Breukink “hopeful” about new Dutch team

Former Rabobank manager Erik Breukink says he should know within the next few weeks whether the Pro Continental team he is attempting to put together with Michael Boogerd, Jean-Paul van Poppel and Michael Zijlaard will launch in 2015. Speaking to Cyclingnews, Breukink says he is "hopeful of a positive outcome" for the Orange Cycling Team, which would become the only Dutch team registered at that level.

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Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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