue working as I have done so far with the Foundation Víctor Sastre, without any responsibility, as a hobby, but enjoying time with children and other cyclists without so much stress, and with all those who have been to me a stimulus for improvement and learning.

“The truth is that I feel happy because it has been a very good time, very important in my life, both personally and sporting. Saying goodbye to the homage of my colleagues, having been on the podium of the Tour of Spain with my own team has been very special to me. Thanks and a big hug to everyone,” added Sastre.

Alex Rasmussen must continue to wait until November 17 to see what sanction he will face after receiving three warnings in an eighteen-month period for missing out of competition doping controls.

The Dane received two warnings from Anti-Doping Denmark in 2010 after failing to adequately compile his whereabouts form, and he subsequently missed an out-of-competition test by the UCI in April of this year.
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Rasmussen has insisted that the missed tests were due to a lack of organisation on his part rather than an attempt to cheat. Given the nature of the case, he had hoped that the Danish Olympic Committee (DIF) would be able to reach a verdict sooner than anticipated.

“The wait is a little annoying,” Rasmussen told sporten.tv2.dk. “The case is clear and I just want a decision so that I can move on. But unfortunately, DIF cannot assemble the people for consultation before then.”

Ramussen’s contract was terminated by HTC-Highroad in September after the team was informed that he had received three warnings for missed tests. With HTC-Highroad set to disband at the end of the season, Rasmussen had already agreed to ride for Garmin-Cervélo for 2012.

Garmin-Cervélo subsequently stated that it would not sign Rasmussen due to its “stringent” anti-doping policy, but the rider has since claimed that team manager Jonathan Vaughters will complete the signing if he is cleared of wrongdoing.

“They are also awaiting action, and then we’ll talk,” Rasmussen said.

UCI WorldTour points have proved a valuable commodity for riders searching for teams in the final weeks of the season, but Geoffroy Lequatre believes that the fabric of the sport risks being irrevocably damaged unless changes are made to the current system.

Lequatre endured a late scramble for a new team following the announcement of the merger of RadioShack and Leopard Trek in September. After two years of resolute service as a domestique with RadioShack, he had precious few WorldTour points clocked up, and found it difficult to stoke the interest of teams finalising their applications for entry into cycling’s top flight

“At the end of the season, all of the teams were hunting for riders, and the riders were hunting for teams, but when you have zero points or very few points, it’s really difficult,” Lequatre told Cyclingnews.

Although he has since found a place with Pro Continental outfit Bretagne-Schuller for 2012, Lequatre is concerned that riders have increasingly less incentive to work as domestiques for their leaders, and will have to ride more selfishly in order to continue at WorldTour level.

Currently, the UCI assesses the WorldTour applicants’ “sporting value” by tallying the points of their top 15 ranked riders along with their own team standings points.

“Next season will be interesting, because riders will start to think differently,” Lequatre said. “Everybody will be riding just to chase points, especially at the end of the season.

“People will ride for themselves instead of for their leaders, because they need to adapt themselves if they want to continue. It could really change the mentality in cycling.”

In Lequatre’s view, the only domestiques with a modicum of job security are those few closely allied to the biggest leaders in the sport. “If the leader wants to keep his teammates, it can work sometimes, but in reality there are not too many of those real, real leaders,” he said.

“Everybody needs space. There should be room for everybody – sprinters, climbers, time triallists, stage racers and also people who work.”

Lequatre has proposed a novel solution to the paradox that often sees riders surplus to requirements at a team expressly because of the work they have done for the cause.

“Even if you help someone win the Tour de France, you don’t get any points,” he said. “I think if a leader wins a race, some of the points should go to the riders who rode for him. It’s what already happens with prize money and we need some system like that for points. We need to find balance.

“When you see cycling on TV, it looks like something really human. Within cycling, it’s not human like that. It’s a real business, people look out for themselves, and it can be two-faced.”

A new start at Bretagne-Schuller

Lequatre only learned of the proposed merger between RadioShack and Leopard Trek in September, and soon realised that he would not have a place on the revamped team.

“It wasn’t easy to focus and finish the Vuelta,” he admitted. “In the end it was clear. My contract was ending and [Johan Bruyneel] wasn’t able to give me a new one because there wasn’t room. It wasn’t so easy to accept, because I think I did a great job for the team, and I also took my own opportunities when I could.”

The last of those opportunities came at Paris-Tours, a race close to the heart of the Pithiviers native. Part of the break of the day, he finished in 7th place. “If I had last year’s legs, I could have been up there with [winner Greg] Van Avermaet, but I still showed I was strong.”

The following week, Lequatre signed with Bretagne-Schuller, attracted by the progress made by the Pro Continental outfit in the past couple of seasons. After two years in RadioShack’s cosmopolitan atmosphere, Lequatre is confident that he can bring something new to the table at the French team, even if – for now – the squad will not be supplied by his G4 Dimension clothing company.
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“RadioShack had big ambitions because it was one of the biggest teams in the world, but Bretagne-Schuller is very ambitious too,” he said. “Maybe with Bretagne-Schuller, there isn’t the same pressure to be there all year like at RadioShack or to be world number one, but we still want to progress. I think there might be a little more freedom and less stress, and I feel my experience can help the team.”

