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• The Cyclingnews guide to North American team transfers

  

  Article published:

  November 4, 2009, 17:13

  By:

  Cycling News

  Transfers in US and Canadian teams

  The racing season may be all but over, but the action continues as riders scramble to sign with a team before the December 8 deadline to submit rosters to the UCI. The lucky ones have already signed contracts, and some teams have already confirmed their rosters, but for the rest, the race is on!

  The applications for the US domestic UCI teams must be in to USA Cycling by October 31, 2009, and until then it is not clear which teams will continue. Some new teams have been announced, while the status of some current teams remain shrouded in mystery.

  The list below shows confirmed rider transfers with the previous team in parentheses for the incoming lists and new team on the outgoing lists. Riders staying put have no team listed on the incoming, riders without a confirmed team for 2010 have no team in the outgoing lists.

  If a rider is without a contract by the UCI deadline, all hope is not lost. While the UCI rules bar transfers of signed riders after the deadline until a small window in June, riders who do not have contracts can be hired at any time.

  Bookmark this page and check back often! Cyclingnews will be sure to update the list as transfers and signings are announced.

  Adageo Energy
  

  In
  Eric Bennett
  Austin Carroll
  Tobias Eggli
  Tim Farnham
  Danny Finneran
  Josh Horowitz
  Matt Landen
  Alexi Martinez
  Tommy Nelson
  Marco Rios
  Cody Stevenson
  Bennet Van Der Genugte

  Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling Team

  In
  Rahsaan Bahati
  Nathan O’Neill
  Hilton Clarke (Fuji-Servetto)
  Jason Donald (Garmin-Slipstream)
  Matt Rice
  Cesar Grajales
  Ryan Baumann
  Corey Collier
  Bobby Lea
  Alex Hagman
  Peter Carey
  Phillip Mann
  Evan Hyde
  Ian Burnett
  Lanell Rockmore

  Bissell Pro Cycling

  In
  Ben Jacques-Maynes
  Andy Jacques-Maynes
  Kyle Wamsley (Colavita-Sutter Home)
  Frank Pipp
  Jeremy Vennell
  Peter Latham
  Paul Mach
  Cody O’Reilly
  Daniel Holloway (Garmin-Holowesko Partners-Felt)
  David Williams
  Ian Boswell
  Rob Britton
  Shane Kline

  Out
  Tom Zirbel (Garmin-Slipstream)
  Burke Swindlehurst
  Morgan Schmitt
  Kirk O’Bee

  BMC Racing

  In
  George Hincapie (Columbia-HTC)
  Alessandro Ballan (Lampre)
  Karsten Kroon (Saxo Bank)
  Marcus Burghardt (Columbia-HTC)
  Steve Morabito (Astana)
  Mauro Santambrogio (Lampre)
  Alexander Kristoff (Joker)
  John Murphy (OUCH)
  Chris Barton (BMC development team)
  Michael Schär (Astana)
  Simon Zahner

  Out
  Chad Hartley (Kenda)
  Tony Cruz (Rock Racing)
  Marcus Zberg (Retired)

  Columbia-HTC (roster confirmed)

  Craig Lewis
  Tejay Van Garderen (Rabobank Continental)
  Mark Cavendish
  Andre Greipel
  Tony Martin
  Michael Albasini
  Lars Bak (Saxo Bank)
  Gert Dockx
  Bernhard Eisel
  Jan Ghyselinck (neo pro)
  Matt Goss (Saxo Bank)
  Bert Grabsch
  Rasmus Guldhammer (Capinordic)
  Patrick Gretsch (Thüringer Energie Team)
  Leigh Howard (neo pro)
  Adam Hansen
  Maxime Monfort
  Marco Pinotti
  Frantisek Rabon
  Mark Renshaw
  Vicente Reynes
  Hayden Roulston (Cervelo TestTeam)
  Michael Rogers
  Marcel Sieberg
  Kanstantsin Sivtsov
  Martin Velits (Milram)
  Peter Velits (Milram)

