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Bobby Julich will return to the team car this season, taking up assistant director duties with US Continental team Holowesko-Citadel at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Amgen Tour of California in May, and h꧂elping coach some of the riders in their time trial eff🐻orts.

“It took some bending of his arm,” 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Holowsko-Citadel director Thomas Craven recently told Cyclingnews.

“He was hesitant. I think he was worried he was going to be in some sort of a different role, coming from Europe with programs like Tinkoff and Sky; that’s a big step,&rd😼quo; Craven said. “I mean it’s not backwards, but it’s a lot different scene over here for racing than it is on the WorldTour stage.”

Craven said hi🍒s team aspires to eventu🎃ally move up to a new level of racing internationally, and Julich is a person who can help the team accomplish that goal.

Following his own professional career, which 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:ended in 2008, Julich worked with Saxo Bank, Team Sky, BMC Racing and Tinkoff in succession. Julich 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:parted ways with Tinkoff at the end of last season.

The time trial specialist will be drawing on the skills that saw him win the overall at Paris-Nice, Eneco Tour and Criterium Intern🧔aional, as well as a third-place finish at the 1998 Tour de France and silver in the time trial at the 2004 Olympic Games, to improve some of the Holowesko riders’ results in the race against the clock.

“He worked with S𒀰ky, of course, you know with Froome and all those guys,” Craven said. “Last year he was working with those guys on their time trial, more specifically, and he was training🦋 with guys like Sagan and some other dudes.”

Craven has known Julich since they rod🍨e together on the Chevrolet-L.A. Sheriff team iꦦn 1994. Julich is also friends with team owner George Hincapie, so the move to helping the Holowesko team was a natural fit as Julich transitions back to the US.

Although the team took the first-ever US team time trial title last year, in the off-season Craven priori📖tized improving his riders’ efforts in the individual time trial as a way to better their results in the general classifications. He said bringing Julich into the fold plays well intౠo that effort.

“Bobby doesn’t want to be a director, I now that, but I think this can keep him present and keep him involved in the sport and what’s g🧜oing, especially with the younger riders,” Craven said. “ We’re not a development team, but we need to help these guys get better, and what b♏etter way than to bring in guys like Bobby, whose expertise has been the time trial.”