Kiserlovski signs for RadioShack-Nissan
Croatian agrees two-year deal
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Robert Kiserlovski will ride for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:RadioShack-Nissan in 2013 after agreeing to a two-year contract with the team. The Croatian rider has spent the past two seasons in the colours of Astana.
“I'm very proud to be joining this team. I really like the international look and feel of it, and it will be good to race with so many people from different nationalities," Kiserlovski said. "This isಞ a good opportunity for me, it’s really the next step in my career.ꦜ"
A solid climber, Kiserlovski finished 10th overall at the 2010 Giro d’Italia while riding in suppo🗹rt of winner Ivan Basso at Liquigas, and he aims to return to the Italian race in 2013. "I hope I will be able to race the Giro,” he said. “Most riders prefer the Tour, but the Giro is my dream race."
After a string of✃ solid showings in week-long stage races during t💞he spring of 2012, Kiserlovski was one of a number of Astana riders to perform at a very high level in the Ardennes classics. He finished fifth at Flèche Wallonne and played an important role in Maxim Iglinskiy’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège victory.
Kiserlovski suffered mꦗisfortune at the Tour de France, however, and sustai🍌ned a broken collarbone after he punctured on the tack-strewn descent of the Mur de Péguère.
“Robert is a rider wi🔯th an attacking mind. We've been following him for some time now,” RadioShack-Nissan manager Johan Bruyneel said. “He rode a nice Ardennes week, even though he was a novice in that kind of work. He was also very strong in the Tour, until he unfortunately crashed out of the race with a broken collarbone.
“Robert is a strong addition to our roster and he will have a free role in certain races. I'm confident that ꦜhe will be able to improve even more in our outfit. He has the quality needed, we'll work on consistency now.”
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Kiserlovski’s impending arrival🐬 follows the news that Jens Voigt has signed a year-long extension to 🎃his contract with RadioShack-Nissan in spite of the team’s troubled 2012 campaign.
In recent months, Bruyneel has been charged with doping violations by the US Anti-Doping Agency, Fränk Schleck tested positive for Xipamꦜide at the Tour de France and three of the team’s riders 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:complained to the UCI that they had not been paid their wages in full.