  Out
  George Hincapie (BMC)
  Michael Barry (Sky)
  Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky)
  Greg Henderson (Sky)
  Kim Kirchen (Katusha)
  Morris Possoni (Sky)
  Thomas Lövkvist (Sky)
  

  Garmin-Slipstream

  In
  Jack Bobridge (neo pro)
  Robbie Hunter (Barloworld)
  Michel Kreder (Rabobank Continental)
  Johan Van Summeren (Silence-Lotto)
  Tom Zirbel (Bissell)
  Peter Stetina (Garmin-Holowesko)
  Fredrik Kessiakoff (Fuji-Servetto)

  Out
  Kilian Patour
  Hubb Duyn (NetApp)
  Michael Friedman (Jelly Belly)

  Jamis-Sutter Home p/b Colavita

  In
  Ivan Dominguez
  Sebastian Haedo
  Alejandro Borrajo
  Luis Amaran
  Anibal Borrajo
  Guido Palma
  Tyler Wren
  Andy Guptill
  Nick Frey
  Jamey Driscoll
  Frank Treviso
  Jackie Simes

  Out
  Anthony Colby
  Luca Damiani
  Davide Frattini (Team Type 1)
  Kyle Wamsley (Bissell)

  Jelly Belly

  Brad Huff
  Mike Freidman (Garmin-Slipstream)
  Jeremy Powers
  David McCann
  John Chodroff
  Will Routley
  Bernard van Ulden
  Sean Mavich
  Kiel Reijnen

  Out
  Jonny Clarke (OUCH Pro Cycling)
  Philip Gaimon (Kenda)
  Bryce Mead
  Matt Crane
  Matty Rice
  Nick Reistad

  Kelly Benefit Strategies

  In
  Jesse Anthony (Team Type 1)
  Ian Macgregor (Team Type 1)
  Guy East (Trek-Livestrong)
  Alex Boyd (Rock Racing)

  Out
  Nick Waite (Kenda)
  Johnny Sundt (Kenda)
  Matthew Busche (RadioShack)

  Kenda Pro Cycling

  Philip Gaimon (Jelly Belly)
  Chad Hartley (BMC)
  Jonny Sundt (KBS)
  Nick Waite (KBS)
  Stefano Barberi
  Nick Keough (BikeReg.com)
  Rob Bush (Texas Roadhouse)
  James Stemper (Gear Grinder)
  Jonathan Parish
  Chris Monteleone
  Jim Baldesare
  Marco Aledia
  Rich Harper
  Jake Rytlewski
  Scottie Weiss
  Ty Stanfield
  Chad Burdzilauskas

  Out
  Benjamin Renkema
  Bennet van der Genugten
  Jamie Gandara
  Matthew Winstead
  Remi McManus
  Russell Stevenson
  Timothy Swain

  Land Rover-Orbea

  Mountain Khakis

  In
  Matt Cooke (neo)
  Neil Bezdek (neo)
  Eric Schildge (neo)
  Scott Tietzel (DLP Racing)
  Oscar Clark (neo)
  Thomas Brown (neo)
  Joey Rosskopf (neo)
  Mark Hekman
  Adam Myerson
  Toby Marzot
  Will Hoffarth
  Isaac Howe
  David Guttenplan

  Out
  Thomas Soladay (Team Type 1)
  Eric Barlevav (OUCH Pro Cycling)

  OUCH Pro Cycling

  In
  Morgan Schmitt (Bissell)
  Jonny Clarke (Jelly Belly)
  Eric Barlevav (Mtn Khakis)

  Out
  John Chodroff
  John Murphy

  Planet Energy

  In
  Chad Hartley
  Ryan Roth
  Francois Parisien
  Keven LaCombe
  Bruno Langlois
  Andrew Randell
  Guilllaume Boivin
  Charly Vives