After earning invitations to Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Nice in 2011, Bretagne-Schuller is hopeful of progressing to ride in the Tour de France in the next two seasons. Much will depend on how many French teams gain WorldTour status and automatic entry to the Tour.

“Everything is possible, why not?” Lequatre said of a possible invitation in 2012. “Saur-Sojasun got one last year. That’s ambition, and you need to have that. When you have it, it’s possible.

“We’ll need to race well early in the season, not just in France, but abroad too. If we don’t get a Tour invitation in 2012, then for sure it will happen in 2013. We have ambition, and I want to give my energy and my happiness to the team next year.”

Maxime Monfort was one of 26 riders on hand at the first gathering of the 2012 RadioShack-Nissan team, which took place over threepro cycling clothing days in Francorchamps, Belgium this week.

The new squad has formed as a result of the merger between the existing RadioShack and Leopard Trek outfits. Monfort, who rode for Leopard Trek in 2011, explained that the gathering was not so much a training camp or planning meeting as a chance forcycling jersey sale riders from the two teams to get to know one another.

“One of the goals of this first stage is to unite the two groups through different activities,” Monfort told La Dernière Heure. “While we haven’t jumped on our bikes at all, we did take a big, long hike together in the forest.”

The riderscustom bicycle clothing only learned of the surprise merger during the Vuelta a España, but over the remaining weeks of the season, Monfort took every opportunity he could to acquaint himself with his future teammates from RadioShack.

“Since the confirmation of the fusion of the two teams, we have spoken a bit on the last few races of the season to such an extent bib bicycle shortsthat I knew practically all of my new teammates,” he said.

The move to RadioShack-Nissan also sees Monfort ride under the tutelage of his fellow countryman Johan Bruyneel for the first time. “He had been depicted to me as being very firm and authoritarian in his management, but I have to say that up to now the atmosphere has been very cool and relaxed at this first meeting,” Monfort noted.

Monfort’s early season plan is to build towards the Ardennes classics by riding the Paris-Nice, Criterium International and the Tour of the Basque Country, but the Walloon’s avowed ambition is to line up at the Tour de France, which gets underway close to home in Liège.

Although competition for places alongside Fränk and Andy Schleck in July will be fierce, Monfort is hopeful that his sixth place finish at the Vuelta a España is proof of his potential over three weeks.

“With the core that’s there, places will be at a premium,” Monfort said. “But if I’m at my level, I should be at the start of the Grande Boucle. Still, you’ll need to be up there over the first part of the season to stamp your ticket for the big rendezvous in July.”

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced on Wednesday that Michael Miller, of Morgantown, Pennsylvania, has testedpro cycling clothing positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a suspension for his doping offense.

The 42-year-old tested positive for methylhexaneamine, a stimulant, as a result of a sample collected at the Masters Track Nationals, on July 27, 2011, in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania. Miller had won the national championship in the 3000m individual pursuit forcycling jersey sale the 40-44 age category on that day.

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Millerbib bicycle shorts accepted an eight-month period of ineligibility, which began on September 2, 2011, the day he accepted a provisional suspension. As a result of the sanction, Miller is also disqualified from all results obtained during the Masters Track Nationals, which began on July 26, 2011, as well as any other competitive results obtained subsequent to July 26, 2011, including forfeiture of any medals, points, and prizes.

Urs Huber (Stöckli Pro Team) went into this year’s Crocodile Trophy with the intention of winning his third consecutive overall title. pro cycling clothingHowever, on Thursday, just before the penultimate stage, he withdrew from the mountain bike stage race due to illness.

During the night, Huber came down with a fever. He had already had a rough stage 8, during which he suffered a bleeding nose for most of the second half. Still, that didn’t stop him from putting out a superhuman effort, setting the pace for much of the stage.

“My tent was next to Urs’ tent,” said Belgian Mike Mulkens (Kipeo MTB Team), a podium finisher in previous years. “I heard him coughing the cycling jersey salewhole night. No, there is no question about his illness, there is nothing funny about it. Urs is sick.”

Going into Thursday’s stage Huber was seven minutes off race leader Jeroen Boelen and was the final threat to Boelen’s lead. The notoriously sandy stage 9 from Kalpowar to Starke had potential to mix up the classification.

“It is a pity thatcustom bicycle clothing there was no battle any more with Urs Huber today. It is the way it is. Urs will come back, motivated as ever, I am sure about that,” said Boelen.

Huber became the bib bicycle shortssecond high profile racer to withdraw from the Crocodile Trophy due to illness. After travelling all the way to Australia from Europe, another top contender, Bart Brentjens, Boelen’s Milka-Trek teammate, had to pull out of the race just before it started.

After taking a year off in pro cycling clothing2011, the Crank the Shield mountain bike stage race will return in 2012. The event will be held in Ontario, Canada, on September 14 – 16, 2012.

