Australian ProTour team in 2008?

Barely a month after the launch of the Continental-registered South Australia.com - AIS Cycling Team, Cycling Australia's head coach Shayne Bannan believes a place within the highest level of professional cycling - the UCI ProTour - could be attained as early as 2008.

"Australian cycling has reached the level where if there was a sponsor interested, it could happen as soon as 2008 - look at the depth of young riders we have at the moment and the depth of professionals," Bannan told AAP.

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