  RadioShack

  In
  Lance Armstrong (Astana)
  Levi Leipheimer (Astana)
  Chris Horner (Astana)
  Sam Bewley (Trek-Livestrong)
  Janez Brajkovic (Astana)
  Matthew Busche (Kelly Benefit Strategies)
  Ben Hermans (Topsport Vlaanderen)
  Daryl Impey (Barloworld)
  Markel Irizar Aranburu (Euskaltel-Euskadi)
  Andreas Kloden (Astana)
  Geoffroy Lequatre (Agritubel)
  Tiago Jose Pinto Machado (Madeinox-Boavista)
  Jason McCartney (Saxo Bank)
  Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Astana)
  Yaroslav Popovich (Astana)
  Gregory Rast (Astana)
  Sébastien Rosseler (Quick Step)
  Ivan Rovny (Katusha)
  José Luis Rubiera (Astana)
  Bjorn Selander (Trek-Livestrong)
  Gert Steegmans (Katusha)
  Tomas Vaitkus (Astana)

  Rock Racing

  In
  Tony Cruz (BMC)
  Ivan Dominguez ?
  Oscar Sevilla ?
  Francisco Mancebo ?
  Victor Pena ?

  Out
  David Vitoria (Footon-Servetto)
  Jamey Driscoll (Jamis-Sutter Home p/b Colavita)

  Team Type 1

  In
  Alexey Shmidt (Junost Moscow)
  Thomas Rabou (Rabobank Continental)
  Javier Mejias (Fuji-Servetto)
  Joe Eldridge
  Fabio Calabria
  Michael Creed
  Ken Hanson
  Daniel Holt
  Aldo Ino Ilesic
  Chris Jones
  Valeriy Kobzarenko
  Martijn Verschoor (Asito-Craft)
  Shawn Milne
  Davide Frattini (Colavita-Sutter Home)
  Thomas Soladay
  Scott Stewart (TWM)
  Thomas Soladay (Team Mountain Khakis)
  Will Dugan (neo pro)

  Out
  Moises Aldape
  Darren Lill
  Matt Wilson
  Jesse Anthony
  Ian MacGregor

  Trek-Livestrong

  In
  Taylor Phinney
  Jesse Sergent

  Out
  Ryan Baumann
  Sam Bewley
  Guy East

• Pauwels, Barry to join Team Sky

  

  Article published:

  October 28, 2009, 18:49

  By:

  Cyclingnews

  Team to announce transfers tomorrow

  Belgium's Serge Pauwels and Canada's Michael Barry will join Britain's Team Sky for next season, according to sources close to the team. The pair are the latest riders to be linked to the new British ProTour team, in addition to Australia's Chris Sutton.

  Pauwels, 25, turned professional in 2006 with Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen and remained on the team through 2008. This season, the Belgian rode for UCI Pro Continental team Cervélo TestTeam. He caught the attention of the cycling world at this year's Giro d'Italia, where he proved to be a valuable mountain domestique for captain Carlos Sastre.

  Canadian Michael Barry was not confirmed as part of the Columbia-HTC team's 2010 roster in September. He announced after the Tour of Missouri that he would change teams in 2010, and had been heavily rumoured to be moving across to Team Sky.

  Barry, 33, turned professional in 1999 with Saturn and remained on the American team through 2001. From 2002 to 2006 the Canadian rode for the US Postal/Discovery Channel squad and then moved to T-Mobile in 2007. For 2008 and 2009 Barry rode for American ProTour team Columbia-HTC.

  The veteran Canadian pro won a stage in the 2008 Tour of Missouri and the 2005 Tour of Austria. Barry has also been part of winning team time trial squads at the Giro d'Italia, Vuelta a España, Volta a Catalunya and the Tour de Romandie. He finished seventh in the 2003 world road championships at Hamilton, Ontario in his home country.

  Throughout his career Barry's been known as a strong domestique and was part of Paolo Savoldelli's 2005 Giro d'Italia win and Roberto Heras's 2003 Vuelta a España victory.