The organizers, Chico racing, cycling jersey salehave promised drier trail conditions, up to 25 percent more singletrack and new stage formats for the bi-annual event. New for 2012, a two-day version of Crank the Shield is also happening, for riders who can’t get off on Friday, but can get off on the weekend.

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“This will allow a totally new course for Saturday, weaving riders through more singletrack, epic backcountry riding and some spectacular backroad scenery. Boggy, rutted out ATV trails need not apply!”

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The UCI released its second cyclo-cross rankings of the season on Tuesday, following a weekend in which all categories – elite men, elite women, under 23 men and junior men – raced a World Cup round in Tabor, Czech Republic.

While Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) relinquished his World Cup lead to compatriot Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor), the 35-year-old Belgian continues to lead the UCI rankings with 2,170 points, 120 more than second-placed Pauwels. The top six overall remained unchanged, with Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus), Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step), Francis Mourey (FDJ) and Klaas Vantornout (Sunweb-Revor) holding third through sixth respectively. Bart Wellens (Telenet-Fidea) moved into seventh position, flip-flopping with Bart Aernouts (Rabobank-Giant Off-Road Team), who now holds eighth. Dutchman Lars van der Haar (Rabobank-Giant Off-Road Team) remains in ninth while Tom Meeusen (Telent-Fidea) makes his first appearance in the top-10 this season at 10th place.

With seven riders ranked in the top-10, it’s no surprise that Belgium continues to dominate the men’s national standings with 6,124pro cycling clothing points. France remains a distant second with 2,858 points, followed by the Czech Republic in third with 2,688 points.

For the elite women, Katie Compton (Rabobank-Giant Off-Road Team) continues her reign atop the standings with 1,670 points, despite skipping the Tabor, Czech Republic round of the World Cup. Katerina Nash (Luna Pro Team), the winner in Tabor, moves into second overall, 120 points down on Compton, while Sanne van Paassen (Brainwash) drops one spot to third, tiedcycling jersey sale on points with Nash. British champion Helen Wyman (Kona) dropped one position to fourth with 1,442 points.

The Netherlands continues to lead the women’s nations ranking with 3,898 points. The Czech Republic and United States remain in second and third with 2,934 and 2798 points respectively.

The junior men’custom bicycle clothings ranking saw the biggest shuffle as the riders contested their first World Cup round of the season in Tabor, Czech Republic. Unlike the elite categories which utilize a rolling, 365-day points tallying formula, the junior riders start the season with a clean slate and accumulate points as the season progresses. As a result, it comes as no surprise that those riders who dominated the World Cup round would shake-up the season rankings.

Dutchman Mathieu Van Der Poel, thebib bicycle shorts winner in Tabor, now tops the standings with 44 points while runner-up in the World Cup opener, Quentin Jauregui (France), jumped from fifth to second overall with 32 points. Wout Van Aert (Belgium) climbed one position to third, with 18 points, while compatriot Daan Hoeyberghs leapt from 17th to fourth with 17 points.

The happiest rider at the finish of stagepro cycling clothing 8 of the Crocodile Trophy in Kalpowar on Wednesday was Dutch racer Huub Duyn. Although he had some doubts about starting the day’s stage, he ended up winning it.

“It is true, I thought ‘what am cycling jersey saleI doing here?’ a lot and that I should really be somewhere nice with my wife in October, but now my perseverance paid off,” said 27-year-old Duyn.

Duyn is usually found racing custom bicycle clothingthe pro road circuit and not in mountain bike stage races through the Australian Outback.

“I had no mountain bike experience at all. This race is technically not so hard, but there is the heat, today all those corrugations – I have blisters on my hands – and then after the stage, you need to put up your tents, wash your clothes yourself etc. It makes it hard, but an unforgettable adventure.”

After winningbib bicycle shorts Paris-Tours U23 for Rabobank Continental in 2006, Jonathan Vaughters brought Huub Duyn to his Slipstream-Chipotle team in 2007. He stayed there for three years.

“That was a perfect team for me. Vaughters had patience with me after my mononucleosis in my first and an iliac outlet syndrome in my second year. They used me for all work. I started in all classic races for them. I can climb, I can ride the whole day in the front. I know my job in cycling.”

Unfortunately for Duyn, 2010, ridden with Team NetApp, was a year to forget. He was hit by a car, which left him with five facial fractures.

In 2011, he has been racing for the continental Team Jelly Bell-Donckers Koffie, and while he earned four podium spots, he had to come to Australia for his first victory of the season.

Huub’s Darrell Lee-Donckers Koffie Cycling 1 teammate in the Croc Trophy, another roadie Kevin Hulsmans, had to help convince Huub to start this morning. “This morning Huub was complaining. We told him that it was a short stage and that it would be easier on the bike than in the back of a wobbling car.”

The Crocodile Trophy’s famously rugged corrugations make for rough gravel road surfaces from the start in Laura to the finish in Kalpowar. Heat only made it a tougher day.