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• Friedman beefs up Jelly Belly roster

  

  Article published:

  October 28, 2009, 20:04

  By:

  Kirsten Frattini

  Domestic squad confirms transfer from Garmin-Slipstream

  Mike Friedman will captain a nine-man roster with the American-based Continental team Jelly Belly in 2010. Known by the nickname ‘meatball', Friedman brings a wealth of experience to the squad after five years of development with the now ProTour team Garmin-Slipstream.

  "Mike brings a lot to the team," said Danny van Haute, Jelly Belly's directeur sportif. "He will be a leader. He is a leader, on and off the bike. He will tell it how it is and that's what we were lacking. We didn't have anyone who wanted to be the captain of the team before."

  Friedman started with the TIAA-CREF team in 2005 and progressed with the squad as it transformed from Slipstream-Chipotle into the ProTour team Garmin-Slipstream. "He called me in August and he wasn't sure what he was going to do," he continued. "We finalized everything at Missouri. He is a great addition to the team and it will be fun seeing him back in the USA again."

  The nine-man roster also includes four new signings with former Irish National Time Trial Champion, David McCann, Jonathan Chodroff from OUCH p/b Maxxis and Sean Marvich from the Under 23 Waste Management team. Returning riders include Brad Huff, Jeremy Powers, Will Routley, Kiel Reijnen and Bernard Van Ulden.

  McCann is no stranger to competing on the National Racing Calendar, having competed for the Colavita-Sutter Home team in 2008 before moving on to Ride Sport Racing/Prime Estate in 2009. "Jelly Belly was lacking a time trialist and a climber, GC guy and I know we will rely on David McCann for that."

  The candy company Jelly Belly returns as the team's title sponsor along with new presenting sponsor Kenda Tire. Both sponsors have locked in a three-year term with the team, which is in it's seventh season as a UCI-registered squad. Supporting sponsors include Focus bikes, a German-based company, Gatorade and Rudy Project, all on board for two years.

  "I think they just like our organizations and they know it's a solid program," Van Haute said. "It's not the biggest money program but it's consistent and Jelly Belly is now in it's tenth year running. It's a great venue to promote their product and we run a good show. I need to pat myself on the back for that one because we run a tight ship. But, it's fun to be here, I'm fair to riders and sponsors and it shows in all the resumes who want to be a part of our team."

  Jelly Belly p/b Kenda hopes to be involved with the Tour of California next May and aims to impress at the US National Road and Criterium Championships.

  "We don't chase the NRC but we will do the best we can with our budget," Van Haute said. "We will do some Asian races too because it's the best way to prepare for the US season.  We aren't targeting any particular race but we want to be consistent next year, more consistent than 2009."

  Jelly Belly p/b Kenda will hold a pre-season training camp scheduled for the second week in February in San Diego, California.

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• Cruz signs with Rock Racing for 2010

  

  Article published:

  October 28, 2009, 20:12

  By:

  Peter Hymas

  Former national crit champion wants another title in his final season

  Entering his 12th and final year as a professional, Tony Cruz has signed with Rock Racing for the 2010 season. Cruz has spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons riding for US Professional Continental team BMC Racing but the 37-year-old Long Beach, California native opted to leave the squad as it shifts to a European focus for 2010.

  "With BMC, they're stepping it up and I think all of the riders are moving to Europe next year," Cruz told Cyclingnews. "I did six or seven years of that [with US Postal and Discovery Channel] and I'm coming back more to US racing."

  "It was too much of a commitment for me for one year and with my wife and three kids it was going to be difficult to manage. I'll be 38 on Halloween this year and I'm not getting any younger. I've got a lot on my plate - I'm working for the city of Long Beach as their bicycle ambassador and that's got me pretty busy.

  "I guess I needed to figure out a way to transition from pro cycling to a post-cycling career. There's a lot of things to look forward to and I think now's a good time to make that transition. I only planned on doing one more year of racing and I needed to be closer to home more."

  Rock Racing will provide Cruz an opportunity to race internationally in his final year as a pro while still enabling him to reside and train at home. "I'll definitely be racing out of the country, but I won't have to base myself out of Europe," said Cruz. "I can still live here in Long Beach and fly in and out."

  Cruz, a veteran of both the Vuelta a España and Giro d'Italia while racing for US Postal and Discovery Channel, including Paolo Savoldelli's 2005 Giro victory, wanted to compete at least once in the Tour de France before he retired, but he didn't think that opportunity would occur in 2010 with BMC Racing.

  "I don't think that's going to happen next year and that's another thing that I had to consider," said Cruz. "I think they can do the Giro or Vuelta, but I'm not 100 percent sure that they'll be ready to do the Tour. From a staffing standpoint they're not a ProTour team yet so there's no guarantee. I don't know if it's ever going to happen so I had to pull the plug on that one."

  Rock Racing had a rather turbulent 2009 season, with several riders being cut from the roster due to financial distress, but Cruz has confidence in team owner Michael Ball regarding next year's squad. "I guess the advantage I have over a lot of the guys who've worked for Rock Racing in one capacity or another is that I've known Michael Ball since I was either 15 or 16 years of age," said Cruz. "We've always had a really good relationship and I'm pretty amazed at what he's been able to accomplish. I think he has a lot of respect for me as a rider and I think it will all work out just fine."

  Cruz has been a rider of interest to Ball for some time and he's pleased to have the veteran pro join Rock Racing. "We are thrilled to have Tony on this team," said Ball. "We've been wanting to work with Tony for a long time. He's one of the stalwarts of the peloton - he's a hard worker, a great all-round rider and a true teammate in every sense of the word. He's going to be a great addition."

  Cruz, the 1999 US professional criterium champion and seven-time top-five finisher in the event, has high hopes for his final season as a professional. "I do want to go out on top, especially in the US. I want to win the NRC, I want to have the national title on the road and criterium. I'm not just riding the gravy train next year, I want to go out with a bang."

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• Zabel named to UCI's ProTour Council

  

  Article published:

  October 29, 2009, 09:45

  By:

  Susan Westemeyer

  German sprinter to help guide ProTour

  Erik Zabel has been named to the ProTour Council of the International Cycling Union (UCI). He replaces Rudolf Scharping, President of the German cycling federation. The Council manages the ProTour.

  The council has 12 members, including a president, two members representing the riders, two representing race organisers, two representing the teams and the remaining five nominated by the UCI. Zabel belongs to the latter group.

  Zabel, 39, retired at the end of 2008 following a 16-year professional career. He rode for Telekom/T-Mobile from 1993 to 2005, and for Team Milram from 2006 to 2008. He brought in over 200 victories, including six consecutive green jerseys at the Tour de France, 12 Tour de France stage wins and four wins in Milano-Sanremo. This year he is working as a consultant to Team Columbia-HTC.

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• Astana says Contador will stay for 2010

  

  Article published:

  October 29, 2009, 10:20

  By:

  Susan Westemeyer

  Licence delays due only to technical problems, team says

  Alberto Contador will  ride for Team Astana in the 2010 season, according to a spokesman from the Kazakh Cycling Federation. The Tour de France winner, who has a contract with the team for the coming year, was rumoured to be leaving the team due to questions about it financial stability, with Garmin, Quick Step and Caisse d'Epargne all believed to be interested in the Spaniard's signature.

  “We have absolutely no problems with Alberto Contador, and he will compete with Astana next season,” Kazakh Cycling Federation deputy president Nikolai Proskurin told the AP news agency.

  Last week it was announced that the team had not fulfilled its filing obligations for renewal of its ProTour licence for 2010. The UCI confirmed that under its regulations, this would allow Contador to break his contract and leave the team.

  “Certain people, it is unclear who, have completely dreamed this up, but there has been no occasion on which he has made an official statement on this issue,” Proskurin said.

  Proskurin added that the delays in the licence renewal were due only to technical problems, and that all documentation has now been submitted. “The issue is simply that we need to provide additional documents because we have changed our sponsors,” he said.

  The team's new exclusive sponsor through 2012 is Samruk-Kazyna, a state holding company which includes oil and gas company Kasmunaigas and the national airline, Air Astana.

  Contador, 26, won this year's Tour de France with his Astana teammate Lance Armstrong finishing third. Armstrong and sport director Johan Bruyneel have already left Astana to form a new team, Team RadioShack.

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• Columbia tops team win list again in 2009

  

  Article published:

  October 29, 2009, 11:33

  By:

  Susan Westemeyer

  Overwhelming lead with 86 season victories

  The Columbia-HTC men brought in 86 victories on the 2009 season, the most wins of any other ProTour team for the second consecutive year, and one more than 2008. The wins came from 15 different riders and were scored from January to October.

  "2009 proved to be an outstanding year for Columbia-HTC," said team owner Bob Stapleton. "We had ambitious goals with this international team of young riders, and we exceeded even our own expectations.”

  The successful season opened with Michael Rogers winning the Australian national time trial title on January 8, and closed with Marco Pinotti winning the Città di Stressa time trial on October 18.

  The team won 17 Grand Tour stages, six each at the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, and five at the Vuelta a España. The first Grand Tour stage win of the season for the team was the team time trial opener at the Giro, and the remaining 16 stages were won by five riders. Sprinter Mark Cavendish won nine stages and sprinter André Greipel took four.

  One-day race wins included the prestigious Milano-Sanremo, Gent-Wevelgem, Paris-Bourges and Eroica Classics.

  Columbia also won six of the eight stages of the Tour de Suisse. It won stages at the Tours of Britain, Missouri, Poland, Austria, Qatar, California, País Vasco, Murcia and Romandie, as well as in the Ster Elektrotoer, Bayern Rundfahrt, and the Three Days of De Panne. It claimed three overall stage race titles: Tour of Britain, Eneco Tour and Österreich Rundfahrt.

  Greipel won the green jersey in the Vuelta a España. The team also held various jerseys during the three Grand Tours, including the leaders' jerseys at the Giro and Vuelta. It could also boast of seven national time trial champions and one national road champion.

  “These are fantastic accomplishments, but it's the exemplary teamwork demonstrated by our athletes and staff that we are most proud of," said Stapleton.

  "What makes me so pleased about this degree of success is that everybody got their chance and everybody took their chance," said team manager Rolf Aldag.

  Aldag said he was impressed by the quality of the team's wins. "I can't say which victory was the most memorable, although watching the entire team pull away on stage three of the Tour and then Mark Cavendish sprinting across the line in first place was pretty impressive. In terms of the quality of wins, I'd just say it's almost impossible to get better on that level.”

  As for the coming season, Aldag said that the team will be “looking to see if our younger riders can confirm the faith we have in them." He listed Tony Martin and the neo-professionals the team signed.

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• Katusha starts season early in Italy

  

  Article published:

  October 29, 2009, 12:39

  By:

  Gregor Brown

  Russian team meets informally ahead of 2010 season, Tour Down Under

  Russia's team Katusha is in Desenzano, Italy, this week for an informal meeting ahead of the 2010 season. It is a chance for the new riders and staff to get to know one another, according to Director Sportif Serge Parsani

  "The riders are not even going out on rides," Parsani told Cyclingnews. "For example, the riders played a game of football yesterday."

  The complete 2010 team is in Desenzano, along Lago di Garda, including new signees Kim Kirchen and Joaquím Rodríguez.

  "We are taking photos for next year, performing tests, talking about next year's race schedules and handing out clothing," continued Parsani.

  The camp started Monday and ends tomorrow.

  Katusha will begin its 2010 season at the Tour Down Under, January 19 to 24. It will meet again for another training camp, likely in southern Italy, at the start of the year.

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